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g of energies or interests. devil this is materialism and material force. it can also can mean temptation in the area of materiality. in some means it can represent that somebody is coveting your possessions or that you are coveting theirs. it can also mean obsession. devil -reversed something is going to happen, something is going to come up, but it will not be for the good, it will be for evil. tower fighting, war, power, courage and ambition. this is similar to the emperor in nature, however a lot more destructive. tower -reversed ruin, fall, danger, destruction. star this generally means hope and a bright future, positive thoughts, giving and abundance. 106 star -reversed disappointment, expectations are not being met, a lack of abundance and barreness. moon a very deceptive card, illu

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e triangle upon the altar, and it is thus the symbol of the banner of the west. the triangle refers to the three paths and the cross to the hidden knowledge. the cross and the triangle together represent life and light. hiero: points out the tablet of the north, saying: hiero: this grade is especially referred to the element of earth, and therefore, one of its principal emblems is the great watch tower or terrestrial tablet of the north. it is the third or great northern quadrangle or earth tablet, and it is one of the four great tablets of the elements said to have been given to enoch by the great angel ave. it is divided within itself into four lesser angles. the mystic letters upon it form various divine and angelic names, in what our tradition calls the angelic secret language. from it

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quae casu suo fonti nomen dedit, vocaturque quippe in hodiernum diem fons lujwrum ob amoenitatem loci omnibus notus. it is scarcely worth while trying to settle how much in this may be genuine tradition, and how much the erudition of the 16th century foisted in, to the glorification of the new palace at heidelberg= heidberg; the very mndow on the hill avould seem to have been copied from veleda's tower, though brynhild too resides upon her rock, and has a high tower (vols, saga, cap. 20, 24, 25; conf. menglots, ohg. maniklata 1) on the rock, with nine virgins at her knees (siem. 110. 111. if the enchantress's name were hcida instead of jettha, it would suit the locality better, and perhaps be an echo of the on. heidr. priestesses. 97 their blood in the sacrificial cauldron, appear as frigh

e daz von vlinse ime donrc gewahsen wsere (a heart made of the hint in thunder, wh. 12, 16. schilrestein, bit. 10332. sehmverstein, suchenw. 33, 83. so slahe mich ein doncrstein! ms. h. 3, 202 "we now call it donnevkeil, swed. ksk-vigg(-wedge; and in popular belief, there darts out of the cloud together with the flash a black iccdgc, which buries itself in the earth as deep as the liighest church-tower is high^ but every time it thunders again, it begins to rise nearer to the surface, and after seven years you may find it above ground. any house in which it is preserved, is proof against damage by lightning; when a thunder-storm is coming on, it begins to sweat^ such stones are also called donnerdxie(-axes) donnersteine, donnerhammer, alhschossc (elfshots, strahlsteine, teufelsfinger, engl

statement, that the latin verses were found carved in all those places, must be rejected. we find then, tliat tradition, true to her wont, has mixed up 1 g. jo. vossius, de liist. lat. 1, 24- marci velseri rer. augustuuar. lilni 8. 1594 fol. p. 45* henisch p. 293 explains' berlach' at augsburg' ab ursis in publica cavea ibi altis' a thing wliich was done in other towns, e.fj. bern. on the perlach tower there was fi.ved a figure of st. michael, which came into view every time the clock struck on michaelmas-day; in earlier times a wooden temple of lais (p. 294, ex lignis) is said to have stood on the spot; fischart's geschichtkl. 30' der ama/.onischeu augspurgcr japetisch fraw eysen. 298 goddesses. fact and fiction; the great point is, that she brings us tidings of a suevic goddess. cisa see

(59. these services do no detriment to their own divine nature. beside hermes, the goddess iris goes on errands for the greek gods (see suppl. among the gods themselves there is a difference of rani: three sons of kronos have the world divided among them, the sky is allotted to zeus, the sea to poseidon, hell to hades, and the earth they are supposed to share between them (h. 15, 193. these three tower above all the rest, like har, lafnhar and thrisi in tlie norse religion, the triad spoken of on p. 162. this is not the same thing as' wuotan, donar, ziu' if only because the last two are not brothers but sons of "vvuotan, although these pass for the three mightiest gods. then, together with this triad, we become aware of a circle of twelve (p. 26, a close circle from which some of the gods

d lakes in the depth of the forest: it is because they are likewise wood-wives, and under this character they suggest further reflections. the old sacred forest seems their favourite abode: as the gods sat throned in the groves, on the trees, the wise-women of their train and escort would seek the same haunts. did not the gothic aliorunas dwell in the woodland among wood-sprites? was not veleda's tower placed on a rock, that is, in the woods? the volundarqvisa opens with the words: meyjar flugo sunnan myrhvicf igognom, invented in fairy-tale fashion, to suit the name of their daughter berhta, the bright, white. berhta marries pepin, and gives birth to charlemagne; in the garin le loherain, pepin's wife is said to be blanchefleur of moriane, but in the story now in question she is the unnam

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ed to wear is the sash of a theoricus with the addition of a purple or violet cross above the white cross and the numbers 3 and 8 within a circle and a square, respectively, left and right of its summit, and below the numbers 32, the numbers 30 and 31 in purple or violet, between narrow parallel purple lines. this grade is especially referred to the element of water and therefore, the great watch tower or terrestrial tablet of the west forms one of its principal emblems (hierophant goes to west in front of water tablet followed by theoricus) it is known as the second or great western quadrangle, or tablet of water, and it is one of the four great tablets delivered unto enoch by the great angel ave. from it are drawn the 3 holy secret names of god empeh arsel gaiol which are borne upon the

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ghest heaven and the excitement of the motion of them. it is, therefore, the reflection of the sphere of mars, and the reciprocal path connecting netzach with hod, victory with splendor; it is the lowermost of the three reciprocal paths. hiero: heg: pract: move to the west of altar. heg: before you upon the altar is the 16th key of the tarot which symbolically resumes these ideas. it represents a tower struck by a lightening flash, proceeding from a rayed circle and terminating in a triangle. it is the tower of babel struck by the fire from heaven. it is to be noted that the triangle at the end of the flash issuing from the circle forms exactly the astrological symbol of mars. it is the power of the triad rushing down and destroying the columns of darkness. three holes are rent in the wall

iangle. it is the tower of babel struck by the fire from heaven. it is to be noted that the triangle at the end of the flash issuing from the circle forms exactly the astrological symbol of mars. it is the power of the triad rushing down and destroying the columns of darkness. three holes are rent in the walls, symbolizing the establishment of the triad therein, and the crown at the summit of the tower is falling, as the crowns of the kings of edom fell, who are also symbolized by the men falling headlong. on the right hand side of the tower is light, and the representation of the tree of life by the ten circles thus disposed. on the left hand side is darkness and eleven circles, symbolizing the qlippoth. hiero: heg: pract: move to the tablet in the east. heg: this represents the alchemica

wear, is the sash of a practicus, with the addition of a bright green cross above the violet cross and the numbers 4 and 7 within a circle and a square respectively left and right of its summit, and below the number 37, the numbers 27, 28 and 29 in bright green between narrow parallel lines of the same color. this grade is especially referred unto the element of fire and therefore the great watch tower or terrestrial tablet of the south forms one of its principal emblems. hiero: pract: move to the south. hiero: it is known as the fourth or great southern quadrangle, or tablet of fire and it is one of the four great tablets delivered unto enoch by the great angel ave. from it are drawn the 3 great holy secret names of god oip teea pdoce which are borne upon the banners of the south, and the

n of aima, the great mother. it is the synthesis of binah, containing the waters of creation. heg: places candidate in a seat in west facing hierophant. hiero: returns to place. hiero: i now congratulate you, honoured frater (soror) on having passed through the ceremony of philosophus and in recognition thereof, i confer upon you the mystic title of pharos illuminans, which means the illuminating tower of light and i give you the symbol of asch, which is the hebrew word for fire. and as having attained at length unto the highest grade of the first order, and being as it were, the connecting link with the second order, i further confer upon you the title of respect of honoured frater(soror) and i give you the further symbol of phrath or euphrates, the 4th river. hiero (knocks) in the name o

ABRAMELIN1

s in the ms, that he was a descendant of that abraham the jew who wrote the celebrated alchemical work on twenty-one pages of bark or papyrus, which came into the hands of nicholas flamel, and by whose study the latter is said eventually to have attained the possession of the stone of the wise. the only remains of the church of saint jacques de la boucherie which exists at the present day, is the tower, which stands near the place du ch telet, about ten minutes walk from the biblioth que de l'arsenal; and there is yet a street near this tower which bears the title of rue nicolas flamel, so that his memory still survives in paris, together with that of the church close to which he lived, and to which, after the attainment of the philosopher s stone, he and his wife pernelle caused a handsom

ABRAMELIN3

adds that by this means, one can however only prolong the life for h years, and no more (e) no. b is a square of g e squares. ezechiel is from hebrew ichzqal, the well-known name of the prophet, derived from chzq, to bind. no. c is a square of e j squares, it will be noticed that a small o is placed at the end of each word in the last square towards the right hand. amigdel is from mgdl, a strong tower. no. d is a square of c f squares. iosua, the well-known hebrew name, signifies "he shall save. no. e is also a square of c f squares. peger is from pgr= a dead inactive carcase whether of man or of beast. the sacred magick 159 the fourteenth chapter. he twelve symbols for the twelve hours of the day and of the night, to render oneself invisible unto every person. a l a m a l a l a m a l a a

ADDTLS

hiroth.(compare also, says s.r.m.d. the position of the path of g in the tree of life. to chesed, c, and the key of the empress, the daughter of the mighty ones. chesed is, as it were, the first of the inferiors below binah, and the path of c is thus reciprocal betweeen chokmah and binah, forming, as it were, the base of the triangle of the supernals. to geburah, f, and the tarot key, the blasted tower, the lord of the hosts of the mighty, even as geburah represents strength and fiery power. to tiphareth is the a, lord of the fire of the world, even as tiphareth is, as it were the heart and center of the a of life. 18 the remaining four squares of the sephirotic cross have no planetary or astrological attributions. the ten squares of the sephirotic cross also stand for the ace and small ca

a fort. min. s.c. chokmah b magician b s.c. binah g h. priestess y s.c. chesed d empress c y y h emperor a puer h h w hierophant b amissio w w z lovers c albus h y j chariot d populus y h f strength e fort. maj. h w y hermit f conjunctio s.c. kether k wheel/fort. k w y l justice g puella h h m h. man c via h h n death h rubeus y w s temperance i acquisitio h y u devil j carcer s.c. geburah p tower f w h x star k tristitia h q moon l laetitia s.c. tiphareth r sun a y h c l. judgem. d cauda drac. h h t universe l (b) caput drac. s.c. stands for sephirotic cross. 26 the following is the enochian alphabet (this sometimes, though wrongly, was called theban) together with the english equivalents of its letters and the enochian titles enochian title english b pe b c veh c or k g ged g d ga

o a solid sphere and forming five pillars. this part of the enochian teaching is taken from a manuscript entitled x. the book of the concourse of the forces. binding together the powers of the squares in the terrestrial quadrangles of enoch. each of these terrestrial tablets of the elements is divided into 4 lesser angles by the great central cross which cometh forth as from the gate of the watch tower of the element itself. the horizontal line of each of these three great crosses is named, linea spiritus sancti. the perpendicular is called linea dei, the line of god the father and son, the patris filiique, macroprosopus and microprosopus combined. for these 4 vertical lines resemble 4 mighty pillars each divided into twain by a light line shewing this forth; the father himself, in the abs

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

out her shaking their sistrons, as if the laughter of the gods echoed the cries of the woman. by the bed stood the priest of horus with his heavy staff, the phoenix for its head, the prong for its foot. watchful he stood lest sebek should rise from the abyss. on the roof of the palace watched the three chief astrologers of pharaoh with their instruments, and four armed men from the corners of the tower announced each god as it rose. so these three men ached and sweated at their task; for they had become most anxious. all day my birth had been expected; but as toum drew to his setting their faces grew paler than the sky; for there was one dread moment in the night which all their art had failed to judge. the gods that watched over it were veiled. but it seemed unlikely that fate would so de

lung. then in some strange way she gripped me body and soul, twining herself about me and within me even as death that devoureth mortal man. still, still my being increased; my consciousness expanded until i was all nature seen as one, felt as one, apprehended as one, formed by me, part of me, apart from me- all these things at one moment- and at the same time the ecstasy of love grew colossal, a tower to scale the stars, a sea to drown the page 16 gulf.txt sun. i cannot write of this. but in the streets people gathered apples of gold that dropped from invisible boughs, and invisible porters poured out wine for all, strange wine that healed disease and old age, wine that, poured between the teeth of the dead (so long as the embalmer had not begun his work, brought them back from the dark k

ce of the high priestess to increase the reputation of the temple fore sanctity. and, their folly confirming them in this, they agreed cheerfully and boasted themselves. now then did i swathe them one by one in the grave-clothes of osiris, binding upon the breast and image, truly consecrated, of the god, with a talisman against the four elements. then i set them one by one upon a narrow and lofty tower, balanced, so that the least breath of wind would blow them off into destruction. those whom the air spared i next threw into nile where most it foams and races. only a few the water gave back again. these, however, did i bury for three days in the earth without sepulchre or coffin, so that the element of earth might combat them. and the rare ones whom earth spared i cast upon a fire of char

ms and races. only a few the water gave back again. these, however, did i bury for three days in the earth without sepulchre or coffin, so that the element of earth might combat them. and the rare ones whom earth spared i cast upon a fire of charcoal. now who is prepared for these ordeals (being firstly attuned to the elements) findeth them easy. he remains still, though the tempest rage upon the tower; in the water he floats easily and lightly; buried, he but throws himself into trance; and, lastly, his wrappings protect him against the fire, though all thebai went to feed the blaze. but it was not so with this bastard priesthood of osiris. for of the three hundred only nine were found worthy. the high priestess, however, i brought through by my magic, for she had amused me mightily, and

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

long eagerly for it. die daily [42] commentary( iota-sigma) this seems a comment on the previous chapter; the stag-beetle is a reference the kheph-ra, the egyptian god of midnight, who bears the sun through the underworld; but it is called the stag-beetle to emphasise his horns. horns are the universal hieroglyph of energy, particularly of phallic energy. the 16th key of the tarot is "the blasted tower. in this chapter death is regarded as a form of marriage. modern greek peasants, in many cases, cling to pagan belief, and suppose that in death they are united to the deity which they have cultivated during life. this is "a consummation devoutly to be wished (shakespeare. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 41 in the last paragraph the master urges his pupils to practise sa

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

f an hanged or crucified man* 24 the child of the great transformers. the lord of the gate of death. a skeleton with a scythe mowing men. the scythe handle is a tau. 25 the daughter of the reconcilers, the bringer-forth of life. the figure of diana huntress* 26 the lord of the gates of matter. the child of the forces of time. the figure of pan or priapus* 27 the lord of the hosts of the mighty. a tower struck by forked lightning* 28 the daughter of the firmament. the dweller between the waters. the figure of a water-nymph disporting herself* 29 the ruler of flux and reflux. the child of the sons of the mighty. the waning moon* 30 the lord of the fire of the world. the sun* 31 the spirit of the primal fire. israfel blowing the last trumpet. the dead arising from their tombs* 32 the great on

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

the centre to the sides of the tablet. saiinov soaiznt linea patris laoazrp ligdisa linea filii slgaiol lsrahp linea s.s. these three sets of names rule the whole tablet, and must be invoked before specializing in the lesser angles of the sub-elements. liber lxxxiv 7 the four great watch-towers and the black cross within general view7 the symbolic representation of the universe 8 the great watch-tower of the east, attributed to air. plate iv. liber lxxxiv 9 the great watch-tower of the west, attributed to water. plate v. the symbolic representation of the universe 10 the great watch-tower of the north, attributed to earth. plate vi. liber lxxxiv 11 the great watch-tower of the south, attributed to fire. plate vii. the symbolic representation of the universe 12 the black cross, or table of

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

word "dob" is hebrew for bear, and has the number 6, which refers to the sun. then you come to the fence of your property and that is cheth- number 8, number of tarot trump 7, which is the chariot: so you begin to look about for your car. then you come to the street and the first house you see is number 86, and that is elohim, and it is built of red brick which reminds you of mars and the blasted tower, and so on. as soon as this sort of work, which can be done in a quite lighthearted spirit, becomes habitual, you will find your mind running naturally in this direction, and will be surprised at your progress. never let your mind wander from the fact that your qabalah is not my qabalah; a good many of the things which i have noted may be useful to you, but you must construct your own system

s particularly the case when discussing these matters with a western mind. it is true that our 0= 2 formula remains infinitely useful because it is of such potency in destroying the scepticism which so often dis- 54 magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 333 heartens one, especially in the highest realms of magick. the criticism which the enemy directs against your sun-kissed tower is thrown back from those glittering walls, you accept the criticism at the same time as you dismiss it with a laugh. on the whole therefore i continue to regard the discipline of yoga as its most valuable feature. the results attained by pushing yoga to its end are on their own showing worthless, whereas the attainment of magick, however lofty, is still immune to all criticism and at every

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

ct; 80 he will see that mere illusion were the things that seemed so real, and he will be fortified against the new trials that await him. but the unfortunate indeed is he who cannot thus endure. it is useless for him to say "i don't like the atlantic; i will go back to the fireside" once take one step on the path, and there is no return. you will remember in browning's "childe roland to the dark tower came: for mark! no sooner was i fairly found pledged to the plain, after a pace or two, than, pausing to throw backwards a last view o'er the safe road 'twas gone: grey plain all round, nothing but plain to the horizon's bound. i might go on; naught else remained to do. and this is universally true. the statement that the probationer can resign when he chooses is in truth only for those who

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

iopolis (cf. 51) nw) better b+wm species, kind nz 58 loves, amours (see 499) mybh) an ear nz) my strength, power, might ylyx grace, love, kindness, charm (notariqon of chokmah nesethrah: the secret wisdom, 788) nx resting, at rest (grammatical: silent, mute) xn battering ram yxm 59 brethren (referred to lilith& samael) myx) a wall hmwx menstruation (lit. gimpurity h) hdn 60 tried by fire; a watch-tower nxb excellence, sublimity, glory, pride nw)g constitution, tradition; practice hklh behold; they (fem) hnh a basket )n+ vision hzxm the southern district hbgn utensil, instrument, tool ylk lament yn 61 adon: master, lord nwd) nothing; not ny) towards, to thee kyl) i, myself; a ship, fleet yn) the belly n+b wealth nwh dwelling, habitation (as body is of soul) hwn 62 healing )s) the sons ynb t

l of the covenant tyrbh k)lm perdition tx# an ear *nz) grace, love, kindness, charm (notariqon of chokmah nesethrah: the secret wisdom, 788 *nx libra: the scales *mynz)m beni elohim, sons of the gods: the angelic choir of hod *myhl) ynb a name of god *myhl) hwhy hy hyh) blessed *kwrb 709 the seven double letters t r p k d g b 710 a cave tr(m six (ch) ty# hidden, secret rtsn tried by fire; a watch-tower *nxb excellence, sublimity, glory, pride *nw)g to darken, dim *mm( 711 adon: master, lord *nwd) nothing; not *ny) the belly *n+b wealth *nwh hwhy of the gods is one hwhy *dx) hwhy myhl) hwhy prolonged; grew long *kyr) 712 between *nyb 713 the sphere of saturn y)tb# a turning, return; a response hbw#t abaddon: destruction, ruin (hell, as development of lw, 337; cf. 451 *nwdb) fed *nwz 714 fie

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

is to end trouble. the smallest difference in words, such as 'yes' and 'yea, can make endless controversy for the scholar((consider the 'homoiousios- homoiousios' quarrel of early christianity) fearful indeed is death, since all men fear it; but the abyss of questionings, shoreless and bottomless, is worse! 2. consider the profane man, how he preeneth, as if at feast, or gazing upon spring from a tower! but as for me, i am as one who yawneth, without any trace of desire. i am like a babe before its first smile. i appear sad and forlorn, like a man homeless. the profane man hath his need filled, ay, and more also. for me, i seem to have lost all i had. my mind is as it were stupefied; it hath no definite shape. the profane man looketh lively and keen-witted; i alone appear blank in my mind

rd, so that even hard things are easy to him. 69 chapter lxiv attending to details. 1. it is easy to grasp what is not yet in motion, to withstand what is not yet manifest, to break what is not yet compact, to disperse what is not yet coherent. act against things before they become visible; attend to order before disorder ariseth. 2. the tree which filleth the embrace grew from a small shoot; the tower nine-storied rose from a low foundation; the ten-day journey began with a single step. 3. he who acteth worketh harm; he who graspeth findeth it a slip. the wise man acteth not, so worketh no harm; he doth not grasp, and so doth not let go. men often ruin their affairs on the eve of success, because they are not as prudent at the end as in the beginning. 4. the wise man willeth what others d

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE I CHING

an error if need be. seek and destroy bad faith and mutiny! but find good men for posts of dignity. 8 the pi hexagram moon of yoni- pi: union. first examine, art thou right? then the restless join thee; woe the laggard's plight. sincerity of union is the key; from inward mind comes forth true unity. unite not with unworth's iniquity! there's one beyond thyself that yearns for thee. base well thy tower upon the people's power. thy first step missed? disaster shalt thou see. 9 the hsiao chu hexagram air of lingam- hsiao chu: shows small restraint. hence quick success. but clouds indeed, we ask rain's happiness. strayed- come thou back and follow thy own plan! by true attraction mete thy starry span! anger in wedlock or a car en panne! bloodshed and woe sincerity bids go. sincerity: here's h

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

no wrong, if he look but close into the word. for there are therein three grades, the hermit, and the lover, and the man of earth. do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" the old comment 40. theta-epsilon, the hermit, yod invisible, yet illuminating. the a. a. lambda-eta, the lover, zain visible as is the lightning flash. the college of adepts. mu-alpha, the man of earth, pe, the blasted tower. the 3 keys add up to 31- lamed-aleph, not and aleph-lamed, god. thus is the whole of thelema equivalent to nuit, the all-embracing. 31 x 3= 93. see the tarot trumps for further study of these grades. theta-epsilon= 14, the pentagram, rule of spirit over ordered matter. strength and authority( teth and he) and secretly 1+ 4= 5, the hierophant, vau, v. also leo aries, the lion and the ram. cf

ed dogs which refuses to admit its deity. the mob is always afraid for its bread and butter- when its tyrants let it have any butter- and now and then the bread has 60% substitutes of cattle-fodder (beast-food, even the new york times of november 13, 1918, e.v. has it) so, being afraid, it dare not strike. and when the trouble begins, we aristocrats of freedom, from the castle or the cottage, the tower or the tenement, shall have the slave mob against us. the newspapers will point out to us that "the people" prefer to starve, and thank john d. rockefeller for the permission to do so. still deeper, there is a meaning in this verse applicable to the process of personal initiation. by "the people" we may understand the many-headed and mutable mob which swarms in the slums of our own minds. mo

ies: the eighties cower before me& are abased. i will bring you to victory& joy: i will be at your arms in battle& ye shall delight to slay. success is your proof; courage is your armour; go on, go on, in my strength& ye shall turn not back for any" the old comment 46. i do not understand the first paragraph. the new comment forty is mem, water, the hanged man; and eighty is pe, mars, the blasted tower. these trumps refer respectively to the "destruction of the world by water" and "by fire" the meaning of these phrases is to be studied in my rituals of magick, such as book 4, parts ii& iii. its general purport is that he is master of both types of force. i am inclined to opine that there is a simpler and deeper sense in the text than i have so far disclosed "at your arms" is a curious turn

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

y the cross the light of the cross. further examples will be found in a note on genesis. one of the most famous is the mene, tekel, upharsin of daniel, the imaginary prophet who lived under belshazzar the imaginary king. anm. the hanged man, death, the fool= sacrificed to death by thy folly. lkt. the universe, the wheel of fortune, justice= thy kingdom s fortune is in the balance. crp the blasted tower, the sun, the last judgement= ruined is thy glory, and finished. but we cannot help thinking that this exegesis must have been very hard work. we could more easily read anm. to sacrifice to death is folly. lkt. thy kingdom shall be fortunate, for it is just. crp the tower of thy glory shall endure until the last days. there! that didn t take two minutes; and belshazzar would have exalted us

er star, is the female hierophant, the moon; and chokmah is the logos, or male initiator. see liber 418 for more information on these points, though rather from the standpoint of part ii. 78. alzm, the influence from kether. the number of the cards of the tarot, and of the 13 paths of the beard of macroprosopus.43 also sawya, the messenger.44 see part ii. 80. the number of p, the lightning-struck tower of the tarot. 8= intellect, mercury; its most material form is ruin, as intellect in the end is divided against itself. 81. a mystic number of the moon. 84. a number chiefly important in buddhism. 84= 7 12. 85. hp, the letter p. 85= 5 17: even the highest unity, if it move or energise, means war. 86 \yhla. see a note on genesis, equinox, no. ii. 90. number of tzaddi, a fishhook= tanha, the c

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ve theories of greek authors. browning s summary. i flung out of chapel1* and church, temple and hall and meeting-room, venus bower and osiris tomb,2 and left the devil in the lurch, while god3 got lost in the crowd of gods,4 5 and soul went down5 in the turbid tide of the metaphysical lotus-eyed,6 and i was anyhow, what s the odds? the life to live? the thought to think? shall i take refuge in a tower like once childe roland found, blind, deaf, huge, 10 or in that forest of two hundred thousand trees,8 fit alike to shelter man and mouse, and shall i say god? be patient, your reverence,9 i warrant you ll journey a wiser man ever hence! let s tap (like the negro who gets a good juice of it, 15 cares nought if that be, or be not, god s right use of it),10 in all that forest of verses one tre

od juice of it, 15 cares nought if that be, or be not, god s right use of it),10 in all that forest of verses one tree11 yclept red cotton nightcap country: how a goldsmith, between the ravishing virgin and a leman to rotten to put a purge in, 20 day by day and hour by hour, in a browningesque forest of thoughts having lost himself, expecting a miracle, solemnly tossed himself off from the top of tower. moral: don t spoil such an excellent sport as an 25 ample estate with a church and a courtesan! truth, that s the gold 12 but don t worry about it! i, you, or simpkin13 can get on without it! if life s task be work and love s (the soft-lipp d) ease, death be god s glory? discuss with euripides! 30* the numbered notes are given at p. 51 bacon, essay on truth, line 1. childe roland to the dar

wer. moral: don t spoil such an excellent sport as an 25 ample estate with a church and a courtesan! truth, that s the gold 12 but don t worry about it! i, you, or simpkin13 can get on without it! if life s task be work and love s (the soft-lipp d) ease, death be god s glory? discuss with euripides! 30* the numbered notes are given at p. 51 bacon, essay on truth, line 1. childe roland to the dark tower came. browning. ascension day the sword of song 6 apology of poet. skeleton of poem. valuable fact for use of lovers. invocation. imperfect scholastic attainements of author remedied by his great spiritual insight. his intention. or, cradle be hardship, and finally coffin, ease, love being filth? let us ask aristophanes! or, heaven s sun bake us, while earth s bugs and fleas kill us, love th

across the floor of that sea unutterable. him he followed; for i wit well, thought the adept, that he goeth not back to the gross sun of earth. and if the sun hath become a beetle, may the beetle transform unto a bird. wherewith he came to land. night shone by lamp of wining moon upon a misty landscape. two paths led him to two towers; and jackals howled on either. now the jackal he knew; and the tower he knew not yet. not two would he conquer that were easy: to victory over one did he aspire. made he therefore toward the moon. rough was the hillside and the shadows deep and treacherous; as he advanced the towers seemed to approach onoe another closer and closer yet. he drew his sword: with a crash they came together; and he fell with wrath upon a single fortress. three windows had the tow

behold not countenance, then let the ten be five. and they wist that he but mocked them; for he did bend the sword fivefold and fashioned therefrom a star, and they all vanished in that light; yet the lotus abode nine-petalled and he cried, before the wheel, the axle. so he chained the sun,2 and slew the bull, and exhausted the air, breathing it deep into his lungs: then he broke down the ancient tower, that which he had made his home, will he nill he, for so long, and he slew the other bull, and he broke the arrow in twain; after that he was silent, for they grew again in sixfold order, so that this latter work was double: but unto the first three he laid not his hand, neither for the first time, nor for the second time, nor for the third time. so to them he added3 that spiritual flame (f

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oo, that which is unknowable is unknown; and "god" or "there is god" as an answer to our question becomes as meaningless as any other. who are we, then? we are spencerian agnostics, poor silly, damned spencerian agnostics! and there is an end of the matter. vi it is surely time that we began to question the validity of some of our data. so far our scepticism has not only knocked 120 to pieces our tower of thought, but rooted up the foundation-stone and ground it into finer and more poisonous powder than that into which moses ground the calf. these golden elohim! our calf-heads that brought us not out of egypt, but into a darkness deeper and more tangible than any darkness of the double empire of asar. hume put his little? to berkeley's god; buddha his? to the vedic atman- and neither hume

tan cast out satan, how shall his kingdom stand? let us stand on the mount, saviours of the world that we are, and answer "get thee behind me satan" though refraining from quoting texts or giving reasons. oho! says somebody; is aleister crowley here- samson blinded and bound, grinding corn for the philistines! not at all, dear boy! we shall put all the questions that we can put- but we may find a tower built upon a rock, against which the winds beat in vain. not what christians call faith, be sure! but what (possibly) the forgers of the epistles- those eminent mystics- meant by faith. what i call samadhi- and as "faith without 121 works is dead" so, good friends, samadhi is all humbug unless the practitioner shows the glint of its gold in his work in the world. if your mystic becomes dante

not what christians call faith, be sure! but what (possibly) the forgers of the epistles- those eminent mystics- meant by faith. what i call samadhi- and as "faith without 121 works is dead" so, good friends, samadhi is all humbug unless the practitioner shows the glint of its gold in his work in the world. if your mystic becomes dante, well; if tennyson, a fig for his trances! but how does this tower of samadhi stand the assault of question-time? is not the idea of samadhi just as dependent on all the other ideas- man, time, being, thought, logic? if i seek to explain samadhi by analogy, am i not often found talking as if we knew all about evolution, and mathematics, and history? complex and unscientific studies, mere straws before the blast of our hunchback friend! well, one of the butt

ee methods of expression are used to enlighten and instruct the reader (a) pictorial symbols (b) metaphorically expressed word-pictures (c) scientifically expressed facts. the first method is found appended to each of the four books, balancing, so to speak, illuminism and science. the second method is found almost entirely in the first book and the various pictures are entitled:19 the black watch-tower, or the dreamer. the miser, or the theist. the spendthrift, or the pantheist. the bankrupt, or the atheist. the prude, or the rationalist. the child, or the mystic. the wanton, or the sceptic. the slave, or he who stands before the veil of the outer court. the warrior, or he who stands before the veil of the inner court. the king, or he who stands before the veil of the abyss. the white watc

wer, or the dreamer. the miser, or the theist. the spendthrift, or the pantheist. the bankrupt, or the atheist. the prude, or the rationalist. the child, or the mystic. the wanton, or the sceptic. the slave, or he who stands before the veil of the outer court. the warrior, or he who stands before the veil of the inner court. the king, or he who stands before the veil of the abyss. the white watch-tower, or the awakened one. 161 the third method is found almost entirely in the second book. the third and fourth books of this essay consist of purely symbolic pictures. for the key of the portal the neophyte must discover for himself; and until he finds the key the temple of solomon the king must remain closed to him "vale" 162 19 nine pictures between darkness and light, or eleven in all. the

hite triangle apex up. the outer edges of the black triangle are continuations of lines forming the unicursal nine-pointed star for three lines. these two triangles are interlaced in such fashion that traveling from any apex counterclockwise crosses over a line of the opposite color, then under a line of the opposite color and then reaches an adjacent apex of the same triangle 165 the black watch-tower who has not, at some period during his life, experienced that strange sensation of utter bewilderment on being awakened by the sudden approach of a bright light across the curtained threshold of slumber; that intoxicating sense of wonderment, that hopeless inability to to open wide the blinded eyes before the dazzling flame which has swept night into the corners and crannies of the dark bedc

over the well of life; and then the night-wind rises, and wafts us into the starless depths of the grave. we are like gnats hovering in the sunbeams, and then the evening falls and we are gone: and who can tell whither, and unto what end? whether to the city of eternal sleep, or to the mansion of the music of rejoicing? o my brothers! come with me! follow me! let us mount the dark stairs of this tower of silence, this watch-tower of night; upon whose black brow no flickering flame burns to guide the weary wanderer across the mires of life and through the mists of death. come, follow me! grope up these age-worn steps, slippery with the tears of the fallen, and bearded with the blood of the vanquished and the salt of the agony of failure. come, come! halt not! abandon all! let us ascend. ye

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l v\ the light of the cross. further examples will be found in "a note on genesis" one of the most famous is the mene, tekel, upharsin of daniel, the imaginary prophet who lived under belshazzar the imaginary king. mna. the hanged man, death, the fool "sacrificed to death by thy folly" 93 thkl. the universe, the wheel of fortune, justice "thy kingdom's fortune is in the balance" prsh. the blasted tower, the sun, the last judgment "ruined is thy glory, and finished" but we cannot help thinking that this exegesis must have been very hard work. we could more easily read mna. to sacrifice to death is folly. thkl. thy kingdom shall be fortunate, for it is just. prsh. the tower of thy glory shall endure until the last day. there! that didn't take two minutes; and belshazzar would have exalted us

ale hierophant, the moon; and chokmah is the logos, or male initiator. see liber 418 for much information on these points, though rather from the standpoint of part ii. 78. mzla, the influence from kether. the number of the cards of the tarot, and of the 13 paths of the beard of macroprosopus. note 78= 13 x 6. also aivas, the messenger. see part ii. 80. the number of hb:peh, the "lightning-struck tower" of the tarot. 8= intellect, mercury; its most material form is ruin, as intellect in the end is divided against itself. 81. a mystic number of the moon. 84. a number chiefly important in buddhism. 84= 7 x 12. 85. ph, the letter p. 85= 5 x 17: even the highest unity, if it move or energise, means war. 86. alhim. see "a note on genesis" equinox, no. ii. 90. number of tzaddi, a fishhook= tanha

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he tears out his hair, that is of ruddy gold tinged with silver, and he plucks at his beard, and cries with a terrible voice: woe unto me that am cast down from my place by the might of the new aeon. for the ten palaces are broken, and the ten kings are carried away into bondage, and they are set to fight as the gladiators in the circus of him that hath laid his hand upon eleven. for the ancient tower is shattered by the lord of the flame and the lightning. and they that walk upon their hands shall build the holy place. blessed are they who have turned the eye of hoor unto the zenith, for they shall be filled with the vigour of the goat. all that was ordered and stable is shaken. the aeon of 61 wonders is come. like locusts shall they gather themselves together, the servants of the star a

ms, but tense and vigilant. and between them and me is the god shu, whom before i did not see, because his force filleth the whole aethyr. and indeed he is not visible in his form. nor does he come to the seer through any of the senses; he is understood, rather than expressed. i perceive that all this army is defended by fortresses, nine mighty towers of iron upon the frontier of the aethyr. each tower is filled with warriors in silver armour. it is impossible to describe the feeling of tension; they are like oarsmen waiting for the gun. i perceive that an angel is standing on either side of me; nay, i am in the midst of a company of armed angels, and their captain is standing in front of me. he too is clad in silver armour; and about him, closely wrapped to his body, is a whirling wind, s

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seek in all god's seas a tiny creek wherein to moor my shallop. nay! he is a mountain, chill with bleak stark winds of innocence astray! the fearful passion sweeps me away. so with a passionate thrill of fear i creep- like shadows across day! like winter on the expended year- from those cold feet, a frozen meer, to those cold knees, a lost lagoon, to that wild woodland, strangely near to the lone tower that tops the moon! 202 verily and amen! unhewn the great grim forest menaces. what gardener may dare to prune those woods to build me palaces? so climb, each ledge an infinite stress, lustful as light, as lechery loth, from the brutality of besz to the plumed perjury of thoth! i held him holy. holier both than aught the bearers of the bier, thoum-aesh-neith and auramoth, saw in the hiding-h

hile the cross is the hidden wisdom of the divine nature which can be obtained by their aid. the two construed mean: life in light" illustration, approximated below: diagram 12. the flaming sword. illustration: approximated below\ diagram 13. the altar symbol in the 1= 10 ritual "this grade is especially referred to the element earth, and therefore, one of its principal emblems is the great watch-tower on the terrestrial tablet of the north. you will observe that the hermetic cross, which is also called fylfat. is formed of seventeen squares taken from a square of twenty- five lesser squares. 263 these seventeen squares represent the sun, the four elements, and the twelve signs. in this grade the lamps on the pillars are unshaded, showing that you have quitted the darkness of the outer" il

rangement of the temple the 27th path in the 4= 7 ritual. after which the "hierophant" explains the calvary cross of ten squares "the calvary cross of ten squares refers to the ten sephiroth in balanced disposition; before which the formless and the void rolled back. it is also the opened-out form of the double cube, and of the altar of incense" and the sixteenth key of the tarot: it represents a tower struck by a lightning-flash proceeding from a rayed circle and terminating in a triangle. it is the tower of babel. the flash exactly forms the astronomical symbol of mars. it is the power of the triad rushing down and destroying the column of darkness. the men falling from the tower represent the fall of the kings of edom "on the right-hand side of the tower is light, and the representation

ging down from an upright equilateral triangle. there is a smaller equilateral triangle centered within the larger one. the hierophant then explains the symbolism of the temple, and says "i now congratulate you on having passed through the ceremony of the 4= 7 of philosophus and in the recognition thereof, i confer upon you the mystic title of 'pharos illuminans' which signifies- the illuminating tower of light, and i give you the symbol of hb:shin hb:aleph (ash, which is the hebrew name for fire. having passed through this grade, the newly made philosophus earns the title of honoured frater and is eligible for the post of hiereus. the closing then takes place, the adoration of the king of fire is made, and the prayer of the salamanders is rehearsed, and in the name of tetragrammaton tzeba

hs of hb:qof and hb:tzaddi, that is, of pisces and aquarius, lead him to the fire of netzach and not to the water of hod. the path which connects hod with netzach is the 27th path of the sepher yetzirah which answers to the letter hb:peh. it is the reflection of the sphere of mars and is the lowermost of the reciprocal paths. the tarot key attributed to this path is very rightly the 16th key- the tower; which we have seen in the 4= 7 ritual represents a tower struck by a flash of lightning, symbolising the tower of babel struck by the wrath of heaven, and also the power of the triad rushing down and destroying the columns of darkness, the light of adonai glimmering through the veils and consuming the elementary rituals of the 1= 10, 2= 9, 3= 8, and 4= 7 grades. in many cases the candidate

nless goal! and thou, great sekhet, roar! arise confront the lion in the way! thy calm indomitable eyes lift once, and look, and pierce, and slay! i am past. hail, hecate! untrod thy steep ascent to god, to god! lo! what unnamed, unnameable sphere hangs above inscrutable? there is no virtue in thy kiss to affront that soulless swart abyss. i match &c. 328 da th i am insane. my reason tumbles; the tower of my being crumbles. here all is doubt, distress, despair: there is no force in strength or prayer. if pass i may, it is by might of the momentum of my flight. i match &c. gimel (and the crossing of daleth) free from that curse, loosed from that prison; from all that ruin am i risen! pure still, the virgin moon beguiles my azure passage with her smiles. now! o what love divine redeems my de

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in preparation, and will be issued in number 3] 30 the herb dangerous part ii the psychology of hashish by oliver haddo the herb dangerous i "the girders of the soul, which give her breathing, are easy to be unloosed "nature teaches us, and the oracles also affirm, that even the evil germs of matter may alike become useful and good" zoroaster. comparable to the alf laylah wa laylah itself, a very tower of babel, partaking alike of truth both gross and subtle inextricably interwoven with the most fantastic fable, is our view of the herb- hashish- the herb dangerous. of the investigators who have pierced even for a moment the magic veil of its glamour ecstatic many have been appalled, many disappointed. few have dared to crush in arms of steel this burning daughter of the jinn; to ravish fro

estroy the soul that fails to control and dismiss them. here lives the dweller of the threshold, that concentration 62 into a single symbol of the despair and terror of the universe and of the self. yet on all the paths is he, ready to smite whoso falters or swerves, though he have attained almost the last height. how many have i known, like childe roland and his peers, who have come to that dark tower! one young, one brave, one pure- lost! lost! penned in the hells of matter, swept away in the whirling waters of insane vision, true victims of the hashish of the soul. what poignant agony, what moaning abjectness, what self-disgust! what vain folly (of all true hope forlorn) to seek in drugs, in drink, in the pistol or the cord, the paradise they have forfeited by a moment's weakness or a m

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my days lies dishonoured as the spangle-veil'd virgin of night torn and trampled by the sun-lashed stallions of dawn. yet in the frenzy of their couplings do i tremble forth the pearly dew of ecstatic light. 8. o woe unto me, my god, woe unto me; for all the aspirations of my heart ruin as in time of earthquake the bare hut of an hermit that he hath built for prayer. yet from the lightning-struck tower of my reason do i enter thy house that thou didst build for me. 9. o woe unto me, my god, woe unto me; for all my joy is as a cloud of dust blown athwart a memory of tears, even across the shadowless brow of the desert. yet as from the breast of a slave-girl do i pluck the fragrant blossom of thy crimson splendour. 10. o woe unto me, my god, woe unto me; for all the feastings of my flesh hav

thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! 65 o thou sleeping lust of the storm, that art flame-gorg'd as a flint full of fire! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou soft dew of the evening, that art drunk up by the mist of the night! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou wounded son of the west, that gushest out thy blood on the heavens! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou burning tower of fire, that art set up in the midst of the seas! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou unvintageable dew, that art moist upon the lips of the morn! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou silver crescent of love, that burnest over the dark helm of war! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou snow-white ram of the dawn, that art slain by the lion of the noon! i adore the

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avagant expression of the proverb which says that passion refers everything to itself? he believes in his virtue and in his genius; can you not guess the end? all the surrounding objects are so many suggestions which stir in him a world of thought, all more coloured, more living, more subtle than ever, clothed in a magic glamour "these mighty cities" says he to himself "where the superb buildings tower one above the other; these beautiful ships balanced by the waters of the roadstead in homesick idleness, that seem to translate our thought 'when shall we set sail for happiness; these museums full of lovely shapes and intoxicating colours; these libraries where are accumulated the works of science and the dreams of poetry; this concourse of instruments whose music is one; these enchantress

d understand weakness; and so also a man who would be god must worship deity and understand devilry: that is, he 2 the greater our ignorance the more intense appears the illumination. 3 n.b- the shin is composed of three yodhs, and its value is 300. must become saturated with the reflections of kether in malkuth, until the earth be leavened and the two eyes become one. he must indeed build up his tower stone upon stone until the summit vanish amongst the stars, and he is lost in a land which lies beyond the flames of day and the shadows of night. to attain to this ecstasy, exercises and operations of the most trivial nature must be observed, if they, even in the remotest manner, appertain to the "one" idea. you are a beggar, and you desire to make gold; set to work and never leave off. i p

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e great white spirit with a smile "i might have known better than to employ a low material creature like yourself. send graphiel to me" the angry bartzabel, foaming with horrid rage, went off, and graphiel appeared. all glorious was the moon-like crown of the great intelligence graphiel. his face was like the sun as it appears beyond the veil of this earthly firmament. his warrior body was like a tower of steel, virginal strong. scarlet were his kingly robes, and his limbs were swathed in young leaves of lotus; for those limbs were stronger than any armour ever forged in heaven or hell. winged was he with wings of gold that are the wind itself; his sword of green fire flamed in his right hand, and in his left he held the blue feather of justice, unstirred by the wind of his flight, or the

asion of some happier birth? spring's earliest snowdrop? summer's latest rose? ii thou knowest what asp hath fixed its lethal tooth in the white breast that trembled like a flower at thy name whispered. thou hast marked how hour by hour its poison hath dissolved my youth, 275 half skilled to agonise, half skilled to soothe this passion ineluctable, this power slave to its single end, to storm the tower that holdeth thee, who art authentic truth. o golden hawk! o lidless eye! behold how the grey creeps upon the shuddering gold! still i will strive! that thou mayst sweep swift on the dead from thine all-seeing steep- and the unutterable word by spoken. aleister crowley. 276 the violinist the room was cloudy with a poisonous incense: saffron, opoponax, galbanum, musk, and myrrh, the purity of

the gondola! 314 through maze on maze of silent waterways, guarded by lightless sentinel palaces, we glide; the soft plash of the oar, that sways our life, like love does, laps- no softer seas swoon in the bosom of pacific bays! we are in tune with the infinite ecstasies, adela! sway with me, sway with me in the gondola! they hold us in, these tangled sepulchres that guard such ghostly life. they tower above our passage like the cliffs of death. there stirs no angel from the pinnacles thereof. all broods, all breeds. but immanent as hers that reigns is this most silent crown of love, adela that broods on me, and is i, in the gondola. they twist, they twine, these white and black canals, now stark with lamplight, now a reach of styx. even as out love- raging wild animals suddenly hoisted on

reading aloud of job- well, hang it, mr. blackwood, the woman has the best of it yet. it is a very foolish girl who cannot hold her own for ten years. but you who have been writing hardly half the time are only fit for the literary lock hospital. jonathan hutchinson, natu minimus. ambergris. a selection of poems by aleister crowley. elkin mathews. 3"s" 6"d" printed by strangeways and sons, great tower street, cambridge circus, w. c. we don't like books of selections, and you can't make a nightingale out of a crow by picking out the least jarring notes. the book is nicely bound and printed- as if that were any excuse! mr. crowley, however, must have been surprised to receive a bill of over six pounds for "author's corrections" as the book was printed from his volume of collected works, and

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trip the mind of the cause of sorrow, namely change. during this stage a series of humiliations must be undergone, and, not only must the nephesch be conquered, but also the lower states of the ruach, until the illumination of the second noble truth of the eightfold path shatter the step of right views which the aspirant is standing upon just as the fire of god consumed the elemental pyramid- the tower of the taro. having attained to mastery over right comprehension the aspirant begins to see things not as they are but in their right proportions. his views become balanced, he enters tiphareth, the solar plexus "he sees naked facts behind the garments of hypotheses in which men have clothed them, and by which they have become obscured; and he perceives that behind the changing and conflicti

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there came a touch like sucking mouths and stroking hands that laid their foul alluring smutch even to the blood's mad sarabands. 8 so did the neophyte that would gaze into dead pharaoh's awful eyes start from incalculable amaze to clutch the initiate's place and prize. he bore the blistering thought aloft: it blazed in battle on his plume: with sage and warrior enfeoffed, he rushed alone through tower and tomb. the myriad men, the cohorts armed, are shred like husks: the ensanguine brand leaps like a flame, a flame encharmed to fire the pyramid heaven-spanned wherein dead pharaoh sits and stares, swathed in the wrappings of the tomb, with eyes whose horror flits and flares like corpse-lights glimmering in the gloom till all's a blaze, one roar of flame, death universal, locked and linked

the lake: they hiss, they glisten on her bosom bare. o maiden, maiden queen! the lightning flows between thy mounting breasts, too magically fair. draw me, o draw me to a dreaming death! send out thine opiate breath, and lull me to the everlasting sleep, that, closing from the kisses of disdain to ecstasy of pain, i may sob out my life into their dangerous deep. who cometh from the mountain as a tower stalwart and set against the fiery foes! who, breathing as a jasmine-laden bower? who, crowned and lissome as a living rose? sharp thorns in thee are set; in me, in me beget the dolorous despair of this desire. thy body sways and swings above the tide of things, laps me as ocean, wraps me round as fire! ye elemental sorceries of song, surge, strenuous and strong, seeking dead dreams, the sec

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xious a shade; yet harmless and unharmed, and undismayed, pines in her prison an unsullied maid. penned by the master mage to his desire, she baffles his seductions and his ire, praying god's all-annihilating fire. the lord of hosts gave ear unto her song: the lord of hosts waxed wrathful at her wrong. he loosed the hound of heaven from its thong. violent and vivid smote the levin flash. once the tower rocked and cracked beneath its lash, caught inextinguishable fire; was ash. but that same fire that quelled the robber strife, and struck each being out of lust and life, left the mild maiden a rejoicing wife. 13 12. and this: 13. there is a well before the great white throne that is choked up with rubbish from the ages; rubble and clay and sediment and stone, delight of lizards and despair

clouds; next a pale crescent, heavy and slow, yet silvered; next, as if it had dropped from the stars, an unicorn galloped past us and was gone ere we could fix it; next a tall lighthouse upon the water "here" said the dark man my comrade "is a pleasant place for refreshment before we turn to the further journey" as he spoke, although no sun was visible, a mighty rainbow appeared, and crowned the tower. i cried out joyfully "the bow of promise" but they answered nothing. and at that i understood that they had travelled further already, and were but returned for an hour to succour me who had no boat. seven days then we remained in the tower, eating and drinking. also in my sleep i had many marvellous dreams, of greater sustenance than sleep itself. and there was given unto me by my fair bro

, and have for steersman one appointed thereunto. this then i laboured to build, and the toil was great. moreover, certain vile fish rose from the water, and with their fins beat upon the planks of my boat, that i might not end it. however, at last i had it perfect, and was about to set sail at dawn. but first the dark man my brother departed from us, and went his way. and then the old man of the tower took me aside and offered me a seat at the funeral feast of his master. and although i verily believe that this old man was a rogue, a very knavish fellow, and a sot, yet in that funeral i took great pleasure. for the gentlest perfume was 58 borne upon the breeze, and the air was lit with faint electric flames that gathered themselves into a hill of light. so i, being lifted up, and my heart

came into the funeral chamber that was exceeding bright, and there was the table for the feast, and beneath it the coffin wherein lay the body of the master. there too i saw barren wood bear roses, and i heard the voice of the master. after that i was shewn all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and many other things of great use and beauty. then i took my leave of the old man of the tower, and boarded the shallop that i had made, when he cried out piteously that he feared earthquake, and asked me for my aid. so with a heart both heavy and light i abandoned my shallop and the dreadful labour of its fashioning, and came back to him. then came earthquake as he had foreseen; and he and the boats also were swallowed up. in the tidal wave of the earthquake i was borne far away, eve

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sl' s til .u h.uuc ovl'i' th l' altar, siilt l ll ll ll il-d h y inrc usc sli ll l kl' tarot cards set out(,r a 'r e:ldin g' the w itches' circle. the objects within it include th e pentacle, at h.uuc, censer, watchtower and th e key 'l solo",o" insid e the ci rcle, wa tc hed h y alex aiiii ot lu-r wi tches, ma xin e po int s he r sword to the hra ss urn, the sym bo lic g u.lrd ian of th e wa tch tower ale x hon ours th e goddess h y kn eelin g he(,re ma xin e, his high pri estess, his hand s looped in her gi rd le prq,a ral ory 10 rem o vin g th e robe 'you shall pray to the holy angel that he may deign to sign or write upon a small square or plate of silver which you shall have made for this purpose' he used the silver back of a hunter watch given him years ago by his mother. acquiring t

ALICE A BAILEY09 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME I ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY I

chic lines does not prove the fact of the soul, however; it only serves to break down the materialistic position. it is among the thinkers of the race that the first assured recognition of the soul will come, and this event will be the result of the study and analysis, by the psychologists of the world, of the nature of genius and the significance of creative work. some men and women in the world tower above their fellow men, and produce that which is superlative in its own field; their work has in it the element of divinity and of immortality. the work of creative artists, the intuitive perception of great scientific investigators, the inspired imagination of the poets of the world and the vision of the illumined idealists, have all to be accounted for and explained, for the laws under wh

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

ul will be turned increasingly to the work of illumined building with the aid of other souls. there is much to be accomplished if the work of the hierarchy is to go forward as desired. your work in my group is known to you. it is twofold and that you also know. you can stand in the group as the embodiment of dynamic energy which, as i earlier told you, causes things to be. you can also stand as a tower of strength and let the strength of love pour through you. say daily the following words, as oft as you feel the urge and when you choose "the strength i touch and am, that strength i give. the central light i reach so oft, i pass along the lighted way to those who need that light. i seek to walk the ways of men as light and love and power. my strength and power come from the secret place an

inder of your years on earth) simply hold that which has been gained. no light achievement, my brother, given the equipment with which you started upon the path three lives ago, but not indicating your highest possibility which is to be based upon the work done in your last life on earth. go forward now to greater heights of achievement in self-forgetfulness and in love, and become increasingly a tower of strength and a source of illumining wisdom to your co-disciples. i have for you two words. one of them is based upon the instructions which i have given you in the past and which i will summarise by saying: submit your physical plane life to discipline, self-imposed; adhere to that discipline at all costs. you can outline that discipline adequately for yourself. there is no need for me to

e cooperation with the tibetan and with the group of his disciples- 285- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust to w. d. s. november 1937 what shall i say to you, my brother and my friend, that will do for you two things: first of all, give you confidence in the rightness of your choice of a field of service, and, secondly, strengthen your will so that you can stand as a tower of strength to others? are these not the two things which you desire and which constitute your aim, and do you not require assurance on these points, or is it re-assurance? go forward, my brother, looking not behind but with your eyes fixed in steadfastness upon the way of a world server. it is a hard way, with many ups and downs, and many steep hills and valleys of shadow, but there is rest

ur soul to your brain. the result has been integrating, satisfying (in spite of incidental suffering) and relational in its effects. such interludes of unfoldment in the life of an aspirant carry with them a high responsibility and, for the remainder of your life, you can if you so choose produce a definite effect upon those whose lives you are privileged to contact and to whom you can stand as a tower of strength in a world where adjustments and re-orientation are going on. because of these adjustments, certain great transitions in consciousness are in order and taking place. some of the lessons you have learnt have not yet emerged into your waking brain consciousness, but that is of no moment for they can still bear fruit interiorly and, my brother, it is our subjective effort which is t

ged disciple, and you do not fear the knowledge of reality. you have passed across the burning ground and now it lies behind you, but the smoke which hovers round it still obscures your vision. pass on with rapidity into the clear light of day and leave behind remembrance of pain, of the heart-searching and the problems and lifting your face to the light for the remainder of this earthly way be a tower of strength and a radiant light to others. this you can do- 358- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust if i could summarise my thought for you, my brother, i would clothe it in words of great simplicity and would say to you: be happy. be happy as the sannyasin is happy who (through detachment from the little self and attachment to the greater self in all) has left

ntion and ask you to stand with each other in the closest relation. you can form a triangle of spiritual force which should be of real value to the group and greatly facilitate the planned group work. correspond with each other and stand by each other in love. all three of you have much with which to contend, but both the others have far more to contend with than you have. therefore, be to them a tower of strength and let them draw from you what they need of love and understanding. i would have you continue with the exercise i gave you in your last instruction. as a preparatory exercise for the group meditation, it will prove effective for it is along the same general line, only in the group meditation the work is more specific and focussed. the factor which will produce increasing integra

al plane life. the same attentiveness and potency of thought, directed away from your circumstances and to the things of the soul, will free you. do you still work in your garden, my brother? would you be willing to work in it another year? may i (who have looked on for years at your struggle and who today feel certain of your victory) make another suggestion to you? build in your garden an ivory tower and from the summit of that tower survey your life each day. build it until the time of the full moon of may and then at the time of the wesak festival and for the three days of that festival live in your tower and there abide. in moments also of distress or of imminent failure mount to your tower and steadfast stand. the tower is only symbolic but, if you grasp the essential underlying mean

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

nt to which all true mystics bear witness. what does concern us here is how this light is recognised, appropriated and used in order to dispel glamour and render a deeply esoteric service to the world. it might be said that the inner light is like a searchlight, swinging out into the world of glamour and of human struggle from what one master has called "the pedestal of the soul and the spiritual tower or beacon" these terms convey the idea of altitude and of distance which are so characteristic of the mystical approach. power to use this light as a dissipating agent only comes when these symbols are dropped and the server begins to regard himself as the light and as the irradiating centre. herein lies the reason for some of the technicalities of the occult science. the esotericist knows t

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

latter have done me no real harm, perhaps because i could never dislike them and could always understand why they disliked me. my husband, foster bailey, has for over twenty-five years made all my work possible. without him i feel i could have accomplished very little. where there is deep and abiding love and understanding, respect and unbroken comradeship, one is rich indeed. he has been to me a tower of strength and "the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land" there are things which are damaged by expression in words and which sound meaningless and futile when written down. our relationship is one of them. for many lives we must have lived and worked together and we both look forward to many more. i have no more to say on this subject. what, i often ask myself, could i have done withou

i did not get the skilled care i should have had. that was not her fault as she did her best to see me through. i have been curiously unlucky when my three children were born, and only once had a hospital nurse with me. anyway, when my first child was born i had inexpert care. walter evans went into hysterics all the time, demanding most of the attention of the doctor, but mrs. snyder was like a tower of strength and i shall never forget her. later the doctor sent in a practical nurse but she was so incompetent that i suffered severely at her hands and went through three months of great discomfort and agony. we then moved from the seminary to other living quarters. we took a small apartment where, for the first time, i was left alone with a small baby and all the housework to do. up to th

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

s is indicated today by the constant use of the terms "forces of light" and "forces of evil" when the inner, esoteric and predisposing causes of war are discovered through esoteric research, then war and wars will come to an end. this is in the nature of truly esoteric work, but is scorned by present day esotericists who regard themselves as spiritually superior to such affairs and in their ivory tower concentrate on their own development, plus a little philosophy. one point should here be stated: esotericism is not in any way of a mystical and vague nature. it- 46- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust is a science essentially the science of the soul of all things and has its own terminology, experiments, deductions and laws. when i say "soul" i refer to the animating consci

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust life has been so difficult for you, brother of mine, that i hesitate (because i have an understanding of much that you are enduring) to lay upon you any further burden of self-discipline or more of the life of introspection. you have stood in the midst of your world and watched it come down, crashing around you; you have stood as a tower of strength to those who are tied to you in the closest links and have not failed them; you have preserved your values clear whilst seeing the material values dissolve into thin air. that you still have a few personal glamours and are still taken in by your own high grade reactions to circumstance and people is of course true but i question whether anything is to be gained through your focus

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

d wealthy cavalier, who was indeed asadmirable a suitor as any one could desire. but the mother, who was far more bent on gratifying vin-dictiveness and cruel vanity than on her daughters happiness, was infuriated at this, and when thegentleman came to her, she bade him begone, for her daughter was vowed to become a nun, and anun she should be or die.then the young lady was shut up in a cell in a tower, without even the company of her governess,and put to strong and hard pain, being made to sleep on the stone floor, and would have died ofhunger had her mother had her way.then in this dire need she prayed to dianato set her free; when lo! she found the prison door unfas-tened, and easily escaped. then having obtained a pilgrims dress, she travelled far and wide,teaching and preaching the re

secret love, with attraction to the dimly seen beautiful-by-moonlight,with the fairy or witch-like charm of the supernatural a romanceall combined in a single strangeform the spell of night!there is a dangerous silence in that houra stillness which leaves room for the full soult o open all itself, without the powerof calling wholly back its self-control;the silver light which, hallowing tree and tower,sheds beauty and deep softness oer the whole,breathes also to the heart, and oer it throwsa loving languor which is not repose.this is what is meant by the myth of diana and endymion. it is the making divine or aesthetic (whichto the greeks was one and the same) that which is impassioned, secret, and forbidden. it was thecharm of the stolen waters which are sweet, intensified to poetry. and

BANISHING THE SLAVE GODS

entagram is projected out during the rite, you may project this onto the center of the forehead of the person you are cursing/blessing. the key to the efficacy of this attack lies in the ability to open ones own "third eye chakra" which provides the force behind the actual symbol. here is a brief sex magical rite to open the "third eye. obtain crowley's book of thoth: tarot take out the devil and tower cards. you can: a. masturbate while gazing upon the tower card equating its symbology with the procreative force you are generating through arousal, then while holding back orgasm karezza switch attention to the devil card. focus on the "third eye" that is depicted on the goat. take on the head of the goat as in the manner of an assumption of a god form. as your sexual arousal begins to reac

r will alone when the n arises. also, at the beginning stages you may choose to charge a sigil with the semen you will be discharging. for instructions on how to cast sigils see: http//occult100.com/sigil.shtml and a gallary of photographic examples http//www.sigilgarden.com/ method may also apply to two partners as an adjunct to anal intercourse. the active partner fucker will associate with the tower. the passive partner fuckee associates with the devil. the procedure will be done as suggested above, but the passive partner will serve as the active focuser and projector in the rite. as to the intent of this rite/practice/magical procedure- the purpose is to create a psychic link between your self and the one who is being cursed/blessed. the objective is to activate their "third eye chakr

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

and israelites, it will be easy to discover whence came also the confused account of the noachian deluge. it has become undeniable of late that the jews, who obtained their primitive ideas about creation from moses, who had them from[[footnote(s* as it is now asserted that the chaldean tablets, which give the allegorical description of creation, the fall, and the flood, even to the legend of the tower of babel, were written "before the time of moses (see g. smith's "chaldean account of genesis" p. 86, how can the pentateuch be called a revelation? it is simply another version of the same story[[vol. 2, page] 4 the secret doctrine. the egyptians, compiled their genesis and first cosmogonic traditions- when these were rewritten by ezra and others- from the chaldeo-akkadian account. it is, t

n batylos, the brutally indecent form of the lingham. the maha deva' before casting slurs on a symbol whose profound metaphysical meaning is too much for the modern champions of that religion of sensualism par excellence, roman catholicism, to grasp, they are in duty bound to destroy their oldest churches, and change the form of the cupolas of their own temples. the mahody of elephanta, the round tower of bhangulpore, the minarets of islam- either rounded or pointed- are the originals of the campanile column of san marco, at venice, of the rochester cathedral, and of the modern duomo of milan. all of these steeples, turrets, domes, and christian temples, are the reproductions of the primitive idea of the lithos, the upright phallus (vol. ii, p. 5) nevertheless, and however it may be, the f

ation and race down to the days of moses, and which found an objective form in those antediluvian giants, those terrible sorcerers and magicians, of whom the roman church has preserved such vivid and at the same time distorted legends. one who has read and studied the commentaries on the archaic doctrine, will easily recognise in some atlanteans, the prototypes of the nimrods, the builders of the tower of babel, the hamites, and all these tutti quanti of "accursed memory" as theological literature expresses it: of those, in short, who have furnished posterity with the orthodox types of satan. and this leads us naturally to inquire into the religious ethics of these early races, mythical as these may be. what was the religion of the third and fourth races? in the common acceptation of the t

must one day destroy europe, and still later the whole aryan race (and thus affect both americas, as also most of the lands directly connected with the confines of our continent and isles- the sixth root-race will have appeared on the stage of our round. when shall this be? who knows save the great masters of wisdom, perchance, and they are as silent upon the subject as the snow-capped peaks that tower above them. all we know is, that it will silently come into existence; so silently, indeed, that for long millenniums shall its pioneers- the peculiar children who will grow into peculiar men and women- be regarded as anomalous lusus naturae, abnormal oddities physically and mentally. then, as they increase, and their numbers become with every age greater, one day they will awake to find the

ng the seven gods of the planets; and as the personification of the secret wisdom he was nabin, a seer and a prophet. the fact that moses is made to die and disappear on the mount sacred to nebo, shows him an initiate and a priest of that god under another name; for this god of wisdom was the great creative deity, and was worshipped as such, not alone at borsippa in his gorgeous temple, or planet-tower. he was likewise adored by the moabites, the canaanites, the assyrians, and throughout the whole of palestine: then why not by the israelites "the planetary temple of babylon" had "its holy of holies" within the shrine of nebo, the prophet god of wisdom. we are told in the hibbert lectures "the ancient babylonians had an intercessor between men and the gods. and nebo, was the 'proclaimer' or

c incantations even against the sun- failing in which, they cursed it. the sorcerers of thessaly were credited with the power of calling down the moon, as greek history assures us. the atlanteans of the later period were renowned for their magic powers and wickedness, their ambition and defiance of the gods. thence the same traditions taking form in the bible about the antediluvian giants and the tower of babel, found also in the "book of enoch" diodorus records another fact or two: the atlanteans boasted of possessing the land in which all the gods had received their birth; as also of having had uranus for their first king, he being also the first to teach them astronomy. very little more than this has come down to us from antiquity. the myth of atlas is an allegory easily understood. atl

BLUE EQUINOX

r poplars stood like the seven spirits of god. soft as silence in mine ear, the drone and rustle of the weir told in bass the treble tale of the embowered nightingale. higher, on the patient river, velvet lights without a quiver echoed through their hush d rimes the garden s glow beneath the limes. then the sombre village, crowned by the castellated ground where, in cerements of sable, one square tower and one great gable stood, the melancholy wraith of a false and fallen faith over all, supine, enthralling, the young moon, her faint edge falling to the dead verge of her setting, saintly swam, her silver fretting all the leaves with light. afar the equinox 188 toward the zenith stood a star, as of all worthiness and fitness the luminous eternal witness. so silent was the night, that i stir

t, its word unspoken, the equinox 190 widowed of its undying lord, its bowl of silver broke, its cord of gold unloosed, its shining ladders thrown down, its ears more deaf than adders, its window blind, its music stopped, from its place in heaven dropped, from its starry throne was hurled beyond the pillars of the world. borne from the byss of light to the dark night! the moon had sunk behind the tower when, for a moment, by the power of nature, as even the eagle s eye turns wearied from the sun, did i fall from the conning-crag, that springs above the universe of things, into the dark impertinence of the mirrored lies of sense. yet, when i sought the stars to espy and ree the runes of destiny, mine eyes their wonted office failed, so diligently god had veiled me from myself! i could not h

r. of course, all psychical research without initiation reminds one of art criticism by a blind man or an art critic. apart from this, however, sir william barrett has written a very clever book, and i hope that these few well chosen words of approval may encourage him to further efforts, perhaps not so much in this line as in one for which he might have more original talent. a. c. from the watch tower. by sidney t. klein. e. p. dutton& co. when i had the pleasure of reviewing mr. sidney t. klein s science and the infinite in number ix. of the first volume of the equinox, i remember asking him for a second part to his book dealing with the means of attainment. mr. klein has not exactly done this in his new volume, but he has gone a long way on the road. he is still somewhat handicapped by

act is that this treatise does not contain an intelligible and coherent cosmogony. the unfortunate lanoo is in the position of a sea-captain who is furnished with the most elaborate and detailed sailing-instructions, but is not allowed to have the slightest idea of what port he is to make, still less given a chart of the ocean. one finds oneself accordingly in a sort of .childe roland to the dark tower came. atmosphere. that poem of browning owes much of its haunting charm to this very circumstance, that the reader is never told who childe roland is, or why he wants to get to the dark tower, or what he expects to find when he does get there. there is a skilfully constructed atmosphere of giants, and ogres, and hunchbacks, and the rest of the apparatus of fairy-tales; but there is no trace

ilde roland is, or why he wants to get to the dark tower, or what he expects to find when he does get there. there is a skilfully constructed atmosphere of giants, and ogres, and hunchbacks, and the rest of the apparatus of fairy-tales; but there is no trace of the influence of b deker in the style. now this is really very irritating to anybody who happens to be seriously concerned to get to that tower. i remember, as a boy, what misery i suffered over this poem. had browning been alive, i think i would have sought him out, so seriously did i take the quest. the student of blavatsky is equally handicapped. fortunately, book 4, part iii, comes to the rescue once more with a rough sketch of the universe as it is conceived by those who know it; and a regular investigation of that book, and th

elusion. thy body is not self, thy self is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not. pride is an expansion of the ego, and the ego must be destroyed. pride is its protective sheath, and hence exceptionally dangerous, but this is a mystical truth concerning the inner life. the adept is anything but a .creeping jesus. 15. self-gratulation, o disciple, is like unto a lofty tower, up which a haughty fool has climbed. thereon he sits in prideful solitude and unperceived by any but himself. develops this: but, this treatise being for beginners as well as for the more advanced, a sensible commonplace reason is given for avoiding pride, in that it defeats its own object. 16. false learning is rejected by the wise, and scattered to the winds by the good law. its wheel rev

oint is that on the right hand path, stripping self, the adept becomes nemo, the master of the temple, and returns across the abyss, or rather is flung forth, and appears in the heaven of jupiter.or sphere of another planet.as a morning star or an evening star to bring light to them that dwell upon the earth. on the left hand path, the adept, wishing to keep all that he has, shuts himself up in a tower of silence, there to suffer the progressively degrading agony of slow dispersion. for on the right hand path the master of the temple is.momentarily.after a fashion.at rest. his intellectual and physical forces are acting in the world, but his blood is in the cup of babalon, a draught to awaken the eld of the all-father, and all that remains of him is a little pile of dust which only waits t

BOOK OF JASHAR

re the world was made. then nimrod triumphed, and with his two hands he settled all disputes among the noahites. for nimrod knew that a united people could do great deeds before god. but when nimrod grew old, he heard young men grumbling, and he felt evil eyes from the children of those whom he had slain. so he spoke to the people "you cannot see the peace that i have given you, so let us build a tower for god. you have forgotten the warfare that i ended, so let us make blood sacrifices at the new moon. then you will see and remember, and you will know that god still inhabits our kingdom" thus nimrod reigned until his death, and he was entombed in the high tower, and everyone mourned how the mighty had fallen. the people were afraid of being divided, so nimrod was succeeded by other kings

d, so let us make blood sacrifices at the new moon. then you will see and remember, and you will know that god still inhabits our kingdom" thus nimrod reigned until his death, and he was entombed in the high tower, and everyone mourned how the mighty had fallen. the people were afraid of being divided, so nimrod was succeeded by other kings. but each king was driven to exalt his own name, and the tower of each generation was built higher than before. in time, the royal engineers learned how to reach up to heaven. monitors were appointed in every village, so that those who did not make bricks for the tower should be sacrificed into its mortar. and isaac was arrested, because he left his work gang when his sons were born. 6. when isaac was brought before the crowd, his mother sarah blew a ra

neers learned how to reach up to heaven. monitors were appointed in every village, so that those who did not make bricks for the tower should be sacrificed into its mortar. and isaac was arrested, because he left his work gang when his sons were born. 6. when isaac was brought before the crowd, his mother sarah blew a ram's horn, and she called out to stop the new moon. then god withdrew from the tower and saw them breaking humans into red earth "all the people are united in one kingdom, and they have no one else to set them straight, like a man alone in the wilderness. they can go wrong forever if they are not divided. so each father today will become the patriarch of a separate nation, with its own language for laws and prayers. and henceforth, any nation that sinks into such folly may b

easant's rebellion of 1381("when adam delved and eve span, where then was the gentleman) with this quotation, if the document can be attributed to a jew of spain, then it could have been written any time between 1381 and 1492. the passages cited by the bible appear only muted and transformed in this text. one might try to interpret solomon's speech as a reference to nimrod's justification for his tower. only a few elements of david's lamentation appear in nimrod's epitaph. it is hard to fit joshua's quote with this text, except as a hyperbole derived from the story of sarah stopping the sacrifice at the new moon. the best that can be said for a connection between this text and the original israelite "book of jashar" is that the author might have drawn on some ancient manuscripts and tradit

is able to maintain his position long enough to die in power and get a glorious state funeral. the generations that follow nimrod repeat his story: a king is needed to suppress disputes, but subsequent resentment against the king can be deflected only by awesome monumental building and sacrifice. the only difference in each generation is that, to earn the people's awe, each king needs to build a tower that is greater than the previous king's. it is not clear whether each generation is building directly on top of nimrod's tower, or whether a new tower is built from the ground up for each king, like the pyramids of egypt's old kingdom. in any case, the engineers of each generation are building on the technology developed by their predecessors, until they can accomplish virtual miracles of c

ation are building on the technology developed by their predecessors, until they can accomplish virtual miracles of construction. the royal engineers face constraints that are social and economic, as well as the constraints of the physical materials that they use. eventually, the entire society itself must be redesigned to serve the needs of the construction project. to keep people working on the tower, regimentation and oppression must reach into every village. taking time off from construction work, even to care for newborn babies, becomes a crime punishable by death. thus, the jashar manuscript brings the binding of isaac into the story of the tower of babel. 6. the noahites' ultimate sin is their reversal god's act of creation, when they break humans back into red earth, in sacrifice t

egimentation and oppression must reach into every village. taking time off from construction work, even to care for newborn babies, becomes a crime punishable by death. thus, the jashar manuscript brings the binding of isaac into the story of the tower of babel. 6. the noahites' ultimate sin is their reversal god's act of creation, when they break humans back into red earth, in sacrifice to their tower (the red earth may be interpreted as a reference to adam in genesis; in hebrew, adom means red, and adamah means earth) so sarah calls god out of the tower, before the execution of her son isaac, and the unity of the noahites is destroyed. the tower of babel is a story that speaks directly to us today, as national and ethnic divisions generate a seemingly endless series of international cris

BOOK T

rds of truth: the ruler of the balance lamed libra 69 the hanged man the spirit of the mighty waters mem water 70 death the child of the great transformers: the lord of the gates of death nun scorpio 71 temperance the daughter of the reconcilers: the bringer-forth of life samekh sagittarius 72 the devil the lord of the gates of matter: the child of the forces of time ayin capricorn 73 the blasted tower the lord of the hosts of the mighty peh mars 74 the star the daughter of the firmament, the dweller between the waters tzaddi aquarius 75 the moon the ruler of flux and reflux: the child of the sons of the mighty qof pisces 76 the sun the lord of the fire of the world resh sun 77 the judgment the spirit of the primal fire shin spirit and fire 78 the universe the great one of the night of tim

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

ajor arcana, otherwise known as the trumps major, has twenty-two cards; each an allegorical figure of symbolic meaning. these figures are, by many occultists, attributed to the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet: 1 magician 2 high priestess 3 empress 4 emperor 5 hierophant 6 lovers 7 chariot 8 justice 9 hermit 10 wheel of fortune 11 strength 12 hanged man 13 death 14 temperance 15 devil 16 tower 17 star 18 moon 19 sun 20 judgement 21 world 0 fool 111 aleph beth gimel daleth heh vav zain cheth teth yod kaph lamed mem nun samekh ayin peh tzaddi qoph resh shin tav 112/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft unfortunately the occultists cannot agree on this. while macgregor mathers, for instance, attributes the cards as i have shown, paul f. case puts the fool at the beginning, thus mov

abbe mermet amazing secrets of the psychic world raymond buckland and hereward carrington lesson nine 1. after trying at least three different spreads for the tarot, and doing at least six readings with each spread, write down which of the spreads you prefer and why. 2. imagine that you are in the middle of doing a tarot reading for a friend, using the rider-waite deck. the major arcana card "the tower" appears in the position of the immediate future. what interpretation would you place on it (it is realized that much would depend on the other cards around it. however, just give your interpretation for this one card) 3. in this same hypothetical reading, the final outcome for your friend is the five of pentacles. what is your interpretation of that card in that position? 4. if you do not o

CHAOS MAGICK AND LUCIFERISM

od itself. only through this imam will one be able to journey to god. in western definitions, this concept is similar to the pope. sabbah was not only able to raise a number estimated at several thousand fanatic followers, called the assassins from their ritual use of hashish, which was said to make them suggestive to hassan i sabbah s claims that alamut was indeed heaven and not a stark and cold tower or desert desolation. this drug, administered carefully, was able to create a strong link with the metal facilities of the individuals, until they were mentally and physically ready to kill for imam. hassan i sabbah instilled in his followers a sense of freedom, yet with at an equal end the undying determination to serve and die for this individual. the luciferian component to the old man of

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ould be the very one who should choose the royal way. i saw likepage 11 wise the fourth before me, but it was so environed with fire and exaltations, that i did not dare draw near it by much, and therefore again and again considered whether i should turn back, or take any of the ways before me. i considered well my own unworthiness, but the dream still comforted me that i was delivered out of the tower; and yet i did not dare confidently rely upon a dream; whereupon i was so perplexed in various ways, that very great weariness, hunger and thirst seized me. whereupon i presently drew out my bread and cut a slice of it; which a snow-white dove of whom i was not aware, sitting upon the tree, saw, and therewith (perhaps according to her usual manner) came down. she betook herself very familiar

to have caused her to be slain if he had not been wonderfully deceived by his own servants. thus this act was concluded too, with a marvellous triumph of the moor. in the third act a great army of the king s party was raised against the moor, and put under the conduct of an ancient valiant knight, who fell into the moor s country, till at length he forcibly rescued the young lady page 52 from the tower, and appareled her anew. after this in a trice they erected a glorious scaffold, and placed their young lady upon it. presently twelve royal ambassadors came, amongst whom the aforementioned knight made a speech, alleging that the king his most gracious lord had not only delivered her from death earlier, and even caused her to be royally brought up until now (though she had not behaved herse

aplain. the first of these tormented her greatly; then the tables were turned, and the priest was so insolently wicked that he had to be above all, until this was reported to the young king; who hastily despatched one who broke the neck of the priest s mightiness, and adorned the bride in some measure for the nuptials. after the act a vast artificial elephant was brought forth. he carried a great tower with musicians, which was also well pleasing to all. in the last act the bridegroom appeared with such pomp as cannot be believed, and i was amazed how it was brought to pass. the bride met him in similar solemnity, whereupon all the people cried out long live the bridegroom! long live the bride- so that by this comedy they also congratulated our king and queen in the most stately manner, wh

d seen more than the rest. page 62 now after the funerals were done, the virgin, having placed herself upon the middlemost stone, made a short oration, that we should be constant to our engagements, and not repine at the pains we were hereafter to undergo, but be helpful in restoring the present buried royal persons to life again; and therefore without delay to rise up with her, to journey to the tower of olympus, to fetch from there medicines useful and necessary for this purpose. this we soon agreed to, and followed her through another little door right to the shore. there the seven aforementioned ships stood all empty, on which the virgins stuck up their laurel branches, and after they had distributed us in the six ships, they caused us thus to begin our voyage in god s name, and looked

it, and forasmuch as my giddiness is not likely to be beneficial to the reader, i am resolved to let it rest as it is. but this was the very wound that in the first book i received on the head in a dream. and let everyone take warning by me of loitering about venus bed, for cupid can by no means brook it. after some hours, having gone a good way in friendly discourses, we came within sight of the tower of olympus, so the virgin commanded to give the signal of our approach by the discharge of some pieces, which was also done. and immediately we saw a great white flag thrust out, and a small gilded pinnace sent forth to meet us. now as soon as this had come to us, we perceived in it a very ancient man, the warder of the tower, with certain guards clothed in white, by whom we were friendlily

mmanded to give the signal of our approach by the discharge of some pieces, which was also done. and immediately we saw a great white flag thrust out, and a small gilded pinnace sent forth to meet us. now as soon as this had come to us, we perceived in it a very ancient man, the warder of the tower, with certain guards clothed in white, by whom we were friendlily received, and so conducted to the tower. page 65 this tower was situated upon an island which was exactly square, and which was environed with a wall that was so firm and thick that i myself counted three hundred and sixty passes over. on the other side of the wall was a fine meadow with certain little gardens, in which grew strange, and to me unknown, fruits; and then again there was an inner wall about the tower. the tower itsel

e meadow with certain little gardens, in which grew strange, and to me unknown, fruits; and then again there was an inner wall about the tower. the tower itself was just as if seven round towers had been built one by another, yet the middlemost was somewhat the higher, and within they all entered one into another, and had seven storeys one above another. being come in this way to the gates of the tower, we were led a little aside by the wall, so that, as i well observed, the coffins might be brought into the tower without our taking notice; of this the rest knew nothing. this being done, we were conducted into the tower at the very bottom, which although it was excellently painted, yet we had little recreation there; for this was nothing but a laboratory, where we had to beat and wash plan

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manners and complained to the gods in heaven about the monkey king s rude behavior. when monkey returned to his mountain home, he showed off his new clothes. he preened this way and that, and twirled around and around in front of the admiring monkeys. then monkey pulled out his iron staff. first he changed it into a long bridge that arched over the widest river; then he transformed it into a tall tower that touched the clouds. finally, he shrank the iron staff into a tiny embroidery needle and tucked it behind his ear, grinning at his astonished subjects. with his fine clothes and new weapon, monkey proclaimed himself the equal of any god in heaven. monkey gets a job in heaven soon the gods in heaven became irritated with monkey s behavior and decided to capture the insolent character. the

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tic line. all over the ancient world, you find that the royal families were supposed to have originated with the sky gods- extraterrestrials. records left by the ancient civilisations of mesopotamia say that their pyramidal towers known as ziggurats were built for intercourse between a priestess and a god from the sky. herodotus described the inside of a ziggurat he saw in babylon "on the topmost tower there is a spacious temple, and inside the temple stands a great bed covered with fine bedclothes with a golden table at its side. there is no statue of any kind set up in this place, nor is the chamber occupied at night by any but a single native woman who, say the chaldean priests, is chosen by the deity out of all the women of the land. the priests also declare, but i for one do not credi

tained far more of the original knowledge than those religions (such as christianity) which condemn it as 'evil. the fourth dimensional prison warders wish to prevent us from knowing who we are, how we have been imprisoned, and how we can get out of prison. making us confused and dividing us into factions, religions, and tongues was part of the prison warder strategy. if you read the story of the tower of babel, you can see this described symbolically "at first the people of the whole world had only one language and used the same words. as they wandered about in the east, they came to a plain in babylonia and settled there. they said to one another 'come on! let's make bricks and bake them hard. so they had bricks to build with and mortar to hold them together. they said 'now let's build a

l, you can see this described symbolically "at first the people of the whole world had only one language and used the same words. as they wandered about in the east, they came to a plain in babylonia and settled there. they said to one another 'come on! let's make bricks and bake them hard. so they had bricks to build with and mortar to hold them together. they said 'now let's build a city with a tower that reaches to the sky, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth "then the lord [extraterrestrials] came down to see the city and the tower which those men had built, and he said 'now then, these are all one people and they speak one language; this is just the beginning of what they are going to do. soon they will be able to do anything they want! let

velt, his father used the cover of an invented fishing trip in august 1941 to meet churchill on board a warship in argentia bay. also at the meeting were lord beaverbrook (the owner of the london daily express) and averell harriman (whose family business had financed the bolshevik revolution, adolf hitler, the nazi war machine, and eugenics organisations advocating the forced sterilisation of the tower classes' to bring about a master race. these were the people who met to discuss opposition to hitler! churchill, beaverbrook and harriman were all members of the committee of 300. harriman was close to both roosevelt and churchill and he acted as the gobetween, advising both of them. from this position, he could manipulate the two leaders as he liked, or rather, as the global elite liked. th

ociety to intervene to maintain racial purity. galton wanted the forced sterilisation of the 'unfit. another 'pioneer' of this mindset was thomas robert malthus, born in 1766. it was from him that the theory of the 'survival of the fittest' was passed on through herbert spencer to charles darwin. malthus was obsessed with the culling of the population and proposed a series of measures against the tower races (the poor, to keep the population down and, as he saw it, to prevent the human genetic stream being dominated by such 'inferior' racial lines. in his best known work, essay, he suggested that streets should be made narrower and more people crowded into houses, to encourage the return of the plague. villages should be built next to stagnant pools and, above all, remedies for preventing

ediately after kennedy was killed that he had been set up to take the blame. intelligence agencies do not operate as one entity, they use compartmentalisation to ensure that different elements have no idea what the others are doing. gary wean did not 270. and the truth shall set you free reveal the identity of "john" for obvious reasons, but after 1991 he was safe to do so "john" was senator john tower, who in 1961, had become the first republican this century to win a senate seat in texas. tower was a strong supporter and ally of the cia throughout his career and would later help to cover up george bush's fundamental involvement in the iran-contra arms-for-drugs scandal. on april 5th 1991, john tower died when his plane exploded. the cover up the cover up began from the moment the fatal s

nnel are being manipulated by those even nearer the top. george bush flew to paris to meet with iranian officials, including ayatollah mehdi, at the hotel ritz on october 19th 1980. among those accompanying bush were william casey, the soonto- be head of the cia; donald gregg, the cia operative; robert mcfarlane, who had been a member of president carter's national security council; senators john tower and john heinz; and a long-time cia and office of naval intelligence operative, gunthar russbacher. it was john tower, a texas senator at the time of the kennedy assassination, who told the cia's police detective gary wean about the cia's "fake" assassination plot involving e. howard hunt. russbacher described the event in intricate detail to rodney stich, a former federal inspector and auth

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, now part of the sahara desert, was once a green and pleasant land. this could explain the water erosion found on the sphinx. to divide and rule the people, credo continues, the chitauri scattered them across the earth and gave them different languages so they could not communicate with each other. this is another story repeated all over the world and not just in the old testament version of the tower of babel. that was a steal from many more ancient accounts. the hopi say that when they came to the surface on the orders of "spider woman, a "mocking bird" arrived to confuse their language and make the tribes talk in different tongues. credo, repeating the information passed on to him in a lifetime of initiations into this underground knowledge, said that the chitauri reptilians interbred

singular god. the first line of genesis "in the beginning god created the heaven and the earth" actually reads in the hebrew "in the beginning the gods created the heavens and the earth" the word elohim, plural, is used 30 times in genesis and 2,570 times in all.14 these include the terms "and the elohim said let us make men in our image; the elohim said "come let us go down" in the story of the tower of babel; and "behold, the man has become like one of us, to know good and evil" in the garden of eden. also in genesis we have "and elohim said 'let us make adam".15 terms like yahveh-elohim or yahveh of the gods, is translated as lord and lord god to hide the truth. it was impossible to eliminate "the gods" when these texts were first written because the whole of the world was worshipping

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are talking here only of one group of them. the hopi say that one day under theorders of their goddess, spider woman, they ascended to the surface of the earth andemerged through their cave they called the sipapuni. once on the outside, the hopi say,a mocking bird arrived to confuse their language and make different tribes speakdifferent tongues. this is such a repeat of the biblical story of the tower of babel that aconnection is obvious. to this day the hopi will not recreate the images of their snakeancestors for fear of death. the layout of the underground world discovered in arizonawas described by g .e. kincaid as a..mammoth chamber from which radiates scores ofpassageways like the spokes of a wheel. this is also how the modern reptilianunderground base at dulce, new mexico is descri

their negative symbols to be placed throughout the publicarena. no-one complains because they have no idea what these symbols, like the dove,really represent.semiramis was called the queen of heaven (also rhea, the virgin mother of the gods,and sometimes known as the great earth mother (ninkharsag. she was also worshippedunder the name astarte the woman who made towers and this could refer to the tower ofbabel (babylon) which nimrod is said to have built. the bloodlines of european royaltycame from the reptile-aryan bloodlines of babylon and the crown evolved from thehorned headgear worn by nimrod. the horns symbolised the monarchs authority and laterbecame a metal headband with three horns symbolising royal power with divine authority7this is represented by the symbol of the fleur-de4is w

tion has been depicted under countless names in the civilisationsand cultures which have followed. these deities throughout the world may seem to be54an unfathomable tidal wave of names, but they are overwhelmingly different names forthe same two figures. another deity widely used in satanism for the sacrifice ofchildren today is kronos, the king of the cyclops in greek legend. he was known asthe tower builder and is almost certainly another version of nimrod, the builder of thebiblical tower of babel.15the reason the reptile bloodlines are involved in such unspeakable ritual andpractice today, is quite simply because they always have been. when you follow thesebloodlines across history, you find they use the same rituals and sacrifice to the samedeities, right to the present day. another

nty towns and corrugatediron ghettos are still there in soweto and in even more places these days, but they are noton the daily news anymore because everyone knows that south africa is now free. theanc government is just as controlled and corrupt as the white one it replaced. shell oil,the babylonian brotherhood oil company controlled by people like prince bernhard ofthe netherlands, gave a whole tower block to the anc at the time of the changeover, andit is, apparently, common knowledge among journalists worth the name, that mandelatakes no major decision without consulting the oppenheimers. in 1993, mandela spentchristmas at the nassau holiday home of tony oreilly. in early 1994, oreilly boughtsouth africas biggest newspaper group. oops, could i be questioning a global hero?slap my wrist

ame as the later teutonic knights who emergedat the same time as the templars. the visigoths were again the ancestors of thecimmerians and the scythians, the white peoples from the caucasus. it was the visigothswho swept out of central europe to sack rome and bring an end to roman rule.an ancient visigoth chateau, the chateau dhautpoul, still survives at rennes-le-chateau and it has an alchemists tower. alchemy is the transformation of base man/woman into pure spirit, but it has another meaning too, the transformation of basemetals into gold. the theory of this was summed up by the ancient greek initiate,aristotle, who said that the basis of the physical world was what he called prime or firstmatter. this, he said, was a non-physical energy which you could not see or touch. hebelieved that

he watchtower is a brotherhoodsymbol for mary magdalene- the female energy, isis, semiramis. note that it is also thesymbol of the jehovahs witnesses, another prison-religion, created by brotherhoodfrontmen like the high degree freemason, charles taze russell. theyre all connected, thesecret societies and the religions they created. sauniere spent profusely on art and antiques;he paid for a water tower to improve the village supply; and he spent a fortune to build aroad to replace the long dirt track up the mountain to rennes-le-chateau. he also began tocorrespond with people all over europe. most notably, he transformed his church with hisnew-found wealth. it was fully restored and refurbished with strange statues and esotericsymbols. on the entrance to the church he had written in french

eliopolis, the egyptian city of thesun, from at least 1500 bc, before it was moved to alexandria (see picture section. asphinx has been placed on either side at its london location. another egyptian obeliskwhich was built in luxor 3,200 years ago now stands in the place de concorde in paris,less than a minutes drive from the scene of dianas crash.on the other side of the crash scene is the eiffel tower, another gigantic obelisk indisguise. the washington monument in washington dc is a colossal obelisk. thedome (from a greek word meaning place of the gods) draws in and harnesses energy,as does the pyramid. so often you find that the great cathedrals are built around amassive dome because their builders and designers understood the power of geometryto focus energy in one spot. the vast golde

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soph aur has been called a circle whose centre is every-where and whose circumference is nowhere, a statement which, like so many in occultism, is inconceivable, yet nevertheless presents an image to the mind and therefore serves its purpose. kether, then (and for the matter of that, all the other sephiroth, is a state or condition of existence. we must always bear in mind that the planes do not tower up one above another into the empyrean like the storeys of a building, but are conditions of being, states of existence of different types, and though they developed successively in time, they occur simultaneously in space; existence of all types being present in a single being, as we realise when we remember that the being of man is made up of a physical body, emotions, mind, and spirit, al

d of tetragrammaton. god-name: jehovah. archangel: ratziel. mystical qabala page 82 order of angels: auphanim, wheels. mundane chakra: mazloth, the zodiac. spiritual experience: the vision of god face to face. virtue: devotion. vice: correspondence in microcosm: the left side of the face. symbols: the lingam. the phallus. the yod of tetragrammaton. the inner robe of glory. the standing-stone. the tower. the uplifted rod of power. the straight line. tarot cards: the four twos. two of wands: dominion. two of cups: love. two of swords: peace restored. two of pentacles: harmonious change. colour in aziluth: pure soft blue. briah: grey. yetzirah: pearl-grey, iridescent. assiah: white flecked with red, blue, and yellow [page 122] i 1. every phase of evolution commences by being in a state of uns

e magical image of chokmah and the symbols assigned toit bear out this idea. the magical image is that of a bearded male, bearded to indicate maturity; the father who has proved his manhood, not the untried virgin male. the symbolic language speaks plainly, and the lingam of the hindus and the phallus of the greeks are the male generative organ in their respective tongues. the standing-stone, the tower, and the uplifted rod all signify the same virile member at its most potent. 10. it must not be thought, however, that chokmah is a phallic or sexual symbol and nothing else. it is primarily a dynamic or positive symbol, for maleness is a form of dynamic force, just as femaleness is a form of static, latent, or potential force, inert till stimulus be given. the whole is greater than the part

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lessed dead lived on celestial food for ever. an-rutf or naarutf, is a section or door of the tuat which lies to the north of re-stau; the meaning of the principal geographical and mythological places in the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod10.htm (1 of 4 [8/10/2001 11:24:04 am] the word is "it never sprouteth" an-tes (see within, p. 323, an unknown locality where a light tower, was adored. apu, the panopolis of the greeks( greek panw^n po'lis, strabo, xvii, i, 41, the metropolis of the ninth nome of upper egypt, and the seat of the worship of the god, whose name is variously read amsu, khem, and min. in ancient days it was famous as the centre for stone cutting and linen weaving, and the latter industry still survives among the modern coptic population, who, follo

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months. the archangels are referred to the planets of the ancients, and their successive periods of dominion are taken in the following order- orifiel representing saturn anael venus zachariel jupiter raphael mercury samael mars gabriel luna michael sol the first course of these rulers ended in anno mundi 2480. the noachian deluge is placed at 1656, in the reign of samael. the destruction of the tower of babel (see tarot trump, no. xvi, page 63) occured in the second reign of orifiel; the life of abraham in the second reign of zachariel; the life of moses in the second reign of raphael; pythagoras, xerxes, and alexander the great in the second solar reign of michael. the era of jesus christ comes in the third reign of orifiel. the third reign of anael began in 109 ad the third reign of za

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ted the passage of an act, during the minority of henry vi, which forbade the masons to hold their accustomed chapters and assemblies. but the act was never enforced, and when henry vi. became of age he joined the order, while henry vii. was the grand master in england. the origin of operative masonry is traced back by many to the old roman empire, the pharaohs, the temple of solomon, even to the tower of babel and to the ark of noah. speculative free masonry originated in england and dates from the seventeenth century. its foundation lies in the "practice of moral and social virtue" its characteristic feature being charity in the broadest sense, brotherly love, relief and truth. it is because of this foundation, so closely approaching that which is divine, that the growth, prosperity and

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secret fraternity founded by christian rosencreutz, a high occult initiate. the order had supposedly been founded a century earlier and was only now being made public. the documents further invited inquiries from interested readers but failed to give an address or location for the fraternity. over the next decades, many would look in vain for the group. in 1619 andrae published a short work, the tower of babel, in which he confessed his authorship and told his readers that the rosicrucian order did not exist. he apparently derived the basic symbolism of the order from martin luther s coat of arms, which had a rose and a cross on it. however, by this time the original writings had spread far and wide, and many did not believe andrae s confession. andrae essentially left his rosicrucian ide

hat there were three of the name. to one the imposing appellation of trismegistus has been given, and the arabians, presumably from some ancient records, minutely described his character and person. illustrating their astrological discipline, they also published some writings ascribed to the persian zoroaster. sources: hutin, serge. a history of alchemy. new york: walker, 1963. reprint, new york: tower books, n.d. jabir ibn hayyan. the works of geber. london: printed for william cooper, 1686. muhammad ibn umail al-tamini. three arabic treatises on alchemy. calcutta: asiatic society of bengal, 1933. aradia the book aradia: gospel of the witches by charles g. leland (1899 and often reprinted) presented traditional witchcraft teachings from italy, which leland claimed he obtained from a flore

he steadily advanced in office until he offended queen elizabeth in 1593. he subsequently made some unfortunate political alliances but recovered during the reign of james i. he was knighted and became successively attorney general (1613, lord keeper (1617, and viscount st. albans (1621. then at the height of his power, he was charged with taking bribes, stripped of his offices, and cast into the tower of london. bacon is best remembered not for his political career, nor even the many essays he wrote on political life, but for the two works produced near the end of his life, maga instauratio and novum organum, both of which were published in 1620. in the former, he laid out a plan for the reorganization of human knowledge based on science. in the latter he produced a new natural history an

d the bender story as the basis for writing two further books, bender mystery confirmed (1962) and mib: the secret terror among us (1983. sources: barker, gray, ed. bender mystery confirmed. clarksburg, w.v: saucerian books, 1962. mib: the secret terror among us. jane lew, w.v: new age press, 1983. they knew too much about flying saucers. clarksburg, w.v: saucerian press, 1962. reprint, new york: tower, 1967. clark, jerome. the emergence of a phenomenon: ufos from the beginning through 1959; the ufo encyclopedia. vol. 2. detroit: omnigraphics, 1992. bender, hans (1907.1991) professor of psychology, author, noted parapsychologist. he was born february 5, 1907, at freiburg im breisgau, germany. he studied with pierre janet in paris during the 1930s and received his ph.d. from the psychologic

os angeles: wynn publishing, 1945. astrology, your path to success. philadelphia: david mckay, 1938. the key cycle. 1931. reprint, tempe, ariz: american federation of astrologers, 1970. benson, e(dward) f(rederic (1867.1940) british novelist, essayist, and biographer, who published 80 works, including some of the most eerie and horrific short stories on occult themes ever written. the room in the tower and mrs. amworth have become classic vampire stories. born july 24, 1867, at wellington college (where his father e. w. benson was headmaster, before becoming archbishop of canterbury, he was educated at marlborough, and at king s college, cambridge university. he worked at athens for the british archaeological school, 1892.95, and in egypt for the hellenic society, 1896; he also traveled in

e journal dodo (named for one of his early novels) for members. address: allan downend, 88 tollington park, london n.4, england. sources: benson, e. f. the collected ghost stories of e. f. benson. edited by richard dalby. new york: carroll& graf, 1996. the horror horn, and other stories. edited by alexis lykiard. london: panther, 1974. more spook stories. london: hutchinson, 1934. the room in the tower, and other stories. london: mills& boon, 1912. spook stories. london: hutchinson, 1928. visible and invisible. london: hutchinson, 1923. masters, brian. the life of e. f. benson. london, pimlico, 1991. bensozia according to dom jacques martin (1684.1751) in his religion de gaulois (1727, bensozia was chief deviless of a certain witchcraft sabbat held in france in the twelfth and thirteenth c

pseudo- science, and parapsychology. birog a druidess in ancient irish legend. the fomorian king balor had a beautiful daughter named ethlinn whom he kept imprisoned because of a druidic prophecy that he would be slain by his grandson. balor had stolen a magical cow from three brothers, kian, sawan, and goban. through the magical spells of birog, kian, disguised as a woman, was able to enter the tower where ethlinn was imprisoned. he then slept with ethlinn, who in due course delivered three sons at one birth. balor commanded them to be drowned, but one of them, named hugh, survived, and in the course of time fulfilled the druidic prophecy and slew balor. birraark practitioners of necromancy in australia. al-biruni (973.1048) al-biruni, born abu l-rayhan muhammad ibn ahmad al- biruni, an

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rms went off, and auto engines switched themselves on. lost articles reappeared, small objects materialized in homes, other objects disappeared, and watches and clocks went haywire. manning has also predicted that his own death will occur at an early date. on august 7, 1977, he took part in an esp test organized by the british newspaper sunday mirror. manning was stationed in london s post office tower (580 ft. high. between 6 and 6:15 p.m. he mentally transmitted three images: the color green, the number 123, and the shape of a house. readers of the sunday mirror were asked to tune in to these images and send their results on a postcard. of the 2,500 readers who responded, 575 scored the right color, 1 in 44 got the threefigure number right, and about 1 in 30 identified a house-like shape

our, manning was vigorously criticized by magician james randi, a well-known and hostile opponent of paranormal phenomena. randi is a member of the committee for the scientific investigation of claims of the paranormal and the author of the magic of uri geller (1975, in which he accused geller of massive fraud. in september 1977 randi attacked the british sunday mirror esp test in the post office tower, suggesting that manning could have sent in an important fraction of the postcards himself. manning countered, the man who talks of falsehoods makes statements himself which can be seen to be totally false by anyone who reads my book. a report on this controversy was carried in the british newspaper psychic news (september 10, 1977. manning s preference for the label mentalist over psychic m

illed in this wisdom, can tell by the character of this glory the rank of the divinity who has seized for the time the reins of the mystic s soul, and guides it as he will. sometimes the body of the man is violently agitated, sometimes it is rigid and motionless. in some instances sweet music is heard, in others discordant and fearful sounds. the person of the subject has been known to dilate and tower to a superhuman height, in other cases it has been lifted into the air. frequently not merely the ordinary exercise of reason, but sensation and animal life would appear to have been suspended; and the subject of the afflatus has not felt the application of fire, has been pierced with spits, cut with knives and has not been sensible of pain. however, the disagreeable result of physical pheno

an tell by the character of this glory the rank of divinity who has seized for the time the reins of the mystic s soul, and guides it as he will. sometimes the body of the man subject to this influence is violently agitated, sometimes it is rigid and motionless. in some instances sweet music is heard, in others, discordant and fearful sounds. the person of the subject has been known to dilate and tower to a superhuman height; in other cases, it has been lifted up into the air. frequently, not merely the ordinary exercise of reason, but sensation and animal life would appear to have been suspended, and the subject of the afflatus has not felt the application of fire, has been pierced with spits, cut with knives, and been sensible of no pain. yea, often, the more the body and the mind have b

ame a successful show on 2ue in sydney and 3k2 in melbourne, followed by live stage shows. in 1949 the couple went to england, where they appeared over eight weeks on bbc radio programs, which were a sensational success. the piddingtons became a household name almost overnight. in one remarkable program, twenty million listeners waited with bated breath while lesley piddington, sequestered in the tower of london, correctly stated the difficult test sentence be abandoned as the electricians said that they would have no current relayed by sydney telepathically from a bbc studio in piccadilly, several miles away. the line had been chosen independently of the piddingtons, and it was only revealed to sydney when he was asked to concentrate upon it in the studio. throughout the bbc shows, the te

o, unable to refuse, came to the electoral court. he was received there with every mark of honor, but it soon became evident to him that christian ii had only invited him for the purpose of learning his secret, but seton, as an adept in the mysteries of alchemy, remained true to his calling and flatly refused to gratify the elector s greed. in the end the elector ordered him to be imprisoned in a tower, where he was guarded by forty soldiers. there he was subjected to every conceivable species of torture, but it failed to extort from him his methods. the elector at last ceased the torture. at this point, michael sendivogius, a moravian chemist who happened to be in dresden, heard of seton s terrible experiences and possessed sufficient influence to obtain permission to visit him. himself a

ed, sold his property, and returned to dresden. he lodged near seton s place of confinement, entertaining the soldiers who guarded the alchemist and judiciously bribing those who were directly concerned in his imprisonment. at last he judged that the time was ripe to attempt seton s rescue. he feasted the guards and they were soon in a condition of drunken carelessness. sendivogius hurried to the tower in which seton was imprisoned, but found him unable to walk through the severity of his tortures. he therefore supported seton to a carriage, which they reached without being observed. they halted at seton s house to pick up his wife, who had in her possession some of the all-important powder, and sped to cracow, which they reached in safety. when quietly settled in that city, sendivogius re

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

19, 1897, edition of the dallas morning news told an extraordinary story in a very few words. datelined aurora, forty-five miles northwest of dallas, it related that a mysterious airship had crashed into a local windmill at 6 a.m. two days earlier. on colliding, it went to pieces with a terrific ex- 34 aura rhanes plosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground, wrecking the windmill and tower and destroying [windmill owner judge j. s. proctor s] flower garden, correspondent s. e. haydon wrote. haydon went on to report that citizens who rushed to the scene found the body of a badly disfigured being whom one observer identified as a martian. the story concluded with the news that the funeral would occur the next day. the story appeared in the midst of a wave of what today would be

ng elk hunter e. carl higdon, jr, on october 25, 1974. five hours after he called for help, authorities found higdon inside his pickup in an area inaccessible to all but four-wheel-drive vehicles. taken to a nearby hospital, the shaken and disoriented higdon claimed to have encountered a strange being named ausso who flew him in a spaceship to another world where he was taken to a mushroom-shaped tower. while inside the tower, higdon saw what looked like normal human beings, who paid no attention to him. ausso explained that he was a hunter/explorer, and he and his people were visiting earth to collect animals for breeding purposes and for food. soon higdon was flown back to earth and put back in his truck. polygraph tests given higdon in 1975 and 1976 produced ambiguous results, but psych

her reading chorvinsky, mark, 1990. cryptozoo conversation with john a. keel. strange magazine 5: 35 40. clark, jerome, 1997. spacemen, demons, and con- spiracies: the evolution of ufo hypotheses. mount rainier, md: fund for ufo research. keel, john a, 1970. ufos: operation trojan horse. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1971. our haunted planet. greenwich, ct: fawcett publications, 1975. the eighth tower. new york: saturday review press/e. p. dutton and company, 1975. the mothman pro p h e c i e s. new yo rk: sa t u rday re v i ew press/e. p. dutton and company, 1988. disneyland of the gods. new york: amok press, 1969. the principle of transmogrification. flying saucer review 15, 4 (july/august: 27 28, 31. khauga khauga is a celestial being whom william ferguson met in an out-of-body state w

FAUST

rom heaven, through the world, to hell! prologue in heaven the lord. the heavenly hosts. afterwards mephistopheles. the three archangels come forward. raphael the sun intones, in ancient tourney with brother-spheres, a rival song, fulfilling its predestined journey, with march of thunder moves along. its aspect gives the angels power, though none can ever solve its ways; the lofty works beyond us tower, sublime as on the first of days. gabriel and swift beyond where knowledge ranges, earth s splendour whirls in circling flight; a paradise of brightness changes to awful shuddering depths of night. the sea foams up, widespread and surging against the rocks deep-sunken base, and rock and sea sweep onward, merging in rushing spheres eternal race. michael and rival tempests roar and shatter, fr

ael and rival tempests roar and shatter, from sea to land, from land to sea, and, raging, form a circling fetter of deep, effective energy. there flames destruction, flashing, searing, before the crashing thunder s way; yet, lord, thy angels are revering the gentle progress of thy day. the three its aspect gives the angels power, since none can solve thee nor thy ways; and all thy works beyond us tower, sublime as on the first of days. mephistopheles since you, o lord, once more draw near and ask how all is getting on, and you were ever well content to see me here, you see me also midst your retinue. forgive, fine speeches i can never make, though all the circle look on me with scorn; pathos from me would make your sides with laughter shake, had you not laughter long ago forsworn. of suns

yonder, there is steam up-leaping, here shines a glow through mist and haze, then like a slender thread it s creeping, then forth it breaks like fountain-sprays. here for a long way it goes winding along the vale in a hundred veins and here- a corner crowding, bindingin sudden isolation wanes. there sparks are sprinkling like a shower of widely scattered golden sand. and see the rocky walls! they tower, they kindle and like ramparts stand. mephistopheles does not sir mammon splendidly light up the palace for his revelry? you see all this! what luck you ve had! but hark! now come the guests in tumult mad. faust how through the air the tempest raves! it smites my neck, shock after shock! mephistopheles you must lay hold on these old ribs of rock; else it will hurl you down to these abysses g

e manifold recalls, to him divinest favour seems at last a dream. but thou, so highly favoured, past all bound and aim, sawst midst the living only men inflamed by love, quick kindled to each kind of boldest enterprise. thus thescus, roused by greed, laid hands upon thee first, a man of glorious form, as strong as heracles. helena he bore me off, a ten-year-old and slender and shut me in aphidnus tower in attica. phorkyas but then by castor and by pollux soon released, thou wert engirt by chosen heroes courting thee. helena yet most my secret favour- as i own with joypatroclus, won; he was pelides counterpart. phorkyas thy father wedded thee to menclaus, though, the bold sea-rover and sustainer of his house. helena to him he gave his daughter, gave the kingdom s sway, and from our marriage

solitary, came too fair a guest. helena wherefore recall that time of semi-widowhood? and hideous ruin that sprang out of it for me? phorkyas that voyage for me too, a free-born maid of crete, brought hateful capture, brought me lasting slavery. helena at once he did install thee here as stewardess, entrusting much, castle and treasure boldly won. phorkyas which thou forsookst, turning to ilion s tower-girt town, lured by the joys of love, the inexhaustible. helena remind me not of joyance! an infinity of all too bitter woe perfused by breast and brain. phorkyas yet men say thou appeardst a phantom duplicate, in ilion beheld, in egypt too wert seen. helena confuse not wholly my distraught and clouded mind. here even, who i am indeed, i do not know. phorkyas and, then, they say: from out th

urn and see, o queen! faust [approaching with a fettered man at his side. in lieu of solemn greeting, as were fitting, in lieu of reverent welcome, i bring thee this servant fettered fast in manacles, whose slight of duty made me slight mine own. before this noble lady kneel thou down, to make confession and avow thy guilt. exalted mistress, here thou seest the man of vision rare who on the lofty tower was placed to gaze around, there to survey keenly the firmament and earth s expanse, if here and there perchance aught may appear, descending by the hill-encircled vale to our firm castle, be it billowing herds, perhaps a marching host; those we protect, meet these in fight. today, what negligence! thou comest, he reports it not, we fail to greet most duly and most honourably so great a gues

eat a guest. his life he wantonly has forfeited, should lie now in the blood of well-deservbd death; but thou alone mayst punish or mayst pardon, as thou wilt. helena high is the honour that thou grantest me, as judge, as ruler, and although it were to test me merely, as i may suspect, still, now the judge s foremost duty i will do, to give the accused a hearing. speak! lynceus [the warder of the tower. let me kneel and gaze upon her, let me live or let me perish, since my all i only cherish for this godsent lady s honour. waiting for the bliss of morning, spying eastward its first glows, lo! the sun, without a warning, wondrous in the south arose. thither did it draw my glances off from gorge and mountain-cone, off from earth s and heaven s expanses, her to see, the only one. piercing sig

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

bull; on the southern gate the form of a lion, and on the northern gate he constructed the form of a dog. into these images he introduced spirits which spoke with voices, nor could anyone enter the gates of the city except by their permission. there he planted trees in the midst of which was a great tree which bore the fruit of all generation. on the summit of the castle he caused to be raised a tower thirty cubits high on the top of which he ordered to be placed a light-house rotunda) the colour of which changed every day until the seventh day after which it returned to the first colour, and so the city was illuminated with these colours. near the city there was abundance of waters in which dwelt many kinds of fish. around the circumference of the city he placed engraved images and order

c text (cited above, p. 49, note 2, p. 323. 54 hermes trismegistus and magic religious magic described in the asclepius. here are the man-made gods, statues of the animal- and bird-shaped gods of egypt, which hermes trismegistus has animated by introducing spirits into them so that they speak with voices and guard the gates of this magical utopia. the colours of the planets flash from the central tower, and these images around the circumference of the city, are they perhaps images of the signs of the zodiac and the decans which hermes has known how to arrange so that only good celestial influences are allowed into the city? the law-giver of the egyptians is giving laws which must perforce be obeyed, for he constrains the inhabitants of the city to be virtuous, and keeps them healthy and wi

rience, as described in pimander, in which the soul was transformed into the light of the divine mens, in the likeness of which it was created, the body "slept" during the whole vision, the senses being bound whilst the soul left the body to become divine.1 the hermetic trance is described by milton in/ penseroso, his poem on melancholy: or let my lamp at midnight hour be seen in some high lonely tower, where i may oft outwatch the bear, with thrice great hermes, or unsphere the spirit of plato, to unfold what worlds or what vast regions hold the immortal mind that hath forsook her mansion in this fleshly nook; and of those daemons that are found in fire, air, flood, or under ground, whose power hath a true consent with planet, or with element. these lines (which to my mind have a brunian

ther voluminous writings,2 lives in a world in which casaubon might never have been born, the 1 robert fludd, utriusque cosmi, maioris scilicet el minoris, metaphysial, physica atque technica historia, vol. i, oppenheim, 1617; vol. ii, oppenhcim, 1619. another interesting date in connection with casaubon's exposure of hermes is that it was published whilst sir walter raleigh was a prisoner in the tower writing his history of the world, which is peppered with quotations from ficino's pimander and contains a whole section on hermes trismegistus (part i, book ii, chap. 6, paragraph vi, whom raleigh thinks probably more ancient than moses and venerates profoundly, taking the line that the idolatry of the asclepius must be a corruption introduced into the writings of this holy man. we have, the

es, i, p. 233. 3 mersenne, correspondance, i i i, p. 275; cf. also, ibid, p. 187. 4 see lenoble, mersenne etc, pp. 119 ff, 157 ff. in france but failed and went to england, where he was, it is said, well received by members of the anglican church, and apostatised from the catholic faith in the italian protestant church in london. he, however, lost his favour among anglicans, was imprisoned in the tower for a month, and returned to switzerland, which he soon afterwards left for paris and then toulouse, where in 1619 he was burned. he has sometimes been compared to bruno, whose career his own certainly resembles since he travelled in the same countries, though not in the same order, and ended at the stake. vanini's notions, however, do not seem to me at all like those of bruno. 445 hermes tr

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

. a perspective of knowledge is given. words (as well as numbers) trap ideas. numbers obviously being more effectual and universal in application. thus we can see that all communication is a binding. a bringing down into form of the fluid flux of reality into a phantasmal form of words. if it s not fun my friends, why do it? ii/7a: an exploration into a border realm on the interface (horizon. the tower of koth. the sigil of koth is given on the top right in illumination. the tower extends into nonexistence. the word bez is highlight. this word means beauty& war in the non-language of the outer-ones. the sigil of set in the guise of isolate intoxication is given as well. for these places are lonely and it pay s to be as intoxicated as one can be when isolated. to talk may be of detriment he

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

oah was, however, far from perfect; consequently we find that after the deluge he profanes the mysteries, gand he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent h 13 and, his son canaan divulging this profanation, is cursed. thus magic, in spite of the repentance of tetragrammaton, continued to grow until the repopulated world cried: ggo to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, h 14 that is an object of worship; 15 for they had a crafty design to rid themselves of the supreme power and to secret wisdom of the qabalah page 59 transfer his glory to another. 16 the inner meaning of the tower of babel is that any attempt to possess the secrets of heaven in order to divulge them to the uninitiated on earth must

the door which at present bars us from a completer understanding. today we wait on the threshold of this door, fearfully gazing out upon a world monstrous and twoheaded. darkness has taken upon itself a political form which has bereft the nations of their sight; has shrouded their minds and blotted out their wisdom; has sown among them the dragon's teeth of war. we stand today at the foot of the tower of babel- the tower of class strife and international conflict. meanwhile light has scintillated forth in science, the boundless shekinah of this present age. it is girt by no frontier and circumscribed by no class. it shines forth over the north and the south, over the east and the west. into the heights and into the depths it glows, and yet for the perfection of its creative force it deman

, attracts, repels, vivifies, destroys, coagulates, separates, breaks and conjoins everything under the impetus of powerful wills. god created it on the first day, when he said: glet there be light. h this force of itself is blind but is directed by egregores, that is, by chiefs of souls, or, in other words, by energetic and active spirits. 18 so writes eliphas levi. these egregores are those who tower above the flock, who are so excellent and distinguished that their wisdom frequently appears to be folly to mankind or else is accepted blindly. the world fools, or world sages, attain to something which is extraordinary in its nature and which, when they attempt to reveal it to those unworthy to receive it, renders them magicians, their actions being tinged not only by their mental, moral

GAMBLE ELIZA BURT THE GOD IDEA OF THE ANCIENTS OR SEX IN RELIGION

. 303 [50] asiatic researches, vol. iii, pp. 125-132 [51] asiatic researches "egypt and the nile" vol. iii, pp. 361-363. the people who were dominant in asia long before the rise of the late assyrian monarchy, are said to be those whom scriptural writers represent as cushim, and the hindoos as cushas. they were the descendants of cush, or cuth, and were believed to have been the architects of the tower of babel. epiphanius, eusebius, and others assert that at the time of the building of this tower there existed two rival beliefs, the one demonstrated as scuthism, the other as ionism, or hellenism, the latter of which embodied the worship of the great mother, or the female element, which was worshipped in the shape of the mystic "iona or dove" the scuths, on the other hand, believed in the

the hindoos that in india, during a period of several thousand years, there existed various sects, those who worshipped the male as the only creative force, others who adored the female as the origin of life, and those who paid homage to both, as alike important in the office of reproduction. it would seem that the fierce wars which had devastated the land had ceased prior to the beginning of the tower of babel. according to the testimony of moses, the lord himself declared "behold the people is one" this unanimity of belief, as is plainly shown, was of short duration, for the tower arose "upright and defiant" not, however, as an emblem of the primeval dual or triune god in which the female energy was predominant, but as a symbol of male creative power. it was the type of virility which in

y shown, was of short duration, for the tower arose "upright and defiant" not, however, as an emblem of the primeval dual or triune god in which the female energy was predominant, but as a symbol of male creative power. it was the type of virility which in the subsequent history of religion was to assume the position of the "one only and true god" it is not improbable that idolatry began with the tower of babel. indeed it has been confidently asserted by certain writers that the earliest idols set up as emblems of the deity, or as expressions of the peculiar worship of the lingajas, were obelisks, columns, or towers, the first of which we have any account being the tower of babel, erected probably at nipur in chaldea. until a comparatively recent time, the actual significance of this monum

rable degree of certainty that this great upheaval of society was the culmination of a dispute which had long been waged between two contending powers, and which finally resulted in a separation of the people, and in the final success, for the time being, of the sect which refused longer to recognize the superior importance of the female in the god-idea. at what time in the history of mankind the tower of babel was erected has not been ascertained, but the great antiquity of chaldea is no longer questioned. sir henry rawlinson, in the royal geographical journal says "when chaldea was first colonized, or at any rate when the seat of empire was first established there, the emporium of trade seems to have been at ur of the chaldees, which is now 150 miles from the sea, the persian gulf having

iment brought down by the euphrates and tigris" to which baldwin adds "a little reflection on the vast period of time required to effect geological changes so great as this will enable us to see to what a remote age in the deeps of antiquity we must go to find the beginning of civilization in the mesopotamian valley"[53 [53] prehistoric nations, p. 191. although at the time of the building of the tower of babel the worship of a deity in which the male principle was pre-eminent had not become universal, still the facts seem to indicate that the doctrine of male superiority which for ages had been steadily advancing had at length gained the ascendancy over the older religion. the new faith and worship had corrupted the old, and through the conditions which had been imposed upon women, and th

tion of asia was inundated, is not for a certainty known; but the fact that there was a deluge of contention and strife, surpassing anything perhaps which the world has ever witnessed, seems altogether probable. not long after the catastrophe designated as the flood, emblems of the deity, representations of the male and female elements, appear in profusion. babylon, at which place was erected the tower of belus, and memphis, which contained the pyramids, were among the first cities which were built. as the tower typified the deity worshipped by those who claimed superiority for the male, so the pyramids symbolized the creative agency and peculiar qualities of the female, or of the dual deity which was worshipped as female. although the grosser elements in human nature were rapidly assuming

erated as agencies in reproduction, the worship of these objects was, as we have seen, closely interwoven with that of the generative processes throughout nature. the attempt to solve the great problem of the origin of life on the earth led these people to contemplate with the profoundest reverence all the visible objects which were believed to affect human destiny. hence both the pyramid and the tower served a double purpose, first, as emblems of the deity worshipped, and, second, as monuments for the study of the heavenly bodies with which their religious ideas were so intimately connected. while comparing the early emblems which prefigure the primitive elements in the god-idea, hargrave jennings observes "in the conveyance of certain ideas to those who contemplate it, the pyramid boasts

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

reciated by many juveniles,notnatives of thibet, for some centuries to come'(eastern& utestern review).waite wasmoresuccessfulwithfairy poetry.whilehe was contributing regularly to dung folks'paperhemetwilliam sharp (betterknownas his celticalterego,'fiona macleod),whohad taken over the 'literary olympic' feature in 1887 andhadcommentedfavourably onasoul'scomedy,especially on its fairytale 'dream tower' sequence. sharp was also general editor ofthecanterburypoets,a series of re-issues of the worksofbothmajor and minor poets that also included thematic anthologies.oneof these was to be of fairy poems, and sharp askedwaite-whomay well have suggested thetheme-tobetheeditor,givinghim a completely free hand as tobothcontents and title.thecollection was issued in 1888 intwoforms: a pocket editio

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

s; and of a fourth court card, a knight or man mounted on horseback. the knave was also at times considered as a female, and the four have also been called, cavalier, king, prince, queen and princess. in addition to these the pack includes 22 picture cards of varied meanings, called tarot trumps; among these were the emperor, the pope, the magician, the devil, the lovers, and the lightning-struck tower. the whole pack thus consisted of 78 cards. these cards are even today used by persons who have studied medieval occult science, and many such students are convinced that some magical power does reside in these symbols when used by those who have passed through a special course of astrological and kabalistic study. the french author, court de gebelin, in hismond primitil,paris, 1781, was the

ealing. no women were ever admitted to the sect, nor waited upon its members until the period of the decadence of the society. josephus tells us that herod favoured this sect because one of them, named menahem, saluted him as the coming king of the jews while he was yet a schoolboy: judas the essene is also said to have foretold the murder of antigonus, the son of hyracanus the first, at strato's tower, by order of aris255 tobulus, aboutb.c.107.thefollowing are minor details from other authors: pliny called the essenes the marvel of the world, saying the society had existed for thousands of years (of which there is not the slightest proof, that they had neither wives nor children, possessed no money, and lived amid palm trees; he added that their numbers are often recruited from persons wh

as the rough ashlar because an old erroneous ritual says it was for the apprentice to work upon; while mackey argued that it was a perfect ashlar; others again say it was a pyramid upon a cube.broachis an old english word forspire,and is also the name of a tool for boring holes;broachedalso means a certain surface marking;thumelis alleged to be a derivative from the norman-frenchtoumelle,a little tower or pyramid. in masonic symbolism the rough ashlar is said to represent man in a state of nature, and the perfect ashlar, man educated and intellectual.258themagical masonthere were in times past some critics who objected to the r. arch legendary ritual on the ground that curved arches and the use of a key-stone were unknown in solomonic times- he is believed to have built his temple in 1012b

england, in the eleventh, execrated the reverence for stones.themost notable stone of the world is the black stone, preserved in the 'kaaba' or cubical house in the court of the sacred mosque at mecca, which is the holy city of the mohammedans.itis considered to be an aerolite or meteoric stone, and is now of a reddish black colour; there is a legend that it was originally white.thekaaba is a low tower about 40 feet high, with a flat roof, and it is covered by the sacred carpet made in egypt once a year, and sent to mecca to replace the one oftheformeryear. burckhardt in histravelsinarabia,in 1815, says the sacred black stone is only about seven inches in length, and of oval shape; it was broken during the seige of mecca ina.d.683, and wasputtogether with cement and enclosed in a silver ba

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

pope. gli amanti l' amoureuxthelovers. il carro le chariot..thechariot. lagiustizialajustice..justice..l'eremita l'ermitethehermit. rota di fortunalarouedefortune..thewheel of fortune. la forza..laforce..strength, fortitude. il penduto le penduthehanged man. il morte..la mort..death. la temperanza..la temperance..temperance. ildiavolole diablethedevil. la torre..le maison-dieuthelightning-struck tower le stelle..l'etoile..thestar. laluna..la lune..themoon. il sole..le soleil..thesun. l'angelolejugement..thelast judgment. ilmatto(mat)lefouthefoolish man. ilmondolemonde..theuniverse .hebrewletterno.1.2. 3. 4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11. 12.13.14.15.16.17.18.19.20.o.21.italianil bagatto(pagad. lapapessa .frenchenglishgimel dalethhe vauzainchethtethyodkaphlamed memnunsamechayinpe tzaddi qoph resh shintau

e. 14. temperance.an angel with the sign of the sun on her brow pouring liquid from one vessel into another. she representscombination. 15. the devil.a horned and winged demon with eagle's claws (standing on an altar to which two smaller devils are bound by a collar and cord. inhis.left hand he bears a flame255 headed sceptre. he is the image offateorfatality,good or evil.16. the lightning-struck tower.a tower whose upper part is like a crown, struck by a lightning-flash (two men fall headlong fromit,one of whom is in such an attitude as to form a hebrew letterayin.)sparks and debris are falling.itshowsruin, disruption.60 the sorcererand his apprentice 17. the star.a nude female figure pours water upon the earth. fromtwovases. in the heavens above her shines the blazing star of the magi (s

fice, sacrifice,devotion,:bound;r.selfishness, unbound, partial sacrifice '13. death.death, change, transformation, alteration fori the worse; r. death just escaped, partial change, alteration for the better.14.temperance.combination, conformation, uniting; r. ill-advised combinations, disunion, clashing interests, etc. is.the devil.fatality for good; r. fatality for evil.16."the lightning-struck tower.ruin, disruption, over: throw, loss, bankruptcy; r. these in a more or less partial degree.17. the star.hope, expectation, bright promises;r.hopes not fulfilled, expectations disappointed orfulfilled-ina minor degree.18. the moon.twilight, deception, error; r. fluctuation:'light deceptions, trifling mistakes.19. the sun.happiness, content, joy;r. these in a minor degree.20. the lastjudgrnent

yke and grinning at him. she cursed him volubly, whereupon he went with a stick to drive her away,buta black dog with flaming red eyes snarled at him, and would have bittenhim,butwhen he looked again the old woman sat on the dyke as before. whereupon he was so frightened that he vowed he would never touch a stone of the accursed building again. certain it is that a man was employed to destroy the tower, that he did destroy only half of it, leaving the part which is still standing, and that in consequence he did not get his agreed pay.146thesorcerer and his apprenticesir archibald dunbar told mealsoofatraditionofhis boyhoodofwitches holding orgies within the old druid circle atthefarm of templestones, whereat the illuminatien was given by candles made of hares' fat, the effect of which was

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y rite that was worked in england and he played an active role in many of them. in 1905 he had entered mark masonry, which he believed had 'originated to recall grand lodge masonry from the muddled deism of the anderson constitutions to the christology and high catholicism of the old charges'103[103, and in 1930 he was still actively promoting the mark when he became a founder and first master of tower hamlets mark lodge no. 892. he had long ceased to see the rose croix degree as one of the 'splendid inanities of occult nomenclature' and, having been perfected in the orpheus chapter rose croix no. 79 in 1909, he became its sovereign in 1915, and from 1918 onwards he was its recorder. but it was for the order of the temple that he felt the greatest affection and to the sancta maria precepto

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prophet musa, the prophet yusuf, the prophet muhammad (saas, the prophet sulayman, the golden age, allah's artistry in colour, glory is everywhere, the importance of the evidences of creation, the truth of the life of this world, the nightmare of disbelief, knowing the truth, eternity has already begun, timelessness and the reality of fate, matter: another name for illusion, the little man in the tower, islam and the philosophy of karma, the dark magic of darwinism, the religion of darwinism, the collapse of the theory of evolution in 20 questions, engineering in nature, technology mimics nature, the impasse of evolution i (encyclopedic, the impasse of evolution ii (encyclopedic, allah is known through reason, the qur'an leads the way to science, the real origin of life, consciousness in t

se who attempted to interpret the magic flute as "a story about the far east" at its foundation are egyptian rituals. it is the gods and goddesses of the egyptian temples that influenced the creation of the characters of the magic flute.75 obelisks another important symbol of masonry is what was once an important element in ancient egyptian architecture the obelisk. an obelisk is a tall, vertical tower with a pyramid as its peak. obelisks were inscribed with ancient egyptian hieroglyphs, and lay buried for centuries under the ground until they were discovered in the nineteenth century, and removed to western cities such as new york, london and paris. the largest obelisk was sent to the usa. this exportation was arranged by masons. this was because obelisks, as well as the ancient egyptian

age for it. my wage is the responsibility of no dcl materialism revisited masons believe in materialism and reject the idea of life after death. sometimes the concept of life after death appears in masonic texts, but, as inthe myth of hiram depicted here(left, what is meant by it is the continuation of the memory of a person's name in this world. one but the lord of all the worlds. do you build a tower on every hilltop, just to amuse yourselves, and construct fine buildings, hoping to live for ever, and when you attack, attack as tyrants do? so heed god and obey me (qur'an, 26: 124-131) the mistake these godless people committed was not the construction of fine buildings. muslims also give importance to art; by producing it, they try to beautify the world. the difference lies in intention

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y rite that was worked in england and he played an active role in many of them. in 1905 he had entered mark masonry, which he believed had 'originated to recall grand lodge masonry from the muddled deism of the anderson constitutions to the christology and high catholicism of the old charges'103[103, and in 1930 he was still actively promoting the mark when he became a founder and first master of tower hamlets mark lodge no. 892. he had long ceased to see the rose croix degree as one of the 'splendid inanities of occult nomenclature' and, having been perfected in the orpheus chapter rose croix no. 79 in 1909, he became its sovereign in 1915, and from 1918 onwards he was its recorder. but it was for the order of the temple that he felt the greatest affection and to the sancta maria precepto

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t having a necessarily high opinion of mussolini, realised the pragmatic value of his revolution and gave him their support in print. evola s early work (pagan imperialism) attacked the debilitating effects of christianity as it was represented in the period and upheld the heroic virtues of rome. this work and related articles caused controversy throughout italy. later evola founded la torre (the tower, his own magazine, however, due to conflict with the prevailing state it only last ten issues. his works slowly started to move towards the spiritual side of politics and he made it clear that the only real return to "traditional esoteric values" can occur when we ourselves are transformed. in 1945 he was hit by a stray bomb and paralysed from the waist down, he spent the rest of his life wr

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e the demonic or infernal realms. they often bring swift success, and a meteoritic fall into flame instead of the self within igniting the exterior brings fire unto the self, destroying it. be the flame that is the torch of magickal arte. preliminary work as one explores and seeks to understand those deep desires which motivate, inspire and sometimes terrify us, we are building a strong blackened tower of self. this allows us to not only understand our feelings and perceptions, but the possibilities of becoming something better. the goetia as it is a tool of darkness; it is also a tool of strengthening the self one of fiery light. one must observe the nature of goetic spirits, which generally may be harmful or beneficial depending on how may approach them. in a modern context, the magician

y-eighth spirit of solomon, who appears as a stock-dove. malthas (as it is also spelled) is a great earl, who speaks unto the magician with a hoarse voice. this spirit upon evocation in the black mirror, builds towers and fortification surrounding the magician. this may be reflected in a spiritual manner, creating astral towers of which protect the magician from any attacks. malthus furnishes the tower with weapons of war, he does send spirits to fortify the tower, and they are excellent spirits for protection. he has 26 legions of spirits who may be summoned through him. in the black mirror, halphas may be then invoked into the magician, as a part of recalling the spirit as an atavism. this will strengthen the mental aspect of the individual who seeks to create a solid essence of self whi

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of air angle of air tablet. ttto: subservient angel of air angle of air tablet. turbs: beauty/ their beauty/ in their beauty. tustax/ tastax: go before/ precede. ucim/ vcim: frown not (smile. ugear /vgear: strength (cf. ugeg. ugeg/ ugegi /vgeg /vgegi: wax strong/ grow strong. ulcinin/ vlcinina: happy/ happy is he. ulr: center square of name 2. uls /vls: end/ ends. um: umd, called. umadea/ vmadea: tower/ strong towers. umd/ um: call/ be called. uml/ vml: add. umplif /vmplif: strength (cf. ugear. un: name of the enochian letter representing a. unal/ vnal: these/ those. unal chis/ vnal chis: these are/ these be (see also vnal chis. unalah/ vnalah: skirt/ skirts. 61 uncal (meaning unknown) unchi/ vnchi: confound (cf. oucho. undl/ vnd-l: remainder/ rest. unig/ vnig: require. uniglag/ vniglag: d

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ilver star. compare the position of the path of g on the tree of life. hnyb completes the supernal triad and acts as the "high priestess" to the inferior sephiroth. c and tarot key 3, the empress, is attributed to dsj. title of card: daughter of the mighty ones. dsj is the first of the inferiors below hnyb, and as it were, the base of the triangle of the supernals. f and tarot key 16, the blasted tower, is attributed to hrwbg. title of card: lord of the hosts of the mighty. hrwbg represents strength and fiery power. a and tarot key 19, the sun, is attributed to trapt. title of card: lord of the fire of the world. even as trapt is the heart and center of the sun of life. the four squares that remain haveth no planetary or astrological attributions. the 10 squares of the sephirotic cross als

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e w h a fool a fort. min. s.c. hmkh b magician b- s.c. hnyb g h. priestess y- s.c. dsj d empress c- y y h emperor a puer h h w hierophant b amissio w w z lovers c albus h y j chariot d populus y h f strength e fort. maj. h w y hermit f conjunctio s.c. rtk k wheel/fort. k- w y l justice g puella h h m h. man c via h h n death h rubeus y w s temperance i acquisitio h y u devil j carcer s.c. hrwbg p tower f- w h x star k tristitia h w q moon l laetitia s.c. trapt r sun a- y h c l. judgem. d cauda drac. h h t universe l (b) caput drac. s.c. stands for sephirotic cross. appendix b: 31 the enochian alphabet the following is the enochian alphabet (this sometimes, though wrongly, was called theban, together with the english equivalents of its letters and the enochian titles. enochian title english

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e light of the sun had been created, this place, cholula, was in obscurity and darkness; all was a plain, without hill or elevation, encircled in every part by water, without tree or created thing. immediately after the light and the sun arose in the east there appeared gigantic men of deformed stature who possessed the land. enamoured of the light and beauty of the sun they determined to build a tower so high that its summit should reach the sky. having collected materials for the purpose they found a very adhesive clay and bitumen with which they speedily commenced to build the tower. and having reared it to the greatest possible altitude, so that it reached the sky, the lord of the heavens, enraged, said to the inhabitants of the sky, have you observed how they of the earth have built a

its summit should reach the sky. having collected materials for the purpose they found a very adhesive clay and bitumen with which they speedily commenced to build the tower. and having reared it to the greatest possible altitude, so that it reached the sky, the lord of the heavens, enraged, said to the inhabitants of the sky, have you observed how they of the earth have built a high and haughty tower to mount hither, being enamoured of the light of the sun and his beauty? come and confound them, because it is not right that they of the earth, living in the flesh, should mingle with us. immediately the inhabitants of the sky sallied forth like flashes of lightning; they destroyed the edifice and divided and scattered its builders to all parts of the earth.18 it was this story, almost but

of the light of the sun and his beauty? come and confound them, because it is not right that they of the earth, living in the flesh, should mingle with us. immediately the inhabitants of the sky sallied forth like flashes of lightning; they destroyed the edifice and divided and scattered its builders to all parts of the earth.18 it was this story, almost but not quite the biblical account of the tower of babel (which was itself a reworking of a far older mesopotamian tradition, that had brought me to cholula. the central american and middle eastern tales were obviously closely related. indeed, the similarities were unmissable, but there were also differences far too significant to be ignored. of course, the similarities could be due to unrecorded pre-colombian contacts between the culture

olombian contacts between the cultures of the middle east and the new world, but there was one way to explain the similarities and the differences in a single theory. suppose that the two versions of the legend had evolved separately for several thousands of years, but prior to that both had descended from the same remotely ancient ancestor? remnants here s what the book of genesis says about the tower that reached to heaven: throughout the earth men spoke the same language, with the same vocabulary. now as they moved eastwards they found a plain in the land of shinar, where they settled. there they said to one another, come, let us make bricks and bake them in the fire. for stone they used bricks and for mortar they used bitumen. come, they said, let us build ourselves a town and a tower

said, let us build ourselves a town and a tower with its top reaching heaven. let us make a name for ourselves, so that we may not be scattered about the 18 diego de duran, historia antiqua de la nueve espana (1585, in ignatius donelly, atlantis: the antediluvian world, p. 200. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 119 entire earth. now yahewh [the hebrew god] came down to see the town and the tower that the sons of man had built. so they are all a single people with a single language! said yahweh. this is but the start of their undertakings! there will be nothing too hard for them to do. come, let us go down and confuse their language on the spot so that they can no longer understand one another. yahweh scattered them thence over the whole face of the earth, and they stopped building t

er that the sons of man had built. so they are all a single people with a single language! said yahweh. this is but the start of their undertakings! there will be nothing too hard for them to do. come, let us go down and confuse their language on the spot so that they can no longer understand one another. yahweh scattered them thence over the whole face of the earth, and they stopped building the tower. it was named babel, therefore, because there yahweh confused the language of the whole earth. it was from there that yahweh scattered them over the whole face of the earth.19 the verse which most interested me suggested very clearly that the ancient builders of the tower of babel had set out to create a lasting monument to themselves so that their name would not be forgotten even if their c

ree chambers and rested on top of a ninestage pyramid almost 100 feet tall. the clean and harmonious lines of this structure gave it a sense of delicacy, but not of weakness. it felt strong, rooted into the earth, enduring a creature of pure geometry and imagination. looking to my right i could see the palace, a spacious rectangular complex on a pyramidal base, dominated by a narrow, four-storied tower, thought to have been used as an observatory by maya priests. around about me, where bright-feathered parrots and macaws skimmed the treetops, a number of other spectacular buildings lay half swallowed by the encroaching forest. these were the temple of the foliated cross, the temple of the sun, the temple of the count, and the temple of the lion all names made up by archaeologists. so much

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mercy wisdom- beauty understanding- severity understanding- beauty mercy- severity mercy- beauty mercy- victory severity- beauty severity- glory beauty- victory beauty- glory beauty- foundation victory- glory victory- foundation victory- kingdom glory- foundation glory- kingdom foundation- kingdom hierophant hermit star judgment emperor temperance death hanged man justice strength empress blasted tower devil lovers chariot sun wheel of fortune priestess the world magician the fool moon kabbalists were not content to drift towards divinity like most of mankind. they wanted an organised and arranged scheme of doing so, and moreover a scheme of which they were intentionally aware.whatever god may have planned for them, they wanted not only to know about it, but to participate in its calculati

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t the attempted deliverance being always interrupted and put off to some indefinitely distant date. the traditional mode of expressing this is peculiar and assuredly ancient: he that shall some day speed in achieving the deed and upheaving the hoard (his predestined reward, must be rocked as a babe in the cradle made of the wood of the tree that now, but a feeble twig, shoots out of the wall of a tower: should the sapling wither or be cut away, the hope of release is put off till it sprout white l.idies: redemption. 969 anew and be grown a tree (d. sag. nos. 107^ 223. other conditions aggravate tlie difficulty: the cherry-stone, out of which the seedling is to sprout, must be carried into the chink of the wall by a little bird (bechst. franken 191; among the stones a douhle firtree must sp

he highlands (up. austria, where she got her son to build her a castle near the danube, imagining the people would worship her as much as the virgin mary; but as no one wanted her and the people laughed at her, she was enraged, and threw a huge piece of rock with a part of her castle into the danube, at the spot now called wirhel and strudel, and the ruins of her house are still named the devil's tower; conf. p. 592 on whirlpools. i suppose no one can doubt that all these notions date from heathen times (see suppl. private sacrifices, intended for gods or spirits, could not be eradicated among the people for a long time, because they were bound up with customs and festivals, and might at last become an unmeaning harmless practice. we have seen how a clump of ears was left standing in the f

om the sacred pile. she in vexation hurled the stones she was building with at the churchtower, but ]iever once could she hit it; then she tore off" one of her logs, and flung it at the steeple. some accounts say she knocked it down, others that she missed; the leg fell in a bog' before entering a new house, it is safest to let a cat or dog run in first, superst. i, 499^ the devil is shut up in a tower, where he may get out at the top, but only by mounting one stair a day, and there being 3g5 of them, the journey takes him a "whole year^ a mountain called teufehmuun at the source of the rivulet alp is ment. in dumbek's geogr. pagor. 2- 79; and a mill duvelmolen near isoest iu seibertz 1, 622. bechst. franken p. 107. baader's bad. sag. no. 487* by this was meant the old eoman aqueduct (gele

animal. the servians call her lazitsa, but address her by the caressing form laza' lazo lazitchitse" jul. caes. buleuger de augiiriis (graevii thes. 5. 3 westpbal' wecker vaugel heft dik dat inner auren ehangen' slennerhinke p. 8. path-crossing. 1129 that, holding a conversation, wh. miiller's saml. 1, 6q. 102. 2, 164. 178. 200. vuk 3, 326. two hlach ravens (dva vrana gavrana) caw from the white tower, vuk. 2, 151. the prophetic call of the cuckoo has been dealt with, p. 675 seq; he too belongs to angang, his voice in the wood falls unexpected on the traveller's ear, a good sign if on the right hand, a bad if on the left. pliny 30, 10 (25' aliud est cucido miraculum, quo quis loco primo audiat ahtem illam, si dexter pes circumscribatur ac vestigium id effodiatur, non gigni pulices, ubicun

unding a new cit, the heads of the people, after the old heathen wont, sent out men early before sunrise, to take the first boy they met and j^'i^^o the foundation. from this child (serv. diete. boh. djte, kuss. ditya pi. deti, pol. dz.iecie) the town took its name of detinets (popov's slav. myth. p. 25. and the history of merlin pp. 66 72 relates how, king yortigern casting to build him a strong tower, it did alway crumble down or it were accomplished; and the wizards spake sentence, that the tower should in no wise be achieved, ere that the grouudstone were ivet icith a child's blood, that was of woman born, but of no man begotten. may not we also connect with this superstition some words in a sermon of berthold p. 167' uud wizze, wanne 1144 superstition. du kiut gewinnest, daz der tiuve

at the tower should in no wise be achieved, ere that the grouudstone were ivet icith a child's blood, that was of woman born, but of no man begotten. may not we also connect with this superstition some words in a sermon of berthold p. 167' uud wizze, wanne 1144 superstition. du kiut gewinnest, daz der tiuvel relit einen torn mit den hindern hat uf dich gemuret/ has with the children reared a very tower on thy back (see suppl. sect. 23 of the indiculus superst 'de sulcis circa villas/ leads us to infer that round newly founded cities they ploughed furrows, whose sacredness was a safeguard against the entrance of evil. precisely such was the etruscan usage ace. to varro ^oppida condebant in latio, etrusco ritu, multa, id est, junctis bobus, tauro et vacca, interiore aratro circamagebant sulc

0-1 n. 457, it- is worth noticing, that in the mouth of a king of that race, goldemar (pp. 453. 465. 509) is placed the dictum' christianos fidem in verbis, judeeos in lapicubus pretiosis, et paganos in herhis ponere' meibom's script. 1, 186. paganism does present a rich store of mythical notions on the origin and manifold virtues of these plants. 1. herbs. as among men, so among herbs, the noble tower above the base: they were created by gods in some secluded sacred spot, they sprouted up where innocent blood had been shed, they were brought over by birds, and so on. under the goddess's footfall the flower springs up, as all growth withers where sorrowing lovers part. on the mountain's top, to which the lover had carried up his dying love, and poui-ed out her last reviving draught, grew h

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erely strokes his cheek, and remarks, there must be birds roosting in those 1 in the faroe dialect skrujmsli (lyngbye, p. 480. on. skraumr blatero, babbler. 542 giants. boughs; i fancied, when i woke, they dropt something on my head/ sn. 51-53. these are touches of genuine gianthood, and are to be met with in quite different regions as well. a bohemian story makes the giant scharmak sleep under a tower, which his enemies undermine, so that it tumbles about his ears; he shakes himself up and cries: this is a bad place to rest in, the birds drop things on your head. 1 after that, three men drag a large bell up the oaktree under which scharmak is asleep, snoring so hard that the leaves shake; the bell is cut down, and comes crashing on the giant, but he does not even wake. a german nursery-ta

ungbeetle, goldbeetle, the traces of ancient beetle-worship seem also to meet, first in one, then in another of them. a scarafone who brings succour occurs in pentamer. 3, 5 (see suppl. 694 teees and animals. continued to be done by the spinning girls in parts of schleswig as late as the 1 7th century. 1 folk- tales of up. germany inform us: some girls, not grown up, went one sunday to a deserted tower on a hill, found the stairs strewn with sand, and came to a beautiful room they had never seen before, in which there stood a bed with curtains. when they drew these aside, the bed was swarming with goldbeetles, and jumping up and down of itself. filled with amaze ment, the girls looked on for a while, till suddenly a terror seized them, and they fled out of the room and down the stairs, wit

stice, he goes on his way, till he comes to the judgment-seat, before which he sees minne appear as plaintiff, followed by moderation, chastity, shame, and modesty, he hears her cause pleaded and decided, but frau minne spies him in his lurking-place. h. sachs i. 273b: in may time, in the depth of the forest, on a lofty moss-grown rock, the poet is met by a hairy wood- wife, who guides him to the tower of dame charity, shows him through her chambers, and at last brings him before the high dame herself, who sends him away not empty-handed. the rock-dwelling in the wooded mountain seems an essential part of nearly all these narratives: it is the ruined castle in which the( white lady appears, it is the tower of veleda, mengloft, brunhild (p. 96 n. are the companions, playmates, by whom dame

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surround it the bounds of human knowledge unassisted by spiritualaid-andthe holes in those walls which so few couldreach-theway of attaining the true and the only true method of divining-when there you are still liable to great error unless helped and directed by your guardianspirit-thewater which surrounds that wall is what. is termed by menhell-thespace above the atmosphere, and the seven that tower above that the spheres of happiness.crystalmsvol.9,p.135a drop of water is divided by a stream of electricity into two gases ox. and hyd, and by subjecting certain proportions of these gasses to electricity water is produced, may 1 ask please if pure gold can be separated into its elements as a metalicc)or a metalicor a metalicnothing exists in an unalloyed state, everything is mixed and ext

ll's death!iinicholas culpeper (1616-54, english physician, herbalist and astrologer. hisherbalwas edited and reprinted by ebenezer sibley in 1798 .12edward hyde, rst earl of clarendon (1609-74, a leading royalist and historian of the english civil war. his daughter, anne hyde, married the duke of york (later king james ii).13george villiers, dukeofbuckingham. royalist supporter imprisoned in the tower 1658-9.thediaiotlaryofnatiotlalbiographystates he was a 'dabbler in chemistry. 14 elias ashmole (1617-92, english antiquary, astrologer, alchem255 ist and rosicrucian. his collections formed the basis of the ashmolean museum, oxford. his diary records his initiation into freemasonry at warrington on 16 october 1646, the earliest reference so far traced to a speculative initiation in england

chemist and writer of alchemical tracts. his ms theordinalofalchemy(1477) is notable as having the earliest use of the term 'free mason. 7 eiraneus philalethes: pseudonym used by a seventeenth century alchemist whose identity remains unknown. he claimed to havehockley'sletters to the irwins 49marriedculpeper's!'widow and succeeded to his business, his great good fortune was being committed to the tower as a printer, where as was wittingly said 'he was better provided for than he had ever beeninhislife' he died in an obscurecourtin tower hill wherelordclarendon' says the dukeofbuckingham13often consulted him. bro. eliasashmole!"was a world wide celebrity, a great favouriteofking charles, his chemicum britannicum in 4tol5 is invaluable&it is a great loss that he did not live to publish the f

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mankind evolved from a myth of the sun god s reabsorption of the powers of all the other celestial beings, just as the sun appears to swallow up the stars at dawn. 58. for translations of a selection of these hymns, see hymns and prayers to amun-re: the apogee of ancient egyptian religious thought, in j. l. foster, hymns, prayers and songs: an anthology of ancient egyptian lyric poetry, ed. susan tower hollis (atlanta, 1995, 55 79. the problem of the nature of the relationship between the one creator deity and the myriad other gods and goddesses continued to fascinate egyptian thinkers long after akhenaten s solution had been rejected. see assmann, egyptian solar religion in the new kingdom. 59. j. assmann, death and initiation in the funerary religion of ancient egypt, in j. p. allen et a

medina. even so, most of the artists probably could not read the texts of the underworld books they copied onto the walls of the royal tombs. for the religious life of the villagers, see l. h. lesko (ed, pharaoh s workers (ithaca and london, 1994. 62. see john baines, myth and literature, in loprieno, ancient egyptian literature, 373 374. 63. the mythological basis for the story is explored by s. tower hollis in the ancient egyptian tale of two brothers: the oldest fairy tale in the world (norman, ok, and london, 1990. 64. for a discussion of all these new kingdom stories and fragments, see s. quirke, narrative literature, in loprieno, ancient egyptian literature, 263 276. most of the stories are translated in simpson, the literature of ancient egypt. 65. for varying interpretations of thi

anslation is that of allen, genesis in egypt, 25 26. for other translations of the egyptian terms neheh and djet, see time and eternity in hornung, idea into image. these two forms of time are occasionally shown as deities supporting the sky. 16. the hymn, from papyrus cairo 58032, is translated in john l. foster, hymns, prayers, and songs: an anthology of ancient egyptian lyric poetry, ed. susan tower hollis (atlanta, ga, 1995, iv.32. 17. richard b. parkinson s translation of a passage from the teaching for king merikare, in parkinson, the tale of sinuhe and other ancient egyptian poems, 1940 1640 bc (oxford, 1997, 226. 18. it has been suggested that the negative attitude toward women displayed in this story was part of an adverse reaction to the reigns of several powerful queens. see l

is feat. the letter tells how hundreds of years before, a magician called sa-paneshe defeated a nubian sorceress and her son who were casting spells on a king of egypt. sa-osiris then reveals that he is the spirit of sa-paneshe reborn to protect egypt from the continuing threat of nubian sorcery. see also baboons; bastet; heqet; imhotep; kings and princes; thoth references and further reading: s. tower hollis. tales of magic and wonder from ancient egypt. in civilizations of the ancient near east, vol. 4, edited by j. m. sasson. new york: 1995, 2255 2264. w. j. tait. theban magic. in hundred-gated thebes, edited by s. p. vleeming. leiden and new york: 1995, 169 182. primary sources: p. westcar; setna cycle; petese 162 handbook of egyptian mythology mahes (mihos) mahes was a fierce lion god

. the ogdoad merged in the primeval waters to allow the creator to come into being, and the heh gods acted together to make the void in which the earth could come into being. members of the ogdoad such as nun and naunet and kek and keket were said to help the sun to be reborn as khepri every morning. see also amun; baboons; lotus; nun; nut; shu and tefnut; thoth references and further reading: s. tower hollis. otiose deities and the ancient egyptian pantheon. journal of the american research center in egypt 35 (1998: 61 72. 176 handbook of egyptian mythology l. h. lesko. ancient egyptian cosmogonies and cosmology. in religion in ancient egypt, edited by byron e. shafer. ithaca, ny, and london: 1991, 88 122. primary sources: pt 301; ct 76, 78 80; leiden hymns; mt; khonsu cosmogony; bof onur

ew york: scribners, 1995. these volumes cover the history and culture of all the major civilizations of the ancient near east. there is a chapter titled myth and mythmaking for each culture. the one for egypt, by jacobus van dijk, is a model of clarity. also of interest are the chapters ancient egyptian religious iconography, by erik hornung; tales of magic and wonder from ancient egypt, by susan tower hollis; and death and the afterlife in ancient egyptian thought, by leonard h. lesko. ian shaw and paul nicholson. british museum dictionary of ancient egypt. london: british museum press, 1995. a reliable source of information on all aspects of ancient egypt. there are numerous entries on egyptian deities, each with a short bibliography. david p. silverman (ed. ancient egypt. london: piatku

nsive notes are intended for egyptologists rather than the general reader. the index of the deities mentioned in the pyramid texts is arranged in the traditional order of the ancient egyptian alphabet. more pyramid texts have been discovered since this translation was first published in 1969. john l. foster. hymns, prayers, and songs: an anthology of ancient egyptian lyric poetry. edited by susan tower hollis. atlanta, ga: scholar s press, 1995. nine of the thirteen sections in this anthology concentrate on religious poetry. the book includes selections from the pyramid texts and the book of the dead but is most useful for the translations of a wide range of hymns to amun and ra. each section has a brief introduction, and there is a helpful glossary. miriam lichtheim. ancient egyptian lite

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must not be left here" she firmly added "these are the st. john's plants, and they might attract thewandering ones" meanwhile the night had come, and the moon illuminated the landscape with a pale, ghostly light. the nightsin the banat are nearly as beautiful as in the east, and the frenchman had to go on with his experiments in theopen air, as the priest of the church had prohibited such in the tower, which was used as the parsonage, forfear of filling the holy precincts with the heretical devils of the mesmerizer, which, the priest remarked, hewould be unable to exorcise on account of their being foreigners. the old gentleman had thrown off his travelling blouse, rolled up his shirt sleeves, and now, striking atheatrical attitude, began a regular process of mesmerization. under his quiv

dthe moon-lit objects, than as the blackness of the night, the night of hopeless sorrow and despair. son of a prince, born to rule himself one day his father's kingdom; surrounded from his cradle by reverenceand honours; deserving of the universal respect and sure of the love of all- what could the soul-ego desiremore for the form it dwelt in. and so the soul-ego goes on enjoying existence in its tower of strength, gazing quietly at the panorama oflife ever changing before its two windows- the two kind blue eyes of a loving and good man. iiione day an arrogant and boisterous enemy threatens the father's kingdom, and the savage instincts of thewarrior of old awaken in the soul-ego. it leaves its dreamland amid the blossoms of life and causes its egoof clay to draw the soldier's blade, assur

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ple will be brought to see alike. q. but surely those few who have felt the need of such truths must have made up their minds to believe in something definite? you tell me that, the society having no doctrines of its own, every member may believe as he chooses and accept what he pleases. this looks as if the theosophical society was bent upon reviving the confusion of languages and beliefs of the tower of babel of old. have you no beliefs in common? a. what is meant by the society having no tenets or doctrines of its own is, that no special doctrines or beliefs are obligatory on its members; but, of course, this applies only to the body as a whole. the society, as you were told, is divided into an outer and an inner body. those who belong to the latter have, of course, a philosophy, or-if

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aft.s fiction itself. from this, we find that for example, in the dunwich horror, lovecraft clearly illustrates that .hilltop rites, associated with stone circles and strange geophysical phenomena, are a key when approaching entities such as yog-sothoth. bringing the great old ones into our dimension requires some form of .gate, which in mythos tales, is often a wild outdoor site, a stone circle, tower, or a similar type of power spot. lovecraft is also careful to point out that such sites have, in historical terms, a long history of strange manifestations associated with them. again and again, he places great emphasis on the folklore of those who live on the borders of such areas; that .locals. have traditions that the educated sceptics appearing in the tales scoff at. the theme of specif

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re the possibilities of freedom. surely this is simple enough? but no, magick has become obsfucated under a weight of words, a welter of technical terms which exclude the uninitiated and serve those who are eager for a scientific jargon with which to legitimise their enterprise 6 phil hine into something self-important and pompous. abstract spiritual spaces have been created in the midst of which tower the babellike lego constructions of inner planes, spiritual hierarchies and occult truths which forget that the world around us is magical. the mysterious has been misplaced. we search through dead languages and tombs for secret knowledge, ignoring the mystery of life that is all around us. so for the moment, forget what you ve read about spiritual enlightenment, becoming a 99th level magus

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

ind gibbers with their voices, and the earth mutters with their consciousness. they bend the forest and crush the city, yet may not forest or city behold the hand that smites. kadath in the cold waste hath known them, and what man knows kadath? the ice desert of the south and the sunken isles of ocean hold stones whereon their seal is engraver, but who bath seen the deep frozen city or the sealed tower long garlanded with seaweed and barnacles? great cthulhu is their cousin, yet can he spy them only dimly. i! shub-niggurath! as a foulness shall ye know them. their hand is at your throats, yet ye see them not; and their habitation is even one with your guarded threshold. yog-sothoth is the key to the gate, whereby the spheres meet. man rules now where they ruled once; they shall soon rule w

sappearance of an inquisitive reporter named edwin m. lillibridge in 1893, and- above all- the look of monstrous, transfiguring fear on the face of the young writer when he died. it was one of these believers who, moved to fanatical extremes, threw into the bay the curiously angled stone and its strangely adorned metal box found in the old church steeple- the black windowless steeple, and not the tower where blake's diary said those things originally were. though widely censured both officially and unofficially, this man- a reputable physician with a taste for odd folklore- averred that he had rid the earth of something too dangerous to rest upon it. between these two schools of opinion the reader must judge for himself. the papers have given the tangible details from a sceptical angle, le

res. the feeling would persist long after the hill had faded into the violet, lamp-starred twilight, and the court-house floodlights and the red industrial trust beacon had blazed up to make the night grotesque. of all the distant objects on federal hill, a certain huge, dark church most fascinated blake. it stood out with especial distinctness at certain hours of the day, and at sunset the great tower and tapering steeple loomed blackly against the flaming sky. it seemed to rest on especially high ground; for the grimy fa ade, and the obliquely seen north side with sloping roof and the tops of great pointed windows, rose boldly above the tangle of surrounding ridgepoles and chimney-pots. peculiarly grim and austere, it appeared to be built of stone, stained and weathered with the smoke an

ght, but never the blackened pile that he sought. when he asked a shopkeeper about a great stone church the man smiled and shook his head, though he spoke english freely. as blake climbed higher, the region seemed stranger and stranger, with bewildering mazes of brooding brown alleys leading eternally off to the south. he crossed two or three broad avenues, and once thought he glimpsed a familiar tower. again he asked a merchant about the massive church of stone, and this time he could have sworn that the plea of ignorance was feigned. the dark man's face had a look of fear which he tried to hide, and blake saw him make a curious sign with his right hand. then suddenly a black spire stood out against the cloudy sky on his left, above the tiers of brown roofs lining the tangled southerly al

bove the tiers of brown roofs lining the tangled southerly alleys. blake knew at once what it was, and plunged toward it through the squalid, unpaved lanes that climbed from the avenue. twice he lost his way, but he somehow dared not ask any of the patriarchs or housewives who sat on their doorsteps, or any of the children who shouted and played in the mud of the shadowy lanes. at last he saw the tower plain against the southwest, and a huge stone bulk rose darkly at the end of an alley. presently he stood in a wind-swept open square, quaintly cobblestoned, with a high bank wall on the farther side. this was the end of his quest; for upon the wide, iron-railed, weed-grown plateau which the wall supported- a separate, lesser world raised fully six feet above the surrounding streets- there s

red how they could have remained undisturbed so long. was he the first to conquer the clutching, pervasive fear which had for nearly sixty years protected this deserted place from visitors? having now thoroughly explored the ground floor, blake ploughed again through the dust of the spectral nave to the front vestibule, where he had seen a door and staircase presumably leading up to the blackened tower and steeple- objects so long familiar to him at a distance. the ascent was a choking experience, for dust lay thick, while the spiders had done their worst in this constricted place. the staircase was a spiral with high, narrow wooden treads, and now and then blake passed a clouded window looking dizzily out over the city. though he had seen no ropes below, he expected to find a bell or peal

- objects so long familiar to him at a distance. the ascent was a choking experience, for dust lay thick, while the spiders had done their worst in this constricted place. the staircase was a spiral with high, narrow wooden treads, and now and then blake passed a clouded window looking dizzily out over the city. though he had seen no ropes below, he expected to find a bell or peal of bells in the tower whose narrow, louvre-boarded lancet windows his field-glass had studied so often. here he was doomed to disappointment; for when he attained the top of the stairs he found the tower chamber vacant of chimes, and clearly devoted to vastly different purposes. the room, about fifteen feet square, was faintly lighted by four lancet windows, one on each side, which were glazed within their screen

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

orderly streets there seemed to be none, the only broad open swath being a mile to the left, where the ancient river had doubtless flowed through the town into the mountains. our field glasses showed the external, horizontal bands of nearly effaced sculptures and dot groups to be very prevalent, and we could half imagine what the city must once have looked like- even though most of the roofs and tower tops had necessarily perished. as a whole, it had been a complex tangle of twisted lanes and alleys, all of them deep canyons, and some little better than tunnels because of the overhanging masonry or overarching bridges. now, outspread below us, it loomed like a dream fantasy against a westward mist through whose northern end the low, reddish antarctic sun of early afternoon was struggling

hose found on the greenish soapstones, just as the dots on those insane five-pointed grave mounds might have been made; and he might conceivably have prepared rough, hasty sketches- varying in their accuracy or lack of it- which outlined the neighboring parts of the city and traced the way from a circularly represented place outside our previous route- a place we identified as a great cylindrical tower in the carvings and as a vast circular gulf glimpsed in our aerial survey- to the present five-pointed structure and the tunnel mouth therein. he might, i repeat, have prepared such sketches; for those before us were quite obviously compiled, as our own had been, from late sculptures somewhere in the glacial labyrinth, though not from the ones which we had seen and used. but what the art-bli

mean to face what we feared- yet i will not deny that we may have had a lurking, unconscious wish to spy certain things from some hidden vantage point. probably we had not given up our zeal to glimpse the abyss itself, though there was interposed a new goal in the form of that great circular place shown on the crumpled sketches we had found. we had at once recognized it as a monstrous cylindrical tower figuring in the very earliest carvings, but appearing only as a prodigious round aperture from above. something about the impressiveness of its rendering, even in these hasty diagrams, made us think that its subglacial levels must still form a feature of peculiar importance. perhaps it embodied architectural marvels as yet unencountered by us. it was certainly of incredible age according to

wer depth. but the salient object of the place was the titanic stone ramp which, eluding the archways by a sharp turn outward into the open floor, wound spirally up the stupendous cylindrical wall like an inside counterpart of those once climbing outside the monstrous towers or ziggurats of antique babylon. only the rapidity of our flight, and the perspective which confounded the descent with the tower s inner wall, had prevented our noticing this feature from the air, and thus caused us to seek another avenue to the subglacial level. pabodie might have been able to tell what sort of engineering held it in place, but danforth and i could merely admire and marvel. we could see mighty stone corbels and pillars here and there, but what we saw seemed inadequate to the function performed. the t

from the air, and thus caused us to seek another avenue to the subglacial level. pabodie might have been able to tell what sort of engineering held it in place, but danforth and i could merely admire and marvel. we could see mighty stone corbels and pillars here and there, but what we saw seemed inadequate to the function performed. the thing was excellently preserved up to the present top of the tower- a highly remarkable circumstance in view of its exposure- and its shelter had done much to protect the bizarre and disturbing cosmic sculptures on the walls. as we stepped out into the awesome half daylight of this monstrous cylinder bottom- fifty million years old, and without doubt the most primally ancient structure ever to meet our eyes- we saw that the ramp-traversed sides stretched di

ght of fully sixty feet. this, we recalled from our aerial survey, meant an outside glaciation of some forty feet; since the yawning gulf we had seen from the plane had been at the top of an approximately twenty-foot mound of crumbled masonry, somewhat sheltered for three-fourths of its circumference by the massive curving walls of a line of higher ruins. according to the sculptures, the original tower had stood in the center of an immense circular plaza, and had been perhaps five hundred or six hundred feet high, with tiers of horizontal disks near the top, and a row of needlelike spires along the upper rim. most of the masonry had obviously toppled outward rather than inward- a fortunate happening, since otherwise the ramp might have been shattered and the whole interior choked. as it wa

and the whole interior choked. as it was, the ramp showed sad battering; whilst the choking was such that all the archways at the bottom seemed to have been recently cleared. it took us only a moment to conclude that this was indeed the route by which those others had descended, and that this would be the logical route for our own ascent despite the long trail of paper we had left elsewhere. the tower s mouth was no farther from the foothills and our waiting plane than was the great terraced building we had entered, and any further subglacial exploration we might make on this trip would lie in this general region. oddly, we were still thinking about possible later trips- even after all we had seen and guessed. then, as we picked our way cautiously over the debris of the great floor, there

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roofed pagodas, that he for a moment forgot celephais in sheer delight. but he remembered it again when he walked down a white path toward a red-roofed pagoda, and would have questioned the people of this land about it, had he not found that there were no people there, but only birds and bees and butterflies. on another night kuranes walked up a damp stone spiral stairway endlessly, and came to a tower window overlooking a mighty plain and river lit by the full moon; and in the silent city that spread away from the river bank he thought he beheld some feature or arrangement which he had known before. he would have descended and asked the way to oothnargai had not a fearsome aurora sputtered up from some remote place beyond the horizon, showing the ruin and antiquity of the city, and the st

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nterpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed. one man with oriental eyes has said that all time and space are relative, and men have laughed. but even that man with oriental eyes has done no more than suspect. i had wished and tried to do more than suspect, and my friend had tried and partly succeeded. then we both tried together, and with exotic drugs courted terrible and forbidden dreams in the tower studio chamber of the old manor-house in hoary kent. among the agonies of these after days is that chief of tormentsinarticulateness. what i learned and saw in those hours of impious exploration can never be told-for want of symbols or suggestions in any language. i say this because from first to last our discoveries partook only of the nature of sensations; sensations correlated with no imp

ound myself projected against an obstacle which i could not penetrate. it was like the others, yet incalculably denser; a sticky clammy mass, if such terms can be applied to analogous qualities in a non-material sphere. i had, i felt, been halted by a barrier which my friend and leader had successfully passed. struggling anew, i came to the end of the drug-dream and opened my physical eyes to the tower studio in whose opposite corner reclined the pallid and still unconscious form of my fellow dreamer, weirdly haggard and wildly beautiful as the moon shed gold-green light on his marble features. then, after a short interval, the form in the corner stirred; and may pitying heaven keep from my sight and sound another thing like that which took place before me. i cannot tell you how he shrieke

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voluntary marching formations and seemed to know our destinations though we dared not think of them. once we looked at the pavement and found the blocks loose and displaced by grass, with scarce a line of rusted metal to shew where the tramways had run. and again we saw a tram-car, lone, windowless, dilapidated, and almost on its side. when we gazed around the horizon, we could not find the third tower by the river, and noticed that the silhouette of the second tower was ragged at the top. then we split up into narrow columns, each of which seemed drawn in a different direction. one disappeared in a narrow alley to the left, leaving only the echo of a shocking moan. another filed down a weed-choked subway entrance, howling with a laughter that was mad. my own column was sucked toward the o

HP LOVECRAFT POETRY AND THE GODS

hou know the favour of the gods, and behold on parnassus those dreams which the gods have through ages sent to earth to show that they are not dead. for poets are the dreams of gods, and in each and every age someone hath sung unknowingly the message and the promise from the lotosgardens beyond the sunset. then in his arms hermes bore the dreaming maiden through the skies. gentle breezes from the tower of aiolas wafted them high above warm, scented seas, till suddenly they came upon zeus, holding court upon double-headed parnassus, his golden throne flanked by apollo and the muses on the right hand, and by ivy-wreathed dionysus and pleasure-flushed bacchae on the left hand. so much of splendour marcia had never seen before, either awake or in dreams, but its radiance did her no injury, as

as the swan of avon, once a god among men, and still a god among gods: write, write, that from the bloody course of war, my dearest master, your dear son, may hie; bless him at home in peace, whilst i from far, his name with zealous fervour sanctify. accents still more familiar arose as milton, blind no more, declaimed immortal harmony: or let thy lamp at midnight hour be seen in some high lonely tower, where i might oft outwatch the bear with thrice-great hermes, or unsphere the spirit of plato, to unfold what worlds or what vast regions hold the immortal mind, that hath forsook her mansion in this fleshy nook* sometime let gorgeous tragedy in sceptered pall come sweeping by, presenting thebes, or pelop s line, or the tale of troy divine. last of all came the young voice of keats, closest

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d me with that duty which was second to nothing in importance. to the watchtower of thapnen he sent me, there to serve as the eyes of our army. should the inutos attempt to gain the citadel by the narrow pass behind the peak noton and thereby surprise the garrison, i was to give the signal of fire which would warn the waiting soldiers and save the town from immediate disaster. alone i mounted the tower, for every man of stout body was needed in the passes below. my brain was sore dazed with excitement and fatigue, for i had not slept in many days; yet was my purpose firm, for i loved my native land of lomar, and the marble city olathoe that lies betwixt the peaks noton and kadiphonek. but as i stood in the tower's topmost chamber, i beheld the horned waning moon, red and sinister, quiverin

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the falling stones of the walls, the overgrown vegetation in the parks, the dry and dusty moat, the ill-paved courtyards, and toppling towers without, as well as the sagging floors, the worm-eaten wainscots, and the faded tapestries within, all tell a gloomy tale of fallen grandeur. as the ages passed, first one, then another of the four great turrets were left to ruin, until at last but a single tower housed the sadly reduced descendants of the once mighty lords of the estate. it was in one of the vast and gloomy chambers of this remaining tower that i, antoine, last of the unhappy and accursed counts de c, first saw the light of day, ninety long years ago. within these walls and amongst the dark and shadowy forests, the wild ravines and grottos of the hillside below, were spent the first

HP LOVECRAFT THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH

st a piece could have come. in that palace there were also many galleries, and many amphitheaters where lions and men and elephants battled at the pleasure of the kings. sometimes the amphitheaters were flooded with water conveyed from the lake in mighty aqueducts, and then were enacted stirring sea-fights, or combats betwixt swimmers and deadly marine things. lofty and amazing were the seventeen tower-like temples of sarnath, fashioned of a bright multi-colored stone not known elsewhere. a full thousand cubits high stood the greatest among them, wherein the high-priests dwelt with a magnificence scarce less than that of the kings. on the ground were halls as vast and splendid as those of the palaces; where gathered throngs in worship of zo-kalar and tamash and lobon, the chief gods of sar

ces; where gathered throngs in worship of zo-kalar and tamash and lobon, the chief gods of sarnath, whose incense-enveloped shrines were as the thrones of monarchs. not like the eikons of other gods were those of zo-kalar and tamash and lobon. for so close to life were they that one might swear the graceful bearded gods themselves sate on the ivory thrones. and up unending steps of zircon was the tower-chamber, wherefrom the high-priests looked out over the city and the plains and the lake by day; and at the cryptic moon and significant stars and planets, and their reflections in the lake, at night. here was done the very secret and ancient rite in detestation of bokrug, the water-lizard, and here rested the altar of chrysolite which bore the doom-scrawl of taran-ish. wonderful likewise we

dancers and lutanists crowned with roses from the gardens of zokkar. and the kings would look out over the lake and curse the bones of the dead that lay beneath it. at first the high-priests liked not these festivals, for there had descended amongst them queer tales of how the sea-green eikon had vanished, and how taran-ish had died from fear and left a warning. and they said that from their high tower they sometimes saw lights beneath the waters of the lake. but as many years passed without calamity even the priests laughed and cursed and joined in the orgies of the feasters. indeed, had they not themselves, in their high tower, often performed the very ancient and secret rite in detestation of bokrug, the water-lizard? and a thousand years of riches and delight passed over sarnath, wonde

, prepared by the subtlest cooks in all mnar, and suited to the palate of every feaster. but most prized of all the viands were the great fishes from the lake, each of vast size, and served upon golden platters set with rubies and diamonds. whilst the king and his nobles feasted within the palace, and viewed the crowning dish as it awaited them on golden platters, others feasted elsewhere. in the tower of the great temple the priests held revels, and in pavilions without the walls the princes of neighboring lands made merry. and it was the high-priest gnai-kah who first saw the shadows that descended from the gibbous moon into the lake, and the damnable green mists that arose from the lake to meet the moon and to shroud in a sinister haze the towers and the domes of fated sarnath. thereaft

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he eye could find only cobwebs and shadows. the stones in the crumbling corridors seemed always hideously damp, and there was an accursed smell everywhere, as of the piled-up corpses of dead generations. it was never light, so that i used sometimes to light candles and gaze steadily at them for relief, nor was there any sun outdoors, since the terrible trees grew high above the topmost accessible tower. there was one black tower which reached above the trees into the unknown outer sky, but that was partly ruined and could not be ascended save by a well-nigh impossible climb up the sheer wall, stone by stone. i must have lived years in this place, but i cannot measure the time. beings must have cared for my needs, yet i cannot recall any person except myself, or anything alive but the noise

the castle the shade grew denser and the air more filled with brooding fear; so that i ran frantically back lest i lose my way in a labyrinth of nighted silence. so through endless twilights i dreamed and waited, though i knew not what i waited for. then in the shadowy solitude my longing for light grew so frantic that i could rest no more, and i lifted entreating hands to the single black ruined tower that reached above the forest into the unknown outer sky. and at last i resolved to scale that tower, fall though i might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without ever beholding day. in the dank twilight i climbed the worn and aged stone stairs till i reached the level where they ceased, and thereafter clung perilously to small footholds leading upward. ghast

and above, and try to judge the height i had once attained. all at once, after an infinity of awesome, sightless, crawling up that concave and desperate precipice, i felt my head touch a solid thing, and i knew i must have gained the roof, or at least some kind of floor. in the darkness i raised my free hand and tested the barrier, finding it stone and immovable. then came a deadly circuit of the tower, clinging to whatever holds the slimy wall could give; till finally my testing hand found the barrier yielding, and i turned upward again, pushing the slab or door with my head as i used both hands in my fearful ascent. there was no light revealed above, and as my hands went higher i knew that my climb was for the nonce ended; since the slab was the trapdoor of an aperture leading to a level

give; till finally my testing hand found the barrier yielding, and i turned upward again, pushing the slab or door with my head as i used both hands in my fearful ascent. there was no light revealed above, and as my hands went higher i knew that my climb was for the nonce ended; since the slab was the trapdoor of an aperture leading to a level stone surface of greater circumference than the lower tower, no doubt the floor of some lofty and capacious observation chamber. i crawled through carefully, and tried to prevent the heavy slab from falling back into place, but failed in the latter attempt. as i lay exhausted on the stone floor i heard the eerie echoes of its fall, hoped when necessary to pry it up again. believing i was now at prodigious height, far above the accursed branches of th

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is tender and the west wind stirs the lotus-buds" when the men of teloth heard these things they whispered to one another; for though in the granite city there is no laughter or song, the stern men sometimes look to the karthian hills in the spring and think of the lutes of distant oonai whereof travellers have told. and thinking thus, they bade the stranger stay and sing in the square before the tower of mlin, though they liked not the colour of his tattered robe, nor the myrrh in his hair, nor his chaplet of vine-leaves, nor the youth in his golden voice. at evening iranon sang, and while he sang an old man prayed and a blind man said he saw a nimbus over the singer's head. but most of the men of teloth yawned, and some laughed and some went to sleep; for iranon told nothing useful, sing

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my eyes and beheld myself upon the platform of that lighthouse whence i had sailed so many aeons ago. in the darkness below there loomed the vast blurred outlines of a vessel breaking up on the cruel rocks, and as i glanced out over the waste i saw that the light had failed for the first time since my grandfather had assumed its care. and in the later watches of the night, when i went within the tower, i saw on the wall a calendar which still remained as when i had left it at the hour i sailed away. with the dawn i descended the tower and looked for wreckage upon the rocks, but what i found was only this: a strange dead bird whose hue was as of the azure sky, and a single shattered spar, of a whiteness greater than that of the wave-tips or of the mountain snow. and thereafter the ocean to

ISIS UNVEILED

cian' betylot, the brutally indecent form of the lingam. the mahd-dma^ before casting slurs on a symbol whose profound metaphysical meaning is too much for the modem champions of that religion of sensualism par exedlsnee, roman catholicism, to grasp, they are in duty bound to destroy their oldest churches, and change the form of the cupolas ot their own temples. the mahody of elephanta, the round tower of bhagalpur, the minarets of islam either rounded or pointed are the originals of the campanile column of san marco at venice, of rochester cathedral, and of the modem duomo of milan. ah of these steeples, tur^ rets, domes, and christian temples are the reproductions of the primitive idea of the liaot, the upright phallus "the westem tower of st. paul's cathedral, london" saya the author of

says, was one of their own brethren, thou^ he had somewhat departed from the laws, and the jewish hatred and persecution of the apostle seems to have existed but in the fecund imagination of the fathers. the author speaks of him with great respect and fairness, calling him "a faithful servant of the living god" who passed his life in austerity and meditation "living in babylon at the summit of a tower" composing hymns, and preaching charity. he adds that peter always recommended the christians not to molest the jews, but as soon aa he was dead, behold another preacher went to rome and pretended that simon peter had altered the teachings of his master. he invented a burning hell and threatened every one with it; promised miracles, but worked none. how much there is in the above of fiction

arcel of the unknown god, the first cause, of which it is a direct emanation. it is possessed of all the attributes of its parent source. among these attributes are omniscience and onmipotence. endowed with these, but yet unable fully to manifest them while in the body, during which time they are obscured, veiled, limited by the capabilities of physical nature, the thus divinely-inhabited man may tower far above his kind, evince a god-like wisdom, and display deific powers; for while the rest of mortals around him are but otxttkadowed by their divine seur, with every chance given to them to become inmiortal hereafter, but with no other security than their per- sonal efforts to win the kingdom of heaven, the man so chosen has already become an immortal while yet on earth. his prize is seoir

h abraham, we find remi- niscences of dates disfigured or misunderstood, as genealogies of single men, or indications of epochs. the abrahamic tribe-recollections go back at least three millenia beyond the grandfather of jacob* eupolemus says that abraham was bom at kamarina or una, a city of soothsayers, and invented astronomy' josephus claims the same birthplace for terab, abraham's father. the tower of babel was built as much by the direct descendants of shem as by those of the 'accursed' ham and canaan, for the people in those days were 'one' and the "whole earth was of one language; babel was simply an astrological tower, and its builders were astrologers and adepts of the primitive wisdom-religion, or again what we term secret doctrine. the berosian sibyl says: before the tower, zeni

and bindi the two and the first triad of the sephiroth, called together. it was the arbm or mjntic the 'intdlectual wwld' little lemaini tx 'tour* the m;iter7-godi, the kabiri, be nid. in the great geomebrical figure mimmariaed in the unitf of one auprobe which hm the double triangle in it, the deity. it ii found in the egyptian pyra- central drde repiewnt* the worid within midi, whose equal ndea tower up until the nniverae. the double tiian^ bdou^ lost in one crowning point. in the kaha- to one of the moat important, if it ii not it tie diagnun the ceatnl drde at the in itaelf the moat important, of the myitie brthroanical figuic a replaced by the axm; figurei in india. it it the emblem of the the celertial papendicular and the t erm. tiimltrti, three in one. lite trian^ with trial horiio

o or fo, as the tibetans and chinese call buddha, appear ridiculous? in the north of nepal, buddha is more often called fo than buddha. the book of mahdrania shows how early the work of buddhistic proselytism began in nepal; and history teaches that buddhist monks crowded into syria* and babylon in the century preceding our era, and that monumtntal chrutianity, p. 2lt, referring to bq irish round tower, obatrres "heniy o'brien explains this round tower crucifixion u that of buddha; the bqimsis as the dephant and the bull sacred to buddha, and into which his aoul entet d after de*th; the two figures staoditir beside the cross as buddha'i virgin mother, and kama, hit favorite disciple. the whole picture beats a doae likeness to the cnicifixiod in the ecme- tery a( pope julius, except the ani

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

enty-first. myth of the scorpion, or the snake, in its many disguises. 173 chapter the twenty-second. ominous character of the colour white to english royalty. 177 contents xv chapter the twenty-third. page. the beliefs of the rosicrucians meaning of lights and of commemorative flambeaux in all worsihp. 186 chapter the twenty-fourth. the great pyramid. 199 chapter the twenty-fifth. history of the tower or steeple. 206 chapter the twenty-sixth. presence of the rosicrucians in heathen and christian architecture. 228 chapter the twenty-seventh. the rosicrucians amidst ancient mysteries and in the orders of knighthood. 237 chapter the twenty-eighth. rosicrucianism in strange symbols. 253 chapter the twenty-ninth. connection between the templars and gnosticism. 266 chapter the thirtieth. rosicr

or crowning cross; last of the revelations! in the fire-towers of the sikhs, in the dome-covered and many-storied spires of the hindoos, in the vertically turreted and longitudinally massed temples of the bhudds, of all the classes and of all the sects, in the religious buildings of the cingalese, in the upright flame-fanes of the parsees, in the original of the campaniles of the italians, in the tower of st. mark at venice, in the flame-shaped or pyramidal (pyr is the greek for fire) architecture of the egyptians (which is the parent of all that is called architecture, we see the recurring symbol. all the minarets that, in the eastern sunshine, glisten through the land of the moslem; indeed, his two-horned crescent, equally with the moon, or disc, or two-pointed globe of the sidonian asht

ow it, all the minarets of the mohammedan, we say, together with all the other symbols of moon, of disc, of wings, or of horns (equally with the shadowy and preternatural beings in all mythologies and in all theologies, to which these adjuncts or insignia are referred, and which are symbolised by them, all these monuments, or bodied meanings, testify to the deification of fire. what may mean that tower of babel and its impious raising, when it sought, even past and over the clouds, to the tower, tor, or tau of babel. 91 imply a daring sign? what portent was that betrayal of a knowledge not for man, that surmise forbidden save in infinite humility, and in the whispered impartment of the further and seemingly more impossible, and still more greatly mystical, meanings? in utter abnegation of

d over the clouds, to the tower, tor, or tau of babel. 91 imply a daring sign? what portent was that betrayal of a knowledge not for man, that surmise forbidden save in infinite humility, and in the whispered impartment of the further and seemingly more impossible, and still more greatly mystical, meanings? in utter abnegation of self alone shall the mystery of fire be conceived. of what was this tower of belus, or the fire, to be the monument? when it soared, as a pharos, on. the rock of the traditionary ages, to defy time in its commitment to form of the unpronounceable secret, stage on stage and story on story, though it climbed the clouds, and on its top should shine the ever-burning fire, first idol in the world, dark save with neglected stars, what was the tower of babel but a gigant

to the movable enchanted drums of the lapps and finns, and to the divining-tables of the shamans of siberia. there lies an unsuspected purpose, doubtless of a mysterious (very probably of a superstitious and supernatural) character, in this exceedingly ancient memorial of the mythic british and heroic time at winchester. when spires or steeples were placed on churches, and succeeded the pyramidal tower, or square or round tower, these pointed erections were only the perpetuations of the original monolith. the universal signal was reproduced through the phases of architecture. the supposition that the object of the steeple was to point out the church to the surrounding country explains but half its meaning. at one period of our history, the signal-lights abounded all over the country as num

alf its meaning. at one period of our history, the signal-lights abounded all over the country as numerously as church-spires do in the present days. exalted on eminences, dotting hills, spiring on cliffs, perched on promontories, from sea inland, and from the interior of the country to broad river-side and to the seashore, rising from woods, a universal telegraph, and a picturesque landmark, the tower, in its meaning, spoke the identical, unconscious tradition with the blazing baal, bael, or beltane fires: those universal votive torches, which are lost sight of in the mists of antiquity, and which were so continual in the pagan countries, so reiterated through the early ages, and which still remain so frequent in the feudal and monastic periods, these were all connected* it was also somet

niversal votive torches, which are lost sight of in the mists of antiquity, and which were so continual in the pagan countries, so reiterated through the early ages, and which still remain so frequent in the feudal and monastic periods, these were all connected* it was also something else to which we make reference in other parts of our book. 104 the rosicrucians. closely with religion. the stone tower was only, as it were, a stationary flame, the origin of beacons may be traced to the highest antiquity. according to the original hebrew (which language, as the samaritan, is considered by competent judges as the very oldest, the word beacon may be rendered a mark, monolith, pillar, or upright. at one time the ancient bale, bel, or religious fires of ireland were general all over the country

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

, even of an incipient, primitive or rudimentary type. our contention is that some kind of intelligence has adapted itself to this environment, if it was not actually indigenous thereto. we shall close this section with a mystery. the following is from fate, of april 1951. 65 the mystery of the falling grain one day last summer construction men were working on the top of the empire state building tower, 1,467 feet above the street, preparing to put up a new television mast. suddenly, something stung the check of one of the men. then another reached into his shirt collar and picked out a grain of something or other. he looked at it in puzzlement, then flung it aside. then other men began to notice the kernels falling upon them. while they looked in bewilderment, nearly a peck of grain fell

uth american airways plane, lancastrian star dust, mysteriously vanished on a flight over the andes. it would not have been so surprising if the craft had disappeared in the high peaks of the andes, but she was due to land at the airport at santiago, chile, at 5:45 pm, she sent out a signal stating her time of arrival. that is just four minutes from the airport, almost within sight of the control tower. at the end of the message came a word "stendec" loud and clear and given out very fast. the chilean air force operator, at santiago, queried the word which he did not understand. he heard it twice repeated by the plane. no explanation of the word has ever been found. nothing further was heard from the plane although calls were sent out. the plane never arrived, and from that day to this the

ho had stopped to watch the queer sight. these persons, in a body, took off down the road. the perverse object seemed to pursue them momentarily: then it vanished without a sound. must have hit a vortice, or been saved somehow. m. lawrence roth, director of the blue hill observatory, in 1903, was visiting paris on september 4, of that year. at 10:00:pm, he happened to be looking toward the eiffel tower from the rond-point of the champs elysees. the tower was suddenly struck by white lightning. simultaneously he spied a flaming sphere edging downward to the second platform. roth claimed the ball was about a yard in diameter, and that it covered some one hundred yards in a matter of seconds and then vanished completely. it is very interesting to note that these reports are from the general a

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hem to perverse rebellion and to their ruinous defeat. they raised their voices in a cry calling for terrible vengeance against me in their cankered envy, eating at their souls from within and making virtue into vice. thus fell the dominion of the elohim. gabriel rose high above the elohim below and, upon swift wings of purest gold, flew straight and quick to the silver spire that was the eternal tower where god held court upon his pristine throne. before that august minaret did he alight upon the earth and thence enter in by gates of pearl, stolen from the ancient, coral shell that armoured the back of that primal beast, most archaic and fearful leviathan. coming before the father of the elohim, old beyond memory of angels, and there fell upon his knees in supplication before the king 12

for that which was most beloved to me, hearing in the heralds' music with an unconscious ear the doom of heaven and her angels, yet not knowing the architect of destruction. then, when i had shed my tears, i went upon wing, upon thermal, weighed low by a heart full of sorrow and a mind darkened by foreboding, i answered the call of my father, flying swift to the assembly of angels, to the eternal tower where god held court, with my innumerable hosts to my back. 20 thus i descended amongst my brothers who had gathered as a great throng before the resplendent gates of pearl, that kept the threshold of god's abode. haughtily i strode amongst my brothers, pushing through the crowd to the fore as does an elephant go amongst trees and they parted before and bowed low for then, to me, they knew n

hem to perverse rebellion and to their ruinous defeat. they raised their voices in a cry calling for terrible vengeance against me in their cankered envy, eating at their souls from within and making virtue into vice. thus fell the dominion of the elohim. gabriel rose high above the elohim below and, upon swift wings of purest gold, flew straight and quick to the silver spire that was the eternal tower where god held court upon his pristine throne. before that august minaret did he alight upon the earth 73 and thence enter in by gates of pearl, stolen from the ancient, coral shell that armoured the back of that primal beast, most archaic and fearful leviathan. coming before the father of the elohim, old beyond memory of angels, and there fell upon his knees in supplication before the king

that which was most beloved to me, hearing in the heralds' music with an unconscious ear the doom of heaven and her angels, yet not knowing the architect of destruction. 81 then, when i had shed my tears, i went upon wing, upon thermal, weighed low by a heart full of sorrow and a mind darkened by foreboding, i answered the call of my father, flying swift to the assembly of angels, to the eternal tower where god held court, with my innumerable hosts to my back. thus i descended amongst my brothers who had gathered as a great throng before the resplendent gates of pearl, that kept the threshold of god's abode. haughtily i strode amongst my brothers, pushing through the crowd to the fore as does an elephant go amongst trees and they parted before and bowed low for then, to me, they knew noug

triumph and of triumphs that would be won, they followed me, as i raised up my sword and led my people, the shedim, in procession from the gates of heaven, and, descending upon wings of flame, down from that upper realm to the earth, resplendent in her emerald garb, promising new tomorrows to be won. this is the truth! 126 aphepatigon hear me o my prophet! i looked out from the high parapet of my tower, from the spire of opal and ruby, regarding the streets and domes of the shedim city, chadel, proud and unconquered, deep, deep in the passages of the roots of mountains, lit by the furnaces of the lower earth amongst sleeping serpents as ancient, as terrible as immemorial time, unreckoned, dreaming of forgotten aeons and tomorrows unimagined. now had the laments ended and the libations drie

ight and nurture in their hearts the desire to fly like eagles amongst the stars. this now is the hope of the shedim. and now too long have i tarried but must seek out my disciples, returning in triumph to our walls that in motion i might set my design" and thus did we go, each in triumph, swift to the walls of chadel, studded with as many stars of jasper as has the sky. now did the streets to my tower, walked with aset at my side, joined by the thegns of the shedim, as we went to the spire of opal and ruby, did the shedim rejoice with song and wine at the return of their most great leader, his eyes filled with new purpose, his instruction sure and true. as a throng did the follow me, awaiting what word i spoke beneath the high parapet of the tower, in address to their eager ears. a myriad

the night's testament to the deeds that shedim wrought within the valley's confines and all was known to raphael and he was afraid. now, on flaming wings, ascending he made his own speed to high heaven's gates and, there passing its towers that watched the approach thither, flew swift through the gates thrown open before him as he flew in haste to heaven's hub where reached above all the eternal tower, seat of god's once-great majesty. descending, alighting within its long shadow he now went by foot to the spire's portal and demanded of the gatesmen entrance. these doors opened also to his coming and, the herald before him hurrying, scaled the tower's heights to the chamber in which his father, adonai yahweh, sat upon the platinum throne, seat of heaven, and directed the movements of the

LAITMAN M FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY

will also show humanity the method of correction, and how to implement it. a few generations after adam, humanity was centered around ancient babylon, and that is where the first outbreak of egoism occurred. as a result, people began to want to dominate nature and the world, and to exploit everything to their own benefit. this outbreak of egoism was allegorically described as the building of the tower of babel: come, let us 158 from chaos to harmony build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven (genesis, 11:4. however, the babylonians plot failed because it is impossible to satisfy the ego directly. as their egos grew, it separated them from one another. previously, the people of babel had lived as one people. but now, when the ego began to speak in them, they stopped understanding

LAITMAN M KABBALAH REVEALED

people grew apart and became detached from one another. in consequence, the single nation of the ancient world was divided. it first split into two groups that drifted to the east and to the west. the two groups continued to divide and splinter, eventually forming the multitude of nations we have today. one of the most obvious symptoms of the division, which the bible describes as the fall of the tower of babel, was the creation of different languages. these different languages disconnected people from each other and created confusion and malfunction. the hebrew word for confusion is bilbul, and to mark the confusion, the capitol of mesopotamia received the name, babel (babylon. 28 kabbalah revealed ever since that split xwhen our desires grew from level zero to level one xwe have been con

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

ring which we experience feelings of- 139- suffering. but once we move over this bridge that leads to the dwelling of the creator, we enter the world of spirituality, the kingdom of light. at this point, we reach the final goal of creation the ultimate perception of the creator. the generation of the flood is called "a period of work of the heart" whereas the generation of building the babylonian tower is regarded as "the period of working with one s intellect" each of us strives to satisfy every desire from the first moment of life up to the very last moment. the difference between us is in the object from which we want to receive pleasure, whereas the pleasure itself is always spiritual. only the outer shell creates the illusion of a material nature of pleasure. for this reason, subconsc

realize it is the magician who is calling him, saying "come, we will both feel good, because it is very sad to be alone without you" then, the magician waves his wand again and the man feels his presence. he begins to think of the magician, to think that it will be good together, because it is very sad to be alone, without the magician. another wave of the wand and the man feels there is a magic tower full of goodness and might in which the magician waits for him and that only there will they feel good, because it is very sad to be alone "but where is this tower? how can i reach it? which is the way" he asks himself, puzzled and confused. how can he meet the magician? he keeps feeling the wave of the wand in his heart and he cannot sleep. he constantly sees magicians and mighty towers and

nts something very much and cannot find it, and is sad to be alone. but in order to be like the magician wise, great, noble, goodhearted, loving and a friend a wave of the wand is not enough. one must learn to make wonders oneself. so the magician secretly and subtly, gently and innocuously, leads the man to the greatest, oldest magical book, the book of zohar, and shows him the way to the mighty tower. the man grasps it so he can swiftly meet the magician, meet his friend, and tell him "come, we will feel good together, because it is very sad to be alone" yet there is a high wall surrounding the tower, and many guards repel the man, not letting him and the magician be together and feel good. the man despairs, the magician hides- 222- attaining the worlds beyond away in the tower behind lo

ay in the tower behind locked gates, the wall is high, the guards vigilantly repel, nothing can pass. what will happen? how can they be together, feel good together because it is sad to be alone? every time the man weakens and despairs, he suddenly feels a wave of the wand and he rushes to the walls again to try to circumvent the guards, no matter what! he wants to break into the gates, reach the tower, climb the rungs of the ladder and reach the magician. and every time he surges forward and moves nearer the tower and the magician, the guards become more vigilant, stronger and arduous, mercilessly flaying him. but with each round the man becomes braver, stronger and wiser. he learns to accomplish all sorts of tricks himself, to invent things only a magician can. every time he is pushed ba

things only a magician can. every time he is pushed back, he wants the magician more, feels his love for him more, and wants more than anything else in the world to be with the magician and see his face, because it will be good to be together. even if he is given everything in the world, without the magician, he will feel alone. then, when he can no longer bear to be without him, the gates of the tower open, and the magician, his magician, rushes towards him and says "come, we will be good together, because it is very sad to be alone" and ever since, they are faithful friends, closely acquainted, and there is no finer pleasure than that which is between them, forever into infinity. they feel so good together that they never remember, even occasionally, how sad it was to be alone. the end

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r to the extent that it can bond with other souls. that fills the soul of adam ha rishon, because the attributes of the creator and the corrected attributes of the soul equalize. 600,000 is a symbolic number. at the first breaking, the soul of the creature, called adam, broke into 600,000 parts. then, over many generations, it continued to break into the following smaller parts: cain and abel the tower of babylon the rest of the generations in addition, the souls constantly go from one body to the next, divide and unite, because they are in fact one soul divided only by our individual feelings. the will to enjoy for itself only is imprinted in them. you might say that there is only one soul, which is filled with light, but because of our imperfection, we feel ourselves as separate parts of

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

and is quoted from mackey s encyclopaedia(*art. legend of the craft) 550. the legend begins with an account of lamech and his four children, who founded all the sciences of the world before the flood. these sciences were engraved on two pillars, one of which was later found by hermes, who taught its contents to the people. nimrod is next mentioned as having employed masons at the building of the tower of babel, and as having given them their first charge. next abraham and sarah are said to have taught the seven sciences to the egyptians, and especially to a worthy scoller that hight ewclyde. the latter was commissioned by the king to teach masonry to a large number of children of the lord and estates of the realm. the legend passes then to david, who, when he began the temple of jerusalem

LEWIS JAMES SATANISM TODAY AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION FOLKLORE AND POPULAR CULTURE

mounting evidence of satanism impacting on society as a social movement a small yet persistent group of apologists for satanism have emerged. their arguments for dismissing the satanism phenomena are on the whole shallow, and not well researched (cited in victor 1993, 252) why professionals should be motivated to defend satanism is not explained, although kisser seems to imply that they are ivory tower researchers who have not looked closely at the phenomenon. for people deeply committed to the belief in an underground satanic network, however, the explanation is obvious: anyone dismissing the satanic threat is ipso facto either a satanist or in league with satanists a handy bit of circular reasoning that protects such beliefs from empirical disconfirmation. see also satanic ritual abuse;m

rk: doubleday, 1968. kramer, heinrich, and james sprenger. malleus maleficarum. 1486. trans.montague summers. new york: benjamin blom, 1970. nielsen, niels c. jr, et al. religions of the world. new york: st.martin s press, 1983. van de castle, robert l. our dreaming mind. new york: ballantine, 1994. nimrod nimrod was a hunter, the son of cush, and, according to legend, the moving force behind the tower of babel. in the book of genesis, he is mentioned briefly in chapter 10: nimrod. was the first on earth to be a mighty man. he was a mighty hunter before the lord; therefore it is said, like nimrod a mighty hunter before the lord. the beginning of his kingdom was babel, erech, and accad (gen. 10:9 10. according to jewish legend, nimrod was one of the nephilim the children of the angels who

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f an hanged or crucified man* 24 the child of the great transformers. the lord of the gate of death. a skeleton with a scythe mowing men. the scythe handle is a tau. 25 the daughter of the reconcilers, the bringer-forth of life. the figure of diana huntress* 26 the lord of the gates of matter. the child of the forces of time. the figure of pan or priapus* 27 the lord of the hosts of the mighty. a tower struck by forked lightning* 28 the daughter of the firmament. the dweller between the waters. the figure of a water-nymph disporting herself* 29 the ruler of flux and reflux. the child of the sons of the mighty. the waning moon* 30 the lord of the fire of the world. the sun* 31 the spirit of the primal fire. israfel blowing the last trumpet. the dead arising from their tombs* 32 the great on

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l h v a r s g d l b r i a p m o r d i a l h c t g a o i p t e a a p d o c e` o a n c c h i a s o m p p s u a c n r z i r z a[ r b i z m i i l p i z s i o d a o i n r z f m o p a n a b a m s m a l r d a l t t d n a d i r e d o l o p i n i a n b a a d i x o m o n s i o s p r x p a o c s i z i x p x o o d p z i a p a n l i a x t i r v a s t r i m e r g o a n n[ c r a r liber lxxxiv 7 the great watch-tower of the east, attributed to air. plate iv. the symbolic representation of the universe 8 the great watch-tower of the west, attributed to water. plate v. liber lxxxiv 9 the great watch-tower of the north, attributed to earth. plate vi. the symbolic representation of the universe 10 the great watch-tower of the south, attributed to fire. plate vii. liber lxxxiv 11 the black cross, or table of

LIBER CXLVIII SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK

too, that which is unknowable is unknown; and ggod h or gthere is god h as an answer to our question becomes as meaningless as any other. who are we, then? we are spencerian agnostics, poor silly, damned spencerian agnostics! and there is an end of the matter. vi it is surely time that we began to question the validity of some of our data. so far our scepticism has not only knocked to pieces our tower of thought, but rooted up the foundation-stone and ground it into finer and more poisonous powder than that into which moses ground the calf. these golden elohim! our calfheads that brought us not out of egypt, but into a darkness deeper and more tangible than any darkness of the double empire of asar. hume put his little? to berkeley fs god; buddha his? to the vedic atman!.and neither hume

, how shall his kingdom stand? let us stand on the mount, saviours of the world that we are, and answer gget thee behind me, satan! h though refraining from quoting texts or giving reasons. oho! says somebody; is aleister crowley here?.samson blinded and bound, grinding corn for the philistines? not at all, dear boy! 8 liber cxlviii we shall put all the questions that we can put.but we may find a tower built upon a rock, against which the winds beat in vain. not what christians call faith, be sure! but what (possibly) the forgers of the epistles.those eminent mystics!.meant by faith. what i call samadhi!.and as gfaith without works is dead, h so, good friends, samadhi is all humbug unless the practitioner shows the glint of its gold in his work in the world. if your mystic becomes dante, w

in. not what christians call faith, be sure! but what (possibly) the forgers of the epistles.those eminent mystics!.meant by faith. what i call samadhi!.and as gfaith without works is dead, h so, good friends, samadhi is all humbug unless the practitioner shows the glint of its gold in his work in the world. if your mystic becomes dante, well; if tennyson, a fig for his trances! but how does this tower of samadhi stand the assault of question-time? is not the idea of samadhi just as dependent on all the other ideas.man, time, being, thought, logic? if i seek to explain samadhi by analogy, am i not often found talking as if we knew all about evolution, and mathematics, and history? complex and unscientific studies, mere straws before the blast of our hunchback friend! well, one of the buttr

LIBER LVII

the cross the light of the cross. further examples will be found in .a note on genesis. one of the most famous is the mene, tekel, upharsin of daniel, the imaginary prophet who lived under belshazzar the imaginary king. anm. the hanged man, death, the fool .sacrificed to death by thy folly. lkt. the universe, the wheel of fortune, justice .thy kingdom.s fortune is in the balance. crp the blasted tower, the sun, the last judgement .ruined is thy glory, and finished. but we cannot help thinking that this exegesis must have been very hard work. we could more easily read anm. to sacrifice to death is folly. lkt. thy kingdom shall be fortunate, for it is just. crp the tower of thy glory shall endure until the last days. there! that didn.t take two minutes; and belshazzar would have exalted us

r star. is the female hierophant, the moon; and chokmah is the logos, or male initiator. see liber 418 for more information on these points, though rather from the standpoint of part ii. 78. alzm, the influence from kether. the number of the cards of the tarot, and of the 13 paths of the beard of macroprosopus.44 also sawya, the messenger.45 see part ii. 80. the number of p, the .lightning-struck tower. of the tarot. 8= intellect, mercury; its most material form is ruin, as intellect in the end is divided against itself. 81. a mystic number of the moon. 84. a number chiefly important in buddhism. 84= 7 12. 85. hp, the letter pe. 85= 5 17: even the highest unity, if it move or energise, means war. 86 \yhla. see .a note on genesis. equinox, no. ii. 90. number of tzaddi, a fishhook= tanha, th

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

a .berashith. 5 the sword of song 2 ascension day i flung out of chapel1* and church, temple and hall and meeting-room, venus. bower and osiris. tomb,2 and left the devil in the lurch, while god3 got lost in the crowd of gods,4 and soul went down5 in the turbid tide of the metaphysical lotus-eyed,6 and i was.anyhow, what.s the odds? the life to live? the thought to think? shall i take refuge in a tower like once childe roland. found, blind, deaf, huge, or in that forest of two hundred thousand trees,8 fit alike to shelter man and mouse, and. shall i say god? be patient, your reverence,9 i warrant you.ll journey a wiser man ever hence! let.s tap (like the negro who gets a good juice of it, cares nought if that be, or be not, god.s right use of it),10 in all that forest of verses one tree11

a good juice of it, cares nought if that be, or be not, god.s right use of it),10 in all that forest of verses one tree11 yclept .red cotton nightcap country: how a goldsmith, between the ravishing virgin and a leman too rotten to put a purge in, day by day and hour by hour, in a browningesque forest of thoughts having lost himself, expecting a miracle, solemnly tossed himself off from the top of tower. moral: don.t spoil such an excellent sport as an ample estate with a church and a courtesan .truth, that.s the gold.12 but don.t worry about it! i, you, or simpkin13 can get on without it! if life.s task be work and love.s (the soft-lipp d) ease, death be god.s glory? discuss with euripides* the numbered notes are given at p. 48. bacon .essay on truth. line 1 .childe roland to the dark towe

across the floor of that sea unutterable. him he followed .for i wit well. thought the adept .that he goeth not back to the gross sun of earth. and if the sun hath become a beetle, may the beetle transform unto a bird. wherewith he came to land. night shone by lamp of wining moon upon a misty landscape. two paths led him to two towers; and jackals howled on either. now the jackal he knew; and the tower he knew not yet. not two would he conquer.that were easy: to victory over one did he aspire. made he therefore toward the moon. rough was the hillside and the shadows deep and treacherous; as he advanced the towers seemed to approach one another closer and closer yet. he drew his sword: with a crash they came together; and he fell with wrath upon a single fortress. three windows had the towe

behold not countenance, then let the ten be five. and they wist that he but mocked them; for he did bend the sword fivefold and fashioned therefrom a star, and they all vanished in that light; yet the lotus abode nine-petalled and he cried .before the wheel, the axle. so he chained the sun,2 and slew the bull, and exhausted the air, breathing it deep into his lungs: then he broke down the ancient tower, that which he had made his home, will he nill he, for so long, and he slew the other bull, and he broke the arrow in twain; after that he was silent, for they grew again in sixfold order, so that this latter work was double: but unto the first three he laid not his hand, neither for the first time, nor for the second time, nor for the third time. so to them he added3 that spiritual flame (f

LIBER TURRIS

ician, or mara. also the dweller on the threshold in a very exalted sense. ed. svb figvra xvi 3 penned by the master mage to his desire, she baffles his seductions and his ire, praying god fs all-annihilating fire. the lord of hosts gave ear unto her song: the lord of hosts waxed wrathful at her wrong. he loosed the hound of heaven from its thong. violent and vivid smote the levin flash. once the tower rocked and cracked beneath its lash, caught inextinguishable fire; was ash. but that same fire that quelled the robber strife, and struck each being out of lust and life, left the mild maiden a rejoicing wife. 12. and this: 13. there is a well before the great white throne that is choked up with rubbish from the ages; rubble and clay and sediment and stone, delight of lizards and despair of

LINDOW JOHN NORSE MYTHOLOGY A GUIDE TO THE GODS HEROES RITUALS AND BELIEFS

dy appeared originally in danish in 1914 but found its canonical form in the 1922 translation by wilhelm ranisch, ragnarok: die sagen vom weltundergang (berlin and leipzig: w. de gruyter; a book-length chapter (pp. 133.290) treats the bound giant in the caucasus and is followed by a consideration of the bound wolf (pp. 291.326. a more recent study was that of alexander haggerty krappe, gthe snake tower, h scandinavian studies 16 (1940: 22.33, which associated loki with the hero gunnar in the snake pit and saw england as the conduit. bous avenger of baldr in the version of the story in saxo fs gesta danorum. bous was the result of othinus fs rape of the rutenian princess rinda. he grows up skilled with weapons, and when he is ten, odin summons him and argues that vengeance is more noble tha

nakes in hvergelmir with nidhogg that no one can count them. finally, snorri quotes a variant of the verse from voluspa with which i began this entry: i know a besprinkled ash called yggdrasil a tall tree, holy with white mud. thence come the dews, which run into the valley; it stands ever green over the urdarbrunn. snorri thus somewhat extends the unifying principle of the tree by allowing it to tower over earth and sky, and he moves it from the world of humans suggested by the location of the roots in grimnismal (humans, giants, and the dead) to the mythological plane (asir, giants, the underworld. he clarifies the role of the squirrel and eagle, turning the drama that is played out on the tree by these creatures into a duel of words like the ones at which odin so excels, and he explicit

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

her, no archaeologist accepts the biblical account that animal husbandry was invented by (or provided to) humans before they first experienced a very long period of hunting and gathering, as overwhelmingly demonstrated by the paleontological record. and finally, no credible linguist accords validity to the idea that the 6,000 or so human languages appeared all at once, as humans were building the tower of babel. accordingly, books and web sites that prescribe id are generally silent regarding the time frames in which the origins of life and the universe, as well as the appearance of humans, took place. this distinguishes id from old-style creationism. also, proponents of id no longer invoke the concept of a young earth intentionally created to look old and thus fool naive scientists, or cl

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

nable mankind to regain the edenic state in which he was conscious of the divine presence, and this is the essence of masonic teaching. the latter, which has to do with the making of physical structures and was learned from man's study of nature, is peripheral to the central masonic teaching. initially these two disciplines were quite separate. the builders at cain's city of enoch and at nimrod's tower of babel are said not to have been practitioners of the "royal art" as a result of the teachings of the "cabalists" at solomon's temple, builders have been practicing the "royal art" under the name of "free-masonry" ever since. this analysis certainly suggests that among the members of the antient grand lodge there was a mystical, and probably a kabbalistic, understanding of freemasonry. thi

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

the song of solomon--the philosopher's gold. 153 the theory and practice of alchemy, part ii the alchemical prayer--the emerald tablet of hermes--a letter from the brothers of r. c--the magical mountain of the moon--an alchemical formula--the dew of the sages. 157 the chemical marriage christian rosencreutz is invited to the chemical wedding--the virgo lucifera--the philosophical inquisition--the tower of olympus--the homunculi--the knights of the golden stone. 161 bacon, shakspeare, and the rosicrucians the rosicrucian mask--life of william shakspere--sir francis bacon--the acrostic signatures--the significant number thirty-three--the philosophic death. 165 the cryptogram as a factor in symbolic philosophy secret alphabets--the biliteral cipher--pictorial ciphers--acroamatic ciphers--nume

t world knew one--and that one was greater than the million; for the million secrets breed death, disaster, sorrow, selfishness, lust, and avarice, but the one secret confers life, light, and truth. the time will come when the secret wisdom shall again be the dominating religious and philosophical urge of the world. the day is at hand when the doom of dogma shall be sounded. the great theological tower of babel, with its confusion of tongues, was built of bricks of mud and the mortar of slime. out of the cold ashes of lifeless creeds, however, shall rise phoenixlike the ancient mysteries. no other institution has so completely satisfied the religious aspirations of humanity, for since the destruction of the mysteries there never has been a religious code to which plato could have subscribe

tence" among all the nations of antiquity, altars, mounds, and temples were dedicated to the worship of the orb of day. the ruins of these sacred places yet remain, notable among them being the pyramids of yucatan and egypt, the snake mounds of the american indians, the zikkurats of babylon and chaldea, the round towers of ireland, and the massive rings of uncut stone in britain and normandy. the tower of babel, which, according to the scriptures, was built so that man might reach up to god, was probably an astronomical observatory. many early priests and prophets, both pagan and christian, were versed in astronomy and astrology; their writings are best understood when read in the light of these ancient sciences. with the growth of man's knowledge of the constitution and periodicity of the

t the earth itself was flat and square. contrary to this concept, and regardless of criticism, pythagoras declared that fire was the most important of all the elements; that the center was the most important part of every body; and that, just as vesta's fire was in the midst of every home, so in the midst of the universe was a flaming sphere of celestial radiance. this central globe he called the tower of jupiter, the globe of unity, the grand monad, and the altar of vesta. as the sacred number 10 symbolized the sum of all parts and the completeness of all things, it was only natural for pythagoras to divide the universe into ten spheres, symbolized by ten concentric circles. these circles began at the center with the globe of divine fire; then came the seven planers, the earth, and anothe

d to the even it makes odd, and to the odd, even; god, because it is the beginning and end of all, but itself has neither beginning nor end; good, for such is the nature of god; the receptacle of matter, because it produces the duad, which is essentially material. by the pythagoreans monad was called chaos, obscurity, chasm, tartarus, styx, abyss, lethe, atlas, axis, morpho (a name for venus, and tower or throne of jupiter, because of the great power which abides in the center of the universe and controls the circular motion of the planers about itself. monad is also called germinal reason, because it is the origin of all the thoughts in the universe. other names given to it were: apollo, because of its relation to the sun; prometheus, because he brought man light; pyralios, one who exists

lus writes on this subject in the first book of on the theology of plato "indeed, socrates in the (first) alcibiades rightly observes, that the soul entering into herself will behold all other things, and deity itself. for verging to her own union, and to the centre of all life, laying aside multitude, and the variety of the all manifold powers which she contains, she ascends to the highest watch-tower offerings. and as in the most holy of the mysteries, they say, that the mystics at first meet with the multi form, and many-shaped genera, which are hurled forth before the gods, but on entering the temple, unmoved, and guarded by the mystic rites, they genuinely receive in their bosom [heart] divine illumination, and divested of their garments, as they would say, participate of a divine nat

y materialistic--expression. obsessed by his belief in the reality and permanence of physical existence, man does not correlate the material universe with the blank north wall of the temple. as the solar light symbolically is said to die as it approaches the winter solstice, so the physical world may be termed click to enlarge diana of ephesus. from montfaucon's antiquities. crowned with a triple tower-like tiara and her form adorned with symbolic creatures representative of her spiritual powers, diana stood for the source of that imperishable doctrine which, flowing from the bosom of the great multimammia, is the spiritual food of those aspiring men and women who have consecrated their lives to the contemplation of reality. as the physical body of man receives its nutriment from the great

MARS COCIDIUS AND THE REDCAPS IN LANCASHIRE

in the scottish east march were: john hall of newbigging; george hall (called pats geordie there; andrew hall of the sykes, and thom hall in fowlscheils. other hall's lived in aynstrother; glenryg, in the barony of lesmahagow; garvald; irvide; glasgow; sancharmvr, in preswick; and perth. the village of otterburn, known for the famous battle and border ballad of the same name, contains an old pele tower that was owned at one time by the umfravilles. the property passed into the possession of the hall family. a hall by the name of 'mad jack hall' lived here and was also hung at tyburn for his participation in the rebellion. the border ballad 'the death of parcy reed' describes an incident that involved the 'fause hearted hall's of girsonfield. the murder of parcy reed parcy reed was the ward

. the outlaws come frae liddesdale, they herry redesdale far and near; the rich man's gelding it maun gang, they canna pass the puir man's mear. sure it were weel, had ilka thief around his nect a halter strang; and curses heavy may they light on traitors vile oursels amang! no w parcy reed has crosier ta'en, he has deliverd him to the law; but crosier says he'll do waur than that, he'll make the tower o' troughend fa. and crosier says he will do waur, he will do waur if waur can be; he'll make the bairns a' fatherless, and then, the land it may lie lee 'to the hunting, ho' cried parcy reed 'the morning sun is on the dew; the cauler breeze frae off the fells will lead the dogs to the quarry true 'to the hunting, ho' cried parcy reed, and to the hunting he has gane; and the three fause ha's

aid, and off they rade they rade the airt o' liddesdale. it was the hour o' gloaming gray, when herds come in frae fauld and pen. a herd he saw a huntsman lie, says he 'can this be laird troughen 'there's some will ca' me parcy reed, and some will ca' me laird troughen; it's little matter what they ca' me, my faes hae made me ill to ken 'there's some will ca' me parcy reed, and speak my praise in tower and town; it's little matter what they do now, my life-blood rudds the heather brown 'there's some will ca' me parcy reed, and a' my virtues say and sing; i would much rather have just now a draught o' water frae the spring' the herd flung off his clouted shoon and to the nearest fountain ran; he made his bonnet serve a cup, and wan the blessing o' the dying man 'now, honest herd, ye maun do

aught o' water frae the spring' the herd flung off his clouted shoon and to the nearest fountain ran; he made his bonnet serve a cup, and wan the blessing o' the dying man 'now, honest herd, ye maun do mair, ye maun do mair, as i you tell; ye maun bear tidings to troughend, and bear likewise my last farewell 'a farewell to my wedded wife, a farewell to my brother john, wha sits into the troughend tower wi' heart as black as any stone 'a farewell to my daughter jean, a farewell to my young sons five; had they been at their father's hand, i had this night been man alive 'a farewell to my followers a, and a' my neighbors gude at need; bid them think how the treacherous ha's betrayed the life o' parcy reed 'the laird o' clennel bears my bow, the laird o' brandon bears my brand; when'er they ri

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

use of the four great rules of magic which form the sides of the witches' pyramid; and second, by the observance of natural power tides within the framework of the universe, which constantly ebb and flow, and may be utilized to great advantage as indeed they always have been over the centuries by cultists and occultists alike. but first i shall deal with that most important of subjects, that dark tower of sorcery itself, the witches' pyramid. the witches' pyramid the acquisition of a witch's basic power is rooted in the observance of four simple rules, sometimes known as the witches' pyramid. there are the four cornerstones of magic from which the whole mysterious edifice of witchcraft rises. the rules in themselves are not magical, but the joint application of them is. you must apply them

hidden beneath the shadow of a cowl drawn over the head. in one withered hand a staff of blackthorn is grasped; in the other a torch flickers with a resinous, smoky flame. an owl, the symbolic bird of death, is perched on the being's shoulder. in the far distance, the baying of dogs or wolves can be heard ringing in the chill night air. their keeper, nocticula, ruler of the dead and warden of the tower adamantine, walks abroad! this is the basic saturnian image. embroider on it with your own fantasies by all means. the more personal and sinister they are to you yourself, the more effective your magic will become. the one thing to remember is that they should evoke in you all those childhood fears of the dark, the deserted churchyard by night, the opening tomb, and the thing in the cellar'

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 1

ai, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and whose empire endureth unto the ages of the ages. amen. after having said all these words devoutly, let the master arise, and place his hands upon the pentacles, and let one of the companions hold the book open before the master, who, raising his eyes to heaven, and turning unto the four quarters of the universe, shall say: o lord, be thou unto me a tower of strength against the appearance and assault of the evil spirits. after this, turning towards the four quarters of the universe, he shall say the following words: these be the symbols and the names of the creator, which can bring terror and fear unto you. obey me then, by the power of these holy names, and by these mysterious symbols of the secret of secrets. the which being said and done

he ages. amen. the prayer being finished, let the exorcist lay his hand upon the pentacles, while one of the disciples shall hold open before him the book wherein are written the prayers and conjurations proper for conquering, subduing, and reproving the spirits. then the master, turning towards each quarter of the earth, and raising his eyes to heaven, shall say: o lord, be thou unto me a strong tower of refuge, from the sight and assaults of the evil spirits. after which let him turn again towards the four quarters of the earth, and towards each let him utter the following words: behold the symbols and names of the creator, which give unto ye forever terror and fear. obey then, by the virtue of these holy names, and by these mysteries of mysteries. after this he shall see the spirits com

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

uiding them into its own feeding. when the nachzehrer was exhumed, it was found to be resting in its own blood and a half devoured grave shroud. a peculiar thing about the nachzehrer is that this creature sleeps with it's left eye open and holding it's thumb. it was not rare that this creature would begin to eat its own flesh. when the nachzehrer would leave it s tomb it would sometimes climb the tower of a church. the demon would then ring the bells in the dead of night, which was said to cause death to any who would be unfortunate enough to hear the ghostlike callings in the night. it was the belief in bavaria that the nachzehrer could be created if an individual was born with a caul or second skin, an unfortunate circumstance for many an innocent child born with such a birth defect. thi

s gray hand across your throat and you seek to control yourself. will must preserve you. in the air you notice several spirals of what appears to be white and gray funnel clouds, like a small tornado. this funnel cloud seems to project a kind of screeching sound, which disappears again into the night. you feel strangely at home in this place, wondering if you have known it before. you see a black tower in the distance, from which the sound of wolves and female voices chanting a mantra grows as you approach. you are floating yet at times walking on something you are not quite aware of. when fear takes over for a fraction of a second you feel your walking slowed. only when will takes over can you relax and float. you make a mental note not to let panic overtake you. the wolves howl in the di

are floating yet at times walking on something you are not quite aware of. when fear takes over for a fraction of a second you feel your walking slowed. only when will takes over can you relax and float. you make a mental note not to let panic overtake you. the wolves howl in the distance, and a blood 35 35 red moon, seemingly marked with a deaths head, grows large below you. as you draw near the tower three black shapes approach you. you take note and with control of will halt in your steps. your first impulse is to run, however you know you would almost certainly lose your bodily control, and movement would diminish almost to the point of stopping. dreams always operate by the reversal of laws which form the basis of your reality web. one of the shapes takes a seeming female form. you ca

ou find this sexually stimulating in some dark and twisted way, only wishing she would run them across your naked body, letting blood flow as a gift to the red dragon. samael is closer. she takes your arm and slices a large wound in your arm. she then draws the blood from the cut into her mouth. you hear an increase of moaning and screams, mantras and howls from the lustful onlookers and from the tower. the lady drinks from you only briefly and then withdraws. she draws a razor sharp talon across her black chest, from which a stream of blood floats from the wound towards your mouth. with one talon she grips the back of your head and draws you into the stream of blood, all the way to the wound on her chest. you feel cold and yet so warm as you drink- the lust building within you as you feas

power. i shall know of this by action and experience! osculum infame, the diving of the great dark pit! so it is done! banish and close circle. do not destroy the oath of initiation; this will be placed in a special box with most of your first-born workings. bless the box under various goetic spirits and keep hidden and safe. mark of the devil (sigilium diaboli) chant "ascend now in the northern tower- horned lord of the earth blessed is the stave of the devil itself, from which we mark ourselves in rebirth i come now to behold the fires from between the horns of the goat and stand in the brilliance of lucifer reborn that we shall rectify the primal dream of all desire let this mark be again in the light of the sabbat moon" the prayer of the infernal sabbat the devil s mark part two- by t

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

yfach of walesnuada of the celtsbergelmir of scandinaviacoxcox of mexicoappendix b: book abstracts198atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation nata of the aztecscity of the serpentsthe chiapanese of central americatell us that there was a v otan who was the grandson of the manwho built the ark to save himself and his family from the deluge; he was one of those who undertook tobuild the tower that should reach to heaven. the lord ordered him to people america, he came fromthe east. he brought seven families with him. he had been preceded in america by two others, igh andimox. he built a great city in america called nachan, city of the serpents. the serpent that temptedeve was nahash, from his own race, which was named chan, a serpent (p. 313) coming of the snake cultthe lenni-len

the illiability that possessed by those descended or favouredhostile name for one opposed to the illieasily that which is done by the illifacille meaning skill or artistryhello, hail, heilseal the stamp of the illisigil signatures of the illi, magical marksignal commonly made on hillsveil- the illi spoke to their priesthood from behind the veils.steeple, spire (spirel, gable, shingles, bell (bell tower, cable, na vel,aisle, altar (eltar, temple, oracle, tabernacledelphi, eleusinianlegality designated by the controllers.atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation237 appendix b: book abstracts fleur de les flower of the illililly, dale, jubilee, millions, billionsbastille the whipping post for those opponents or lawbreakersbasillicas name for early churchesversailles seat of the fre

is and who lived in shambhala, secretly influencing world affairs (p. 2)alien stone of powerat that time roerich made the bold claim that he was in possession of a piece of a mysterious stonefrom another worldroerich claimed, had sent the stone to earth from the star sirius. it had previouslybeen given to the emperor of atlantis and then to king solomon in jerusalemthe stone had been hid-den in a tower in shambhala broadcasting rays that influenced the destiny of the world (c. 1000 b.c.)the sphinxthe code name for fdr used by his agents.camp davidpreviously named shangrila by fdr.ritual murderalthough it is painful to consider, have we become complacent when it comes to systematic mass mur-der and organized killing? are we just plain asleep when it comes to awareness of the archetypal dram

e difficulty of radio transmissions, and theabsence of wreckage, tales of mysterious intervention befalling flight 19 began to take form. theo-ries involving strange magnetic fields, time warps, atlantis, and alien abduction began to appear.even an official navy report intimated that the avengers had disappeared as if they had flown tomars. the lost aviators reappeared from a spaceship at devil's tower national monument insteven spielberg's 1977 movie, close encounters of the third kind.22. 1948 during the israeli war of independence, the israelis overcame invading arabs forces at mish-mar haemek. the reunification of the jews had been prophesied by ezekiel in chapter 28, the samechapter which told of the fall of the king of tyre.the kennedy assassination23.1963 john fitzgerald kennedy was

er, straight becomes head of morgan banks fareastern operations. 1901 rockefeller institute for medical research founded. 1901 tesla patent 685,012, in which he describes supercooling of conductors to lower resistance. at thistime, tesla wanted to sue marconi for patent infringement. marconi had used tesla patent #645,576,filed in 1897 and issued march 20, 1900. tesla begins building wardenclyffe tower for radio broadcast-ing and wireless transmission of power. 1901 j.p. morgan buys $23 million in stock of central railroad of new jersey. 1902 rockefeller general education board founded, with the objective of racial amalgamation and abo-lition of difference between sexes. the overt stated objective: the promotion of education in the unitedstates without distinctions of sex, race, or creed

la, reports on 46 childrenexperiencing neurological adverse reaction within 72 hours of a dpt shot. over 87% of the childrenreacted with a seizure, 2 children died and most surviving children became retarded, with 72% havinguncontrollable seizure disorders. menkes conclude, pertussis vaccine encephalopathy (brain damage)is not a myth but rather a serious complication of immunization. 1990 project tower, cia, and office of naval research step up electronic behavior control effortsthrough cellular telephone systems, which resonate at a harmonic of the humans skull. 1990 a study by dr. john yiamouyiannis on 39,000 school children contradicts any alleged benefitsfrom the use of sodium fluorides. 1990 u.s. claims court, as of october 31, 1990, indicates that several thousand claims for compensa

d in the haarp program)discovered mysterious flashes of light in the midwest which shot from the tops of the clouds into theupper atmosphere at the same time the area was being hit with a huge standing waves generated by theappendix f: general chronology of events424atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation combined effect of russian woodpecker waves and the u. s. gwen (see matrix iii) tower vlf waves.the newspaper reported that the mysterious flashes resemble jellyfish about 40 miles in altitude. 1993 the journal of geophysical research reports immense lightening bolts over the soviet union.such superbolts were first seen after the soviet woodpecker began transmitting. additionally, sciencemagazine on 5/27 features an article atmospheric scientists puzzle over high altitude fla

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

h e l u c i f e r i a n c r e e d i am a luciferian and of seba and set. i am a vessel of ahriman and az. i worship my own self-progressing divinity. i deny all religions which would sacrifice the sense of i. i recognize that religion must start within and be a mirror of my desire. i affirm my body as a temple of darkness and fire. i affirm my soul as the daemon-god upon the throne in this black tower. the twin serpents are my key to continued vitality and initiation, i will seek to raise and then create my desire upon earth. i recognize my eye is but the eye of set, that as the serpent i shall command my presence upon earth. i shall be a manifestation of the archdaevas upon earth. my actions will be thought out and i will exercise my will in each action. i recognize there is no other god

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

kings and descriptions of kali and her various mythological guises. adamu features numerous discipline-building excercises which will set the focus for serious initiatory practionthe soul travelers: by michael wynn@ hollywoodinsiders.net chapter 1- the great name game--pg 3 the collective hallucination [1.1--pg 3 the story of the serpent [1.2--pg 5 story of the flood [1.3--pg 6 paradise lost, the tower of babel, and the savior [1.4--pg 9 the great name game [1.5--pg 12 hidden history [1.6--pg 16 the stargates [1.7--pg 18 chapter 2- universe.com--pg 19 quantum confusion [2.1--pg 19 the onion of reality [2.2--pg 22 dreamscape [2.3--pg 25 on the inside looking out [2.4--pg 30 meet the neighbors [2.5--pg 32 the jinn [2.6--pg 35 meet the neighbors (revisited [2.7--pg 36 chapter 3- magic--pg 40

me to rest on a mountain named ararat. noah, his family, and the animals exited the ark and once more began to replenish the earth. after the decedents of noah (humanity) successfully repopulate the earth, they again lose the god s favor. instead of dispersing and filling every quarter of the planet, they concentrate in a land called babylonia. the king of babylonia, nimrod, endeavored to build a tower that could reach heaven; this is the famous tower of babel. god, who was enraged by nimrod s presumption and arrogance, takes matters into his own hands by confusing the languages of nimrod s workforce. the babylonian kingdom is instantly cast into disorder as its inhabitants no longer spoke a single language. this act of confusing the languages accomplished god s original intent for humanit

ty contest requires contest, and there is none, or none who do; even occultists speak about the flood that wiped out the noble nephilim. bottom line: a wicked race of both humans and non-humans--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 8 an angry creator, a small family warned by a god, 2 of every creature on a boat, a big damn flood, and humanity reborn. that s one hell of a dream. paradise lost, the tower of babel, and the savior [1.4] another reoccurring theme through out the mythologies is man s loss of paradise. this story, whose most popular variation occurs in the bible, details man s plight from a worry-free life to an existence of suffering and hardship. but as usual, the bible is not alone in describing humanity s fall from grace. just as the christians have the garden of eden, the pe

le to see far. this meant that humans could see extremely distant things as if they were near. this ability was stripped from those men, and their subsequent generations could only see that which was near. the confusion of man s languages is yet another repetitive motif. the bible, as usual, contains the most famous version of this story. as stated earlier, a king called nimrod desired to build a tower to reach to the heavens; his arrogance and presumption was punished when god caused all of nimrod s laborers to abruptly speak different languages. from there, the people dispersed to every corner of the globe. this story, like the flood, has many parallels outside of the bible. the aztec people of mexico say that at one time giants of deformed stature once possessed the land. arrogant were

ance and presumption was punished when god caused all of nimrod s laborers to abruptly speak different languages. from there, the people dispersed to every corner of the globe. this story, like the flood, has many parallels outside of the bible. the aztec people of mexico say that at one time giants of deformed stature once possessed the land. arrogant were these giants, who endeavored to build a tower so as to reach the heavens. when the lord of heaven looked upon the haughty ambition of the earth-dwellers, he sent down his minions to confound them. this action caused the builders of the tower to go their separate ways and disperse across the earth. and then there s the savior. a character who, similar to the flood, seems like an imprint in the mind that was left by a dream- yet a pleasan

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

of the immortal self. you are transforming to a god/goddess, an angel-demon which shall walk the earth again and perceive itself in a new light. you shall make time serve you by thinking before you act, or say. know what you want and by experience understand the methods to which you may set a goal in motion by understanding time flow. act accordingly. in hell, arezura- you are building your black tower, your spirit dwelling which is your comfort and dreaming home. time means nothing here, but as your journey to the physical world and your earthly body, change it accordingly. you will now seek to emerge in the physical world. emerging from the gates "as i strengthen myself inflame and shadow of my sorceries, i do understand who and what i am and i know what i wish to become. in opposition i

MORALS AND DOGMA

n prisoners, who refused to bow to flaminius, and had a little of hannibal's magnanimity. masons should possess an equal greatness of soul. masonry should be an energy; finding its aim and effect in the amelioration of mankind. socrates should enter into adam, and produce marcus aurelius, in other words, bring forth from the man of enjoyments, the man of wisdom. masonry should not be a mere watch-tower, built upon mystery, from which to gaze at ease upon the world, with no other result than to be a convenience for the curious. to hold the full cup of thought to the thirsty lips of men; to give to all the true ideas of deity; to harmonize conscience and science, are the province of philosophy. morality is faith in full bloom. contemplation should lead to action, and the absolute be practica

of justice and by the constitution of nature, that he who, from the imbecility or derangement of his intellect, is incapable of governing himself, should, like a minor, be committed to the government of another. above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. for no tower of pride was ever yet high enough to lift its possessor above the trials and fears and frailities of humanity. no human hand ever built the wall, nor ever shall, that will keep out affliction, pain, and infirmity. sickness and sorrow, trouble and death, are dispensations that level everything. they know none, high nor low. the chief wants of life, the great and grave necessities of the human

and each stage of a different color, representing the seven planetary spheres by the appropriate color of each planet. meru itself was said to be a single mountain, terminating in three peaks, and thus a symbol of the trimurti. the great pagoda at tanjore was of six stories, surmounted by a temple as the seventh, and on this three spires or towers. an ancient pagoda at deogur was surmounted by a tower, sustaining the mystic egg and a trident. herodotus tells us that the temple of bal at babylon was a tower composed of seven towers, resting on an eighth that served as basis, and successively diminishing in size from the bottom to the top; and strabo tells us it was a pyramid. faber thinks that the mithriac _ladder_ was really a pyramid with seven stages, each provided with a narrow door or

the deity, and can see a short and more direct means of attaining them, than it pleases him to employ: who would have no discords in the great harmony of the universe of things; but equal distribution of property, no subjection of one man to the will of another, no compulsory labor, and still no starvation, nor destitution, nor pauperism. let him not spend his life, as they do, in building a new tower of babel; in attempting to change that which is fixed by an inflexible law of god's enactment: but let him, yielding to the superior wisdom of providence, content to believe that the march of events is rightly ordered by an infinite wisdom, and leads, though we cannot see it, to a great and perfect result--let him be satisfied to follow the path pointed out by that providence, and to labor f

r wisdom of providence, content to believe that the march of events is rightly ordered by an infinite wisdom, and leads, though we cannot see it, to a great and perfect result--let him be satisfied to follow the path pointed out by that providence, and to labor for the good of the human race in that mode in which god has chosen to enact that good shall be effected: and above all, let him build no tower of babel, under the belief that by ascending he will mount so high that god will disappear or be superseded by a great monstrous aggregate of material forces, or mere glittering, logical formula; but, evermore, standing humbly and reverently upon the earth and looking with awe and confidence toward heaven, let him be satisfied that there is a _real_ god; a _person, and not a formula; a fathe

f the dog? the reasoning powers of the elephant? the wondrous instincts, passions, government, and civil policy, and modes of communication of ideas of the ant and bee? who has yet made us to understand, with all his learned words, how heat comes to us from the sun, and light from the remote stars, setting out upon its journey earth-ward from some, at the time the chaldeans commenced to build the tower of babel? or how the image of an external object comes to and fixes itself upon the retina of the eye; and when there, how that mere empty, unsubstantial image becomes transmuted into the wondrous thing that we call sight? or how the waves of the atmosphere striking upon the tympanum of the ear--those thin, invisible waves--produce the equally wondrous phenomenon of hearing, and become the r

s of evil, and their causes hidden in mystery, and supernatural. the regular returns of the stars, the comings of arcturus, orion, sirius, the pleiades, and aldebaran, and the journeyings of the sun, were voluntary and not mechanical to them. what wonder that astronomy became to them the most important of sciences; that those who learned it became rulers; and that vast edifices, the pyramids, the tower or temple of bel, and other like erections everywhere in the east, were builded for astronomical purposes--and what wonder that, in their great child-like simplicity, they worshipped light, the sun, the planets, and the stars, and personified them, and eagerly believed in the histories invented for them; in that age when the capacity for belief was infinite; as indeed, if we but reflect, it

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

again. yod+ he is the hermit plus the star. also, 1 +5= 6, the sun "choose" implies that a choice must be made and a mistake avoided "the stars also have tribes and nations--see liber 418, and chapter 77 of liber 333. the general key is that you should practice homosexuality only with a fellow thelemite. the house of god, in a sense, is the phallus, xv, the devil, but also is pe, 80, the blasted tower. still in another sense, the phallus being god, the house of god is the kteis, in this case the empress, atu iii. beth, the letter of the magician, also means house, and this is that mystery concerning sin the babylonian moon-god and its influence, that we have already spoken about. serious students are referred to book four, part iii, chapter iv, the long note on the word alim; to the schol

by "the people" is meant that canting, whining, servile breed of whipped dogs which refuses to admit its deity. the mob is always afraid for its bread and butter when its tyrants let it have any butter- and now and then the bread has 60% substitutes of cattle- fodder. so, being afraid, it dare not strike. and when the trouble begins, we aristocrats of freedom, from the castle or the cottage, the tower or the tenement, shall have the slave mob against us. still deeper, there is a meaning in this verse applicable to the process of personal initiation. by "the people" we may understand the many-headed and mutable mob which swarms in the slums of our own minds. most men are almost entirely at the mercy of a mass of loud and violent emotions, without discipline or even organization. they sway

he shall achieve had it" see liber had. 46. i am the warrior lord of the forties: the eighties cower before me& are abased. i will bring you to victory& joy: i will be at your arms in battle& ye shall delight to slay. success is your proof; courage is your armour; go on, go on, in my strength& ye shall turn not back for any! forty is mem, water, the hanged man; and eighty is pe, mars, the blasted tower. these trumps refer respectively to the "destruction of the world by water" and "by fire. the meaning of these phrases is to be studied in my rituals of magick, such as book 4, parts ii& iii. its general purport is that he is master of both types of force. i am inclined to opine that there is a simpler and deeper sense in the text than i have so far disclosed. as we have already remarked, th

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

that magnificent edifices and costly page 220 sacrifices were not so pleasing to the gods, as the true piety and unfeigned devotion of their worshippers. the most ancient temples known to us served a double purpose: they were not only consecrated to the service of the gods, but were at the same time venerable monuments in honour of the dead. thus, for instance, the temple of pallas-athene, in the tower of the city of larissa, served as the sepulchre of acrisius, and the acropolis at athens received the ashes of cecrops, founder of the city. a temple was frequently dedicated to two or more gods, and was always built after the manner considered most acceptable to the particular divinities to whom it was consecrated; for just as trees, birds, and animals of [190]every description were held to

ithful wife harmonia, he retired into illyria, and after death they were both changed by zeus into serpents, and transferred to elysium. perseus. perseus, one of the most renowned of the legendary heroes of antiquity, was the son of zeus and danae, daughter of acrisius, king of argos. an oracle having foretold to acrisius that a son of danae would be the cause of his death, he imprisoned her in a tower of brass in order to keep her secluded from the world. zeus, however, descended through the roof of the tower in the form of a shower of gold, and the lovely danae became his bride. for four years acrisius remained in ignorance of this union, but one evening as he chanced to pass by the brazen chamber, he heard the cry of a young child proceeding from within, which led to the discovery of hi

ted the theft. but iphitus loyally defended his absent friend, and proposed to seek out heracles, and with his assistance to go in search of the missing cattle [252] the hero warmly welcomed his staunch young friend, and entered cordially into his plan. they at once set out on their expedition; but their search proved altogether unsuccessful. when they approached the city of tiryns they mounted a tower in hopes of discovering the page 284 missing herd in the surrounding country; but as they stood on the topmost summit of the building, heracles became suddenly seized with one of his former attacks of madness, and mistaking his friend iphitus for an enemy, hurled him down into the plain below, and he was killed on the spot. heracles now set forth on a weary pilgrimage, begging in vain that s

ders, made a gallant defence, but were easily overcome. all their most valiant heroes fell in the fight, and soon the whole city was wrapt in flames. priam fell by the hand of neoptolemus, who killed him as he lay prostrate before the altar of zeus, praying for divine assistance in this awful hour of peril. the unfortunate andromache with her young son astyanax had taken refuge on the summit of a tower, where she was discovered by the victors, who, fearing lest the son of hector might one day rise against them to avenge the death of his father, tore him from her arms and hurled him over the battlements. aneas alone, the son of aphrodite, the beloved of gods and men, escaped the universal carnage with his son and his old father anchises, whom he carried on his shoulders out of the city. he

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

is precisely the time when the order of the templars began to extend itself throughout the holy land with the building of fortresses, called kraks, which can still be admired today. the crusades and the templars 65 the first krak appears to have been built in 1141 in ibelin, between ascalon and jaffa. numerous workers participated in its construction, outfitting it with four towers just like the tower of the templars in paris/ this project was followed in 1142 by the krak of moab, or the stone of the desert, in transjordania;5 in 1143, the fortress of geth near lydda; and in 1144, on the shining mount or hill near ascalon, a high fortress that was flanked by four towers. the local people called this important construction the "white guard" and the latins, citizens of the latin states in t

he cluny* bands, archivolts, modillons a copeaus [the console figures that have a design element. copeaux, resembling wood shavings, multifoil porches, and polychrome stonework give notre dame du port and notre dame du puy a resemblance to the mosque in cordova, which left such a strong impression on emile male (arts et metiers du moyen age, 33 ff. the crusades and the templars 77 abbey; the bell tower, the tower of the crossing of the transept, the triforium of the nave, and the choir of the church of la charite sur loire, a former cluny priory; the bell tower of the transept of saint philbert of tournus; the apse and transept of the cathedral of valence; the bell tower of saint peter's basilica in vienne; the nave of the church of champagne (ardeche; and the multifoil portals of numerous

m the current entry into the faubourg du temple* to the rue de la verrerie. the templars saw to it that within their walls the enclos, as it was known a church was [now the place de la republique and the rue faubourg du temple. trans] 102 the templars and the parisian builders 103 built dedicated to the holy virgin and to saint john the baptist. they also erected a refectory, a colombier, a large tower the famous tower of the temple and several houses. this was the origin of the first two templar establishments in paris, the building near saint gervais and the enclos of the temple. in 1147 the order had some fairly spacious buildings in paris near saint gervais, where a domain called des barres was located (everard de barris, or des barres, was then grand master of the order. this was used

th, which served as the templar's farmland at that time and thus had no construction. of course this domain did not form a territory with clearly demarcated borders. only the enclos+ and its dependencies and the agricultural*[cite refers to the original borders of the city of paris. trans+ originally, the enclos was designated as only the actual fortified enceinte (seat of the temple, church, and tower, but eventually this term was applied to the entire domain that can be approximately traced along the following streets: place de la republique, avenue de la republique, rue de la folie mericourt, rue oberkampf, boulevard and rue des filles du calvaire, rue de turenne, rue de throigny, place de thorigny, rue elzevir, rue des francs bourgeois, rue pavee, rue malheur, rue du roi de sicile, rue

ward the seine by way of saint gilles, saint leu, and saint merri. we will linger momentarily at saint paul, saint gervais, and saint jean en greve before crossing the seine to ile de la cite. we will then end our visit to the templar commandery on the left bank of the seine, at saint julien le pauvre and saint severin. the house of the temple inside the enclos, the church, and the famous templar tower were built on the territory of saint nicolas de champs parish. the templars' original church, the rotunda, was built some time around 1140 and was modeled on the holy sepulchre. the nave and choir were built at a later date and the church was definitively consecrated on january 11, 1217. this rotunda is comparable in every respect to the one built later in london and dedicated in 1185. it se

erses; the fifth presents the legend of the four crowned martyrs, the protectors of the order (37 verses* the* the legend of the four crowned martyrs also entered england at a very early time. it is said that a church of the four martyrs was built in canterbury in 597 (gould, a concise history of freemasonry, 238. the corporative masonry of great britain 191 sixth concerns the construction of the tower of babel (33 verses; the seventh discusses the liberal arts (19 verses; the eighth dwells on religious instructions (111 verses, and the ninth section is an outline of expected social graces and civility (101 verses. the cooke manuscript dates from 1410-1420 but is a transcription of a compilation that was at least a century older. it is divided into two parts. the first, consisting of ninet

esus christ and the apostles, the persian philosopher each-ben-mohammed- eleansi, ormus, the egyptians, the benedictines, the rosicrucians, zoroaster, abbaris, channondas, eudoxus, hermippis, hermes trismegistus, porphyrus, plotinus, proclus, jamblique, the priesthood schools of india, the gauls, the hebrews, the essenes, and the persian magi.22 the temple of solomon had been transformed into the tower of babel. only a single brother, one of the most eminent in attendance, baron von gleichen, made any allusion to operative masons but only for the the grand lodges and modern freemasonry 267 purpose of disdainfully rejecting any such vulgar association "the charters cited by preston are not relevant to the free brothers of modern masonry but to practical, material masons. preston has no doub

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

he shall rise and his kingdom shall cover the earth' al azif page 14 of 18 http//www.chaosmatrix.org/library/books/al_azif/al_azif.html 10/10/2003 and he shall come unto you in sleep and show his sign with which ye shall unlock the secrets of the deep. ye incantation o thou that lieth dead but ever dreameth, hear, thy servant calleth thee. hear me o mighty cthulhu' hear me lord of dreams! in thy tower at r'lyeh they have sealed ye, but dagon shall break thy accursed bonds, and thy kingdom shall rise once more. the deep ones knoweth thy secret name, the hydra knoweth thy lair; give forth thy sign that i may know thy will upon the earth. when death dies, thy time shall be, and thou shalt sleep no more; grant me the power to still the waves, that i may hear thy call (at ye third repeating of

NEW WORLD ORDER OR OCCULT SECRET DESTINY

n new york for around fifty years. no wonder the former assistant secretary general to the u.n, robert muller, is a devoted disciple of alice bailey, whose book, a treatise on white magic, forms the basis for the robert muller schools (the leavening) these people are called the torchbearers or lightbearers of the new world order. a spiritual plan that has been traced to the time of nimrod and the tower of babel, up through to the illuminati and onwards. a loosely-knit world conspiracy, david allen lewis writes, a so called network of illuminists. whether the illuminati has one special organization that is its orginal descendant. we can be very sure that its philosophical torchbearers are represented by literally hundreds of organizations and individuals in many diverse realms (dark angels

of the ancient mysteries, and the real purpose of modern masonry is, not the social and charitable purposes to which so much attention is paid, but the expediting of the spiritual evolution of those who aspire to perfect their own nature and transform it into a more god-like quality. freemasonry, through its mysteries, will soon usher in a new world religion for the new world order. a modern day tower of babel and the ultimate unification of the world s religions. the new age welcomes these goals and looks to the light of masonry as its esoteric basis for occult initiation into the new world order. benjamin creme writes: the new religion will manifest, for instance,through organizations like masonry. in freemasonry is embedded the core or the secret heart of the occult mysteries, wrapped

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

love. psyche s search for cupid psyche searched everywhere for cupid and eventually braved venus palace. here, she became a slave and was given various tasks: the first, to separate a roomful of mixed grain, she achieved with the help of a colony of sympathetic ants; the last, borrowing a box of beauty from the goddess of the underworld (see pp. 28 29, was accomplished with the help of a speaking tower. aware of the danger, psyche acted upon the tower s advice and took two pieces of bread soaked in honey to appease the watch dog cerberus, and two coins in her mouth to pay charon, the ferryman, to take her across the river styx and back. but against its advice, she opened the box, and fell into a deathly sleep. finally she was revived by cupid, granted immortality, and gave birth to their d

e is often shown with his weapon, the thunderbolt. zeus and dana dana was the beautiful daughter of acrisius, king of argos, who was supposed to rule in rotation with his twin brother proetus. but acrisius refused to yield the throne, and proetus, in anger, tried to seduce his daughter. terrified by a prophecy that if dana ever bore a son the child would kill him, acrisius shut her up in a bronze tower away from mortal men. unfortunately, he could not guard against the gods and zeus (roman jupiter, fulfilling the pattern of many of his conquests, came to her in disguise (here, as a shower of gold) and fathered the great hero perseus (see pp. 46 47. when acrisius found out about the baby, he cast dana and her son out to sea. they drifted for several days before they came to the island of se

bronze prison. the child from this union was the hero perseus. golden god zeus visited dana in a shower of gold. some artists depict this as the burning rays of the sun, others as coins. some, as here, combine both images. later rationalizations of this myth explained the gold simply as a bribe to dana s guards. zeus in love looking down on the young and beautiful dana incarcerated in her bronze tower, zeus fell in love and was determined to visit her. barred windows although acrisius is said to have loved his daughter dana, he selfishly shut her away behind closed doors in order to save his own life. the sons of zeus and europa z eus and europa (see below) had three sons: minos (see p. 56, hadamanthys, and sarpedon. minos, who had been made heir to the cretan throne by his stepfather ast

otherworldly experience. sir galahad has cast aside his helmet and weapons to worship the grail. in one version of the grail legend, the fisher king is named as bron. this connects him with bran the blessed, legendary king of england in the welsh mabinogion. bran possessed both a horn of plenty and cauldron of rebirth. after he was wounded with a spear, his head was cut off and buried beneath the tower of london, to protect the land; but king arthur dug it up to show that britain needed no other protection other than him. fruitful earth when the quest for the grail came to an end, the land became fruitful once more. sir perceval, early hero in the later versions of the grail legend, sir galahad finds the grail. but the earliest grail hero was sir perceval. brought up by his mother in wales

RABBI MOSHE WISNEFSKY APPLES FROM THE ORCHARD THE ARIZAL ON THE PARASHAH

torah read this week describes the famous story of the flood. we must understand: 1. why did g-d had to save noah by means of an ark? 2. why [did he command noah him to bring] seven each of the ritually pure animals and of the ritually impure only two each? and 3. who exactly were the generation of the flood and the generation of the dispersion? the end of the portion describes the events of the tower of babel, the aftermath of which was the dispersion of mankind [to answer these questions] know that adam, before he sinned, was not physical. his was clothed in light, and he encompassed all [the spiritual] worlds. his head was in atzilut; his [torso, corresponding to the] middle triad [of sefirot, chesed-gevurah-tiferet] was in beriah; his [lower extremities, corresponding to the] final tr

ach of whom erred in some way regarding proper g-d-consciousness. as we said above, holiness has to be guarded and protected from the attacks of evil; therefore, until the world was purified, noah and his sons had to be concealed inside the ark .translated from likutei torah 11 genesis 6:9. 33 parashat noach [second installment] toward the end of parashat noach, the torah relates the story of the tower of babel.1 according to the oral torah, the king who masterminded and led this revolt against g-d was nimrod, who was mentioned in the preceding chapter.2 know that the incident of the tower and nimrod transmigrated into [the person and career of] nebuchadnezzar. this is why he erected the statue in the dura valley. gking nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wid

ezzar. this is why he erected the statue in the dura valley. gking nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and erected it in the plain of dura in the country of babylonia. h3 a cubit is about a foot and a half, so this statue was around 90 feet high and 9 feet wide. nebuchadnezzar was thus a reincarnation of the nimrod, and the statue was a greincarnation h of the tower of babel. just as in the time of nimrod, everyone spoke the same language and he ruled the whole world, nebuchadnezzar also ruled the whole world. thus, it is written, gi will ascend above the clouds; i will be like the most high, h4 [the numerical value of the word for gclouds h] alluding to the seventy-two nations. the verse quoted was spoken by (or reflects the sentiments of) nebuchadnezz

rely of gold, nebuchadnezzar sought to subvert the prophecy and perpetuate the kingdom of babylonia. chananiah, misha fel, and azariah (whose babylonian names were shadrach, meisach, and abednego) were daniel fs jewish companions, who refused to bow down to this statue. nebuchadnezzar punished them by having them thrown into a fiery furnace, but they emerged unscathed. he also intended to build a tower and a city, as it is written, gis this not the great [city of] babylon that i built up [into a royal house with my powerful strength, to glorify my splendor? h6 1 genesis 11:1-9. 2 ibid. 10:8 ff. 3 daniel 3:1. 4 isaiah 14:14. 5 daniel 3:3-30. 6 ibid. 4:27. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 34 the people who built the tower of babel had said, glet us build ourselves a city and a tower whose to

a royal house with my powerful strength, to glorify my splendor? h6 1 genesis 11:1-9. 2 ibid. 10:8 ff. 3 daniel 3:1. 4 isaiah 14:14. 5 daniel 3:3-30. 6 ibid. 4:27. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 34 the people who built the tower of babel had said, glet us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top reaches the heavens, and we will [thereby] achieve glory. h7 he built the statue in place of the tower. he wanted to receive the divine beneficence via the seventy [celestial] princes, hoping that perhaps in this way israel would be unable to arise [from its exile] and g-d fs beneficence would be directed toward the forces of evil. g-d set up the workings of the world such that ideally, his beneficence flows primarily and directly to the forces of holiness and goodness, in order that they hav

five kings of city-states in the land of israel. when they conquered them, abraham went to rescue his nephew lot (who had been taken captive) and defeated this confederacy of four kings.9 the oral tradition identifies amrafel with nimrod.10. 7 genesis 11:4. 8 jeremiah 25:26, 51:41. 9 genesis 14. 10 see rashi on genesis 14:1. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 35 when nimrod and his people built the tower of babel, g-d said, gbehold, they are one people with one language, and this is what they have begun to do. now, shall nothing be denied them of all they scheme to do? h11 how could g-d say, gshall nothing be denied them? h even though man does possess free choice, would it be so difficult for g-d to prevent them from fulfilling their evil schemes? why, then, does g-d apparently have to do s

e holy tongue h [lashon hakodesh. safah achat: sin-pei-hei alef-chet-tav= 300+ 80+ 5+ 1+ 8+ 400= 794. lashon hakodesh: lamed-shin-vav-nun hei-kuf-dalet-shin= 30+ 300+ 6+ 50+ 5+ 100+ 4+ 300= 795. gunited words h refers to the use of g-d fs names, for they express his oneness, and [their use involves combining and] unifying them. the phrase, gand they said, come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower h refers to the idol they wanted to make. 11 genesis 11:6. 12 ibid. 4:26. the arizal on parashat noach (2) 36 the phrase, gwhose top reaches heaven h refers to the fact that they wanted to give this idol the ability to channel the divine beneficence to them by manipulating g-d fs names, as above. for they knew that this idol would be powerless unless it could receive power from holiness. the

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ol 11 0 the foolish man n a 12 1 the juggler 3 i2 13 2 the high priestess f d 14 3 the empress f q 15 4 the emperor il t 16 5 the hierophant 1 'tl 17 6 the lovers t x 18 7 the chariot t7% 19 8 strength (justice) d 5 q 20 9 the hermit (prudence "7 21 10 the wheel of fortune 2 3 22 11 justice (strength) 9 rr 23 12 the hanged man t3 v 24 13 death f n-l 25 14 temperance b fl 26 15 the devil y w 27 16 tower struck by lightning 3 d 28 17 the star 3 2x 29 18 the moon? x 30 19 the sun 1 0 31 20 last judgment v a 32 21 the universe. n k 72 the golden dawn: volume i book one <140> meditation let the practicus meditate upon the symbols of the rhomboid and the vesica. let him seek out their meanings and correspondences let him contemplate the symbol mercury and the number 8. let him now learn to contr

sovereigntyand result of victory. solacting through scorpio u on venus, or osiris under the destroying power of typhon afkcting isis <143> 14. temperance=the beauty of a firm basis. the sovereignty of fundamental power. sol acting through sagittarius upon luna. 15. the devil=the sovereignty and beauty of material (and therefore false) splendour. sol acting through capricorn upon mercury. 16. the tower=the victory over splendour. venus acting through mars upon mercury. avenging force. 17. star=the victory of fundamental strength. venus acting through aquarius upon luna. hope. 18. moon=the victory of the material. venus acting through pisces upon the cosmic elements, deceptive effect of the apparent power of material forces. 19. sun=the splendour of the material world. mercury acting throug

ite triangle upon the altar, and it is thus the symbol of the banner of the west. the triangle refers to the three paths and the cross to the hidden knowledge. the cross and the triangle together represent life and light. hiero points out the tablet of the north, saying: hieyo this grade is especially referred to the element of earth, and therefore, one of its principal emblems is the great watch tower or 148 the golden dawn: volume ii book two terrestrial tablet of the north. it is the third or great northern quadrangle or earth tablet, and it is one of the four great tablets of the elements said to have been given to enoch by the great angel ave. it is divided within itself into four lesser angles. the mystic letters upon it form various divine and angelic names, in what our tradition ca

he preceding grade. hierophant returns to east and sits down. hegemon guides zelator to him. the three portals facing you are the gates of paths leading from this grade. that on the right connects with the grade of philosophus, that on your left with the grade of practicus, while the central one leads to the portal. this grade especially refers to the element of air, and therefore the great watch-tower or terrestrial tablet of the east forms one of its principal emblems. it is one of the four great tablets deliveredunto the golden dawn: volume 11 book two hiero hie yo <89> hiero hiero hie yo enoch by the great angel ave. from it are drawn the three holy secret names of god, or0 ibah aozp1,'which are borne upon the banners of the east, and number less divine and angelic names which appertai

you are now entitled to wear, is the sash of the theoricus with the addition of a purple cross above the white cross and the numbers three and eight within a circle and a square respectively, left and right of its summit- and below the number 32, the numbers 30 and 31 in purple between two narrow purple lines. this grade is especially referred to the element of water and therefore the great watch tower of tablet of the west forms one of its principal emblems. hierophant and theoricus turn towards it. it is known as the second or great western quadrangle or tablet of water, and it is one of the four great tablets delivered unto enoch by the great angel ave. from it are drawn the three holy secret names of god- empeh arsel gaiol- which are borne upon the banners of the west, and numberless d

mple is symbolically in hod, and the paths in the east and s. e, leading from it, are those of mem, ayin, peh, resh, and shin. of these, peh is shown in the south, before which now stand the pillars. hierophant returns to his throne on the dais, hiereus with his banner is seated before the dais in fhe n. e, hegemon in the s. e. the offrcers are supplied with red lamps. philosophus ritual 189- the tower i w e s t 1 [w on the altar is the tarot key of the tower. the admission badge is the calvay cross of ten squares <138> hiero honoured hegemon, you have my commands to present the practicus with the necessary admission badge and to admit him. hegemon goes out, gives the calvary cross of ten squares to the candidate and admits him saying: heg the river kishon swept them away, that ancient riv

ighest heaven, and the excitement or motion of them. it is therefore the reflection of the sphere of mars, and the reciprocal path connecting netzach with hod, victory with splendour. it is the lowermost of the three reciprocal paths. hiero, heg, and practicus come to the w. of altar. hiero before you upon the altar is the 16th key of tarot, which symbolically resumes these ideas. it represents a tower struck by a lightning flash proceeding from a rayed circle and terminating in a triangle. it is the tower of babel struck by the fire from heaven. it is to be noted that the triangle at the end of the flash, issuing from the circle, forms exactly the as192 the golden dawn: volume ii book two tronomical symbol of mars. it is the power of the triad rushing down and destroying the columns of da

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

deration of this science includes the movements, distribution, and the physical characteristicsof the heavenly bodies. next to that of tilling the soil to obtain sustenance for life, astronomy is theoldest science, for it became essential to measure time, and this could be furnished only through astudy of the firmament.the first recorded observations off any remarkable accuracy are those from the tower of bel, atbabylon, by the assyrians in the 23rd century before this era. this powerful empire understood theuse of the dial, the precession of the equinoxes, and within a fraction the exact length of the tropicalyear, they even predicted in some cases, the return of comets.rituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliaphilosophus43 the chief seat of astronomical learning among the hindus, w

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tic and kabalistic day, favourable to the fulfilment of the great work. 13. death. birthday of canaan, the accursed son of chain. baleful day and fatal number. 14. the angel of temperance. blessing of noah on the fourteenth day of the moon. this day is governed by the angel cassiel of the hierarchy of uriel. 15. typhon, or the devil. birth of ishmael. day of reprobation and exile. 16. the blasted tower. birthday of jacob and esau; the day also of jacob's predestination, to esau's ruin. 17. the glittering star. fire from heaven burns sodom and gomorrah. day of salvation for the good and ruin for the wicked: dangerous on a saturday. it is under the dominion of the scorpion. 18. the moon. birth of isaac. wife's triumph. day of conjugal affection and good hope. 19. the sun. birth of pharoah. a

elixir of life. s the heaven of mercury, occult science, magic, commerce, eloquence, mystery, moral force. hieroglyph, the devil, the goat of mendes, or the baphomet of the temple, with all his pantheistic attributes. this is the only hieroglyph which was properly understood and interpreted correctly by etteilla. u the heaven of the moon, alterations, subversions, changes, failings. hieroglyph, a tower struck by lightning, probably that of babel. two persons, doubtless nimrod and his false prophet or minister, are precipitated from the summit of the ruins. one of the personages in his fall reproduces perfectly the letter ayin. p heaven of the soul, outpourings of thought, moral influence of idea on form, immortality. hieroglyph, the blazing star and eternal youth. we have described this sy

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do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. for there are therein three grades, the hermit, and the lover, and the man of earth. do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. crowley advanced a cabalistic interpretation thus: the= the hermit [of the tarot "invisible yet illuminating" le= the lover "visible as is the lightning-flash. the college of adepts" ma "the man of earth. the blasted tower" he went on to add the cabalistic/numerological values of these three cards and obtained 31("al+"la, whence came the secret name of the book of the law. the famous final sentence of this passage, originating [like "thelema] in dr. francois rabelais' novel gargantua, had also been used by sir francis dashwood who inscribed fay ce que voudras over the main entrance to medmenham abbey. crowley

ancine. in search of mesoamerican geometry, native american mathematics, ed. by michael p. closs, austin: university of texas press, 1986. whitaker, roger l. neuronal tracings and the physiology of angular prosthesis, runes, vol. ix, no. 3 (august xxvi. wilson, r. a& shea, r. the illuminatus! trilogy, ny: dell publishing co, 1975. the wewelsburg working location: hall of the dead "walhalla, north tower, wewelsburg castle, germany key: 19th part of the word of set, aethyr lil purpose. to obtain a full understanding of the significance of the crisis that befell the temple of set in june-july xvii. to energize the advent of the working year xviii. as the wewelsburg was conceived by heinrich himmler to be the "mittelpunkt der welt, and as the focus of the hall of the dead was to be the gate of

rett was sitting on top of the mountain. i felt he was in immediate danger. my arms grew about fifteen feet each, and they encircled magister barrett and the area immediately surrounding him. i saw that as long as my arms were thus encircled, he was safe. it is important to note that i was not asleep and that i actually felt myself transported to santa barbara and xemset. i was there! the magical tower working i. the magical tower working purpose: to create in the subjective universe a place where i could journey to complete g.b.m. workings chamber dressing: my room light source: one black candle music used: charon by king diamond, and evi50 and gates of hell by black sabbath dress: all black clothes, with pentagram of set classification: v2- b3r- 1 author: william van patten i date: july

may not be able to see. he may in fact depend greater on his other senses and have them more acute. is this helpful or harmful? from the gates, i don't know how but i got to the cliff that i had made in my base outline, and i looked down at the black water crashing on the rocks. i looked out into the black sea, to see the island made from black rocks. in the middle of the island was a tall black tower that had no doors or windows. since i could see no way to get to the island, i changed into a dragon and flew to it. after circling the tower a few times, i landed and changed back. then i walked to the tower and placed my hand on the wall. i sensed that it was cold and smooth. i felt to get in i was to touch my pentagram to the wall. i sensed that a door had opened, and walked in. upon ente

t had no doors or windows. since i could see no way to get to the island, i changed into a dragon and flew to it. after circling the tower a few times, i landed and changed back. then i walked to the tower and placed my hand on the wall. i sensed that it was cold and smooth. i felt to get in i was to touch my pentagram to the wall. i sensed that a door had opened, and walked in. upon entering the tower, i sensed that there was a table and chairs made from wood on my right, and on my left there was a very full book case and a shelf that held a water pitcher i thought there was water in it, but did not look to see. in the center i knew there was a staircase that went up. i took it up. after a little while, i reached the top (i could not see the other floors) there i saw an altar with a penta

, but could not see it. i raised my hand to touch it, but could feel nothing. at this point i remembered that somewhere i had read that a person who went to hell saw many things and touched them, but could feel nothing. after that i unwillingly came out of my dream and closed the ritual in the same way as the crystal tablet suggests. after the ritual i felt somewhat tired. ii. return to the magic tower purpose: to try a g.b.m. working in the tower setting chamber dressing: my room light source: one black candle music used: satanas concerto in cm by adept timothy mcgranahan, embryo and orchard by black sabbath dress: all black clothes, with pentagram of set bell tolling: towards altar grail liquid: cola invocation: modified temple of set elements summoned: the song embryo notes: the ritual

. working in the tower setting chamber dressing: my room light source: one black candle music used: satanas concerto in cm by adept timothy mcgranahan, embryo and orchard by black sabbath dress: all black clothes, with pentagram of set bell tolling: towards altar grail liquid: cola invocation: modified temple of set elements summoned: the song embryo notes: the ritual went the same as the magical tower working, except that when i got to the upper room where the ritual chamber was, i performed a g.b.m. working there. the working i undertook was to understand my higher self, that which i can become. when i got to the chamber, i looked around before i started. i found an old wooden chest that i did not notice the last time i was there. i touched my staff to its lock, and the lock fell from it

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

ust be brought to a state of reception for the forces to descend upon the mage. he ritual of the opposer will be performed in such occasion and the mage who strives to reach the highest ladders will gladly forsake all for the sake of naught! the joining of the adversary within the mage constitutes the hierophant, the high priest of the ages. the mouth peh is connected to mars and the power of the tower in the arcane of the tarot. this is significant due to the disruptive nature of the joining of the external within the internal in these kinds of operations. mysteries connected to the luchiferian gnosis are inherent and implicit in this cell and will blossom into full flower in the forthcoming cells (p. 233-236p. 237-238) the sabbatic kabala displays a formulae for eroto-manic behaviour on

cant due to the disruptive nature of the joining of the external within the internal in these kinds of operations. mysteries connected to the luchiferian gnosis are inherent and implicit in this cell and will blossom into full flower in the forthcoming cells (p. 233-236p. 237-238) the sabbatic kabala displays a formulae for eroto-manic behaviour on behalf of the high priest towards the use of the tower as the external and therefore aggressive component in the communion. the priest become the vessel and the container of the powers drawn upon, mainly through the mystery of the sexual eucharist. it also reflects its double -natured house of power (or sah) in the tetragrammic vessel- the hand being the extension of the phallus and the eye being the cranial abode of the higher mouth (i.e. vulva

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her night-time window, side by side, looking out to sea "his double. martin de la cruz" at the mention of the cowboy's name gibreel felt so violent a pain in his navel, a pulling pain, as if somebody had stuck a hook in his stomach, that a cry escaped his lips. rosa diamond appeared not to hear "look" she cried happily "over there" running along the midnight beach in the direction of the martello tower and the holiday camp- running along the water's edge so that the incoming tide washed away its footprints- swerving and feinting, running for its life, there came a fullgrown, large--as--life ostrich. down the beach it fled, and gibreel's eyes followed it in wonder, until he could no longer make it out in the dark. o o o the next thing that happened took place in the village. they had gone i

val flags, pamela chamcha in her most dazzling gown ate venison and drank a bottle of chateau talbot at a table heavy with silver and crystal, celebrating a new beginning, an escape from the jaws of, a fresh start, to be born again first you have to: well, almost, anyway. under the lascivious eyes of americans and salesmen she ate and drank alone, retiring early to a princess's bedroom in a stone tower to take a long bath and watch old movies on television. in the aftermath of her brush with death she felt the past dropping away from her: her adolescence, for example, in the care of her wicked uncle harry higham, who lived in a seventeenth-century manor house once owned by a distant relative, matthew hopkins, the witchfinder-general, who had named it gremlins in, no doubt, a macabre attemp

i'm human, too. this time it's love" more cradlesnatching. no escape from it in these times. chamcha on the telephone found he couldn't remember the infant's name "you know my motto" valance was saying "yes" chamcha said neutrally "it's the right line for the product" the product, you bastard, being you. by the time he met hal valance (how many years ago? five, maybe six, over lunch at the white tower, the man was already a monster: pure, self--created image, a set of attributes plastered thickly over a body that was, in hal's own words "in training to be orson welles. he smoked absurd, caricature cigars, refusing all cuban brands, however, on account of his uncompromisingly capitalistic stance. he owned a union jack waistcoat and insisted on flying the flag over his agency and also above

y. i" hal valance announced "love this fucking country. that's why i'm going to sell it to the whole goddamn world, japan, america, fucking argentina. i'm going to sell the arse off it. that's what i've been selling all my fucking life: the fucking nation. the _flag" he didn't hear what he was saying. when he got going on this stuff, he went puce and often wept. he had done just that at the white tower, that first time, while stuffing himself full of greek food. the date came back to chamcha now: just after the falklands war. people had a tendency to swear loyalty oaths in those days, to hum "pomp and circumstance" on the buses. so when valance, over a large balloon of armagnac, started up "i'll tell you why i love this country- chamcha, pro-falklands himself, thought he knew what was comi

g, making it impossible for gibreel to approach his quest in the systematic manner he would have preferred. some days he would turn a corner at the end of a grand colonnade built of human flesh and covered in skin that bled when scratched, and find himself in an uncharted wasteland, at whose distant rim he could see tall familiar buildings, wren's dome, the high metallic spark-plug of the telecom tower, crumbling in the wind like sandcastles. he would stumble across bewildering and anonymous parks and emerge into the crowded streets of the west end, upon which, to the consternation of the motorists, acid had begun to drip from the sky, burning great holes in the surfaces of the roads. in this pandemonium of mirages he often heard laughter: the city was mocking his impotence, awaiting his s

and writers, mahound. we are the people you can't forgive" mahound replied "writers and whores. i see no difference here" o o o once upon a time there was a woman who did not change. after the treachery of abu simbel handed jahilia to mahound on a plate and replaced the idea of the city's greatness with the reality of mahound's, hind sucked toes, recited the la-ilaha, and then retreated to a high tower of her palace, where news reached her of the destruction of the al-lat temple at taif, and of all the statues of the goddess that were known to exist. she locked herself into her tower room with a collection of ancient books written in scripts which no other human being injahilia could decipher; and for two years and two months she remained there, studying her occult texts in secret, asking

ewels glittering at her wrists, ankles, toes, ears and throat "wake up" she commanded, flinging back his curtains "it's a day for celebrations" he saw that she hadn't aged by so much as a day since he last saw her; if anything, she looked younger than ever, which gave credence to the rumours which suggested that her witchcraft had persuaded time to run backwards for her within the confines of her tower room "what have we got to celebrate" the former grandee of jahilia asked, coughing up his usual morning blood. hind replied "i may not be able to reverse the flow of history, but revenge, at least, is sweet" within an hour the news arrived that the prophet, mahound, had fallen into a fatal sickness, that he lay in ayesha's bed with his head thumping as if it had been filled up with demons. h

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, their form was nevertheless monstrous. generally they are described as serpents and dragons with seven heads, each with two faces, and as twelve wings. as in the above passage they were seduced by the potentials of the flesh and descended onto mount hermon 12,000 years ago. they cohabited with human females of the lowlands below eden to father the nephilim, giants who later went on to build the tower of babel and brought an end to the aeon of enoch. rabbi elkiezer of the 8th century puts the blame squarely on the women. the angels who fell from heaven saw the daughters of cain perambulating and displaying their private parts, their eyes painted with antimony in the manner of harlots, and, being seduced, took wives from amongst them. the watchers and their brood devolved through their car

btained, although there is much room for speculation concerning the true nature of those spirits summoned. the techniques they employed had their routes in those same practices described in the grimoire as summoning the denizens of hell. their researches brought a new gift to the traditions of the black arts; that language spoken by the angels and devils, and by all mankind before the fall of the tower of babylon. our source for this knowledge are the nineteen enochian keys, provided below. each is an incantation composed in this language, evoking principles and powers which may be directed by the sorcerer. these appear to have sound grammatical basis, with many words that seem related to hebrew, arabic, and latin. whether divined or constructed, their employment effectively appeals to som

SATANIC BIBLE

ards the conjuration of lust come forth, oh great spawn of the abyss and make thy presence manifest. i have set my thoughts upon the blazing pinnacle which glows with the chosen lust of the moments of increase and grows fervent in the turgid swell. send forth that messenger of voluptuous delights, and let these obscene vistas of my dark desires take form in future deeds and doings. from the sixth tower of satan there shall come a sign which joineth with those saltes within, and as such will move the body of the flesh of my summoning. i have gathered forth my symbols and prepare my garnishings of the is to be, and the image of my creation lurketh as a seething basilisk awaiting his release. the vision shall become as reality and through the nourishment that my sacrifice giveth, the angles o

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e watery sea! participants: groznoye bozhe tchornava ognia padai seela! dread lord of the dark flame give power! celebrant: rearing turrets and massive domes with iron walls and courts of stone! participants: groznoye bozhe tchornava ognia padai krepost! dread lord of the dark flame give strength [priest receives bone from acolyte, holds it on high, and, facing congregation] celebrant: thou art a tower of strength and power, and we, thy brothers, proclaim thee lord unto all ages [priest turns to altar, holding bone aloft] celebrant: slava tchortu! participants: slava tchortu [priest returns bone to acolyte. other acolyte steps forward and censes priest, who then faces the altar] the self-glorification celebrant: at once i ride upon a sweeping wind, through opalescent skies to the bright pl

, the yezidi empire stretched in an invisible band approximately three hundred miles wide to the mediterranean junction of turkey and syria on one end, and the mountains of the caucasus in russia on the other. at intervals along this strip were seven towers-the towers of satan (ziarahs)-six of them trapezoidal in form, and one, the "center" on mount lalesh, shaped like a sharp, fluted point. each tower was topped by a brilliant heliographic reflector, and was intended to serve as a "power house" from whence a satanic magician could beam his will to the "descendants of adam" and influence human events in the outside world. like the watchers-the fallen angels of the book of enoch-the yezidis claimed to be the descendants of azazel. the yezidis believed in a counterpart of the story of lucife

re of a peacock (called a sanjak) was removed from a secret hiding place by a priest and carried to the temple. it was placed on a pedestal around which a running spring of water played into a small pool this served as the shrine and icon towards which homage was directed. the water supposedly came from an underground stream which flows through subterranean caverns in a network opening under each tower of satan. the point of origin of these streams was thought to be the miraculous well of islam known as zamzam. the caverns supposedly terminated at the place of the masters-schamballah (carcosa. in order to establish proper perspective, in addition to the yezidis' own beliefs concerning the caverns and the effects of the towers of satan, the conjectures of outsiders must be mentioned here. i

ptons to montauk in new york; between folkestone and dover on the english channel; the cornish coast west of exmouth, and numerous points along the coast of brittany in france. the list is endless. where men have stood at earth's end contemplating the transition from sea to land with mingled fear and longing in their hearts, the lure of cthulhu exists. any offshore oil drilling platform or "texas tower" is a potential altar to the spawn of the watery abyss. lovecraft seems to have correlated the monsters of the canvasses of a hundred pickmans-the great symbolist painters of the 1890's-into a twentieth century scenario. his fantasies may well have been a conscious projection of the idea expressed so eloquently by charles lamb in his witches and other night fears "gorgons, and hydras, and ch

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. mesopotamian gods were worshipped in temple complexes that formed the center of every city. built of mud bricks, these tall, conical structures were stepped, or built in receding tiers on platforms of different shapes. these platforms were crowned at the top by a shrine or a temple. the whole complex was called a ziggurat, and averaged about 150 feet (45.7 meters) in height. ziggurats stretched tower-like toward the sky, forming a bridge between earth and heaven, like the mountains that were sacred to the sumerians. each mesopotamian city had at least one temple complex, and each complex was dedicated to the worship of a single deity. the temple complex in ur, for instance, honored the moon god sin (also called nanna by the sumerians. the city of uruk had both a temple to inanna and a zi

of the buddha are used as aids to meditation, focusing on his virtue. but mahayanists worship many different buddhas and bodhisattvas. images and statues of these, especially in tibet and china, are included in the temples and are thought to have miraculous or supernatural powers. in china and japan, buddhist temples are called pagodas and are built several stories high, with a curved roof and a tower on top. though most buddhist temples are found in asia, there are also buddhist temples and centers in other parts of the world. for example, there are temples in more than one-half of the states in the united states. these temples often serve the dual purpose of both religious and cultural centers for the faithful. people must always remove their shoes before entering a buddhist temple to s

ngly ornate (decorated) over the years. once the stupa was exported to china it developed into a building called a pagoda. these tall, multistoried towers have upward-curving tiled roofs and were initially used just as the stupa, to enclose a buddhist relic. soon this building style spread with buddhism to korea, vietnam, and japan. the pagoda also changed function. no longer was it just a closed tower for a relic, but a building for worship, a buddhist temple. the pagoda has become a characteristic chinese and japanese building style in religious architecture. buddhist influences on science nonreligious buddhist influence has also been felt in the west. psychotherapy, or treatment of mental and emotional disorders using psychological methods, has also long recognized the benefits of using

ns, the highest caste consisting of priests, wear a thread made of cotton, while rulers wear hemp and merchants wear wool. often, however, worship is performed at shrines and temples, either alone or with the help of priests, who often lead groups of worshippers by reading from the vedas. a typical temple, or mandir, consists of a sacred shrine, which represents the heart of the worshipper, and a tower, which represents the elevation of the soul to heaven. gifts that are offered become sacred because of their contact with the gods at temples or shrines, and they come to represent the grace of the divine. thus, for example, people often make ritual offerings of sacred ash or saffron, which is then distributed so that people can smear it on their foreheads. not all worship involves ritual ob

would that famine had occurred to slay the land! instead of your bringing on the flood, would that (pestilent) erra had appeared to ravage the land! it was not i who revealed the secret of the great gods, i (only) made a dream appear to atrahasis, and (thus) he heard the secret of the gods. sacrificed: made a ritual offering to a god, especially of a killed animal. ziggurat: a mesopotamian temple tower. savor: aroma. beletili: a minor sumerian deity, who is believed to have been a fertility goddess. lapis lazuli: a deep-blue semiprecious stone. consigned: delivered or handed over. annihilation: complete destruction. igigi: spirits that appear as stars in the sky. machination: scheme, plot, or crafty action. sage: wise person. violation: crime or a breaking of laws or rules. compassionate:

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

transporting power, which, if at any time it shall be excited or stirred up by an ardent desire and most strong imagination, is able to conduct the spirit of the more outward even to some absent and far-distant object. von helmont. the rooms that mejnour occupied consisted of two chambers communicating with each other, and a third in which he slept. all these rooms were placed in the huge square tower that beetled over the dark and bush-grown precipice. the first chamber which glyndon entered was empty. with a noiseless step he passed on, and opened the door that admitted into the inner one. he drew back at the threshold, overpowered by a strong fragrance which filled the chamber: a kind of mist thickened the air rather than obscured it, for this vapour was not dark, but resembled a snow

oice became earnest and expressive "hear me! there seems danger in this action; there is none. i have been with collot d'herbois and bilaud- varennes; they will hold him harmless who strikes the blow; the populace would run to thy support; the convention would hail thee as their deliverer, the "hold, man! how darest thou couple my name with the act of an assassin? let the tocsin sound from yonder tower, to a war between humanity and the tyrant, and i will not be the last in the field; but liberty never yet acknowledged a defender in a felon" there was something so brave and noble in glyndon's voice, mien, and manner, as he thus spoke, that nicot at once was silenced; at once he saw that he had misjudged the man "no" said fillide, lifting her face from her hands "no! your friend has a wiser

d the art by which we can refuse to die! when in some happy clime, where to breathe is to enjoy, the charnel-house swallows up the young and fair; when in the noble pursuit of knowledge, death comes to the student, and shuts out the enchanted land which was opening to his gaze, how natural for us to desire to live; how natural to make perpetual life the first object of research! but here, from my tower of time, looking over the darksome past, and into the starry future, i learn how great hearts feel what sweetness and glory there is to die for the things they love! i saw a father sacrificing himself for his son; he was subjected to charges which a word of his could dispel, he was mistaken for his boy. with what joy he seized the error, confessed the noble crimes of valour and fidelity whic

tait des chances pour que robespierre sortit vainqueur de cette lutte. lacretelle, volume xii (amongst a body so debased as the convention, there still remained some chances that robespierre would come off victor in the struggle) as robespierre left the hall, there was a dead and ominous silence in the crowd without. the herd, in every country, side with success; and the rats run from the falling tower. but robespierre, who wanted courage, never wanted pride, and the last often supplied the place of the first; thoughtfully, and with an impenetrable brow, he passed through the throng, leaning on st. just, payan and his brother following him. as they got into the open space, robespierre abruptly broke the silence "how many heads were to fall upon the tenth "eighty" replied payan "ah, we must

the threshold, to the breast of love. thus, within, the within, a dungeon; without, the without, stately with marts and halls, with palaces and temples; revenge and terror, at their dark schemes and counter-schemes; to and fro, upon the tide of the shifting passions, reeled the destinies of men and nations; and hard at hand that day-star, waning into space, looked with impartial eye on the church tower and the guillotine. up springs the blithesome morn. in yon gardens the birds renew their familiar song. the fishes are sporting through the freshening waters of the seine. the gladness of divine nature, the roar and dissonance of mortal life, awake again: the trader unbars his windows; the flower-girls troop gayly to their haunts; busy feet are tramping to the daily drudgeries that revolutio

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

same, san and gula; the symbols were the same.50 the two monarchies placed their gods in triads, headed by one god, ra "a sort of fount and origin of deity" san was the second member of the second triad, accompanied by his wife.51 the first triad consisted of ana (pluto, the "lord of darkness or death" belus (jupiter, the son of the egyptian osiris and the god whose temple was the original of the tower of babel;52 and hoa (neptune, strongly connected "with the serpent of scripture and. the tree of life" hoa's wife was the mother of belus.53 the cabalists lifted their entire sephirotic tree of life representing jehovah from the triads of the chaldean-babylonian pantheon (see sephirolh, part 1. the egyptian pantheon was even more ancient, dating from the 27th to the 30th centuries b.c. or ev

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these major players what to do. this higher level of the illuminati elite have historically thought of themselves as 30 codex magica the builders. there is even a classic masonic textbook by this very title. the builders believe that jehovah god did adam and eve a disservice by driving them out of the garden. they rankle at the fact that nimrod, the king of babylon, was confounded in building the tower of babel, and they are seized with rage over the destruction of their temple in jerusalem. indeed, the builders are angered that every time they have sought to bring the world together as one, they have been thwarted by god. all of their chosen disciples, the caesars, charlemagne, napoleon, hitler, stalin, fdr, mao, saw their grand plan of conquest go down to resounding defeat. but still, th

of the great seal of the united states 273 sir walter raleigh, the impetuous adventurer and polished courtier, was also a man of considerable literary accomplishments. much of the poetry he wrote has been lost, but several impressive prose works survive. the most ambitious and distinguished of these is the history of the world, written between 1607 and 1614, during his years of confinement in the tower of london under a death sentence. although raleigh's name did not appear on the elaborately engraved frontispiece to the first edition (above, there was no secret about the authorship. the book was immediately banned by king james i. raleigh set out to write a universal chronicle that would parallel the old testament chronology in its initial chapters but bring the story up to his own times

of babylon. the site chosen for the lenin monument was a piece of land on which a closed-down christian church building sat, the 19th century cathedral of christ the savior. stalin ordered the church blown up and the debris removed, and it was. however, world war ii intervened and the gargantuan, monstrous structure was never completed. at the top of the planned monument, a statue of lenin was to tower above the people and landscape, his right hand and finger vertically pointed upward toward the heavens. possibly this was a fulfillment of scripture. in isaiah 14, lucifer vainly boasts that his kingdom will ascend to the stars and that he will be like the most high. but lucifer's true destiny is the pit of hell! 584 codex magica the occult magic of the czar is also back! or did it ever leav

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understood. the process of evolution demands a continuous interaction of all forms of life: through the attrition thus produced, they improve each other and expand their experience in that union which results from any conflict. in this sense, war is only one of the manifestations of the universal love. in the tarot, this perception is expressed in atu xvi, the name of which is war or the blasted tower. conflict between forms of life can only occur if each of them is sufficiently self-conscious or self-sufficient to resist the other s onslaught. essentially, this self-consciousness or self-sufficiency is a form of hatred, meaning repulsion towards what is external to ourselves. in this sense, ferocity in a wild animal, or selfishness in a human being, are merely expressions of what is call

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re time. the film explores the range of emotions and inner stresses faced by a ufo contactee, including the confusion of his family, the reluctance of the authorities to recognize his experience as genuine, and the obsession of the contactee to respond to the invitation that the aliens have somehow impressed in his psyche. forced by an inner compulsion to seek reunion with the aliens atop devil s tower, wyoming, neary must leave his tearful and distressed wife (teri garr) and children behind as he continues his rendezvous with space intelligences. he is soon joined by an ally (melinda dillon, whose son was abducted from their farm home, who also is receiving telepathic messages about where he will be returned to her. spielberg claimed that he had adapted many actual stories of ufo contact

mystery, pro- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 282 invaders from outer space sigourney weaver and winona rider in the film alien resurrection (the kobal collection) ject blue book. hynek was even given a cameo in the film, and he can be seen among the scientists gathered to welcome the aliens when the massive mothership sets down on devil s tower. in numerous interviews, spielberg said that he had always been fascinated by the subject of flying saucers and alien contact, and he liked to remind interviewers that he was born in 1947, the first year of the modern era of ufos. the alien beings, when they are at last revealed on screen, appear to be childlike, benevolent entities, seemingly so innocent as to be incapable of interstellar t

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e novel continues, the vast arcana of alchemical truths are represented by various animals, mythological beings, and human personalities. in addition to being an advocate of alchemy and the process of contacting intermediary spirits to accomplish good for society, andreae believed in becoming an active reformer of social ills, as well as supporting the reformation of the church. his treatises the tower of babel (1619) and the christianopolitan republic (1620) argue in favor of a general transformation of european society. m delving deeper caron, m, and s. hutin. the alchemists. translated by helen r. lane. new york: grove press, 1961. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d magic and sorcery 43 de givry, emile grillot. illustrated anthology

t, and so brought turmoil to the masses. he is the symbol of bad luck and of t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d prophecy and divination 131 female tarot card reader displaying a prediction (corbis corporation) destruction, the antithesis of good. fifteen signifies destiny and represents the immense force or power in the mind of humankind. the tower of destruction (arcanum sixteen, the lightning-struck tower, depicts pandemonium, bedlam, and disruption. the struck tower symbolizes the dark night of the soul when the spiritually untested and immature seekers are confronted by a dramatic test of their faith. in this respect, the tower of destruction has also been referred to as the gfall of the angels. h the number 16 symbolizes an ending

had been in the sacred scriptures from the beginning. letters and numbers, the kabbalah teaches, are not merely signs invented by humans to record things, events, and thoughts, but are in themselves reservoirs of divine power. hebrew, in the kabbalistic sense, is a universal language, capable of restoring to humankind the universal understanding that existed before the confusion of tongues at the tower of babel. it is interesting to note that the greek school of neo-pythagorean philosophers also understood numbers and letters to be divine things endowed with supernatural powers. the kabbalah began to emerge as a text of power and influence in spain and southern france in the thirteenth century. many of its teachers proclaimed that the kabbalah (hebrew for greceived tradition h) had been gi

accurate predictions and overlook the much larger number of incorrect forecasts. when jeane dixon died from cardiopulmonary arrest on january 25, 1997, she remained a remarkable prophet in the eyes of her admirers, a spiritually devout woman who fulfilled her mission from god by sharing with the public her gifts of prophecy. m delving deeper bringle, mary. jeane dixon: prophet or fraud? new york: tower books, 1970. carroll, robert todd. gjeane dixon and the jeane dixon effect. h inthe skeptic fs dictionary [online] http//skepdic.com/dixon.html. 20 may 2002. delfano, m. m. the living prophets. new york: dell books, 1972. montgomery, ruth. a gift of prophecy: the phenomenal jeane dixon. new york: bantam books, 1966. gpsychic jeane dixon dies. eastrologer to stars f had legions of believers

argest religious monument ever constructed. built over a 30-year period with sandstone and laterite (a dense, porous, ironbearing soil that can be quarried like stone, the rectangular structure (2,800 by 3,800 feet) faces west, in hindu belief the direction taken by the dead when going to their next life. at the center of the complex stands a temple with five lotus-shaped towers, a larger central tower, and four smaller surrounding towers. they represent the five peaks of mount meru, the mountain where a pantheon of hindu gods reside and from which, according to hindu belief, all creation comes. three square terraces surrounds the central tower. the entire complex is surrounded by a moat more than three miles long and rimmed by a causeway that leads to four gateways into the temple complex

or the next 150 years. raleigh also wrote of a tribe of headless, club-wielding warriors with eyes and mouths on their torsos. that brought further discredit to his book, but it sold well, even in translation. raleigh fs claims failed to interest queen elizabeth i or potential investors who might finance a further search for el dorado. after the monarch died in 1603, raleigh was imprisoned in the tower of london by her successor, king james i (1566.1625, on charges of treason. convinced in the very least that vast gold mines existed close to the orinoco river, raleigh continually petitioned for release; only when dire financial straits fell on great britain did the king allow raleigh a second chance. raleigh fs 1618 expedition battled the spanish, and raleigh fs son died in battle. when ra

use it represented a prideful icon of veneration. the glastonbury thorn is unlike any native species of tree in great britain and is reputed to be related to a thorn tree of the eastern mediterranean area. the most distinctive and highest of the hills in the area is the glastonbury tor( gtor h is an old word for ghill h. an imposing hill, the tor can be seen from as far as 25 miles away. a ruined tower of a christian chapel is perched on the top of the tor. nearby are the ruins of glastonbury abbey and, reportedly, the oldest christian church in england. glastonbury abbey, a christian monastery, was long established at the site when it became a focal point for arthurian legends in 1190. king henry ii (1133.1189) had claimed that a bard told him that king arthur fs bones were buried deep at

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andshe was instructed in the method of divining by that special animal. she could also have an animal of her ownfor private divination; these had to be named by a special ceremonial in which several members of the coventook part. the guide to grand jurymen informs its readers that "to these their spirits they give names, andthey meet together to christen them. the lancashire witches met at malkin tower on good friday,[52]"first was the naming of the spirit, which alizon device, now prisoner at lancaster, had, but did not namehim, because shee was not there. the french evidence shows how these familiars could be used. silvainnevillon of orleans, condemned to death in 1615,[53] said "that there are witches who keep familiars(marionettes, which are little imps (diableteaux) in the form of toa

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must renounce for ever the project of attaining to him; necessarily credible, since science and reason, far from demonstrating that he does not exist, are dragged by the chariot of fatality to believe that he does exist, and to adore him themselves with closed eyes. why- because this absurd is the infinite source of reason. the light springs eternally from the eternal shadows. science, that babel tower of the spirit, may twist and coil its spirals ever ascending as it will; it may make the earth tremble, it will never touch the sky. god is he whom we shall eternally learn to know better, and, consequently, he whom we shall never know entirely. the realm of mystery is, then, a field open to the conquests of the intelligence. march there as boldly as you will, never will you diminish its ext

hy he clothed them so well with all the colours of a shocking reality. dr. briere de boismont in his remarkable work on "hallucinations" tells the story of an englishman otherwise quite sane, who thought that he had met a stranger and made his acquaintance, who took him to lunch at his tavern, and then having asked him to visit st. paul's in his company, had tried to throw him from the top of the tower which they had climbed together<crowley elaborated several of these anecdotes into his stories> from that moment the englishman was obsessed by this stranger, whom he alone could see, and whom he always met when he was alone, and had dined well. precipices attract; drunkenness calls to drunkenness; madness has invincible charms for madness. when a man 119 succumbs to sleep, he hol

f tarot and chess are worthless 18th century fables. the "bohemians, by which levi means the gypsies, did not arrive in europe until centuries after the appearance of tarot. tarot may have imitated chess, but the antiquity of the latter precludes any influence by the former> and one finds there the same combinations and the same symbols: the king, the queen, the knight, the soldier, the fool, the tower, and houses representing numbers. in old times, chess-players sought upon their chess-board the solution of philosophical and religious problems, and argued silently with each other in manoeuvring the hieroglyphic characters across the numbers<order of the golden dawn may have designed enochian chess on this suggestion> our vulgar game of goose, revived from the old grecian ga

it is a tarot disposed in the form of a wheel, for the use of aspirants to initiation. now, the word tarot, in which one finds "rota" and "tora" itself expresses, as william postel has demonstrated, this primitive disposition in the form of a wheel. the hieroglyphs of the game of goose are simpler than those of the tarot, but one finds the same symbols in it: the juggler, the king, the queen, the tower, the devil or typhon, death, and so on. the diceindicated chances of the game represent those of life, and conceal a highly philosophical sense sufficiently profound to make sages meditate, and simple enough to be understood by children. the allegorical personage palamedes, is, however, identical with enoch, hermes, and cadmus, to whom various mythologies have attributed the invention of let

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hapel by michelangelo, for example. its tarot glyph is that of the wheel, which is the prime symbol of synchronicity, kether being the pivot and malkuth being the hub. of course, the number of the card is 10, referring to the number of malkuth, the number of sephiroth contained within kether, and reducing to 1, the unity of kether itself. spelt in full, kaph is kaph-peh, the wheel and the blasted tower, each of which can be seen as a process of evolution. on the one hand, progressive and cyclic, on the other hand, sudden and decisive. in terms of kether we see in these cards the doctrine of unity in diversity (the spindle and spokes of the wheel) implicit in kether, and the doctrine of the breaking of the shells in lurianic kabbalah (the tower or "blasted house" being matter struck by the

first accesses any of the sephiroth above tiphareth, self-awareness. devil (tiphareth) in order to rescue that consciousness, the adept must come to terms with the primal forces represented by the devil, but also unchain his model from his prior perceptions, which is also indicated by this card. the devil is beaten by looking him straight in the eye (ayin, the letter attributed to the devil card. tower (netzach) the tower connecting hod to netzach shows the dramatic tension that resides between these two sephiroth. the relationship of ones thoughts to ones feelings is often a disharmonious one, thus causing the destruction of the tower. however, this friction can be utilised by the initiate in order to work on his psyche and perceptions and to build a tower of singular language, not merely

tzach) the tower connecting hod to netzach shows the dramatic tension that resides between these two sephiroth. the relationship of ones thoughts to ones feelings is often a disharmonious one, thus causing the destruction of the tower. however, this friction can be utilised by the initiate in order to work on his psyche and perceptions and to build a tower of singular language, not merely another tower of babel. sun (yesod) the mind can reflect from tiphareth experiences of a "higher order, and such is often termed "gnosis" by contemplatives. this illuminates the psyche, centred in yesod, through the path of the sun atu. it is interesting to note that this functional triad utilises the devil atu as lucifer, the light-bringer. last judgement (malkuth) the "last judgement" atu shows the resu

is the base. from understanding and discrimination, and the processes of the intellect, reflecting the arc of will, comes the decision to act, the judgement from which flows the will into the world of action, malkuth. if the lower sephiroth are harmonised, this will also flow from the emotions (netzach) and unconscious desires (yesod, otherwise conflicts will be set up on the path of the blasted tower, and the action will ultimately result in nothing. imbalance in this triad is often reflected on the other side of the tree in the path governed by the moon, denoting a negative side to the card's symbolism, where the cyclic repetitions of an action are caused by indecision on the other side of the tree. adin steinsaltz calls one attribute of hod "perseverance, and this is echoed by regardie

on ones interpretation of the glyph, and in the waite deck by the biblical garden of eden, where this "choice" is made as the "original sin" of the christian mythology. empress: the empress embodies nature, and thus relates to the generative aspect of yesod as the "foundation" or "ground" of growth. it is important that yesod is maintained as a firm foundation, otherwise the state of the blasted tower is brought about continually, and ones interactions with the world of assiah (malkuth) become confused and ultimately destructive. thus the ego is "transcended, but not destroyed in the initiate's progression. the ego is the process governing our interaction with the environment, and thus need only be calibrated, not wiped out. this is in one sense why no behaviour is ultimately necessary to

low the veil of paroketh. whereas the three paths of the upper triad deal with the "light" of creation, these three paths deal with the "life" of creation; path 24: the imaginative intelligence path 26: the renewing intelligence path 27: the active intelligence the tarot cards which relate to these paths are those often seen as the "bad guys" of the pack, being "death "the devil, and "the blasted tower. however, in the light of the path descriptions above, we can see that they symbolise essential qualities of the creative and generative processes of the universe. path 24, that of "death, gives "similarity to the likeness of beings. that is, beneath and beyond the transformations taking place about us, the "song remains the same, as the led zeppelin song puts it. all creatures, including ou

of regeneration. that is to say, this path regulates and "kicks off" constant cycles of activity just as the thermostat in a central heating system governs the activities of the whole system. path 27, the third and final path running horizontally across the tree is that called the "active intelligence. it is the "spirit of every creature, the motion to which they are subject, and has the "blasted tower" card attributed to it. in the earlier versions of the card, it was entitled "the house of god, struck by lightning" and perhaps we can see a reference to the first lightning flash of creation striking the primordial soup from which life emerged. in a psychological rather than cosmological context, the path represents the interaction of the thought process (hod) and our emotions (netzach, wh

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or obsession("i am depressed, disidentify yourself from the source of the problem("a surge of depression is trying to envelop me. 29. assagioli thought that this point was an outward projection, but magicians consider it an inward reality, located in the sephwah of tiphareth, the seat of the holy guardian angel. 30. in magic, this can be compared to the work of the 27th path of peh (known as "the tower) in which the old outmoded personality is dismantled, and a new personality is rebuilt. 31. transconscious is a term developed by psychologist/magician william stoltz to describe the psyche's creative and intuitive imagination. 32. although hermes is male, he is sometimes seen as an androgyne or hermaphrodite. in fact, the word hermaphrodite is a combination of the names hermes and aphrodite

THE STAR IN THE WEST BY CAPTAIN FULLER A CRITICAL ESSAY ON THE WORKS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY

the cavernous depths of hell, to sink into a dirge-like niobe death-chaunt, bewailing the thirteen children of their begetting, rising once more in the song of ligeia, enticing men to her mire, and at length to die still-voiced as the daughter of dis, whose ghostly fingers sinking clutch the frozen reeds of that slough in which she had so long wallowed. long have we peered, crouching on the watch-tower of our minds, through the darkness of ignorance lit alone by the northern lights of folly, till our scorched eyes falling as slags upon our hearts, a light celestial hath arisen from out the eyeless sockets of eternity. a day-star, to flash forth into the west, winged and wonderful. a pharos of gleaming hope lighting our way across the boisterous ocean of life to our haven of eternal rest. t

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od itself. only through this imam will one be able to journey to god. in western definitions, this concept is similar to the pope. sabbah was not only able to raise a number estimated at several thousand fanatic followers, called the assassins from their ritual use of hashish, which was said to make them suggestive to hassan i sabbah s claims that alamut was indeed heaven and not a stark and cold tower or desert desolation. this drug, administered carefully, was able to create a strong link with the metal facilities of the individuals, until they were mentally and physically ready to kill for imam. hassan i sabbah instilled in his followers a sense of freedom, yet with at an equal end the undying determination to serve and die for this individual. the luciferian component to the old man of

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od. 11:1 and the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 11:2 and it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of shinar; and they dwelt there. 11:3 and they said one to another, go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. and they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 11:4 and they said, go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 11:5 and the lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 11:6 and the lord said, behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have i

ve this son also. 35:18 and it came to pass, as her soul was in departing (for she died) that she called his name ben-oni: but his father called him benjamin. 35:19 and rachel died, and was buried in the way to ephrath, which [is] bethlehem. 35:20 and jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that [is] the pillar of rachel s grave unto this day. 35:21 and israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of edar. 35:22 and it came to pass, when israel dwelt in that land, that reuben went and lay with bilhah his father s concubine: and israel heard [it] now the sons of jacob were twelve: 35:23 the sons of leah; reuben, jacob s firstborn, and simeon, and levi, and judah, and issachar, and zebulun: 35:24 the sons of rachel; joseph, and benjamin: 35:25 and the sons of bilhah, rachel s handmaid;

e lord hath delivered zebah and zalmunna into mine hand, then i will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers. 8:8 and he went up thence to penuel, and spake unto judges page 146 them likewise: and the men of penuel answered him as the men of succoth had answered [him] 8:9 and he spake also unto the men of penuel, saying, when i come again in peace, i will break down this tower. 8:10 now zebah and zalmunna [were] in karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand [men] all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword. 8:11 and gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of nobah and jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure. 8:12 and when ze

and seventeen men. 8:15 and he came unto the men of succoth, and said, behold zebah and zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying [are] the hands of zebah and zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men [that are] weary? 8:16 and he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of succoth. 8:17 and he beat down the tower of penuel, and slew the men of the city. 8:18 then said he unto zebah and zalmunna, what manner of men [were they] whom ye slew at tabor? and they answered, as thou [art] so [were] they; each one resembled the children of a king. 8:19 and he said, they [were] my brethren [even] the sons of my mother [as] the lord liveth, if ye had saved them alive, i would not slay you. 8:20 and he said unto

d the company that [was] with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two [other] companies ran upon all [the people] that [were] in the fields, and slew them. 9:45 and abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt. 9:46 and when all the men of the tower of shechem heard [that] they entered into an hold of the house of the god berith. 9:47 and it was told abimelech, that all the men of the tower of shechem were gathered together. 9:48 and abimelech gat him up to mount zalmon, he and all the people that [were] with him; and abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid [it] on his shoulder, and

melech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid [it] on his shoulder, and said unto the people that [were] with him, what ye have seen me do, make haste [and] do as i [have done] 9:49 and all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed abimelech, and put [them] to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of shechem died also, about a thousand men and women. 9:50 then went abimelech to thebez, and encamped against thebez, and took it. 9:51 but there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut [it] to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower. 9:52 and abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto

died also, about a thousand men and women. 9:50 then went abimelech to thebez, and encamped against thebez, and took it. 9:51 but there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut [it] to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower. 9:52 and abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire. 9:53 and a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon abimelech s head, and all to brake his skull. 9:54 then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, a woman slew him. and his young man thrust him through, and he died. 9:55 and when the men of israel saw that abimelech was dead, t

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ation of the heptagram[(3x3 (3x4= 211-plus the unnumbered fool, which as the point of observation is free to move throughout the deck. number i ii 111 iv v vi vi i vlll ix x xi xi1 xlll xiv xv xvi xvl l xvlll xix xx xxi table of twenty-two doors name path sign letter kind fool magus priestess empress emperor hierophant lovers chariot strength hermit wheel justice hanged man death temperance devil tower star moon sun judgement world aleph w beth 1 cimel 3. daleth 7 he 7 vau 1 zayin t cheth n teth d yod' kaph 3 lamed 3 mem d nun 1 samekh 0 ayin y pe 5) tzaddi 3 qoph i;l resh 1 shin td tau n mother double double double single single single single single single double single mother single single single double single single double mother double c is meaning trans. value 1 ox house camel door wi

t and day. vii. the chariot conquers with iron mind. viii. the balance weighs and pays in kind. ix. the hermit lights the right-hand path. x. the wheel turns, the gods laugh. xi. the strength of faith shuts savage jaws. xii. the martyr bows to heaven's laws. xiii. the reaper frees the souls from earth. xiv. the alchemist blends and finds true worth. xv. the beast tests with earthly blow. xvi. the tower falls if built for show. xvii. the star gives hope of things to be. xviii. the moon warns of the dangerous sea. xix. the sun warms the world with joy. xx. the trumpet wakes the sleeping boy. xxi. the world combines the all in one. the fool's road ends where it's begun. the numbering of the cards presented in the above rhyme is that of the mar- seilles deck. it differs from most modern occult

le, but no hope or will either. xiii. death-decay necessary for rebirth. the dead must be absorbed into the earth before new shoots can sprout. serpent in the skull. flower on the grave. xiv. temperance-blending of opposites. the search for balance. dynamic tension. the golden mean. xv. devil-inertia in matter. the shadow, the vacuum, the mask, the bag of wind, the bluff, the bully, the lie. xvi. tower-pride. the tower of babel. all castles in the air that are over- thrown with time. the vanity of human wishes. denial of natural law. xvii. star-light in darkness. heart's ease in heart's sorrow. hope. the voice of angels. what makes the stumbling sufferer look up. xviii. moon-waters of despair. tears. light that vanishes in a dream. will-0- the-wisps. false prophets. indifference at the gat

e by the author which first appeared in llewellyn's 1991 magickal almanac: fool aleph (mother) air i. priestess beth (double) moon 11. magus gimel (double) mercury 111. empress daleth (double) venus iv. emperor he (single) aries v. vi. vii. viii. ix. x. xi. xii. xiii. xiv. xv. xvi. xvii. xviii. xix. xx. xxi. hierophant lovers temperance strength hermit wheel justice hanged man death chariot devil tower star moon sun judgement world vau zayin cheth teth yod kaph lamed mem nun samekh ayin pe tzaddi qoph resh shin tau (single (single (single (single (single (double (single (mother (single (single (single (double (single (single (double (mother (double) taurus gemini cancer leo virgo sun libra water scorpio sagittarius capricorn mars aquarius pisces jupiter fire saturn it was deemed necessary

ate has no wish to enter the circle-often just the oppo- site-but the secret currents of his or her life conspire to lead the candidate contin- dy to the gates of the temple. no matter how hard he or she strives against them, there is no rest or happiness until the candidate accepts his or her destiny and sub- mits to the initiation. the mystical poem by robert browning, childe roland to the dark tower came, gives an example of the unwilling spirit of the calling: for, what with my whole world-wide wandering, what with my search drawn out through years, my hope dwindled into a ghost not fit to cope with that obstreperous joy success would bring- i hardly tried now to rebuke the spring my heart made, finding failure in its scope.27 by its nature initiation implies there is a circle of indiv

pricking the common folk with pitchforks as they go about their futile activities-gossiping, lying, gambling, speculating-because the artists intuitively grasped that evil uses small acts to dis- tract the mind away from the light. why else show devils tugging on ears and tick- ling noses? such useless and time-wasting activities as fill the lives of average persons are the stones that build the tower of ruin. have you ever wondered why you curse god when you drop something, or cut yourself, or trip and stub your toe? the momentary distraction of your will allows a tiny tendril of evil to slip past your defenses, and in that instant of distraction, you are made to serve as an instrument of chaotic forces. make a simple test. sit in a quiet place and try to listen to your own inner still

ulders, and so on. bit by bit the spirit is built up, like frankenstein's monster, until an integrated figure is obtained. throughout the formation process, the magus relies on the symbolism of the hebrew letters for guidance. to illustrate, here are the attributes of graphiel, the intelligence, or good spir- it, of the planet mars: g camel priestess moon r head sun jupiter a ox fool air ph mouth tower mars i hand hermit virgo a ox fool air l ox goad justice libra the first column after the name is the meaning of the hebrew letter; the sec- ond is the tarot trump connected with it; and the third is the astrological power. in this example, the planet jupiter is linked to the tarot trump of the sun (see the table at the start of chapter 20. the golden dawn system of occult correspon- dences

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an and woman by an imp wielding a sword, and the giant devilish figure is set on fire. the ruling intelligence is pan, god of nature. the flutes invoke his presence at the celebration in the form of a goat that is led along after the statue. for the price of a coin, the masked revelers will let you ask your questions of the goat, who will bleat to indicate an affirmative response. xvi the blasted tower hebrew letter: pe (mouth) correspondence: mars path: twenty-seventh a tall tower of stone built upon a peak and accessible only by a steep and winding road is struck by a bolt of lightning during a storm. the crown of the tower catches fire and the blaze, driven by strong wings, begins to work its way down to the lower levels, its progress indicated by the flames that issue from successively

ondence: mars path: twenty-seventh a tall tower of stone built upon a peak and accessible only by a steep and winding road is struck by a bolt of lightning during a storm. the crown of the tower catches fire and the blaze, driven by strong wings, begins to work its way down to the lower levels, its progress indicated by the flames that issue from successively lower windows. the inhabitants of the tower leap to their deaths from its windows to avoid the heat of the flames. there is no way for you to go to their aid because the entrance at the rear of the tower remains barred. the townspeople who climb the hill to watch the progress of the flames are as helpless as you are. they inform you that the owners of the tower, a wealthy nobleman and his wife, were so fearful of being robbed that the

eople who climb the hill to watch the progress of the flames are as helpless as you are. they inform you that the owners of the tower, a wealthy nobleman and his wife, were so fearful of being robbed that they built this impregnable citadel on the hill, where they could live with their children and trusted servants in complete security from intrusion. they may whisper rumors of dark doings in the tower concerning torture and black magic. as you watch, the tower collapses and falls into a heap of rubble. the ruling intelligence of the trump is mars, the god of warfare and destruction. if you listen, you may hear his voice speaking in the crackle and roar of the flames. xvli the star hebrew letter: tzaddi (fish-hook) correspondence: aquarius path: twenty-eighth an attractive, naked woman pou

ling animals, who appear half mad as they threaten each other across the imaginary barrier of the path. the moonlight makes the scene almost as bright as day. glistening dew lies like a frost on every blade of grass and every leaf. when you reach one of the watchtowers, you find the door carelessly left unlocked. all the soldiers, who are evidently the military force of the nobleman that owns the tower, lie sleeping in their beds as though drugged, and cannot be awakened. crossing to the other tower, you discover an identical situation, but the guards wear the crest of a different noble house. something moves in the higher chambers of the tower. the ruling intelligence of this trump is hecate, triple goddess of the moon who presides over black magic, nightmares, and the use of drugs and po

he creator trieth all righteous persons" chapter thirteen: pathworking 237 26. tiphareth to hod hebrew letter: ayin tarot trump: xv the devil correspondence: capricorn "the twenty-sixth path is called the renewing intelligence, because the holy god renews by it all the changing things which are renewed by the creation of the world" 27. netzach to hod hebrew letter: pe tarot trump: xvi the blasted tower correspondence: mars "the wenty-seventhp ath is the active or exciting intelligence, and it is so called because through it every existent being receives its spirit and motion" 28. netzach to yesod hebrew letter: tzaddi tarot trump: xvii the star correspondence: aquarius "the twenty-eighth path is called the natural intelligence; by it is completed and perfected the nature of all that exists

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at 10:oo the hermit, and at 11:oo justice. the cards of the triangle should all be upright with their bases perpendicular to the base of the triangle. at the apex place the fool; on the left side of the second row put the universe; on the right of the second row, the wheel; on the left of the third row, the empress; in the center of the third row, the magician; on the right of the third row, the tower; on the left of the bottom row, the hanged man; second from left, the high priestess; third from left, the sun; at the right of the bottom row put the last judgment. the ten number cards of the suit corresponding to the direction in which the triangle points should be placed under these ten trumps that define the triangle. for air and the east, use swords; for fire and the south, use wands;

hich the triangle points should be placed under these ten trumps that define the triangle. for air and the east, use swords; for fire and the south, use wands; for water and the west, use cups; for earth and the north, use pentacles. beneath the fool put the ace; beneath the universe, the two; beneath the wheel, the three; beneath the empress, the four; beneath the magician, the five; beneath the tower, the six; beneath the hanged man, the seven, beneath the high priestess, the eight; beneath the sun, the nine; beneath the last judgement, the ten. the use of tarot trumps to form the circle and triangle is superior to the methods of tape or coins, since the arrangement of the trumps creates a powerful symbolic machine that aids in evocation. in this present exercise trumps are placed accord

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saith the lord, gather up thy wings and enter: do as thou art commanded, and be multiplied7 (casaubon, p. 81. this confirms that "wings" is a term for active spiritual agents, or angels. dee thought so highly of kelley's vision that he engraved it upon a disk of gold. it shows a circle with four towers, or castles, at the four quarters of the earth. leading in to the center from the gate of each tower is a walkway representing a colored cloth, or carpet. moving toward the center on each of these colored carpets is a trumpeter, followed by three standard-bearers, six seniors, a king, five princes, five crosses arranged in a cross pattern, and sixteen dispositors. the circular center of the amulet shows the twenty-four seniors, having arrived at the center, gathered into a ring as if to con

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ciple learns to be pure and chaste, because he understands the value of his seminal fluid. arcanum 15 (the electrical hurricane) typhon baphomet. the sixth hour of apollonius. here it is necessary to stay quiet, still, because of fear (this signifies the terrible trial of the guardian of the threshold, before which much valor is necessary in order to [conquer] defeat it. arcanum 16 the fulminated tower. seventh hour of apollonius. the fire comforts the animated beings and if any priest, purified enough, steals it and then he projects it and if he mixes it with the holy oil and then consecrates it, he will achieve the curing of all diseases simply by applying it to the affected part (the initiate can see here his material fortune threatened and his businesses fail. arcanum 17 the star of ho

el toro de mois s con la espada entre sus manos. ese es el yo psicol gico, el bafometo, que con su espada aleja del umbral a todos aquellos que no est n preparados. dentro de nosotros est el enemigo. necesitamos trabajar con el demonio para disolverlo. necesitamos robarle el fuego al diablo. 104 arcanum 16 let us study now the sixteenth arcanum of the tarot. this is the arcanum of the fulminated tower. this is the tower of babel. two personages are precipitated to the bottom of the abyss. one of these personages when falling with his head downwards and his legs and arms outstretched represent the inverted pentagram. many are the initiates that allow themselves to fall; many are the fulminated towers. any initiate that spills the cup of hermes inevitably falls. the legend of the fallen ang

sis takes us to the conclusion that the human specter is a den of filthy demons. the conclusion is that the human being becomes a legion of demons that continue on. indeed, the physical human person dies. the human being is not immortal nor powerful yet; however, the human beings believe themselves to be so, but the breaking point of arrogance is that the ray of death fulminates them and from the tower of babel they roll into the abyss. this is the fatality. arcano xvi estudiemos ahora el arcano diecis is del tarot. este es el arcano de la torre fulminada. esta es la torre de babel. dos personajes son precipitados al fondo del abismo, uno de stos personajes al caer con la cabeza hacia abajo y las piernas y brazos abiertos hacia la derecha e izquierda, representa el pentagrama invertido. mu

gender these two superior vehicles. in the third initiations of major mysteries the astral-christ is born. in the fourth initiation of major mysteries the mental-christ is born. the astral and mental bodies studied by occultists, and which theosophy often refers to, are just miserable specters of death that eventually will be fulminated by the terrible ray of cosmic justice. thus, this is how the tower of babel along with satan, will roll into the abyss. immortality whosoever possesses the astral and mental bodies becomes absolutely immortal. when we study these christic vehicles and compare them with the astral and mental vehicles that are used by the defunct, then we find the following differences: the astral-christ shines marvelously, whereas the dead astral does not shine because it is

being! what is fundamental those students of occultism that practice esoteric exercises without working with the arcanum a.z.f. are similar to the man that builds his house upon the sands: his building will roll into the abyss; we must build upon the living rock, this rock is sex. whosoever develops his charkas within the specter of death will roll into the abyss; his temple will be a fulminated tower. whosoever engenders his christic bodies with the arcanum a.z.f. and works with the development of his chakras becomes a living christ. astral cristo. est limpio de pasiones. astral de la muerte. ese es el veh culo de pasiones animales. mental cristo. tiene figura ang lica divina. mental de la muerte. tiene figura animal. astral cristo. tiene despierto el kundalini y los chakras. astral de l

e inner sanctuary and thus sabotage the great work. in practical life, we may see that students (apparently very serious) when they became careless, when they could not protect their own inner lodge, were invaded by people and strange doctrines. often times they continue working in the flaming forge of vulcan, but they mixed many different methods and systems. the result of all of this was a true tower of babel, a barbaric confusion whose only purpose was to bring disorder into the inner lodge of their consciousness. therefore, it is necessary to have the inner lodge, the authentic school of inner education, in perfect order. we are absolutely sure that only one door and only one way exist: sex. thus, anything that is not through this way is just a miserable waste of time. el arca ten a cu

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e 7-e: traditional figure 7-f: alternate outward, but in the traditional kamea, it ends inside the figure. again, this does not seem befitting to the nature of mars, which has a much more outgoing, even thrusting kind of nature (see correspondence charts in chapter three. it has an energetic, restless energy that resembles one of the symbols attributed to peh, which is the lightening flash of the tower in the tarot deck (see figure 7-g. the mars seal also suggests this energy (see figure 7-f. the sacred name adonai (adni) has a numeration of sixty-five. graphiel, the intelligence, and bartzabel, the spirit of mars, both equal 325, the theosophic extension of the line when all numbers are included. you may want to review chapter four for variations on the sigil of graphiel. dr. case never r

mars also rules a water sign, which is an upside down triangle, in the alchemical design. a.aleph.air.circle l.lamed.libra, air.circle this can be drawn in a design that looks like figure 13-b. we can also spell the name with tarot keys and colors using the chart in chapter two (see figure 1-b on page 15. the tarot keys corresponding to the letters in this name are the sun (resh, figure 13-c, the tower (peh, figure 13-d, the fool (aleph, figure 13-e, and justice (lamed, figure 13-f. it can take a variety of forms, depending on the symbols one chose from the tarot keys, but a sample design might look like this: figure 13-c figure 13-d figure 13-e figure 13-f resh.sun.orange.sun symbol peh.tower.red.tower symbol aleph.fool.yellow.wheel symbol from fool's dress lamed.justice.green.symbol of t

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and. lady glamis, who i believe was an ancestor of the queen, was burned alive in 1537 as a witch! the duchess of gloucester was condemned to the dreaded bishop's prison in peel castle, isle of man, where she languished sixteen years until her death. her companion margery, the witch of eye, was burned alive and roger witche (note the name) or bolingbroke, a clerk and churchman, was drawn from the tower of london to tyburn and there hanged, beheaded and quartered. there is also the celebrated case of the knights templar. they were attacked suddenly and their destruction by fire and torture brought enormous amounts of loot into the hands of state and church. there have been innumerable books stating the cases for and against this order, so this may be of interest. the witches tell me 'the la

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old of me, i know shame wherever it be. mountain snow, shingle white grit; fish in ford, shelter in cave; who acts harshly is hated. mountain snow, stag in flight; common for a lord, gleaming blade, and mounting a saddle-bow, and dismounting, anger well-armed. mountain snow, stag hunched-up; many have muttered, truly, this is not like a summer day. mountain snow, stag hunted; whistle of wind over tower eaves; burdensome, man, is sin. mountain snow, stag bounding; whistle of wind over high white wall; common, a quiet beauty. mountain snow, stag on sea-strand; an old man knows his youth lost; a foul face keeps a man down. mountain snow, stag in grove; raven dark-black, roebuck swift; one free and well, strange he should groan. mountain snow, stag in rushes; marshes freezing, mead in cask; co

snow, stag bounding; whistle of wind over high white wall; common, a quiet beauty. mountain snow, stag on sea-strand; an old man knows his youth lost; a foul face keeps a man down. mountain snow, stag in grove; raven dark-black, roebuck swift; one free and well, strange he should groan. mountain snow, stag in rushes; marshes freezing, mead in cask; common for the crippled to groan. mountain snow, tower s breast studded; the beast searches for shelter; pity her who has a bad man. mountain snow, crag s breast studded; reeds withered, herd shunning water; pity him who has a bad wife. mountain snow, stag in gully; bees are sleeping well-sheltered; a long night suits a robber. mountain snow liverwort in river; wed unwilling to trouble, the sluggard seeks no swift revenge. mountain snow, fish in

ief. next time he passed that way he had a load of wool. after the animal had passed through the stream, the wool was thoroughly soaked, and very heavy. the donkey staggered under the soggy load. ha! shouted the mulla, you thought you would get off lightly every time you went through the water, didn t you? the trip nasrudin s friend wali slipped and fell from the immense height of the post office tower in london. the eyewitnesses, who had seen him plummet past their open windows, were questioned by nasruddin. they all agreed that wali s last words at each floor on the way down were: so far, so good. something fell nasrudin s wife ran to his room when she heard a tremendous thump. nothing to worry about, said the mulla, it was only my cloak which fell to the ground. what, and made a noise l

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of the four blessings. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott abraham was tested 10 times; 10 miracles were performed in egypt to help the children of israel, and 10 at the red sea. ten plagues were made to afflict the egyptians. ten times the jews offended god in the wilderness. ten times did the shekinah come down into the world; at the garden of eden; at the tower of babel; at sodom; in egypt, see exodus iii. 8; at the red sea, psalm cviii. 9; on mount sinai; at the temple; in the pillar of cloud; on the mount of olives, see zechariah xiv. 4; the 10th is omitted in the original reference, avoth d rabbi nathan, chapter 34. there are 10 hebrew words to designate idols and 10 for joy. sodom was to be spared for 10 righteous men; gideon took 10 servants t

il reputation among all peoples. the kabalists contrasted it with the perfection of the decad, and just as the sephirotic number is the form of all good things, so eleven is the essence of all that is sinful, harmful and imperfect. with the ten sephiroth they contrasted the eleven averse sephiroth, symbols of destruction, violence, defeat and death. on the oldest tarot cards, the trump called the tower struck by lightning, number xvi, shows the ten divine sephiroth on one side and the eleven averse sephiroth on the other side; modern tarot designs are very much debased. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott john heydon says that by it we know the bodies of devils and their nature; the jews understand by it lilith, adam s first wife, a she-devil, dangero

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circle, robed in black or red and candles should be black and red. a statement of intent would read as the following: it is my will to invoke the egregores of samael and lilith, so that by union of both within myself, i shall become reborn as baphomet. widdershines, banishing ritual to clear mind and call the four quarters: zazas, zazas, nasatanada zazas south: shaitan-set, lords of the southern tower, djinn father of fire and desert sands, i do summon thee forth to witness my rites of awakening and union. i command the fires of the abyss to protect my circle, let the gates be opened! fire invoking pentagram east: lucifer-phosphorus, lords of the eastern tower, bearer of the black flame, lord of light and promethean flame, i do summon thee forth to witness my rites of awakening and union

tect my circle, let the gates be opened! fire invoking pentagram east: lucifer-phosphorus, lords of the eastern tower, bearer of the black flame, lord of light and promethean flame, i do summon thee forth to witness my rites of awakening and union. i command the forces of air and the astral plane, send thy luciferian elementals to guard this circle. west: leviathan-ourabouris, lord of the western tower, who beholds the black flame hidden in the depths! great encircling one, who holds the keys to immortality! i summon the forces of water and the sea to witness my rites of awakening and union. be watchful and protect this circle! north: belial lord of the northern tower, who fell from heaven to be as god itself, who accepts no master- i do summon thee forth to witness my rites of awakening a

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ments& ask for further enlightenment. h ow should we obtain further enlightenment? lii- earth of earth "when one's resting is like that of the back& he loses a ll consciousness of self: when he walks in his own courtyard& does not see any of the persons in it- then there will be no error" die jovis: began the pantacle of xvi& went on with my fish story; which by the way is the blasting of the old tower of jesus-tyranny. de martis: we have all three been sick in various ways, so that save for beginning the painting of the pantacle no work has been done. i ask a symbol to indicate our proper course of action: xx- airy part of kteis. cf. general symbol, i should suppose that this means that we can now begin again. what shall we do tomorrow die mercuri? x- phallic part of water. the tiger. see

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gements& ask for further enlightenment. how should we obtain further enlightenment? lii- earth of earth "when one's resting is like that of the back& he loses all consciousness of self: when he walks in his own courtyard& does not see any of the persons in it- then there will be no error" die jovis: began the pantacle of xvi& went on with my fish story; which by the way is the blasting of the old tower of jesus-tyranny. de martis: we have all three been sick in various ways, so that save for beginning the painting of the pantacle no work has been done. i ask a symbol to indicate our proper course of action: xx- airy part of kteis. cf. general symbol, i should suppose that this means that we can now begin again. what shall we do tomorrow die mercuri? x- phallic part of water. the tiger. see

ZALEWSKI SECRET INNER ORDER RITUALS OF THE GOLDEN DAWN OCR

5. lecture on name extraction from the tablets 6. hierarchy of the tablets 7. astrology and the tablets 8. notanda 9. introduction to skrying 10. systematic method of studying the squares (tablets) 11. official lecture for slaying enochian squares 12. aura control and the enochian tablets 13. enochian dictionary 14. enochian chess papers 15. instructions for making an enochian chess set 16. watch tower ceremony 17. equinox ceremony 18. ritual of spiritual development 19. invocation of the higher genius ritual 20. lecture of the symbolism of the 5=6 grade 21. lecture of task undertaken by adeptus minor 22. fama confessio documents 23. lecture the enochian tablets: different types and their use 24. z-2 documents 25. planetary rituals 26.36 flying roils 27, lecture on talismanic images 28. co

d raise; ankh. ch.ad "mother of life, hidden house of the fire of the spirit, grant us thy life. mother of all, matron, we would be even as the burning bush which was not consumed; a sign to those who may have eyes to see. in thy hands is the lamp of understanding; show us, if but for an instant, a ray of that light divine. rose of the world, vouchsafe to us a breath of thine ineffable fragrance. tower of ivory, enclose us in thy protecting purity. give us, we beseech thee, this day and hour, thine aid in the high purpose for which we are here assembled. strengthen the postulant who seeks enlightenment through the gates of darkness, that passing through the valley of bitterness he may find therein the wells of living water. reflect upon his soul those visions of the spirit which awaken the

t. he shall enter the kingdom of god. the law is the tree of life. he shall come forth with joy and be welcomed with gladness. the law is the waters of life. the hegemon leads the philosophus to the western side of the tablets. celebrant frater adveniat regnum (tvl alius, i salute you by the mystic title of pharos illuminans, conferred on you in the grade of philosophus. may your presence be as a tower of light in the presence of your peers. i have come from the secret places through a hidden door, carrying a great dispensation for your advancement in a world unknown. give me the symbol which you received in the 4=7 grade. philosophus (who is prompted by the hegemony--master of the portal, they gave me the symbol of phrath, which is the fourth river of eden. celebrant--i testify that it is

e founder was once an american golden dawn head: they were completely unfounded. as anyone who had met regardie would tell you, they may not agree with his opinions, but his ability was never in question. he had, in the last decade of his life, given out the 5=6 to a select few in the u.s, in the hope that they would carry on the g.d. banner after his death. the ritual of the opening of the watch tower (written in the 1940s, was an example of that early regardie brilliance, and clearly reflects that unique quality. a number of active golden dawn temples (including ours) have adopted this as part of their study curriculum; it is pure c.d. in its essence, and is a tribute to regardie's adaptability and far seeing vision. in 1983 he talded about trying to write a volume that would tie in the

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, they have general duties assigned them of momentous and lasting influence. a long range of charming or awful half-goddesses mediates between men and deity: their authority is manifestly greater, their worship more impressive, than any reverence paid to heroes. there are not, strictly speaking, any heroines, but whatever among women answers to heroes appears more elevated and spiritual. brunhild towers above siegfried, and the swan-maid above the hero to whom she unites herself (see suppl. in other mythologies also it is observable, that in the second rank of deities female beings predominate, while the first is reserved almost exclusively for the male, but the divine heroes we have spoken of come only in the third rank. i have on p. 250 partly accounted for the longer duration of the tra

s 51) y.puceles men eure'es (meon 3, 418, franches puceks senees (3, 419; sapaudes (wise-women, from sapere 1, marie de fr. 2, 385. enchanting beauty is ascribed to them all' plus bela que fada' ferabras 2767; conf. 16434. a book of h. schreiber (die feen in europa, freib. 1842) throws much light on the antiquities of fayworship. houses, castles and hills of the fays remind us of the wise-women's towers, of the venus-hill and holla-hill, and of giant's houses. in irish, siahrog, sighbrog, is first a fays' house, theu the fay community. norni. fatae. 411 mentions (de bello goth. 1, 25, ed. bonn. 2, 122) a building in tlie ptoman forum called ra rpia (fyara (supra p. 405, note) with the remark: ovtco yap 'pco/xalot ta /j,o2pa; vevofxikacn koktlv- at that time therefore still neuter; but ever

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terial universe as depicted in malkuth, with the pillar of mercy, and the side of chesed through the sephira netzach. and through it do the waters of chesed flow down. hiero: heg: pract: move to west of altar. hiero: before you upon the altar is the 18th key of the tarot, which symbolically resumes these ideas. it represents the moon with four hebrew yods, like drops of dew falling, two dogs, two towers, a winding pathway leading to the horizon, and in the foreground, water, with a crayfish crawling through it towards land. the moon is in the increase on the side of gedulah, and from it proceed sixteen principal and sixteen secondary rays, which together make 32, the number of the paths of yetzirah. she is the moon at the feet of the woman of the revelation, ruling equally over cold and mo

four hebrew yods refer to the four letters of the holy name reconstituting the destroyed world from the waters. it is to be noted that the symbol of the sign pisces is formed of the two lunar crescents of gedulah and geburah bound together, and thus shows the lunar nature of the sign. the dogs are the jackals of the egyptian anubis, guarding the gates of the east and of the west, shown by the two towers, between which lies the path of all the heavenly bodies ever rising in the east and setting in the west. the crayfish is the sign cancer, and was anciently the scarabus or khephra, the emblem of the sun below the horizon as he ever is when the moon is increasing above. also when the sun is in the sign pisces, the moon will be well in her increase in cancer as shown by the crayfish emblem. h

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ars. the same scheme is therefore, applicable to the celestial heavens, and the mode of the governance of these tablets in the heavens is also set forth in these four tablets, terrestrial as well as in the heavens, is in the spaces between the 4 pillars. 30 that is, between the double pillars of severity and mercy. in these vast spaces at the ends of the universe are these tablets placed as watch towers, and therein is their dominion limited on either side by the sephirotic pillars, and having the great central cross of each tablet coinciding with one of the 4 tiphareth points in the celestial heavens. therefore, even in the small squares into which each tablet is divided, each represents a vast area of dominion, having the correlation thereof in the universe, in the planets, in our b, in

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they glide in at the doors like serpents they enter by the windows like the wind idpa they are, entering by the head namtar they are, entering by the heart utuk they are, entering by the brow alal they are, entering by the chest gigim they are, seizing the bowels telal they are, grasping the hand uruku they are, giant larvae, feeding on the blood they are seven! seven are they! they seize all the towers from ur to nippur yet ur knows them not yet nippur does not know them they have brought down the mighty of all the mighty cities of man yet man knows them not yes the cities do not know them they have struck down the forests of the east and have flooded the lands of the west yet the east knows them not yet the west does not know them they are a hand grasping at the neck yet the neck does no

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ude. line 28. a woman, naked, and kneeling onher left knee, pours from a vase in her right hand silver waters into a river, by which grow roses, the haunts of coloured butterfiles. with her left hand she pours golden waters over her head, which are lost in her long hair. her attitude suggests the swastika. above flashes a great star of seven rays. notes 40 line 29. below, a path leads between two towers, guarded by jackals, from the sea, wherein a scarab us marcheth landwards. line 30. below is a wall, in front of which, in a fairy ring, two children wantonly and shamelessly embrace. line 31. an angel blowing a trumpet, adorned with a golden banner bearing a white cross. below a fair youth rises from a sacrophagus in the attitude of the god shu supporting the firmament. on his left a fair

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was then placed upon this table, and the principal result of the ceremonial skrying of sir edward kelly is the obtaining of the following diagrams, plates iii.-viii. he symbolized the four-dimensional universe in two dimensions as a square surrounded by 30 concentric circles (the 30 thyrs or aires) whose radii increase in a geometrical proportion. the sides of the square are the four great watch-towers (plates iv.-vii) which are attributed to the elements. there is also a black cross (or central tablet according to the arrangement shewn compare the black cross bordering the tablets in plate iii. with plate viii).6 plate iii gives the general view [the reversed letters which form the word paraoan are written in enochian for convenience, as our a and o are not distinguishable reverse from f

usahi od umapelifa vau-ge-ji bijil-iad! the east is a house of virgins singing praises among the flames of first glory wherein the lord hath opened his mouth; and they are become as 28 living dwellings in whom the strength of man rejoiceth; and they are apparelled with ornaments of brightness, such as work wonders on all creatures. whose kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth strong towers and places of comfort, the seats of mercy and continuance. o ye servants of mercy, move! appear! sing praises unto the creator; and be mighty among us. for that to this remembrance is given power, and our strength waxeth strong in our comforter! the angle of c of d in the tablet of d the queen of the thrones of air. the eighth key bazodemelo i ta pi-ripesonu olanu na-zodavabebe ox. casareme

is of the godhead.15 thus, then, with us hath it the number 0, though with them that of 1 (even as the first key of the rota hath the number 0) after this follow the calls or keys of the thirty aires of thyrs: which are in substance similar, though, in the name of the thyrs, diversified. the titles of the thirty thyrs whose dominion extendeth in ever-widening circles without and beyond the watch towers of the universe [the first is outermost] 1 lil 16 lea 2 arn 17 tan 3 zom 18 zen 4 paz 19 pop 5 lit 20 khr 6 maz 21 asp 7 deo 22 lin 8 zid 23 tor 9 zip 24 nia 10 zax 25 vti 11 ich 26 des 12 loe 27 zaa 13 zim 28 bag 14 uta 29 rii 15 oxo 30 tex the call or key of the thirty thyrs madariatza das perifa lil* cahisa micaolazoda saanire caosago od fifisa balzodizodarasa iaida. nonu a gohulime: mic

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e mechanism of the brain, we fail to recall it, or recall it wrong, because it is painful "the psychopathology of everyday life" analyses and illustrates this phenomenon in detail. now, the king of terrors being death, it is hard indeed to look it in the face. mankind has created a host of phantastic masks; people talk of "going to heaven "passing over, and so on; banners flaunted from pasteboard towers of baseless theories. one instinctively flinches from remembering one's last, as one does from imagining one's next, death<buddhist meditations of the ten impurities. weh note adenda: right, but it scares the dickens out of you! when i succeeded in the practice in my teens, i panicked out of using the relate

nder, to give up their own life to the babe of the abyss which is- and is not- they. the others, proud in their purple, refuse. they make themselves a false crown of the horror of the abyss; they set the dispersion of choronzon upon their brows; they clothe themselves in the poisoned robes of form; they shut themselves up; and when the force that made them what they are is exhausted, their strong towers fall, they become the eaters of dung in the day of be-with-us, and their shreds, strewn in the abyss, are lost. not so the masters of the temple, that sit as piles of dust in the city of the pyramids, awaiting the great flame that shall consume that dust to ashes. for the blood that they have surrendered is treasured in the cup of our lady babalon, a mighty 192 medicine to awake the eld of

s jumping off> 3. should one rashly dare the passage, and take the irrevocable oath of the abyss, he might be lost therein through aeons of incalculable agony; he might even be thrown back upon chesed, with the terrible karma of failure added to his original imperfection. 4. it is even said that in certain circumstances it is possible to 415 fall altogether from the tree of life and to attain the towers of the black brothers. but we hold that this is not possible for any adept who has truly attained his grade, or even for any man who has really sought to help humanity even for a single second<possession of liber clxxxv will note that in every grade but one the aspirant is pledged to serve his inferiors in the order, and that although his aspiration have been impure through vanity

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se well-known calculations "prepare to enter the immeasurable region" and dig out the unknown. you must construct your own qabalah! nobody can do it for you. what is your own true number? you must find it and prove it to be correct. in the course of a few years, you should have built yourself a palace of ineffable glory, a garden of indescribable delight. nor time nor fate can tame those tranquil towers, those minarets of music, or fade one blossom in those avenues of perfume! humph! nasty of me: but it has just stuck me that it might be just as well if you made a sepher sephiroth of your own! what a positively magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 64 beastly thing to suggest! however, i do suggest it. after all, it's simple enough. every word you come across, add it

one can usually buy stoves with excellent appropriate symbolism (last time i did this- 13 e.v- i got a perfect ferranti at harrods. the circular copper bowl, with the central disk as the source of heat, is unsurpassable) the walls should be "self-coloured" a neutral tint- green, grey or blue-grey? and entirely bare, unless you put up, in the proper quarters, the proper designs, such as the "watch towers- see the equinox i, 7. remember that your "east" your kiblah, is boleskine house, which is as near as possible due north from plymouth. find north by the shadow of a vertical rod and noon, or by the pole-star. work out the angle as usual. the st l of revealing may be just on the n. wall to make your "east" magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 156 next, your circle. th

xpressed yourself as if this were so 'of course, they had to pick on me to do the dirty work' is a typical growl of the old big lion! but again there is that magical memory of yours when you came down from that hermitage in the little wood overhanging the nullah below the great peak 'somewhere in asia' and sat in some sort of consistory in the valley where the great lamaserai- or whatever it was- towers over the track (i quote some of your phrases from memory) which is it" magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 275 my dear child, that is all very sensibly put; and the answer is that convenience would decide. then you go on, after a digression "then how are they acting at present? what impact has the new word, thelema, made upon the planet? what are we to expect as a re

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lements crowned by spirit, the will of man perfected in its aspiration to the higher. they are placed outside the circle to attract the hostile forces, to give them the first inkling of the great work, which they too must some day perform. 59 diagram on this page: a double cubic altar with universal sigil on top, sigils of the 4 enochian elemental kings around sides in top half and enochian watch towers (elemental squares) around sides in bottom half. there is a scale at bottom of the diagram and the caption under that "the altar. side designs from dr. dee, as in equinox vii" 60 chapter iii the altar the altar represents the solid basis of the work, the fixed will<wand; 2 x 2= 4. so the altar is foursquare

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ity; booty; witness, proof; ruler d( knowledge (cf. 474 (d 75 nuit, the star goddess (cf. 466 +ywn hues, colours, complexions ynwwg brightness; lucifer, the herald star llyh a lamenting, wailing hlly the pleiades hmyk night; by night hlyl priest nhk unto them mhl 76 secret, put away; a hiding-place nwybx rest, peace xxyn slave, servant db( goddess hlyl) 77 prayed h(b overflowing (ps. 124:5) nwdyz towers, citadels ldgm the influence through the paths (cf. 78; destiny, fate, luck; constellation, planet (cf. 483& 536; soul-root lzm goat; strength; violence; glory z( 78 1-12. the mystic number of kether as hua; the number of tarot cards; the sum of the key-numbers of the supernal beard aiwass: the angel of ra-hoor-khuit( gincorrect h. cf. 93) s)wy) the breaker; dream (n& v) mlx to pity lmx to

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g must remain closed to him "vale" 162 19 nine pictures between darkness and light, or eleven in all. the union of the pentagram and the hexagram is to be noted; also the eleven-lettered name abrahadabra; 418; achad osher, or one and ten; the eleven averse sephiroth; and adonai. book i the foundations of the temple of solomon the king and the nine cunning craftsmen who laid them between the watch-towers of night& day. 163) and from that place are cast out all the lords who are the exactors of the debts of man- kind, and they are subjugated "the greater holy assembly "xx. 440. 164 illustration on this page: this is a nine-pointed star, unicursal in design, with the points filled in by black triangle wedges about 1/16 inch from the outline. the unicrusality is such that lines connecting the

d the nothingness of the nothingness of eternity! thus men grew to believe in no-god, and to worship no- god, and to be persecuted for no-god, and to suffer and to die for no-god. and now they torture themselves for him, as they had of yore gashed themselves with flints at the footstool of god his father; and to the honour of his name, and as a proof of his existence, have they not built up great towers of science, bastions of steam and of flame, and set a-singing the wheels of progress, and all the crafts and the guiles and the artifices of knowledge? they have contained the waters with their hands; and the earth they have set in chains; and the fire they have bound up as a wisp of undried straw; even the winds they have ensnared as an eagle in a net- yet the spirit liveth and is free, an

e hearts of men: a well of life unto this world, yea! a goodly tavern wherein cool wine is sold, and good cheer is to be had, and where all shall be filled with the joyaunce of love. thus shall men attain to the unity of the crown and become as kings unto themselves. but the way is long and hilly and beset with many pitfalls, and it traverses a foul and a wild country. indeed we see before us the towers and the turrets, the domes and the spires, the roofs and the gables, glittering beyond the purple of the horizon, like the helmets and spears of an army of warriors in the distance. but on approaching we find that the blue of the sky-line encompasses a dark wood wherein are all things unmindful of the crown, and where there is darkness and corruption, and where lives the tyrant of the world

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nostril from thy left; for in the aeon of my father there is neither life nor death. hail unto thee who knowest not thy right ear from thy left; for in the aeon of my father there is neither sound nor silence. whoso hath power to break open this sapphire stone shall find therein four elephants having tusks of mother-of-pearl, and upon whose backs are castles, those castles which ye call the watch-towers of the universe. let me dwell in peace within the breast of the angel that is warden of the aethyr. let not the shame of my mother be 12 unveiled. let not her be put to shame that lieth among the lilies that are beyond the stars. o man, that must ever be opening, when wilt thou learn to seal up the mysteries of the creation? to fold thyself over thyself as a rose in the embrace of night? bu

ld be broken. and he speaketh unto me these words: behold, a mighty guard against the terror of things, the fastness of the most high, the legions of eternal vigilance; these are they that keep watch and ward day and night throughout the aeons. set in them is all force of the mighty one, yet there sirreth not one plume of the wings of their helmets. 88 behold, the foundation of the holy city, the towers and the bastions thereof! behold the armies of light that are set against the outermost abyss, against the horror of emptiness, and the malice of choronzon. behold how worshipful is the wisdom of the master, that he hath set his stability in the all-wandering air and in the changeful moon. in the purple flashes of lightning hath he written the word eternity, and in the wings of the swallow

y three and by three and by three hath he made firm the foundation against the earthquake that is three. for in the number nine is the changefulness of the numbers brought to naught. for with whatsoever number thou wilt cover it, it appeareth unchanged. these things are spoken unto him that understandeth, that is a breastplate unto the elephants, or a corselet unto the angels, or a scale upon the towers of iron; yet is this mighty host set only for a defense, and whoso passeth beyond their lines hath no help in them. yet must he that understandeth go forth unto the outermost abyss, and there must he speak with him that is set above the four-fold terror, the princes of evil, even with choronzon, the mighty devil that inhabiteth the outermost abyss. and none may speak with him, or understand

atigue by will. and by placing the shew- stone upon my forehead, it sends cool electric thrills through my brain, so as to refresh it, and make it capable of more rapture. and now again i behold her) 107 and an angel cometh forth, and behind him whirls a black swastika, made of fine filaments of light that has been "interfered" with, and he taketh me aside into a little chamber in one of the nine towers. this chamber is furnished with maps of many mystical cities. there is a table, and a strange lamp, that gives light by jetting four columns of vortex rings of luminous smoke. and he points to the map of the aethyrs, that are arranged as a flaming sword, so that the thirty aethyrs go into the ten sephiroth. and the first nine are infinitely holy. and he says, it is written in the book of th

ck 8vo, 4"th and last edition, revised. half-morocco, t.e.g, n.d" 7"s" 6"d" portion of contents- ever-burning lamps- the hermetic philosophers- the hermetic brethren- mystic history of the fleur-de-lis- sacred fire- fire-theosophy of the persians- ideas of the rosicrucians as to the character of fire- monuments raised to fire-worship in all countries- druidical stones and their worship- the round towers of ireland- cabalistic interpretations by the gnostics- mystic christian figures and talismans- the rosy cross in indian, egyptian, greek, roman, and mediaeval monuments- the great pyramid- myths of the scorpion, or the snake in its many disguises- rosicrucians celestial and terrestrial- alchemy- rosicrucians in strange symbols- robert flood- indian mystic adoration of forms, etc, etc. myst

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west 3 pillars_ qabalah water tree of of nine tablet life in chambers of water tarot_ diagram 37. arrangement of the temple for the 29th path in the 4= 7 ritual. after which he explains to him the eighteenth key of the tarot. it represents the moon in its increase in the side of gedulah; it has sixteen principal, and sixteen secondary rays. four hebrew yodhs fall from it. there are also two watch-towers, two dogs, and a cray-fish "she is the moon at the feet of the woman of the revelations, ruling equally over the cold and moist natures, and the passive elements of water 277 and earth" the four yodhs refer to the four letters of the holy name. the dogs are the jackals of anubis guarding the gates of the east and the west symbolised by the two towers. the cray-fish is the sign cancer, the s

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ride, but silence in the one thought of the one beyond all thought. the world of phantoms has no terror left; we can take the blood of the black dragon for our red tincture. we understand the precept "visita interiora terrae rectificando invenias occultum lapidem; and harnessing to our triumphal car the white eagle and the green lion we voyage at 63 our ease upon the path of the chameleon, by the towers of iron and the fountains of supernal dew, unto that black unutterable sea most still. xiii "from the cavities of the earth leap forth the terrestrial dog-faced demons, showing no true sign unto mortal man "go not forth when the lictor passeth by "direct not thy mind to the vast surfaces of the earth; for the plant of truth grows not upon the ground. nor measure the motions of the sun, coll

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ages, precipitous, winding, a black ever-rolling abyss, ever espousing a body unluminous, formless and void [making invoking pentagram] 9 see tablet of spirit. 10 see tablet of fire. 11 see tablet of spirit. 12 see tablet of air. creature of earth, in the names of nanta emor dial hectega,13 i consecrate thee to the service of the magic of light "chief magus" we invoke ye, great lords of the watch-towers of the universe!14 guard ye our magic circle, and let no evil or impure spirit enter therein: strengthen and inspire us in this our operation of the magic of light. let the mystic circumambulation take place in the path of light [assistant magus of art goes first, holding in his left the magic candle, and in his right the sword of art, with which latter he traces in the air the outer limits

e and cross of light and life: thee, thee we invoke! thou whose 176 head is of green, whose nemys is of night sky- blue; whose skin of of flaming orange, as though it burned in a furnace: thee, thee we invoke! behold, i am yesterday, to-day, and the brother of the morrow! for i am born again and again. mine is the unseen force which created the gods, and giveth life unto the dwellers in the watch-towers of the universe. i am the charioteer in the east, lord of the past and the future, he who seeth by the light that is within him. i am the lord of resurrection, who cometh forth from the dusk, and whose birth is from the house of death. o ye two divine hawks upon your pinnacles, who are keeping watch over the universe! ye who accompany the bier unto its resting-place, and who pilot the ship

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o race again. 142 to learn how to will is the key to the kingdom, the door of which as we have seen contains two locks, or rather two bolts in one lock, one turning to the right and the other to the left. either pile up the imagination with image upon image until the very kingdom of god is taken by assault; or withdrawn one symbol after another until the walls are undermined and the "cloud-capped towers" come tumbling to the ground. in either case the end is the same_ the city is taken. or perchance if you are a great captain, and your army is filled with warlike men, and you are in possession of all the engines suitable to this promethean struggle_ at one and the same time scale the bastions and undermine the ramparts, so that as those above leap down, those beneath leap up, and the city

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gleam of swords that urge hot laughter with high-leaping lust! 12 though one by one the heroes fall, their desperate way they slowly win, and knightly cry and comrade-call rise high above the savage din. now, now they land, a dwindling crew; now, now fresh armies hem them round. they cleave their blood-bought avenue, and cluster on the upper ground. ah! but dawn's dreadful front uprears! the tall towers blaze, to illume the fight; while many a myriad heathen spears march northward at the earliest light. falls thy last comrade at thy feet, o lordly-souled sir palamede? tearing the savage from his seat, he leaps upon a coal-black steed. he gallops raging through the press: the affrighted heathen fear his eye. there madness gleams, there masterless the whirling sword shrieks shrill and high

he, and stalking stole into the presence: he emerged. the scent awakes the uneasy soul of that majestic one: upsurged 29 the monster from the oozy bed, and bounded through the crashing glades- but now a staring savage head lurks at him through the forest shades. this was a naked indian, who led within the city gate the fooled and disappointed man, already broken by his fate. here were the brazen towers, and here the scupltured rocks, the marble shrine where to a tall black stone they rear the altars due to the divine. the god they deem in sensual joy absorbed, and silken dalliance: to please his leisure hours a boy compels an elephant to dance. so majesty to ridicule is turned. to other climes and men makes off that strong, persistent fool sir palamede the saracen. 30 xi sir palamede the

nds to thought a zest (quod he "but i am all for act. sit here, until your talk hath cracked the addled egg in nature's nest" with that he fled the dismal tract. 33 he was so sick and ill at ease and hot against his fellow men, he thought to end his purpose then- nay! let him seek new lands and seas, sir palamede the saracen! 34 xiii sir palamede is come anon into a blue delicious bay. a mountain towers thereupon, wherein some fiend of ages gone is whelmed by god, yet from his breast spits up the flame, and ashes grey. hereby sir palamede his quest pursues withouten let or rest. seeing the evil mountain be, remembering all his evil years, he knows the questing beast runs free- author of evil, then, is he! whereat immediate resounds the noise he hath sought so long: appears there quest a th

illed with his resounding curse- o fool of god! as if it mattered! so, nothing better, rather worse, out of the blue bliss of the pool came dripping that inveterate fool! 62 xxiii now still he holdeth argument "so grand a beast must house him well; hence, now beseemeth me frequent cathedral, palace, citadel" so, riding fast among the flowers far off, a gothic spire he spies, that like a gladiator towers its spear-sharp splendour to the skies. the people cluster round, acclaim "sir knight, good knight, thy quest is won. here dwells the beast in orient flame, spring-sweet, and swifter than the sun" sir palamede the saracen spurs to the shrine, afire to win the end; and all the urgent men throng with him eloquently in. sir palamede his vizor drops; he lays his loyal lance in rest; he drives t

rable smart "by goddes wounds" the good knight cried "what is this quest, grown daily dafter, where nothing- nothing- may abide? westward" they fly, but rolling after echoes the beast's unsatisfied and inextinguishable laughter! 70 xxvii sir palamede goes aching on (pox of despair's dread interdict) aye to the western horizon, still meditating, sharp and strict, upon the changes of the earth, its towers and temples derelict, the ready ruin of its mirth, the flowers, the fruits, the leaves that fall, the joy of life, its growing girth- and nothing as the end of all. yea, even as the yang-tze rolled its rapids past him, so the wall of things brake down; his eyes behold the mighty beast serenely couched upon its breast of burnished gold "ah! by christ's blood (his soul avouched "nothing but c

ey of solomon" as a work of high authority, and the former especially refers to it repeatedly. jennings (hargrave. the rosicrucians, their rites and mysteries, fourth edition, revised, demy 8vo "with hundreds of illustrations. half morocco" 7"s" 6"d" some of the contents: critics of the rosicrucians criticized- the hermetic philosophers- fire- theosophy of the persians- drudical stones- the round towers of ireland- mystic christian figures and talismans- the rosy cross in indian, egyptian, greek, roman, and mediaeval monuments- the great pyramid- connexion between the templars and gnosticism- astro-theosophical system of the rosicrucians- robt. fludd- the holy greale- the round table- alchemy- the outline of the kabbalah, etc, etc. the kabbalah unveiled, containing the following books of t

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: the power of horus: and the power of hoor-pa-kraat.3 now, the year being yet young, one d. a. came unto me, and spake. 1 ii esdras, viii, 52-54. 2 lamp of invisible light. l.i.l. the title of the first aethyr derived from the initial letters of the three mighty names of god. in all there are thirty of these aethyrs "whose dominion extendedth in ever widening circles without and beyond the watch towers of the universe" in one sense rightly enough did p. bring to completion the work l.i.l. at the end of the year 1900; but, in another, it took him nine long years of toil before he perfected it, for it was not until the last days of the year 1909 that the work of the thirty aethyrs was indeed brought to an end. in 1900 verily was the work conceived, but not until the year 1909 was it brought

e area behind the knees, there is a stretched out cloud with most of its bulk upwards to the center; it cuts off the radiant beams from the crown. there are two patchy clouds to the left on the illustration and three to the right below this large one. the figure is walking on something that looks like a cross between a dried lotus seed pod and a transected mud-daubber nest (8) completion of watch-towers and instruments.175 (9) the making of simple talismans. during each day this programme of work was to be divided as follows (1) in the morning the hb:shin of hb:shin operation, and assumption of a god- form (2) before tiffin. an astral projection practice (3) after tiffin. rising on a plane, or vision, or adonai ha aretz (4) in the evening. a magical ceremony of same sort, or any of above e

the altar were elemental instruments also symbol of golden dawn. she was waiting in awe, almost in fear. on my entering she saw me and started. then i heard the words "carry it" or "wish to carry; apparently with reference to idea of carrying away a physical token. the room was full of incense, 189 the four letters of the air line in the "little tablet of union" which unites the four great watch towers of the elements (see dr. dee's system, also golden dawn ms. entitled "the concourse of the forces" thus the t of nanta represents earth of earth- the empress of pantacles in the taro, and that letter is used as an initial for names of angels drawn from the earthy corner of the earth tablet. for further see the equinox, vol. i, no. 5. which i took to materialize myself. at the time i was ver

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and life: thee, thee we invoke! o thou whose head is as an emerald, and thy nemyss 101 as the night sky- blue! thou whose skin is of flaming orange, as though it burned in a furnace: thee, thee we invoke! behold, i am yesterday, to-day, and the brother of the morrow! i am born again and again. mine is the unseen force from which the gods are sprung; that giveth life unto the dwellers in the watch-towers of the universe. i am the charioteer of the east, lord of the past and the future. i see by mine own inward light; lord of resurrection, who cometh forth from the dusk, and whose birth is from the house of death. o ye two divine hawks upon your pinnacles, who keep watch over the universe! ye who company the bier unto the house of rest. ye who pilot the ship of ra, ever advancing onwards unt

ies, thick 8vo, fourth an last edition, revised "half-morocco, t.e.g" n.d. portion of contents- ever-burning lamps; the hermetic philosophers; the hermetic brethren; mystic history of the fleur-de-lis; sacred fire; fire-theosophy of the persians; ideas of the rosicrucians as to the character of fire; monuments raised to fire- worship in all countries; druidical stones and their worship; the round towers of ireland; cabalistic interpretations by the gnostics; mystic christian figures and talismans; the rosy cross in indian, egyptian, greek, roman and mediaeval monuments; the great pyramid; myths of the scorpion, or the snake in its many disguises; rosicrucians celestial and terrestrial; alchemy; rosicrucians in strange symbols; robert flood; indian mystic adoration of form; etc, etc. real h

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holding hands, form a circle so that the initiate is between the high priest and the high priestess, who hold his elbows tightly as they all whirl round chanting 'bko, eko azarak' to raise the cone of power. when. the others sit down, the initiate, still blindfolded, is led to stand with his back to the altar while the high priestess says 'in other religions, the postulate kneels while the priest towers above him, but in the magical art we are taught to be humble and so we kneel to welcome. them' kneeling, she kisses his feet and says 'blessed be thy feet that have brought thee in these ways' she then kisses him just above his knees and says 'blessed be thy knees that shall kneel at the sacred altar' she kisses himjust above his pubic hair and says 'blessed be thy phallus without which we

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coven dances around, singing: eko, eko azrak (etc. over and over, meanwhile pushing c back and forth among them, until h calls a halt. partner then rings bell three times as h turns c to stand before the altar, with c's back to the altar (i.e. facing south if altar is in north. h stands in centre of circle, facing c (and altar. h says: h: in other religions, the postulant kneels, while the priest towers above. but in the art magical we are taught to be humble, and we kneel to welcome her[/him] and we say [kneels] blessed be thy feet, which have brought thee in these ways;[kiss r. foot, then l. foot] blessed be thy knees, that shall kneel at the sacred altar;[kiss r. knee, then l. knee] blessed be thy womb[/phallus, without which we would not be;[kiss above pubes] blessed be thy breasts[/br

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dded enough empirical innovations to destroy those just proportions. it is vitruvius who gave to posterity the rules of construction of the grecian temples erected to the immortal gods; and the ten books of marcus vitruvius pollio on architecture, of one, in short, who was an initiate, can only be studied esoterically. the druidical circles, the dolmen, the temples of india, egypt and greece, the towers and the 127 towns in europe which were found "cyclopean in origin" by the french institute, are all the work of initiated priest- architects, the descendants of those primarily taught by the "sons of god" justly called "the builders" this is what appreciative posterity says of those descendants "they used neither mortar nor cement, nor steel nor iron to cut the stones with; and yet they wer

ct a faithful wife to shun the society of yogini or females who have been adored as sakti. amongst the votaries of a most licentious description" nothing should surprise us after this. and it is, therefore, with hardly a smile that we find another preposterous absurdity quoted about "budh" as being a name "which signifies not only the sun as the source of generation but also the male organ (round towers of ireland; quoted by mr. hargrave jennings in "phallicism" p. 264. max muller, in his "false analogies" says that "the most celebrated chinese scholar of his time, abel remusat" maintains "that the three syllables i hi wei (in the fourteenth chapter of the tao-te-king) were meant for je-ho-vah (science of religion, p. 332; and again, father amyot, who "feels certain that the three persons

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ks of the magician. only the destroyer shall devour thee; thou shalt blacken his throat, wherein his spirit abideth. ah, serpent apep, but i love thee! 26. my god! let thy secret fang pierce to the marrow of the little secret bone that i have kept against the day of vengeance of hoor-ra. let kheph-ra sound his sharded drone! let the jackals of day and night howl in the wilderness of time! let the towers of the universe totter, and the guardians hasten away! for my lord hath revealed himself as a mighty serpent, and my heart is the blood of his body. 27. i am like a love-sick courtesan of corinth. i have toyed with kings and captains, and made them my slaves. to-day i am the slave of the little asp of death; and who shall loosen our love? 28. weary, weary! saith the scribe, who shall lead m

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larged genitalia. such figures are usually referred to as shiela-na-gigs. the god is shown as a horned head surrounded by foliage; known as a "foliate mask, and also sometimes referred to as "jack of the green" or "robin o' the woods. incidentally, these carvings of the old god should not be confused with gargoyles. the latter are the hideous faces and figures carved on the four corners of church towers to frighten away demons. in those early days, when christianity was slowly growing in strength, the old religion the wiccans and other pagans was one of its rivals. it is only natural to want to get rid of a rival and the church pulled no punches to do just that. it has frequently been said that the gods of an old religion become the devils of a new. this was certainly the case here. the go

urably if you disregard the titles on the major arcana cards "death" is not necessarily death "justice" is not necesasrily justice; the "devil" not necessarily the devil, and so on. but going by our method, there are far more possibilities. you might be struck by the small boat in the background and associate it with travel. or you might be impressed by the sun rising (or setting) between the two towers on the right; or the rose on the banner; or the bishop-like figure. there are so many lesson nine: divination/ 113 114/ auckland's complete book of witchcraft things which might strike you forcibly. you will find it is a different thing each time you read the cards, giving a different and therefore far more personal reading for each individual. so, don't go by the book. use your own powers

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rcoming those of the aeon of osiris. yet the only thing that can be said of seven is that it is an effective destroyer of six. it has no creative properties of its own; it has neither the strength of symmetry nor the magical powers of its asymmetrical predecessors (1,3,5. proponents of six-isms instinctively fear seven: they warn about such things as the seventh son of a seventh son, of the seven towers of satan in yezidi legend, of the seventh seal, of the jewel of the seven stars. seven is thus a harbinger of doom to six: a shadowing- forth of the apocalypse to come. geometrically and numerically, like the aeon of horus, seven has an "identity crisis. additions or multiplications or powers of seven yield all sorts of random values and relationships. eighth angle: the temple containing th

owers of seven yield all sorts of random values and relationships. eighth angle: the temple containing the trihedral angles is a truncated pyramid: the power of the trapezoid perfectly manifest in a golden section-based threedimensional structure. thus its architects are the masters of the realm (the all-embracing term for the iv+ in the original church of satan: the sorcerers who beam from their towers the powers of darkness to rebuild the world corrupted by six and shattered by the seven, and their seal is the seal of the order of the trapezoid (seal of the priesthood of the original church of satan. ninth angle: the culmination of this dynamic process: the black flame in its perfection: the 'will to power" of nietzsche in a glory of desire: the extension of the enlightened will and init

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lise their effect in the physical world. it is those people who have a spiritual-physical balance, those who wish to manifest spiritual values in physical change, that the manipulators fear, not new age dogma. 5. you know that if the frequency of the energy grid is raised, so is that of the planet. you work through compatible human minds to build roads, factories, power stations, and transmission towers, at key points on the grid. the black magicians of the global elite know that if you can control the energy passing through the grid, you can control the collective mind of the human race. the village and road built through the centre of the stone circles at avebury in wiltshire, england, is a prime example. this strategy pours negative energy into the network at these points, weakening the

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empire arrived. on the left is an old british penny depicting britannia and alongside is barati on a phoenician coin. the stories told about these deities were the same atlantis revisited 63 of the sumerian empire.39 it is said of st patrick that he removed all the snakes from ireland. here are just some of the connections between north africa and the "emerald isle- ireland. the distinctive round towers in ireland are of phoenician origin and the irish harp (and scottish bagpipes) came from north africa, as did the name of the classic irish symbol, the shamrock. any three-leaf plant in egypt is known as a shamrukh. the rosary beads, such a symbol of the roman catholic church (created by the sumerian-inspired romans and based on sun worship, are from the middle east and still used by the eg

like elf, fairy, and pixie all symbolise the "representatives of various castes within the kingly succession (the reptilian hierarchy).24 so many fairy tales and other children's stories are encoded with the theme of the dragon bloodlines and their battles for power. the tales of princes and princesses "turning into a frog" is symbolic of shape-shifting. the same with dragon princesses locked in towers or giving birth to frogs* this is not to say that everyone with these names is involved in this, of course. only that these are names the llluminati use. the many faces of the serpent cult the set-serpent cult is satanism the satanists still use the deities, symbols, and rituals today that were used by the ancients because they represent the same stream of control and bloodline. in the unit

om reptilian bloodlines like the rockefellers, etc. in fact these reptilian genetic lines operate in a parasitic manner, the underground society acting as the 'parasite' society and the surface society operating as the 'host' society..as for the new york city/ wall street 'nest, during the bombing of the world trade center (aka world slave center) wherein terrorists attempted to topple one of the towers into the other, a little known fact was briefly revealed. a six-levelled sub-basement controlled by the us secret service suffered heavy damage. these six sub-basements, one beneath the other, may not have ended there, based on other information that i've uncovered of massive alien infestation beneath the new york city area. these subbasements may actually serve as a major terminal between

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h otherwith fantastic astronomical, mathematical and geometrical precision. but then, thesesocieties were not unconnected. as we shall see, they had the same origins. the templesat angkor wat are covered in reptilian images, a feature of all the ancient cultures,including the egyptian, the central american and the indian. professor phillip calahanin his study of the surviving and mysterious round towers of ireland has said that theyare positioned with remarkable synchronicity to the star constellations of the northernsky at the winter solstice. and the towers most perfectly align with the constellationof. draco. the head and eyes of the draco formation, as designed on the ground inireland, are, according to calahan, located either side of lough neagh right in thefigure 4: the draco dragonc

t newgrange in ireland hasa narrow passageway of some 62 feet which is perfectly aligned with the sun as it riseson december 2lst/22nd, the winter solstice. so much so that the golden sunlight fillsand illuminates the whole passage and the chamber at the centre. the entrance tostructures in the mediterranean, particularly the one at the palace of minos in crete, arethe same. the distinctive round towers of ireland are, according to some orientalists,of phoenician origin.43 again all this fits perfectly into the story i am revealing here.the phoenicians came from the middle and near east, one of the global centres for theanunnaki-reptilians and, according to the research of professor phillip calahan imentioned earlier, the round towers are aligned with stars systems in the northern sky -esp

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requests. he hath hopes also to return to the seventh throne after 1,200 years more, as he said unto solomon. he governeth 20 legions of spirits. and his seal is this, which wear thou, etc (38) halphas, or malthus. the thirty-eighth spirit is halphas, or malthous (or malthas. he is a great earl, and appeareth in the form of a stock-dove. he speaketh with a hoarse voice. his office is to build up towers, and to furnish them with ammunition and weapons, and to send men-of-war to places appointed. he ruleth over 26 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (39) malphas- the thirty-ninth spirit is malphas. he appeareth at first like a crow, but after he will put on human shape at the request of the exorcist, and speak with a hoarse voice. he is a mighty president and powerful. he can buil

nish them with ammunition and weapons, and to send men-of-war to places appointed. he ruleth over 26 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (39) malphas- the thirty-ninth spirit is malphas. he appeareth at first like a crow, but after he will put on human shape at the request of the exorcist, and speak with a hoarse voice. he is a mighty president and powerful. he can build houses and high towers, and can bring to thy knowledge enemies desires and thoughts, and that which they have done. he giveth good familiars. if thou makest a sacrifice unto him he will receive it kindly and willingly, but he will deceive him- that doth it. he governeth 40 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (40) raum- the fortieth spirit is raum. he is a great earl; and appeareth at first in the form o

s or sores, and causing worms to breed in them. he governeth 29 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (43) sabnock- the forty-third spirit, as king solomon commanded them into the vessel of brass, is called sabnock, or savnok. he is a marquis, mighty, great and strong, appearing in the form of an armed soldier with a lion s head, riding on a palecoloured horse. his office is to build high towers, castles and cities, and-to furnish them with armour, etc. also he can afflict men for many days with wounds and with sores rotten and full of worms. he giveth good familiars at the request of the exorcist. he commandeth 50 legions of spirits; and his seal is this (44) shax- the forty-fourth spirit is shax, or shaz (or shass. he is a great marquis and appeareth in the form of a stock-dove

metimes. he governeth 30 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (45) vine- the forty-fifth spirit is vine, or vinea. he is a great king, and an earl; and appeareth in the form of a lion,20 riding upon a black horse, and bearing a viper in his hand. his office is to discover things hidden, witches, wizards, and things present, past, and to come. he, at the command of the exorcist will build towers, overthrow great stone walls, and make the waters rough with storms. he governeth 36 legions of spirits. and his seal is this, which wear thou, as aforesaid, etc (46) bifrons- the forty-sixth spirit is called bifrons, or bifrous, or bifrovs. he is an earl, and appeareth in the form of a monster; but after a while, at the command of the exorcist, he putteth on the shape of a man. his office

-od umapelifa vau-ge-ji bijil- iad (dee) the east is a house of virgins singing praises amongst the flames of the first glory, wherein the lord hath opened his mouth and they are become 28 living dwellings in whom the strength of men rejoyceth and they are appareled with ornaments of brightness such as work wonders on all creatures whose kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth strong towers and places of comfort, the seats of mercy and continuance. o you servants of mercy, move, appear, sing praises unto the creator, and be mighty amongst us. for to this remembrance is given power and our strength waxeth strong in our comforter (lavey) the east is a house of harlots singing praises among the flames of the first glory wherein the dark lord hath opened his mouth; and they are be

h strong in our comforter (lavey) the east is a house of harlots singing praises among the flames of the first glory wherein the dark lord hath opened his mouth; and they are become as living dwellings in whom the strength of man rejoiceth; and they are appareled with ornaments of brightness, such as work wonders on all creatures. whose kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth, strong towers and places of comfort, the seats of pleasure and continuance. o ye servants of pleasure, move, appear, sing praises unto the earth and be mighty amongst us. for that to this remembrance is given power, and our strength waxeth strong in our comforter. the eighth key anton lavey writes: the eighth enochian key refers to the emergence of the satanic age (enochian) bazodemelo i ta pi-ripesonu o

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nse to the subtle. thus does the idea of the binding-together binah-principle come once again to our minds. 16. these are subtle ways of mind-working, and may appear foolishness to those unaccustomed to the initiate's method of using his mind; but the psycho-analyst under stands them and appreciates them at their true significance; and so likewise does the poet when he constructs his cloud-capped towers of imagery. mystical qabala page 99 17. the yetziratic text stresses the idea of faith, the faith that rests on understanding, whose parent is binah. this is the only place where faith may rightly rest. a cynic defined faith as the power of believing what you know isn't true; and this appears to be a fairly accurate definition for the manifestations of faith as they appear in many uninstruc

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way into print. i have given a little in my book, the esoteric philosophy of love and marriage. i cannot enter into the subject deeply in these pages, for it would be too much of a digression. some points, however, it is essential to touch upon for a comprehensive survey of our subject. at the moment of sexual union a psychic vortex is formed resembling a waterspout, a funnel-shaped swirling that towers up into other dimension. as body after body engages, the vortex goes up the planes. in all cases the physical, etheric and astral bodies are involved; the vortex therefore always reaches as far as the astral plane; a soul upon the astral plane may be drawn into this vortex if it is ripe for incarnation, and thus enter the sphere of the parents. if the vortex extends higher than the astral p

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alized among the christian savants. among these alonzo (or alfonso) of castile has immortalized himself by his scientific research, and the jewish and christian doctors who arranged the tables named for him were convened from all the accessible parts of civilized europe. five years were employed in their discussion, and it has been said that the enormous sum of 400,000 ducats was disbursed in the towers of the alcazar of galiana in the adjustment and correction of ptolemy s calculations. nor was it only the physical motions of the stars that occupied this grave assembly. the two kabbalistic volumes, yet existing in cipher, in the royal library of the kings of spain, and which tradition assigns to alonzo himself, indicate a more visionary study. in spite of the denunciations against this or

of fantasy fiction. his books include time and the gods (1906, the sword of welleran (1908, a dreamer s tales (1910, the book of wonder (1912, the last book of wonder (1916, the king of elfland s daughter (1924, and the blessing of pan (1927. another creator of fantasy worlds was j. r. r. tolkien (1892.1973) with his famous the lord of the rings trilogy: the fellowship of the ring (1954, the two towers (1955, and the return of the king (1955. these books involve a fictitious mythology reminiscent of arthurian romance and generated a worldwide cult following. there is a strong element of fantasy mythology in some of the short stories of the american writer h. p. lovecraft (1890.1937, who appears to have been strongly influenced by machen and lord dunsany. lovecraft s style is uneven and ma

ch societies were an increasing religious skepticism, the growth of free thought, romantic gothic literature with mad monks and devils, and male chauvinism in an atmosphere of class privilege and debauchery. sources: mannix, daniel p. the hell fire club. new york: ballantine books, 1959. mccormick, donald. the hell-fire club. london: jarrolds publishers, 1958. reprint, london: sphere books, 1975. towers, eric. dashwood: the man and the myth. u.k: crucible, 1986. hellstrom, eva backstrom (1898) founder of sallskapet for parapsykologisk forskning, the swedish psychical research organization, in 1947. hellstrom also served as secretary of the society. she was born on september 26, 1898, at stockholm. she was educated at djursholm college, sweden. hellstrom became a member of the society for p

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witchcraft and demonology. new york: crown publishers, 1959. sprenger, jakob, and heinrich kramer. malleus maleficarum. edited by montague summers. london, 1928. malphas according to demonologist johan weyer, malphas was grand president of the infernal regions, where he appeared in the shape of a crow. when he appeared in human form, he had a very raucous voice. he built impregnable citadels and towers, overthrew the ramparts of his enemies, found good workmen, gave familiar spirits, received sacrifices, and deceived the sacrificers. forty infernal legions were under his command. sources: weyer, johannes. witches, devils, and doctors in the renaissance: johann weyer, de praestigiis. edited by george mora. binghamton, n.y: medieval and renaissance texts and studies, 1991. mamaloi an obeah

the report, which conveyed the impression that valiantine was actually caught in fraud, a controversy arose between psychical researcher j. malcolm bird and british author h. dennis bradley, who pointed out the weaknesses of the report and its important admissions, which, however, were not sufficiently emphasized. on several occasions, bradley vigorously defended valiantine. he met him at arlena towers, ramsey, new york, in the home of joseph de wyckoff, a wealthy american financier who had been in close association with valiantine for some years. in november 1923, wyckoff received long scripts from valiantine which valiantine said he had obtained through direct writing in his home. they were signed by everett and dr. barnett, and referred to a project involving an expedition to guiana. w

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harpened axe a prey. faust bold interruption! odious it presses in; in danger itself i can t stand senseless violence. ill-message uglifies the fairest messenger; only bad messages bringst, ugliest, thou with joy. but this time thou shalt not succeed. with empty breath go, shatter thou the air. there is no danger here, and even danger itself would seem an idle threat. signals, explosions from the towers, trumpets and cornets. martial music, a powerful armed force marches past. faust no, heroes heart-united ever forthwith assembled thou shalt see; he only merits women s favour who can protect them valiantly. to the leaders of the army who detach themselves from their columns and step forward. with bated, silent fury s power, sure pledge of victory to come, ye, of the north the budding flowe

ted, be to the most high s service straightway dedicated. my spirit sees the massive walls mount swiftly higher; the morning sun s first rays already light the choir; the growing edifice a cross s form is taking; the nave grows long and high, believers joy awaking; through solemn portals they stream in with ardent zeal, while over hill and dale resounds the bell s first peal. it sounds from lofty towers aspiring up to heaven. now comes the penitent to whom new life is given. the consecration day- oh, may it soon be sent!your presence then will be the highest ornament. emperor let this great work be done, a pious proclamation that god the lord i praise and seek my expiation. enough! i feel my soul already mounting high. archbishop as chancellor i ll conclude the last formality. emperor. pro

ity, grant to this good soul thy blessing, who but once herself forgot, who knew not she was transgressing, pardon meet refuse thou not! una paenitentium [formerly named gretchen, drawing closer. bend, oh bend now, matchless, attend thou, thy radiance spend now, look on my bliss in charity. my early lover, his troubles over, comes back to me. blessed boys [hovering in a circle. mighty of limb, he towers already above us; soon for this care of ours richly he ll love us. early were we removed, life did not reach us; but he has learned and loved and he will teach us. the one penitent [formerly named gretchen. girt by the noble choir of heaven, himself the new-come scarcely knows, scarce feels the fresh life newly given ere like the holy throng he grows; see! how each earthly bond he s riven

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s and places still extant in every quarter of the globe, and through the study of antique art, it is not unlikely that a line of investigation has been marked out whereby a tolerably correct knowledge of the processes involved in our present religious systems may be obtained. the numberless figures and sacred emblems which appear carved in imperishable stone in the earliest cave temples; the huge towers, monoliths, and rocking stones found in nearly every country of the globe, and which are known to be closely connected with primitive belief and worship, and the records found on tablets which are being unearthed in various parts of the world, are, with the unravelling of extinct tongues, proving an almost inexhaustible source for obtaining information bearing upon the early history of the

nciples of geometry. others have fancied them intended for sepulchres; and as the egyptians, taught by their ancient chaldean victors, connected astronomy with their funereal and religious ceremonies, they seem in this to be not far astray, if we but extend the application to their sacred bulls and other animals, and not merely to their kings, as herodotus would have us suppose"[55 [55] the round towers of ireland, p. 159. according to the testimony of inman, the pyramid is an emblem of the trinity--three in one. the triangle typifies the flame of sacred fire emerging from the holy lamp. with its base upwards it typifies the delta, or the door through which all come into the world. with its apex uppermost, it is an emblem of the phallic triad. the union of these triangles typifies the male

nciple from their god-idea, and had begun the worship of the male element, the female being represented by an ark, chest, or box. this ark, as the receptacle of the god, was still a holy thing. not only among the israelites, but among other nations of the east, we find the devotees of the male god beginning to assume a position quite independent of the beliefs of their fathers. at this time great towers or pillars begin to be erected in honor of this deity, which is figured as the "god of life" or as the "lord of hosts" notwithstanding the fact that the story of the exodus contains much historical truth, it is altogether probable that the priests have used it, as they did that of the flood, to conceal their religious doctrines. at the time of the exodus, the israelites were ignorant tribes

revival of a religion imported amongst us many ages before by the tuath-de-danaans from the east, and not from any chimerical inundation of greek missionaries--a revival upon which their hearts were lovingly riveted, and which fiech, the bishop of sletty, unconsciously registers in the following couplet, viz "the buddhists of irin prophesied that new times of peace would come"[149 [149] the round towers of ireland, p. 493. the conditions surrounding the ancient inhabitants of the "white island" or ireland, a remnant of which people may be observed in the highlanders of scotland, furnish an example of the fact that a much higher standard of life had been preserved among them than is known to have prevailed either among the jews or the greeks. the comparatively advanced stage of progress whi

nes employed as oracles in various portions of the world, have all the same signification, and proclaim the peculiar religion of the people who worshipped them. whether as among the jews in egypt, a pillar is set up as a "sign" and a "witness" to the lord, or whether as with the mohammedans these figures appear as minarets with egg shaped summits, or as among the irish they stand forth as stately towers defying time and the elements, or as among the christians they appear as the steeple which points towards heaven, the symbol remains, and the original significance is the same. the lord of the israelites who was wont to manifest himself to his chosen people in a "pillar of smoke by day" and a "pillar of fire by night" is said to be none other than a reproductive emblem, as was also the "lor

e are assured that as many men as could surround it would be unable to dislodge it from the pivot on which it rests"[161 [161] the st. louis (mo) republican. the writer of the above, who was evidently ignorant of the extent to which these monuments are scattered over the earth, seemed to regard it as a singular freak of nature with no significance other than that of a natural curiosity. the round towers of ireland, over the origin of which there has in the past been so much controversy, are now pretty generally admitted to be analogous in their use and design to stonehenge, abury, and other extant monolithic structures. many writers have endeavored to prove that these towers were belfries used in connection with christian churches; others that they were purgatorial columns or penitential h

r of st. simeon stylites. others again have argued that they were used as beacons and others that they were intended simply as receptacles for the sacred fire known to have formerly been in use in the british isles. although numberless arguments have been brought forward to refute these theories, it is thought that the expensive architecture alone of the elegant and stately columns known as round towers contradicts all these "guesses" and that their grandeur and almost absolute indestructibility proclaim for them a different origin from that of the lowly and miserable huts which in a later age were erected beside them for purposes of worship by the romish christians. the same objection is made also against the theory that these monuments were erected in memory of the several defeats of the

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

in the regions of babylonia. from literary evidence derived from antiquity we have some proofs of very early astronomic observations made by all these ancient nations.theold greek and roman authors refer the source of astronomy variously to egypt, to chaldea, and to persia, and the papyri recently discovered in egypt also show astronomical allusions; while of course the pyramids of egypt and the towers of babylonia have led students to postulate that their builders possessed a deep astronomic knowledge. modern researches into sanscrit literature have also led students of eastern lore to the belief that the inhabitants of india in the earliest times must have made long and accurate observations of the heavenly bodies. according to isaac meyer there is a reason to think that the akkadian ob

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

ale figure pours water upon the earth. fromtwovases. in the heavens above her shines the blazing star of the magi (surrounded by seven others, trees. and plants grow beneath her magic influence (and on one thet butterfly of psyche alights. she is the star ofhope. 18. the moon.the moon shining in the heavens, drops of dew falling, a wolf and a dog howling at the moon, and halted at the foot of two towers, a path which loses itself in the. horizon (and is sprinkled with drops of blood, a crayfish emblematic of the sign cancer, ruled over by the moon, crawls through water in the foreground towards the land).itsymbolisestwilight, deception,anderror. 19. the sun.the sun sending down his rays upon two children, who suggest the sign gemini (behind them is a low wall) it signifiesearthly happiness

GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

ims and jews in the city were put to the sword. in the words of one historian "they killed all the saracens and the turks they found. whether male of female."2 one of the crusaders, raymond of aguiles, boasted of this violence: wonderful sights were to be seen. some of our men (and this was more merciful) cut off the heads of their enemies; others shot them with arrows, so that they fell from the towers; others tortured them longer by casting them into flames. piles of heads, hands and feet were to be seen in the streets of the city. it was necessary to pick one's way over the bodies of men and horses. but these were small matters compared to what happened at the temple of solomon, a global freemasonry de place where religious services are normally chanted. in the temple and the porch of s

GOETIA LUCIFERIAN

, as a part of recalling the spirit as an atavism. this will strengthen the mental aspect of the individual who seeks to create a solid essence of self which may not be attacked by spiritual means. m malphas malphas is the thirty-ninth spirit who appears like a crow, however will take human shape once the magicians requests it. malphas is a might president who is very powerful. he does build high towers like malthus however may also bring you the knowledge of your enemies desires and thoughts. it is required for creation and manifestation of this spirit that one performs a sexual sacrifice (for material basis) for which one would focus on the sigil and consecrate it accordingly. it is known that malphas will deceive the magician if he is not careful. be prepared and be exact in your comman

buried. vepar also causes men to die in three days by infected wounds and sores. he governs 29 legions of spirits. q sabnock sabnock who is also called savnok is the forty-third spirit of solomon who was commanded into a vessel of brass. he is a marquis who is considered very powerful. sabnock appears in the form of an armed soldier with a lion s head who rides upon a white horse. sabnock builds towers and castles, being dwellings of the astral spirit which the sorcerer shall encircle his/her self in through dream projection. he can cause wounds to infect and kill me slowly. sabnock gives excellent familiars who may build and strengthen the towers of self. he governs 50 legions of spirits. 58 r shan shan/shaz/shax is a great marquis who appears in the form of a dove, who speaks with a rou

0 legions. s vine vine is the forty-fifth spirit whom is also called vinea. being a great king and earl, vine appears often in the form of a lion/beastlike man who rides upon a black horse, holding a serpent in one hand. in black mirror evocations, vine has oftened appeared as a serpent like lion who then looses form and becomes a burning cloud with several eyes peering from the fire. vine builds towers (of protection on the astral plane, destroys great walls (of the sorcerer s enemy) and makes waters rough with storms. vine governs 36 legions of spirits, and acts as an elemental guide unto those who may seek to attack you. vine is also a divinatory spirit who will also brings initiatory knowledge to wizards, witches and hidden aspects. 59 t bifrons bifrons, known also as bifrons, bifrous

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ENOCHALL

governor of the second division of the aethyr zom (8. virq: nest(s. viu/ vi-i-v /u-i-v: second. viv ialprt: second flame. vi-vi-iv: viu diu, second angle. vivipos: governor of the second division of the aethyr uta (41. vixpalg: governor of the third division of the aethyr asp (63. vlcinin asobam: happy is he on whom. vlcinin: happy is he/ happy. vls: the ends/ ends/ end. vmadea/ v ma dea: strong towers. vmd: call (v/ called. vml: add. vmplif: our strength/ strength (cf. ugear. vnal aldon: these gather up. vnal chis: these be/ these are. vnal: these/ those. vnalah: the skirts/ skirt(s. vnchi: confound. vnd l: the rest. vnig: requireth/ require. 63 vniglag: descend. vnph: in anger/ anger/ wrath. vohim: hundred/ mighty (cf. canse, micalz. vohim ol giz y ax: with a hundred mighty earthquakes

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS T

the lord hath opened his mouth and they are noas ni paradial casarmg vgear become 8 living dwellings in whom the strength of man chirlan od zonac luciftian rejoiceth and they are apparelled with ornaments of brightness cors ta vaul zirn tol hami sobol ondoh od such as work wonders on all creatures. whose kingdoms and miam chis ta d od es v-ma-dea od continuance are as the third and fourth, strong towers and pi-bliar othil rit od miam places of comfort, the seat of mercy and continuance. c-noqol rit zacar zamran oe-crimi qaada. 0 ye servants of mercy move, appear, sing praises unto the creator! od o-micaolz aaiom bagle papnor and be mighty amongst us! for to this remembrance i dlugam lonshi od vmplif v-ge-gi bigliad! is given power, and our strength waxeth strong in our comforter! nof m the

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS T3

lord hath opened his mouth and they are noas ni paradial casarmg vgear become 8 living dwellings in whom the strength of man chirlan od zonac luciftian 12 rejoiceth and they are apparelled with ornaments of brightness cors ta vaul zirn tol hami sobol ondoh od such as work wonders on all creatures. whose kingdoms and miam chis ta d od es v-ma-dea od continuance are as the third and fourth, strong towers and pi-bliar othil rit od miam places of comfort, the seat of mercy and continuance. c-noqol rit zacar zamran oe-crimi qaada. 0 ye servants of mercy move, appear, sing praises unto the creator! od o-micaolz aaiom bagle papnor and be mighty amongst us! for to this remembrance i dlugam lonshi od vmplif v-ge-gi bigliad! is given power, and our strength waxeth strong in our comforter! nof m the

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

in ancient egypt. the kali yuga, with a duration of 432,000 mortal years, is, by the way, our own. in the kali age, the scriptures say, shall decay flourish, until the human race approaches annihilation. 31 dogs, uncles and revenge it was a dog that brought us to these decaying times. we came here by way of sirius, the dog star, who stands at the heel of the giant constellation of orion where it towers in the sky above egypt. in that land, as we have seen, orion is osiris, the god of death and resurrection, whose numbers perhaps by chance are 12, 30, 72, and 360. but can chance account for the fact that these and other prime integers of precession keep cropping up in supposedly unrelated mythologies from all over the world, and in such stolid but enduring vehicles as calendar systems and

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

tion. step 3. recite the seventh cali as follows: 128 the east s a house of virgins who sing praises among the flames of the first glory. there the lord opened his mouth, and they became 28 living dwellings wherein the strength of man rejoices.they are clothed with ornaments of brightness, and they work wonders on all creatures. their kingdoms and continuance are like the third and fourth; strong towers and places of confort, the seats of merey and continuance. o you servants of mercy, move and appear! sing praises to the creator, and be mighty among us, so that this remembrance will give power, and our strength will grow strong in our comforter. step 4. vibrate the following names of power: bataivah (bah-tah-ee-vah-heh) habioro (hah-bee-oh-roh) aaozaif (ahah- oh-zodah ee-feh) htnorda (heh

ious direction of horus, have resulted in a scenic fairyland of natural beauty, a woodland paradise. step 11. after observingthis square siufficiently, return to your physical body and employ the banishing pentagram and hexagram of earth. record your experiences in your magical diary. 138 the thirty aethyrs andan angel cometh forth, and. he taketh me aside into a little chamber in one of the nine towers. this chamber is furnished with maps of many mystical sities. there is a table, and a strange lamp, that gines light by jettingfour columns of vortex rings of luminous smoke. and he points to the map of the aethyrs, that are arranged as a flaming sword, so that the thirty aethyrs go into the ten sephiroth. and the first nine are infinitely holy. aleister crowley, the vision and the voice, t

s place in the 27th aethyr, zaa, the aethyr of solitude. the three governors of zaa are: saziami sah-zodee-ah-mee mathvla mah-teh-hev-lah korpanib koh-rah-pah-nee-beh zaa is located in the highest region of the astral plane. i t is a region where the emotions and feel ings which characterize the astral plane are almost absent and the mentation of the mental plane beyond is impending. on the watch-towers, zaa is somewhere in or near fire of water. two of the first things that you will probably notice when entering zaa are (1) its lunar nature and (2) the almost total absence of anything except yourself. on the tree of li fe, zaa is somewhere between the path of the moon (pisces) and the path of temperance/art (sagittarius) below the sephiroths of netzach and tiphareth. you will be totally a

d their lives in the tradition of the bodhisattvas of mahayana buddhism, loe also contains their complement, the so-called black brothers. t h e s e a r e p e o p l e wh o h a v e r i s e n i n s p i r i t u a l understanding to this lofty height but who refuse to shed their blood into the cup. they are higher in understanding than the residents of the city of the pyramids, but have erected thick towers of egotism around themselves and are thereby shut off from their surroundings. this sharp distinction between the lodge and the so-called black brothers led to the rift in 240 buddhism between the mahayana and the hinayana and to simi lar spl its in many occult organizations. it is a distinction involving the concept of spiritual selfishness and you will need to understand it before going b

k is to maintain the separation of the sky (spirit) and the earth (matter. in ikh, shu would be in his highest aspect, equivalent to the god zeus, the'"orderer of all things" you will have the feeling of being on the highest peak of a mountain in a vast mountain range. as you move through this aethyr you wi l l see fortresses, bastions, stockades, bulwarks and entrenchments. crowley saw nine huge towers of iron along the upper frontier of the aethyr. whatever you actually see, the idea of elaborate defenses against hostile invading forces will be strong. even the holy city itsel f wi l l appear this way. you wi l l probably see bastions and sprawling towers and parapets with high thick walls suggesting an enormous medieval castle. the holy city is the "fastness of the most high" and houses

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

o the gods. gods and heroes are found in the very names of runes, the first of which in old norse is freyr, others are thor, zio, eor, asc, man, but nowhere goddesses. the gods that have kept the firmest hold are the three marked in the days of the week as mercury, jupiter, mars; and of these, wuotan stands out the most distinct. jonas, fredegar, paulus diaconus and the abrenuntiatio name him, he towers at the head of ancient lines of kings, many places bear the indelible impress of his name. woedenspanne signified a part of the human hand, as the north named another part' lilf-lisr' wolf-lith, after the god t^r. unexpectedly our 13th centuiy has preserved for us vol. 111. b xviil peeface. one of his names [wish, which lies in abeyance even in the norse system, yet is the one that stands i

what wo read in some only of our ancient codes, may have been the rule everywhere, namely, that the composition paid to women was originally a higher, a double xlviii peeface. one. the german reverence for woman was already known to tacitus (p. 397, and history vouches for it in the mid. ages: in the heroic lays a greater stress is laid on mother uote than on the father of the heroes, as brunhild towers even above siegfried (see suppl. by the side of the beautiful description of mother's love in the yita mahthildis (pertz 6, 298) we can put this touch by rudlieb 1, 52' ast per cancellos post hunc pascebat ocellos mater/ as her son was departing. whenever in dry old otfried i come to the lines iv. 32: wir sin gibot ouh wirken, inti bi unsa muater thenken (we his bidding also do, and of our

to death in presence of noglings (i.e. nibelung's) pelf (heldens. p. 306. so many conflicting yet connected accounts may justify us in conceding even to that far older aurum tojosaniim, which the tectosages sunk in the lake of tolosa, some influence on old gothic legend^ stories of submerged castles are found in abundance. when the waters are at rest, you may still descry projecting pinnacles of towers, and catch the chiming of their bells. scarcely can enchanted men be dwelling there; all life is grown dumb beneath the waves. three legendary features i will single out. the approaching doom is commonly announced by talking beasts: the enormity of the crime whose punishment impends has lent them speech, or some magic has opened to man the meaning of their 1 justinus 32, 3; conf. dnncker's

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

a cergeweorc innan burgum, strode stein/age, andr. 2466. stapulas storme bedrifene, eald enta geweorc, 3 2986. our annolied 151 of semiramis: die alten babilonie stiphti si van cigelin den alten, die die gigandi branten/ of bricks that giants burnt. and karlmeinet 35: f we dise burg stichte? ein rise in den alten ziden. in 0. french poems it is either gaiant or paian (pagans) that build walls and towers, e.g. in gerars de viane 1745: les/ors tors, ke sont dantiquitey, ke paian firent par lor grant poestey. conf. money unters. 242-4-7. 250. whatever was put together of enormous blocks the hellenes named cydopean walls, while the modern greeks regard the hellenes themselves as giants of the old world, and give them the credit of those massive structures.2 then, as ancient military roads were

ejus, ignipotens sit, tandem omisso (ibid. 106. 1 tit. 407: iiz golde ein ar geroetet, gefiuret unde gefunkelt ufjeglich kriuze gelcetet/ true, the cock is an emblem of vigilance, and the watchman, to command a wide view, must be highly placed; 2 but it is quite possible that the christian teachers, to humour a heathen custom of tying cocks to the tops of holy trees, made room for them on church-towers also, and merely put a more general meaning on the symbol afterwards (see suppl. at the head of wildfowl the eagle stands as king, and is the messenger of jove. in our beast-fables the raven seems to take upon him the parts both of wolf and of fox, uniting the greed of the one with the other s cunning. two ravens, huginn and muninn, are, like the two wolves, constant companions of cvsinn (p

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

earth isfulfilled-andyour spirit is prepared to meet itsmaker-thenwill a guardian spirit conduct you to your everlastinghome-allthings are ordered for thebest-andman withoutgodwould be left to the disposal of the evil ones.crystalmsvol.6,p.175suppose a city that is thickly populated with human beings, their habitations are in the middle of the city, the city is surrounded with a highwall-thewall towers high above the reach of the mortals who are in thatcity-andbetween the wall and the habitations of these mortals there is a dangerous and rockypath-sothat no one not accustomed to theroadcould even reach thewall-hemay reach half way and he may reachfarther-andhe may nearly reachit-butunless he has been accustomed to it and traversed it in lightness and darkness he will not be able to find t

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

book-scroll formed from sheets of papyrus. pataikos (pl. pataikoi) a type of dwarf deity used as a protective amulet. pharaoh a title meaning great house (the palace; a respectful way of referring to an egyptian king. polytheism the worship of many gods within a religious tradition. ptolemaic something belonging to the period when the greek ptolemy family ruled egypt. pylon a pair of trapezoidal towers that formed the entrance to a temple. the towers were identified with the mountains of the horizon. pyramid complex a royal burial area consisting of a tomb under or inside a pyramid and two temples for the cult of the dead ruler. pyramid texts royal funerary texts inscribed inside pyramids of the late old kingdom and the first intermediate period. royal titulary the long sequence of names

HINE P OVEN READY CHAOS

nscious change. indeed, some structures are able to resist change by remaining elusive and invisible to conscious awareness, and must be dragged, kicking, into the painful light of self-revelation. if i may use the analogy of beliefs as buildings (the city of selfs, around the walls of which howls the wind of kia, then the continual process of deconditioning may be likened to chipping away at the towers, with the occasional nuke provided by recourse to a powerful form of gnosis such as sexual ecstasy, pain overload, or albert hoffman s elixir. deconditioning is a continual process- even as you discard one set of limitations (in tantra, this is known as klesha-smashing, you may find that you acquire new ones, usually unconsciously. often, belief-structures are nested within each other, and

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

g. during that first winter he produced five of his best-known short stories- the burrower beneath, the stairs in the crypt, shaggai, in the vale of pnath, and the feaster from the stars- and painted seven canvases; studies of nameless, unhuman monsters, and profoundly alien, non-terrestrial landscapes. at sunset he would often sit at his desk and gaze dreamily off at the outspread west- the dark towers of memorial hall just below, the georgian court-house belfry, the lofty pinnacles of the downtown section, and that shimmering, spire-crowned mound in the distance whose unknown streets and labyrinthine gables so potently provoked his fancy. from his few local aquaintances he learned that the far-off slope was a vast italian quarter, though most of the houses were remnant of older yankee an

he far-off, forbidding structure with an oddly mounting interest. since the vast windows were never lighted, he knew that it must be vacant. the longer he watched, the more his imagination worked, till at length he began to fancy curious things. he believed that a vague, singular aura of desolation hovered over the place, so that even the pigeons and swallows shunned its smoky eaves. around other towers and belfries his glass would reveal great flocks of birds, but here they never rested. at least, that is what he thought and set down in his diary. he pointed the place out to several friends, but none of them had even been on federal hill or possessed the faintest notion of what the church was or had been. in the spring a deep restlessness gripped blake. he had begun his long-planned novel

ueerly-designed supports extending horizontally to angles of the box's inner wall near the top. this stone, once exposed, exerted upon blake an almost alarming fascination. he could scarcely tear his eyes from it, and as he looked at its glistening surfaces he almost fancied it was transparent, with half-formed worlds of wonder within. into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blacknesses told of the presence of consciousness and will. when he did look away, it was to notice a somewhat singular mound of dust in the far corner near the ladder to the steeple. just why it took his attention he could not tell, but something in its contours carried a messa

happened to the skeleton during its four decades of silent entombment here blake could not imagine. before he realized it, he was looking at the stone again, and letting its curious influence call up a nebulous pageantry in his mind. he saw processions of robed, hooded figures whose outlines were not human, and looked on endless leagues of desert lined with carved, sky-reaching monoliths. he saw towers and walls in nighted depths under the sea, and vortices of space where wisps of black mist floated before thin shimmerings of cold purple haze. and beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of darkness, where solid and semisolid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order on chaos and hold forth a key to all the paradoxes and a

wn the narrow spiral staircase, tripping and bruising himself at every turn. there was a nightmare flight through a vast cobwebbed nave whose ghostly arches readied up to realms of leering shadow, a sightless scramble through a littered basement, a climb to regions of air and street lights outside, and a mad racing down a spectral hill of gibbering gables, across a grim, silent city of tall black towers, and up the steep eastward precipice to his own ancient door. on regaining consciousness in the morning he found himself lying on his study floor fully dressed. dirt and cobwebs covered him, and every inch of his body seemed sore and bruised. when he faced the mirror he saw that his hair was badly scorched while a trace of strange evil odour seemed to cling to his upper outer clothing. it w

n tongue, a shadow was seen on the curtain which startled weeden exceedingly; reminding him of one of the puppets in a show he had seen in the autumn of 1764 in hacher's hall, when a man from germantown, pennsylvania, had given a clever mechanical spectacle advertised as 'a view of the famous city of jerusalem, in which are represented jerusalem, the temple of solomon, his royal throne, the noted towers, and hills, likewise the suffering of our saviour from the garden of gethsemane to the cross on the hill of golgotha; an artful piece of statuary, worthy to be seen by the curious' it was on this occasion that the listener, who had crept close to the window of the front room whence the speaking proceeded, gave a start which roused the old indian pair and caused them to loose the dogs on him

no fantastic invention, but the normal script of a very dark period. they were the pointed saxon minuscules of the eighth or ninth century a.d, and brought with them memories of an uncouth time when under a fresh christian veneer ancient faiths and ancient rites stirred stealthily, and the pale moon of britain looked sometimes on strange deeds in the roman ruins of caerleon and hexham, and by the towers along hadrian's crumbling wall. the words were in such latin as a barbarous age might remember 'corvinus necandus est. cadaver aq(ua) forti dissolvendum, nec aliq(ui)d retinendum. tace ut potes- which may roughly be translated "curwen must be killed. the body must be dissolved in aqua fortis, nor must anything be retained. keep silence as best you are able" willett and mr. ward were mute an

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

ngly opalescent zenith as we drew near the mountains and began to make out the cumulative undulations of the foothills. i had seen dozens of polar mirages during the preceding weeks, some of them quite as uncanny and fantastically vivid as the present example; but this one had a wholly novel and obscure quality of menacing symbolism, and i shuddered as the seething labyrinth of fabulous walls and towers and minarets loomed out of the troubled ice vapors above our heads. the effect was that of a cyclopean city of no architecture known to man or to human imagination, with vast aggregations of night-black masonry embodying monstrous perversions of geometrical laws. there were truncated cones, sometimes terraced or fluted, surmounted by tall cylindrical shafts here and there bulbously enlarged

hocking stone survival had projected its image across the mountains according to the simple laws of reflection, of course, the phantom had been twisted and exaggerated, and had contained things which the real source did not contain; yet now, as we saw that real source, we thought it even more hideous and menacing than its distant image. only the incredible, unhuman massiveness of these vast stone towers and ramparts had saved the frightful things from utter annihilation in the hundreds of thousands- perhaps millions- of years it had brooded there amidst the blasts of a bleak upland "corona mundi- roof of the world" all sorts of fantastic phrases sprang to our lips as we looked dizzily down at the unbelievable spectacle. i thought again of the eldritch primal myths that had so persistently

inders, perfect cubes, clusters of cubes, and other rectangular forms, and a peculiar sprinkling of angled edifices whose five-pointed ground plan roughly suggested modern fortifications. the builders had made constant and expert use of the principle of the arch, and domes had probably existed in the city s heyday. the whole tangle was monstrously weathered, and the glacial surface from which the towers projected was strewn with fallen blocks and immemorial debris. where the glaciation was transparent we could see the lower parts of the gigantic piles, and we noticed the ice-preserved stone bridges which connected the different towers at varying distances above the ground. on the exposed walls we could detect the scarred places where other and higher bridges of the same sort had existed. c

om. here sprawled a palaeogaean megalopolis compared with which the fabled atlantis and lemuria, commoriom and uzuldaroum, and olathoc in the land of lomar, are recent things of today- not even of yesterday; a megalopolis ranking with such whispered prehuman blasphemies as valusia, r lyeh, ib in the land of mnar, and the nameless city of arabia deserta. as we flew above that tangle of stark titan towers my imagination sometimes escaped all bounds and roved aimlessly in realms of fantastic associations- even weaving links betwixt this lost world and some of my own wildest dreams concerning the mad horror at the camp. the plane s fuel tank, in the interest of greater lightness, had been only partly filled; hence we now had to exert caution in our explorations. even so, however, we covered an

k downhill to the actual city, with the upper wind shrieking vainly and savagely through the skyward peaks in the background, was something of which the smallest details will always remain engraved on my mind. only in fantastic nightmares could any human beings but danforth and me conceive such optical effects. between us and the churning vapors of the west lay that monstrous tangle of dark stone towers, its outre and incredible forms impressing us afresh at every new angle of vision. it was a mirage in solid stone, and were it not for the photographs, i would still doubt that such a thing could be. the general type of masonry was identical with that of the rampart we had examined; but the extravagant shapes which this masonry took in its urban manifestations were past all description. eve

s of great slate slabs, and seemed to form the outlet of a long, high corridor with sculptured walls. observing the many inner archways which led off from it, and realizing the probable complexity of the nest of apartments within, we decided that we must begin our system of hare-and-hound trail blazing. hitherto our compasses, together with frequent glimpses of the vast mountain range between the towers in our rear, had been enough to prevent our losing our way; but from now on, the artificial substitute would be necessary. accordingly we reduced our extra paper to shreds of suitable size, placed these in a bag to be carried by danforth, and prepared to use them as economically as safety would allow. this method would probably gain us immunity from straying, since there did not appear to b

dominant beings. bothersome forms, of course, were mechanically exterminated. it interested us to see in some of the very last and most decadent sculptures a shambling, primitive mammal, used sometimes for food and sometimes as an amusing buffoon by the land dwellers, whose vaguely simian and human foreshadowings were unmistakable. in the building of land cities the huge stone blocks of the high towers were generally lifted by vast-winged pterodactyls of a species heretofore unknown to paleontology. the persistence with which the old ones survived various geologic changes and convulsions of the earth s crust was little short of miraculous. though few or none of their first cities seem to have remained beyond the archaean age, there was no interruption in their civilization or in the trans

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lands and rivers and cities of surpassing beauty, spread indolently in the sunshine which seemed never to lessen or disappear. at length athib told him that their journey was near its end, and that they would soon enter the harbour of serannian, the pink marble city of the clouds, which is built on that ethereal coast where the west wind flows into the sky; but as the highest of the city s carven towers came into sight there was a sound somewhere in space, and kuranes awaked in his london garret. for many months after that kuranes sought the marvellous city of celephais and its sky-bound galleys in vain; and though his dreams carried him to many gorgeous and unheard-of places, no one whom he met could tell him how to find ooth-nargai beyond the tanarian hills. one night he went flying over

all the neighboring regions of dream, and held his court alternately in celephais and in the cloud-fashioned serannian. he reigns there still, and will reign happily for ever, though below the cliffs at innsmouth the channel tides played mockingly with the body of a tramp who had stumbled through the half-deserted village at dawn; played mockingly, and cast it upon the rocks by ivy-covered trevor towers, where a notably fat and especially offensive millionaire brewer enjoys the purchased atmosphere of extinct nobility. 1998-1999 william johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:43:0the road to madness: the transition of h. p. lovecraft by h. p. lovecraft publication date: october 1996 in trade paperback compilation copyright 1996 by arkham house publishers, inc. permission to download this sample

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cloudy, i can sleep. well do i remember the night of the great aurora, when over the swamp played the shocking corruscations of the daemon light. after the beam came clouds, and then i slept. and it was under a horned waning moon that i saw the city for the first time. still and somnolent did it lie, on a strange plateau in a hollow between strange peaks. of ghastly marble were its walls and its towers, its columns, domes, and pavements. in the marble streets were marble pillars, the upper parts of which were carven into the images of grave bearded men. the air was warm and stirred not. and overhead, scarce ten degrees from the zenith, glowed that watching pole star. long did i gaze on the city, but the day came not. when the red aldebaran, which blinked low in the sky but never set, had

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ard about which he had loved to wander in life. thus was i left to ponder on myself as the only human creature within the great fortress, and in my utter solitude my mind began to cease its vain protest against the impending doom, to become almost reconciled to the fate which so many of my ancestors had met. much of my time was now occupied in the exploration of the ruined and abandoned halls and towers of the old chateau, which in youth fear had caused me to shun, and some of which old pierre had once told me had not been trodden by human foot for over four centuries. strange and awesome were many of the objects i encountered. furniture, covered by the dust of ages and crumbling with the rot of long dampness, met my eyes. cobwebs in a profusion never before seen by me were spun everywhere

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e, the detestable pounding of that hideous ocean. as those black breakers beat their message into my ears i forgot the words of the child and looked back, down upon the doomed scene from which i thought i had escaped. down through the aether i saw the accursed earth slowly turning, ever turning, with angry and tempestuous seas gnawing at wild desolate shores and dashing foam against the tottering towers of deserted cities. and under a ghastly moon there gleamed sights i can never describe, sights i can never forget; deserts of corpselike clay and jungles of ruin and decadence where once stretched the populous plains and villages of my native land, and maelstroms of frothing ocean where once rose the mighty temples of my forefathers. mound the northern pole steamed a morass of noisome growt

HP LOVECRAFT THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH

hen only the brave and adventurous young men of yellow hair and blue eyes, who are no kin to the men of mnar. these men indeed went to the lake to view sarnath; but though they found the vast still lake itself, and the gray rock akurion which rears high above it near the shore, they beheld not the wonder of the world and pride of all mankind. where once had risen walls of three hundred cubits and towers yet higher, now stretched only the marshy shore, and where once had dwelt fifty million of men now crawled the detestable water-lizard. not even the mines of precious metal remained. doom had come to sarnath. but half buried in the rushes was spied a curious green idol; an exceedingly ancient idol chiseled in the likeness of bokrug, the great water-lizard. that idol, enshrined in the high t

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oke the ancient presence of a forgotten road. once i swam across a swift river where crumbling, mossy masonry told of a bridge long vanished. over two hours must have passed before i reached what seemed to be my goal, a venerable ivied castle in a thickly wooded park, maddeningly familiar, yet full of perplexing strangeness to me. i saw that the moat was filled in, and that some of the well-known towers were demolished, whilst new wings existed to confuse the beholder. but what i observed with chief interest and delight were the open windows- gorgeously ablaze with light and sending forth sound of the gayest revelry. advancing to one of these i looked in and saw an oddly dressed company indeed; making merry, and speaking brightly to one another. i had never, seemingly, heard human speech b

HP LOVECRAFT THE PICTURE IN THE HOUSE

rame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glaisthe picture in the house by h.p. lovecraft written 12 december 1920? published july 1919 in the national amateur, vol. 41, no. 6, p. 246-49. searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. for them are the catacombs of ptolemais, and the carven mausolea of the nightmare countries. they climb to the moonlit towers of ruined rhine castles, and falter down black cobwebbed steps beneath the scattered stones of forgotten cities in asia. the haunted wood and the desolate mountain are their shrines, and they linger around the sinister monoliths on uninhabited islands. but the true epicure in the terrible, to whom a new thrill of unutterable ghastliness is the chief end and justification of existence, estee

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re floated before carter a cloudy pageantry of shapes and scenes which he somehow linked with earth's primal, eon-forgotten past. monstrous living things moved deliberately through vistas of fantastic handiwork that no sane dream ever held, and landscapes bore incredible vegetation and cliffs and mountains and masonry of no human pattern. there were cities under the sea, and denizens thereof; and towers in great deserts where globes and cylinders and nameless winged entities shot off into space, or hurtled down out of space. all this carter grasped, though the images bore no fixed relation to one another or to him. he himself had no stable form or position, but only such shifting hints of form and position as his whirling fancy supplied. he had wished to find the enchanted regions of his b

anifestations on your planet's extension, the ancient ones, have sent you as one who would lately have returned to small lands of dream which he had lost, yet who with greater freedom has risen to greater and nobler desires and curiosities. you wished to sail up golden oukranos, to search out forgotten ivory cities in orchid-heavy kied, and to reign on the opal. throne of ilek-vad, whose fabulous towers and. numberless domes rise mighty toward a single red star in a firmament alien to your earth and to all matter. now, with the passing of two gates, you wish loftier things. you would not flee like a child from a scene disliked to a dream beloved, but would plunge like a man into that last and inmost of secrets which lies behind all scenes and dreams "what you wish, i have found good; and i

e marvels he had undergone he burned for the further marvel of walking in the flesh through those grotesque and incredible scenes which visions of the night had fragmentarily brought him. without definite intention be was asking the presence for access to a dim, fantastic world whose five multi-coloured suns, alien constellations, dizzily black crags, clawed, tapir-snouted denizens, bizarre metal towers, unexplained tunnels, and cryptical floating cylinders had intruded again and again upon his slumbers. that world, he felt vaguely, was in all the conceivable cosmos the one most freely in touch with others; and he longed to explore the vistas whose beginnings he had glimpsed, and to embark through space to those still remoter worlds with which the clawed, snouted denizens trafficked. there

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he sea a black condor descend from the sky to seek rest on a vast reef, i would fain have questioned him, and asked him of those whom i had known when they were alive. this i would have asked him had he not been so far away, but he was very far, and could not be seen at all when he drew nigh that gigantic reef. so i watched the tide go out under that sinking moon, and saw gleaming the spires, the towers, and the roofs of that dead, dripping city. and as i watched, my nostrils tried to close against the perfume-conquering stench of the world's dead; for truly, in this unplaced and forgotten spot had all the flesh of the churchyards gathered for puffy sea-worms to gnaw and glut upon. over these horrors the evil moon now hung very low, but the puffy worms of the sea need no moon to feed by. a

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aoul entet d after de*th; the two figures staoditir beside the cross as buddha'i virgin mother, and kama, hit favorite disciple. the whole picture beats a doae likeness to the cnicifixiod in the ecme- tery a( pope julius, except the animals, which are conclusive proof that it cannot be cliristian. it came ultimately from tlie far east to ireland with tbe e%oenician eokmista. who erected the round towers as symbols of the lif -giving and iveser ving power of man and nature, and bow that universal life is produced through suffenng and dwtll (the sovnd totem of ireland, p. 301; 1st ed. when protestant der^man u thus forced to confess the jm-chriittaa existence of tbe crucifix in ireuud. its buddhistic chanurter, and tlie peoetiatiod of the miationariea of that faith even to that then remote p

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ge. monuments raised to fire-worship in all countries. 85 chapter the twelfth. druidical stones and their worship. 100 chapter the thirteenth. inquiry as to the possibility of miracle. 114 chapter the fourteenth. can evidence be depended upon? examination of hume s reasoing. 120 chapter the fifteenth. footsteps of the rosicrucians amidst architectural obejcts. 130 chapter the sixteenth. the round towers of ireland. 137 chapter the seventeenth. prismatic investiture of the microcosm. 142 chapter the eighteenth. cabalistic interpretations by the gnostics. 147 chapter the nineteenth. mystic christian figures and talismans. 157 chapter the twentieth. the rosy cross in indian, egyptian, greek, roman, and medi val monuments. 165 chapter the twenty-first. myth of the scorpion, or the snake, in it

nec te aliud vestam, quam vivam intelligere flammam. 56 the rosicrucians. the prytaneia were the atria of the temples, wherein a fire was kept that was never suffered to go out. on the change in architectural forms from the pyramidal (or the horizontal) to the obeliscar (or the upright, or vertical, the flames were transferred from the altars, or cubes, to the summits of the typical uprights, or towers; or to the tops of the candles, such as we see them used now in catholic worship, and which are called tapers, from their tapering or pyramidal form, and which, wherever they are seen or raised, are supposed always to indicate the divine presence or influence. this, through the symbolism that there is in the living light, which is the last exalted show of fluent or of inflamed brilliant mat

of her servants has strayed now, in unworthy and indign divination, and in the base proffer of supposed gipsy arts ministration becomes ridiculous (or made so, which was once mighty and sublime. the pyramidal or triangular form which fire assumes in its ascent to heaven is in the monolithic typology used to signify the great generative power. we have only to look at stonehenge, ellora, the babel-towers of central america, the gigantic ruins scattered all over tartary and india, to see how gloriously they symbolised the majesty of the supreme. to these uprights, obelisks, or lithoi, of the old world, including the bethel, or jacob s pillar, or pillow, raised in the plain of luz, we will add, as the commemorative or reminding shape of the fire, the pyramids of ascending and descending signs

uprights, obelisks, or lithoi, of the old world, including the bethel, or jacob s pillar, or pillow, raised in the plain of luz, we will add, as the commemorative or reminding shape of the fire, the pyramids of ascending and descending signs. 61 egypt, the millenarius, gnomon, mete-stone, or mark, called london stone, all crosses raised at the junction of four roads, all market-crosses, the round towers of ireland, and, in all the changeful aspects of their genealogy, all spires and towers, in their grand hieroglyphic proclamation, all over the world. all these are phalli, and express a sublime meaning (a) aries (b) taurus (c) gemini (d) cancer (e) leo (f) virgo, are the six first signs; and they collectively (in their annual succession) form the macrocosmos of the cabalists. then succeeds

w properly to value the ancient thinkers, who were as giants in the earth. we shall shortly show that reveries of the magi. 79 the monuments raised to this strange faith still remain, and that, surviving from the heathen times, the forms still mingle and lurk largely amidst the christian european institutions the traces of the idolatry, if not the idolatry itself. obelisks, spires, minarets, tall towers, upright stones (menhirs, monumental crosses, and architectural perpendiculars of every description, and, generally speaking, all erections conspicuous for height and slimness, were representatives of the sworded, or of the pyramidal, fire. they bespoke, wherever found, and in whatever age, the idea of the first principle, or the male generative emblem. having given, as we hope, some new vi

ne, or minerva. in the greek cities, the form of the deity changed variously to bacchus, to hercules, to phoebus- apollo; to the tri-formed minerva, dian, and hecate; to the dusky ceres, or the darker cybele. in the wilds of sarmathia, in the wastes of northern asia, the luminous rays descended from heaven, and, animating the lama, or light-born spoke the same story. the flames of the greeks, the towers of the phoenicians, the emblems of the pelasgi; the story of prometheus, and the myth of his stealing the fire from heaven, wherewith to animate the man (or ensoul the visible world; the forges of the cyclops, and the monuments of sicily; the mysteries of the etrurians; the rites of the carthaginians; the torches borne, in all priestly demonstrative processions, at all times, in all countri

sons; the hand (magnetic and mesmeric) upon sceptres; the open hand borne in the standards of the romans; the dragon crest of maximin, of honorius, and of the barbarian leaders; the dragon of china and of japan; the dragon of wales; the mythic dragon trampled by st. george; the crowned serpent of the royal house of milan; the cairns, as we have already affirmed, and the runic monuments: the round towers of ireland (regarding which there hath been so much, and so diverse and vain speculation; the memorial piles, and the slender (on seashore and upland) towers left by the vikinghs, or sea-kings, in their adventurous and predatory voyages; the legends of the norsemen or the normans; the vestiges so recently, in the discovery of the forward-of the-old-time ages, exposed to the light of critici

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ite, declined and blushed in the western sky i should feast on many wonderful meats, and drink wine, as sweet as nectar, pressed from my fecund vineyards' grapes. my temple-palace was less than none but the platinum throne of god himself. three nights riding, upon the fastest steed, would barely encircle its outmost wall. its highest spire looked down upon mountains, giant and high, yet low to my towers. the masonry of my exalted dominion was gilded all, and studded with precious jewels, of number and radiance to outshine the celestial arch. my will and word commanded authority greater than all, than any regent amongst man or angel. my word instructed, in their course, the planets of the sky. the sun, most radiant of the treasures of the sky, all-illumining and burning with golden flame, a

th their thunderous song and yet the cornet-blowers blasted a music of unparalleled beauty that sang the glory of that high and ancient race, the elohim, laid to ruin by their own ambition and its traitorous conspiracy. thus were the majestic notes intoned by god's swift-flying heralds the dirge of heaven's great magnificence which they sought to laud with their melody and as the euphony about my towers rang i knew that the music would shake down all of heaven's spires to desolation, my ear, keener than any other ear formed, heard this in the herald-angels fanfare and, without knowledge of whence this grim news sprang, i mourned the fate of my beloved home-land, weeping for that which was most beloved to me, hearing in the heralds' music with an unconscious ear the doom of heaven and her a

ite, declined and blushed in the western sky i should feast on many wonderful meats, and drink wine, as sweet as nectar, pressed from my fecund vineyards' grapes. my temple-palace was less than none but the platinum throne of god himself. three nights riding, upon the fastest steed, would barely encircle its outmost wall. its highest spire looked down upon mountains, giant and high, yet low to my towers. the masonry of my exalted dominion was gilded all, and studded with precious jewels, of number and radiance to outshine the celestial arch. my will and word commanded authority greater than all, than any regent amongst man or angel. my word instructed, in their course, the planets of the sky. the sun, most radiant of the treasures of the sky, all-illumining and burning with golden flame, a

th their thunderous song and yet the cornet-blowers blasted a music of unparalleled beauty that sang the glory of that high and ancient race, the elohim, laid to ruin by their own ambition and its traitorous conspiracy. thus were the majestic notes intoned by god's swift-flying heralds the dirge of heaven's great magnificence which they sought to laud with their melody and as the euphony about my towers rang i knew that the music would shake down all of heaven's spires to desolation, my ear, keener than any other ear formed, heard this in the herald-angels fanfare and, without knowledge of whence this grim news sprang, i mourned the fate of my beloved home-land, weeping for that which was most beloved to me, hearing in the heralds' music with an unconscious ear the doom of heaven and her a

t. now, scattered before amongst the multitudinous caverns of the lands beneath the earth, the shedim once more converged, to hear again the instruction of their chief. upon the high peaks of atlas did they gather and upon the highest of those peaks i stood. now every ear was mine, every arm at my command, every soul to dispose of as i willed. even when i had ruled as vice-regent in the halls and towers of doomed heaven i had not known such faith as now i knew. how could unworthy satan repay such love as of the shedim whom both loved me and were themselves most dear to my heart? as adonai yahweh's right hand i would never think so, it had not been the custom of the elohim to treasure love but rather to demand it of their subjects. this thought itself gave me pause and then with new resolve

he stars, proclaimer of destiny, keeper of wisdom, judge of the world, castigator of sin, scourge of evil, most high, most merciful, most just, most sagacious, most perfect, most mighty, most noble, most majestic, my god, my lord, my father, have you not seen what passes upon earth 201 that was once our sovereign dominion? have you not seen that mankind grows strong against us? man, he builds his towers high that they reach almost to inviolable heaven itself. such sacrilege against our noble kingdom must be chastised and the towers of man thrown down. though that accursed race of satan's line is watched by the shedim race with constant vigil, my cunning wit does conceive of some plan that might yet be worked against that haughty empire to make division amongst these new people that dwell w

was the greatness of the nephilim to find new power even in that set against them. sorely vexed indeed were heaven's princes by their deeds that effected not the outcome that they desired. again and again they sought some plot or ploy that would gain them advantage over man and thus preserve the kingdom that they stood within when their wiser brothers forsook its high spires, discerned that those towers would not forever stand but one day in posterity would be as stones upon the earth blackened by the smoke of ruin and the blood of war and thereafter would be blown by a bitter wind to dust. long times did the chief of those treacherous brethren pace the floors of his shining turret, this way and that way, working like the potter's clay this or the other design by which the nephilim might b

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s old, unless we are to understand that the charge assumes that he had reincarnated! 551. a legendary account is given of s. albans work for masons in the third century, and especially of his institution of general assemblies. he is also said to have obtained for them a charter, to have given them charges, and to have arranged for better pay. later, athelstan is said to have built many abbeys and towers, and to have loved well masons. his son edwin, who loved them still more, held an assembly at york and gave them a charter. all the old writings were collected at this period, some in frenche, and some in greek, and some in english, and some in other languages; and the intent of them all was founded all one. these old writings were digested into the york constitutions which resulted from th

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ude. line 28. a woman, naked, and kneeling onher left knee, pours from a vase in her right hand silver waters into a river, by which grow roses, the haunts of coloured butterfiles. with her left hand she pours golden waters over her head, which are lost in her long hair. her attitude suggests the swastika. above flashes a great star of seven rays. notes 40 line 29. below, a path leads between two towers, guarded by jackals, from the sea, wherein a scarab us marcheth landwards. line 30. below is a wall, in front of which, in a fairy ring, two children wantonly and shamelessly embrace. line 31. an angel blowing a trumpet, adorned with a golden banner bearing a white cross. below a fair youth rises from a sacrophagus in the attitude of the god shu supporting the firmament. on his left a fair

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ame of witch-women (old and without man) to cause events, although they create nothing. it is this straitness of the channel which giveth force to the stream. beware, o my son, lest thou cling overmuch to this mode of magick; for it is lesser than that other, and if thou neglect that other, then is thy danger fearful and imminent, for it is the edge of the abyss of choronzon, where are the lonely towers of the black brothers. also the formulation of the object in the eagle is by a species of intoxication, so that his nature is of dream or delirium, and thus there may be illusion. for this cause i deem it not wholly unwise if thou use this way of magick chiefly as a cordial; that is for the fortifying of thine own nature. t the book of wisdom or folly 93 gc de medicinis secundum quattuor el

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lso asar was hidden in amennti; and the lords of time swept over him with the sickle of death. 14. and a mighty angel appeared as a woman, pouring vials of woe upon the flames, lighting the pure stream with her brand of cursing. and the iniquity was very great. 15. then the lord khem arose, he who is holy among the highest, and set up his crowned staff for to redeem the universe. 16. he smote the towers of wailing; he brake them in pieces in the fire of his anger, so that he alone did escape from the ruin thereof. 17. transformed, the holy virgin appeared as a fluidic fire, making her beauty into a thunderbolt. 18. by her spells she invoked the scarab, the lord kheph- ra, so that the waters were cloven and the illusion of the powers was destroyed. 19. then the sun did appear unclouded, and

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was then placed upon this table, and the principal result of the ceremonial skrying of sir edward kelly is the obtaining of the following diagrams, plates iii.-viii. he symbolized the four-dimensional universe in two dimensions as a square surrounded by 30 concentric circles (the 30 thyrs or aires) whose radii increase in a geometrical proportion. the sides of the square are the four great watch-towers (plates iv- vii) which are attributed to the elements. there is also a .black cross (or .central tablet. according to the arrangement shewn.compare the black cross bordering the tablets in plate iii. with plate viii).6 plate iii gives the general view [the reversed letters which form the word paraoan are written in enochian for convenience, as our a and o are not distinguishable reverse fro

invoked.8 they are tdim dimt imtd mtdi, being metatheses of there four letters. the initial determines the file governed; e.g. tdim governs the file which reads t(o)ilvr. these angels are most mighty and benevolent. they are ruled by names of god formed by prefixing the appropriate letter from the .black-cross. to their own names. the symbolic representation of the universe 6 the four great watch-towers and the black cross within general view9 plate iii r z i l a f a y t l p a e t a o a d v p t d n i m a r d z a i d p a l a m a a l c o o r o m e b b c z o n s a r o y a u b x t o g c o n z i n l g m t o i t t x o p a c o c a n h o d d i a l a a o c s i g a s o m r b z n h r p a t a x i o v s p s] f m o n d a t d i a r i p s a a i z a a r v r o i o r o i b a h a o z p i m p h a r s l g a i o

3 22043 28. bag. 82. labnixp 2630 83. pocisni 7236 84. oxlopar 8200 18066 the symbolic representation of the universe 18 name of aire. names of governors numbers of servitors in all 29. rii. 85. vastrim 9632 86. odraxti 4236 87. gomziam 7635 21503 30. tex. 88. taoagla34 4632 89. gemnimb 9636 90. advorpt 7632 91. dozinal35 5632 27532 plate x shows us the names of these governers in the four watch- towers. compare with plate iii. note that the sigil of each governor is unique; the four sigils at the corners of plate x. without the great square are those of the four great elemental kings. air tahaoeloj. water thahebyobeaatan.36 earth thahaaotahe. fire ohooohaatan.37 liber lxxxiv 19 the characters upon the table of watchtowers38 plate x 20 part ii the forty-eight keys or calls these are most s

usahi.od umapelifa vau-ge-ji bijil-iad! the east is a house of virgins singing praises among the flames of first glory wherein the lord hath opened his mouth; and they are become as 28 living dwellings in whom the strength of man rejoiceth; and they are apparelled with ornaments of brightness, such as work wonders on all creatures. whose kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth strong towers and places of comfort, the seats of mercy and continuance. o ye servants of mercy, move! appear! sing praises unto the creator; and be mighty among us. for that to this remembrance is given power, and our strength waxeth strong in our comforter! the angle of c of d in the tablet of d the queen of the thrones of air. the eighth key bazodemelo i ta pi-ripesonu olanu na-zodavabebe ox. casareme

t is of the godhead.16 thus, then, with us hath it the number 0, though with them that of 1 (even as the first key of the rota hath the number 0) after this follow the calls or keys of the thirty aires of thyrs: which are in substance similar, though, in the name of the thyrs, diversified. the titles of the thirty thyrs whose dominion extendeth in everwidening circles without and beyond the watch towers of the universe [the first is outermost] 1 lil 16 lea 2 arn 17 tan 3 zom 18 zen 4 paz 19 pop 5 lit 20 khr 6 maz 21 asp 7 deo 22 lin 8 zid 23 tor 9 zip 24 nia 10 zax 25 vti 11 ich 26 des 12 loe 27 zaa 13 zim 28 bag 14 uta 29 rii 15 oxo 30 tex the forty-eight keys or calls 36 the call or key of the thirty thyrs madariatza das perifa lil* cahisa micaolazoda saanire caosago od fifisa balzodizod

e purist. and golden dawn enochian magick out there; the present edition was part of a project of producing good electronic copies of the magical instructions from equinox vol. i. some indication of what was intended for inclusion in the unpublished parts may be had from an advertisment which appeared in equinox i (3) promising for a future issue .the elemental calls or keys, with the great watch-towers of the universe. a complete treatise, fully illustrated, upon the spirits of the elements, their names and offices, with the method of calling them forth and controlling them. with an account of the heptarchicall mystery. it was originally intended to publish this together with the vision and the voice which appeared in equinox i (5. to adequately deal with all the matters mentioned in crow

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ejoice therein; but beware, for that is his first departure from the middle pillar of the tree of life. 7. he may at any moment withdraw from his association with the a a, simply notifying the practicus who introduced him. yet let him remember that being entered thus far upon the path, he cannot escape it, and return to the world, but must ultimate either in the city of the pyramids or the lonely towers of the abyss. 8. he shall everywhere proclaim openly his connection with the a a and speak of it and its principles (even so little as he understandeth) for that mystery is the enemy of truth. furthermore, he shall construct the magic dagger, according to the instruction in liber a. one month after his admission to the grade he shall go to his practicus, pass the necessary tests, and repeat

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ks of the magician. only the destroyer shall devour thee; thou shalt blacken his throat, wherein his spirit abideth. ah, serpent apep, but i love thee! 26. my god! let thy secret fang pierce to the marrow of the little secret bone that i have kept against the day of vengeance of hoor-ra. let kheph-ra sound his sharded drone! let the jackals of day and night howl in the wilderness of time! let the towers of the universe totter, and the guardians hasten away! for my lord hath revealed himself as a mighty serpent, and my heart is the blood of his body. 27. i am like a love-sick courtesan of corinth. i have toyed with kings and captains, and made them my slaves. to-day i am the slave of the little asp of death; and who shall loosen our love? 28. weary, weary! saith the scribe, who shall lead m

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

s that urge hot laughter with high-leaping lust! though one by one the heroes fall, their desperate way they slowly win, and knightly cry and comrade-call rise high above the savage din. liber cxcvii 12 now, now they land, a dwindling crew; now, now fresh armies hem them round. they cleave their blood-bought avenue, and cluster on the upper ground. ah! but dawn fs dreadful front uprears! the tall towers blaze, to illume the fight; while many a myriad heathen spears march northward at the earliest light. falls thy last comrade at thy feet, o lordly-souled sir palamede? tearing the savage from his seat, he leaps upon a coal-black steed. he gallops raging through the press: the affrighted heathen fear his eye. there madness gleams, there masterless the whirling sword shrieks shrill and high

resence: he emerged. the scent awakes the uneasy soul of that majestic one: upsurged the monster from the oozy bed, and bounded through the crashing glades .but now a staring savage head lurks at him through the forest shades. sir palamedes, the saracen knight 25 this was a naked indian, who led within the city gate the fooled and disappointed man, already broken by his fate. here were the brazen towers, and here the scupltured rocks, the marble shrine where to a tall black stone they rear the altars due to the divine. the god they deem in sensual joy absorbed, and silken dalliance: to please his leisure hours a boy compels an elephant to dance. so majesty to ridicule is turned. to other climes and men makes off that strong, persistent fool sir palamede the saracen. 26 xi sir palamede the

lends to thought a zest (quod he .but i am all for act. sit here, until your talk hath cracked the addled egg in nature.s nest. with that he fled the dismal tract. he was so sick and ill at ease and hot against his fellow men, he thought to end his purpose then. nay! let him seek new lands and seas, sir palamede the saracen! 29 xiii sir palamede is come anon into a blue delicious bay. a mountain towers thereupon, wherein some fiend of ages gone is whelmed by god, yet from his breast spits up the flame, and ashes grey. hereby sir palamede his quest pursues withouten let or rest. seeing the evil mountain be, remembering all his evil years, he knows the questing beast runs free. author of evil, then, is he! whereat immediate resounds the noise he hath sought so long: appears there quest a th

illed with his resounding curse. o fool of god! as if it mattered! so, nothing better, rather worse, out of the blue bliss of the pool came dripping that inveterate fool! 55 xxiii now still he holdeth argument .so grand a beast must house him well; hence, now beseemeth me frequent cathedral, palace, citadel. so, riding fast among the flowers far off, a gothic spire he spies, that like a gladiator towers its spear-sharp splendour to the skies. the people cluster round, acclaim .sir knight, good knight, thy quest is won. here dwells the beast in orient flame, spring-sweet, and swifter than the sun. sir palamede the saracen spurs to the shrine, afire to win the end; and all the urgent men throng with him eloquently in. sir palamede his vizor drops; he lays his loyal lance in rest; he drives t

rable smart .by goddes wounds. the good knight cried .what is this quest, grown daily dafter, where nothing.nothing.may abide? westward. they fly, but rolling after echoes the beast fs unsatisfied and inextinguishable laughter! 63 xxvii sir palamede goes aching on (pox of despair fs dread interdict) aye to the western horizon, still meditating, sharp and strict, upon the changes of the earth, its towers and temples derelict, the ready ruin of its mirth, the flowers, the fruits, the leaves that fall, the joy of life, its growing girth. and nothing as the end of all. yea, even as the yang-tze rolled its rapids past him, so the wall of things brake down; his eyes behold the mighty beast serenely couched upon its breast of burnished gold .ah! by christ fs blood (his soul avouched .nothing but

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, thee i invoke. thou, whose head is as an emerald, and thy nemmes as the night-sky blue! thee, thee i invoke. thou, whose skin is of flaming orange as though it burned in a furnace! thee, thee i invoke. 6. behold! i am yesterday, to-day, and the brother of to- morrow! i am born again and again. mine is the unseen force, whereof the gods are sprung! which is as life unto the dwellers in the watch-towers of the universe. 1 [more usually known as gjudgement h or gthe last judgement. h in crowley fs thoth deck it is called gthe aon. h. t.s] 2 liber israfel i am the charioteer of the east, lord of the past and of the future. i see by mine own inward light: lord of resurrection; who cometh forth from the dusk, and my birth is from the house of death. 7. o ye two divine hawks upon your pinnacles

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those false notions. therefore on giving them up, one has no standard of control of thought or action; and, until the truth is born, one can move only by virtue of one fs momentum. it is jumping off [note added in mtp publication of liber 913] 2 liber bracyt vel via memoria 4. it is even said that in certain circumstances it is possible to fall altogether from the tree of life, and to attain the towers of the black brothers. but we hold that this is not possible for any adept who has truly attained his grade, or even for any man who has really sought to help humanity even for a single second,1 and that although his aspiration have been impure through vanity or any similar imperfection. 5. let the adept who finds the result of these meditations unsatisfactory refuse the oath of the abyss

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

know what they were doing. and there were cheats, and doctors, and thieves; i was really very glad to go away. there were three ways into the seventh house, and the first was such a funny way. we walked through a pool, each on the arm of a great big beetle, and then we found ourselves on a narrow winding path. there were nasty jackals about, they made such a noise, and at the end i could see two towers. then there was the queerest moon you ever saw, only a quarter full. the shadows fell so strangely, one could see the most mysterious shapes, like great bats with women.s via c v. dens via r v. caput domus viii v. splendor via q v. cranium liber xcv 8 faces, and blood dripping from their mouths, and creatures partly wolves and partly men, everything changing one into the other. and we saw s

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

will not come from creationism and id. indeed, these ideologies do not ask any scientifically answerable questions and, in fact, do not ask any questions at all. the claim that creationism and id are an expression of critical thinking is unfounded. why do scientists have such a difficult time communicating with the general public? many people see scientists as individuals isolated in their ivory towers and interacting only with their peers, using a jargon that nobody else understands. unfortunately, this image is largely true. to add insult to injury, many scientists think poorly of their colleagues who attempt through trade book publishing, for example to communicate with the general public. in fact, the situation in universities is so bad that it is often detrimental to someone s academ

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

and that the antient grand lodge was trying to retain that mystical orientation. that would certainly fit with the latter organization's interest in the holy royal arch. let us see what dermott had to say. dermott starts his essay with a paragraph commenting on the usual masonic text. wherein they give us an account of the drawing, scheming, planning, designing, erecting, and building of temples, towers, cities, castles, palaces, theaters, pyramids, monuments, bridges, walls, pillars, courts, halls, fortifications, and labyrinths, with the famous light-house of pharos and colossus at rhodes, and many other wonderful works performed by the architects, to the great satisfaction of the readers and edification of free-masons" the paragraph includes a footnote which "quere(s, whether such histo

MAGIC AND SPELLS

ll or effect go awry. a character who views a wild magic zone with a detect magic spell detects the presence of magic on the first round and the existence of a wild magic zone on the second. if the character studies the area for 3 rounds, he can attempt a spellcraft check (dc 25) to determine the exact borders of the affected area. some clever wizards use existing wild magic zones to defend their towers or strongholds. with careful study, they chart the boundaries of the wild magic effect and then use this information to best advantage when fighting on their home ground against enemy spellcasters. table d% 01-10 11-2f effects of wild magic zones any spell or spell-like ability whose caster is within a wild magic zone is vulnerable to the effects of wild magic (wild magic does not affect su

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

f assisting the struggling human creature to reawaken the spiritual powers which, surrounded by the flaming click to enlarge a female hierophant of the mysteries. from montfaucon's antiquities. this illustration shows cybele, here called the syrian goddess, in the robes of a hierophant. montfaucon describes the figure as follows "upon her head is an episcopal mitre, adorned on the lower part with towers and pinnacles; over the gate of the city is a crescent, and beneath the circuit of the walls a crown of rays. the goddess wears a sort of surplice, exactly like the surplice of a priest or bishop; and upon the surplice a tunic, which falls down to the legs; and over all an episcopal cope, with the twelve signs of the zodiac wrought on the borders. the figure hath a lion on each side, and ho

the symbol of which is still the phallic pillars of the celestial twins "the ten commandments, writes hargrave jennings "are inscribed in two groups of five each, in columnar form. the five to the right (looking from the altar) mean the 'law; the five to the left mean the 'prophets' the right stone is masculine, the left stone is feminine. they correspond to the two disjoined pillars of stone (or towers) in the front of every cathedral, and of every temple in the heathen times (see the rosicrucians: their rites and mysteries) the same author states that the law is masculine because it was delivered direct from the deity, while the prophets, or gospels, were feminine because born through the nature of man. the right tablet of the law further signifies jachin--the white pillar of light; the

owering bush is a tall plant with a trifoliate head upon which a butterfly alights. here isis is in the form of an upright triangle and the vases have become shallow cups. the elements of water and earth under her feet represent the opposites of nature sharing impartially in the divine abundance. the eighteenth numbered major trump is called la lune, the moon, and portrays luna rising between two towers--one light and the other dark. a dog and a wolf are baying at the rising moon, and in the foreground is a pool of water from which emerges a crawfish. between the towers a path click to enlarge a card from the mantegna pack. from taylor's the history of playing cards. among the more curious examples of playing cards are those of the mantegna deck. in 1820, a perfect deck of fifty cards brou

winds, vanishing in the extreme background. court de g belin sees in this card another reference to the rising of the nile and states on the authority of pausanius that the egyptians believed the inundations of the nile to result from the tears of the moon goddess which, falling into the river, swelled its flow. these tears are seen dropping from the lunar face. court de g belin also relates the towers to the pillars of hercules, beyond which, according to the egyptians, the luminaries never passed. he notes also that the egyptians represented the tropics as dogs who as faithful doorkeepers prevented the sun and moon from penetrating too near the poles. the crab or crawfish signifies the retrograde motion of the moon. this card also refers to the path of wisdom. man in his quest of realit

lso refers to the path of wisdom. man in his quest of reality emerges from the pool of illusion. after mastering the guardians of the gates of wisdom he passes between the fortresses of science and theology and follows the winding path leading to spiritual liberation. his way is faintly lighted by human reason (the moon, which is but a reflection of divine wisdom. in the pseudo-egyptian tarot the towers are pyramids, the dogs are black and white respectively, and the moon is partly obscured by clouds. the entire scene suggests the dreary and desolate place in which the mystery dramas of the lesser rites were enacted. the nineteenth numbered major trump is called le soleil, the sun, and portrays two children--probably gemini, the twins--standing together in a garden surrounded by a magic ri

d, raising his eyes to heaven, exclaimed 'god is great! there is no god bur god, and i am his prophet' heaven and earth, we are assured, were agitated at his advent. the lake sawa shrank back to its secret springs, leaving its borders dry; while the tigris, bursting its bounds, overflowed the neighboring lands. the palace of khosru the king of persia shook t on its foundations, and several of its towers were toppled to the earth* in the same eventful night the sacred fire of zoroaster, which, guarded by the magi, had burned without interruption for upward of a thousand years, was suddenly extinguished, and all the idols in the world fell down (see mahomet and his successors) while the prophet was still but a toddling babe, the angel gabriel with seventy wings came to him, and cutting open

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in the first century a.d, the prytani had almost all retreated to the northernmost tip of the country, and were occupying the lands north of what is now perth and argyll in scotland. this may also account for the old witch belief of the north as being the holy direction. the northern abodes of the rulers of the picts, as the prytani were known by the romans, were often mysterious vitrified forts, towers whose outer stones had been fused together by great fires, making them practically impregnable to all attack. this is probably the origin of the witch's glass castle, which you will encounter later on. we know for a fact that glass castles such as these existed at craig phadrick at inverness, dun fionn, achterawe, and dundbhairdghal. by the eleventh century a.d, subsequent to successive inv

a dark, statuesque woman of mature age, robed in russet and green and bearing in her arms a sheaf of golden corn dotted with scarlet poppies. about her ankles and forearms twine green serpents, and her full dark breasts are exposed in the manner of the queens of ancient egypt. her lambent eyes are of dark gold; above her high coif of iron-dark hair she wears a square crenellated crown, like four towers bound together. these are the four castles or watchtowers of witchcraft that stand at the four quarters of the world. beneath her feet lush vegetation springs. behind her, in the mountainside, a giant cavern yawns. great masses of creeper trail over it in places like a curtain. the autumn air is heavy with the scent of new-mown hay, and bees drone lazily in the distance. with each step of y

ometimes refer to the north as the "abode of death" and the watchtower of the north is sometimes known as the "glass castle" glass is here symbolically analogous with unbreakable adamant, and this "land behind the north wind" refers to that vast abyss of death through which we all must pass before being reborn into the world of men again. it is also, of course, a direct reference to the vitrified towers of the elves. your magical implements, or "weapons" may be assigned to the various watchtowers, but here opinion differs considerably as to their correct assignation. many witches tend to use the cabalistic identification of the rod to fire, sword to air, pentacle to earth, cup to water. the cup seems to be about the one implement about which no one is in any doubt. more traditional, perhap

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 1

requests. he hath hopes also to return to the seventh throne after 1,200 years more, as he said unto solomon. he governeth 20 legions of spirits. and his seal is this, which wear thou, etc (38) halphas, or malthus- the thirty-eighth spirit is halphas, or malthous (or malthas. he is a great earl, and appeareth in the form of a stock-dove. he speaketh with a hoarse voice. his office is to build up towers, and to furnish them with ammunition and weapons, and to send men-of-war19 to places appointed. he ruleth over 26 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (39) malphas- the thirty-ninth spirit is malphas. he appeareth at first like a crow, but after he will put on human shape at the request of the exorcist, and speak with a hoarse voice. he is a mighty president and powerful. he can bu

sh them with ammunition and weapons, and to send men-of-war19 to places appointed. he ruleth over 26 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (39) malphas- the thirty-ninth spirit is malphas. he appeareth at first like a crow, but after he will put on human shape at the request of the exorcist, and speak with a hoarse voice. he is a mighty president and powerful. he can build houses and high towers, and can bring to thy knowledge enemies desires and thoughts, and that which they have done. he giveth good familiars. if thou makest a sacrifice unto him he will receive it kindly and willingly, but he will deceive him- that doth it. he governeth 40 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc. 19 or warriors, or men-at-arms (40) raum- the fortieth spirit is raum. he is a great earl; and

or sores, and causing worms to breed in them. he governeth 29 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (43) sabnock- the forty-third spirit, as king solomon commanded them into the vessel of brass, is called sabnock, or savnok. he is a marquis, mighty, great and strong, appearing in the form of an armed soldier with a lion s head, riding on a pale-coloured horse. his office is to build high towers, castles and cities, and-to furnish them with armour, etc. also he can afflict men for many days with wounds and with sores rotten and full of worms. he giveth good familiars at the request of the exorcist. he commandeth 50 legions of spirits; and his seal is this (44) shan- the forty-fourth spirit is shax, or shaz (or shass. he is a great marquis and appeareth in the form of a stock-dove

metimes. he governeth 30 legions of spirits, and his seal is this, etc (45) vine- the forty-fifth spirit is vine, or vinea. he is a great king, and an earl; and appeareth in the form of a lion,20 riding upon a black horse, and bearing a viper in his hand. his office is to discover things hidden, witches, wizards, and things present, past, and to come. he, at the command of the exorcist will build towers, overthrow great stone walls, and make the waters rough with storms. he governeth 36 legions of spirits. and his seal is this, which wear thou, as aforesaid, etc (46) bifrons- the forty-sixth spirit is called bifrons, or bifrous, or bifrovs. he is an earl, and appeareth in the form of a monster; but after a while, at the command of the exorcist, he putteth on the shape of a man. his office

MEANING OF MASONRY

hese great symbols much that is unsuited to treatment in a general lecture. the pillars form, and have always formed, a prominent feature in the temples of all great systems of religion and initiation, whether masonic or not. they have been incorporated into christian architecture. if you recall the construction of york minster or westminster abbey, you will recognize the pillars in the two great towers flanking the main entrance to those cathedrals at the west end of the structure. non-masons, therefore, enter these temples, as we do, between the pillars in the west; they look through them along the straight path that leads to the high altar, just as the mason's symbolic passage is also from the west to the throne in the east. that path is, as it were, the straight path of life, beginning

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eality. i have found that varied techniques, employed by various minds, embody a single key and have but one significance. through them it is possible for the inspired individual to manipulate and control the way he or she desires. the essence of the true will or holy guardian angel is the freedom, desire and strength to explore their entire universe of being, from the sun filled peaks of ancient towers to the catacombs of ghastly atavisms. all is possible to a mind of awakened light! 93 93 the teachings of old are of interest to the student and the adept for the method of inspiration. the various methods which can be developed from the old generally result in rebirth to the lineage. it is up to the individual to explore and rewrite many of these methods. it is not that the old ways should

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ds are very lucid in respect to magical weaponry and powers. we readof weapons of strange power and magical properties, which literally needed severalmen to use. their records give pronounced indications of genetic engineering in thetales of demonic hybrid entities, called the fomorian race, or men of lochlann,endowed with great powers, clairvoyance, and physical strength. we hear mention ofglass towers from which the evil overlords could keep watch over the entire island.the later races subjugated the land of ireland and its natives for centuries until theywere finally overthrown. the celtic word fomhoraigh, means giants, and also derives from a term that meansfrom under the seas. the myths say that the fomorians lived under the ocean. interest-ingly, one of the ancient names for the myth

l gain,the younger oer the elder reign.the meaning behind the euphemisms of the combating serpents or dragons has todo with the antagonism within the biology of the homo atlantis. the reference is tothe coils of dna, to the alien and human strands and their incompatibility. the folk-tales which have to do with the evil and good twin, the dark and fair sisters, the whiteand black witches, the twin towers, the true and false knights, the heroes descent andascent, etc, also conceal the same meta-theme. from robin hood to swan lake, fromhercules and the hydra to jason and the golden fleece, from the odin hanging on thewinding tree to conan the barbarian, from alice through the looking glass todungeons and dragons, the themes are one. what is the tree of the east and the treeof the west? what a

luvian before the floodpost-diluvian after the floodtholiformthe upright axis of the earth, prior to the tilt.lost home of kanethe polynesian name for the garden of eden, the place of origin of mankind. kane is from can, cain orcahen, meaning serpent.prediluvian advancementmany of the previously-cited traditions refer unmistakably to various antediluvian structures (for exam-ple, houses, temples, towers, canals, land vehicles (carts, chariots, aquatic vessels (rafts, canoes, andarks, and implements (ploughs, bows, arrows, spades).false geological chronologiesthe evidence is perfectly unambiguous. along with the removal of an ice age, like that which hasbeen hitherto commonly envisaged, the evidence suggests that there is something seriously amiss withthe last phases of standard geological

riginated on tiamat (lucifer, phaeton) the planet that was destroyed by atomic weaponry and whose remains now make up the so-called asteroid belt and whose debris has continually fallen into earth atmosphere and onto the very sur-face, as charles fort and others have researched for decades.scientists find 'lost city' of ancient rocknow researchers probing the ocean bottom have found 18-story-high towers of stone- the tallest ever -near a section of volcanic fault ridges that extend for 6,200 miles along the atlantic ocean floor.inspired by the formations' majestic heights and by the fact that the stone towers appear on a sea-floormountain named atlantis massif, the scientists named the field of about two dozen stone structures thelost city in honor of the fabled, flooded city.not only are

underwater vent systems made up of clusters of mineral depositsaround volcanic cracks in the ocean floor. colonies of strange, primitive creatures, including blood-redtubeworms and large clams feed on nutrients leached by hot, dissolving gas from the vents.but this network of stone is unique. rather than forming directly around volcanic vents, the formationsare about 9 miles from the cracks. the towers extend like groping fingers above atlantis massif, a sub-merged mountain about the size of washington's mt. ranier.as jeff karson, an oceanographer who explored the lost city with kelley remarked, if this were onland, this would be a national park. the lost city is also strikingly brightor as bright as things canappear under artificial light a half-mile below sea level.while rock formations

s things canappear under artificial light a half-mile below sea level.while rock formations around volcanic ridges normally appear black, these formations are gleamingwhite because they are made up of materials similar to pale concrete, such as carbonate minerals andsilica. kelley, who was lead author of a study about the formations in this week's issue of the journal,nature, says the steep-sided towers of rock blossom into feathery ledges of precipitated stone whichsprawl outwards for as wide as 30 feet.most unusual about the structures are their size. the highest stone spiral reaches 180 feet above theocean floor. before finding lost city, the highest known underwater structure was an 80-foot-highstone chimney known as godzilla on the seafloor off the washington state coast. godzilla cra

the underwater vents also suggests the towersmust be formed by a unique process. in so-called black smoker formations, ocean water sloshes nearhot magma at the volcanic vents and then heats up to 750 degrees fahrenheit. the hot water absorbsminerals and chemicals from surrounding rocks and eventually flows upwards. as the hot water rises itcools and releases the minerals and chemicals, which form towers of dark mineral rock and nutrient-rich ecosystems.at lost city, the construction of the stone towers appears to be driven not by hot magma, but by a rarerock. in this region, sections of a glassy green rock known as olivine are exposed directly under smallcracks in the ocean floor. when ocean water seeps into this 1.5-million-year-old mantel rock, it reactswith the olivine to form a scaly

MORALS AND DOGMA

a, and japan. the priests of brahma, professing a dark and bloody creed, brutalized by superstition, united together against buddhism, and with the aid of despotism, exterminated its followers. but their blood fertilized the new doctrine, which produced a new society under the name of gymnosophists; and a large number, fleeing to ireland, planted their doctrines there, and there erected the round towers, some of which still stand, solid and unshaken as at first visible monuments of the remotest ages. the ph nician cosmogony, like all others in asia, was the word of god, written in astral characters, by the planetary divinities, and communicated by the demi-gods, as a profound mystery, to the brighter intelligences of humanity, to be propagated by them among men. their doctrines resembled t

if he will not take them with the explanation and commentary superadded. listen, my brother, to _our_ explanation of the symbols of the degree, and then give them such further interpretation as you think fit. the _cross_ has been a sacred symbol from the earliest antiquity. it is found upon all the enduring monuments of the world, in egypt, in assyria, in hindostan, in persia, and on the buddhist towers of ireland. buddha was said to have died upon it. the druids cut an oak into its shape and held it sacred, and built their temples in that form. pointing to the four quarters of the world, it was the symbol of universal nature. it was on a cruciform tree, that chrishna was said to have expired, pierced with arrows. it was revered in mexico. but its peculiar meaning in this degree, is that g

desire it. what is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind? what is history, but its record? what are the treasures of genius and art, but its work? what are cultivated fields, but its toil? the busy marts, the rising cities, the enriched empires of the world are but the great treasure-houses of labor. the pyramids of egypt, the castles and towers and temples of europe, the buried cities of italy and mexico, the canals and railroads of christendom, are but tracks, all round the world, of the mighty footsteps of labor. without it antiquity would not have been. without it, there would be no memory of the past, and no hope for the future. even utter indolence reposes on treasures that labor at some time gained and gathered. he that does

e sacred mysteries. on the upright tablet of the king, discovered at nimroud, are the names of thirteen great gods (among which are yav and bel; and the left-hand character of every one is a cross composed of two cuneiform characters. the cross appears upon an ancient ph nician medal found in the ruins of citium; on the very ancient buddhist obelisk near ferns in ross-shire; on the buddhist round towers in ireland, and upon the splendid obelisk of the same era at forres in scotland. upon the facade of a temple at kalabche in nubia are three regal figures, each holding a crux ansata. like the subterranean mithriatic temple at new grange in scotland, the pagodas of benares and mathura were in the form of a cross. magnificent buddhist crosses were erected, and are still standing, at clonmacno

lood or body, the ownership of which some other soul might not dispute with us. it teaches us also the infinite beneficence of god who sends us seed-time and harvest, each in its season, and makes his showers to fall and his sun to shine alike upon the evil and the good: bestowing upon us unsolicited his innumerable blessings, and asking no return. for there are no angels stationed upon the watch-towers of creation to call the world to prayer and sacrifice; but he bestows his benefits in silence, like a kind friend who comes at night, and, leaving his gifts at the door, to be found by us in the morning, goes quietly away and asks no thanks, nor ceases his kind offices for our ingratitude. and thus the bread and wine teach us that our mortal body is no more we than the house in which we liv

e intelligence. in the beginning man had the word, and that word was from god: and out of the living power which, in and by that word, was communicated to man, came the light of his existence. let no man speak the word, for by it the father made light and darkness, the world and living creatures. the chaldean upon his plains worshipped me, and the sea-loving ph nician. they builded me temples and towers, and burned sacrifices to me upon a thousand altars. light was divine to them, and they thought me a god. but i am nothing-_nothing; and light is the creature of the unseen god that taught the true religion to the ancient patriarchs: awful, mysterious, the absolute. man was created pure; and god gave him truth, as he gave him light. he has lost the _truth_ and found _error. he has wandered

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

f the state. rhea (ops. rhea, the wife of cronus, and mother of zeus and the other great gods of olympus, personified the earth, and was regarded as the great mother and unceasing producer of all plant-life. she was also believed to exercise unbounded sway over the animal creation, more especially over the lion, the noble king of beasts. rhea is generally represented wearing a crown of turrets or towers and page 19 seated on a throne, with lions crouching at her feet. she is sometimes depicted sitting in a chariot, drawn by lions. the principal seat of her worship, which was always of a very riotous character, was at crete. at her festivals, which took place at night, the wildest music of flutes, cymbals, and drums resounded, whilst joyful shouts and cries, accompanied by dancing and loud

he wife of saturn, who had a variety of appellations. she was called magna-mater, mater-deorum, berecynthia-idea, and also dindymene. this latter title she acquired from three high mountains in phrygia, whence she was brought to rome as cybele during the second punic war, b.c. 205, in obedience to an page 20 injunction contained in the sybilline books. she was represented as a matron crowned with towers, seated in a chariot drawn by lions. division of the world. we will now return to zeus and his brothers, who, having gained a complete victory over their enemies, began to consider how the world, which they had [20]conquered, should be divided between them. at last it was settled by lot that zeus should reign supreme in heaven, whilst aides governed the lower world, and poseidon had full co

ther until she expired. her mangled body was cast into the fount near thebes, which still bears her name. amphion became king of thebes in his uncle's stead. he was a friend of the muses, and devoted to music and poetry. his brother, zethus, was famous for his skill in archery, and was passionately fond of the chase. it is said that when amphion wished to inclose the town of thebes with walls and towers, he had but to play a sweet melody on the lyre, given to him by hermes, and the huge stones began to move, and obediently fitted themselves together. the punishment of dirce at the hands of amphion and zethus forms the subject of the world-renowned marble group in the museum at naples, known by the name of the farnese bull. in sculpture amphion is always represented with a lyre; zethus with

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

uring the siege of jerusalem, their efforts suffered particularly from the lack of equipment, war machines, and qualified workers.1 in 1123, at the siege of tyre, the crusaders paid a king's ransom to an armenian named havedic to come build ballista for them.2 on entering tyre in 1124, the christians greatly admired the fortifications, the solidity of the buildings and ramparts, the height of the towers, and the elegance of the port proof that these kinds of works were novel to them and were regarded as revelations. 3 this is precisely the time when the order of the templars began to extend itself throughout the holy land with the building of fortresses, called kraks, which can still be admired today. the crusades and the templars 65 the first krak appears to have been built in 1141 in ibe

emple, rue reamur, rue bailly, rue de turbigo, and back to place de la republique. when the king undertook his struggle against the manorial justices, the original and more restrictive enclos was restored. in its last incarnation, its perimeter was framed by what are now the rue temple, rue beranger, rue chariot, and rue de bretagne, and it was surrounded with thick, high walls with round defense towers. by 1820, however, the last traces of this enceinte had disappeared. 104 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages land had no break in continuity. the rest consisted of streets, land, and houses that were sometimes isolated enclaves in the jurisdiction of the provostship, the university, or another sovereign jurisdiction. the rights of the temple were confirmed by th

NECRONOMICON ALAZIF

eir mitred-heads shall know the claws of doom. of kadath ye unknown what man knoweth kadath? for who shall know of that which ever abides in strange-time, twix yesterday, today and the morrow. unknown amidst ye cold waste lieth the mountain of kadath where upon the hidden summit an onyx castle stands. dark clouds shroud the mighty peak that gleams 'neath ancient stars where silent brood the titan towers and rear forbidden walls. curse-runes guard the nighted gate carved by forgotten hands, and woe to he that dare pass within those dreadful doors. earth's gods revel where others once walked in mystic timeless halls, which some have glimpst in sleeps dim vault through strange and sightless eyes. to call forth yog-sothoth for yog-sothoth is the gate. he knoweth where the old ones came forth i

RABBI MOSHE WISNEFSKY APPLES FROM THE ORCHARD THE ARIZAL ON THE PARASHAH

s name indicates gevurah, it is a gevurah motivated by chesed. yud is associated with chesed because when the name havayah is spelled out with yud fs, its numerical value is 72, the numerical value of chesed (chet-samech-dalet= 8+ 60+ 4= 72. the lamed originally was in the middle verse (and column, which as we said, is associated with gevurah. the lamed is associated with ima since in its form it towers above the other letters, just as binah, embodying the intellect in general.presides over the midot.19 the intellect is the three sefirot of chochmah-binah-da fat, which inter-include to produce 30 sub-sefirot, as we mentioned above. 30 is the numerical value of the letter lamed. this [manifestation of gevurah] is followed by [a manifestation of] mercy, as it is written, gsmiting egypt and h

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

eviously appeared in my tree of life, and i may now add a word or two concerning the further directions which are orally imparted to the can40 the golden dawn didate after his admission. the prime factor towards success in that exercise is to imagine that the astral form is capable of expansion, that it grows tall and high, until at length it has the semblance of a vast angelic figure, whose head towers amongst the distant stars of heaven. when this imaginative expansion of consciousness produces the sense that the height is enormous, with the earth as a tiny globe revolving beneath the feet, then above the head should be perceived or formulated a descending ray of brilliant light. as the candidate marks the head and then the breast, so should this brilliance <76> descend, even down to his

l universe as depicted in malkuth with the pillar of mercy and the side of chesed, through the sephirah netzach, and through it do the waters of chesed flow down. hiero, hegemon and practicus come to the west of the altar. before you upon the altar is the 18th key of tarot which symbolically resumes these ideas. it represents the moon with four hebrew yods like drops of dew falling, two dogs, two towers, a <130> winding path leading to the horizon, and, in the fore-ground, water with a crayfish crawling through it to the land. the moon is in its increase on the side of mercy, gedulah, and from it proceed sixteen principal and sixteen secondary rays, which make 32, the number of the paths of yetsirah. she is the moon at the feet of the woman of revelations, ruling equally over the cold and

e is the moon at the feet of the woman of revelations, ruling equally over the cold and moist natures and the passive elements of earth and water. it is to be noted that the symbol of the sign is formed of two lunar crescents bound together. it thus shows the lunar nature of the sign. the dogs are the jackals of the egyptian anubis, guarding the gates of the east and of the west, shown by the two towers between which lies the path of all the heavenly bodies ever rising in the east and setting in the west. the cray-fish is the sign cancer and was anciently the scarabeus or khephera, the emblem of the sun below the horizon as he ever is when the moon is increasing above. also, when the sun is in the sign pisces the moon will be well in her increase in cancer as shown by the cray-fish emblem

s far and no farther is it permitted to penetrate into the path of nun. the mysteries may now be partially be revealed unto you. 2nd ad. takes phil. to tarot key of death 'note: the outer order of the elemental grades could be likened to the bur elemental quadangles of john dee's great table of the watchtowers. the pentagram itself has its four lower points arranged in the same order as the watch towers with the tablet of union "set over it. earth fire table union ewater l here the five paths of sameck, mem, kaph, nun and ayin are said to. set forth the eternal symbol of the p e n t a m. mem is water, avin is earth, and sameck is fie. but to which points &d elements do wealocate ianrd s piritfthe dues w e a re given is jupiter's ruling of a'spiration, thus, in this context, air, and being

s vault, other adepts round him. they join wands over his head. he raises his face and hands and continues: i am the reconciler with the ineffable. i am the dweller of the invisible. let the white brilliance of the divine spirit descend. chief lowers face and hands. other adepts withdraw their wands (raising his hand) in the name and power of the divine spirit, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watch-towers of the universe. guard this vault during thisrevolution of the solar course. keep far from it the evil and the uninitiated that they penetrate not into the abode of our mysteries, and inspire and sanchfy all who enter this place with the illimitable wisdom of the li ht divine! chief adept gives sign of a= d an others copy them and take their places as in the opening of the vault. business t

, and lead thee unto the ways of everlasting peace. pause for a few minutes. rmerse circumambulation. reconsecration of temple with fire and water. then powerful banishing rituals ofpentagram and hexagram. consecration ceremony for jupiter talisman temple furniture arranged as for the grade of neophyte. banishing rituals of both pentagram and hexagram. open the temple by the ceremony of the watch-towers. after adoration, perform the lnvoking hexagram ritual of the supemals, using eheieh and ararita. employ the vibratory formula of the middle pillar to invoke kether, and do not proceed until the sensation of the divine force is present in every vein and nerve. then contemplate the higher and divine genius, and utter the following prayer. unto thee sole wise, sole eternal, and sole merciful

rending of the veil. then repeat the invocation on page 2 15, beginning: abba, father of all fathers, thee i invoke by thy name al, etc. invisibility temple as in= grade. banish thoroughly with lesser ritual of the pentagram and hexagram, using qabalistic cross and key-word. purify with fire and water. circumambulnte three times. return to altar for adoration. or open by the formula of the watch-towers. invoke the forces of the tablet of union by means of supreme ritual of pentagram, with active and passive spirit, with eheieh and agla. return to altar, and recite the following enochian spirit invocation: 01 sonuf vaorsag goho lad balt, lonsh calz vonpho. sobra z-01 ror i ta nazps, od graa ta malprg. ds hol-q qaa nothoa zimz, od commah ta nobloh zien. soba thil gnonp prge aldi. ds vrbs ob

RITUEL ET DOGME DE LA HAUTE MAGIE BY ELIPHAS LEVI PART II

tly the mystic quadrature of the circle. we may remark, in passing, that the author of the apocalypse, that key of the christian kabalah, composed the number of the beast, that is to say, of idolatry, by adding a 6 to the double senary of abracadabra, which gives 18 kabalistically, the number attributed in the tarot to the hieroglyphic sign of night and of the profane. the moon, together with the towers, dog, wolf and crab. a mysterious and obscure number, the kabalistic key of which is 9, the the triangle of pantacles 25 number of initiation. on this subject the sacred kabalist says expressly: ghe that hath understanding h that is, the key of kabalistic numbers. glet him count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred three score and six. h it i

ennyworth of milk in the morning that she may carry a penny taper to burn on the magic triangle in a chapel; but they who laugh are ignorant, and the simple woman does not pay too dearly for what she thus purchases of resignation and of courage. great minds pass by in great pride, shrugging their shoulders; they rise up against superstition with a din which shakes the world; and what happens? the towers of great minds collapse, and their ruins revert to the providers and purchasers of penny tapers, who are content to hear it proclaimed everywhere that their reign is for ever ended, provided that they rule always. the great religions have never had more than one serious rival, and this rival is magic. magic produced the occult associations which brought about the revolution termed the renai

destruction of the most splendid and most holy temple and city in the universe, and by the complete overthrow of a people whom god himself had taken under his special protection and of whom he termed himself father especially. so also that other jerusalem, rome the blessed, has it not too experienced frequently the violence of this evil northern race, when it beheld its altars demolished and the towers of its proud edifices brought level with the foundations, through the cruelty of alaric, genseric, attila and other princes of the goths, huns, vandals and alani. very properly therefore in the secrets of this celestial writing, do we read calamities and misfortunes on the northern side, since a septentrione pandetur omne malum. now, the word thpthch which we translate by pandetur, is also

yin. p heaven of the soul, outpourings of thought, moral influence of idea on form, immortality. hieroglyph, the blazing star and eternal youth. we have described this symbol previously. x the elements, the visible world, reflected light, material forms, symbolism. hieroglyph, the moon, dew, a crab rising in the water towards land, a dog and wolf barking at the moon and chained to the base of two towers, a path lost in the horizon and sprinkled with blood. q composites, the head, apex, prince of heaven. hieroglyph, a radiant sun and two naked children, taking hands in a fortified enclosure. other tarots substitute a spinner unwinding destinies, and yet others a naked child mounted on a white horse and displaying a scarlet standard. r vegetative principle, generative virtue of the earth, et

RUBY TABLET OF SET

ist v operated under the will of that we knew as satan. it was a degree which insisted on integrity and clarity, for its owner held the infernal mandate. and too soon id-monsters, never quite dead, erupted and the shining splendor which was the church of satan shattered into fragments. yet of evil comes a greater good; such was the case and from the ruins of the church of satan arose the gleaming towers of the temple of set. it was a curiously both long and short journey here, and we have lived not only to tell the tale but to enjoy and continue our fight. the golden dawn, the o.t.o, and the church of satan are but three organizations which opened the way for us and many more groups and individuals have contributed. you will find the pentagram of the greatest of these worn about your neck

arlathotep! neter of eldritch lore and forbidden knowledge, patron of this pylon here gathered, help us to know ourselves and to find the key of the mysteries in the secret center of our being wherein all power dwells. h ghail anpu-upuat! guide through the night and into the dark places, guardian of the gate and opener of the way, show forth the lonely path through the desert and between the dark towers, past the hidden plateau of leng and the cold waste of unknown kadath, unto the final farthest mountain's peak of undefiled wisdom and ultimate selfhood where we shall live and reign forever! h ghail maat! beautiful and terrible lady of the mirror and keeper of the scales wherein our hearts are weighed, show us the truth about our selves and our lives that we may see truly, face thee with c

ch was grey, tinged with pink. i was wholly alone. i then realized that if i concentrated my attention, i could perceive the world beyond my self as a thing detached and apart. unattached to it, i could perhaps truly appreciate its beauty in its own right, and my naked mind soared incorporeally over hills and forests, savouring all that it saw, but touching it but lightly. still i was alone. tall towers rose before me and i entered a fair city and willed my self to take form there. people teemed everywhere, living and laughing. i laughed with them, but they remained distant in essence, as did all else. even in this throng, i was alone. for now the boundaries between self and not-self are well-established and defined, and i can enjoy life and interaction without tainting my self. they have

the christ eaters as our combined wills shatter the crumbling foundations of that monolithic organ of ignorance and oppression whose vile tentacles permeate every part of our society, restricting freedom, suppressing knowledge, stifling the black flame which distinguishes man from the beasts of the field [setian bell smashed the crucifix to smithereens with a ritual hammer, and spoke] and as the towers of fear and self-loathing come crashing down, a glorious new spirit of freedom and enlightenment emerges so that those who truly seek and deserve initiation and xeper are not held back by the evil claws of lesser men's despair. rising up of the temple of set in the u.k [written and spoken by adept parkin] the church falls, and the pentagram rises up above a set of shining, silvery pylon gat

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

falling fire "this is the judgment of god in his wrath" gib- reel farishta proclaims to the riotous night "that men be granted their heart's desires, and that they be by them consumed" low-cost high-rise housing enfolds him _nigger eat white man's shit, suggest the unoriginal walls. the buildings have names "isandhlwana "rorke's drift. but a revisionist enterprise is underway, for two of the four towers have been renamed, and bear, now, the names "mandela" and "toussaintl"ouverture--the towers stand up on stilts, and in the concrete formlessness beneath and between them there is the howling of a perpetual wind, and the eddying of debris: derelict kitchen units, deflated bicycle tyres, shards of broken doors, dolls' legs, vegetable refuse extracted from plastic disposal bags by hungry cats

burns greenly in the night. the fires are every colour of the rainbow, and not all of them need fuel. he blows the little fire-flowers out of his horn and they dance upon the concrete, needing neither combustible materials nor roots. here, a pink one! there, what would be nice, i know: a silver rose- and now the buds are blossoming into bushes, they are climbing like creepers up the sides of the towers, they reach out towards their neighbours, forming hedges of multicoloured flame. it is like watching a luminous garden, its growth accelerated many thousands of times, a garden blossoming, flourishing, becoming overgrown, tangled, becoming impenetrable, a garden of dense intertwined chimeras, rivalling in its own incandescent fashion the thornwood that sprang up around the palace of the sle

SATANGEL

les friends, bestows honour and dignity to anyone. haagenti (goetia, 48th spirit. president commanding 33 legions. appears as a mighty bull with griffin s wings, assumes human form on command. makes men wise, transmutes all metals to gold, changes water into wine. halphas, malthas, malthus, malthous (goetia, 38th spirit. earl commanding 26 legions. appears as a stock dove, speaks hoarsely. builds towers and supplies them with armaments, sends warriors. haurus, haures (goetia, 64rh spirit. who manifests as a leopard, man, or theriomorph, a master of divination. destroys and burns the enemies of the summoner. tells of the creation of the world, and how he and the fallen came to be. his name probably derives from the egyptian horus. hecate (greek. triple headed queen of sorcery, who dwells wh

mon prince of the element of earth. malibrance (latin. who torment hell s worst sinners. who have snakes coming out of their noses and ears, and who have hooves and tails. when a doomed soul takes its last breath, it is they who collect. malphas (goetia, 39th spirit. president commanding 40 legions. appears as a crow, although assumes human form on command. speaks hoarsely. builds houses and high towers, reveals thoughts and desires of enemies, gives good familiars. mammon (aramaic, mamon, meanining property. the personification of riches and unjust profit (luke 16:9-13. the prince of tempters, the devil of avarice and greed. identified as a devil in the works of aggrippa and nettesheim. patron devil of avarice, and ambassador to england. who is so stooped from the impact from the fall tha

a monster. teaches rhetoric, knowledge of tongues, gives good servants, and favour with friends or foes. rossier. patron devil of seduction, who tempts mortals to erotic love, causing them to act like fools. ruach raah (hebrew, evil spirit. sabnock, savnok (goetia, 43rd spirit. marquis commanding 50 legions. appears as an armed soldier with a lion s head, riding a pale horse. builds and arms high towers, castles and cities. afflicts men with wounds and sores. gives good familiars. saitan (arabic. a synonym of a jinn. salleos, sallos (goetia, 19th spirit. duke commanding 30 legions. appears as a gallant warrior riding a crocodile and wearing a ducal crown. procures love. salmael this fallen one has a loathing for israel and their yahweh, and calls for their destruction. samael, sammael, sam

es ships; causes stormy seas; causes death in three days through putrefying wounds or sores infested with worms. verrier. who tempts mortals to rebellion by making their necks too stiff to bow down. vine, vinea (goetia, 45th spirit. king and earl commanding 36 legions. appears as a lion riding a black horse and carrying a viper. discovers hidden things, witches and wizards; tells fortunes; builds towers; demolishes great stone walls; makes waves. voso, ose, oso (goetia, 57th spirit. president commanding 30 legions. appears as a leopard; later a man. teaches liberal sciences; gives true answers concerning divine and secret matters; changes men into any shape so that the person changed believes they really are the creature or thing. watchers, the. rebel angels who, before the fall, deliberat

they are 1pir-gah 2qui-in 3enay butmon 4od i 1become 28 3living dwellings 4in whom 5the strength of man 1noas 2ni 3paradial 4casarmg 5vgear 1rejoiceth 2and 3they are apparelled with 4ornaments of brightness 1chirlan 2od 3zonac 4luciftian 1such as work 2wonders on all creatures. 3whose kingdoms 4and 1cors ta vaul 2zirn tol hami 3sobol ondoh 4od 1continuance 2are as 3the third 4and fourth, 5strong towers 6and 1miam 2chis ta 3d 4od es 5v-ma-dea 5od 1places of comfort, 2the seat of mercy 3and continuance. 1pi-bliar 2othil rit 3od miam 1o ye servants of mercy 2move, 3appear, 4sing praises 5unto the creator! 1c-noqol rit 2zacar 3zamran 4oe-crimi 5qaada. 1and be mighty 2amongst us! 3for to 4this remembrance 1od o-micaolz 2aaiom 3bagle 4papnor 1is given power, 2and our strength 3waxeth strong 4in

SATANIC BIBLE

fa vau-ge-ji bijil- iad (english) the east is a house of harlots singing praises among the flames of the first glory wherein the dark lord hath opened his mouth; and they are become as living dwellings in whom the strength of man rejoiceth; and they are appareled with ornaments of brightness, such as work wonders on all creatures. whose kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth, strong towers and places of comfort, the seats of pleasure and continuance. o ye servants of pleasure, move, appear, sing praises unto the earth and be mighty amongst us. for that to this remembrance is given power, and our strength waxeth strong in our comforter. the eighth key the eighth enochian key refers to the emergence of the satanic age (enochian) bazodemelo i ta pi-ripesonu olanu na-zodavabebe o

SATANIC RITUALS

provide many things that can go wrong, so that if a ritual doesn't work it can be said that the student was delinquent in his studies (c) to discourage all but the most idle, bored, talentless, and barren (translation=introspective, mystical, spiritual) persons. contrary to popular assumption, esoteric doctrines do not discourage nonachievers but actually encourage them to dwell in loftier ivory towers. those with the greatest degree of natural magical ability are often far too busy with other activities to learn the "finer" points of the sephiroth, tarot, i ching, etc. this is not intended to suggest that there is no value in arcane wisdom. but, just because one memorizes every name in a telephone directory it does not mean he is intimately acquainted with each person listed. it is often

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

oastrianism funeral services for zoroastrians might be regarded as unusual in the west, and indeed zoroastrians have had to adapt their beliefs to modern life. traditionally zoroastrians allowed the dead to remain exposed until vultures and other scavenger birds consumed the flesh and the bones were bleached. they believed that burying a body would pollute ahura mazda s earth. in india, so-called towers of silence were constructed as places where bodies could be exposed to the birds. unfortunately, the vulture population has declined significantly, making the practice impractical in modern life, so zoroastrians are rethinking the practice. in other parts of the world, zoroastrians do bury or cremate the dead. modern issues one of the issues facing modern zoroastrianism is the possibility t

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

or the freeman or the slave, the ionian, the venetian, the gaul, the turk, or the restless briton, zanoni had fixed his bridal home. there the air carries with it the perfumes of the plains for miles along the blue, translucent deep (see dr. holland's "travels to the ionian isles" etc, page 18) seen from one of its green sloping heights, the island he had selected seemed one delicious garden. the towers and turrets of its capital gleaming amidst groves of oranges and lemons; vineyards and olive-woods filling up the valleys, and clambering along the hill-sides; and villa, farm, and cottage covered with luxuriant trellises of dark-green leaves and purple fruit. for there the prodigal beauty yet seems half to justify those graceful superstitions of a creed that, too enamoured of earth, rather

and hear the ghouls, in their horrid orgies, amongst the festering ghastliness of corruption, than to front those features when the veil was lifted, and listen to that whispered voice. the next day glyndon fled from the ruined castle. with what hopes of starry light had he crossed the threshold; with what memories to shudder evermore at the darkness did he look back at the frown of its time-worn towers! chapter 5.ii. faust: wohin soll es nun gehm? mephist: wohin es dir gefallt. wir sehn die kleine, dann die grosse welt "faust (faust: whither go now! mephist: whither it pleases thee. we see the small world, then the great) draw your chair to the fireside, brush clean the hearth, and trim the lights. oh, home of sleekness, order, substance, comfort! oh, excellent thing art thou, matter of f

it existed, dwelt in the artificer, and the materials, to other hands, were but herbs and bronze. so is it ever with thy works and wonders, o genius, seeker of the stars! words themselves are the common property of all men; yet, from words themselves, thou architect of immortalities, pilest up temples that shall outlive the pyramids, and the very leaf of the papyrus becomes a shinar, stately with towers, round which the deluge of ages, shall roar in vain! but in that solitude has the presence that there had invoked its wonders left no enchantment of its own? it seemed so; for as viola stood in the chamber, she became sensible that some mysterious change was at work within herself. her blood coursed rapidly, and with a sensation of delight, through her veins, she felt as if chains were fall

and features, and glyndon beheld zanoni! chapter 7.ix. think not my magic wonders wrought by aid of stygian angels summoned up from hell; scorned and accursed be those who have essayed her gloomy dives and afrites to compel. but by perception of the secret powers of mineral springs in nature's inmost cell, of herbs in curtain of her greenest bowers, and of the moving stars o'er mountain tops and towers. wiffen's "translation of tasso" cant. xiv. xliii "you are safe here, young englishman" said zanoni, motioning glyndon to a seat "fortunate for you that i come on your track at last "far happier had it been if we had never met! yet even in these last hours of my fate, i rejoice to look once more on the face of that ominous and mysterious being to whom i can ascribe all the sufferings i have

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

arbitrary fashion; the real and perceptible are not the point. it is easy to understand why, if the outward 80 christianity as mystical fact events are narrated in order to clothe in pictures a spiritual process. the poet himself says in the opening invocation that his poem treats of the search for the soul. sing in me muse! sing the tale of the man, the resourceful hero, destroyer of troy s holy towers, sing all that he suffered, the cities he saw, the men and the ways that he learned there, buffeted long on the sea, enduring it all in his heart, seeking to save his own soul, and win his companions their homeland. this is a man seeking for the soul the divine in humanity and it is his wanderings on that quest that the poet will relate. he comes to the land of the cyclopes, uncouth giants

TEXE MARRS CODEX MAGICA SECRET SIGNS MYSTERIOUS SYMBOLS AND HIDDEN CODES OF THE ILLUMINATI

h union general william tecumseh sherman, shown here displaying the sign of the jahbuhlun cult in this official u.s. army photo. hundreds of civilians were massacred during sherman's fiery march through the south. three regal figures belonging to a nubian temple. each carries the egyptian ankh, signifying rebirth and reincarnation in one hand. other symbols are also seen (drawing: book, the round towers of atlantis, by henry o'brien, adventures unlimited press, kempton, il, 2002) hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 79 a republican party convention souvenir depicting president ronald reagan. the web site offering it for sale describes it thusly "from the 1984 convention, a smiling ronnie in a napoleonic stance" reagan was given the honorary 33rd degree by scottish rite leaders in a private

new york) this image was found under the root of a tree dug up in roscommon in ireland. it is made of brass. the gilding, however, is now almost worn off. it is on display at the museum of trinity college, dublin "to this deity in particular they apply themselves for success when they go out a hunting or fishing, and for the relief of all such as are indisposed" miramba (from the book, the round towers of atlantis, by henry o'brien, published 2002; originally in 1834; adventures unlimited press, kempton, il 60946) 232 codex magica cover of a popular witchcraft publication in the u.s.a, circle network news (copyright 1994. cernunnos, horned antler god of the forest, is at top with his arms folded("x. the sun, sacred to wiccans is at center "cross my heart and hope to die" 233 in this photo

THE CRAFT GRIMOIRE OF ECLECTIC VERSION 2

make one (1) printed copy for their own personal use. all other rights are retained by the author copyright beltain 2000 by parker torrence, all rights reserved, all wrongs returned three fold. whatever you send out, comes back times three! this work is dedicated with love to my lady wolfrose the joy of magick picking your path the wheel of the year archetype gods and goddesses elements and watch towers tools and your altar the art of magick at the crossroads reality and& responsibility content( grimoire of eclectic magick) the joy of magick( greetings, and welcome to the grimoire of eclectic magick, and yes this is a book about real magick! what is magick& why read this book? magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. aleister crowley or in more mode

ve the two fold god. the lord is normally viewed as being symbolic of the summer season, and the winter season. common names for these are the green man and the horned man. the first of these is strongly connected to the growing season, while the latter is associated with the harvest and the hunt. the archetypes here go back to the days when all humans were hunters and gathers) elements and watch towers( archetype gods and goddesses( all cultures have within their belief systems the concept of the four corners of the world. the idea of guardians dwelling in watch towers, is not something from the far distant past. it is, more a creation of the medieval magician, coming to us from a time when the lords of the land dwelt and ruled from their castles. even more perplexing, is that many pagan

he four corners of the world. the idea of guardians dwelling in watch towers, is not something from the far distant past. it is, more a creation of the medieval magician, coming to us from a time when the lords of the land dwelt and ruled from their castles. even more perplexing, is that many pagan and wiccan systems name, and call upon the hebrew archangels as the watchers who dwell within these towers at the edge of the world. the singer, song writer, kate bush, on her album the red shoes, has within the lyrics of the song lily, incorporated the traditional words to summon the archangels from their watch towers gabriel before me raphael behind me michael on my right urial on my left side lily by kate bush in the craft, part of the invocation of the spirit monon also calls upon the power

occult. as above, so below! earth is the foundation element. it is solid, dependable and stable. in magick its color is green or black, and it is used in spells for employment, money, fertility, and prosperity of any kind. the celtic goddess, dana is associated with earth. in the tarot it is the suit of pantacles, or coins. it is also know as assiah, the material world. page 8 elements and watch towers continued( grimoire of eclectic magick air is the intellectual element. it is clear and uncluttered. in magick its color is bright pale yellow, and it is employed in spells for visualization, inspiration, learning, and freedom. the celtic god, dagha is associated with air. in the tarot it is the suit of swords (sometimes wands. it is also know as yetzirah, the formative world. water is the

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 3

rush-presbyterian st. luke s medical center in chicago, agreed that there was no question that they had begun treating many patients with sleep problems and nightmares related to the incidents of that terrible event. deirdre barrett, a psychology professor at harvard medical center who supervised counselors at boston s logan airport following the hijackings of the jets that crashed into the twin towers, cautioned that in some cases it might be six months or a year before certain people would begin having traumatic dreams of the series of events that occurred on september 11, 2001. siegel went on to explain that such nightmares should be considered the brain s natural means of dealing with the trauma, dispelling it through the subconscious while people are sleeping. although people tend to

ne other alien, and the five elk. higdon was strapped to a seat with a football-like helmet on his head. then he underwent a bizarre trip through space in a small, transparent craft. most of the details of higdon s fantastic journey were gleaned during the hypnosis sessions with sprinkle. higdon told the doctor that he witnessed portions of what appeared to be a futuristic city of tall spires and towers t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d invaders from outer space 269 aconference on alien-abduction suggested as many as several hundred thousand to more than three million adults have had abduction experiences with ufo beings. and revolving multicolored lights. after a physical examination, he was returned to the space vehicle. when he loo

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

harmless, i dreaded re-entering it. i actually considered remaining there, only yards from my car, until daybreak. but i finally steeled myself and walked once more through that invisible stream, scared out of my wits in transit yet privately pleased with my discovery. in daylight i returned to the same spot. the zone of fear was gone. i searched for power transmission lines, telephone microwave towers, and anything that might have radiated energy through the area. there was nothing. nor did a daytime exploration of the power plant reveal anything connie might have mistaken for red eyes. mrs. mallette's bleeding ear and my discovery of the ultrasonic zone of fear convinced me that ufo-type phenomena were present in the tnt area even though the police and press had not received any reports

were joined by straight tracks or "leys" which formed a complicated grid system. i wondered if a similar ley grid may not have once existed in west virginia and i studied aerial photos and old maps looking for such a system. there are tiny traces. here and there, but modern fanners and builders have destroyed most of the old artifacts, just as they had destroyed a great many of the mounds, stone towers, etc, that stood on this continent when the first europeans arrived. had woody been stopped on a cross-point of some old ley network? the only clue lies in mr. cold's uncharacteristic selection for a name. in his study of the british leys, the view over atlantis, john michell stated: a peculiar feature of the old alignments is that certain names appear with remarkable frequency along their

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

they glide in at the doors like serpents they enter by the windows like the wind idpa they are, entering by the head namtar they are, entering by the heart utuk they are, entering by the brow alal they are, entering by the chest gigim they are, seizing the bowels telal they are, grasping the hand uruku they are, giant larvae, feeding on the blood they are seven! seven are they! they seize all the towers from ur to nippur yet ur knows them not yet nippur does not know them they have brought down the mighty of all the mighty cities of man yet man knows them not yes the cities do not know them they have struck down the forests of the east and have flooded the lands of the west yet the east knows them not yet the west does not know them they are a hand grasping at the neck yet the neck does no

THE STAR IN THE WEST BY CAPTAIN FULLER A CRITICAL ESSAY ON THE WORKS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY

song, vol. ii, p. 154 *3. ibid. vol. ii, p. 141 *4. the argonauts, vol. ii, p. 119 *5. the fatal force, vol. i, p. 143. inane revivals stir her muddy waters, as rise gusts of fetid gas from a disturbed cesspool. maniacs like piggott and evans arise, as also do such religious ananiases as dowie and torrey; all battening as greedy vultures on the mental dead, as they take their place on the eternal towers of silence. true mutilators of corpses. ulric in gthe mother fs tragedy, h tells cora that gexcess is danger, equally in prayer c as in debauchery. h*1. and this the howling mob of religionists can never grasp. we know of the spots in the agapae, and we know to what they referred: out! out! the ghastly torches of the feast! let darkness hide us and the night discover the shameless mysteries

THE BOOK OF GATES

the earth' the gods have life in his attributes, and the spirits look upon his forms. and ra saith unto them-'there is magical protection to you, o ye who tow, and there is holiness to p. 195 you, o ye who tow and bring me into the nethermost parts of the tuat, tow ye me along until [ye arrive] at the chambers, and take ye your stand upon the hidden mountain of the horizon" in front of the divine towers of the boat march- 1. twelve bearded gods, the amennu-aaiu-kheru-shetau, whose hands and arms are bidden; they are described as "hidden of hands and arms and possessing hiddenness" the text relating to them reads- p. 196 "these are they who possess the hiddenness (or, who hold the mystery) of this great god. verily those who are in the tuat see him, and the dead see him, who burn in het-ben

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

hers, and to do the law and the commandment. 14:5 also he took away out of all the cities of judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him. 14:6 and he built fenced cities in judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the lord had given him rest. 14:7 therefore he said unto judah, let us build these cities, and make about [them] walls, and towers, gates, and bars [while] the land [is] yet before us; because we have sought the lord our god, we have sought [him] and he hath given us rest on every side. so they built and prospered. 14:8 and asa had an army [of men] that bare targets and spears, out of judah three hundred thousand; and out of benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these [were]

and the wall of jabneh, and the wall of ashdod, and built cities about ashdod, and among the philistines. 26:7 and god helped him against the philistines, and against the arabians that dwelt in gur-baal, and the mehunims. 26:8 and the ammonites gave gifts to uzziah: and his name spread abroad [even] to the entering in of egypt; for he strengthened [himself] exceedingly. 26:9 moreover uzziah built towers in jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning [of the wall] and fortified them. 26:10 also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen [also] and vine dressers in the mountains, and in carmel: for he loved husbandry. 26:11 moreover uzziah had an host of fighting men, that w

d. 26:13 and under their hand [was] an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy. 26:14 and uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings [to cast] stones. 26:15 and he made in jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. and his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong. 26:16 but when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to [his] destruction: for he transgressed against the lord his god, and went into the temple of the lord to burn incense upon the altar of incense. 26:17 and azariah the priest went in after

er of zadok. 27:2 and he did [that which was] right in the sight of the lord, according to all that his father uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the lord. and the people did yet corruptly. 27:3 he built the high gate of the house of the lord, and on the wall of ophel he built much. 27:4 moreover he built cities in the mountains of judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers. 27:5 he fought also with the king of the ammonites, and prevailed against them. and the children of ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. so much did the children of ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third. 27:6 so jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the lord his god

men to stop the waters of the fountains which [were] without the city: and they did help him. 32:4 so there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, why should the kings of assyria come, and find much water? 32:5 also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised [it] up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired millo [in] the city of david, and made darts and shields in abundance. 32:6 and he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying, 32:7 be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of assyria, nor for all the multitude that [is] wi

our god: god will establish it for ever. selah. 48:9 we have thought of thy lovingkindness, o god, in the midst of thy temple. 48:10 according to thy name, o god, so [is] thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness. 48:11 let mount zion rejoice, let the daughters of judah be glad, because of thy judgments. 48:12 walk about zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. 48:13 mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell [it] to the generation following. 48:14 for this god [is] our god for ever and ever: he will be our guide [even] unto death. psalm 49 to the chief musician, a psalm for the sons of korah. 49:1 hear this, all [ye] people; give ear, all [ye] inhabitants of the world: 49:2 both low and high, rich and poor, togethe

give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. 8:8 we have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be page 415 song of songs spoken for? 8:9 if she [be] a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she [be] a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar. 8:10 i [am] a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was i in his eyes as one that found favour. 8:11 solomon had a vineyard at baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand [pieces] of silver. 8:12 my vineyard, which [is] mine [is] before me: thou, o solomon [must have] a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred. 8:13 thou that dwellest in the gardens, the c

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

cited, where isis describes herself as the universal deity. in this character she is represented by a small basaltine figure, of egyptian sculpture, at strawberry hill, which is covered over with symbols of various kinds from top to bottom.1 that of the bull is placed lowest, to show that the strength or power of the creator is the foundation and support of every other attribute. on her head are towers, to denote the earth; and round her neck is hung a crab-fish, which, from its power of spontaneously detaching from its body, and naturally reproducing, any limbs that are hurt or mutilated, became the symbol of the productive power of the waters; in which sense it appears on great numbers of ancient medals of various cities.2 the nutritive power is signified 1 a print of one exactly the sa

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

se cups are empty. her dark hair has a disheveled look, and a faint sheen of sweat is visible on her bare shoulders and her flushed cheeks. chapter fourteen: runes 253 15. algiz literal meaning: defense general sense: warding off, protection, barrier, shield, avertive amulet, a defender the land of algiz is a high and narrow mountain pass, in which is set an ancient gate that is defended by guard towers on either side, and which has living quarters for its soldiers along its top. the gate is of stone cut from the sides of the pass, its shape a curved arch. the doors set in its frame are of heavy oak, darkened and made hard by years and bound by great straps of black iron. travelers along the road must await the pleasure of the gatekeepers, since there is no other way over the mountains. th

ock as he unlocks a door can be heard even when he is out of sight. 256- soul flight 21. laguz literal meaning: water general sense: the unconscious, the womb, dreams, fantasies, hopes, vanities, fashions, fads, impermanent things, fickleness, changeability the world of laguz is the depths of an ocean lagoon of transparent emerald water, with strange sea plants waving in the currents, and looming towers and hills of coral that create a confusion of moving light and shadow. schools of colorful fish dart past and conceal themselves behind the coral growths. strange creatures that are not quite human slide through the shadows on hands and flippers, watching with sly eyes. if you are patient, they will approach and converse with you, but their bubbling words are not to be trusted. because this

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

l relation, p. 168) this strange and complex vision was expounded upon by the spirit ave later that same day. it is worth giving this explanation here, both because it is so central to enochian magic and because it contains several points that bear directly on tetragrammaton, the banners, and the wings of the winds: the 4 houses, are the 4 angels of the earth, which are the 4 overseers, and watch-towers, that the eternal god in his providence hath placed, against the usurping blasphemy, misuse, and stealth of the wicked and great enemy, the devil. in each of these houses, the chief watchman, is a mighty prince, a mighty angel of the lord: which hath under him 5 princes (these names i must use for your instruction. the seals and authorities of these houses, are confirmed in the beginning of

m" and which are later described as "a pyramis, six cones, wreathed" probably branch into six bell-shaped apertures, and represent the occult vortices of the seniors. the golden dawn seized upon the description of the four tablets of the quarters as watchtowers and interpreted them in this manner on a cosmic level "in these vast spaces at the ends of the universe are these tablets placed as watch-towers, and therein is their dominion limited on either side by the sephirothic pillars, and having the great central cross of each tablet coinciding with one of the 4 tiphareth points in the celestial heavens (golden dawn, p. 656. the four angelic tables literally become the guardian gates at the ends of the manifest universe, the ultimate bastion against the violent entry of the "death-dragon" t

he seventh key the east is a house of virgins singing praises amongst the flames of the first glory, wherein the lord hath opened his mouth, and they are become 28 living appendix a: the keys dwellings in whom the strength of men rejoiceth; and they are appareled with ornaments of brightness, such as work wonders on all creatures; whose kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth, strong towers and places of comfort, the seats of mercy and continuance. 0 you servants of mercy, move, appear, sing praises unto the creator, and be mighty amongst us; for to this remembrance is given power, and our strength waxeth strong in our comforter. analysis of the seventh key this key begins the second sunwise circuit around the points of the compass on the second subquarter of the watchtower of

each house thus has twelve months to prepare, just as did the virgins who purified themselves for king ahasuerus, who cleansed themselves six months with oil (water) and six months with incense (fire. maintaining the pattern established in keys five and six, the messiah says of these living dwellings of the house of the east that their "kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth, strong towers and places of comfort, the seats of mercy and continuance" the "third and fourth" are the angles of the west and north, indicating that the hierarchal structure that applied in the first circuit around the points of the compass also applies to the second circuit. the "strong towers" is a reference to the watchtowers. continuance is again emphasized because the watchtowers sustain the very e

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

john the baptist. arcanum 20 "the awakening of the dead" the eleventh hour of apollonius. the angels, the cherubims, and the seraphims fly with rumors of wings. there is rejoicing in the sky, awakening on the earth, and the sun that raises adam. this process belongs to the great iniciations of major mysteries where only the terror of the law reigns. arcanum 21 the twelveth hour of appolonius. the towers of fire unease. this is the triumphant entrance into the limitless bliss of nirvana, where either the master dresses himself with the resplendent robe of dharmasaya, or he renounces the bliss of nirvana for the love of humanity, and converts himself into a bodhisattva of compassion. into a savior of the poor bereaved humanity, into another wedge of the guardian wall raised with the blood of

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

ederal concentration camp, excuse me detention facility has been permanently moved to a location adjacent to george air force base along the old air base road. it has recently been moved from its temporary location near bishop along highway 395. friends of mine have driven by it and it's operational. they say it looks for all the world like a concentration camp complete with barbed wire and guard towers. and there is a russian/u.n. presence in that region "d" has been used by the military for remote viewing operations. she is the real thing. i introduced her to another former military remote viewer i know and they compared notes on an underground facility where friends of mine have been taken to. without knowing anything about what these abductees described down there, both "d" and the oth

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 1

of the loins of the all-fath er& the sword in the girdle, as teth is his breast-plate of courage& daleth his helmet of live. this sword is shewn as a lightning-flash of flaming sword on the fortress that defends the kingdom: it is the sword or spear of ra-hoor-k huit. the card is then thus briefly to be described. ra hoor khuit sends forth a ray of light as a sword. the fortress is his aeon of 11 towers for abrahadabra. within is aiwaz with 93 or 220. about it is 666 in four- fold form. the scarlet woman bears cup& sword, riding the beast& iacchaion follows with his rod. thus far concerning the card xvi. now then followeth a consideration of the vestments of the artists. of the rob es& insignia of the work. 1. the scarlet woman shall wear the scarlet abbai: for it is (a) proper to her (b)

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 2

e of the loins of the all-father& the sword in the girdle, as teth is his breast-plate of courage& daleth his helmet of live. this sword is shewn as a lightning-flash of flaming sword on the fortress that defends the kingdom: it is the sword or spear of ra-hoor-khuit. the card is then thus briefly to be described. ra hoor khuit sends forth a ray of light as a sword. the fortress is his aeon of 11 towers for abrahadabra. within is aiwaz with 93 or 220. about it is 666 in four-fold form. the scarlet woman bears cup& sword, riding the beast& iacchaion follows with his rod. thus far concerning the card xvi. now then followeth a consideration of the vestments of the artists. of the robes& insignia of the work. 1. the scarlet woman shall wear the scarlet abbai: for it is (a) proper to her (b) pr

ZALEWSKI GOLDEN DAWN ENOCHIAN MAGIC OCR

ames of the governors of the thirty aethyrs, or aires. 4. heptarchia mystica. this work contains the names, sigils, and invocations of the angels and lesser spirits of the planets. 5. tablet of nalvage. this is a rounded tablet with letters arranged in rows and columns (see figure 107, page 152. xvii xviii 6. liber logeath. the four elemental tablets. these comprise the four watchtowers, or watch towers, of fire, air, water and earth (see figures 3-6. the names of the governors of the 30 aethyrs are found in the tables, as shown in figures 7-10. 7. clams angelicae. the 48 enochian calls, or keys. it would be fair to say that these are merely the visible heads of a very intricate system that has not yet been fully explored. within the hermetic order of the golden dawn, the dee papers were h

er discusses the composition of the sigillum dei aemeth, the seal of truth, as used by john dee and edward kelley, and its practical use in the golden dawn system* the sigillum dei aemeth is shown in figure 2 (page xvii. the published papers on enochiana state that within the golden dawn's inner order (the rosea rubea et aurea crucis, the main framework rests on the application of the "four watch towers" or the four elemental tablets and the tablet of union. little else is given on this very complicated system other than a reference to the name "sigillum dei aemeth" and a brief explanation of how four sigils and four names can be drawn from it to control the power of the elemental tablets. the only recorded use by dee and kelley of this seal was to place a crystal upon it for the purposes

e of the governance of these tablets in the heavens is also set forth in the book [the tarot manuscripts ra. but as before and there is said, the rule of these 53 54 four tablets, terrestrial as well as in the heavens, is in the spaces between the 4 pillars. that is between the double pillars of severity and mercy. in these vast spaces at the ends of the universe are these tablets placed as watch-towers, and therein is their dominion limited on either side by the sephirothie pillars, and having the great central cross of each tablet coinciding with one of the 4 tiphareth points in the celestial heavens. therefore even in the small squares unto which each tablet is divided, each represents a vast area of dominion, having the correlation herefore in the universe, in the planets, in our earth

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