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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

animal bones would be buried so that they, like humankind, would enjoy rebirth from the earth mother's womb. where hunter-gatherers today continue the unbroken tradition that stretches back thousands of years- for example, among the lapps in the far north of scandinavia and the inuits- these rites continue, led by a shaman, or magick man, who negotiates with the mistress of the herds or fish in a trance for the release of the animals. one of the earliest recorded examples of shamanism is the dancing sorcerer. painted in black on the cave walls of les trois freres in the french pyrenees, this shamanic figure, which portrays a man in animal skins, dates from about 14000 bc and stands high above the animals that are depicted on the lower walls. only his feet are human and he possesses the lar

that a medium, white witch or healer would take years even to approach. unfortunately, it is all too common for lovers of occult movies to set themselves up as gurus and wreak unintended havoc on the psychological and psychic well-being of others. you should be sure, when you choose a coven, that its members are kind and gentle and do not indulge in spirit summoning or spirit possession, even for trance purposes, unless under the supervision of an expert leader who has benefited from a very long training. if these warnings sound a little dire, it is because witchcraft involves very personal and spiritual experiences; it is also, by nature, a very hidden practice, and this means that it may be hard to tell the genuine from the charlatans. beware also of strangers or acquaintances who regale

ms in different cultures. there are, of course, variations within wicca; some traditions emphasise the importance of the goddess, while others regard the horned god as her equal, with each assuming different aspects according to the season and ritual. for example, the goddess may appear as the earth or moon deity, and her male counterpart as the corn god or the sun. reaching gods and goddesses in trance modern wiccans call into themselves the energies of the goddess to amplify their own innate divine spark and at times may work in a deep trance, uttering words of prophecy or profound teaching. this is said to increase the power entering the body, like turning up the current from a power source. but until you have practised magick for many years, i would advocate working only in light tranc

crease the power entering the body, like turning up the current from a power source. but until you have practised magick for many years, i would advocate working only in light trance and then only in the controlled situation of a very spiritual group. you can think of this as opening a channel between your own higher energies and the goddess or powers of light. i said just now that the power of a trance can be compared to an electric current. the analogy can be taken further: just as sending a sudden surge of electricity can cause a power failure, deliberately inducing a deep trance can be dangerous. those who use drugs to induce such experiences are, in my opinion, playing with fire and may in fact be blocking their innate wisdom in return for an artificial mind-bending experience. most p

by a force, however benign, preferring to work with the energies indirectly- and this is what i believe is safest and most effective. for even if you are working with an experienced group in healing magick and do want to allow power of light or the goddess to manifest in you directly, it is pretty heady stuff. so go cautiously, work only in the most positive of minds for the good of all, and for trance work have other experienced witches or mediums to guide you and help you to centre. the gods themselves can offer protection when you are performing rituals. in formal magick, the guardians, or devic lords of the watchtower, are invited to guard the four directions of a magical circle. the term deva in sanskrit means 'shining one, and the devas represent the higher forms, akin to angels, wh

ater in this chapter, to see if it is right for you. the first and most popular version of the charge of the goddess was created by gerald gardener's high priestess doreen valiente, herself one of the most influential people in formal magical traditions. her version of the statement of the unifying principles of the goddess is widely quoted and often memorised and sometimes adopted as a focus for trance work (see page 300 for books describing her work) however, some practitioners, both solitary and those in less formal groups, create their own charges and may alter them as their confidence and experience of magick increase. you can create your own charge at the beginning of some rituals, or use an existing one, even if you do not acknowledge the goddess as central to your personal spiritua

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nt. it will be remarked that this modus operandi differs strongly from that employed by the mesmerists and hypnotists of to-day with their clairvoyants. for here the whole force of the operator was concentrated on a magical ritual of evocation, the hand being merely laid on the child s head to form a link; and it in no way appears that the child was reduced to the miserable condition of automatic trance now practised, and which a really advanced occultist would be the first to condemn, as knowing its dangers. on the other hand, there seems to be a distinct similarity between cagliostro's method, and the system of oriental divination called the mendal, to which i have previously referred. introduction xxi (appendix c) examples of other methods of angelic evocation. for the benefit of the oc

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

lier than i(*no! no) who, to escape from the intolerable tedium, would fly for refuge to a bottle party! it is a 'physiological' tedium which becomes the acutest agony. the tension becomes cramp; nothing else matters but to escape from the self-imposed constraint. but every evil brings its own remedy. another quality of saturn is melancholy; saturn represents the sorrow of the universe; it is the trance of sorrow that has determined one to undertake the task of emancipation. this is the energising force of law; it is the rigidity of the fact that everything is sorrow which moves one to the task, and keeps one on the path. 9. the next planet is jupiter. this planet is in many ways the opposite of saturn; it represents expansion as saturn represents contraction; it is the universal love, the

this comes to reinforce the powers of saturn when they agonise; success is not for self but for all; one might acquiesce in one's own failure, but one cannot be unworthy of the universe. jupiter, too, represents the vital, creative, genial element of the cosmos. he has ganymede and hebe to his cupbearers. there is an immense and inaccessible joy in the great work; and it is the attainment of the trance, of even the intellectual foreshadowing of that trance, of joy, which reassures the yogi that his work is worth while. jupiter digests experiences; jupiter is the lord of the forces of life; jupiter takes common matter and transmutes it into celestial nourishment. 10. the next planet is mars. mars represents the muscular system; it is the lowest form of energy, and in niyama it is to be tak

s with the small movements which i allowed it to make. it would be futile to go into much detail about this experience. i can only say that until you acquire the power you have no idea of the sheer wonder and delight of that endlessly quivering orgasm. 16. if i remember rightly, this practice and its result were one of the principal factors which enabled me afterwards to attain what is called the trance of wonder, which pertains to the grade of a master of the temple, and is a sort of complete understanding of the organism of the universe, and an ecstatic adoration of its marvel. this trance is very much higher than the beatific vision, for always in the latter it is the heart- the phren- which is involved; in the former it is the nous, the divine intelligence of man, whereas the heart is

y language is futile. where the hero of the adventure is tied up with a religious theory, we get the vapid and unctuous bilgewater of people like st. john of the cross. all christian mystics are tarred with the same brush. their abominable religion compels them to every kind of sentimentality; and the theory of original sin vitiates their whole position, because instead of the noble and inspiring trance of sorrow they have nothing but the miserable, cowardly, and selfish sense of guilt to urge them to undertake the work. 15. i think we may dismiss altogether from our minds every claim to experience made by any christian of whatever breed of spiritual virus as a mere morbid reflection, the apish imitation of the true ecstasies and trances. all expressions of the real thing must partake of t

ss altogether from our minds every claim to experience made by any christian of whatever breed of spiritual virus as a mere morbid reflection, the apish imitation of the true ecstasies and trances. all expressions of the real thing must partake of the character of that thing, and therefore only that language is permissible which is itself released from the canon of ordinary speech, exactly as the trance is unfettered by the laws of ordinary consciousness. in other words, the only proper translation is in poetry, art and music. 16. if you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggeste

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

rength of her was as cords of iron. yet her might was but a mortal s; in a little she gave one gasp like a drowning man s; beer body slackened, and fell with its dead weight on mine, her mouth glued to mine in one dreadful kiss. dreadful; for as my mouth returned it, almost mechanically, the blood gushed from her nostrils and blinded me. i too, then, more dead that alive, swooned into bliss, into trance. i was awakened by the high priest of horus "come" he said "she is dead" i disengaged myself from all that weight of madness- and the body writhed convulsively as i turned it over- i kissed those frothy lips, for in death she was beautiful beyond belief, joyous beyond description- thence i staggered to the veil, and saluted with all my strength, so that it glittered under the force of my sh

ree 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 i took great pleasure in her love, that was wilder than the rage of all the elements

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

s care not thou at all! they feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones. i,32: obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only! then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. this is so: i swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all i can give, by all i desire of ye all. i,33: then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon& said unto the queen of heaven; write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law! i,34: but she said: the ordeals i write not: the rituals shall be half known and half concealed: the law is for all. i,35: this that thou writest is the threefold book of law. i,36: my scribe ankh-af-na-khonsu, the priest of the princes, shall not in one letter change this b

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

cular manner this question of the nature of ritual, we may suppose that he finds himself lacking in that perception of the value of life and death, alike of individuals and of races, which is characteristic of nature. he has perhaps a tendency to perceive the "first noble truth" uttered by buddha, that everything is sorrow. nature, it seems, is a tragedy. he has perhaps even experienced the great trance called sorrow. he should then consider whether there is not some deity who expresses this cycle, and yet whose nature is joy. he will find what he requires in dionysus. there are three main methods of invoking any deity. the "first method" consists of devotion to that deity, and, being mainly mystical in character, need not be dealt with in this place, especially as a perfect instruction ex

<mystical attainment that is theoretically possible, while his powers in magick seem to be uneven and imperfect. despite this, it may yet be that he has compassed the possible. for mystical attainments are never mutually exclusive; the trance of sorrow (for example) is not incompatible with the beatific vision, or the "universal joke. but in magick any one operation debars its performer from accomplishing some other. the reason of this is that the oath of any work bonds the magician once and for all to be the principles implied therein. see chapter xvi part i. further, it is obviously possible to reach the essence of anything wi

further to combine sat-chit-ananda, and light, love, life, three by three into nine that are one, in which meditation success shall be that which was first adumbrated to him in the grade of practicus (which reflecteth mercury into the lowest world) in "liber xxvii "here is nothing under its three forms" 18. and this is the opening of the grade of ipsissimus, and by the buddhists it is called the trance nerodha-samapatti. 19. and woe, woe, woe, yea woe, and again woe, woe, woe, unto seven times be his that preacheth not his law to men! 20. and woe also be unto him that refuseth the curse of the grade of a magus, and the burden of the attainment thereof. 21. and in the word chaos let the book be sealed, yea, let the book be sealed. 424 liber resh vel helios sub figura cc. 0. these are the a

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

xpect; the above propositions are so familiar to me, they run so cleanly through my mind, that, until i came to set them down in order, i had no idea what a long and difficult business it all was. still, it's a long lane, etc. we have seen that "two (or "many) are 20* i have discussed this and the following points very fully in book 4 part i, pp. 63-89 21 "vision" is a dreadfully bad word for it "trance" is better, but idiots always mix it up with hypnotism. 22* possibly almost identical with the buddhist neroda- samapatti. 41 unsatisfactory as origin, if only because they can always be reduced to "one; and "one" itself is no better, because, among other things, it finds itself forced to deny the very premises on which it was founded. shall we be any better off if we assume that "ex nihilo

d swing his body to and fro in the air between them. when i looked into his room i found him not seated on his meditation mat, which was in the centre of the room at the end farthest from the window, but in a distant corner ten or twelve feet off, still in his knotted position, resting on his head and right shoulder, exactly like an image overturned. i set him right way up, and he came out of his trance. he was quite unconscious that anything unusual had happened. but he had evidently been thrown there by the mysterious forces generated by pranayama "there is no doubt whatever about this phenomenon; it is quite common. but the yogis claim that the lateral motion is due to lack of balance, and that if one were in perfect spiritual equilibrium one would rise directly in the air. i have never

is so. 38 have we any grounds for expecting this to be the case? we certainly have. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 189 this is a case where "clean thinking" is most absolutely helpful. the truth is of exquisite texture; it blazons the escutcheon of the unity of nature in such delicate yet forceful colours that the postulant may well come thereby to the opening of the trance of wonder; yet religious theories and personal pernicketiness have erected against its impact the very stoutest of their hedgehogs of prejudice. who shall help us here? not the sonorous vedas, not the upanishads, not apollonius, plotinus, ruysbroeck, molinos; not any gleaner in the field of priori; no, a mere devotee of natural history and biology: ernst haeckel. enormous, elephantine, his

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

r happens, and there is constantly a feeling of being "on the brink of something pretty big" one may expect to proceed to the next state- dhyana. 30 chapter vi dhyana this word has two quite distinct and mutually exclusive meanings. the first refers to the result itself. dhyana is the same word as the pali "jhana" the buddha counted eight jhanas, which are evidently different degrees and kinds of trance. the hindu also speaks of dhyana as a lesser form of samadhi. others, however, treat it as if it were merely an intensification of dharana. patanjali says "dhrana is holding the mind on to some particular object. an unbroken flow of knowledge in that subject is dhyana. when that, giving up all forms, reflects only the meaning, it is samadhi" he combines these three into samyama. we shall tr

union of existence with non-existence. this definition is not made from reflection, but from memory. further, it is easy to master the "trick" or "knack" of dhyana. after a while one can get into that state without preliminary practice; and, looking at it from this point, one seems able to reconcile the two meanings of the word which we debated in the last section. from below dhyana seems like a trance, an experience so tremendous that one cannot think of anything bigger, while from above it seems merely a state of mind as natural as any other. frater p, before he had samadhi, wrote of dhyana "perhaps as a result of the intense control a nervous storm breaks: this we call dhyana. samadhi is but an expansion of this, so far as i can see" five years later he would not take this view. he wou

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

op; bitter, sad; fierce rm the afflictions of the sons of adam (i.e. succubae) md) ynb y(gn first buds, sproutings myncn cash; counted out, paid down mydwqp high, lofty mr rubies, gems mynynp 241 to say; word; command rm) 242 recollection hrykz 243 created [they them (gn. 1:27) m)rb learned, complete; to finish, bring to pass (ch) rmg a bone; to destroy mrg 244 to be insensible; in deep sleep; in trance (cf. 649) mdr 245 adam qadmon: the archetypal man (lit. geastern man h, scil. ancient) nwmdq md) gall, bile hrm spirit of god l) xwr 246 myrrh rwm vision, aspect h)rm height, altitude mwr gabriel: archangel of water (lit. gmighty one of god h) l)yrbg 247 to overwhelm (ps. 77:17; a flood mrz light, luminary rw)m the symbolic sense (i.e. of scripture, etc; see 400& 510) zmr 248 the three that

rnings, laments *mylb) 644 was silent *mmd a dream *mwlx 645 put in motion, routed *mmh 646 lawful rtwm rejoicing #w#m elohim (a name of god, meaning ggods h. masc. pl. of fem. sing: the angelic choir of netzach *myhl (see i.r.q. 778& no. 41 *md) hwhy hy blemish, spot, stain *mwm 647 lights twr)m great dragons myldgh mnynth standards, military ensigns *mylgd determined *mmz 648 to be hot *mmx 649 trance, deep sleep (cf. 244) hmdrt translation mwgrt 650 natron (prov. 25:20) rtn mem: water *mym very silent *mmwd 651 temurah: permutation hrwmt 653 haggler nrgt i am hwhy thy god *kyhl) hwhy ykn) 654 sunset #m#h )wb children *mydly 655 the holy one, blessed be he )wh kwrb #wdqh the palace of the body of heaven (referred to netzach) mym# mc( lkyh the sphere of mars *myd)m the waters *mymh 656 a

& omega the assembly (or school, or academy) supernal (refers to a a, the three grades that are above the abyss) hl( ml# hby#y the vengeance of the covenant (lev. 26:25) tyrb mqn an ark (as of noah or of moses) tbt 803 person, self; back, top; wing (ch *pg created [they them (gn. 1:27 *m)rb a bone; to destroy *mrg 804 a wing (army, squadron; a chosen troop *pg) to be insensible; in deep sleep; in trance (cf. 649 *mdr 805 the faithful friend *nm)n dwd 806 silent qtw# babalon: the victorious queen (lit. ggate of the gods h; see liber 418 *n(l)b)b zion *nwyc height, altitude *mwr 807 blasphemed *pdg the beard (s.d. cap. 2; lingam (qnz *nqz to overwhelm (ps. 77:17; a flood *mrz 808 the brazen serpent (ii kings 18:4; cf. 1121) nt#xn under txt pure, innocent *px balances (ch *nynz)m the three th

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

ming' of heraclitus might assist us to describe the tao. but the tao is not a principle at all of that kind. to understand it requires an altogether different state of mind to any with which european thinkers in general are familiar. it is necessary to pursue unflinchingly the path of spiritual development on the lines indicated by the sufis, the hindus and the buddhists; 7 and having reached the trance called nerodha-sammapati, in which are destroyed all forms soever of consciousness, there appears in that abyss of annihilation the germ of an entirely new type of idea, whose principal characteristic is this: that the entire concatention of one's previous experiences and conceptions could not have happened at all, save by virtue of this indescribable necessity. i am only too painfully awar

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

xample, the fifth of the great philosophers indicated "everything is zro" to the keeper of the speech at the annual sacrifice. this in spite of the fact that in that very year two new forms of zro had been discovered by that same philosopher. it was the third of the galaxy who announced "the ultimate analysis of sensation is pain; that of thought, madness; that of super- consciousness (a state of trance induced by zro and valued above all things) annihilation" his successor had retorted that in this was implicit a postulate that pain, madness and annihilation were undesirable. the third admitted that he had so meant his phrase, but destroying the postulate, still stuck to it. all this was the foundation of much magical theory, and on these purely psychological researches was based the whol

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

every woman is not only a part of god, but the ultimate god "the centre is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. the old definition of god takes new meaning for us. each one of us is the one god. this can only be understood by the initiate; one must acquire certain high states of consciousness to appreciate it. i have tried to put it simply in the note to the last verse. i may add that in the trance called by me the "star-sponge- see note to v. 59- this apprehension of the universe is seen as an astral vision. it began as "nothingness with sparkles" in 1916 e.v. by lake pasquaney in new hampshire, u.s.a. and developed into fullness on various subsequent occasions. each 'star' is connected directly with every other star, and the space being without limit (ain soph) the body of nuith, an

on, and sore about it; the pain is only in their idea of it. one should compare this thought with the freudian psychology, which regards all separation from the 'mother' as heroic but painful. but has a hero really no compensations? besides, separation is itself a relief, just so soon as the strain becomes irksome, as in parturition. as to "the joy of dissolution" the reference is to samadhi, the trance in which subject and object become one. in this orgiastic ecstasy is experienced at first; later, the character of the consciousness changes to continuously calm delight, and later still, the delight deepens in a manner wholly indescribable. the technical terms used by oriental initiates to denote these conditions are untranslatable; in any case, they serve rather to darken counsel. there i

lesser ideals one makes distinctions, thereby affirming implicitly the very duality from which one is seeking to escape. note also that "me" may imply the greek mh "not. the word 'only' might be taken as ?ayin-lamed-nun-vau' with the number of 156, that of the secret name babalon of nuith. there are presumably further hidden meanings in the key-word 'all. al i,33 "then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon& said unto the queen of heaven; write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law" the old comment 33. the prophet then demanded instruction; ordeals, rituals, law. the new comment law, in the common sense of the word, should be a formulation of the customs of a people, as euclid's propositions are the formulation of geometrical facts. but modern knavery c

t have i learnt and taught? surely the work of the wand, the free use of the will to create, and the way to give power to the will. i have set it up and caused men to worship it, for its name is god-in-action. as to the work of the sword, i have fought, i have shorn shams asunder, i have anatomized my mind as no man has done since gautama. last, i have shown how pure analysis leads to the highest trance, and unveils the absolute truth. if this text imply more than this, i know not of it; i ask pardon of them that fashioned me and chose me for their minister. al i,38 "he must teach; but he may make severe the ordeals" the old comment 38. the usual charge in a work of this kind. every man has a right to attain; but it is equally the duty of the adept to see that he duly earns his reward, and

joy (2) the vision of wonder, in which the whole mystery of the universe is constantly understood and admired for its ingenium and wisdom (1) is referred to tiphereth, the grade of adept (2) to binah, the grade of master of the temple. the certainty concerning death is conferred by the magical memory, and various experiences without which life is unintelligible "peace unutterable" is given by the trance in which matter is destroyed "rest" by that which finally equilibrates motion "ecstasy" refers to a trance which combines these "nor do i demand aught in sacrifice- the ritual of worship is samadhi. but see later, verse 61. al i,59: my incense is of resinous woods& gums; and there is no blood therein: because of my hair the trees of eternity. the old comment 59 "because, etc. this mystical

work& be our bed in working! thrill with the joy of life& death! ah! thy death shall be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our agelong love. come! lift up thine heart& rejoice! we are one; we are none" the new comment the first part of this text appears to be a digression in the nature of a prophecy. the word "come" is a summons to reenter the full trance. its essence is declared in the last six words. notice that the transition from one to none in instantaneous. al ii,67 "hold! hold! bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the excellent kisses" the old comment 67. so violently does the trance recommence, that the body of the prophet is nigh death. the new comment the instructions in the text of this and the next verse were actual indic

at the transition from one to none in instantaneous. al ii,67 "hold! hold! bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the excellent kisses" the old comment 67. so violently does the trance recommence, that the body of the prophet is nigh death. the new comment the instructions in the text of this and the next verse were actual indications as to how to behave, so as to get the full effect of the trance. this too is a general magical formula, convenient even in the work of the physical image of the godhead. it is of the utmost importance to resist the temptation to let oneself be carried away into trance. one should summon one's reserve forces to react against the tendency to lose normal consciousness. more and more of one's being is gradually drawn into the struggle, and one only yields a

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

s use he is enabled to concentrate all his thoughts and hold them always upon one object waking or sleeping, he remembers who he is and what his high aim in life and this constant recollection and keeping in mind of holy things, is the seventh stage, sammasati. and by the power of this transcendent faculty, rising through the eight high trances to the very threshold of nirvana, he at last, in the trance called nirodha samapatti, attains, even in this life, to the deathless shore of nirvana, by the power of sammasamadhi, right concentration. such a one has finished the path he has destroyed the cause of all his chain of lives, and has become arahan, a saint, a buddha himself. but none knows better than the venerable bhikkhu himself, as indeed he makes clear with regard to the steps samm vay

is former friend. 1 allan macgragor bennett (whose motto in the hermetic order of the golden dawn, was iehi aour, i.e. let there be light, now ananda metteya, to whom the volume in which this story was issued is inscribed. 2 taphtatharath [more usually taphthartharath t.s, the spirit of mercury. now hate hath power, though not the power of love. so it came about that in his despair he fell into a trance; and in the trance mara1 appeared to him. never before had his spells availed to call so fearful a potency from the abyss of matter. son cried the accurs d one, seven days of hate unmarred by passion milder, seven days without one thought of pity, these avail to call me forth. slay me my enemy! howled the wretch. but mara trembled, enquire of ganesha concernin him! faltered at last the fien

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

be that at the end the swing is always 360 so that the!-point and the?-point coincide; but that is not the same thing as having no swing at all, unless we make kinematics identical with statics. what is to be done? how shall such mysteries be uttered? is this how it is that the true path of the wise is said to lie in a totally different plane from all his advance in the path of knowledge, and of trance? we have already been obliged to take the fourth dimension to illustrate (if not explain) the nature of samadhi. ah, say the adepts, samadhi is not the end, but the beginning. you must regard samadhi as the normal state of mind which enables you to begin your researches, just as waking is the state from which you rise to samadhi, sleep the state from which you rose to waking. and only from

een obliged to take the fourth dimension to illustrate (if not explain) the nature of samadhi. ah, say the adepts, samadhi is not the end, but the beginning. you must regard samadhi as the normal state of mind which enables you to begin your researches, just as waking is the state from which you rise to samadhi, sleep the state from which you rose to waking. and only from sammasamadhi- continuous trance of the right kind- can you rise up as it were on tiptoe and peer through the clouds unto the mountains. now of course it is really awfully decent of the adepts to take all that trouble over us, and to put it so nicely and clearly. all we have to do, you see, is to acquire sammasamadhi, and then rise on tiptoe. just so! but there there are the other adepts. hard at him! 130 little brother, h

ually glad, equally weary; while sole and sublime that crown of thine (brother) shall glitter in the frosty void of the abyss, its twelve stars filling that silence and solitude with a music and a motion that are more silent and more still than they; thou shalt sit throned on the invisible, thine eyes fixed upon that which we call nothing, because it is beyond everything attainable by thought, or trance, thy right hand gripping the azure rod of light, thy left hand clasped upon the scarlet scourge of death; thy body girdled with a snake more brilliant than the sun, its name eternity; thy mouth curved moonlike in a smile, in the invisible kiss of nuit, our lady of the starry abodes; thy body's electric flesh stilled by sheer might to a movement closed upon itself in the controlled fury of h

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violins "the musicians" kill! kill! life is shrill! still! still! word and will! flame! flame! speak the name! trill! trill! thrill! thrill! i acclaim the shame! i have heard the word! fulfil the will "the prophet" bid the virgins veil the bride! lead her forth, a shower of spray, 17 a flower of foam upon the tide, a fleece of cloud upon the day! so my sightless eyes may see in the transcendental trance the virgin of eternity lead the demi-gods to dance. has the tree of life its root in the soul or in the skin? is it god, or is it brute, that comes mystically in for the doves within the flute, the eagles on the violin? ah! the perfume's coiling tresses curl like veils upon the limbs of the dancer that caresses with her flying feet the hymns that flow and ripple in the air, bathing all the

tly bearing in mind and living up to his final utterance "athakho, bhikkhave, amentayami vo; vayadhmama sankhara, appamadena sampadetha "lo! now, oh brothers, i exhort ye! decay is inherent in all the tendencies, therefore deliver ye yourselves by earnest effort" ananda metteya. 59 the sabbath""to a. e. w" occult, forbidden lights move in the royal rites. diaphanous, they dance above the souls in trance that have attained to their untold inheritance. above the mystic masque, like plumes upon a casque, they wave their purple and red above each haggard head. thy are like gems snake-rooted, basilisks' bed. here were the tables set for baal and baphomet: her was the altar drest with fire and alkahest for many a holy host, for many a goodly guest. here was the veil, and here the sword and dagge

th fire and alkahest for many a holy host, for many a goodly guest. here was the veil, and here the sword and dagger of fear. here was the circle traced, and here the pillar placed for him the utterly unfathomably chaste. 60 here grew the murmur grim of the low-muttered hymn; here sound itself caught flame from the dark drone of shame- the world reverberated the unutterable name! astarte from her trance leapt loving to the dance, greeting as fire greets firs her whirling worshippers. and all her joy was theirs, and all their madness hers! yea! thou and i that strove for mastery in love, circling the altar stone maze-like, with magic moan, forthwith made that divinest destiny our own. throughout that violent vigil we wove the stormy sigil, our faces ashen-lipped from our heart's blood that

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its retinue of "mise-en-sc ne" and now there is a most marvelous rose formed from the flame, and a 117 perpetual rain of lilies and passion-flowers and violets. and there is gathered out of it all, yet identical with it, the form of a woman like the woman in the apocalypse, but her beauty and her radiance are such that one cannot look thereon, save with sidelong glances. i enter immediately into trance. it seems that it is she of whom it is written "the fool hath said in his heart 'there is no god" but the words are not ain elohim, but la(=nay) and elohim contracted from 86 to 14, because la is 31, which x 14 is 434, daleth, lamed, tau. this fool is the fool of the path of aleph, and sayeth, which is chokmah, in his heart, which is tiphereth, that she existeth, in order first that the wis

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ve occurred. it may be that the physical health induced by the summer in me, who dislike damp and chill, may being forth as it were a flower the particular kind of energy sammav yamo which gives alike the desire to perform more definitely and exclusively the great work, and the capacity to achieve success. it is in any case remarkable that i was born in october (18- suffered the terrible mystic trance which turned me toward the path in october (18- applied for admission to g. d. in october (18- opened my temple at b--e in 7 october (18- received the mysteries of l.i.l. in october (19- and obtained the grade of 6 5 obtained the first true mystic results in october (19- first landed in egypt in october (19- landed again in egypt in october (19- first parted from in october (19- wrote th

oem which i did not feel. the apparent exception is in case of irony.[p.s. i wonder whether it would be possible to draw up a mathematical table, showing curves of food (and 68 digestion) drink, other physical impulses, weather, and so on, and comparing them with the curve of mystic enthusiasm and attainment. through it is perhaps true that perfect health and "bien- tre" are the bases of any true trance or rapture, it seems unlikely that mere exuberance of the former can excite the latter. in other words there is probably some first matter of the work which is not anything we know of as bodily. on my return to london, i must certainly put the matter before more experienced mathematicians, and if possible, get a graphic analysis of the kind indicated. 9.20. how difficult and expensive it is

at a target, while they are preventing arrows from striking one. in my aspiration to know adonai, i resemble their yogis who concentrate on their "personal lord" but at the same time it must be remembered that i am not going to be content with what would content them. in other words, i am going to "define""the knowledge and conversation of my holy guardian angel" as equal to neroda-samapatti, the trance of nibbana. i hope i shall be able to live up to this! 11.55. have been practising asana, etc. i forgot one thing in the last entry: i had been reproaching adonai that for six days i had evoked him in vain. i got the reply,"the seventh day shall be the sabbath of the lord thy god. so mote it be!"the seventh day. 12.17. i began this great day with eight breath-cycles; was stopped by the indi

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ximated: e fire-place_ n s door& crucifix low stairs/ x_ opaim? door_ table stairs/ window the attic_ w diagram 56. plan of the adept's room and the attic above "at the west end of this room, lying upon her back, i saw a naked woman. turning, i challenged the adept, who at once gave me the 0= 0 and 1= 10 signs; but he would not give me 2= 9 .39 "the adept then turned from me and said 'she is in a trance; she is dead; she has been dead long' and immediately her flesh becoming rotten, fell from her bones "hurriedly i asked for an explanation, but scarcely had my words left my lips than i saw that she was recovering, and that her bones were becoming once again clothed with flesh. slowly she rose up, and then suddenly rolled round and fell heavily upon her face. for a moment she remained still

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baker, skip forty years, or rather eight, and reach a point where my travels in india had familiarised me with their systems of meditation and with the fact that many of the lesser yogis employed hashish (whether vainly or no we shall discuss later) to obtain samadhi, that oneness with the universe, or with the nothingness, which is the feeble expression by which alone we can shadow that supreme trance. i had also the advantage of falling across ludlow's book, and was struck by the circumstance that he, obviously ignorant of vedantist and 36 yogic doctrines, yet approximately expressed them, though in a degraded and distorted form. i was also aware of the prime agony of meditation, the "dryness<apophis in the mystic regenerative process isis apophis osiris i a o

to some three or four of the odd hundred distinguished chemists in the room. what is gained to "popular science" is lost to exactitude; and in a paper of this sort i fear rather the reproach of my mystical masers than that of the bewildered crowd. more important and certain than the mere characteristics of mystic traces in themselves is the great and and vital diagnostic that the result of a true trance is to inspire the yogi with power to do first- rate work in his own department. people who produce maudlin and hysterical gush, inane sentimentality, who are faddists, fools, drivellers, dodderers- these i refuse to accept as mystics. the true phenomena of mysticism can only occur in a high-class brain and a healthy brain; and their action on that brain is to repose it, to fortify it, to ma

has filled the heart. the heart is gone, just as the chlorine is gone. there is the tube, and it is full of hcl out of all relation to its elements, through the result of their union (i purposely take the "elementary chemistry" view of the matter) samadhi is therefore with the hindu a result, the result of results indeed. there are higher and lower forms. that called nirvikalpa-samadhi, when the trance results from banishing thought altogether, instead of concentrating on one thought, is the highest kind. but, with the buddhist, samadhi, though the state of mind meant is the same, is not an end, but a means. the holy-man-of-the-east must keep this state of mind unimpaired during his whole life, using it as a weapon to attack the three characteristics (the anthithesis of nibbana) even as o

8 you will get more from them than you will from some maudlin hysteric professional mountebank. all talk to the contrary is the merest froth; mohammed was a great lawgiver and a great fighter; try your experiment with the sane, and not with the crazy! true, you will get hallucinations more easily with the unsound; but you will never, never, never find a woman or a degenerate who is capable of any trance of type higher than vedana. take my word for it! no! take my word for nothing: try all things; hold fast that which is good! madrid "august 1908" o.s. 89 annie besant: an autobiography. t. fisher unwin, third impression, 5s. it is a splendid oasis in the desert of silly memoirs, this sturdy and valiant record of a very noble life. how surely and steadily has mrs. besant moved, urged by the

e 'i trust myself to you "i bent on my right knee to her 'i take you' i said 'to be my lady, to fight in your cause, to honour and love you for ever "she put out her right hand- oh, the delicate beauty of it! i kissed it 'my knight' she said 'jean is below; he may hear you; you go perhaps to your death- kiss me "with a sob i caught her once full in my arms, and our mouths met. i closed my eyes in trance; my muscles failed; i sank, my forehead to the ground before her "when i opened my eyes again she too was praying. softly, without a word, i stepped to the window, took the dagger in my teeth, dropped from the edge, landed lightly beside the corpse. she was quite dead, the skull broken in, the teeth exposed in a last snarl. she lay on her back; i opened the coat, turned her over. the grueso

not through them. should one say that the master withheld initiation, or that the pupil failed to obtain it "but at least time abated the monomania- for i know now that my whole adventure was but a very vivid dream, an insanity of adolescence. at this moment i would not like to say at what point exactly in the story fact and dream touch; i have still the sword and dagger. is it possible that in a trance i actually went through some other series of adventures than that i am conscious of? may not jean have been a thief, whom i dispossessed of his booty? had i done this 128 unconsciously it would account for both the weapons and the scene in the morgue. but i cannot say "so, too, i learnt from the master that all this veil of life is but a shadow of a vast reality beyond, perceptible only to

let then the student contradict every vision and refuse to enjoy it; first, because there is certainly another vision possible of precisely contradictory nature; secondly, because though he is god, he is also a man upon an insignificant planet. being thus equilibrated laterally and vertically, it may be that, either by affirmation or denial of all these things together, he may attain the supreme trance. iv. the result i. trance is defined as the ek-stasis of one particular tract of the brain, caused by meditation on the idea corresponding to it. ii. let the student therefore beware lest in that idea be any trace of imperfection. it should be pure, balanced, calm, complete, fitted in every way to dominate the mind, as it will. even as in the choice of a king to be crowned. 198 iii. so will

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d; and even so, this attainment of peace is but as a scaffolding to the palace of the king. the sheaths of the soul. the abandonment of all is necessary; the adept recalls his own tortures, as all that he loved was torn away. the ordeal of the veil of the abyss; the unbinding of the fabric of mind, and its ruin. the distinction between philosophical credence and interior certitude. sammasati_ the trance wherein the adept perceives his causal connection with the universe; past, present, and future. mastering the reason, he becomes as a little child, and invokes his holy guardian angel, the augoeides. atmadarshana arising is destroyed by the opening of the eye of shiva; the annihilation of the universe. the adept is destroyed, and there arises the master of the temple. the pupil, struck with

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i, and there on the 23rd he was joined by d. a, and these two with their companions on the following day journeyed to rawal pindi and from this city they set out together to travel for five months in the northern and little frequented districts of baltistan, and to seek that great solemnity and solitude which is only to be found amongst the greatest mountains of earth. with the dhy na visions and trance we arrive at another turning point in frater p.'s magical ascent. for several years he had worked by the aid of western methods, and with them he had laid a mighty and unshakable foundation upon which 172 he now had succeeded in building the great temple of self- control. working upon eastern lines he had laid stone upon stone, and yet when the work was completed, magnificent though it was

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uminates his subject with a pleasing humour, and his book is readable and interesting as well as instructive "the yorkshire observer" death: its causes and phenomena. by hereward carrington and john r. meader. ornamental black cloth, gilt, 8 3/4 in. x 5 1/2 in, 552 pp, 8"s" 6"d" net. contents. preface. part i "physiological- i. the scientific aspect of life and death. ii. the signs of death. iii. trance, catalepsy, suspended animation, etc. iv. premature burial. v. burial, cremation, mummification. vi. the causes of death. vii. old age; its scientific study. viii. the questionnaire on death: answers. ix. my own theory of the nature of death (hereward carrington. x. my own theory of the nature of death (john r. meader. xi. on the possible unification of our theories. xii. general conclusion

ive. i killed him. that was 130 when i was a camel in the sand. now there are only my bones "it may be only a veil" he muttered, not wishing her to hear. but she heard "it is a veil" she said "but is there anything behind veils "look "only the sand "tear it down "there might be nothing behind "there is nothing behind. it is through that that you must pass "this veil is god. i am a holy nun in the trance called rampurana. i am canonised. my name is on every banner. my face is worshipped by every nation. i am a pure virgin; all the others are soiled. thought is worse than deed. all my thoughts are holy. i think. i think. i think. by the power of my thought i created the word; and by the word came the worlds. i am the creator. i will write my law upon tablets of jade and onyx" rolles bowed hi

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

sure of himself, all he could do .was watch and wait until someone gave the sign that he would surely recognize. 29 4 all mown tbe ptrttll when alex was seventeen he met a girl who was a keen spiritualist. learning of his interest in the occult she invited him to a m eting: he was curious to see if it had' anything in commo with witchcrafe, and went along with her. during the evenmg a medium in a trance singled him out 'i see horns on your head' she murmured. there was a ripple oflaughter; horns could mean he was a cuckold. but alex knew them as the ymbol of witchcraft and was impressed by such perception. he went along to every meeting at the spiritualist church and before long he was being trained as a medium. fit .hea:t he felt h; was cheatin, for. while they talked of going into a tran

other, but in fact they experienced absolutely no mutual attraction or respect. each time he drew down the power and conjured up his familiars, alex was finding.that. he could not get through to instruct them. all he was told was to fulfil his destiny by training the young couple. annoyed at finding himself balked, he called a coven meeting and told the group that he was going to put himself in a trance so that the powers could speak through him. he promised that he would obey any instructions that came and he told his high priest and high priestess to write down anything that was said. the results were astounding. a voice was heard, that of a middle-aged man who called himself nick demdike.in broad lancashire accents sprinkled with oaths, he claimed to have been a lancashire witch in the

been thrown into gaol but. before being taken had flung his athame into a brook near whalley abbey where it lay rotting to this day. nick laughed rudely at alex's predicament and declared that he should do as he was told and initiate the pair, and that they would need to be bound to the art-s-he called it 'wicca, the .old english name. for witchcraft-as fast as possible. when alex came.out of his trance the others could not 81 wait to get to whalley abbey to search for the knife. despite its being the early hours of the morning they would have left there and then if alex had not restrained them. having been unaware of his body's occupant, he was less excited than his fellows. but at daybreak the whole coven piled into their cars and setofffor theruined abbey where, according to their invis

e fungus with his nail and revealed a symbol, more secret than the pentacle, deeply engraved in the metal. there was no doubt but that this was a witch's athame, shaken by the discovery and .by the potentiality of having a genuine seventeenth-century witch as .an informant, they drove back to manchester bearing their precious relic. later, alex.overcame his reluctance and agreed he should go into trance again so that nick might speak. but nick had other ideas; right from the start he came only when he had something to say, and he refused to be conjured up by the coven. assured that he would not have his energy sapped by trivial chatter, alex was never again loth to offer his body to the long-dead witch. in accordance with the instructions, alex began preparing for the first ceremony for hi

t to christen it 'how can we christen it if we .aren't christians? you can baptize it. here, use the consecrated water, but do not touch the child with your hands' paul.flicked his moistened fingers over the baby and gave him the name 'michael. neither of them knew what next to do with the wailing infant, and alex tried eo conjure up a familiar to help him. none would come, so he then went into a trance to see if nick would help. when alexawakenedt paul was in tears and the baby gone 'we shall never see him again' he told alex 'nick told me that we were to train michael to be.obedient in wicca so that he could be as a son tome. but he won't stay a baby; in the spirit world he'll mature so quickly that within twenty-four hours he'll be older.thani am now' until now alex had gone into a tran

d when michael was in residence. he could understand a little better now the unfortunate victims of the ancient witch trials-i-for here he was possessed of a devil of his own making! in addition to his taking advantage of alex's body at will, michael had to be bribed to give informa. tion asked ofhim and for which he had been created. alex, who has frugal tastes, would recover from an involuntary trance to. find he had eaten a pound of chocolate biscuits demanded by michael in return for information. the spirit had begun to take over, demanding the exclusive use ofalex's body, demanding to be born human. other familiars conjured up by the coven warned. that michael was hoarding a reservoir. of power. even the first. grade witches had noticed that of late, when they raised the cone ofpower

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ttawa pagan resources; the pamphlet was organized/written by our very own artos. doubtless many other published sources. l no reason to believe it's part of a "standard" alexandrian or gardnerian bos, but it has been copied by a lot of people. l various aphorisms for witches this be law- where ye enter in, from there withdraw. an ye will secure the spell, cast some silver in the well. enhance thy trance with drug and dance. vervain and dill lend aid to will. trefoil, vervain, st.-john's-wort, dill, hinder witches of their will! upon the clock, dependeth not. success pursueth the persistent. guilt flees when none pursueth. power shared is power lost. seek thine enemy in secret. thoughts are things: as a man thinkest, so he is. no one person can accomplish all. danger is never overcome witho

he alex sanders lectures, with a few obvious errors removed. the ways of making magic the [eight pointed asterisk] sign on the athame is said to represent, among other things, the eight paths which all lead to the center and the eight ways of making magic, and these are: 1. meditation or concentration. 2. chants, spells, invocations. invoking the goddess, etc. 3. projection of the astral body, or trance. 4. incense, drugs, wine, etc. any potion which aids to release the spirit. 5. dancing 6. blood control. use of the cords. 7. the scourge. 8. the great rite. you can combine many of these ways to produce more power. to practice the art successfully, you need the following five things: intention. you must have the absolute will to succeed, the firm belief that you can do so and the determina

and ends tucked in so as to be out of the way while moving about. these cords are used to tie feet together while initiate is kneeling at the altar and must be long enough to do this firmly. knees must also be firmly tied. this must be carefully done. if the aspirant complains of pain the bonds must be loosened slightly; always remember the object being to retard the blood flow enough to induce a trance state. this involves slight discomfort; but great discomfort prevents the trance state, so it is best to spend some little time loosening and tightening the bonds until they are just right. the aspirant alone can tell you when this is so. this, of course, does not apply to the initiation, as then no trance is desired; but for the purpose of ritual it is good that the initiates be bound firm

m gbg's text b/c bos. to leave the body 'tis not wise to strive to get out of your body until you have thoroughly gained the sight. the same ritual as to gain the sight may be used, but have a comfortable couch. kneel so that you have your thigh, belly and chest well supported, the arms strained forward and bound one on each side, so that there is a decided feeling of being pulled forward. as the trance is induced, you should feel a striving to push yourself out of the top of your head. the scourge should be given a dragging action, as if to drive or drag you out. both wills should be thoroughly in tune, keeping a constant and equal strain. when trance comes, your tutor may help you by softly calling your name. you will probably feel yourself drawn out of your body as if through a narrow o

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tion of the faculty of discrimination. the stage at which a man awakens to group realisation, and becomes a conscious participant in the activities of the group, is brought about in two ways: through meditation, and through a series of initiations. now when i use the word "meditation" i do not mean what is perhaps usually understood by that word, a negative, receptive state of mind, or a state of trance. there is much misconception these days as to what meditation really is, and there is a great deal of so-called meditation which has been truly described by a person not so long ago, as "i shut my eyes, and open my mouth, and wait for something to happen" the true meditation is something that requires the most intense application of the mind, the utmost control of thought, and an attitude w

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ray. 2. the lord of cosmic love..s. econd ray. 3. the lord of cosmic intelligence..third ray. 4. the lord of cosmic harmony..fourth ray. 5. the lord of cosmic knowledge..f. ifth ray. 6. the lord of cosmic devotion..sixth ray. 7. the lord of cosmic ceremonial..seventh ray. they are the subjective consciousness, the cause of manifestation. 232 65: problem of evil. the following quotation is from a trance writing, given through dr. anna kingsford; it runs thus- 814- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust "you have demanded also the origin of evil. this is a great subject and we should have withheld it from you longer, but that it seems to us now that you are in need of it. understand then that evil is the result of creation. for creation is the result of the projection of spiri

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of vision and transmission. patanjali says "the seer is pure knowledge (gnosis. though pure he looks upon the presented idea through the medium of the mind" book ii. sutra 20. deduction is not a sure method of ascertaining knowledge and the other modifications refer primarily to the wrong use of the image making faculty (imagination, to the self-induced passivity of the mind, a condition of semi-trance, and to the retention of thought forms within the mental aura, through the use of the memory. each of these is now dealt with in a separate sutra by patanjali- 14- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust 7. the basis of correct knowledge is correct perception, correct deduction and correct witness (or accurate evidence. one of the most revolutionary realizations to which the occult

ize the fact. by withdrawing himself from active sense perception, by no longer utilising the "outward-going" consciousness, and by abstracting that consciousness from the periphery to the centre, he can bring on a condition of passivity, a lack of awareness, which is not the samadhi of the yogi, nor the achievement of one-pointedness such as the student of yoga aspires to, but which is a form of trance. this self-imposed quieting is not only a detriment to the achievement of the highest yoga but is excessively dangerous in many cases. students will do well to remember that right activity of the mind and its correct use is the goal of- 17- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust yoga, and that the state called "a blank mind" and a condition of passive receptivity, with the sense r

of, and the knower recognizes himself for what he essentially is (being lost in contemplation of his own pure spiritual nature, can ideal, formless, seedless, objectless meditation be arrived at. it is here that the language of the occultist and mystic both fail, for language deals with objectivity and its relation to spirit. therefore this higher condition of meditation is likened to a sleep or trance condition, but is the antithesis of physical sleep or the trance of the medium, for in it the spiritual man is fully awake on those planes which transcend definition. he is aware, in a full sense, of his direct spiritual identity. 47. when this super-contemplative state is reached, the yogi acquires pure spiritual realisation through the balanced quiet of the chitta (or mind stuff. the sans

pineal gland, and its conscious definite centering there- 118- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. transfer of the consciousness out of the head or brain into the mind or mental body. in this transfer, the brain remains keenly alert and the withdrawal is consciously undertaken via the etheric body, using the brahmarandra or opening at the top of the head. at no point is the man in trance, unconscious or asleep. he actively undertakes and carries forward this abstracting or withdrawing process. 3. transfer of the consciousness from out of the mental body into that of the ego, the soul, lodged in the causal body or egoic lotus. there is then brought about a condition in which the brain, the mental body and the egoic body form a coherent quiescent unit, alive, alert, positive

ge of his work. later a second triplicity will engross his attention, 1. the thinker, 2. the mind, 3. the brain, but this will be during the demonstration side of his work. it is through an understanding of the method of energising the nerves that the thinker can- 181- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust galvanise its instrument into activity during incarnation, and similarly produce trance, samadhi, or death. the same basic knowledge enables the adept to raise a dead body, as christ did in palestine, or occupy the vehicle of a disciple for purposes of service, as christ occupied the body of the disciple jesus. this knowledge and its use, we are told, is subject to the great law of karma, of cause and effect, and even the christ himself may not set the law aside in any case un

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an ever deeper concentration, and a more intense meditation. the attention has sunk inward increasingly, and outer things have been steadily negated; this has not been- 49- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust accomplished through a passive attitude, but through one of a most keen and vital interest. the meditation has been positive in its method and has not led to a negative or trance condition. the mind has been busy all the time, but busy in one direction. finally, there comes the stage which is called bliss, or identification. the consciousness is no longer focussed in the intellect but becomes identified with the object of the meditation work. this we will consider later. we have, therefore, the four stages briefly summarized as follows and constituting what is calle

etween the lover and the loved one is great, but always there is the sense of duality, of something other or beyond that which has been reached. this must be held in consciousness as long as possible or else the ecstatic vision will disappear, the clouds will veil the sun, and the world, with all its cares, will obscure the heavens. we are told in mysticism that ecstasy, physically considered, is trance. it is a state of rapture, and can be either good or bad. evelyn underhill quotes father malaval as follows "the great doctors of the mystic life teach that there are two sorts of rapture which must be carefully distinguished. the first are produced in persons but little advanced in the way, and still full of selfhood; either by the force of a heated imagination which vividly apprehends a s

e sixth stage where the effort is made to meditate definitely upon a form of words, veiling a truth, there should be nothing automatic in the process. it is quite easy to induce in oneself an hypnotic condition by the rhythmic repetition of certain words. we are told that tennyson induced in himself a heightened state of consciousness by the repetition of his own name. this is not our object. the trance or automatic condition is dangerous. the safe way is that of an intense mental activity, confined within the field of ideas opened up by any particular "seed-thought" or object in meditation. this activity excludes all extraneous thoughts, except those which the words under consideration arouse. the words taken in this particular form can illustrate this, and the process depicts a sequence

t each person will follow the bent of his own mind artistic, scientific or philosophical and for them that will be the line of least resistance. we shall all formulate our own concepts in our own way. but the "be still" attitude is not for us. we inhibit other mental activities by an intense interest, not by a mental stunning of ourselves into silence, or by the adoption of a method which induces trance or utter thoughtlessness. we are definitely thinking. any person who is teaching meditation knows how difficult it is to induce the mystic to renounce his quiescent condition (which is the result of an endeavor to make the emotional nature one-pointed) and force him to begin to use his mind. how often one hears the complaint "i do not like this technique; it is too intellectual and mental a

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be finally seen to be non-existent in the sense in which it is now understood. continuity of consciousness will be so widely developed and so many of the highest types of men will function simultaneously in the two worlds that the old fear will go and the intercourse between the astral plane and the physical plane will be so firmly established and so scientifically controlled that the work of the trance mediums will rightly and mercifully come to an end. the ordinary common trance mediumship and materialisations under controls and indian guides are just as much perversions of the intercourse between the two planes as are sex perversions and the distortions of the true relationship and intercourse between the sexes. i refer not here to the work of clairvoyants, no matter how poor, nor to th

ore highly evolved human units, it is the web at the top of the head in the region of the fontanelle which is ruptured, thus again permitting the exit of the thinking rational being. in psychics and in the case of mediums and lower seers (clairvoyant and clairaudient people) the solar plexus web is permanently ruptured early in life and easily therefore they pass in or out of the body, going into trance, as it is called, and functioning on the astral plane. but for these types there is no continuity of consciousness and there seems no relation between their physical plane existence and the happenings which they relate whilst in trance and of which they usually remain totally unaware in the waking consciousness. the whole performance is below the diaphragm and is related primarily to animal

usness and there seems no relation between their physical plane existence and the happenings which they relate whilst in trance and of which they usually remain totally unaware in the waking consciousness. the whole performance is below the diaphragm and is related primarily to animal sentient life. in the case of conscious clairvoyance and in the work of the higher psychics and seers there is no trance, obsession or mediumship. it is the web in the brain which is punctured and the opening in that region permits the inflow of light, information and inspiration; it confers also the power to pass into the state of samadhi which is the spiritual correspondence to the trance condition of the animal nature. in the process of death these are, therefore, the two main exits: the solar plexus for t

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

which the man was passing. he was brought into the chamber of initiation, and was stretched on the ground with his arms extended, sometimes on a cross of wood, sometimes merely on the stone floor, in the posture of a crucified man. he was then touched with the thyrsus on the heart the `spear' of the crucifixion and, leaving the body, he passed into the worlds beyond, the body falling into a deep trance, the death of the crucified. the body was placed in a sarcophagus of stone, and there left, carefully guarded. meanwhile the man himself was treading first the strange obscure regions called `the heart of the earth' and thereafter the heavenly mount, where he put on the perfected bliss body, now fully organised as a vehicle of consciousness. in that he returned to the body of flesh, to re-a

ALICE A BAILEY11 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME II ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY II

finitely in mind. the astral plane is in time and space and to all intents and purposes a state of real being plus a world of illusory forms, created by man himself and by his imaginative creativity. one of the major lessons to be learnt upon the path of discipleship is to learn to distinguish that which is real from that which is illusion. what then, is to be seen and heard by the medium when in trance or when giving an exhibition of- 344- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust clairvoyance and clairaudience? several possibilities, which i might list as follows: 1. a revelation of the "wish life" of the person or the group to whom the medium is addressing himself. this wish life takes form in proportion to the power of the unexpressed wi

and relates is truly and sincerely what he has noted but there is no interpretative ability. it is seldom of a high order because the psychic is not of a high order of mentality or influence himself. 2. those arising out of a loose connection existing between the physical body and the etheric body. this produces the various stages of mediumship, of control by entities of some kind or another, of trance conditions and of many kinds of obsession, temporary or permanent. i do not include in this list the work of the materialising mediums, for their work is of a totally different kind and though not so dangerous to the personality of the medium is perhaps still more undesirable. so completely is the medium divorced (as an astral-mental-soul individual) from his physical body that it becomes d

ifficulty of the natural psychic and of the man who is born as a medium is his inability intelligently to control the phenomena evidenced. lack of control of the physical powers is deemed highly undesirable. lack of psychic control should also be relegated to the- 354- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust same category. the medium is either in trance or his psychic powers are brought into expression through the stimulation which comes from his contact with the group of sitters in the seance room or from a large audience. in other cases, he is all the time living on the borderland of consciousness between the physical and the psychic or astral planes. how can this be changed, provided the medium wishes for such a change, which is rare in

tics will reveal much of this difficulty, and even in the relatively rare cases where there has been some definite service to humanity, the motives were frequently (i might say, usually) the meeting of a sensed requirement or obligation which would serve the mystic, bringing him emotional satisfaction and reward. this devitalisation was often so excessive that it led not only to nervous debility, trance conditions and other pathological developments, but sometimes to death itself. 2. delusion. the drama life of the mystic and the constant cultivation of the vision (whatever that might be) led also in many cases to serious if unrecognised psychological trouble. the vision absorbed the mystic's whole attention and instead of indicating to him a goal to which he might some day attain, or exis

er worlds" is discovered and becomes, not a door for rightful and proper use, but a way of escape from the difficulties of life and a short cut out of conscious physical experience. the connection then between the mystic and his physical vehicle becomes less and less firmly established and the link gets looser and looser until the man spends most of his time out of his body in a condition of semi-trance or a deep sleep condition. students should make no effort to see the light in the head, but when it is sensed and seen then there should be a careful regulation and registration of it. second ray types will respond to this phenomenon more easily and more frequently than first or third ray types. first ray people will register the inflow of force and power with facility and will discover tha

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

sis upon phenomena into the world of true values and right understanding. the subject is too vast a one for me to deal with here, except in illustration of the points which i am endeavouring to make, but one hint i will give. if the societies and organisations, connected with the spiritualistic movement and the psychical research groups, would seek for and find the natural sensitives (and not the trance mediums) and those who are naturally clair-audient and clair-voyant and would study their disclosures, their words, their reactions and their modes of working they would discover much about some of the natural and normal powers of man powers which have been in abeyance during the period wherein mind development has been the objective and which humanity shares with two great groups of lives

ld discover much about some of the natural and normal powers of man powers which have been in abeyance during the period wherein mind development has been the objective and which humanity shares with two great groups of lives the members of the hierarchy and the animal kingdom. ponder on this. if, therefore, these societies would concentrate on the intelligent and mental psychics and rule out all trance conditions it would not be long before revelation would come. the trance condition is undesirable, separates the medium from his soul and definitely relegates him to the realm of the negative, of the uncontrolled and of material forces. this development, however, the forces of materiality will prevent if possible because the moment there is positive intelligent understanding of the world on

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w-grade medium is the outstanding example of the worst aspects of- 75- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust pisces negativity, impressionability, animal and emotional sensitivity with complete undevelopment of the mental principle. it would be of interest to find out two things scientifically: 1. whether the majority of the lowest kind of medium (trance mediums in particular) have pisces dominant in some powerful manner in their charts. 2. whether those mediums who are becoming more positive and more self-controlled and who are beginning to get a glimpse of the higher correspondences in their work mediatorship and interpretive activity have not got virgo appearing somewhere with real potency and activity. this might indicate the awakening

o, with libra rising. such statistical studies have not yet been made, but there is much to be done along these lines; i only make suggestions, but it will, i think, be found that this is the case. a proper investigation likewise into the life history of spiritualism and of the mediums associated with it may prove that the majority of the mediums in the world who are of a low grade type or purely trance mediums negative and usually unintelligent are born in cancer with pisces rising, or in pisces with cancer rising. such studies would necessarily have to deal with hundreds of cases and be carried forward over a long period of time in order to prove the point which i seek to make. it would also be interesting to make an analysis of those particular- 110- a treatise on the seven rays- volume

ALICE A BAILEY20 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME IV ESOTERIC HEALING

t photography. people frequently are so preoccupied with the tangible instrument on this side of the veil that they neglect the factor of what must be contributed from the other side by those who have passed over. the work will be done from there, with the material aid which as yet has not been provided in the outer scientific field. to bring this about, collaboration of a conscious medium (not a trance medium, but someone who is consciously clairvoyant and clairaudient) will be required. there are many such growing up among the children of today, and the next generation after them will provide still more. the separating veil will disappear through the testimony of the thousands of those who can see phenomena and hear sounds which lie outside the range of the tangible. you say that the spi

and humanity will be increasingly focussed upon mental levels. this telepathic rapport will be a common and ordinary phenomenon of which modern spiritualism is the guarantee, though the distortion (and a very serious distortion) is largely based on humanity's wishful thinking, with very little true telepathy to be found in it. the telepathy which is present today between the medium (in or out of trance) and the bereaved relative or friend is not between the one who has experienced the release of death and the one who is still in form. this should be remembered. in the interim where mind is not normally telepathic, there may be (though there very seldom is) the interposition of a mediumship based upon clairvoyance and clairaudience, but not upon trance. this will still necessitate a contac

e finally seen to be nonexistent in the sense in which it is now understood. continuity of consciousness will be so widely developed, and so many of the highest types of men will function simultaneously in the two worlds, that the old fear will go and the intercourse between the astral plane and the physical plane will be so firmly established and so scientifically controlled that the work of the trance mediums will rightly and mercifully come to an end. the ordinary common trance mediumship and materialisations under controls and indian guides are just as much perversions of the intercourse between the two planes as are sex perversions and the distortions of the true relationship and intercourse between the sexes. i refer not here to the work of clairvoyants, no matter how poor, nor to th

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

er than those of form, it has in it the seeds of separativeness and of disaster. forms of flattery are sent out from it, ideas of separateness, those thoughts which feed ambition and which foster love of power, and those germs of desire and personal longing (which divide groups) emerge from contact with it. the results to those who are deceived thereby are sad. i would like to point out also that trance mediumship, as it is called, must inevitably be superseded by that mediumship which is offered by the man or woman who is clairvoyant or clairaudient on the astral plane, and who therefore in full waking consciousness and with the physical brain alert and active can offer himself as an intermediary between men in physical plane bodies (and therefore blind and deaf on the subtler levels) and

BELL CHRISTOPHER PAUL TSIU MARPO THE CAREER OF A TIBETAN PROTECTOR DEITY

ariations tsiu marpo in history 3. iconography tsiu marpo and company the purpose of violence the ma..ala the ma..ala and tibetan deities vii ix x 1 2 3 5 7 8 10 10 11 15 18 21 29 29 32 35 36 38 40 47 47 52 57 60 v 4. text and ritual ritual materials the warlord s tantra the perfect feast petition offering the lightning garland fragment the ritual goal 5. oracle oracle features and purpose oracle trance and ceremony oracles and the laity the tsiu marpo oracle pehar oracles and society conclusion deity mobility further research appendices appendix a: the warlord s tantra appendix b: the perfect feast petition offering appendix c: the lightning garland fragment appendix d: fragments from the unprecedented elegant explanations bibliography biographical sketch 71 72 73 85 90 93 113 113 118 121

t tengy ling monastery, lhasa. 34. ritual recitation area for the lightning garland at tengy ling monastery, lhasa. 35. mother and daughter praying to tsiu marpo at tengy ling monastery, lhasa (1) 36. mother and daughter praying to tsiu marpo at tengy ling monastery, lhasa (2) 37. the special arrangement of the oracular attire and weapons. 38. lhakpa d ndrup fully dressed and beginning the oracle trance. 39. lhakpa d ndrup at the height of the trance, possessed by dorj shukden. 40. a female oracle at the height of trance. 41. lhakpa d ndrup collapsing after the trance and being held up by his assistants. 42. a thread-cross. 43. the tree on which pehar landed during the reign of the fifth dalai lama. 44. a common iconographic representation of pehar. 45. painting of pehar at tengy ling mona

ess. this section will conclude with a speculative exploration of such texts as fields for monastic and lay intersection within the tibetan religious sphere. the fifth and final chapter will analyze the oracle tradition in tibet and tsiu marpo s connection with it. tibetan oracles are individuals who act as vessels for a protector deity and thus are divinely possessed. in their possessed state of trance, oracles provide communal advice 9 see bentor 1996, p. xxi. 7 through the power of clairvoyance. historically important oracle lineages, such as the nechung (gnas chung) oracle of the dalai lamas, were even regularly consulted concerning nation-wide political matters. as there was once a tsiu marpo oracle, a final examination of tibetan oracles is important in order to uncover the full rang

ect was stronger prior to the cultural revolution. finally, there is a satellite monastery of samy called tengy ling monastery in lhasa. understandably, the central deity of its main chapel is tsiu marpo (figure 11. this statue is a replacement of the original, which was destroyed during the cultural revolution. the original statue was supposedly made out of the remains of an oracle who died in a trance.60 the seven riders tsiu marpo s narrative history discusses a group of figures called the "seven attendant riders (ya ba rkya bdun).61 other synonymous titles are the "seven violence demon brothers (gnod sbyin mched bdun, the "seven emanating riders (rol pa rkya bdun, and the "seven radiant brothers( bar ba spun bdun. this is a team consisting of tsiu marpo and the six horsemen who emanate

ce. however, some deities attain a degree of cultural significance that necessitates a much more dynamic role within tibetan history and society. this role is observable in the position of the oracle. as the english word connotes, a tibetan oracle is a person who acts as a vessel for a god or gods as a means of providing authoritative prophecy and advice, which are usually expounded from within a trance state.151 the direct communion between the god speaking through the oracle and the audience that attends such sessions shows a palpable relationship between the divine and the members of the community who engage in this process. even community members absent from a session recognize the power and authority of oracles, and a number of oracles have reached state-wide acceptance in tibetan his

pondence with lodr gyeltsen, lama of tengy ling monastery, lhasa. july 24th, 2005. also see tewari 1987, p. 140. 156 see de nebesky-wojkowitz 1998, p. 428; peter 1978b, p. 288; and tewari 1987. 114 possessed by transcendental deities are usually met with suspicion.157 an oracle is commonly renowned for being the vessel of a specific deity; yet most oracles can channel multiple deities in a single trance, with each deity providing further insight into a communal crisis or prophetic declaration.158 when a deity descends into an oracle, it results in a trance state. this trance state of possession shows a marked contrast in the behavior of the oracle. as the deity begins to take over the body of the oracle, he will begin to shake and tremble, breathe faster and with heavy breaths, and even pu

will cause an oracle to act more subdued. it is generally held that oracles of wrathful deities do not live very long because of the intense strain and pain they endure during trances.160 the oracle will also start to exhibit the specific attributes of the particular deity possessing them. de nebesky-wojkowitz provides a vivid account of this feature: many mediums, mostly at the beginning of the trance, show also a behaviour characteristic of the deity who took possession of their body. thus a medium of rdo rje shugs ldan [dorj shukden] produces the gurgling sound of a man in the agony of suffocation said to be the voice of the abbot bsod nams grags pa [s nam drakpa] who killed himself by stuffing a ceremonial scarf into his throat; the oracle-priest of skar ma shar [karmashar, who someti

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

, or court chaplain) of the hindu olympus and the spiritual guru of the gods. soma is the mystery god and presides over the mystic and occult nature in man and the universe. tara, the priest's wife, who symbolizes the worshipper, prefers esoteric truths to their mere shell, exotericism; hence she is shown as carried off by soma. now soma is the sacred juice of that name, giving mystic visions and trance revelations, the result of which union is budha (wisdom, mercury, hermes, etc, etc; that science in short which to this day is proclaimed by the brihaspatis of theology as devilish and satanic. what wonder that by expanding the cycle of this allegory we find christian theology espousing the quarrel of the hindu gods, and regarding usanas (lucifer, who helped soma against that ancient person

n-aleare. in this extraordinary sculpture and painting one sees the disc of the sun beaming upon an ansated cross placed upon a cross of which those of the calvary were perfect copies. the ancient mss. mention these as the "hard couches of those who were in (spiritual) travail, the act of giving birth to themselves" a quantity of such cruciform "couches" on which the candidate, thrown into a dead trance at the end of his supreme initiation, was placed and secured, were found in the underground halls of the egyptian temples after their destruction. the worthy and holy fathers of the cyril and theophilus types used them freely, believing they had been brought and concealed there by some new converts. alone origen, and after him clemens alexandrinus and other ex-initiates, knew better. but th

st and only emanation from bythos. as hippolytus shows "the aeons of valentinus are confessedly the six radicals of simon (magus" with the seventh, fire, at their head. and these are: mind, intelligence, voice, name, reason and thought subordinate to fire, the higher self, or precisely the "seven winds" or the "seven priests" of anugita* not necessarily at death only, but during samadhi or mystic trance* all the words and sentences between parenthetical marks, are the writer's. this is translated directly from the latin ms. of the british museum. king's translation in the gnostics conforms too much to the gnosticism as explained by the church-fathers[[vol. 2, page] 570 the secret doctrine. be able to hold back the soul that knoweth that name. if he shall utter that (name) unto the fire, th

ome with the gnostics the "five words" written upon the akasic (shining) garment of jesus at his glorification: the words[[zama zama ozza paxama, ozai, translated by the orientalists "the robe, the glorious robe of my strength" these words were, in their turn, the anagrammatic blind of the five mystic powers represented on the robe of the "resurrected" initiate after his last trial of three days' trance; the five becoming seven only after his death, when the adept became the full christos, the full krishna-vishnu, i.e, merged in nirvana. the e delphicum, a sacred symbol, was the numeral five, again; and how sacred it was is shown by the fact that the corinthians (according to plutarch) replaced the wooden numeral in the delphic temple by a bronze one; and this one was transmuted by livia a

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go" the discernment of good and evil "divine conscience" also; and "spiritual soul" which is the vehicle of atma "when buddhi absorbs our egotism (destroys it) with all its vikaras, avalokiteshvara becomes manifested to us, and nirvana, or mukti, is reached "mukti" being the same as nirvana, i.e, freedom from the trammels of "maya" or illusion "bodhi" is likewise the name of a particular state of trance condition, called samadhi, during which the subject reaches the culmination of spiritual knowledge. unwise are those who, in their blind and, in our age, untimely hatred of buddhism, and, by re-action, of "budhism" deny its esoteric teachings (which are those also of the brahmins, simply because the name[[vol. 1, page] xx introductory. suggests what to them, as monotheists, are noxious doct

errestrial objective consciousness- but that we must seek for the ultimate causes of light, heat, etc, etc, in matter existing in super-sensuous states- states, however, as fully objective to the spiritual eye of man, as a horse or a tree is to the ordinary mortal. light and heat are the ghost or shadow of matter in motion. such states can be perceived by the seer or the adept during the hours of trance, under the sushumna ray- the first of the seven mystic rays of the sun* thus, we put forward the occult teaching which maintains the reality of a supersubstantial and supersensible essence of that akasa (not ether, which is only an aspect of the latter, the nature of which cannot be inferred from its remoter manifestations- its merely phenomenal phalanx of effects- on this terrene plane. sc

BLUE EQUINOX

ry of ravening storm enswathes thee and wraps thee in frenzy of form. be still, o my soul! that the spell may dissolve as the wands are upraised and the ons revolve. behold! in my beauty how joyous thou art, o snake that caresses the crown of mine heart! behold! we are one, and the tempest of years goes down to the dusk, and the beetle appears. o beetle! the drone of thy dolorous note be ever the trance of this tremulous throat! i await the awakening! the summons on high from the lord adonai, from the lord adonai! 2. adonai spake unto v.v.v.v.v, saying: there must ever be division in the word. 3. for the colours are many, but the light is one. the equinox 66 4. therefore thou writest that which is of mother of emerald, and of lapis-lazuli, and of turquoise, and of alexandrite. 5. another w

than that of the elixir of life. it is perfectly all right to use this elixir for energy and youth, but despite all, impressions keep on cluttering up the mind, and once in a while it is certainly a splendid thing for everybody to have the spring cleaning of death. with regard to one.s purpose in doing anything at all, it depends on the nature of one.s star. blavatsky was horribly hampered by the trance of sorrow. she couid see nothing else in the world but helping humanity. she takes no notice whatever of the question of progress through other planets. geocentricity is a very pathetic and amusingly childish characteristic of the older schools. they are always talking about the ten thousand worlds, but it is only a figure of speech. they do not believe in them as actual realities. it is on

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

on some level of conscious awareness. included in the mental category are clairvoyance("clear seeing, clairaudience (hearing, clairsen-tience (sensing) and telepathy (thought transference. the abilities to function in precognitive (knowing before the event, retrocognitive (after the event) and present time frames. a further division of channeling should be noted. that is, the difference between "trance" and "conscious" channeling (the trance condition can be further divided into deep, medium and light states. generally speaking, the term "trance" indicates the lack of conscious activity on the part of the psychic, or "channel. in a deep trance, the channel is not consciously aware of what is occurring during the process and will not retain any memory of the event. in a medium or semi-tran

in a deep trance, the channel is not consciously aware of what is occurring during the process and will not retain any memory of the event. in a medium or semi-trance state, the channel usually has some conscious awareness of what occurs and retains some memory. in this case, the conscious mind acts as an observer but does not actively participate in the channeling of the information. in a light trance the knowledge during, and later memory of, the event is more pronounced. however, the conscious memory still functions only as an observer and takes no active part. in the case of conscious channeling, the psychic's conscious awareness can, and often does, actively participate. not only are the higher levels of consciousness receiving and assimilating information, but the conscious awarenes

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

animal bones would be buried so that they, like humankind, would enjoy rebirth from the earth mother's womb. where hunter-gatherers today continue the unbroken tradition that stretches back thousands of years- for example, among the lapps in the far north of scandinavia and the inuits- these rites continue, led by a shaman, or magick man, who negotiates with the mistress of the herds or fish in a trance for the release of the animals. one of the earliest recorded examples of shamanism is the dancing sorcerer. painted in black on the cave walls of les trois freres in the french pyrenees, this shamanic figure, which portrays a man in animal skins, dates from about 14000 bc and stands high above the animals that are depicted on the lower walls. only his feet are human and he possesses the lar

that a medium, white witch or healer would take years even to approach. unfortunately, it is all too common for lovers of occult movies to set themselves up as gurus and wreak unintended havoc on the psychological and psychic well-being of others. you should be sure, when you choose a coven, that its members are kind and gentle and do not indulge in spirit summoning or spirit possession, even for trance purposes, unless under the supervision of an expert leader who has benefited from a very long training. if these warnings sound a little dire, it is because witchcraft involves very personal and spiritual experiences; it is also, by nature, a very hidden practice, and this means that it may be hard to tell the genuine from the charlatans. beware also of strangers or acquaintances who regale

ms in different cultures. there are, of course, variations within wicca; some traditions emphasise the importance of the goddess, while others regard the horned god as her equal, with each assuming different aspects according to the season and ritual. for example, the goddess may appear as the earth or moon deity, and her male counterpart as the corn god or the sun. reaching gods and goddesses in trance modern wiccans call into themselves the energies of the goddess to amplify their own innate divine spark and at times may work in a deep trance, uttering words of prophecy or profound teaching. this is said to increase the power entering the seite 31 wicca01.txt body, like turning up the current from a power source. but until you have practised magick for many years, i would advocate workin

ccans call into themselves the energies of the goddess to amplify their own innate divine spark and at times may work in a deep trance, uttering words of prophecy or profound teaching. this is said to increase the power entering the seite 31 wicca01.txt body, like turning up the current from a power source. but until you have practised magick for many years, i would advocate working only in light trance and then only in the controlled situation of a very spiritual group. you can think of this as opening a channel between your own higher energies and the goddess or powers of light. i said just now that the power of a trance can be compared to an electric current. the analogy can be taken further: just as sending a sudden surge of electricity can cause a power failure, deliberately inducing

and then only in the controlled situation of a very spiritual group. you can think of this as opening a channel between your own higher energies and the goddess or powers of light. i said just now that the power of a trance can be compared to an electric current. the analogy can be taken further: just as sending a sudden surge of electricity can cause a power failure, deliberately inducing a deep trance can be dangerous. those who use drugs to induce such experiences are, in my opinion, playing with fire and may in fact be blocking their innate wisdom in return for an artificial mind-bending experience. most people quite rightly shy away from the idea of possession by a force, however benign, preferring to work with the energies indirectly- and this is what i believe is safest and most eff

by a force, however benign, preferring to work with the energies indirectly- and this is what i believe is safest and most effective. for even if you are working with an experienced group in healing magick and do want to allow power of light or the goddess to manifest in you directly, it is pretty heady stuff. so go cautiously, work only in the most positive of minds for the good of all, and for trance work have other experienced witches or mediums to guide you and help you to centre. the gods themselves can offer protection when you are performing rituals. in formal magick, the guardians, or devic lords of the watchtower, are invited to guard the four directions of a magical circle. the term deva in sanskrit means 'shining one, and the devas represent the higher forms, akin to angels, wh

ater in this chapter, to see if it is right for you. the first and most popular version of the charge of the goddess was created by gerald gardener's high priestess doreen valiente, herself one of the most influential people in formal magical traditions. her version of the statement of the unifying principles of the goddess is widely quoted and often memorised and sometimes adopted as a focus for trance work (see page 300 for books describing her work) however, some practitioners, both solitary and those in less formal groups, create their own charges and may alter them as their confidence and experience of magick increase. you can create your own charge at the beginning of some rituals, or use an existing one, even if you do not acknowledge the goddess as central to your personal spiritua

CHAOS MAGICK AND LUCIFERISM

ms of magickal practice is important to those who may seek to unite various cultures. the buddhist system, or perhaps more detailed in mentioning the ancient bon po practice of chud, presents the luciferian gnosis in its holy state, what is called complete union with the hga (holy guardian angel. the activity of severing the ego, becoming beyond that and leaving the physical world is achieved via trance and the use of human bones as ritual tools. this represents that we are temporary and life ends, and that the spiritual paths may be ascended through desire and gnosis. lucifer is essentially the god of the air, or the astral plane. the luciferic powers are keys into the separation of the spiritual from the material, even though the luciferian may remain earth bound for some time. it is spe

DANCE OF THE WITCHES

sabbati. where the old serpent and man meet in murder and marriage, the spiritualisation of matter, the materialisation of spirit; the pole of heaven becomes the crown of the world. both in one: xoanon vox baetyltithe dance of the witches: opening the devil's eye copyright 2003 by robin artisson saturnian musings on mercurial subjects pursuant to my work on the art of the 'twilight sleep" or the trance, the topic has come up many times about the best way to achieve a good, workable trance state when performing acts of witchcraft. the answer is simple enough: there is no "best" way. each person, being an individual, is predisposed to a variety of techniques and leanings, which makes some people react well to very abstract trance-praxes, and others only respond well to very rigid, concrete

come up many times about the best way to achieve a good, workable trance state when performing acts of witchcraft. the answer is simple enough: there is no "best" way. each person, being an individual, is predisposed to a variety of techniques and leanings, which makes some people react well to very abstract trance-praxes, and others only respond well to very rigid, concrete, somatic methods. the trance is important for many reasons, but chiefly because it allows for new modes of perception, which in turn allow for the spiritual forces invoked in acts of witchery to be experienced in such a manner that their potential for transformation is increased. their impact is on a more immediate level, one that can be experienced, in some manner, by the consciousness of the practitioner. when craft

on a more immediate level, one that can be experienced, in some manner, by the consciousness of the practitioner. when craft is done with heart and faith, and with skill, it is effective regardless of the state of mind of the witch; however, the pleasure and depth of the experience is increased a thousandfold when the spiritual motions of the art are made apparent. some acts of craft require the trance to be effective in any meaningful way: divination, for instance, requires a shift into a state wherein subtle realities and messages are not only apparent, but able to be communicated. i have written at length about the need to change more than one's individual, moment-to moment perspective to *truly* achieve the trance; one needs to change the basic worldview and understanding of their rel

and messages are not only apparent, but able to be communicated. i have written at length about the need to change more than one's individual, moment-to moment perspective to *truly* achieve the trance; one needs to change the basic worldview and understanding of their relationship to what appears to us as the "world around us. a deeper perspective change is really needed to appreciate what the "trance" entails. i have said that the "trance" is already ongoing, already a part of us; and this is quite true, however, where one person can take those words, and really find the necessary passivity to actualize that reality, others have difficulty. this does not imply some lack on anyone's part; it is just a matter of fate that not all people approach trancework in the same way. for some, extre

ot actually truly how we understand them, and realizing that "me here" and "nature all around" are two aspects of their greater being, and thus "making the leap" between the lesser, limited perception and the greater perception of wholeness, is just easy to do. devil take the hindermost i have decided to write this short essay to communicate another technique for achieving the twilight sleep, the trance, which is also known as the waking dream, the paradisal expansion, the "devil's eye open, and many other names. this technique, the "dance of the witches, is not really a dance; but it requires certain ritual actions, done in a certain manner, to achieve it's aim. this technique is not like the "mantle" technique, in which a person goes passive and allows themselves to dissolve the boundari

nd and trusting it implicitly is a foremost vital thing to bear with you in your rites. secondly, when you perform rites and make invocations, or anything, always gently allow yourself to be as deliberate and steady as possible- when i say this, i mean that you should always speak, act, move, and even think with a deliberate, planned out, almost "slow" feel; this is a good way to fall into a deep trance that we like to call "slow time. when you lift a forked wood or a rod or a bowl, when you make invocations, let your every action be as even, steady, and deliberate as possible; these are powerful actions, sacred actions, and deserving of your every bit of awareness and attention. when you speak, allow your words to flow steadily and calmly, resonating with deliberate focus. the mind will t

nd let awareness be deep, steady, and fully absorbed on what you are doing, not matter how minor it seems. the power of the rite, the motions, all suddenly increase in amazing ways. some experienced folk like to get into trances before the start of the rite, but others know another truth: that deliberately and steadily paying full attention to the motions of the rite can itself be a door into the trance, and in this way, some find it easier than "putting on the mantle" before they begin. it is simply another approach to this (or any other) rite. try both, or use both as you feel the need. you will discover that these two bits of advice greatly increase any rite's power and affect: the rewarding feeling of any rite is increased when the rite participants are resting in the secure awareness

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, or been abducted by, extraterrestrials. mohammed, the founder of islam in the seventh century, said that he had been visited by the angel gabriel, who was "in the likeness of a man, standing in the sky above the horizon".2 this figure told him he had to be a prophet, and he was given messages which formed the islamic holy book, the koran. these messages would be dictated while mohammed was in a trance on many other occasions in the years that followed. he also wrote of going on a 'celestial journey. 6. and the truth shall set you free many people in the modern world who claim to have experienced extraterrestrial contact have said the same as mohammed. saul of tarsus, better known as st paul, was the man who changed the image of y'shua (jesus)3 into the saviour-godmessiah from which the c

eft the order after the row with its founders and then travelled to mexico, india, and ceylon, where he was introduced to yoga and buddhism. he also became a record-breaking mountaineer. buddhism replaced his interest in the occult until an experience in cairo in april 1904. crowley was asked by his wife, rose, to perform an esoteric ritual to see what happened. during the ceremony, she entered a trance-like state and began to channel the words of a communicator. the super elite- the black magicians 207 "they are waiting for you, she said to crowley. the "they, she said, was horus, the god of war and the son of osiris, in ancient egyptian belief. crowley did not accept any of this and asked his wife a series of detailed questions in an effort to trick her. but rose, who knew little of the

eva, the daughter of richard wagner, in 1908 and became a prestigious writer. his best known work was foundations of the nineteenth century which ran to twelve hundred pages and sold more than 250,000 copies. it made him famous throughout the country. he was, however, a troubled man who had a series of nervous breakdowns. he felt himself to be taken over by demons and his books were written in a trance and a fever, which suggests that he was locked into another highly negative consciousness. the prison warder consciousness again. in his autobiography, he said he did not recognise much of his writing as his own. the themes of his work are very familiar: all civilisation comes from the aryan race and the germans were the purest of all; jews were the enemy who would pollute the aryan bloodli

ed mossadegh, in 1953 which led to the creation of savak. the patsy they used for the assassination of bobby kennedy was an arab, sirhan sirhan. in the weeks before he killed kennedy, sirhan sirhan, joined the ancient mystical 276. and the truth shall set you free order of the rosicrucians and followed their mail order course on "how to control your mind waves. he learnt how to put himself into a trance by staring into his own eyes in a mirror. during these trances, he began to write incoherent threats of violence and assassination. he didn't remember doing this, but afterwards he recognised the handwriting as his own. sirhan apparently worshipped bobby kennedy, but, it is said, he felt betrayed when kennedy supported the deployment of 50 war planes to israel. sirhan had hated jews since h

afterwards he recognised the handwriting as his own. sirhan apparently worshipped bobby kennedy, but, it is said, he felt betrayed when kennedy supported the deployment of 50 war planes to israel. sirhan had hated jews since he was bombed and shelled by the israelis as an arab boy in palestine in 1948, the story goes. after this perceived betrayal in the two weeks before he shot kennedy, sirhan's trance experiences became more and more extreme. he thought he saw kennedy's face come out of the mirror towards him and he wrote "kill kennedy" in his trance notebook "kennedy must be assassinated before june 5th 1968" it said. june 5th was the anniversary of the israeli victory over the arabs. the question is: who was in control of sirhan's subconscious mind? himself or someone else? in the view

top of his trousers. back in the hotel he drank coffee with a "dark, attractive (never identified) woman. on the way to buy another coffee, he said he found himself in an alcove with "dazzling lights and mirrors. he felt dazed and bewildered. mirrored doors led to the hotel kitchen, but he didn't go through them. instead he went to the kitchen by a longer route. sirhan found himself in a hypnotic trance like those he experienced with the rosicrucian course. he told diamond of how he leaned on a table feeling sleepy and unsure of where he was. suddenly he looked up to see a group of people coming towards him. he noticed that one of them was bobby kennedy and in his conscious mind he decided to shake his hand. instead he pulled out the gun and started shooting. as psychiatrist diamond said "

essages tell them to. in their minds, these messages appear to be their own thoughts, when in reality they are tuning into wavelengths broadcast from outside of their psyche. in such a situation, these people are fully-paid-up robots. two such techniques are called radio hypnotic intracerebral control and electronic dissolution of memory. researchers say that these can remotely induce an hypnotic trance, deliver suggestions, and erase all memory of both the instructions and whatever it is the person has done in response to those instructions. what a tool if you want to assassinate a 'troublemaker; create some terrible event to discredit a group or person; abduct someone and blame it on 'aliens; or produce a problem-reaction-solution situation. in 1975, the journalist james moore claimed to

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ters whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. albert einstein he accounts of the reptilian control of humanity are not confined to the ancient world, as we shall see very clearly as the story is revealed. cathy o'brien, a victim of the illuminati's vast mind control programme, wrote of her reptilian experiences in her book, trance-formation of america (reality marketing, las vegas, 1995. i have told cathy's story at length in my previous books and i will elaborate on the mind control programmes later in this one. understandably, cathy believed her reptilian experiences with leading figures in the united states to be part of her mind control. however, as you will see with the evidence i shall present, what she saw and

ncluded president george bush, father of president george "dubya, of the anunnaki/merovingian bloodline. father george told her they were an extraterrestrial race that had taken over the world, but no one realised it because they looked human. cathy relates another important experience she had with miguel de la madrid, the president of mexico during bush's tenure at the white house. she writes in trance-formation of america "de la madrid had relayed the 'legend of the iguana' to me, explaining that lizardlike aliens had descended upon the mayans. the mayan pyramids, their advanced astronomical technology, including sacrifice of virgins, was supposedly inspired by the lizard aliens. he told me that when the aliens interbred with the mayans to produce a form of life they could inhabit, they

an ancient british work called the edda, translated by l.a. waddell in the first half of the 20th century. he knew nothing of extraterrestrial reptilians and nordics, and yet his translations give much support to this ancient tussle for power on the planet. they also confirm another aspect of the illuminati-reptilian ritual- the worship of their goddess. sources 1 cathy o'brien and mark phillips, trance-formation of america, the true life story of a cia mind control slave (reality marketing, po box 27740, las vegas, nevada, 89126, 1995, pp 209 and 210. this book is available through the david icke website and bridge of love, uk 2 the return of the serpents of wisdom, p 41 3 the reptilian agenda, parts one and two. credo mutwa with david icke, is available from bridge of love. see the back

later sumer empire. ancient crete, as with other connected centres, was famous for its labyrinth, a word meaning "house of the double axe" or "house of the serpent goddess".8 greece was another serpent goddess culture. they called her athene and at delphi, the oracles (interdimensional channellers) would speak the words of the serpent goddess, known there as delphinia.9 the oracle would go into a trance state while staring into the eyes of a snake. she would also use cannabis and chew laurel leaves, the sacred herb of the goddess or "pythoness. the laurel leaves are used by the illuminati in the symbol of freemasonry and the logo of united nations, in which they frame an earth broken into an esoterically significant 33 segments (figure 18. pythagoras, the famous greek hero and mathematicia

ll past and present are fundamentally connected, and how the calling cards of this covert force can be seen everywhere if you take the time to look. sources 1 british edda 2 the woman's encyclopedia of myths and secrets, p 1.058 3 british edda, p 249 4 the woman's encyclopedia of myths and secrets, p 674 5 ibid, p 382 6 ibid, p 549 7 the woman's encyclopedia of myths and secrets, pp 201 and 202 8 trance-formation of america, pp 176 and 178 9 for sir laurence gardner's information about this see: http//www.nexusmagazine.com/ringlords1.html 10 british edda, introduction 11 http//www.nexusmagazine.com/ringlords1.html 12 the deadly deception, p 102 13 ibid 14 albert pike, morals and dogma, p 819 15 details of the explanations that jim shaw was given can be found in the deadly deception, pp 142

inton. one trait i have noticed in these shape-shifters or possessed people is that their eyes don't change, no matter what their mouth or the rest of their face are doing. they might be laughing, for instance, but their eyes never do. they have a fixed, cold, stare. next time you see hillary clinton, watch her eyes. i recalled at this stage that i had read something about reptilians in the book, trance-formation of america, which details the life of a remarkable woman called cathy o'brien. her satanic father, who had abused her violently and sexually from the time she was a baby in michigan in the 1950s, handed her over to gerald ford- later president ford- for use in the illuminati's now vast mind control operation, which i expose at length in the biggest secret. cathy is blond-haired an

an't expand their mind to encompass the exploding evidence of the reptilian dimension. one writer, in an otherwise very interesting book about ancient extraterrestrials, acknowledges all the serpent symbolism, names, and references surrounding the anunnaki, but suggests that this could have been because they wore reptile clothing or kept snakes. i think there is another reason, somehow. sources 1 trance-formation of america, p 174 2 recorded conversations with the author 3 see http//www.suite101.com/artlcle.cfm/ritual_abuse/43922 4 correspondence with the author 5 http//www.rense.com/general6/ciajew.htm 6 recorded conversations with the author and on the video, revelations of a mother goddess 250 children of the matrix 7 recorded conversations with the author 8 correspondence with the auth

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istence will have been taken away. ive talked and researched in more than 20countries and i see the same process in every one of them. identical policies andstructures are introduced in line with a global agenda, yet at the same time there is quiteobviously a global awakening as more and more people hear the spiritual alarm clock andemerge from their mental and emotional slumbers, the terrestrial trance. which force willprevail in these millennium years to 2012? that is up to us. we create our own reality byour thoughts and actions. if we change our thoughts and actions we will change theworld. its that simple.in this book i am going to chart the history of the interbreeding tribe of bloodlineswhich control the world today and reveal the true nature of the global agenda. and iwould emphasi

waiting outside. the policeman was so intrigued that he used hisown time to check on the companies at the top of the building served by the mysterylift. he found they were all fronts for the central intelligence agency, the cia.then there are the experiences of cathy obrien, the mind controlled slave of theunited states government for more than 25 years, which she details in her astonishingbook, trance formation of america, written with mark phillips.27 she was sexuallyabused as a child and an adult by a stream of famous people named in her book. among29them were the us presidents, gerald ford, bill clinton and, most appallingly, georgebush, a major player in the brotherhood, as my books and others have long exposed. itwas bush, a paedophile and serial killer, who regularly abused and rap

st appallingly, georgebush, a major player in the brotherhood, as my books and others have long exposed. itwas bush, a paedophile and serial killer, who regularly abused and raped cathysdaughter, kelly obrien, as a toddler before her mothers courageous exposure of thesestaggering events forced the authorities to remove kelly from the mind controlprogramme known as project monarch. cathy writes in trance formation of americaof how george bush was sitting in front of her in his office in washington dc when heopened a book at a page depicting lizard-like aliens from a far off, deep space place.28bush then claimed to be an alien himself and appeared, before her eyes, to transformlike a chameleon into a reptile. cathy believed that some kind of hologram had beenactivated to achieve this and fro

hn rhodes website, http//www.reptoids.com18john rhodes, writing on his website.19 william bramley, gods of eden (avon books, new york).20nexus magazine, april-may 1994, pp 52-54.21explorations in grand canyon, arizona gazette, april 5th 1909.22john rhodes, the human-reptilian connection, privately published and distributed paper in1993.23ibid.24ibid.25ibid.26ibid.27cathy obrien and mark phillips, trance formation of america (reality marketing inc, lasvegas, nevada, usa, 1995).28ibid, pp 165, 166.29ibid, p 165.30 ibid, pp 209-210.31ibid.32ibid, p 174.4933hunter s. thompson, fear and loathing in las vegas (vintage books, new york, 1998, firstpublished in 1971).34cymatics, the healing nature of sound, video available from macromedia, p0 box 279,epping, nh 03042, usa.35los angeles times and he

legend which created these monsters?mohammed said he had his vision near the cave where he used to go. caves and darkplaces constantly recur in stories of religious superstars and sun gods like mithra andjesus. mohammed said his visitor claimed to be the angel gabriel of biblical fameand during the encounter mohammed said he lost consciousness and entered a trancestate. while mohammed was in his trance or hypnotic state, gabriel gave him amessage to remember and recite. mohammed said that when he awoke the messagewas inscribed upon his heart. what followed the encounter with gabriel was abloodbath spanning the centuries to the present day, as mohammed and hissuccessors sought to impose their creed on the world. islam is not the opposite ofchristianity and judaism, they are all oppo-sames:

rsity. he left theorder after the row with its founders and travelled to mexico, india, and ceylon, where hewas introduced to yoga and buddhism. he also became a record-breaking mountaineer.buddhism replaced his interest in the occult until an experience in cairo in april 1904.crowley was asked by his wife, rose, to perform an esoteric ritual to see what happened.during the ceremony she entered a trance-like state and began to channel the words of acommunicator. they are waiting for you she said to crowley. the they, she said, washorus, the god of war and the son of osiris, in ancient egyptian belief. crowley did notaccept any of this and asked his wife a series of detailed questions in an effort to trick her.but rose, who apparently knew little of the esoteric, gave the correct answer eve

in 1908 he married eva, the daughter of richard wagner, andbecame a prestigious writer. his best known work was foundations of the nineteenthcentury which ran to 1,200 pages and sold more than 250,000 copies. it made him244famous throughout the country. he was, however, a troubled man who had a series ofnervous breakdowns. he felt himself to be taken over by demons and his books werewritten in a trance and a fever, which suggests that he was locked into the reptilians oranother low vibrational consciousness via automatic writing. in his autobiography, hesaid he did not recognise such writing as his own. the themes of his work are veryfamiliar: all civilisation comes from the aryan race and the germans were the purist ofall; jews were the enemy who would pollute the aryan bloodlines (yawn

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to remain in the exact position for several hours without moving. after ten to fifteen minutes without moving you will begin to feel the touch of non-visible hands. you will find that you are able to communicate with the non-physical entities in your mind. as you have intercourse with these beings, you may experience the feeling that you are "moving" although your body is still. this is a form of trance and the feeling of "moving" out of your body taken to the extreme of astral and physical separation is commonly called astral projection] ordination as a priest of the dark lord i have given myself as a sacrifice upon the altar of satan. i have descended into the underworld, crossing the river styx. i have been baptized in the river styx and in the flames of hell. i have called upon the lor

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rian (wicca: a system of wicca (q.v) devised by alex sanders (q.v) combining the wiccan system of gerald gardner (q.v) with ceremonial magick. altered states (of conciousness: a state in which a person is to some extent withdrawn from normal awareness of the material world. some altered states are so slight as to be accepted without notice, others are easily recognized as one degree or another of trance (q.v. amen: a hebrew notarikon (q.v) or acronym for the hebrew phrase "el melech neh-ehmahn" which means in english "god is a faithful king" amrita: in alchemy (q.v) and sex magick (q.v) it is the magically transmuted first matter (q.v. amulet: a type of charm (q.v) which is similar to a talisman (q.v, but is designed to keep forces and entities, etc (like bad luck, illness, etc) away from

own of the head. opening the chakras results in the attainment of various magickal energies. chalice: a stemmed goblet used as the tool of elemental water. the magickal weapon of elemental water and the west. channeling: the process by which a spirit is allowed to take control of the consciousness of a medium or channeler, and speaks through the mouth of that person. identical to the practices of trance mediums, but it tends to dispense with the traditional paraphernalia of the seance. used by modern day spiritualists. uncontrolled and unprepared invocation (q.v. a practice generally avoided and frowned upon by modern ceremonial/ritual magicians. chanting: the rhythmic repetition of sounds or words to induce an altered mental state and produce magickal effects. chaos magick: magickal pract

e human body according to the ancients. when they are in balance, health results; imbalance creates sickness. hypnagogic state: a state between sleep and wakefulness, which can tend in either direction. in this state, the consciousness becomes intermittently invaded by images and impulses from the unconscious. a mild dreamlike state. hypnosis: according to don tyson, the techniques for inducing a trance state in another person or persons (including oneself) during which the will and judgment are temporarily and partially placed in abeyance and become subordinate to the will of the hypnotist. often it occurs without the knowledge and consent of the entranced individual, the result of a sudden shock or rhythmic sound or gesture. more properly, the techniques for inducing various states of tr

order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v. he found the group almost moribund, so in order to save the order's secret teachings from oblivion, he broke his vows of silence and revealed them in the four volume (now one volume) book entitled, the golden dawn. as a result, more people than ever have studied the teachings of that famous order. regression, past life: a hypnotic technique in which a person in trance is led to remember or imagine that he or she is remembering events that occurred in previous past lives, when the soul of the person inhabited other physical bodies. often the regressed person and even the therapist conducting the regression do not realize that a trance state has been induced or that suggestions are being given. reincarnation: the doctrine that souls are born, live, die and

ounced "sheen" it is a letter of the hebrew alphabet. the letter shin "a" is used to indicate the ruach eloheem (q.v. when added to the tetragrammaton it forms the pentagrammaton, showing how we can purify ourselves by uniting and bringing the spirit of divinity within ourselves. showstone: a crystal ball or globe used for divination and scrying. the magician uses the stone as a focus to induce a trance that causes images to appear in the depths of the stone. siddhis: magickal abilities such as clairaudience (q.v, levitation (q.v, telepathy (q.v, and clairvoyance (q.v) that manifest themselves as the by-products of yogic/magickal practices. they are not denigrated by hindu and buddhist yogis but are actively sought in their own right by sensitives (q.v, psychics (q.v, and some magicians. m

ancient planets. a magician who takes astrology into account when working magick is said to observe the times. see hours, magickal. tipheret: hebrew for "beauty" pronounced "tih-fehr-eht" it is the sixth sephirah (q.v) on the tree of life (q.v. torah: hebrew for "law" the first five books of the old testament, commonly called the pentateuch. mystics believe that much of it is in kabalistic codes. trance: an altered state of consciousness (q.v, especially the more withdrawn degrees resembling sleep or sleepwalking. a "waking dream" transmigration (of souls: one doctrine of reincarnation. the idea that when souls reincarnate, they move up and down the evolutionary ladder or scale. i.e, people die and come back as a cat, dog, horse, or another person, depending upon their karma (q.v. see rein

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creative force from its purely priapic aspect. mystical qabala page 87 19. so far as i know, there is no formal magical ceremony of any of the three supernals. they can only be contacted through participation in their essential nature. kether, pure being, is contacted when we win to realisation of the nature of existence without parts, attributes or dimensions. this experience is aptly called the trance of annihilation, and those who experience it walk with god and are not, for god has taken them; therefore is the spiritual experience assigned to kether that of divine union, of which it is said that those who experience it enter into the light and come not forth again. 20. in order to contact chokmah we must experience the rush of the dynamic cosmic energy in its pure form; an energy so tr

all manner of cognate ideas according to the system of correspondences explained on a previous page. this is the method of the subconscious mind, which it pursues automatically; the occultist trains his conscious mind in the use of the same method. incidentally we may note that whenever individuals are working directly off the subconscious, as occurs in artistic genius, in lunacy, and in dream or trance, this method is used. 5. it may seem strange to the reader that this digression concerning chokmah should be included under the heading of binah, but it is only in the light of its polarity with chokmah that binah can be understood; and equally, we shall have a great deal more to add to our explanation of chokmah now that we have got binah to compare it with. each of the pairs ofopposites t

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great deal of information available on this subject in the literature of spiritualism, to which reference may be found in the bibliography at the end of this book. the adept who was head of the occult college to which i have previously referred, and from whom i received my first training in occultism, was able to perform this operation, and i have many times seen him do it. he would go into deep trance, after a few convulsive movements, somewhat like a slow tetany, and would then lose about two-thirds of his 22 of 103 weight. i have many times helped to lift him, or even lifted him single-handed, when he was in this state, and he weighed no more than a child. a man can fake many things, but he cannot fake his weight. i have lifted him single handed from the floor on to a sofa when in this

nd blood. i asked him about this incident in the morning, but he said he had no recollection of it; he had been dreaming the uneasy, broken dreams of a sick man, but could not recall them. this, of course, was in no way an occult attack, but rather the visit of a friend, who had come to lean upon me in the course of his illness, and instinctively came to me for consolation when out of his body in trance at a time when his weakened condition prevented him from retaining his normal control over his psychic activities. nevertheless, it serves to illustrate what could be done if the etheric form that visited me had been energised by a malignant will. it may explain the nature of the sense of weight that oppresses the victims of a certain type of nightmare. i have heard of more than one case wh

printed in the journal of the asiatic society, vol. lxv, 1896. these unpleasant people, according to mr. skertchley, the author of the article which commander gould quotes "are ghouls, and must eat human flesh occasionally or they would die. when they feel a craving for a meal of human flesh they go away into the grass, and having carefully hidden their bodies, hold their breaths and fall into a trance. their astral bodies are then liberated. they fly away, and entering a house, make their way into the body of one of the occupants and feed on his entrails "the berberlangs may be heard coming, as they make a moaning noise, which is loud at a distance and dies away to a feeble moan as they approach. when they are near you, the sound of their wings may be heard, and the flashing lights of th

the flashing lights of their eyes can be seen dancing like fire-flies in the dark" 26 of 103 mr. skertchley declares that he himself saw and heard a flight of berberlangs pass by, and visiting next day the house he saw them enter, found the occupant dead without any sign of external violence. compare mr. skertchley's account of the berberlangs lying in the long grass and throwing themselves into trance with mr. muldoon's account of "the projection of the astral body" with which every student of occultism ought to be familiar, for it is undoubtedly a classic of occult literature, being a practical account of occult experiences and detailed instructions how to go and do likewise. but to return nearer home. in the course of my experience of the byways of the human mind, which, from the natur

bitation. having performed this mighty invocation, he would then offer himself upon the altar as the channel for the manifestation of the force. there are many formulae extant designed to enable a force to be brought through without the necessity of the magician himself being the channel. in my opinion they are one and all ineffectual; the only possible substitute for the magician himself being a trance medium. it is for this reason that ritual magic so often fails to come off. you cannot make custards without breaking eggs, and if you mean to be a magician you have got to "go the whole hog" when it is a question of bringing through the angelic aspect of a force, the matter is on a clear footing. to be the channel of such a force is a great privilege and is an initiation in itself. the ope

most important season of the year for occultists. great power-tides are flowing on the inner planes, and these are very difficult to handle. if there is going to be astral trouble, it usually blows up for storm at this season. there are also certain meetings which take place on the astral plane, and many occultists attend them out of the body. in order to do this, one has to throw one self into a trance and then the mind is free to travel. it is usual to get someone who understands these methods of work to watch beside the body while it is vacated to see that it comes to no harm. in the ordinary way, when an occult attack is afoot, one clings to waking consciousness at all costs, sleeping by day and keeping awake and meditating while the sun is below the horizon. as ill-luck would have it

in days past? at any rate, i do not think there is much doubt that the holy inquisition would have paid him the compliment of burning him if he had lived during its hey-day. thirty years with the dead, by dr. wickstead, is another book which gives chapter and verse for personal experience instead of citing authorities and theorising about them. it is the record of an asylum doctor whose wife is a trance medium, and who made a most remarkable series of investigations concerning the nature of obsessing entities. in dr. moll's book on hypnotism some remarkable phenomena are recorded such as do not find their way into modern books, whether because the investigators are less expert at eliciting them, or more cautious in communicating them, having profited by the experience of the earlier invest

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t animals, human beings, and even against themselves, with the foreknowledge that these acts are hurtful to their own self-interests. they sometimes become possessed by spiritual beings and lose the ability to control their words and actions, or even the awareness of what their bodies are doing. those who have committed unspeakable acts sometimes state that they felt themselves to be in a kind of trance, distantly aware of what they were doing, but unable to stop themselves. they say it was like watching the crime unfold on a television screen; as though it had been committed by someone else. how many know persons who seem to have every advantage in life, yet who willfully and perversely set about destroying themselves through the use of drugs or alcohol, or by committing perverse and dang

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them. however, as a broad rule of thumb, ghosts appear in haunted places, at night when the light is poor, when the air is quiet, to individuals who are frequently (but not always by any means) going to bed or waking from sleep. usually they do not speak, or take the least notice of their observer. they perform the same set of actions on successive occasions, as though performing a play, or in a trance state, or as though they were themselves projections of a cinema image. you may ask how a projected astral image can touch you? the answer is a bit difficult to grasp at first consideration, because it challenges your normal concept of reality. you need to realize that what you see in the world around you is being created by your brain from raw sensory data. your world exists inside your he

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would evict tenants from an apartment and assume residence there. in voudoun (voodoo) possession by spirits and gods is a necessary part of religious practice. the spirit or loa is said to "ride" the body of the possessed person the way a man rides a horse. the reality of possession is that the human consciousness is seldom completely excluded. usually the human consciousness goes into a kind of trance state in which it has no will. such possessions happen to everyone, and usually are of short duration. we can recognize when a spirit has possessed us by our behavior. when we find ourselves doing things we would not normally do, things we would not like doing, especially things that seem bizarre or destructive or just plain disgusting, we are probably being possessed by some low spirit tha

e that the person has undergone at some point in the past a complete change in personality. in effect, he or she will at some time have become a totally different person. good spirits of a higher order also possess humans. this occurs most frequently when the spirit wishes to communicate with humanity, and possesses an individual to use the voice of that person as its instrument of communication. trance mediums and channelers have their personalities displaced by spirits on a regular basis. the prophets of the bible were possessed by the spirit (actually, the spirits) of god so that they could deliver their prophetic utterances. possession is not in itself harmful. it is not even unusual. it is only destructive when done by a destructive being for hurtful purposes. good spirits or angels o

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ualists) proposed a different viewpoint in which the distinction between this life and the life beyond became a somewhat artificial intellectual construct; everything was part of one larger natural world. to demonstrate and prove scientifically the existence of this larger universe, spiritualists turned to mediums.people with special access to those realms once called the supernatural. entering a trance-like state, these mediums would bring forth messages containing information that seemingly could not have been acquired by normal means. the mediums manifestations of a wide variety of extraordinary phenomena seemingly pointed to the existence of unusual forces operating in the physical world, forces unknown or undocumented by the emerging scientific community at the time. almost concurrent

system of all events, thoughts, and actions impressed upon an astral plane, which may be consulted in certain conditions of consciousness. events are believed to make an impression upon the akasha, or subtle ether, which may be reanimated by mystics as if they are switching on a celestial television set. the idea of akashic records was central to the work of seer edgar cayce. when cayce went into trance, it was believed that he accessed the records, sometimes referred to as god s book of remembrance. the akashic records store the individual s thoughts and information on activities that may be read by certain gifted seers. sources: neimark, anne e. with this gift: the story of edgar cayce. new york: william morrow, 1978. puryear, herbert b. the edgar cayce primer. new york: bantam books, 19

d by st. augustine. he would fall into strange ecstasies in which his soul, separated from his body, would travel abroad and find out what was taking place in distant places. he could read people s thoughts and discover anything he wished to learn. these wonders were ascribed to the agency of the devil. st. augustine also speaks of a time when the possessed man was ill of a fever. though not in a trance, he saw the priest who was coming to visit him while he was yet six leagues away, and albigerius told the company assembled around him the exact moment when the priest would arrive. albumazar (or abu-maaschar (805.885 c.e) arabian astrologer of the ninth century. born in balkh, he lived in baghdad and was known principally for his astrological treatise entitled thousands of years, in which

earch foundation the anthropological research foundation was a short-lived channeling group that formed in the early 1970s during the period of discord within cosmic awareness communications following the death of william ralph duby, the primary channel for the group. the group was organized in san diego, california, by jack t. fletcher and pat fletcher and built around the work of a new channel, trance medium danton spivey. spivey claimed to be the continuing voice of conscious awareness, the universal mystical entity who had spoken through duby. the organization took its name from its goal of discovering a new culture characterized by wholeness and overcoming the forces that divided humans from each other. they felt that the resources for such wholeness could be found in the ancient cult

801. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1967. apostolic circle a sectarian group of early american spiritualists that claimed to be in communication (through the mediumship of mrs. benedict of auburn) with the apostles and prophets of the bible. the sect also believed in a second advent. james l. scott, a seventh day baptist minister of brooklyn, joined the group in 1849. he delivered trance utterances in the name of st. john and edited, jointly with the rev. thomas lake harris, a periodical of the apostolic movement: disclosures from the interior and superior care for mortals. not long after, the partnership was dissolved, and in october 1851 the remaining members of the group settled at mountain cove, fayette county, virginia. scott declared himself medium absolute. owing to

an only be, he thinks, because there is a little animal inside which moves it. if a man lives and moves, it can only be because he has a little man or animal inside, who moves him. the animal inside the animal, the man inside the man, is the soul. and as the activity of an animal or man is explained by the presence of the soul, so the repose of sleep or death is explained by its absence; sleep or trance being the temporary, death being the permanent absence of the soul. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. apparitions 63 sometimes the human soul was represented as a bird.an eagle, a dove, a raven.or as an animal of some sort, just as the soul of a river might be in the form of a horse or a serpent, or the soul of a tree in human shape; but among most peoples the belief was th

on. types of apparitions psychical research divided apparitions broadly into two classes.induced and spontaneous. to the former class belong hypnotic and post-hypnotic hallucinations and visions induced by the use of narcotics and intoxicants, fasts, ascetic practices, incense, narcotic salves, and various forms of hypnotism. the hallucinatory appearances seen in the mediumistic or somnambulistic trance are allied to those of hypnotism, but usually arise spontaneously, and are often associated with clairvoyance. crystallomancy or crystal gazing is a form of apparition that is believed to be frequently clairvoyant, and in this case the theory of telepathy is especially applicable. crystal visions fall under the heading of induced apparitions, since gazing in a crystal globe induces in some

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s then told by another channel, pam davis, that a master named mafu wished to speak through her. the very next day mafu first spoke to torres and instructed her how to use a crystal to heal her son, who was sick with pneumonia. later that year, in davis s home, torres began to channel, though it was not mafu who spoke. then a month later mafu again spoke through torres and began to train her as a trance channel. she gave her first public channeling sessions in santa barbara, california, and within a short time was regularly conducting channeling sessions in los angeles and santa barbara. as her popularity grew, she organized mafu seminars and began to give weekend programs around the country. in 1988 mafu launched a more advanced study opportunity for people serious about his teachings, de

ne man, piage, and witch doctor, held his or her position by hereditary right; by an accident of birth, like being the seventh son of a seventh son; through revelation from the gods; or through his mastery of ritual. the shaman operated like a medium, for instead of summoning the powers of the air at his bidding, as did the magicians of medieval days, he found it necessary to throw himself into a trance and seek them in their own sphere (the magician is also often regarded as possessed by an animal or supernatural being) the duties of the priest and magician were often combined in tribal society. when one religion was superseded, however, the priests of the old cult were considered, in the eyes of the leaders and believers of the new, nothing but evil or misguided magicians. medieval defin

court, 1974. the occult establishment. lasalle, ill: open court, 1975. magical blend magazine new age style publication that embarks on a voyage of discovery. that will take us out of the past and carry us into the future. it charts a course of magic, and sets sail on an excursion into infinite possibilities. its contributors have included many new age authorities. subjects covered have included trance channeling, occult systems, visionary art, and the possibilities of extraterrestrial communication. address: magical blend, p.o. box 600, chico, ca 95927-0600. website: http/ www.magicalblend.com. sources: magical blend magazine. http//www.magicalblend.com. march 23, 2000. magical diagrams these are geometrical designs representing the mysteries of deity and creation, therefore supposed to

ete satisfaction of his sitters. an account of his demonstration was published in the proceedings of the spr (vol. 4. he revealed that he did everything by trickery; but many committed believers did not believe it. even alfred russel wallace suggested that davey was also a good physical medium and had produced phenomena supernormally since he exhibited the characteristic physiological symptoms of trance convulsions. the two most tenacious magician opponents of spiritualism, j. n. maskelyne and harry houdini, focused public attention on themselves for many years. both led crusades against mediums. houdini had sought solace in spiritualism following the death of his beloved mother in 1913. he quickly saw through the deception that ran through many of the claims, and was even more adamant in

l for spirit communications. from the summer of 1848, many sittings were held in which visitors were put in touch with their departed relatives. cahagnet made them sign a statement after the sitting indicating which of the particulars were true and which false, which he later published in the second volume of his book magnetisme arcanes de la vie future devoile (1848.60. when maginot was put into trance, she saw the spirits of the departed, described them, and gave an intimate description of their family circumstances. baron du potet, a well-known writer on animal magnetism and the editor of the journal du magnetisme, witnessed a striking seance in the company of prince de kourakine, who was secretary to the russian ambassador. nevertheless, he was inclined to attribute the result to thoug

he result to thought-transference. maginot s most extraordinary phenomena, however, did not consist in communications from the dead but in communi- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. maginot, adele 965 cations from the living, combined with traveling clairvoyance. a. m. lucas came to inquire after his brother-in-law, who had disappeared after a quarrel 12 years before. maginot, in trance, found the man and said that he was alive in a foreign country, busy gathering seeds from small shrubs about three feet high. she asked to be awakened since she was afraid of wild beasts. a. m. lucas returned a few days afterward with the mother of the vanished man. maginot correctly described the man s appearance and the history of his disappearance. she was asked to speak to the man, and

certain small fees; thus, after a good harvest he is allowed in some villages five gantangs of padi, one gantang of rice (beras, and two chupaks of emping (a preparation of rice and cocoa-nut made into a sort of sweetmeat) from each householder. the pawang used to regulate taboos, and employ a familiar spirit known as hantu pusaka.a hereditary demon. he also acted as a medium and divined through trance. to become a magician, you must meet the ghost of a murdered man. take the midrib of a leaf of the ivory cocoa-nut palm (pelepah niyor gading, which is to be laid on the grave, and two midribs, which are intended to represent canoe-paddles, and carry them with the help of a companion to the grave of the murdered man at the time of the full moon (the 15th day of the lunar month) when it fall

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pilot who harbored a private fascination with spiritualism, called on swan and knowles. at one point larsen tried automatic writing and believed he had communicated with affa, though swan insisted he had not contacted her affa. back in washington larsen talked with center director arthur lundahl and lundahl s assistant, lt. cmdr. robert neasham, a navy officer. in their presence larsen entered a trance state and supposedly contacted affa while lundahl and neasham peppered him with questions. at one point, challenged to prove his existence, affa replied, go to the window. lundahl saw nothing but clouds, though neasham seemed convinced that a 12 affa spaceship was hiding in them. neasham would also claim that radar operators at washington national airport told him that that particular porti

regon in the summer of 1975, a young married couple identified as darryl and toni m. stopped along the banks of the owyhee river to cool their truck. they spotted an odd object parked on a nearby hillside. the next thing they knew, it was two hours later, and their truck started as if it had long since cooled off. later, under hypnosis, they recounted the experience of wandering into the ufo in a trance state. hairless humanoids with slits for eyes, mouth, and nose, with gray, wrinkled skin assured them via telepathy that they meant no harm. as toni watched, the aliens, who communicated with each other with a buzzing bee sound, subjected darryl to an apparent physical examination by light beam. sometime later toni awoke to find a figure with a skull-like face and a small mouth standing at

q u e n t l y, she directed other d e vas, including sh i va and gaia, who communicated psychically on the subject of human-animal re l a t i o n s. ayala made her presence known when two psychics, toraya (carly) ayres and a woman identified only as sarafina, happened to be engaged in a discussion of nature spirits. suddenly, sarafina started shivering and breathing oddly. then she lapsed into a trance, during which she voiced animal-like sounds. soon ayala was speaking through her, proposing that she and the two women work together on a project. the project required ayres to be at her computer at three o clock each afternoon to write down the messages as they came forth. when ayres protested that this was not a good time for her in terms of her job responsibilities, ayala insisted that t

w, at an altitude of fifteen feet above the water, toward the witnesses again. it stopped some sixty feet from them, and now it was so near that lapp could see right into its transparent dome, where he was shocked to observe two large-headed figures, short in stature with big eyes and small mouths, who were clad in gray or silver uniforms. turning to his companion, lapp saw a woman in an apparent trance. she did not act as if she had heard him when he spoke to her. at that point lapp decided to try an experiment, and he addressed the entities. who were they, he asked, and why were they here? to his surprise a voice with a feminine quality spoke inside his head to assure him they meant no harm. over the next few minutes, as lapp spoke his questions aloud, and the alien woman replied telepat

essages are circulated through the star light fellowship, established in 1962. see also: j.w. further reading melton, j. gordon, 1996. encyclopedia of american religions. fifth edition. detroit, mi: gale research. chung fu sometime in the 1960s, marshall leve r, then a student at a pre s byterian seminary, began ex- chung fu 61 photograph of chief joseph by edward curtis (corbis) perimenting with trance mediumship. in this state he heard from chung fu, a spirit guide who in his last physical incarnation was a student of lao-tzu in china. in 1970, lever and his wife, quinta, established the circle of inner truth to facilitate chung fu s teachings, which focused on spiritual development as the way to break out of the reincarnation cyc l e. these efforts included such quotidian matters as die

he experience t h rough further hypnosis sessions until one session suddenly ended with his declaring that they could go no further because t h e y re here right in the room with us( c l a rk, 1986. then an entity who identified himself as da v i d began speaking thro u g h ma c d o n a l d. from then on david appeared in regular channelings. during these channelings, macdonald would lapse into a trance state and speak in david s voice. afterward he could not recall any of the content and would depend on owen to explain what words had passed through his mouth. when david wished to communicate only with macdonald, however, no trance was necessary. a voice inside his head would speak, and sometimes macdonald would psychically perceive david and other people of landa. macdonald described the

next eight years. what was so significant about a few tons of sea water. what had such entities to fear from anyone, if bender did publish such a secret? who would believe it, or be able to interfere with such an advanced civilization (beasley and sampsel, 1963. kazik 141 twelve years after three men s publication, barker expressed the view that the story was something bender had conjured up in a trance or a dream (barker, 1976. most observers, however, suspected it to be conscious fiction. one fantastic theory, proposed in 1980 by british ufologist brian burden, held that an intelligence agency had subjected bender to a thought-control experiment and caused him to hallucinate space people. see also: men in black further reading barker, gray, 1956. they knew too much about fly- ing saucers

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

s some danger that attachment to this type of psychic ability can be an entrapment that inhibits further spiritual growth. among advanced devotees, there are some who awaken to a condition of continuous awareness of their chosen small face ideal within the context of a particular bhava. as with the lower psychic condition described above, most access this state by exiting their bodies in sleep or trance. a smaller number are seen to maintain a simultaneous awareness in the waking state of asiyah, and the higher astral states of yetzirah. hence, while in the waking state, they may literally see the form of their chosen ideal everywhere, in everything. while this station is more desirable than entrapment in the lower psychic states, it can still present a temptation to become addicted to the

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

icult and perhaps impossible to trace. modus quo rationales animae per archangelum deo sacrificantur, qui a cabalistis non cxprimitur, non est nisi per separationem animae a corpore, non corporis ab anima nisi per accidens, ut contigit in morte osculi, de quo scribitur praeciosa in conspectu domini mors sanctorum eius.1 this, the eleventh conclusion, is certainly profoundly mystical. in a supreme trance, in which the soul is separated from the body, the cabalist can communicate with god through the archangels, in an ecstasy so intense that it sometimes results, accidentally, in the death of the body, a way of dying called the death of the kiss. pico was greatly preoccupied with this experience and mentions the mors osculi in his commentary on benivieni's poem.2 non potest operari per puram

eavens, elevating himself above the angels to the archetype itself, with whom he then becomes co-operator and can do all things.1 these words are almost exactly the same as those in which bruno describes his ascent, except that bruno leaves out the angels. it is characteristic of bruno's extraordinary style, with its mixture of magic, philosophy, and poetry, that he chooses to express the gnostic trance, in which the soul leaves the body which is left asleep in the ligature of the senses (as described in pimander) in terms of the experience of ecstatic love described in ariosto's orlando furioso: chi salira per me, madonna, in cielo, a riportarne il mio perduto ingegno? what could the oxford doctors have made of this man? what can anyone make of him? the megalomania of the magician is comb

his usual way, this man is working with the old, familiar counters, but shifting them round to make a new pattern. the most essential thing, in bruno's outlook, was to find the living "voices, signs, images, seals, to heal the rift in the means of communication with divine nature introduced by pedantry, and when these living means of communication were found (or imprinted on consciousness in some trance-like experience) to unify through them the universe as reflected in the psyche and thereby obtain the magus' powers and to live the life of an egyptian priest in magical communion with nature. within the context of this incredibly strange outlook, such a procedure as we find in the de umbris idearum the imprinting on memory of decan demons becomes, not exactly intelligible, but at least log

ession of the egyptian religion by statutes as described in the lament, though this was "the light which rendered the souls of our fathers in antique times divine and heroic" and is to 1 ibid, pt. i i, dial. 1 (dial, ital, pp. 1072-3; williams, ii, p. 2. 1 ibid (dial, ital, p. 1074; williams, ii, pp. 4-5. 3 see above, p. 237. 279 giordano bruno: heroic enthusiast and elizabethan be likened to the trance of the "furious" lover in the orlando furioso whose "wit" has become separated from his body in the frenzy: chi salira per me, madonna, in cielo a riportarne il mio perduto ingegno. in this passage we have both elements of the title, de gli eroici furori, of bruno's book of mystical love poetry; an experience which makes the soul "divine and heroic" and can be likened to the trance of the f

makes the soul "divine and heroic" and can be likened to the trance of the furor of passionate love. in the supreme hermetic experience, 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, fl

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 ring through the mention of the bear, where the reform of the heavens begins in the spaccio) brilliantly suggest the atmosphere of the hermetic trance, when the immortal mind forsakes the body, and religiously consorts with demons, that is to say, gains the experience which gives it miraculous or magical powers. the trance is several times described or alluded to in the eroici furori, as for example in the commentary on the emblem and poem on a boat without a pilot, where lamblichus is referred to on the power of contemplation being somet

il le mit en etat de recevoir les impressions des songes et des visions. it was november ioth, 1619, and he lay down to rest "tout rempli de son enthousiasme& tout occupe de la pensee d'avoir trouve ce jour-la les fondemens de la science admirable".2 in the night he had three consecutive dreams which seemed to him to have come down from on high. we are completely in the atmosphere of the hermetic trance, of that sleep of the senses in which truth is revealed. the atmosphere is maintained on the following pages which tell of how descartes heard of the "freresde 1 for a discussion of bruno's atomic theory, that matter is composed of internally animated atoms, see p.-h. michel, la cosmologie de giordano bruno, paris, 1962, p. 66 ff. bruno probably arrived at this through the introduction of m

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

into manifestation. it is now that i present my exact journal entries and the rog as well as grendel s had and accident and the events transpiring since then(*a) i found the cure by ultra-nate grendels had an accident an x-cursion into the land of liberation. an invocation of grendel's desire. for the initiate to incorporate into a preferred format. the temple is ready, the self is prepared, the trance is induced, the desire stated. the summons, the closing, then comes the laughter. act i blacker than black, midnight of death i summon your bleak oblivion. time again and illusion seemed drawn up from the heart of nothing, i call your bliss. take my pain as an offering to my self my hurt is of the multi-verse, an empty void in my chest. despair god's of existence, your drama shall reap it's

hred the sleep, from the darkness to the light, binah-hokmah my will, my might- the gnosis part- from within the dark earth sears- visualize a crack in the chaos-egg- transmutations, powers and fears- the crack widens- from the darkness to the light, i declare this now by will and by might- kia- an explosion as the egg cracks open, gnosis ensues. collapse- note: a sigil should manifest during the trance. this is ones own chaos sigil from the universe. recover iv. banishing a) performance of grendel's had an accident, act iii. as one speaks (slowly) imagine that your voice echoes through out all of existence. issuing forth a deep and powerful declaration (of war. b) banish as one sees fit. formalized. god's (destroy the sigils in fire, watchtowers, other. v. post ritual one must have some f

t ritual one must have some form of celebration following the ritual (raves are recommended. worked sigils to cast should be fired during this celebration as to an enactment of desire. final the rite seems very formalized, but it is not really. the only parts that need formality are the intents, but the visualizations and words should flow naturally. the only timing critical part is of course the trance. as per the chaos sigil, who knows what it is/ is not. it may be a power, information, spell, calling, banishing. we do not know. a no-mind technique may be of use in divining the sigils meaning (it has not failed me yet. also look for "synchronicities. we do not know in what way the sigil will manifest, or in what form. love to all, elijah of purpl(z. welcome to eternity_ 4 godhood results

who knows what it is/ is not. it may be a power, information, spell, calling, banishing. we do not know. a no-mind technique may be of use in divining the sigils meaning (it has not failed me yet. also look for "synchronicities. we do not know in what way the sigil will manifest, or in what form. love to all, elijah of purpl(z. welcome to eternity_ 4 godhood results only love can set you free- n-trance today's date is 11/1/98 the ritual (rite of god-hood) was performed. upon arriving at the site, i realized that i forgot (i think purposefully) my sigils and guidelines for the rite. i performed the rite from memory and constructed the rest. some very interesting things occur-ed. the first was, in arriving at the ritual, i felt sort of hurt/ angry because the drummers did not want to partak

lowing journal exerts are examples of the stages in these initiations and notes. 8/1/99 very strange evening/ morning. started out with stupid ego issues then given up and everything flowed more naturally. i started the dance for the dances sake and people progressed to get me things) i ran into this foreign couple from the netherlands and was treated to club (twilo. the energy there was up and i trance-danced into communion with az (i was completely sober and on an extreme fatigue gnosis. i saw a bat-like humanoid creature descending, and then the visage of a sarcophagus (coffin) like shape 8/14/99 i had a dream that the chaos-sphere tattoo on my leg just went away and i had new flesh covering my leg a black women with crazy eyes walked by me this morning and said in this deranged voice

FRATER U D PRACTICAL SIGIL MAGIC

g the sentence of desire8 and drawing the sigil should be done with the utmost concentration. it makes the following activation( gcharging h) much easier. when the sigil is ready, it is activated by implanting it into the psyche. this is the most difficult part in this process, and spare offers only very few hints on practical procedures. however, it is crucial that the sigil is internalized in a trance of sorts. this may take place in a state of euphoria (for example, by means of drugs, in ecstasy (for example, sex magically by masturbation, sexual intercourse or a ritual, or in a state of physical fatigue. for the latter example, eyes and arms may be tired by the magician folding his/her arms behind the head while standing in front of a mirror and staring fixedly at his/her image. the im

that transport philosophical, mythical, ilar contents, which, of course, can be spiritual symbols anyway. before beginning our discussion of sigil activation, we shall take a closer look at how to simplify them. overly complicated sigils are as ineffective as baroque tapeworm sentences of desire. always keep in mind that you will have to internalize( gcharge h) the sigil of magical or ggnostic h trance. this may mean that you will have to imagine it active1y. such a procedure might this has two advantages. first, it makes it easier to concentrate on the sigil when charging it. second, it gives the sigil a gdefinite h and gconclusive h touch, for if you work a lot with sigils, occasionally you may find the sigils becoming gentangled h in your unconscious to form undesirable chains and comb

ure 12 these embroideries do not have a meaning in themselves (just as a sigil no longer has any consciously grecognizable h meaning; they serve the sole purpose of creating the right atmosphere or giving the sigil a gmagic h touch (or, for the more romantically minded, a touch of gmystery h. this can enhance its effect substantially, and i strongly advise you to experiment. chapter 3 the magical trance/ activating the sigils having finished the sigil with much effort, go to bed with it. masturbate and, during sexual climax, concentrate on the graphic sigil. if you have a welltrained imagination, you might as well visualize the sigil, but beginners are advised to stare at the glyph with widely opened eyes. it is crucial that you place the sigil in front of your eyes during orgasm. do not t

t orgasm provides the most effective of magical trances. debauchees with glittering eyes may, however, be warned that this branch of sexual magic has little or nothing to do with sexual gfun. h in the past, when it was still trendy to work with gsacrifice c altar of transcendence, h etc obviously, this has a lot to do with tantric and taoist ideas, which state that the male should sex the magical trance/ activating the sigils/ 31 accord m after sexual intercourse (in hetero the first chapter it was mentioned that sigils should be internalized spasmodically. this can be done in several ways. our goal is always the same: to form an altered ing to these doctrines, loss of semen means loss of power (and, by extrapolation, longevity. this approach which has for various reasons never become part

gression aside, we may note that lecherous sex maniacs won ft have too much when dealing with this branch of sexual magic, as these operations can be rather strenuous and not too pleasurable. in state of consciousness in which the censor has become gsoft h and in which s/he will no longer or cannot prevent direct communication between the conscious and the unconscious. like the magical or gnostic trance in general, consciousness is not entirely switched off, which means that you aren ft aiming for a hypnotic full trance. such gthreshold states h2 may be achieved either by withholding sleep, by overexertion, by exhaustion, or by activating intense emotions like anger, fear, pleasure, ecstasy, etc.3 here again we can see why the sex-magical charging of a sigil (which, of course, can also be

easier than all other methods. first, most people are quite familiar with willed orgasms, which can hardly be said, for example, of willed, controlled trances of exhaustion 32/ practical sigil magic one technique which is frequently quoted in terature, but hardly ever explained in detail, is spare fs so-cal or horror. second, the effort to achieve a sexual climax is so much less than to achieve a trance through fasting, for another example, which would take several days of starving oneself, or a fear trance, for which you might have to hang half of your body out of the window on the seventeenth floor of a building (of course, a high ride on a roller coaster might do the trick as well, but can you really control your acrophobia enough to charge a sigil) nevertheless, you should get to know

the conscious mind collapses for a short span of time (sometimes, as with an orgasm, only for seconds) and leaves free a direct channel to the unconscious. in the following text, two non-sexual variants of the death posture, which have proved themselves well in practice, particularly for people who are new to magic and who have little or no training in magical trances, are described. the magical trance/ activating the sigils/ 33 longer. then, hortly before reaching the point of fainting, open wide our eyes and stare.while breathing in and out fresh air.a death posture (version 1) this version may be performed both in a standing or a sitting position. for your first attempts, i recommend sitting before a table on which you have placed the sigil. after a deep breath, block your eyes, ears

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

modern spiritualism. having long contemplated the columns of the front page, iwentin to purchase a copy, taking care to address himwhomi assumed to be the master rightly, a tall, broad, expansive personality,withgoodwillinscribeduponhim. my youth and nervous hesitation must have drawn him towards one shewing thus an early interest in subjects which were evidently near to his heart. he told me of trance orations, of spirits assuming material forms, of dead men coming back, and probably gave metwoor three elementary pamphlets,broughtforth from a drawer beneath one of his counters. it is remembered to this daythati emerged fromthattalkwitha vague feelingthatall this was like a story of which ihadheard previously;thatit wasnotstrange and new;thatit was rooted in the likelihood of thingsrather

lleged spirit ofa murdered pedlar,whobegan to communicate by meansofpersistent rappingsthatoccurred in the oftwoyoung girls, kate and margaret fox.onthe basis of the rapped messages evidenceofthe murder was discovered and the girls became celebrities. soon others, too, received messages purporting to come from the dead, at first by meansofraps or table-turning, later by way of automaticwritingand trance utterances, and the movement spreadrapidly throughout the united states.asmediums-thepersons supposedly acting as intermediaries between the worldsofthe living and of the dead-e-proliferated, the movement began to take on the rudimentsofformal organization and by 1852, when it appeared in england in the person of mrs hayden, the first visiting american medium, spiritualism as a definable se

d somehow obtained a copy (which he eventually offered for salethroughtheunknownworld),had succeeded also in penetrating its extremely opaque language, and began to propagate its thesis anew. as far asthatthesis can be expressed in everydaylanguage, it is that the goalofthe alchemical.process was the attainment of divineunionas a consequence of illumination obtained in an exalted form of mesmeric trance. waite agreed overtheend,butdisputed the means; he believedthat'thealchemical transfiguration of humanity' depended92in the columns ofthemediumanddaybreaka mr pfoundes had cast doubts on the originality of waite's ideas (claimingthemforhimselfand upbraided him for a lackofmodesty in proclaiming that'forthefirst time in the history of esotericscience,it has become possibleto define in open l

nd found too that a parallel process could be267 applied to man.thenature of this process, argued waite, is hinted at in alchemicaland magical texts, and if it is understood and carried out,thenthe regenerationofman from his fallen state will follow.theexistence and effectiveness ofsucha'process is 'abundantly confirmed by.thestudyof certain higher .phases of mesmerism, electrical psychology, and trance clairvoyance-s-although inwhatway waite does95_'hethataspiredtoknow. was derisive: themanchesterguardianjeered at its style and content alike, andtheechodismissed it as 'two hundred and thirty pages of delirious slush. elliott, was, perhaps, more fortunate than he realizedwhenhe gave up waite's 'largest and most important enterprise in occult literature. waite, too, was relieved, for he'out

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

nanimously hostile and spiritualistic phenomena were condemned as fraudulent or, more usually, diabolic; but however disapproving of particular practices, the churches did not deny the reality of a spiritual order, and society as a whole maintained a solid belief in the supernatural.norwere all clerics equally hostile. some went so far as to holdseances-the'sittings' at which a medium, often in a trance, produces messages for those present-themselves, and one, the revd w. stainton moses, was fromi&]2until his death in1892a medium himself and the principal exponent of spiritualist thought in england. others were more circumspect and, whether from natural reticence or fear of episcopal wrath, carefully avoided publicity. one such group had affinities with the rosicrucians.theguild of the hol

he departed there were other aspectsofspiritualism which were well known and enthusiasti255 cally supported not only by spiritualists at large but also within the confinesofthe s.r.i.a. clairvoyance (the ability to 'see' distant events by extra-sensory means) had been frequently demons255 trated in the1840sby proponents of mesmerism who claimed to obtain starding results from subjects placed in a trance. another, and far older, method ofinducing clairvoyantvision was by means of gazing into a mirror or a crystal ball, bothofwhich were employed by frederick hockley, the rosicrucian seer. hockley's researches into crystal vision began in1824and continued up to the time of his death in1885.in1869he told the committee of the london dialectical society how the visions were received 'i knew a la

ual alchemy andhereven stranger interpretation of it. ultimately, asherliterary executor, she succeeded in arranging for the re-publication in1918ofmrsatwood'ssuggestiveenquiryinto thehermeticmystery,an event that brought doubtful comfort to all those hermetic students who had so eagerly desired it.thethesisofthe book is, more or less, that the goalofalchemy was to attain a formofexalted mesmeric trance through which enlightenment can come upon one.itought to have inspired the peopleofthe golden dawnbutthey seem to have found it as confusing as mme. de steiger's own works,on agoldbasisandsuperhumanity,which were both in a similar vein. isabelle de steiger joined the golden dawn in october 1888, taking the motto alta peto (i strive for the heights),butshe did not reach the secondorderuntil

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

face seen in the old disused chapel in bloomsbury, and the suggestion of a thought-form made visible and tangible to a person with noclaimto abnormal sensitiveness, remained as a haunting problem, as also did the whole question of messages alleged to have come from the dead. my experiences with professional mediums have been very disappointing in one way, though extremely interesting in another. trance mediums have given me messages from friends who have passed over, couched in familiar phrases, in the very tone and manner of the person they were supposed tosome psychic memories 93come from, sometimes alluding to events known to me and to no one else. convincing enough, i have been told. what more could you ask? but never by a professional medium have i been told anything that was not som

of what she had said. but to prove the genuineness of her power, she asked me to put a test, by asking her a question to whichneitheri noranyonein the house knew the answer,butto which the answer could be readily ascertained for certain. i thought of the title to a small piece of land whose history i did not know, though i knew where the title deeds were. accordingly when she was in the hypnotic trance, i told her to go to the lawyer's office, and look for a certain charter, and tell me who signed it. she found the charter without difficulty, but was unable to read the signature, which she said was much blurred and rubbed. i then told her to try and go back from this, and see, if she could, the signing of it; she did so after a little pause, and described a chapter-house, monks, and the a

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

an allowing them to be re-interpreted by those who want to emphasize the ritual magic over the intense spiritual vision they possessed. on 14th march 1904 crowley and his then wife rose were in a flat in cairo. they had prepared a room for ritual invocation, it faced north. crowley called, as usual, on the egyptian god thoth. however this time something strange occurred, his wife rose fell into a trance state and began to chant they are waiting for you. this continued until the 18th of the month. during this day s invocation the startled rose exclaimed he who is waiting is horus. as the story unfolds crowley invokes horus and feels that he has communication with a being called aiwass, who is an ancient egyptian priest. aiwass then dictates to crowley the book of the law- a cryptic book of

GOETIA LUCIFERIAN

the root oz, meaning goat and devil, sexual force) mahazael north (associated with earth, being cain or the egyptian set as the lord of the earth in typhonian lore. mahazael comes from the root mhzal, meaning to consume and devour and is associated with amaimon, a grand daemon) 11 the rite of the coiling dragon (leviathan, the crooked serpent) the darokin walk of the coiling dragon is the averse trance-way of the adversary, thus the initiate becomes as the image and essence of shaitan through the invocation of the four powers under the infernal princes. in the coiling of this black light and cunning fire, may the sorcerer become isolated and strong against the natural order. the individual is separate, yet a fire made vessel of azazel-lucifer, known as azal ucel, the daemonic angel of adv

e shades of the dead, specifically on dreaming levels. one may also witness faces in a black mirror while communicating with him. it may be recommended that the magician 38 utilizes evp to record samigina or other shades in the place of invocation/evocation as well as within a graveyard. goetic rites may be performed but with less tools, it then will rely on the sorcerers ability to go forth into trance to summon such latent forces. e marbas marbas appears in the mind s eye as a lion, which beholds a shadow which is twisted and sharp looking. marbas appears as any form desired, mostly as a shadowed man. this spirit reveals hidden aspects of the self through initiatory experience. as a cursing tool, one may evoke marbas in the mind, and his 36 legions of spirits to manifest in the enemy as

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS A

lesser ritual of the hexagram (commit to memory [c] 6. s.i.r.h./s.b.r.h (commit to memory [c1] 7. the secret wisdom of the lesser world or microcosm [u] 1. secret wisdom of the microcosm 2. evil persona 3. task of the adeptus minor 4. of traveling in the spirit vision concerning other microcosms 5. how the spiritual consciousness can act around and beyond the sphere of sensation. 6. of obsession, trance, and death 7. liber hodos chameleonis (u-7) 8. receive z1 and z3 (to be tested on knowledge and understanding) 9. make and consecrate the lotus wand [d] 10. the rose cross ritual (commit to memory) 11. make and consecrate the rose cross lamen [e] and [f] 6 12. make and consecrate the sword and four elemental weapons [g] 13. consecration ceremony of the vault of the adepti [k] 14. hermes vis

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS U6

is "working the tree of life" he or she is "rising on the planes" this is definitely a mystical process. each path develops one simplistically and brings us closer to gnosis with our higher genius. the tree acts as a chart or guide in that it gives us a specific direction and location. in addition, it allows us to project to a location through the use of symbols, colors, names, etamu6 obsession, trance& death r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r this material is private and has been lent to me on trust, to return on demand. it contains nothing of pecuniary value and nothing personal to myself. i hereby direct my legal representatives whomsoever, in case of my death or incapacity, to return the same at once, unread and unopened, to g.h. frater p.c.a, at 14050 cherry avenue

ch is at the back of the head about the junction with the spine. now, unless the lower will shall voluntarily endeavour to restore the connection, it is impossible for the higher will to intervene, seeing that the lower will is king of the physical body. remember that no obsessing force can overpower the lower will, if that shall bravely and in spite of all opposition aspire unto the higher will. trance may arise from the action of obsession, or from the action of the higher will. therefore, its aspects are varied. death superveneth the natural man, when the mental action of the ruach and the nephesch is definitely and thoroughly interrupted in the physical body. in the adept, death can only supervene when the higher will consenteth thereto, and herein is implied the whole mystery of the e

an become ensnared in obsession and thus perform his/her adept tasks without genuine connection and guidance from the higher will, while all along convincing him/herself that the tasks to be undertaken are truly being achieved. this is far more dangerous for the adept than the normal man, who in his slumber, is aware not of his higher will. thus, the adept is more vulnerable to obsession becoming trance due to the heavy astral currents of influence within his sphere of sensation. it is critical that the adept maintain connection with the higher will to avoid the confoundment of the yesodic currents leading to obsession. though it is far from complete, i have hearby listed areas of concern to the adeptus: 3 sexual obsession astral obsession obsession with perfection the adept must realize t

GOLDEN CHAIN AND THE LONELY ROAD

or it is known that the seasons of the moon are refracted through the vessel of the priestess and that the issue of her sexual mouth contains the secrets (secret-ions) of the gnosis in a fluidic hypostasis. likewise the seed of a priest is the numinous medium for the powers of the godhead and for the concealed radiances of the sun. in rites employing a seeress as the so-called 'ophidian oracle, a trance-state is actuated by cunnilingus and the lucid post-orgasmic dream of the priestess is guided by external manuductive passes and verbal conjurations. as can be seen, if one considers it deeply, such matters cannot be operated effectively between inexperienced aspirants. as such i conclude that it is best for such matters to be remain the preserve of those capable of deploying their arcana w

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

hurum seemed a down-to- earth person with an extraordinary story to tell. secret cipher of the ufonauts 9 bimstein, louis m, also known as max theon and aia aziz. the son of a polish rabbi, bimstein traveled in nineteenth century egypt and became a disciple of the coptic initiate paolos metamon, under whom he became the grand master of the hermetic brotherhood of light. bimstein later married the trance medium mary ware and became the conduit of the cosmic philosophy. virtually every modern occult movement, from the theosophical society to the followers of sri aurobindo in india, owe him a debt in their origins. bimstein was a high initiate, quite a mysterious person, and probably in constant contact with ufonauts early on. he died in the early 1920s and has been largely forgotten until re

man cases, his ufos: operation trojan horse and the mothman prophecies clearly show the linkage between things ufological and things occult. a man of dry wit and a speaker with considerable personal charisma, keel s hidden asset is his ability to tune one in to the high strangeness aspect of the ufo phenomenon in a way that can only result from direct field work. king, george, one of the premiere trance channel contactees since 1955. king and his aetherius society form one of the direct links between occultism and ufology, in that king claims to be a direct agent of the great white brotherhood working diligently with our extraterrestrial allies against the black lodge. lamed, frater who, as the former timothy coutu, a chief of the qblh and computer programming specialist, learned computer

ty to do serious original work with the cipher. laying out the 1974 cipher solution on a 26-point star pattern, frater lamed was eventually able to generate thousands of cipher star variants, highly suggestive of a starseed transmission based on the cipher hidden in the book of the law. lightlines group, organized in kentucky by carla rueckert and the late don elkins. lightlines is one of the few trance channel contactee bodies making no claims for the true nature of its channelings, and known for doing systematic research on the process of communication. elkins was an eastern airline pilot but also an accomplished trance medium, best known for the work eventually published as the ra material. secret cipher of the ufonauts 13 layne, meade, founder of the venerable borderland sciences resea

esearch on the process of communication. elkins was an eastern airline pilot but also an accomplished trance medium, best known for the work eventually published as the ra material. secret cipher of the ufonauts 13 layne, meade, founder of the venerable borderland sciences research foundation. layne was for many years the editor of bsrf s round robin and other journals, and he worked closely with trance channeler mark probert. layne was also a student of the work of frater achad. at one time, layne had been a member of the society of the inner light, a direct offspring of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. at the end of the 19th century, this society developed its rituals from certain rosicrucian cipher manuscripts based in the teachings of the third order, or secret chiefs, or ascende

m certain rosicrucian cipher manuscripts based in the teachings of the third order, or secret chiefs, or ascended masters which are identical with the space people in contact lore. that so much cipher material shows up in and around layne, who was said to be in frequent communication with the great white brotherhood, is highly suggestive that he was one of those who introduced the cipher into ufo trance-channeled contactee lore. layne was also writing about flying discs before kenneth arnold s sightings. he also introduced the idea of channeled masters to ufology. moseley, james w, the founder of the saucers and unexplained celestial events research society (saucers. since 1954 he has published some variation of saucer news. for many years moseley was the primary mover and shaker in ufolog

er was a victim of great physical handicaps, apparently the product of birth defects and a tragic accident in childhood. living a retiring life in rural wisconsin in his later years, ray palmer overcame great personal obstacles to be a literary figure of some note. secret cipher of the ufonauts 15 prophet, elizabeth, and the late mark prophet (r, crossovers between classical mediumship and modern trance channeling. it is significant that some of the beings ms. prophet purports to channel are the very real and physical adepts known a century earlier by madame blavatsky and others, under their assumed names. randolph, dr. p. b, an american occultist who introduced some of the more profound secret hermetic doctrines to both american and european initiates. 16 allen h. greenfield shaver, richa

gs indicate ongoing communication. in fact, modern ufology emerged from a narrow circle of survivors in possession of all or part of the old knowledge trying to look into the new sightings and contacts in the hope of renewing their communication with the ancient gods. key figures included meade layne and ric williamson. both layne and williamson show traditional knowledge of the lore of the magi, trance mediumship the 19th and early 20th century descendant of the ancient oracles and sybils and an interest in developing trance channeling oriented upon the then-emerging modern flying saucer lore. but i am getting ahead of myself. my subject here is the cipher of the ufonauts. i will document this cipher for you and show you how to decode the cipher, which has been in continuous use since the

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

ohtines dram= heaven, hel. 54, 11. 63, 14. 85, 21 to be taken as 'dei jubilum, gaudium' as opposed to' manno, liudo drom (p. 795, the transitory dream of this world. for somnium stood the as. swefen, os. suehlian; the on. svefn is simply somnus, and sofna to fall asleep, mhg. entsweben is sopire, lull to sleep, which again has to do with ohg. suep (aer, so that sleeping and dreaming properly mean trance or ecstasy, the spirit's soaring away into the air (conf. arprettan, p. 1083. this is closely conn, with lat. sopor, and sompnus, somnus, somnium. both ohg. and on. seem to confine their troum, draumr to the sense of somnium. the gothic word for ovetpo (dream) is lost to us. instead of our proverb' triiume sind schliume/ dreams are foams, i have found a more truly rhyming* traume sind gdiim

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

the word for butterfly. a roman epitaph found in spain has the words: m. porcius m. haeredibus mando etiam cinere ut meo volitet ebrius papilio? in basque, arima is soul (conf. arme, alma, p. 826, and astoaren arirna (ass s soul) butterfly. we shall conae across these butterflies again as will o the wisps (ziebold, vezha, and in the chap, on witches as elvish beings (see suppl. when men are in a trance, or asleep, the soul runs out of them in the shape of a snake,weasel or mouse (chap. xxxiv and suppl. of will o the wisps a subsequent chapter will treat; synony mous with them i find wiesenhupfer, wiesenhupferinf meadowhopper, e.g. in the magdelob (printed 1683) p. 46; its explana tion, from their dancing on marshy meadows, is right enough, but perhaps too limited. hans sachs is not thinki

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

eingas'r'supposes, the result of merely 'the earnest gaze and concentration of the mind to one idea' as well might he assert that sir john herschell, adams, or gasparis, when scrutinizing every point of the starry heavens with telescopic eye, were self-hypnotized, and their resplendent discoveries, which have placed them foremost in the ranks of science, werebutthe revelations of a neuro-hypnotic trance.formyself i am content to believe that the faith of our forefathers were not such 'wretched superstitious absurdities' and that 'there are really things in nature of which our modem philosophy does notpermit.usto dream' londonfred.hockley.[printed inthezoist,no. xxvii (october 1849.]remarksupontherev.georgesandbysreviewofm.alphonse cahagnet'sarcanesdefaviefuturedevoilis,esc.by mr.hockley.'m

egaveastrologicalinterpretations ofastronomicaleffects.a firm believer inastrology,he stated it was 'not adelusivesciencewhen kept within bounds and not abused by ignorantpeople. 3 see introduction and letters. 4alexandertilloch (1759-1825),formerlytulloch, editor ofhockley'slettersto the [winssoul by which the adept sought divine union by way of illumination gained in an exalted form of mesmeric trance.'2unidentified. 3 unidentified. 4 helena petrovna blavatsky (1831-91. bom in russia, later became an american citizen. widely travelled; an avid reader of occult, mystical, and religious works, she founded, with col. olcott, the theosophical society in new york in 1877. she also dabbled in spiritualism but on at least three occasions her seances were exposed as mechanical trickery. 5le,thir

her students of the occult were more fortunate. manyofthe manuscripts had been borrowed and copied duringhock255ley's lifetime by hisfriendf.g. irwin; others were purchased from redway by w. b. moseley, a more practical magician than hockley, for 'whereas hockley appears to have been content with employing clairvoyant subjects, skryers in crystals and persons who could be passed into the magnetic trance, moseley is said to have tried more dangerous paths."frommoseley some of these also passed to irwin after moseley's death in1888-adeath whichmayormay not have been hastened by his occult practices."threeof the manuscripts that irwin did not obtain,thejournalofarosicrucianphilosopher,crystallomancyandtaneachemica,carne into the handsofa. e. waite, who quoted extensivelyfrom the first two in

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

ly follow thebody in its circuit. this continued for perhaps two or three minutes, until, gradually slackening the motion heat length stopped it altogether, and in an instant had landed the girl on her knees in the middle of the lamp-litcircle. such was the eastern mode of mesmerization as practised among the dervishes. and now the dwarf seemed entirely oblivious of external objects and in a deep trance. her head and jawdropped on her chest, her eyes were glazed and staring, and altogether her appearance was even more hideousthan before. the dervish then carefully closed the shutters of the only window, and we should have been intotal obscurity but that there was a hole bored in it, through which entered a bright ray of sunlight that shotthrough the darkened room and shone upon the girl. h

he had heard his sonata performed bysatan, for his benefit, and in consequence of a bargain made with his infernal majesty. several famous singers, even, whose exceptional voices struck the hearers with superstitious admiration, havenot escaped a like accusation. pasta's splendid voice was attributed in her day to the fact that, three monthsbefore her birth, the diva's mother was carried during a trance to heaven, and there treated to a vocal concertof seraphs. malibran was indebted for her voice to st. cecilia while others said she owed it to a demon whowatched over her cradle and sung the baby to sleep. finally paganini- the unrivalled performer, the meanitalian, who like dryden's jubal striking on the "chorded shell" forced the throngs that followed him toworship the divine sounds produ

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

e of facts not known to the medium, and sometimes even not consciously present to the mind of the investigator, or any of those who compose the audience. a. this does not necessarily prove that the intelligence and knowledge you speak of belong to spirits, or emanate from disembodied souls. somnambulists have been known to compose music and poetry and to solve mathematical problems while in their trance state, without having ever learnt music or mathematics. others, answered intelligently to questions put to them, and even, in several cases, spoke languages, such as hebrew and latin, of which they were entirely ignorant when awake-all this in a state of profound sleep. will you, then, maintain that this was caused by "spirits? page 17 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt q. but how would

hat the divine spark in man being one and identical in its essence with the universal spirit, our "spiritual self" is practically omniscient, but that it cannot manifest its knowledge owing to the impediments of matter. now the more these impediments are removed, in other words, the more the physical body is paralyzed, as to its own independent activity and consciousness, as in deep sleep or deep trance, or, again, in illness, the more fully can the inner self manifest on this plane. this is our explanation of those truly wonderful phenomena of a higher order, in which undeniable intelligence and knowledge are exhibited. as to the lower order of manifestations, such as physical phenomena and the platitudes and common talk of the general "spirit" to explain even the most important of the te

y the actor (the true ego) for one night. this is why we preserve no memory on the physical plane of our past lives, though the real "ego" has lived them over and knows them all. q. then how does it happen that the real or spiritual man does not impress his new personal "i" with this knowledge? a. how is it that the servant-girls in a poor farmhouse could speak hebrew and play the violin in their trance or somnambular state, and knew neither when in their normal condition? because, as every genuine psychologist of the old, not your modern, school, will tell you, the spiritual ego can act only when the personal ego is paralyzed. the spiritual "i" in man is omniscient and has every knowledge innate in it; while the personal self is the creature of its environment and the slave of the physica

a march on his "spirits" and baptized them "unconscious muscular action" to the great gaudium of all the corporations of highly learned and scientific fools, and to the replenishment of his own pocket. but de mortuis nil nisi bonum; his end was a sad one. he had strenuously concealed his epileptic fits-the first and strongest symptom of genuine mediumship-and who knows whether he was dead or in a trance when the postmortem examination was performed? his relatives insist that he was alive, if we are to believe reuter's telegrams. finally, behold the veteran mediums, the founders and prime movers of modern spiritualism-the fox sisters. after more than forty years of intercourse with the "angels" the latter have led them to become incurable sots, who are now denouncing, in public lectures, th

contemplation. the six stages of dhyani differ only in the degrees of abstraction of the personal ego from sensuous life. dhyani-chohans (sans) lit "the lords of light" the highest gods, answering to the roman catholic archangels. the divine intelligences charged with the supervision of kosmos. double the same as the astral body or "doppelg nger" ecstasis (gr) a psycho-spiritual state; a physical trance which induces clairvoyance, and a beatific state which brings on visions. ego (lat "i; the consciousness in man of the "i am i" or the feeling of i-am-ship. esoteric philosophy teaches the existence of two egos in man, the mortal or personal, and the higher, the divine or impersonal, calling the former "personality" and the latter "individuality" egoity (from the word ego. egoity means "ind

ystical (see mahayana) also in exoteric superstition, the lowest form of transmigration. homogeneity from the greek words homos "the same" and genos "kind" that which is of the same nature throughout, undifferentiated, non-compound, as gold is supposed to be. hypnotism (gr) a name given by dr. braid to the process by which one man of strong will-power plunges another of weaker mind into a kind of trance; once in such a state the latter will do anything suggested to him by the hypnotist. unless produced for beneficial purposes, the occultists would call it black magic or sorcery. it is the most dangerous of practices, morally and physically, as it interferes with the nerve fluids. iamblichus a great theosophist and an initiate of the third century. he wrote a great deal about the various ki

those who are so anxious for its company. in india these eidolons are called pisachas-and are much dreaded. kapilavastu (sans) the birthplace of the lord buddha, called the "yellow dwelling" the capital of the monarch who was the father of gautama buddha. kardec, allan the adopted name of the founder of the french spiritists, whose real name was rivaille. it was he who gathered and published the trance utterances of certain mediums and afterwards made a "philosophy" of them between the years 1855 and 1870. karma (sans) physically, action; metaphysically, the law of retribution; the law of cause and effect or ethical causation. it is nemesis only in the sense of bad karma. it is the eleventh nidana in the concatenation of causes and effects in orthodox buddhism; yet it is the power that co

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his morning, and drove back, so there cannot be much wrong "suggestive inquiry" was really written by south, but i think a lady had something to do with bringing it out and suppressing it, tho' here my memory fails me. i do not think it was suppressed on account of giving processes too clearly, but because it makes the truth of the whole things so very clear. you will do well to read it. mesmeric trance. south pere, however 'decided that the world was not ready for this great revelation. and suppressed his daughter's book when less than 100 copies had been distributed. the withdrawn copies were burnt and the authoress spent much time and money obtaining as many of the issued copies as she could, destroying most of these also' the book was reissued in 1918 with the sanction of isabelle de s

INDUCTION CHARM AND THE INITIATION

htly. you should do it around one of the old holy or hidden festival days of the old waysespecially around hallows eve or the twelve nights of yule. but the tide of lammas is a good time as well, underscoring the sacrifice of one way of life and the birth of a new. it should be done at night, or at dusk, and the workings of it are simple- days before, you should have been doing various devotions, trance works, internal communions, even walking the left-way road if you can, to communicate your intentions. you should have mastered the understandings given in this whole work; nothing written anywhere in this book should hold any sort of vagueness for you. you should have performed the rite of arriving, given later, if you can. there should really be no if you can- effort is always rewarded. o

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

es a. release of the own hand b. preparation of the fingers with help of the pendulum &c 2. passive communication: a. with the own guardian genius b. with deceased people& other beings step vi magic mental training 1. meditation on the own spirit 2. becoming conscious of the senses in the spirit step vi magic psychic training 1. preparation to master the akasa principle 2. deliberate induction to trance with the help of akasa 3. mastering the elements with an individual ritual from akasa step vi magic physical training 1. deliberate creation of beings: a. elementals b. larvae c. phantoms step vii magic mental training 1. analysis of the spirit with respect to the practice step vii magic psychic training 1. development of the astral senses with the help of elements& fluid condensers: a. cla

nutes by constant exercise. the limit for staying in this depth-point is five minutes. working through this step the scholar should be able to transfer himself at any hour and in every situation into this depth-point, into the akasa principle, from there perceiving and influencing all that concerns his being. this consciousness transference into the akasa principle is the genuine magical state of trance and represents the preliminary stage of the connection with the cosmic consciousness. i shall describe the practice relating to this linking up to the cosmic consciousness in a further chapter. the magical trance should not be mixed up with the state produced by spiritualistic mediums, provided we have to do with genuine psychical phenomena and mediums of integrity. mostly a lot of mischief

kept upright with the pendulum swinging free about 2-3 inches above the tabletop. put a glass of water, a vase or any tinkling object about 2-3 inches from the pendulum. as son as you have finished all the preparations according to these instructions, exteriorize your mental hand from the one holding the pendulum and put the mental hand close by the carnal one. having done so, develop a state of trance in yourself for a few moments, the way you have been instructed in the chapter about mental training by recognizing yourself with your consciousness in the solar plexus; therefore you are now in the fourth dimension. in this condition, call your guide and ask him in your mind that he might man ifest to you with the help of your magically prepared hand. keep silent and observe the pendulum

the mediumistic writing. the method is as follows: put a sheet of paper in front of you and take a pencil between thumb and forefinger like you do for writing. now push a rubber ring not too tight over your thumb, forefinger and middle finger. you can make this ring by cutting it off a bicycle tire. the purpose of the ring is not to have to concentrate entirely on holding the pencil. now induce a trance in yourself, call your spiritual leader, prepare your right hand magically for him to write with. in the beginning you will notice only some uneven lines, later on illegible words, and after some exercising, words and sentences will come about. when one sheet of paper has been filled with writing, change it for a new one. you can get a reply to every question. by constant exercising you wil

the fourth state of aggregation has to say or to fulfill in the material or astral world can be achieved likewise by the magician himself through his maturity. summary of exercises of step vi i. magic mental training: 1. meditation on the own spirit 2. becoming conscious of the senses in the spirit ii. magic psychic training: 1. preparation to master the akasa principle 2. deliberate induction to trance with the help of the akasa 3. mastering of the elements with the help of an individual ritual from the akasa iii. magic physical training: 1. deliberate creation of beings a. elementals b. larvae c. phantasms (shadows) d. phantoms end of step vi step vii magic mental training (vii) in step vi the scholar learned to become conscious of the own spirit, to act deliberately in the body as a spi

ician s astral faculties, he will not succeed very well in plastical visionary imagination exercises. in the case of the air element, the acoustic exercises probably will become more difficult for him; as for the water element, difficulties will arise from the concentration on the feeling, and in the case of the earth element, the control of the consciousness will be impaired. mental wandering or trance where a transference of consciousness is required will become rather difficult indeed, and in such a case it would be necessary for him to follow intensively those concentration exercises that affect and influence the respective element. finally the magician has to permanently perform and deepen the concentration exercises. a sure sign of magical balance will always be to manage equally all

ear to a physical effect. some years ago, i myself loaded a magic hollow glass mirror in this manner so strongly that it burst into hundreds of chips, and i had to procure a mirror made from oak for my task. sit in front of the mirror and meditate about the truth you wish to recognize or about the problems you want to solve. after finishing the mediation, interpose the akasa principle or induce a trance in yourself and you will soon accomplish your task. in any case, you will get a pleasant surprise by working in this manner, and later on you can hardly do without this practice when performing your meditations. if you keep the mirror loaded, you have to protect it from other people looking at it. the best thing to do is wrap it in silk, because silk is well known to be a splendid insulator

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ptivity for a magical dream, likewise any of these means can do the opposite- fixating perception in a manner that is not receptive that seals the soul in the body instead of enabling it to go forth at will. explanations of dreaming practices when given in a ritual context serve their own purpose they reify the knowledge of the dream and empower the dreams of knowledge. dreaming, like possession, trance and mediumism of various kinds, establishes direct communication with spirits and gods, and thus provides the vital means for the constant informing of one s magical work. the sabbatic craft employs the arcana of dream as a vehicle for the reification of spirit-knowledge: the materialisation of the spirit and the spiritualisation of the material. if any aspire to this kind of spirit-relatio

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

ical activity of the brain has been observed and classified with eeg (electroencephalograph) equipment; signals picked up from the scalp by electrodes, then filtered and amplified, drive a graph recorder. brain activity has been found to produce specific ranges for certain basic states of consciousness, as indicated in 'hz (hertz, or cycles/vibrations per second: delta- 0.2 to 3.5 hz (deep sleep, trance state, theta- 3.5 to 7.5 hz (day dreaming, memory, alpha- 7.5 to 13 hz (tranquility, heightened awareness, meditation, beta- 13 to 28 hz (tension 'normal' consciousness. as you can see, some form of physical relaxation is implied in the alpha, theta, and delta consciousness. these states are in fact reached through deep breathing, hypnosis, and other relaxation techniques. oobe occurs durin

owsy to sleep; it is very gradual. at the threshold between sleep and waking consciousness is a drowsy condition known as the hypnogogic state. oobe seems to occur during this state, or a variant of it. by careful control of the hypnogogic state (not going beyond it) it is possible to enter oobe directly. basic techniques most methods of astral projection are methods of conditioning. some form of trance or altered consciousness is always involved. no one ever projects consciously while fully awake (some may think that they do. although there are many techniques used to produce an astral projection, they boil down to nine of them. they all sort of overlap. 1) diet- certain dietary practices may aid in oobe, especially at first. these include fasting, vegitarianism, and in general the eating

ample, allow 2 to 4 hours of no food or drink (except water) before bedtime. in general, we see here the same kind of dietary restrictions advocated for kundalini yoga. 2) progressive muscular relaxation- this is one of the basic methods used in hypnosis and self-hypnosis. the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 33 physical relaxation can assist one in attaining the requisite trance state. these techniques involve beginning at the toes and tensing, then relaxing the muscles, progressively up the entire body. 3) yoga and breath- yoga, mantra, and breathing exercises similarly aim at physical relaxation. the practice of kundalini yoga is particularly relevant, since it is concerned with altered consciousness. in fact the arousal of kundalini requires a similar state of c

KETAB E SIYAH

s care not thou at all! they feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones. 416 32. obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only! then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. this is so: i swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all i can give, by all i desire of ye all. 33. then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon& said unto the queen of heaven; write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law! 34. but she said: the ordeals i write not: the rituals shall be half known and half concealed: the law is for all. 35. this that thou writest is the threefold book of law. 36. my scribe ankh-af-na-khonsu, the priest of the princes, shall not in one letter change this book; b

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d further to combine sat-chit-ananda, and light, love, life, three by three into nine that are one, in which meditation success shall be that which was first adumbrated to him in the grade of practicus (which reflecteth mercury into the lowest world) in liber xxvii "here is nothing under its three forms" 18. and this is the opening of the grade of ipsissimus, and by the buddhists it is called the trance nerodha-samapatti. 19. and woe, woe, woe, yea woe, and again woe, woe, woe unto seven times be his that preacheth not his law to men! 20. and woe also be unto him that refuseth the curse of the grade of a magus, and the burden of the attainment thereof. 21. and in the word chaos let the book be sealed; yea, let the book be seal tcopyright (c) ordo templi orientis o.t.o. p.o.box 430 fairfax

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

e, having learnt to guide (or rule) the living and the dead(*the christian creed, by the rt. rev. c. w. leadbeater, p. 98) 197. during the ceremony the candidate laid himself down upon a wooden cross, made hollow to receive and support his body. his arms were lightly bound with cords, the ends of which were left loose to typify the voluntary nature of the sacrifice. the candidate then passed into trance, left the physical body and passed in full consciousness on to the astral plane. his body was carried down into a vault below the temple and was placed in an immense sarcophagus, where it lay for three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 198. during the mystical death of the body the candidate passed through many strange experiences in the astral world, and preached to the spir

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

role that had already been carved out in earlier narratives. from a broader perspective, the motif of a human being descending to the underworld for the purpose of rescuing someone s soul is widespread in world culture. in particular, in shamanic cultures sick people will sometimes be diagnosed as having lost their soul. the attending shaman will then perform a ritual in which he or she enters a trance state in order to seek out the lost soul, which has often wandered off to the realm of the dead (often an underworld. if the rite is successful, the wandering spirit will be persuaded to return, and the ill person will recover. this seems to be the cross-culture archetype in which the story of the harrowing of hell participates. see also purgatory; underworld for further reading: eliade,mir

ssed women, the mediterranean region, and africa. the different social and cultural backgrounds of civilizations determined the variations that could be seen from one version to another in ritualization and the values attributed to such an experience. being possessed is a phenomenon difficult to define because of its fluidity and many facets. it is related to certain forms of dissociation, ritual trance and similar altered states of consciousness, and over the years has drawn much attention from anthropologists, psychologists, and religious authorities. psychologists usually interpret claims of spirit possession in terms of multiple personality disorders, or related disturbances, such as schizophrenia, paranoia, hysteria, and compulsive behaviors. typically, spirit possession involves a dr

istorically it has occurred more among women and the lower classes. it was and still is widespread, for example, among south asian women (who tend to explain their problems as a result of evil spirits) and in the ancestor worship of vodoun (voodoo, santeria, and certain african religions. in shamanic cultures, possession is viewed as an integral part of the healing power of the shaman. the ritual trance that leads to spirit possession can be induced through various techniques, such as inhaling the fumes of certain substances (e.g, sri lankan witch doctor (kattadiya) holding a bottle containing an evil demon that has been exorcised from a possessed person. it will be thrown into the indian ocean where it can do no further harm (fortean picture library) possession and exorcism 211 the oracle

e. in early 1805, in the wake of an epidemic of some european disease on which the healer s ministrations had little impact, he unexpectedly fell into a comalike state that the shawnees interpreted as death. however, before the funeral arrangements could be completed, he revived, to the amazement of his tribesmen. considerably more amazing were the revelations he had received during his deathlike trance. tenskwatawa had been permitted to view heaven, a rich, fertile country, abounding in game, fish, pleasant hunting grounds and fine corn fields. but he had also witnessed sinful shawnee spirits being tortured according to the degree of their wickedness, with drunkards (one of tenskwatawa s principal vices) being forced to swallow molten lead. overwhelmed by the power of his vision, tenskwat

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art of mankind is ignorant and incapable of its proper performance; so that it is said that perfection in it as both science and art requires no less study than the most abstruse of philosophies, and no less practice than the most difficult of dexterities. but it is utterly in vain unless this first condition be fulfilled; and so difficult is this, not only because of the overcoming of the bodily trance, but because of the wandering nature of the mind itself. and thereafter only by long and hard training preliminary in the art of meditation, and by constant practice and experience, can this act become fruitful in magick. iv of times and seasons although no instruction has been given on this matter, yet it is evident, not only from considerations of the nature of things, but from our own ex

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d. but i say: prepare thyself most heartily and well for that battle of love by all means of magick. make thyself puissant, wise, radiant in every system, and balance thyself well in thine universe. then with a pure will tempered in the thousand furnaces of thy trials, burn up thyself within thy self. in the preparation hou shalt have learnt how thou mayst still all thoughts, and reach ekstacy of trance in many modes. but in these marriages thy conscious self is bridegroom, and the not-self bride, while in this great work thou givest up that conscious self as bride to thy true self. this operation is then radically alien from all others. and it is hard, because it is a total reversal of the current of the will, and a transmutation of its formula and nature. here, o my son, is the one secre

eth my soul in ekstacy. there is silence in my soul, and the fear round about me, as i were syrinx in the night of the forest. this is a great mystery that i endure, a mystery too great for the mortal part of me. for but now, when i cried out upon the name olun wlo, which is the secret name of my lady that hath come to me. most strangely. then i was rapt away altogether subtly yet fiercely into a trance that hath transformed me with attainment, yet without trace in mind. o my son! there is the transfiguration of glory, and there is the jewel in the lotus-flower; yea, also is many other whereof i am partaker. but this last passion, that my lady olun hath brought unto me upon this last day of the winter of the thirteenth year of the on, even as i wrote these words unto thee, is a mystery of

ers, being the constant habit of life, maketh man. t liber aleph vel cxi 138 eh de pr mio summo, vera sapientia et beatitudine perfecta (of the supreme reward, true wisdom and perfect happiness) ow then presently shall it some to pass, as by dint of each experience that component thereof which is within thee is attuned to it, and this without shock, so that thou art no longer thrown back from the trance, as exhausted, but abidest therein, almost without knowledge of thy state. so then at last this samadhi shall become normal to thy common consciousness, as it were a point of view. thus all things shall appear to thee very continually as to one in his first love, by the vision of beauty, and by the vision of science hou shalt marvel constantly with joy unfathomable at the mystery of the law

gick and illumination; because every way soever is a going, and his sin is an obstacle and a fetter and an hoodwink on every one of them, for it is restriction, whether he set out by the meditations of the dhamma, or by our qabalah, or by vision or theurgy, or how else soever. n the book of wisdom or folly 187 ze de mente inimica animo (of the mind, enemy to the soul) ow shall a man attain to the trance where all is one, if he yet debate within his mind concerning virtue as a thing absolute? thus, o my son, there be those that are fuddled with doubt whether meat is to be eaten (i choose this as a reference, which habit is proper to the lion, as grass to the horse, so that his right problem is solely thus, what is fitting to his own nature. or again, i suppose that he is in vision, and an a

lt in no wise err if thou establish it as the formula of the on, universal among men. also, even for them that are fitted to advance in our light, there is order and diversity in function, as regardeth their work in our sublime brotherhood, thus, it might well be that, in a profess-house of the temple, or college of the holy ghost, each knight or brother might severally attain experience of every trance, unto the perfection of all illumination; yet by this there ought not to arise confusion, one usurping the appointed office of another. for the abbot, although he be not enlightened wholly, is yet abbot; and the place of the cook, were he saint, arhan, and paramahamsa in one person, is in his kitchen. confound not thou in any wise therefore the degree of attainment of any man with his right

LIBER B VEL MAGI

rther to combine sat-chit-ananda, and light, love, life, three by three into nine that are one, in which meditation success shall be that which was first adumbrated unto him in the grade of practicus (which reflected mercury into the lowest world) in liber xxvii, ghere is nothing under its three forms. h 18. and this is the opening of the grade of ipsissimus, and by the buddhists it is called the trance nerodha- samapatti. 19. and woe, woe, woe, yea, woe, and again woe, woe, woe, unto seven times be his that preacheth not his law to men! 20. and woe also be unto him that refuseth the curse of the grade of a magus, and the burden of the attainment thereof. 21. and in the word chaos let the book be sealed; yea, let the book be sealedliber batrachophrenoboocosmomachia sub figura dxxxvi by ale

LIBER CCXLII AHA

ed; and even so, this attainment of peace is but as a scaffolding to the palace of the king. the sheaths of the soul. the abandonment of all is necessary; the adept recalls his own tortures, as all that he loved was torn away. the ordeal of the veil of the abyss; the unbinding of the fabric of mind, and its ruin. the distinction between philosophical credence and interior certitude. sammasati.the trance wherein the adept perceives his causal connection with the universe; past, present, and future. mastering the reason, he becomes as a little child, and invokes his holy guardian angel, the augoeides. atmadarshana arising is destroyed by the opening of the eye of shiva; the annihilation of the universe. the adept is destroyed, and there arises the master of the temple. the pupil, struck with

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE

y of ravening storm enswathes thee and wraps thee in frenzy of form. be still, o my soul! that the spell may dissolve as the wands are upraised and the aons revolve. behold! in my beauty how joyous thou art, o snake that caresses the crown of mine heart! behold! we are one, and the tempest of years goes down to the dusk, and the beetle appears. o beetle! the drone of thy dolorous note be ever the trance of this tremulous throat! i await the awakening! the summons on high from the lord adonai, from the lord adonai! 2. adonai spake unto v.v.v.v.v, saying: there must ever be division in the word. 3. for the colours are many, but the light is one. 4. therefore thou writest that which is of mother of emerald, and of lapis-lazuli, and of turquoise, and of alexandrite. 5. another writeth the word

LIBER CXLVIII SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK

be that the end of the swing is always 360 so that the!-point and the?-point coincide; but that is not the same thing as having no swing at all, unless we make kinematics identical with statics. what is to be done? how shall such mysteries be uttered? is this how it is that the true path of the wise is said to lie in a totally different plane from all his advance in the path of knowledge, and of trance? we have already been obliged to take the fourth dimension to illustrate (if not explain) the nature of samadhi. the soldier and the hunchback 15 ah, say the adepts, samadhi is not the end, but the beginning. you must regard samadhi as the normal state of mind which enables you to begin your researches, just as waking is the state from which you rise to samadhi, sleep the state from which y

imension to illustrate (if not explain) the nature of samadhi. the soldier and the hunchback 15 ah, say the adepts, samadhi is not the end, but the beginning. you must regard samadhi as the normal state of mind which enables you to begin your researches, just as waking is the state from which you rise to samadhi, sleep the state from which you rose to waking. and only from sammasamadhi.continuous trance of the right kind.can you rise up as it were on tiptoe and peer through the clouds unto the mountains. now of course it is really awfully decent of the adepts to take all that trouble over us, and to put it so nicely and clearly. all we have to do, you see, is to acquire samma-samadhi, and then rise on tiptoe. just so! but then there are the other adepts. hark at him! little brother, he say

qually glad, equally weary; while sole and sublime that crown of thine (brother) shall glitter in the frosty void of the abyss, its twelve stars filling that silence and solitude with a music and a motion that are more silent and invisible than they; thou shalt sit throned on the invisible, thine eyes fixed upon that which we call nothing, because it is beyond everything attainable by thought, or trance, thy right hand gripping the azure rod of light, thy left hand clasped upon the scarlet scourge of death; thy body girdled with a snake more brilliant than the sun, its name eternity; thy mouth curved moonlike in a smile, in the invisible kiss of nuit, our lady of the starry abodes; the body fs electric flesh stilled by 1 [hebrews, xii, 6] the soldier and the hunchback 19 sheer might to a m

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

e occurred. it may be that the physical health induced by the summer in me, who dislike damp and chill, may being forth as it were a flower the particular kind of energy. sammavayamo.which gives alike the desire to perform more definitely and exclusively the great work, and the capacity to achieve success. it is in any case remarkable that i was born in october (1875; suffered the terrible mystic trance which turned me toward the path in october (1896; applied for admission to g d in october (1898; opened my temple at boleskine in october (1899; received the mysteries of l.i.l. in october (1900; and obtained the grade of 6= 5; obtained the first true mystic results in october (1901; first landed in egypt in october (1902; landed again in egypt in october (1903; first parted from rose in oc

e a poem which i did not feel. the apparent exception is in case of irony [p.s. i wonder whether it would be possible to draw up a mathematical table, showing curves of food (and digestion, drink, other physical impulses, weather, and so on, and comparing them with the curve of mystic enthusiasm and attainment. through it is perhaps true that perfect health and bien-etre are the bases of any true trance or rapture, it seems unlikely that mere exuberance of the former can excite the latter. in other words there is probably some first matter of the work which is not anything we know of as bodily. on my return to london, i must certainly put the matter before 1 [vide .liber cordis cincti serpente. t.s] liber dccclx 58 more experienced mathematicians, and if possible, get a graphic analysis of

at a target, while they are preventing arrows from striking one. in my aspiration to know adonai, i resemble their yog.s who concentrate on their .personal lord; but at the same time it must be remembered that i am not going to be content with what would content them. in other words, i am going to define .the knowledge and conversation of my holy guardian angel. as equal to neroda-samapatti, the trance of nibbana. i hope i shall be able to live up to this! 11.55. have been practising .sana, etc. i forgot one thing in the last entry: i had been reproaching adonai that for six days i had evoked him in vain. i got the reply .the seventh day shall be the sabbath of the lord thy god. so mote it be! the seventh day. 12.17. i began this great day with eight breath-cycles; was stopped by the indi

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wasted portion of the day and should develop a natural edge over other magicians who have neglected this avenue to power. section 2: in the second section the neophyte will explore forms of gnosis covering the full potential range of altered states of consciousness, from the inhibitory to the excitatory to the chemically induced (which for reasons of legality must remain optional. alongside with trance work, this is the final methodology for obtaining supernatural control over the body/mind and using it to alter the field of probability through which we constantly swim. section 3: as an extension of liber mmm, the practitioner will master the techniques of creating a useful set of magical tools and then consecrate them for the great work of magic. a thorough understanding of these techniq

ls to an extent that makes her a formidable chaos magician. she will possess more tools and techniques than her predecessors and will be in a position to raise the bar again in the future. only those willing to push beyond the goals and accomplishments of those who came before can pursue technical excellence in magic. fr. ratatosk, september 23, 2000 preliminary ground work exercise 1: meditative trance if you have the time to perform a daily meditation it is recommended that you do not discontinue the work of liber mmm while performing the exercises of liber lll. the work of meditative trance is very helpful in keeping focused and assists the magician in maintaining peak form. however it is also time consuming, and some practitioners cannot reasonably be expected to set aside an hour a da

solitude is another method of achieving total deprivation. the magician should acquire blinders, earplugs (preferably of industrial strength. fill a bathtub with water to the point at which you can submerge yourself entirely, except for the nostrils, and then get in. note that this technique overloads the sense of touch while cutting off sight and sound. this methodology works best for visionary trance activities. the magician may also wish to experiment with combining the two techniques. cloy a bathroom with foul smelling incense. bring in a strobe and stereo for white noise and light and then submerge yourself in the tub, and follow the earlier procedure. excitatory forms of gnosis sex simple orgasm is not enough to reach a state of altered consciousness. the neophyte should instead pra

ntering either hand at the wrist. the magician places a needle into this bundle of nerves. the pain will be instantaneous and overwhelming. this connection is responsible for the wonderful dexterity and mobility of the human thumb. during an actual crucifixion, this nerve is severed. dancing this method could also be termed gexhaustion gnosis. h the magician engages in continuous movement until a trance-like state of gnosis occurs. dance gnosis is particularly good for visions and divinatory sorts of workings, or at least that is the history of its use. however, it is apparent how it could be used in any type of magical activity. the effort to maintain continuous motion eventually forces the mind to a single point of concentration, the motions themselves become automatic and there is a fee

to directly impact emotional states, depending on tone and pace. there are some styles of drumming that can apparently cause sexual arousal or intense feelings of anger. extensive work with drumming will probably reveal these patterns, but the magician fs primary concern should be on entering a state of gnosis through the physical medium of this type of gnosis. drumming works well with visionary trance (in terms of divination, invocation of various godforms that are associated with the drum (or thunder) and can be used very well in group ritual settings. chanting/glossalaylia the process of repeating a simple phrase or a random collection of syllables for an extended period of time will also produce single-pointed consciousness. while chanting can be conducted in a subdued fashion during

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

his former friend. 1 allan macgregor bennett (whose motto in the .hermetic order of the golden dawn. was iehi aour, i.e .let there be light, now ananda metteya, to whom the volume in which this story was issued is inscribed. 2 taphtatharath [sic, s.b. taphthartharath. t.s, the spirit of mercury .now hate hath power, though not the power of love. so it came about that in his despair he fell into a trance; and in the trance mara1 appeared to him. never before had his spells availed to call so fearful a potency from the abyss of matter .son. cried the accurs d one .seven days of hate unmarred by passion milder, seven days without one thought of pity, these avail to call me forth .slay me my enemy. howled the wretch. but mara trembled .enquire of ganesha concernin him. faltered at last the fie

s use he is enabled to concentrate all his thoughts and hold them always upon one object.waking or sleeping, he remembers who he is and what his high aim in life.and this constant recollection and keeping in mind of holy things, is the seventh stage, sammasati. and by the power of this transcendent faculty, rising through the eight high trances to the very threshold of nirvana, he at last, in the trance called nirodha samapatti, attains, even in this life, to the deathless shore of nirvana, by the power of sammasamadhi, right concentration. such a one has finished the path.he has destroyed the cause of all his chain of lives, and has become arahan, a saint, a buddha himself. but none knows better than the venerable bhikkhu himself, as indeed he makes clear with regard to the steps samm vay

LIBER MMM

ave unto us the signs, be blessed. it is a slight adaptation of a latin motto which appeared on the figure of the .golden and rosy cross. in geheime figuren (which design was in turn borrowed by mathers for the reverse of the .complete symbol of the rose cross. in the r.r. et a.c. ta.liber mmm the studentship syllabus of the 4 iot liber mmm this course is an exercise in the disciplines of magical trance, a form of mind control having similarities to yoga, personal metamorphosis, and the basic techniques of magic. success with these techniques is a prerequisite for any real progress with the initiate 3 syllabus. a magical diary is the magician s most essential and powerful tool. it should be large enough to allow a full page for each day. students should record the time, duration and degree

d the time, duration and degree of success of any practice undertaken. they should make notes about environmental factors conductive (or otherwise) to the work. those wishing to notify the order of their intention to begin the work are invited to do so via the publisher. 13 mind control to work magic effectively, the ability to concentrate the attention must be built up until the mind can enter a trance-like condition. this is accomplished in a number of stages: absolute motionlessness of the body, regulation of the breathing, stopping of thoughts, concentration on sound, concentration on objects, and concentration on mental images. motionlessness arrange the body in any comfortable position and try to remain in that position for as long as possible. try not to blink or move the tongue or

n and inhalation to lengthen the cycle. the important thing is that the mind should direct it s complete attention to the breath cycle. when this can be done for thirty minutes, proceed to not-thinking. not-thinking the exercises of motionlessness and breathing may improve health, but they have no other intrinsic value aside from being a preparation for not thinking, the beginnings of the magical trance condition. while motionless and breathing deeply, begin to withdraw the mind from any thoughts which arise. the attempt to do this inevitably reveals the mind to be a raging tempest of 14 activity. only the greatest determination can win even a few seconds of mental silence, but even this is quite a triumph. aim for complete vigilance over the arising of thoughts and try to lengthen the per

ld in the mind s eye, without distortion, for as long as possible. only the most determined efforts are likely to make the imagined form persist for any time. at first the image should be sought with the eyes closed. with practice it can be projected onto any blank surface. this technique is the basis of casting sigils and creating independent thought forms. the three methods of attaining magical trance will only yield results if pursued with the most fanatical and morbid determination. these abilities are highly abnormal and usually inaccessible to human consciousness, as they demand such inhuman concentration, but the rewards are great. in the magical diary, record each day s formal work and whatever extra opportunities have been utilized. no page should be left blank. metamorphosis the

other. high magic recognizes the dualistic condition but does not care whether life is bittersweet or sweet and sour; rather it seeks to achieve any arbitrary perceptual perspective at will. any state of mind might arbitrarily be chosen as an objective for transmutation, but there is a specific virtue to the ones given. the first is an antidote to the imbalance and possible madness of the magical trance. the second is a specific against obsession with the magical practices in the third section. they are: 1) laughter/laughter 2) non-attachment/non-disinterest attaining these states of mind is accomplished by a process of ongoing meditation. one tries to enter into the spirit of the condition whenever possible and to think about the desired result at other times. by this method, a strong new

iques, aim to silence the mind and let inspiration provide some sort of answer. whatever symbolic system or instruments are used, they act only to provide a receptacle or amplifier for inner abilities. no divinatory system should involve too much randomness. astrology is not recommended. ritual is a combination of the use of talismanic weapons, gesture, visualized sigils, word spells, and magical trance. before proceeding with sigils or dreaming, it is essential to develop an effective banishing ritual. a well-constructed banishing ritual has the following aspects. it prepares the magician more rapidly for magical concentration than any of the trance exercises alone. it enables the magician to resist obsession if problems are encountered with dream experiences or with sigils becoming consc

ng consciousness. the magician strives against any manifestation of either by a forceful turning of his attention to other matters. sometimes the sigil may be burnt, buried, or cast into an ocean. it is possible to lose a word spell by constant repetition as this eventually empties the mind of associated desire. the sigil is charged at moments when the mind has achieved quiescence through magical trance, or when high emotionality paralyzes its normal functioning. at these times the sigil is concentrated upon, either as a mental image, or mantra, or as a drawn form. some of the times when sigils may be charged are as follows: during magical trance; at the moment of orgasm or great elation; at times of great fear, anger, or embarrassment; or at times when intense frustration or disappointmen

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

ce and grim. he spoke only in verse, and poetry arose from him and his chieftains. in battle he could make his enemies blind or deaf or overcome with fear, but his warriors could go berserk. he was a shape-changer, his body lying apparently inert while he was off and about in some animal form. here i see the key to this ghistorical h odin of snorri, for this is a classic description of a shamanic trance and journey. if snorri fs historical odin was a shaman from tyrkland, he was just a charismatic version of the sami shamans who are described in the medieval scandinavian historical record. to cite but one example among a great many, historia norvegiae (history of norway, a work 24 norse mythology composed presumably in norway before 1211, describes a shamanic trance and journey to the worl

g of herself in the third person: 21. she remembers the battle of armies, the first one in the world, when gullveig with spears they studded and in the hall of har burned her; thrice burned, thrice born, often, unseldom, though she yet lives. 22. they called her heid, where she came to [the] houses, a seeress very wise, she cast spells; she performed seid where she could, she performed seid, in a trance, she was ever the joy of an evil woman. 23. then all the powers went to the judgment seats the very holy gods, and discussed this: whether the asir should pay a fine, or all the gods should have tribute. 24. that was yet the battle of armies, the first one in the world. odin let fly and shot into the army, the shield wall of the fortress of the asir was broken, the battle-wise vanir knew ho

between the asir and vanir. 21. she remembers the war of peoples first in the world, when gullveig with spears they studded and in har fs hall burned her; thrice burned, thrice born, often, unseldom, though she yet lives. 22. heid they called her, wherever she came to houses, a seeress skilled in prophecy, she observed magic staffs; she performed seid, wherever she could, she performed seid in a trance, she was ever the joy of an evil woman. 154 norse mythology these stanzas are obscure, but it is hardly going too far to say that gullveig came to the hall of odin (har, was attacked but could not be killed, and under the name heid went about performing seid. since ynglinga saga says that freyja first brought seid to the asir, it is not impossible that gullveig is freyja, and that she broug

she begins practicing seid: 21. she remembers the war of peoples first in the world, when gullveig with spears they studded and in har fs hall burned her; thrice burned, thrice born, often, unseldom, though she yet lives. 22. heid they called her, wherever she came to houses, a seeress skilled in prophecy, she observed magic staffs; she performed seid, wherever she could, she performed seid in a trance, she was ever the joy of an evil woman. in the sagas heid is a common name for seeresses, and it is also found in a genealogy in hyndluljod, stanza 33, of hrimnir fs kin, presumably giants. the adjective heid, ggleaming, h and the noun heid, ghonor, h would suit nicely here as well. see also gullveig; seid deities, themes, and concepts 165 heidrun goat who bites the foliage of larad, the tr

d taught speech. they fly all around and report back to him. the ravens f connection with odin may be age-old, for migration period bracteates frequently portray a figure with birds near his head, and many observers believe this motif is odin and his ravens. hugin and munin are attested as raven names in early skaldic poetry. the ability to send one fs gthought h and gmind h may be related to the trance-state journey of shamans. the worry about their return, expressed in the stanza from grimnismal, would be consistent with the danger the shaman faces on the trance-state journey. see also bracteates; odin references and further reading: hugin and munin are treated among albert morey sturtevant fs gcomments on mythological name giving in old norse, h germanic review 29 (1954: 68.71. hvedrung

rri fs reading, the name of one of the pots into which the mead was delivered. earlier in havamal there was an account of odin fs acquisition of the mead of poetry from the giant suttung through the seduction or rape of his daughter, gunnlod. one way to reconcile that version, which was repeated by snorri and appears to have been ubiquitous, with this one is to assume that odin entered a shamanic trance or even died on the tree and that his spirit traveled to giantland and acquired the mead while the body was left behind. such a reading is enhanced by stanza 145 of havamal, which appears to end this account of the self-sacrifice: gthus thund [odin] carved/ for the judgments of peoples/ where he arose/ when he came back. h stanza 141 brings the incident to its logical conclusion: gthen i st

MAGIC AND SPELLS

e 7 spell turning 8 discern location 9 storm of vengeance scalykind domain deities: finder wyvernspur, sebek, set, tiamat, ubtao. granted power: rebuke or command animals (reptilian creatures and snakes only) as an evil cleric rebukes or commands undead. use this ability a total number of times per day equal to three+ your charisma modifier. scalykind domain spells 1 magic fang 6 eyebite 2 animal trance* 3 greater magic fang 4 poison f animal growth *affects ophidian and reptilian creatures only. 7 greater restoration 8 polyrnorph any object 9 freedom slime domain 7 creeping doom (composed of tiny snakes) 8 animal shapes* 9 shapechange deity: ghaunadaur. granted power: rebuke or command oozes as an evil cleric rebukes or commands undead. use this ability a total number of times per day equ

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

oviding a means of recognition between members of different covens; a talismanic "link" with the collective mind of their own group by means of which they "plug in" to the elemental powers drawn down at the sabbats; and third, sometimes as a means of "fascination" that is to provide a reflective surface of the same sort often made use of by hypnotists when they wish to throw their subjects into a trance. the ring and pendant which often contain gemstones, are generally the only jewels which are put to the latter use, however. one jewel which definitely does not fit into this latter category, however, being hidden mostly and only revealed at sabbat meetings, is the garter. this and the girdle cord i shall consider last. the witch jewels the necklace, the bracelet, the ring and pendant, the

MEANING OF MASONRY

d a lodge" to become initiated (or perfected" says an old author ity, plutarch" involves dying; not a physical death, but a moral way of dying in which the soul is loosened from the body and the sensitive life, and becoming temporarily detached therefrom is set free to enter the world of eternal light and immortal being. this, after most drastic preliminary disciplines, was achieved in a state of trance and under the supervision of duly qualified masters and adepts who intromitted the candidate's liberated soul into its own interior principles until it at last reached the blazing star or glory at its own centre, in the light of which it simultaneously knew itself and god, and realized their unity and the" points of fellowship" between them. then it was that, from this at once awful and sub

MICHAEL FORD A RITE OF THE WEREWOLF

, as robert cochrane has written, are in the wind. all one must do is heed the voice of inspiration, that spark of sathan which illuminates our path of becoming. buddhists looks at existence as being central to the soul in itself. the buddhist will sometimes move through a form of lycanthropy of different animals, sometimes falling into meditation, leaving the flesh and blood to later return from trance. the sabbat, no matter what inspiration may create, does the same end. the black mass in specific has long held traditions of lycanthropy and 3the encyclopedia of psychoactive drugs: flowering plants: magic in bloom. mendelson, jack, m.d. and mello, nancy, phd. new york: chelsea house publishers. 1986. 4 the encyclopedia of witchcraft and demonology by rossell hope robbins, crown publishers

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sociations or the common and deeper attributes of the spirit. in the act of invocation, the spirit is absorbed by the i or self, in a luciferian/sethian sense, the sorcerer becomes or develops from the spirit called inward. invocation is the direct subconscious communication with the forces of outer and inner planes of being. as with the sabbat, both infernal and celestial, one enters the ecstasy trance of the inbetween (inbetween the dreaming and waking world) to emerge eventually as the adversary, that godform of both sides. evocation to summon or call spirits outward, often projected into a circle or area from which you may bind such forces or spirits to a specific area. in goetic sorcery, the individual summons or evokes a spirit or energy into a circle, when the sorcerer is satisfied;

her spirits. the bat like wings of the varcolaci represent the powers of astral flight and the nightside current which exists through their waves of sight. the pentagram itself is the symbol of reverse entry via the death posture, in which initiation of the witch is accomplished. the 32 32 pentagram is the key to the abyss and the shadow spectrums of the mind. the varcolaci sigil was received via trance by blood moon asuar (10, after a careful description from the author of what he received via the astral plane. this was received and consecrated in 1994 e.v. and has been used in the vampiric current since. the devilcosm (another name for the varcolaci sigil) is as much a symbol for the left hand path as it is a gateway towards the dark realms of night and fog. through this seeming mirror

ltar, framed if possible, should be displayed the varcolaci sigil. incense should be billowing in the chamber, frankincense, jasmine, and rose are preferred. each is a fragrance of our coven and of babalon, the scarlet woman. in my personal experience dream is a form of astral projection. if i create a sigil for dreaming and traveling/meeting with another, then this can be done through an induced trance and then sleep. many actually are able to lie down and astrally project, while i have developed this ability, my own preference and greatest experiences are obtained from the dream/astral travel, from which all my true desires become flesh. it is up to the individual to distinguish lucid dreams from events involving the astral body. you will find perhaps- as i have- that when truly operatin

astery in all these paths is control and focus. chapter three witchcraft and the luciferian path what is witch blood? there has been quite a lot mentioned in the area of witch blood and the like. what actually is witch blood and is such a hereditary title? witch blood can be described as the essence of the gnosis, but a step beyond this mental aspect. gnosis is defined as an extension of magickal trance, from which the mind stops all mental communication. your mind becomes sharp and singled into one internal concept of action. this is called by buddhists as samadhi, the state of mental in-between thinking which allows the subject to be united with the larger picture. gnosis is the state of magickal fountains of energy, all of this exists in the inner core of your very being. 39 39 witch bl

hile my attending of the dream conclave contained no sexual contact with any other spirit i did witness much, and mentally experience that which created similar effects on my dreaming mind. it was the spring equinox of 1999, which i had planned to attend for several weeks. i kept an exact journal of the methods of training which enabled me to retain a sharp memory of the experience. i had induced trance via mental ecstasy for several nights, 97 97 using different techniques including pratayama, asana and other methods including the death posture. i felt as though i was quite ready, never using mind altering drugs for any of the trance induction. i had performed the day side sabbat (17) as a ceremonial, with two friends, though i did not see them attend the astral rite later that evening. a

ampire, the succubus and incubus, move and appear! the gates are open! for my charge is made. manifest within this plane of existence. i offer my blood as a gift to enflesh this belief" you may wish to repeat this evocation several times to assure the mind has aligned with the callings, in order to activate the manifestation. enochian keys, callings and the use of the other states of self induced trance shall prove helpful in the contact of such spirits. the binding "daemon and spirits of the spaces of non-being, vampires of the ghost spaces long forgotten i have evoked thee here by my word and will, and i charge that you must remain within this circle. to not move from it for any reason, save to be damned to nothingness and the loss of all vital energy" the invocation "oh mighty rehctaw

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

y reactive and was withdrawn from the market in 1968 after parents started filing lawsuits againstparke-davis for vaccine damaged children. 1959 apparent suicide of morris k. jessup. 1959 bilderberger meeting in yesilkov, turkey. 1959 castro assumes power in cuba. cuban intelligence (dgi) formed. 1959 ufo sighting at cia headquarters after naval officer contacts space people while in cia-observed trance.1959 the soviets launch luna 2 and impact on moon, followed by luna 3 and a successful photo-graphic mission on the far side of the moon. 1959 fluorides were used as an enzyme inhibitor in a study by j.d. ebert that was published in 1959 onthe metabolic pathways by which organs in an embryo are formed. in low concentrations, he found thatsodium fluoride blocked almost completely the regions

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

reaming where consciousness remains, so stilling the mind would allow conscious travel of the astral world. deep trances are difficult, but you may be able to take advantage of the brainwaves experienced during sleep by setting an alarm clock for the middle of the night. the gentler the waking, the better. and, as long as you can turn off the alarm without much fuss, you can more easily go into a trance than you could in the waking hours (as long as you don t fall back asleep. fourth, don t go to bed on a loaded stomach, or intoxicated--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 28 class participation the middle pillar ritual lamer disclaimer: the following ritual (invocation) is designed to open (or energize) your chakras, however it will make you feel strange. if, after doing this ritual, you f

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as within palo mayombe and petro voodoo currents of sorcery. by entrancing the self by the methods of offbeat rhythm, the magician calls forth the left-handed aspects of the self, the vampyric famulus (latin for familiar) whom is the shadow-drinker, the loa of the grave, whom has survived physical death and is not held in the limitations of flesh alone. the sorcerer by employing the technique of trance-induction by off-beat drumming creates a vortex of sound from which invocation and possesion may occur. the mark of the cross-road is the displaced consciousness of the sorcerer who becomes a gateway to hell (helan, the meeting place of sorcerers and the dead) in luciferian and sethanic witchcraft, the current of vampyrism is explored through the sorcerous aspects of summoning, creating and

MORALS AND DOGMA

nd persecution matures them both. a people content with the thoughts made for them by the priests of a church will be content with royalty by divine right--the church and the throne mutually sustaining each other. they will smother schism and reap infidelity and indifference; and while the battle for freedom goes on around them, they will only sink the more apathetically into servitude and a deep trance, perhaps occasionally interrupted by furious fits of frenzy, followed by helpless exhaustion. despotism is not difficult in any land that has only known one master from its childhood; but there is no harder problem than to perfect and perpetuate free government by the people themselves; for it is not one king that is needed: all must be kings. it is easy to set up masaniello, that in a few

ion of man. psyche (the soul, like ariadne, had two lovers, an earthly and an immortal one. the immortal suitor is dionusos, the eros-phanes of the orphici, gradually exalted by the progress of thought, out of the symbol of sensuality into the torch-bearer of the nuptials of the gods; the divine influence which physically called the world into being, and which, awakening the soul from its stygian trance, restores it from earth to heaven. thus the scientific theories of the ancients, expounded in the mysteries, as to the origin of the soul, its descent, its sojourn here below, and its return, were not a mere barren contemplation of the nature of the world, and of the intelligent beings existing there. they were not an idle speculation as to the order of the world, and about the soul, but a

nd accompanies it through the purifying processes, both real and symbolical, of its earthly transit. he died and descended to the shades; and his suffering was the great secret of the mysteries, as death is the grand mystery of existence. he is the immortal suitor of psyche (the soul, the divine influence which physically called the world into being, and which, awakening the soul from its stygian trance, restores it from earth to heaven. of hermes, the mercury of the greeks, the thoth of the egyptians, and the taaut of the ph nicians, we have heretofore spoken sufficiently at length. he was the inventor of letters and of oratory, the winged messenger of the gods, bearing the caduceus wreathed with serpents; and in our council he is represented by the orator. the _hindus_ called the sun sur

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

entioned in the chapter three, vv. 64-67. besides these, there are subsidiary meanings which depend on the grade of the commentator, or the grade of the reader. this is one of the reasons why this matter of commentaries is so difficult, and why any commentary must not be taken too seriously. the four great meanings, of course, are beyond any danger of being confused, since they are experienced in trance, and independent of reason. they cannot be communicated through the intellect. even the most accurate attempt to do so misleads) 3. every man and every woman is a star. 4. every number is infinite; there is no difference. this is a great and holy mystery. although each star has its own number, each number is equal and supreme. every man and every woman is not only a part of god, but the ult

a in them, attracted by the awakening of the ajna. 20. the key of the rituals is in the secret word which i have given unto him. this word is communicated directly to any serious aspirant when needed. 21. with the god& the adorer i am nothing: they do not see me. they are as upon the earth; i am heaven, and there is no other god than me, and my lord hadit. samadhi with any god is not the ultimate trance. the ultimate trance is the union of nuit and hadit. that is why over the head of ra-hoor-khuit in the stele, kundalini has reached the sahashara, and is radiating into emptiness. see liber vii, i, 36-40, liber hhh, section sss, and liber lxv, iii, 3 1-36. 22. now, therefore, i am known to ye by my name nuit, and to him by a secret name which i will give him when at last he knoweth me. sinc

fools of men and their woes care not thou at all! they feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones. again we find the expression 'fools of men. since not all men are fools, and since we, also, are men, the term obviously has a technical meaning 'fools of men' are imperfect initiates, not necessarily 'black brothers; but certainly including these. it is true that the trance that most often leads aspirants to the path is the trance of sorrow; but it is necessary to be very hypocritical, or a buddhist, or both, not to admit that what we seek in the path is not 'salvation' for 'others; but our own salvation, meaning, in this case, sorrow's ceasing! the following commentary by a. c. is illuminating: all this talk about 'suffering humanity' is principally drivel ba

r a'ash for further information on this very difficult point. nor should aspirants fall into the mistake of believing that it is their duty to aspire to her. their duty is to do their will, and nothing else. if it is thy will to seek her, do so. if it isn't, do thy will. the grades are three, and 'they also serve who stand and wait. besides, she is everywhere. 33. then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon& said unto the queen of heaven; write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law! law, in the common sense of the word, should be a formulation of the customs of a people, as euclid's propositions are the formulation of geometrical facts. but modern knavery conceived the idea of artificial law, as if one should try to square the circle by tyranny. legisla

joy (2) the vision of wonder, in which the whole mystery of the universe is constantly understood and admired for its ingenium and wisdom (1) is referred to tiphereth, the grade of adept (2) to binah, the grade of master of the temple. the certainty concerning death is conferred by the magical memory, and various experiences without which life is unintelligible "peace unutterable" is given by the trance in which matter is destroyed "rest" by that which finally equilibrates motion "ecstasy" refers to a trance which combines these "nor do i demand aught in sacrifice--the ritual of worship is samadhi. but see later, verse 61. the above commentary is very lofty, and had as its purpose to refute certain critics who pointed out that nuit gave or promised "indecent" rewards to her worshippers. th

d opposite to the sum total of all the others; and his will is similarly the final factor which completes the equilibrium of the dynamical equation. he cannot fail if he would; thus, his sorrows are but shadows he could not see them if he kept his gaze fixed on his goal, the sun. the above is neither 'philosophy' nor 'consolation; it is a fact; but the assimilation of this fact is the result of a trance, or rather, a succession of trances. see liber aleph, chapters 7-3 1, 36-3 7, 46, 53, 57. it must be stressed once more that hadit does not "know" people who are not yet conscious of, and doing their. true wills, and that such people are included in the category of 'shadows' the sensation of "that was a narrow escape" that initiates have at the moment of death comes from the ruach's intuiti

asy in writing! work& be our bed in working! thrill with the joy of life& death! ah! thy death shall be lovely: whoso seeth it shall be glad. thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our agelong love. come! lift up thine heart& rejoice! we are one; we are none. the first part of this text appears to be a digression in the nature of a prophecy. the word "come" is a summons to reenter the full trance. its essence is declared in the last six words. notice that the transition from one to none is instantaneous. 67. hold! hold! bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the excellent kisses! the instructions in the text of this and the next verse were actual indications as to how to behave so as to get the full effect of the trance. this too is a general magical formula, convenient even i

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

s: if you notice something out of the ordinary a strange bird, a peculiar looking cloud, a door that suddenly jams, odd actions of a family pet, be prepared. something unusual, either very good or very bad is going to happen to you in the near future. how one man used visions to receive $300 during the early spring of 1981, i conducted a series of occult experiments with arcane symbols to trigger trance-vision experiences. i can think of no better example of visions experienced by a student of the occult arts, than that of barry m. polish psychic and one time acquaintance of mine, who on october 2 1981, at 1:40 p.m. in the afternoon, placed himself into a transcendental state to receive visions of a future not yet born. a future that held the promise of easing the financial hardship he was

himself into a transcendental state to receive visions of a future not yet born. a future that held the promise of easing the financial hardship he was experiencing at the time. earlier that day, i had entertained barry at my apartment. over a cup of coffee the discussion turned to his problems. i bombarded him with questions about it and, in self-defense i suspect, he agreed to an experiment in trance-vision. the time was now 1:35 p.m, and as an aid to his concentration i darkened the room. barry s body became totally relaxed, and his breathing deepened. he described the visions as he experienced them, speaking slowly and carefully. his visions were vivid, and he was fully conscious of his physical environment. barry would occasionally pause; these moments are indicated by three periods)

PATH OF INITIATION

en a summoning; it is actually those forces coming to the initiate. only the ego of the outsider or the half- wise views it as effort on the part of the initiate to "reach" them- in reality, whe n the initiate travels to reality, reality is traveling to the initiate. the great forces answer. the purpose of the "time of learning" is to show the initiate how to be aware of their answer- this is why trance techniques and other consciousnessalteration methods are taught at this time. after that point, everything that happens to the initiate is in reality an answer from the otherworld, and this is what the initiate comes to understand, eventually. after these five stages are achieved, the witch or initiate's "fate" is transformed; altered into a new path of internal growth that causes a unknowa

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

new troy later known as london. odysseus returns home 64 odysseus returns home odysseus (roman ulysses, hero and king of ithaca, sacked several cities in thrace before sailing home after the trojan war. owing to the enmity of the sea god poseidon (neptune, his journey took ten years. his adventures included first landing on the island of the lotus eaters, where some of the crew were trapped in a trance, and then on the island of the cyclopes (see box, where several of the crew were devoured. it was odysseus blinding of the cyclops polyphemus poseidon s son that angered the sea god who subsequently blew odysseus off course, wrecked his ships, and ultimately killed his entire crew. in his travels, odysseus indulged in two romantic interludes on the way the first with circe, an enchantress w

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

and yet in some ways his spiritual superior though organically his inferior. they are the formers of the primal man, that is the elementary man, and they have other and greater-offices, for in them are many worlds and ranks and spheres. they are as the younger man (i.e. child) and towards them also is man responsible, and he hath wrought them much injustice. fiffh knowledge lecture of obsession, trance, death obsession always entereth through a cutting off of the higher from the lower will, and it is ordinarily first induced by a thought-ray of the spiritual consciousness (whence one danger of evil thoughts) ill-governed, penetrating the sphere of sensation and admitting another potency, either human embodied, or human disembodied, elemental or demonic. the first action of such a force is

ich is at the back of the head about the junction with the spine. now unless the lower will shall voluntarily endeavour to restore the connection, it is impossible for the higher will to intervene, seeing that the lower will is king of the physical body. remember that no obsessing force can overpower the lower will, if that shall bravely and in spite of all opposition aspire unto the higher will. trance may arise from the action of obsession, or from the ac <227> tion of the higher will, therefore its aspects are varied. death superveneth in the naturalman, when the mental action of the ruach and the nephesch is definitely and thoroughly interrupted in the physical body. in the adept death can only supervene when the higher will consenteth thereto, and herein is implied the whole mystery o

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

the lodging. when the child is weaned, the nurse either dies, or is conveyed back, or gets to choose to stay there. but if any superterranean [that is, human] be so subtle as to practice sleights [tricks] for procuring a privacy [that is, knowledge of) any of their [fairy] mysteries, such as making use of their ointments, which as gyge's ring, makes them invisible or nimble, or casts them into a trance, or alters their shape, or makes things appear at a vast distance, and so forth, they smite them [the human concerned] without pain as [if] with a puff of wind. and thus [the fairies] bereave them of both their natural and acquired sights in the twinkling of an eye [for] both those sights, where once they [are] come, are in the same organ and inseparable. or they [may] strike them dumb. the

her variants offer more revealing causes of his enchantment, he falls asleep under an apple tree, he passes through a magical chapel or is overcome by sleep at a magical well. as a result of this he is captured by the queen of elfland. in other words, he passes into the under appendix 3: the ballad of tam lin 133 world while retaining his human origins. he makes the transition while in a sleep or trance, partly unwitting, without full command of his consciousness. his role of guardian fulfilling a stereotyped mode of magical behavior, is the direct result of his automatic or unwilled enchantment until he is released from this first phase of his transmutation, he will act as phantom or guardian of the physical site to which he has become attuned. the power of his release is 'true love, repr

RUBY TABLET OF SET

iverse b. a code to understanding the book of genesis c. the hebrew version of the egyptian 'ankh' d. none of the above 8. the lingam and the yoni are a. celtic words meaning air and fire b. male and female organs c. principles of reincarnation d. dogon priests and priestesses 9. the first stage of religious evolution occurs with a. atheism b. monotheism c. anthropomorphism d. demonolatry 10. the trance-state is one of the manifestations of which modes of the mind? a. autistic b. analytic c. hypnotic d. awakened 11. xepera is the sun at a. dusk b. midday c. midnight d. dawn 12. the use of drugs is) to the practice of magick. a. useful b. necessary c. antithetical d. ineffective 13. before one can concentrate the mind, one must utilize the a. heart b. will c. intellect d. consciousness 14

the self into nuit brings an end to all self-consciousness and thus from pain. the ultimate argument of nuit is for suicide of the finite self in order to become part of the infinite whole [cf. crowley's discussion of the "annihilation of the self" via the "crossing of the abyss" between adeptus exemptus (7=[4] and magister templi (8=[3] in one star in sight] 33. then the priest fell into a deep trance or swoon& said unto the queen of heaven; write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law! crowley desires the means for reunion with the whole to be explained to him in terms of ordeals (stresses necessary to destroy the self, rituals (mental and physical exercises to bring initiates closer to nuit, and law (commandments that are to be obeyed to achieve the reuni

le setting, and a proper state of mind within the neophyte. the ritual is kept as open and simple as possible to make it easy to change as needed, and to allow for spontaneous work within the rite. at the same time i have attempted to be thorough and precise in my research. expectations: unknown. i have read of direct contact in which the dark lord can actually be heard, or contacted in dreams or trance. it's also possible that a simple transformation of the magician's life will occur: strange coincidences, new contacts, good fortune. it will be vital to keep a careful and detailed magical diary. 2. setting. audio: the audio tape will be an environmental one. it can either start with a quite, meditative sound of the desert and then grow in intensity with the accumulation of animal noises

hought that if i did a devotional rite of these god forms, i would get some kind of results. i did. magister menschel had asked me a battery of questions about my xeper. this is how i planned to bring the reality of my xeper into manifestation. the following working is a result of those questions from magister menschel. certain african religions initiate an adept into their systems by a method of trance induction. the devotee is put into a state of hypnosis whereby his astral body goes into the nether world to seek information of importance to himself. sometimes the god form is brought into this reality by means of drumming or dancing. once the adept is possessed, the god or goddess begins to speak. during the speech the information that is given will guide the adept on the correct path, t

resented. therefore i placed the cuffs before the white candle, and the key of freedom in front of the black candle. i placed the parchment behind me where i could not see it, to represent information i could not know or have access to until breaking free of my bonds of fear (i forgot to turn off my fire alarm, and it went off during the ritual, forcing me to jump up suddenly out of practically a trance and rip it out of the ceiling. moral: unplug fire alarms when burning parchment) procedure: the loose outline i used, with the exception of the contents of the parchment follows: 1. light candles (the black flame, and, in this case, the white flame also. 2. ring the bell. 3. point the blade, invoke. 4. put on handcuffs. 5. freestyle visualization of bonds and fears, kindling of intense desi

e things. soon the tremendous value of this realization for the development of the will shall be made clear. then, finally, there is your mind with its various subsets (your personality, memories, habits, etc. the mind seems to consist of various sense representations (the representational systems of neurolinguistic programming seem to cover the contents of the mind fairly well. see appendix i of trance formations by grinder& bandler, 1981, real people press, for a succinct explanation) who knows about these sense representations, these thoughts? you do. therefore you are not your mind. concerning the self being other than the mind, from the crystal tablet of set(1) we see (page 6 "it (the self) is the 'ultimate you, that through the machinery of your physical brain moves your arms and leg

ind, however, is another thing entirely. should your body in this realm receive either pleasure or discomfort, your body in the realm of man would have no knowledge of it, though your mind would remember the experience if you so chose. your mind, here by your will, is truly conscious only of this realm of existence. should someone see your corporeal body, you would appear to be in a deep sleep or trance, self-induced coma as you will. through all of this your mind is awake, and that part subject to the great order is under some measure of strain to allow your non-human self to manifest itself here. this explains the high measure of fatigue you experience upon your return to the realm of man. ptah: then this is the truth behind the ideas called "astral travel" as it is misunderstood by the

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

he shadow-self will probably induce a certain occult fatigue, that in many cases is bound to happen as a reaction on the forces put to play in this joining. the double house of zoa and azoa and the symbolism of the mother, father, son and daughter are important as a reference to yi -king and the absolute need for the oracular effect found through divination, or as the case also can be, with using trance-induction and rosaries in the next cell. there would be quite proper to induce yi-king reading in this cell or the reading known of as sand-cutting as used by arab and berber mystics. this cell is the octagon of the cells and the importance of the 8 watchers are properly introduced as the preservators of the i and also the expressions of the essence of the elder gods and through this guardi

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

to begin again, to be reborn with her, through her, alleluia, who had seen the roof of the world. he was shocked to realize that he had made no attempt to contact allie at all; or to help chamcha in his time of need. nor had he been at all perturbed by the appearance on saladin's head of a pair of fine new horns, a thing that should surely have occasioned some concern. he had been in some sort of trance, and when he asked the old dame what she thought of it all she smiled weirdly and told him that there was nothing new under the sun, she had seen things, the apparitions of men with horned helmets, in an ancient land like england there was no room for new stories, every blade of turf had already been walked over a hundred thousand times. for long periods of the day her talk became rambling

ere moving- and his own, in unison with hers- there. it was done. at this moment the station manager, a little angry man with nine long hairs, fetched from ear--level, plastered across his baldness, burst like a cuckoo from his little door "what's your game" he shouted at gibreel "get out of it before i call the police" gibreel stayed where he was. the station manager saw orphia emerging from her trance and began to shriek "you, phillips. never saw the like. anything in trousers, but this is ridiculous. all my born days. and nodding off on the job, the idea" orphia stood up, put on her raincoat, picked up her folding umbrella, emerged from ticket booth "leaving public property unattended. you get back in there this minute, or it's your job, sure as eggsis" orphia headed for the spiral stai

encircled, marooned in a temporary island amid this lethal sea. chamcha is kicked a second time in the chest, and jerks violently. facing three deaths- by fire, by "natural causes, and by gibreel- he strains desperately, trying to speak, but only croaks emerge "fa. gur. mmm _forgive me "ha. pa _have pity. the caf tables are burning. more beams fall from above. gibreel seems to have fallen into a trance. he repeats, vaguely "bloody damnfool things" is it possible that evil is never total, that its victory, no matter how overwhelming, is never absolute? consider this fallen man. he sought without remorse to shatter the mind of a fellow human being; and exploited, to do so, an entirely blameless woman, at least partly owing to his own impossible and voyeuristic desire for her. yet this same

SATANGEL

be found throughout all traditions that deal with spirits and sorcery. in witchcraft, the names of those entities whose powers and natures are aligned to the desired outcome may be used to tap into their power. for example, a rite to attract material wealth might call upon the names of mammon and astaroth for added power. such might be inscribed upon a talisman, or intoned as a mantra to aid the trance during some other form of ritual. this is quite apart from the more extreme forms of sorcery, where the spirits might be more actively evoked to manifestation. having considered first the hierarchy of heaven, here follows a brief roll call of those who have fallen, their descendants, and also in some sense their ancestors. the primary sources of these names are the classical grimoire. these

SATANIC BIBLE

black" magic. this was a very paradoxical period for satanism, with writers such as baudelaire and huysmans who, despite their apparent obsession with evil, seemed nice enough fellows. the devil developed his luciferian personality for the public to see, and gradually evolved into a sort of drawing-room gentleman. this was the era of "experts" on the black arts, such as eliphas levi and countless trance-mediums who, with their carefully bound spirits and demons, have also succeeded in binding the minds of many who call themselves parapsychologists to this day! as far as satanism is concerned, the closest outward signs of this were the neo-pagan rites conducted by macgregor mathers' hermetic order of the golden dawn, and aleister crowley's later order of the silver star (a. a- argentinum as

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

jor sects of jainism. householders: laypeople; jains who are not monks or nuns. jinn: literally, conqueror; the great teachers of jainism who have conquered their earthly passions. jiva: the soul. karma: the principle that determines how a person will live his or her next life; in jainism, an actual physical substance. kevalnyan: enlightenment. mantra: a formula repeated over and over to create a trance-like state. monastery: a building that houses a community of monks. mahavira (c. 599 527 bce) the twenty-fourth tirthankara, often regarded as the founder of jainism. mahavira jayanti: mahavira s birthday, an important holy day for jains. moksha: salvation; liberation from rebirth. namaskar: the basic prayer of jainism, recited each morning and at night before bedtime. offering of eightfold

, the existence of nonhuman life, and existence in hell. the swastika serves as a reminder of jainism s goal: escape from worldly existence and achievement of liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth. by escaping birth, life on earth, and death, a person can escape suffering. like hindus, jains chant the sacred om, often spelled aum, as a mantra (a formula repeated over and over to create a trance-like state. for jains, the syllable consists of five sounds, each of which has significance. the first sound is that of a, representing arihants, or those souls who have conquered their worldly passions. the second sound prolongs the a and represents a-shareeri, or those without body who have achieved liberation. the a sound continues to be prolonged into an aa sound signifying the acharya

nveys the jain belief that right conduct and service to others can lead to the liberation of the soul. worship the central jain prayer is called the namaskar or the namokar mantra. its purpose, as with all jain prayer, is not to ask for anything but rather the om, or aum, symbol represents a mantra, or chant, that is sacred in the jain religion. the chant can be repeated over and over to create a trance-like state. john van hasselt/ corbis. world religions: almanac 335 jainism to help the worshipper achieve a state of detachment and right conduct. it reads as follows: namo arihantanam namo siddhanam namo airiyanam namo uvajjhayanam namo loe savva sahunam eso panch namokaro savva pavap panasano mangala-nam-cha savvesim padhamam havai mangalam the meaning of this prayer is roughly: i bow dow

r caitanya s influence, he converted to the gaudiya vaishnavism sect and became a more devoted follower of krishna. caitanya spent much of his time in deep meditation, or focused thought with the goal of attaining greater spiritual understanding. world religions: biographies 69 caitanya mahaprabhu he was also given to outbursts of ecstasy, or periods of uncontrolled emotion, and often fell into a trance. modern-day scholars believe that caitanya may have suffered from epilepsy, a disorder of the nervous system, and that his trances were actually seizures. believers, however, insist that his periods of ecstatic chanting and dancing, as well as his trances, resulted from his deep religious faith. accomplishes miracles a number of miracles have been attributed to caitanya. one concerned two b

alth, nor do i desire beautiful women, nor do i want any number of followers. i only want your causeless devotional service birth after birth. 70 world religions: biographies caitanya mahaprabhu man when jagai stopped him. caitanya pushed to the front of the group, tended to his follower s injuries, and embraced jagai for his act of kindness. according to legend jagai then fell to the ground in a trance. when he awoke, he confessed that he was a sinner and asked krishna for forgiveness. madhai, too, fell into a trance and was converted. the two brothers went on to become saints. caitanya made converts of many people in much the same way. one story tells how caitanya encountered a man washing clothes in a river. caitanya approached the man, who believed that caitanya was simply a beggar. ca

h on august 1, and samhain on november 1. this celebration calendar, also called the wheel of the year, is used by most neo-pagan groups in the early twenty-first century. gardner developed rituals to accompany each of these holy days and for each degree of initiation into wicca. one major ritual of the gardnerian tradition is called drawing down the moon. the high priestess of the coven enters a trance and becomes the goddess, who is symbolized by the moon. the high priest of the coven calls on, or draws down, the goddess into the high priestess. wiccans generally celebrate inside a magic circle, holding hands and saying prayers to the goddess and god. in the gardnerian tradition, such ceremonies are conducted in the nude. a pentagram, or five-pointed star, is the general symbol of wicca

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

s by a palsy, to the ground. one surgeon, who heard the tale, observed, to the distaste of the wonder-mongers, that possibly zanoni made a dexterous use of electricity. howbeit, this room, once so secured, was never entered save by zanoni himself. the solemn voice of time, from the neighbouring church at last aroused the lord of the palace from the deep and motionless reverie, rather resembling a trance than thought, in which his mind was absorbed "it is one more sand out of the mighty hour-glass" said he, murmuringly "and yet time neither adds to, nor steals from, an atom in the infinite! soul of mine, the luminous, the augoeides (augoeides, a word favoured by the mystical platonists, sphaira psuches augoeides, otan mete ekteinetai epi ti, mete eso suntreche mete sunizane, alla photi lamp

pher and chemist. the laws of attraction, of electricity, and of the yet more mysterious agency of that great principal of life, which, if drawn from the universe, would leave the universe a grave, were but the code in which the theurgy of old sought the guides that led it to a legislation and science of its own. to rebuild on words the fragments of this history, it seems to me as if, in a solemn trance, i was led through the ruins of a city whose only remains were tombs. from the sarcophagus and the urn i awake the genius (the greek genius of death) of the extinguished torch, and so closely does its shape resemble eros, that at moments i scarcely know which of ye dictates to me, o love! o death! and it stirred in the virgin's heart, this new, unfathomable, and divine emotion! was it only

man" he cried, pointing to the spot which had been filled by the form of mejnour. to his inconceivable amaze and horror, the spot was vacant. the mysterious stranger had vanished like a dream; but a thin and fragrant mist undulated, in pale volumes, round the walls of the chamber "look to my lord" cried mascari. the prince had fallen to the floor insensible. for many hours he seemed in a kind of trance. when he recovered, he dismissed his attendants, and his step was heard in his chamber, pacing to and fro, with heavy and disordered strides. not till an hour before his banquet the next day did he seem restored to his wonted self. chapter 3.xv. oime! come poss' io altri trovar, se me trovar non posso "amint" at. i. sc. ii (alas! how can i find another when i cannot find myself) the sleep o

gs that tenanted it had no life, their forms blending with the dead waters till, as the eye continued to gaze, it ceased to discern them from the preternatural element they were supposed to inhabit. such were the moving outlines that coiled and floated through the mist; but before glyndon had even drawn breath in this atmosphere for his life itself seemed arrested or changed into a kind of horrid trance he felt his hand seized, and he was led from that room into the outer one. he heard the door close, his blood rushed again through his veins, and he saw mejnour by his side. strong convulsions then suddenly seized his whole frame, he fell to the ground insensible. when he recovered, he found himself in the open air in a rude balcony of stone that jutted from the chamber, the stars shining s

upil to the hierophant, and demand the initiation" mejnour passed his hand over the young man's heart, it beat loud, regularly, and boldly. he looked at him with something almost like admiration in his passionless and frigid features, and muttered, half to himself "surely, in so much courage the true disciple is found at last" then, speaking aloud, he added "be it so; man's first initiation is in trance. in dreams commences all human knowledge; in dreams hovers over measureless space the first faint bridge between spirit and spirit, this world and the worlds beyond! look steadfastly on yonder star" glyndon obeyed, and mejnour retired into the chamber, from which there then slowly emerged a vapour, somewhat paler and of fainter odour than that which had nearly produced so fatal an effect on

with the numerous and almost incessant earthquakes to which the island is so singularly subjected. whatever the pursuits that instigated these wanderings and favoured these haunts, either they were linked with, or else subordinate to, one main and master desire, which every fresh day passed in the sweet human company of viola confirmed and strengthened. the scene that glyndon had witnessed in his trance was faithful to truth. and some little time after the date of that night, viola was dimly aware that an influence, she knew not of what nature, was struggling to establish itself over her happy life. visions indistinct and beautiful, such as those she had known in her earlier days, but more constant and impressive, began to haunt her night and day when zanoni was absent, to fade in his pres

eirs; and my mastery over the malignant tribes of terror can banish their larvae from the path that shall lead her upward, till the air of eternity fits the frame for the elixir that baffles death "and thou hast begun the initiation, and thou art foiled! i know it. thou hast conjured to her sleep the fairest visions; thou hast invoked the loveliest children of the air to murmur their music to her trance, and her soul heeds them not, and, returning to the earth, escapes from their control. blind one, wherefore? canst thou not perceive? because in her soul all is love. there is no intermediate passion with which the things thou wouldst charm to her have association and affinities. their attraction is but to the desires and cravings of the intellect. what have they with the passion that is of

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ctions. the formula has been used by adepts not necessarily working with specifically tantric or magical formulae, notably by the celebrated advaitin rishi, bhagavan shri ramana maharshi of tiruvannamalai, who attained supreme enlightenment by simulating the process of death; and also by the bengal vaishnavite, thakur haranath, who was taken for dead and actually prepard for burial after a 'death trance' which lasted several hours a nd from which he emerged with a totally new consciousness that transformed even his bodily constitution and appearance. it is possible that shri meher baba, of poona, during the period of amnesia that afflicted him in early life, also experienced a form of death from which he emerged with power to enlighten others and to lead a large movement in his name. the t

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

ctments into processes of a purely psychological and conceptual nature. he does not see any possibility of reaching the divine through the impressions of the senses or through rational understanding. these are concerned only with temporal things. but there is a path of the soul that enables it to transcend these modes of knowledge, and to step outside its ordinary identity, abandoning in ecstatic trance all that it called i. it is then in a state of spiritual 154 christianity as mystical fact exaltation, or illumination. it no longer has thought, ideas, or knowledge in the usual sense, but is merged into and united with god. the divine is an experience that cannot be put into the form of thoughts or ideas that express what it is like. it must be experienced. and anyone who has experienced

the fourth gospel led steiner to develop a detailed argument for its authorship and mystery-character, such as has more recently been urged by such scholars as floyd filson; see further rudolf steiner, the gospel of st. john, pp. 60ff, and for modern developments, welburn, beginnings of christianity, pp. 242ff. 119. all this relates to ancient initiatory practices, which put the candidate into a trance-state resembling sleep for three days. the kind of initiation that belongs to modern times never uses these procedures. it requires on the contrary an intensification of consciousness; ordinary consciousness is never suspended during the drama of modern initiation (r.st) 120. john 11:41. 121. john 11:42. 122. j.burckhardt, die zeit konstantins (basel, 1929, p. 163. 123. apocalypse 1:1. stei

SZYMANSKI GREG SEARCHING FOR THE ILLUMINATI DEEP WITHIN THE BOWELS OF THE VATICAN

n "head trainers: will teach, they will also work with the council leaders and hierarchy. all members are required to come in for a "tune up (reinforcing programming, even top leaders, from time to time "eeg machine: will often have abbreviated hookups for quick use. used extensively with brain wave programming; also to verify that a certain alter is out when called up. may be used to verify deep trance state before initiating deep programming. trainers are taught to read these readouts "trainer's table: a large table, frequently steel covered with plastic, or easily cleaned material. on the sides at intervals are restraints for arms, legs, neck to prevent movement "trainer's chair: large chair with arm rests. will have restraints as above at intervals to restrain movement while person sit

n a person who is not a member of the group. gs (crosstalk) good. sv: now there are certain. what you can do is what we call passive programming, which is basically through media means. if someone's watching a television program, they go immediately into alpha state. everyone in the group, even a baby in the group knows that, because these people are very much into behavioral psychology. that's a trance state, almost, a very relaxed state where messages can be implemented. and that's why i very strongly suggest people be very careful about the tv shows they watch! that's all i will say about that. but no, you cannot take an adult who is not a member of the group and do what we did to them. they would go psychotic, or they wouldn't survive it, probably. they wouldn't be able to psychologica

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

hers. most people, of course, are so far gone, their minds so awash with occultism acquired from decades of propaganda encountered on every side, they cannot any longer decipher reality. the majority are caught in some form of psychological matrix. tragically, hundreds of millions of people have, in a manner of speaking, become "manchurian candidates" they eat, breathe, move, and sleep as if in a trance. immobile, unable to react, afflicted with amnesia, they are like pontius pilate who, when confronted with jesus christ standing right in front of him, the very essence of unmovable truth, asked christ the question "what is truth" well, here, in codex magica, in over 600 incredible pages, is truth. here you will see pictures of many of the foremost movers and shakers of human history, ancie

ur doings in a reasonable veil of secrecy."6 as you will discover in studying the pages of codex magica, the illuminati certainly do have much to hide. seeing as how the leaders of this notorious organization are responsible for hardship, bloodshed and revolutionary terror on a global scale, if their secrets were found out, there would be hell to pay. if the masses ever were to wake up from their trance and begin to understand just how horribly they have been deceived, they would angrily rise enmasse and string up the elite from the nearest light pole. the most terrible secret of all but there's also the matter of the most terrible secret of all, the secret that, if 18 codex magica discovered, would sound the death knell for the illuminati and freemasonry. manly p. hall, 33, touched on thi

ry" shining light on the darkness the brotherhood of darkness, as a good friend of mine, dr. stanley monteith, calls the illuminati, is quite confident it can easily maintain the highest level of secrecy regarding the actual meaning and import of its signs and symbols. its leaders believe they can even afford to communicate these signals and messages in plain sight, sure in the knowledge that the trance-like masses are incapable of recognizing the awful, ongoing masquerade of deception that stares them right in the face. martin short, who authored a book, inside the brotherhood, exposing the masonic order inside great britain, observed that masons, believing their secrets to be oblivious to detection, are known to mutter words of near-contempt as they sing a little ditty called "the entere

vies, tv cartoons, video games, comic books, and other means. the harry potter witchcraft books have initiated many into the darkest elements of hellishness. occult fantasy movies (star wars, jedi, etc) have erased any conception of absolutes and have increasingly brought youth into satanic philosophies. the end result is an entire generation mesmerized, all marching in formation through the haze trance-like into a 21st century existence to be ruled over by illuminati dignitaries. never before in history have so many been trained and indoctrinated to the tenets of satanic illuminism. the hidden entity behind the idol baphomet must be very proud of his newfound slaves. 102 codex magica baphles me! 103 replica of michaelangelo's "florentine man" a green man idol sculptured by the famous ital

around e v e r y w h e r e one turns today the triangle is seen. on tv, and in art, architecture, product design, advertising, commercial packaging, and in religion it is ubiquitous. i am convinced that this simple, yet profound device, the triangle, somehow has a mystical, mesmerizing effect on men's minds. the never-ending blizzard of triangle designs we encounter daily is intended to induce a trance state in those who are bombarded day and night by it. back to babylon for an answer why the triangle may be the ultimate satanic symbol for illuminists we go back in time to uncover its origins. a book on mathematics history called early computations tells us that "a babylonian tablet dated around 1900 bc to 1600 bc and called 'plimpton 322' deals with pythagorean triplets" this ancient doc

idden codes, and on and on. the end result is a confusing jumble of "man is god" theology (but only jewish man gentiles are inferior) and magical formulae, words of power, incantations and spells. heads of chickens are cropped off and blood sprinkled around "magic cords" of specific color are worn on the wrist as miracle-working bracelets; magic water is used to heal; magic symbols are objects of trance-like mediation; and mantralike chants are repeated over and over. the 22 letters of the hebrew alphabet are touted as religious idols of great magical powers. even their shapes are studied and accorded supernatural powers. angels, archangels, grimoires, devas, and elementals are worshipped and feared. there are "gods" and more "gods" but only a mysterious, hazy supreme deity behind everythi

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

erhaps black eagle was the alter ego of mrs paterson, for it was not long after her death that this current began to manifest in spare's work. whatever the identity of spare's genius- mrs paterson, black eagle, or one of the 'host of familiars' by which he was habitually surrounded- the fact remains that spare produced a large amount of work during abnormal states of consciousness or self-induced trance. he was not mediumistic in the usual sense of the term, nor did he produce automatic drawings in the way that spirit mediums produce automatic texts. rather, spare transmitted his work in much the same way that the book of the law and other magical writings were transmitted by aleister crowley,(note 8) i.e. he entered consciously and magically into communication with superhuman intelligence

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or invoking evil spirits to cause harm to others, eventually gained a higher level of sophistication and evolved into more formal religious practices. as such beliefs developed, certain tribal members were elevated in status to shaman and magician because of their ability to communicate with the spirit worlds, to influence the weather, to heal the sick, and to interpret dreams. shamans entered a trance-like condition separating them from life s mundane existence and allowing them to enter a state of heightened spiritual awareness. according to anthropologists, shamanic methods are remarkably similar throughout the world. in our own time, spiritualist mediums who claim to be able to communicate with the dead remain popular as guides for contemporary men and women, and such individuals as j

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 6 afterlife mysteries whena son of the buddha fulfills his course, in the world to come, he becomes buddha. dharma is the path to the goal of nirvana, which in buddhist teachings can represent the final extinction of the desire to exist, or can also suggest a high level of mystical experience achieved through deep meditation or trance. it never means the complete annihilation of the self, only the squelching of the wish to be reborn. most often, nirvana is meant to indicate a transformed state of human consciousness which achieves a reality independent of the material world. once the desire to continue existence in a material flesh form has been extinguished, and when a son of the buddha fulfills his course, in the world

eir mind without waiting to find out what message it may have for them, interpreted in the light of truth. according to fillmore s view, christ released humanity from the bondage of karmic law, thereby allowing each individual to make the most of each incarnation. edgar cayce (1877 1945, the famous sleeping prophet of virginia beach, was a solid baptist and a sunday school teacher, but while in a trance, he gave past-life readings to thousands of men and women. cayce believed that each soul enters the material plane not by chance, but through grace and the mercy of a loving father-god. as to whether the soul is developed or retarded during these various incarnations is left to the free will of the individuals as they live through the errors incumbent in the life process or rise above them

to read the akashic records, eternal accountings of individual human life patterns which have been somehow impressed on the celestial ether or astral light that fills all of space. these records are said to detail each lifetime and are perpetuated like vast computer-like memory banks in the collective unconscious. certain psychic sensitives claim to enter altered states of consciousness, such as trance or meditation, and thereby achieve the ability to read the past lives of individuals who seek such knowledge. when these seers return to the mundane world, they may recount these memories in such a way as to aid men and women to avoid certain errors in their present life experience which were committed in earlier lifetimes. according to many readers of the akashic records, they possess an a

troit: visible ink press, 1991. shepherd, a. p. rudolf steiner: scientist of the invisible. rochester, vt: inner traditions international, 1983. steiner, rudolf. lecture v, earthly and cosmic man. rudolf steiner publishing, 1948. association for research and enlightenment when edgar cayce (1877 1945) died at the age of 67, he had given nearly 9,000 medical readings while in a state of clairvoyant trance. in addition, the sleeping prophet also gave life readings dealing with the vocational, psychological, and human-relations problems of individuals. it was through these life readings that the concepts of reincarnation and the possibility of past lives were introduced. all together, more than 14,000 cayce readings have been recorded on 200,000 permanent file cards and cross-referenced into 1

ay, having only his mind as a weapon against pain. just prior to his physical death, he had been able to elevate his mind beyond the reach of his body and its suffering. since no achievement, good or bad, is ever lost, the ability to subdue the body and its feelings became part of the pattern of his individuality and he was able to use this ability in his physical incarnation as edgar cayce. in a trance state, cayce was able to give complete medical diagnoses, prescribe remedies, and review the past lives of his clients. cayce learned that each existence on earth is a purposeful experience, and the place in which people find themselves provides them with the opportunities to use their presentlife abilities, weaknesses, or virtues in fulfilling the purpose for which their souls decided to m

and began to shake. her voice became that of a young girl on the edge of panic. the hypnotist quickly redirected her from the alarming memory to a state of peaceful sleep. later, after all the other subjects had been awakened, sutphen asked if barbara wished to explore in greater detail the prior life on which she had touched so emotionally. she eagerly agreed, and sutphen once again induced the trance state. in a few moments, barbara was speaking in the voice and persona of a 12-year-old french girl, describing her luxurious home and her perfect life in eighteenth-century france at the time of the revolution. when the hypnotist moved her forward in time, she experienced the arrival of soldiers who had orders to take her family to prison. numerous humiliations followed, and the young girl

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or invoking evil spirits to cause harm to others, eventually gained a higher level of sophistication and evolved into more formal religious practices. as such beliefs developed, certain tribal members were elevated in status to shaman and magician because of their ability to communicate with the spirit worlds, to influence the weather, to heal the sick, and to interpret dreams. shamans entered a trance-like condition separating them from life s mundane existence and allowing them to enter a state of heightened spiritual awareness. according to anthropologists, shamanic methods are remarkably similar throughout the world. in our own time, spiritualist mediums who claim to be able to communicate with the dead remain popular as guides for contemporary men and women, and such individuals as j

ces on walls, and poltergeist- flung pebbles come out of nowhere to strike children. but, as one investigator commented, the phenomena are exactly such as would occur to the mind of a child. in poltergeists (1940, sacheverell sitwell wrote that the poltergeist always directed its power toward the secret or concealed weaknesses of the spirit the recesses of the soul. the mysteries of puberty, that trance or dozing of the psyche before it awakes into adult life, is a favorite playground for the poltergeist. why it should be the baser elements of the adolescent human subconscious that find their expression in the poltergeist is a matter of great speculation among psychical researchers. physical violence is almost always expressed toward the adolescent energy center of the poltergeist and a pa

n the unexpected or sudden appearance of something strange, such as a ghost. from the latin apparitus, past participle of apparere, meaning to appear. astral self theosophical belief that humans possess a second body that cannot be perceived with normal senses, yet it coexists with the human body and survives death. automatic writing writing that occurs in an unconscious state or when one is in a trance or supposed telepathic contact with a spirit. discarnate the lack of a physical body. coined from dis- and the latin stem carn, meaning flesh. geiger counter an instrument named after its inventor, german physicist hans geiger (1882 1945, that is used to measure and detect such things as particles from radioactive materials. hallucinations a false or distorted perception of events during wh

hed at the old man and marveled that such primitive superstitions could still exist in modern iceland. but the drill bits kept breaking. finally, the manager of the plant, although professing disbelief in such superstitions, agreed to the old farmer s recommendation that he consult a local seer to establish contact with the hidden folk and attempt to make peace with them. after going into a brief trance-state, the seer returned to waking consciousness to inform the manager that there was one particularly powerful member of the hidden folk who had selected this plot as his dwelling place. he was not an unreasonable being, however. if the processing plant really needed the plot for its expansion, he would agree to find another place to live. the hidden one asked only for five days without an

york, contemporary experiments in sleep laboratories have confirmed many of freud s speculations and cast doubt upon others. some psychiatrists, including lester gelb, argue that the concept of the unconscious should be totally abandoned in explaining human behavior. gelb feels it would be more useful to recognize several states or types of consciousness working, sleeping, dreaming, daydreaming, trance, and so forth each of which can be productively studied by behavioral scientists. krippner stated that possible confirmation of freud s emphasis on sexual symbolism does occur occasionally in modern electroencephalographic dream research, but he further observed that human thought processes are too 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 118

ed states of consciousness an altered state of consciousness is a brain state wherein one loses the sense of identity with one s body or with one s normal sense perceptions. a person may enter an altered state of consciousness through such things as sensory deprivation or overload, neurochemical imbalance, fever, or trauma. one may also achieve an altered state by chanting, meditating, entering a trance state, or ingesting psychedelic drugs. the testimonies of mystics and meditators who claim that their ability to enter altered states of consciousness has brought them enlightenment or transcendence are generally regarded with great skepticism among the majority of scientists in western society. other researchers, especially those in the field of parapsychology, maintain that western scienc

ht about temporarily by accidents or psychedelic drugs. 4. relaxed consciousness, characterized by a state of minimal mental activity, passivity, and an absence of motor activity. this state of consciousness may be brought about by lack of external stimulation, such as sunbathing, floating in water, or certain drugs. 5. daydreaming, induced by boredom, social isolation, or sensory deprivation. 6. trance consciousness, induced by rapt attentiveness to a single stimulus, such as the voice of a hypnotist, one s own heartbeat, a chant, certain drugs, or tranceinducing rituals and primitive dances. the trance state is characterized by hypersuggestibility and concentrated attention on one stimulus to the exclusion of all others. 7. expanded consciousness, comprising four levels: a) the sensory l

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or invoking evil spirits to cause harm to others, eventually gained a higher level of sophistication and evolved into more formal religious practices. as such beliefs developed, certain tribal members were elevated in status to shaman and magician because of their ability to communicate with the spirit worlds, to influence the weather, to heal the sick, and to interpret dreams. shamans entered a trance-like condition separating them from life fs mundane existence and allowing them to enter a state of heightened spiritual awareness. according to anthropologists, shamanic methods are remarkably similar throughout the world. in our own time, spiritualist mediums who claim to be able to communicate with the dead remain popular as guides for contemporary men and women, and such individuals as

e saints of roman catholicism, were once men and women who lived exemplary lives and who now are given a specific responsibility to assist human spirituality. certainly there are those priests, the bokors, who perform acts of evil sorcery, the left-hand path of vodun, but rarely will a hungan resort to such practices. the loa communicates with its faithful ones by possessing their bodies during a trance or by appearing to them in dreams. the possession usually takes place during ritual dancing in the humfort. each participant eventually undergoes a personality change and adapts a trait of his or her particular loa. the adherents of vodun refer to this phenomenon of the invasion of the body by a supernatural agency as that of the loa mounting its ghorse. h there is a great difference, the h

rliest of societies, the practitioner of white magick was the shaman, the medicine man, the herbalist.the individual sought out by the village when it was necessary to receive a proper potion to dissolve an illness or a proper charm to drive away an evil spirit. in these same early societies, the roles of priest and magician were often combined into a man or a woman who had the ability to enter a trance state and commune with the entities that dwelt in nature and the spirits who lived 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 56 magic and sorcery in the unseen world. the priest/magican knew how to appease angry entities whose sacred spaces were violated, how to eject an unwelcome possessing spirit from a human body, and where to find the herb

documentaries, interviews, and highlights of the day. the show fs producers were particularly interested in leek fs contacts with the gypsies of the new forest, and she was able to present several interesting and informative vignettes about her nomadic friends. it was in december of 1963 that sybil leek fs media relationship caused her to be, probably, the first person to be filmed in mediumistic trance. the incident began when parapsychologist bennison herbert, who wished her to accompany him to a twelfth-century mansion that was allegedly haunted, contacted leek. almost immediately after the group entered the old house, leek began to feel herself slipping away from the laughing joviality of the others. the group reached an upstairs room of the old stone building and settled around a larg

ogist bennison herbert, who wished her to accompany him to a twelfth-century mansion that was allegedly haunted, contacted leek. almost immediately after the group entered the old house, leek began to feel herself slipping away from the laughing joviality of the others. the group reached an upstairs room of the old stone building and settled around a large table. within moments leek was in a deep trance. sights and sounds beyond the normal senses surrounded the entranced psychic. she felt someone come in through the door, then felt seized from behind. leek, enraged, shouted at the image of the ghostly woman standing in the doorway. the struggle ceased as the heavy table at which the group 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 86 magic and

ranced psychic. she felt someone come in through the door, then felt seized from behind. leek, enraged, shouted at the image of the ghostly woman standing in the doorway. the struggle ceased as the heavy table at which the group 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 86 magic and sorcery sybil leek was the first person to be filmed in mediumistic trance. was seated suddenly rose into the air and traversed the room. then, with vented fury, the table repeatedly threw itself at the heavy stone wall, chipping the surface. a door slammed and something was heard running down the steps. leek came out of her trance and was told what had happened by herbert, who had taken notes on all the strange happenings. at this point the bbc crew could no long

le. after achieving a great deal of fame as the witch of new forest, sybil leek came to the united states, where she teamed up with psychic investigator hans holzer (1920) on a series of ghost-hunting expeditions. the two were often followed by an entourage of local, and sometimes international, media, eager to sniff out a good story. frequently, movie cameras would roll while leek was in a heavy trance state, but this never deterred the medium from obtaining solid material, which holzer would then try to substantiate. leek never knew where their next jaunt was going to take them. holzer usually investigated the cases brought to his attention, first affirming that the material represented a solid psychic case, worthy of being investigated. he would give leek none of this information, to en

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

nsformation, and from the ordeal, a child comes- wine. the child, or wine in this case, is the third and final part of the chain, and the final, perfect expression, the most e volved expression of the fire, which it too now bears and shows. when the wine is placed on the tongue, the fire can even be tasted and felt. if enough of it is consumed, an alteration of mind and body takes place, a dreamy trance state of types; the passionate fires of the body are aroused by it; a certain wantonness and pleasure. the wine, or any of the children- such as bread, ale, or mead, is the third thing; are not the wheat or grape or honey that acted as their source, and yet, they cannot be separated from their sources, anymore than their sources could be separated from the original source. the wine, the bre

ime to perform this version of the standard housle is in the roodmas season, when nature shows a glorious vision of life triumphant and renewed. however, this housle is intended for deep spiritual practise at any time, and it is especially appropriate for rites performed in the name of the dead, or the recently deceased. if it is done for the deceased, or a dead loved one or ancestor, then in the trance portion of the rite, at least one person who is participating will take on the identity of the deceased, by gently opening themselves in the all-encompassing realityexperience of the true trance to the essence of the dead person about or below, and allowing the boundary lines between themselves and the deceased to become blurred and overlapping. in this manner, the dead person can participa

e name of the son of light, which protectively seals the rite and ensures that the dead who are called to or by the rite (or its participants) emerge as the holy ones, purified in his light already. a cup of red wine and a plate or bowl of wheat or rye bread is needed for the housle. the housle participants and altar-space is prepared with the housle leader invoking the waking dream, or a working trance state, and then kindling a flame at the area, hallowing it with these words: come forth, creature of fire, your light only a shadow of the glory of the true light, the light that will come from the east with the son of the mother. shine forth here with hallowing peace. a bell is then rung to announce the official beginning of the housle. the rite leader can either use an arthame to consecra

THE LUCIFERIAN PATH THE WITCHES SABBAT MICHAEL W FORD

te immortal! 290 contents page translators notets1 the luciferian path& the witches sabbat by michael w. ford 2 the luciferian path& witches sabbat by michael w. ford the averse path-way of the sabbat lies in the twilight, the space between sleep and dreaming, which the flesh takes flight without weight; to draw towards a communion of those gathered under the fires of the elphame world. it is the trance which guides the spirit towards this darkness of earth or the light of the air, where spirit is illuminated in the bountiful light of self-deification. the sabbat exists in the mind and is performed in the spirit. the luciferian has instinctual knowledge that he or she has opened a current, by their own predilection, which intrinsically blends the realm of fantasy with in-flesh reality. whe

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

and gaea. 1 collective unconscious figure 6: assagioli's model of the psyche. psychology and magic 127 7. the lower unconscious contains fundamental drives, primitive urges, inferior dreams, and complexes. this is the personal unconscious which is the storehouse of hidden memories, repressed psychic content, and the shadow personality. this part of the psyche is accessed by working with hypnosis, trance, and imagery. archetypes of the lower unconscious include all underworld deities, such as the sumerian goddess ereshkigal and the greek divinities hades and persephone. if we were to add anything to assagioli's model it would be the body, or manifest psyche, which must be considered in a holistic psychology. mind and body are interrelated extensions of one another. just as physical discomfo

agic. 3. the "ch" in chai is to be pronounced like the "ch" in the scottish word loch. 4. the direction of this circulation (down the left and up the right) has a tendency to energize power in the middle pillar, resulting in a feeling of energy increase and a swelling in the body of light. the other direction (down the right and up the left) tends to relax the energy body, possibly resulting in a trance-state. 5. ths direction of circulated energy tends to cleanse the subtle body. 6. we personally like to end the exercise by vibrating the divine names yeheshuah and yehovashah while concentrating on the tiphareth center. 7. circulation of the light would be a better description. 8 "the tree of life as projected in a solid sphere (regardie, the golden dawn, 594, describes a three-dimensional

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

ring. and there will be no one on the line. or their doorbells will ring by themselves. obviously these things are manifestations within the electro-magnetic (em) spectrum. the voices, however, seem to come from a more mysterious superspectrum. in hypnosis there is a simple technique called post-hypnotic suggestion. the hypnotist can tell his subject that fifteen minutes after he comes out of bis trance he will suddenly feel an impulse to climb up on a chair and crow like a rooster. when the subject is brought out of his trance he behaves normally for fifteen minutes, then he suddenly climbs onto a chair and crows. he can't explain why he did it. it seemed like a rational action at the moment. there is a kind of post-hypnotic suggestion involved in many ufo and psychic incidents. the witne

r. when the subject is brought out of his trance he behaves normally for fifteen minutes, then he suddenly climbs onto a chair and crows. he can't explain why he did it. it seemed like a rational action at the moment. there is a kind of post-hypnotic suggestion involved in many ufo and psychic incidents. the witness is driving along a road late at night. he hears a beeping sound and lapses into a trance. as if he had been preconditioned to lose consciousness at the sound of the beep. later, he awakes to the sound of another series of beeps. now he finds he is some distance from his original point and he's baffled about what happened in the intervening minutes or hours for he can't remember a thing. several variations of this hypnosis-inducing tactic occur. some witnesses see an approaching

, he awakes to the sound of another series of beeps. now he finds he is some distance from his original point and he's baffled about what happened in the intervening minutes or hours for he can't remember a thing. several variations of this hypnosis-inducing tactic occur. some witnesses see an approaching aerial object with numbers clearly marked on it. as they study the numbers they lapse into a trance. in some cases, ancient lettering like greek or chinese appears on the object. the effect is the same. months, even years, later the same percipient may again see the same numbers or letters on an object, or even on a set of license plates or a sign, and again falls into a deep trance. iii the u.s. air force and the cia were blamed for the many weird telephone problems that plagued the tiny

isn't working and he is just going along with the hypnotist, but when he tries to move or disobey a command he is surprised to find he can't. the paralysis reported in so many ufo cases is really a form of hypnosis. in the 1940s medical science discovered the flicker phenomenon; that some human brains are extremely responsive to a flickering light; that such a light can produce an epileptic-type trance accompanied by elaborate hallucinations. in battle for the mind, william, sargant pointed out: it should be more widely known that electrical recordings of the human brain show that it is particularly sensitive to rhythmic stimulation by percussion and bright light among other things and certain rates of rhythm can build up recordable abnormalities of brain function and explosive states of

e" than one sense. all sorts of emotion are experienced; fatigue, confusion, fear, disgust, anger, pleasure. sometimes the sense of time is lost or disturbed. one subject said that he had been 'pushed sideways in time' yesterday was at one side, instead of behind, and tomorrow was off the port bow" in short, a light flickering at exactly the right frequency can place the witness in a hypnoticlike trance. he views this as paralysis since he loses control of his limbs for the duration of the trance even though a part of his mind remains conscious. he views the hallucinations of the trance as a continuation of the reality he was experiencing a moment before. like a normal subject of hypnosis, he loses his sense of time. time can be compressed or expanded, as in a dream. events which seem to s

rt of his mind remains conscious. he views the hallucinations of the trance as a continuation of the reality he was experiencing a moment before. like a normal subject of hypnosis, he loses his sense of time. time can be compressed or expanded, as in a dream. events which seem to span several hours are actually hallucinated in seconds or minutes, or the reverse can occur. when he comes out of his trance and looks at his watch he finds that hours have passed even though he thought he only watched the light for a few seconds. in a religious miracle such as that at garabandal, spain, in the 1960s, crowds surrounded the small children as they entered trances and conversed with entities 'only they could see. the children sometimes remained motionless for hours, but when they came out of their t

c and hallucinogenic drugs. the euphoria of the big rock festivals was a direct product of this phenomenon. young people voluntarily, and enthusiastically, submitted themselves to a brainwashing process. reprograming themselves, or being re-programed by an outside force which, as the violence and social upsets of the period demonstrate, was not always benevolent. when a contactee comes out of his trance he often finds himself suffering from severe headaches and muscular aches and pains for days afterward. great lethargy is another common symptom, with the percipient indulging in excessive sleep, exhausted. these symptoms are comparable to those of epileptics who have suffered muscular spasms. excessive thirst, another symptom, is probably caused by something else. dehydration from exposure

THE SHADOWED ONES

ng aspects. always know, we are both demon and angel in the skull of man, we are of beast and of higher spirit. it is our duty to balance and seek a perfection of both according to the path of lucifer, who holds the mask of the devil. know all forms and choices accordingly. kokabel knows too the stars and the great seven heads of the dragon. by your initiation seek him in that which is brought by trance and dreaming dominion. seek azazel at times within the dragon by chant and devotion. leviathan is the dragon guardian of the abyss, who dwells in the deep and unknown realms of the ocean and the darkest depths of the mind. leviathan is different from the watchers in that this fallen seraphim does not hold relation to man or angel, yet this daemon offers the knowledge of ageless essence and

THE WITCH CULT OF ZOS VEL THANATOS

ms of magickal practice is important to those who may seek to unite various cultures. the buddhist system, or perhaps more detailed in mentioning the ancient bon po practice of chud, presents the luciferian gnosis in its holy state, what is called complete union with the hga (holy guardian angel. the activity of severing the ego, becoming beyond that and leaving the physical world is achieved via trance and the use of human bones as ritual tools. this represents that we are temporary and life ends, and that the spiritual paths may be ascended through desire and gnosis. lucifer is essentially the god of the air, or the astral plane. the luciferic powers are keys into the separation of the spiritual from the material, even though the luciferian may remain earth bound for some time. it is spe

to any length the blackened fire of the shadowed one, given from lofty fall above. here the sorcerer in ceremonial robe, calls upon his godforms and desires, that by serpent and flame shall they become flesh. the only thing true here is the lie which becomes the flesh of his self-love. the ascension of the ego from ecstasy to ecstasy when the mind of akoman (daemon within) is uplifted by rite and trance, can then their very words make the flesh they seek. by the whore who is a divine mother and love, to the winged familiar of the black eagle s flesh, to the baphometic god which is our desire flesh out, can then we rise to the totem of our gods and goddesses. witch mother this is the desire of the hag and the circle of the triple moon d queen of the sabbat. the witch mother speaks to us in

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sehold servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually; 10:8 and when he had declared all [these] things unto them, he sent them to joppa. 10:9 on the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour: 10:10 and he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, 10:11 and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: 10:12 wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. 10:13 and there came a voice to him, rise, peter; kill, and eat. 10:14 but peter said, not so, lord; for i have ne

n judaea heard that the gentiles had also received the word of god. 11:2 and when peter was come up to jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him, 11:3 saying, thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them. 11:4 but peter rehearsed [the matter] from the beginning, and expounded [it] by order unto them, saying, 11:5 i was in the city of joppa praying: and in a trance i saw a vision, a certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me: 11:6 upon the which when i had fastened mine eyes, i considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. 11:7 and i heard a voice saying unto me, arise, peter; slay and eat. 11:8 but i said, not so

uldest know his will, and see that just one, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth. 22:15 for thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard. 22:16 and now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the lord. 22:17 and it came to pass, that, when i was come again to jerusalem, even while i prayed in the temple, i was in a trance; 22:18 and saw him saying unto me, make haste, and get thee quickly out of jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me. 22:19 and i said, lord, they know that i imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee: 22:20 and when the blood of thy martyr stephen was shed, i also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them tha

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ld feel free to disregard any system the moment it seems awkward or unsound. p sychic imagery is sometimes dismissed with the assertion that it is no more than self-deception, a kind of hypnosis that can take on a drug-like attrac- tion for weak, hysterical minds, critics observe that when adepts claim to visit the psychic, or astral, realm, outwardly they close their eyes and slip into a kind of trance, their physical bodies traveling nowhere. from this they conclude that psychic travel is the same as daydreaming. this account given by abraham the jew in the book of the sacred magic of abramelin concerning abraham's experience with an austrian witch is typical: she rubbed herself with the same unguent, and i was very expectant to see her fly away; but she fell to the ground and remained t

hilosophy, 561. 54. robinson, ed, the nag hammadi library (san francisco: harper and row, 1981, 294. 55. thorsson, futhark (york beach, maine: samuel weiser, 1984, 46. astral: a dimension of the human mind closely linked with the visual imagina- tion, often referred to as the astral plane or astral level, inhabited by incorpo- real self-aware beings. it is accessible to human consciousness during trance, dreams, and creative visualization. the word comes from the latin astrum (star. the astral world is the dwelling place of the angels and spirits believed in ancient times to inhabit the stars and planets. in theosophy and spiritual- ism the astral world is equivalent to the sphere of the moon, and is supposed to be composed of a physical but very attenuated fluid that takes the shape of th

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ng with it the consciousness of the traveler. it is held that the astral body can be projected any desired distance by the force of the will, even to the farthest corner of the universe, unrestricted by the physical laws that govern the movement of matter, such as the limitation of the speed of light. vast distances are crossed instantly. the physical body remains behind, as though asleep or in a trance state. the astral body stays connected to the physical body by an astral umbilical cord known as the silver cord that can stretch to an unlimited degree, and when stretched to its thinnest has the appearance of a strand of spider web. the link of the silver cord allows the astral body xvi soul flight in charge of the experiments thought that their travelers were viewing the actual physical

s own form of shamanism, unique in its details, but certain practices are common to all shamans around the world. among these is the power to control spirits, to communicate with the dead, to heal the sick, to foresee the future, and 4 soul flight to communicate with and control beasts. most important of these shared practices is soul flight, the ability to leave the physical body during ecstatic trance and travel to the realms of spiritual beings for the purpose of acquiring wisdom or occult essences. feathers frequently form an important part of the shaman's costume because the feather is the universal symbol for flight. it has been asserted by anthropologists that soul flight is one of the defining qualities of shamanism. all shamans possess the power of astral projection. what concerns

this instance is the fact that sorcerers and shamans are able, here on earth and as often as they wish, to accomplish "coming out of the body" that is, the death that alone has power to transform the rest of mankind into "birds; shamans and sorcerers can enjoy the condition of "souls" of "disincarnate beings" which is accessible to the profane only when they die. shamans leave their bodies during trance for two main purposes: to communicate with spirits and to gather information across great distances. the shaman of a tribe enjoys a special relationship with spirits who are linked to his family line, or the line of his clan. one or several of these spirits single him out at an early age for the shamanic profession, and then visit with him to communicate his future path in life. the shaman

line descended from wolves because the wollf form would confer upon him heightened abilities. in primitive cultures, there is difficulty in distinguishing between physical reality ancl spiritual reality. members of the shaman's tribe believe that the shaman can actually change his body into the body of a reptile, animal, or bird. sometimes even the shaman belileves this to be so because he is in trance when it occurs and, in any case, it is in his interest to inflate his own reputation by maintaining this fiction of physical shape-changing, the better to awe and control the tribe. the transformation from human to animal forin really takes place on the astral level. the entire astral world is easily molded by the mind, and this applies also to the astral body of the traveler himself. shama

be, can be extended and elaborate. at each notch in the trunk of the tree, the shaman chants his attainment. in the altaic ritual of ascent described in detail by mircea eliade, when the sha.man reaches the sixth notch in the tree, he salutes the moon. when he ascends to the seventh, he salutes the sun. having attained the "head" of the tree, he collapses to the floor of the ritual enclosure in a trance, and his soul leaves his body to soar through the heavenly regions he accessed in a symbolic way during his climb. descent to the underworld descent into the underworld of the dead was achieved by passing through an opening in the ground, reached by means of a soul flight across the astral plane. shamans descended to ihe underworld either to escort there the soul of a member of the tribe wh

e can be quite certain about this from a few eyewitness accounts of witches when they actually were engaging in soul flight. these accounts, small in number, are remarkably uniform. the witch is observed lying unconscious for an extended period of time. sometimes she is seen to apply an ointment to her naked body before lying down or falling down and going to sleep. attempts to rouse her from her trance are usually futile. when at last she recovers her senses, she declares that she was on a journey, and may believe that the journey was taken in her physical body, although it is evident to the witness that this was not the case. the demonologist johann weyer, who was the pupil of cornelius agrippa, quotes giovanni battista porta (1535-1615) on this matter. porta recorded in the second book

contrast, henry more wrote in his 1653 work antidote against atheism that the ointment sealed up the pores of the skin, and in this way preserved the heat of the body while the soul was absent, allowing it to survive until the soul's return.z7 he believed the ointment incidental to the projection of the soul, but necessary to preserve the life of the body. eyewitness accounts of witches lying in trance, who later claimed to have been flying, indicated to enlightened men such as bacon and more that no physical flight was involved, but the more credulous continued to believe that witches actually flew. a surprising number of recipes of witches' flying ointment have survived down to the present in written form. hansen mentions that sixteen of them are "comparatively the active ingredients we

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ion with this mantra. the disciple must become familiar with this bird and learn how to handle it. you can awaken your internal powers with this fiery bird. the mantra proweoa (utilized often by the schools of the great chain) allow us to bring into our conscious imagination any image from the superior worlds; this is how we can clairvoyantly see. the alchemist must utilize this mantra during the trance-state of sexual magic in order to see the quetzal. practica: 1 sentado en c modo sill n o acostado en dec bito dorsal, el disc pulo debe aquietar su mente y sus emociones. 2 imagine ahora el quetzal maravilloso flotando sobre su cabeza. 3 vocalice mentalmente el mantram de poder proweoa. con este mantram atraer a su imaginaci n la divina imagen de quetzal, espl ndida ave de hermoso penacho

hermoso penacho y de larga cola. el disc pulo debe familiarizarse con esa ave y aprenderla a manejar, con ella puede despertar sus poderes internos. el mantram proweoa tan utilizado por las escuelas de la gran cadena de oro nos permite traer a la imaginaci n consciente, cualquier imagen de los mundos superiores. entonces vemos clarividentemente. el alkimista debe utilizar este mantram durante el trance de magia sexual para ver el quetzal. 82 arcanum 12 we must now study the twelfth arcanum of tarot. chinese tradition mentions the ten trunks (shikan) and the twelve branches. it is necessary to know that the seven chakras and the five senses are the twelve faculties. the universe emerged from the chinese hoel-tun; this is the primordial chaos. the ten trunks and the twelve branches emerged

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ditation is a way of working on inner planes that is a direct outgrowth. of the western mystery tradition. it is an action oriented method: you move, you utilize your ego and your senses, you ask questions. and barter, you insist, you explore, you discover, you laugh and you cry. it is the method of the child in us all (p. 82. in other words, it requires full participation and consciousness. many trance states produce just the opposite effect, and this is one reason why these guide guidelines are also quite specific. they insist on the presence of consciousness and will, so important for the development of a magician. let us examine some of these guidelines: 1. your h. g. a. will not be dead, i. e, a dead relative or historical figure. it is angelic. the former has a tendency to possess, a

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nd attractive again. so both of them drank the liquid, and the man remembered seeing his grandmother indeed looking much younger. that was the extent of his recollection. both he and ms. bartholic, who was conducting the regression, were puzzled by this, because there was nothing in the episode to account for the guilt he had felt about the grandmother's death. so ms. bartholic deepened the man's trance level and asked him to look at it again, with much clearer vision. and what he then recalled was much more disturbing. the abduction, at first, followed his initial recollection. but when the liquid was drunk, he now remembered a very strong feeling of change in his body. and he saw that the grandmother didn't actually look younger. instead, she was placed on a table and approached by one o

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incenses which aided this concentration to develop spiritual vision and induce a clairvoyant state. in mediaeval times many ingredients came from the near east, but originally the most potent herbs seem to have been local ones, and among these some were poisonous. this knowledge of poisons, as i have said, is not necessarily evil; it is how that knowledge is used that matters. to use it to gain a trance state harms no one except yourself. but as a weaker people are sometimes tempted to use these methods against oppressors, poison would occasionally be used by them. that it was not done on any large scale is proved by the fact that there was no large death-roll among the active persecutors of the witches. whilst england was at best but semi-christian, this happy state of give and take preva

ek to live quietly and worship our gods in our own way and enjoy ourselves in our own fashion and be content and at peace. the art only comes by developing your own power, and not by the stroke of a magic wand. it is a strange mystical experience. you feel a different person, as if much dross were sloughed off. there is some strange mystery of worship, delicate as a dream. it is as if i were in a trance during the rites; i can scarcely remember what happened; something seems to brush against my soul and i ever think of it with excitement- the old secrets of joy and terror quicken my blood' remember this: you will never advance if your blood is not stirred and quickened, for truly 'the blood is the life. the fact is that the rites do affect many, if not all, of the people in a curious way

in his aspect of death, the consoler, the comforter, the bringer of a happy after-life and regeneration. the initiate in undergoing the god's experiences becomes a witch. witches quite realise that this communion does not occur every time one assumes the goddess position, but they very soon realise that by doing so they begin to receive thrills which are apt to grow more and more intense when the trance comes on. they know! it is no use saying 'this is only suggestion, or the subconscious mind' they reply 'we quite agree; suggestion or the subconscious mind are simply some of the tools which we use to help to open the door' as indicated before, i have little doubt that in the old days if a party were setting out for a long journey across rough country they would say 'we will go as hares' o

nglish translation is 'taking one out of oneself, taking him into communion with the god. but to attain this state lustration is at least advisable; this is in fact the inward as well as an outward cleansing- the old doctrine of penance, cleansing the soul as well as the body; in this way only is the body properly prepared for the goddess to descend and inspire her worshipper. in this way may the trance state be induced, though there are other methods, all to the end of escaping temporarily from the yoke of tradition, to make the soul free; in other words, it gives one something new to live for. many people attempt this by drugs, or more crudely by alcohol. but these have extremely bad effects on the body, and any results are at the best often illusions; so seldom make the attempt in that

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rational, mitre, gloves, ring and staff. the 7 champions of christendom were st. george for england, st. denis of france, st. james of spain, st. andrew of scotland, st. david of wales, st. patrick of ireland and st. antonio of italy. the 7 sleepers of ephesus, according to the monkish legend, were christians who hid in a cave under the persecutions of decius in the 3rd century. they fell into a trance and slept 200 years. they awaked in a.d. 447 and going to the emperor theodosius ii, they convinced him of the truth of the life beyond the grave. this done, they returned to the cave to sleep until the last judgment. the 7 dolours of the virgin mary is the name of a roman catholic fast day held on the friday before palm sunday. the 7 wise masters were officers of king kurush who tell stori

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lack magick such as concepts as command to look, wherein ones own design of environments through visuals, music or writing causes willed change according to the individuals wishes. 13 this is the sigil of dream control and astral projection. the witches sabbat is explored in its language of magickal awakening. the dream gateway to the sabbat is the very essence of a gathering of spirits, when the trance by dream is gathered by ones created and ancestral familiars passed from the spirit world to the physical. the sabbat itself is meant to be an encircling or ensorcerling the circle of creative symbolism, from which the gnosis grows in the shadows and shall be cultivated by those within the arte. to attend the sabbat, one must pass the self-initiation of advancing ones magical ability. this

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fold w) ozodoauguil wings vi' pa ahe wisdom (the secret) aninaeli woe obis work of man workmen kuala workwonders (that may) uaula zodiremn works (whose) sobe lia afake worshippers hoatih4 wrath venupahr wrath (the firmament of) kaelzod y you (unto you) nounca yourselves amirann chapter five the 6=5 and 7=4 rituals of the r.r. et a.c. according to tradition, these rituals were written through the trance mediumship of the felkins with the astral masters of the third order. the general opinion at whare ra was that the 6=5 grade is an incredibly beautiful ceremony to experience. it is here that the hidden doorway of the mars wall is revealed, and the shekinah enters the vault, with black veil and lamp. to the postulant, it appears as if the lamp is floating in mid-air. this is the first of th

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of the critical apparatus of our minds. it cannot be subject to the laws of reason; it cannot be found in the fetters of elementary mathematics; only transfinite and irrational conceptions in that subject can possibly shadow forth the truth in some such paradox as the identity of contradictories. we found further that those states of mind which result from the practice of yoga are properly called trances, because they actually transcend the conditions of normal thought. 3. at this point we begin to see an almost insensible drawing together of the path of yoga which is straight (and in a sense arid) with that of magick, which may be compared with the bacchic dance or the orgies of pan. it suggests that yoga is ultimately a sublimation of philosophy, even as magick is a sublimation of scienc

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nt khabs 'a star- is an unit of nuit, and therefore nuit herself. this doctrine is enormously difficult of apprehension, even after these many years of study. hadit is the 'core of every star' verse 6. he is thus the impersonal identity within the individuality of 'every man and every woman' he is 'not extended' that is, without condition of any sort in the metaphysical sense. only in the highest trances can the nature of these truths be realized. it is indeed a suprarational experience not dissimilar to those characteristic of the "star-sponge" vision previously described that can help us here. the trouble is that the truth itself is unfitted to the dualistic reason of "normal" mankind. hadit seems to be the principle of motion which is everywhere, yet is not extended in any dimension exc

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the sentence awarded on our own testimony, whether we like it or not. i am aware that this is a somewhat cowardly way of dealing with the question; i prefer to insist that if we once admit that the unknowable (by reason) to consciousness may be known (by concentration) to super-consciousness, the difficulty vanishes. i think huxley goes too far in speaking of a man self-hypnotised into cataleptic trances without medical evidence of a large number of cases. edward carpenter, who has met yogis, and talked long and learnedly with them, tells a different story. even had we a large body of evidence from anglo-indian medical men, the proof would still be lacking. they might not be the real men. the indian native would take intense delight in bringing round the village idiot to be inspected in th

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ich 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, 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 fr

age, filled with an impassioned desire to suffer for its god, the soul then is seized with a strange torment- that of not being allowed to suffer enough."2 2 "oeuvres" ii. 320. prof. william james writes "the great spanish mystics, who carried the habit of ecstasy as far as it has often been carried, appear for the most part to have shown indomitable spirit and energy, and all the more so for the trances in which they indulged" writing of st. ignatius, he says "st. ignatius was a mystic, but his mysticism made him assuredly one of the most powerful practical human engines that ever lived("the varieties of religious experience" p. 413. in the old days, when but a small portion of the globe was known to civilised man, the explorer and the traveller would return to his home with weird, fantas

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unto the term. temple, dancers, girls, musicians, augurs, acolytes, magicians- ruin, ruin whelm us all! fall["he pulls down the pillars; but the temple" was not supported on them as in his" blindness he supposed; and he is himself" his only victim "the dancers" twine! twine! rose and vine. whirl! whirl! boy and girl. mine! mine! maid divine. curl! curl! peach and pearl. twist! twist! the towering trances are not sun-kissed like our delicate dances. expanses of fancies, the turn of the ankle! the wave of the wrist enhances romances! twine! twine! tread me a measure! the dotard is dead that disturbed our pleasure with his doubt about 25 souls and skins, and the quickened shoots of pain that he tore from the heart's core of the dreadful flutes and the terrible violins. joy! joy! girl and boy!

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in. so- one must suppose, for here i reach a point where, as mr. waite jeers, we are driven to take refuge in portentous darkness and irretrievable mystery (because we don't know anything about it- he sits down and contemplates the three characteristics. this will presumably be very difficult to do because he is probably (for all the "grace of the lord shiva" business) an expert in the vin n anam trances, and having thus created an eternal universe and an even more eternal absence of universe, both of which, too, are probably mere masses of sat- chit- ananda (being- knowledge- bliss) while he is trying to think of change- sorrow- unsubstantiality. at last, as i imagine, probably without foundation, he succeeds in seeing first the truth and then the falsity of the three characteristics- and

BELL CHRISTOPHER PAUL TSIU MARPO THE CAREER OF A TIBETAN PROTECTOR DEITY

e oracle, which are worn beneath this attire, are drenched with sweat after a ceremony.184 this summary of the oracle ceremony is by necessity both general and synchronic. multiple variations of the ceremony exist at various points in tibetan history and locale. one 181 see havnevik 2002, p. 274. 182 see diemberger 2005, p. 137. 183 see diemberger 2005, p. 130. 184 for the full accounts of oracle trances from which this summary draws, see de nebesky-wojkowitz 1998, pp. 429-439; havnevik 2002, pp. 270-272; and diemberger 2005, pp. 136-138. 120 important note should be made on the diachronic nature of the majority of the oracle studies cited here. de nebesky-wojkowitz, writing in the early 1950s, provides a detailed examination of the oracle tradition as it existed prior to chinese occupatio

d to samye, to take revenge upon tsi u dmar po. a fierce battle ensued in which the dharmap.la was defeated and had to flee. dza sa dmar po "the red dza sa" as he became later on known, then took possession of the tsi u dmar lcog dbug khang [jokwukhang] and of all the objects stored there. he tried, however, in vain to place upon his own head tsi u dmar po s heavy helmet, which is worn during the trances by the medium of samye s best-known dharmap.la. after some time dza sa dmar po left tsi u dmar po s residence, and the monks then built for him a special shrine within the precincts of their monastery, the so-called dza sa dmar po i rab brtan [dzasa marp rapten. tsi u dmar po returned later to his abode, and from then on peaceful relations were established between these two deities. a trac

rit is interpreted differently between the various sects. sophie day conceives of this mobility as a historical evolution in the community s attitude towards a deity. being that a protector deity is initially malicious, even after subjugation they are still not wholly trusted. this is observable in the constant necessity to renew the vows of a deity during ritual performances as well as in oracle trances, where audience members express trepidation when in the presence of such an embodied deity. as with any process of gradual assimilation, this suspicion wanes over time. as a deity continues to prove his worth in the success of ritual services and oracular advice, he accrues merit and is eventually trusted as a supreme and reliable guardian of the buddhist teachings and the community.250 on

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n the fourth (race) arrived at its middle age, the inner vision had to be awakened, and acquired by artificial stimuli, the process of which was known to the old sages. the third eye, likewise, getting gradually petrified* soon disappeared. the double-faced became the one-faced, and the eye was drawn deep into the head and is now buried under the hair. during the activity of the inner man (during trances and spiritual visions) the eye swells and expands. the arhat sees and feels it, and regulates his action accordingly[[footnote(s* viz, the third eye was at the back of the head. the statement that the latest hermaphrodite humanity was "four-armed" unriddles probably the mystery of all the representations and idols of the exoteric gods of india. on the acropolis of argos, there was a[[zoano

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oss trackless wastes and unfathomed oceans; to await thee is the end, not the beginning [lxv, ii, 55-62] aum is here quoted as the hieroglyph of the eternal .a. the beginning of sound .u. its middle, and .m. its end, together form a single word or trinity, indicating that the real must be regarded as of this three-fold nature, birth, life and death, not successive, but one. those who have reached trances in which .time. is no more will understand better than others how this rnay be. 20. bestride the bird of life, if thou wouldst know. the word .know. is specially used here in a technical sense. avidya, ignorance, the first of the fetters, is moreover one which includes all the others. with regard to this swan .aum. compare the following verses from the .great law. liber lxv, ii:17.25. also

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ora, a small village in the comilla district of bangladesh. the name nirmala means pure. she began primary school at the age of five and showed unusual facility in learning. however, she preferred devotional songs to books and would often lose consciousness during the singing of hymns or the chanting of names of hindu deities. at the age of 12, she was married to ramani mohan chakravarty, but her trances continued, and her husband eventually concluded that she was to be his guru rather than a traditional wife. she renamed him bholanath, and thereafter their relationship was of guru and disciple rather than wife and husband. at the age of 18, nirmala went to the village of bajitpur in east bengal. during some five years there she spontaneously assumed yogic postures and recited mantras. for

ot the least connection with our individual life (paul joire, psychical and supernormal phenomena, 1936. hereward carrington called attention in the story of psychic science (1930) to the neglect shown for the dreams of mediums. it is believed that if the communicators are subconscious personalities, some connection may be established between them and the dreams of the medium. in the lenora piper trances the communicators themselves alleged that they were in a dreamlike state. in one instant a statement came through that was quite wrong, but upon investigation, it turned out to be a remark that the communicator made in the delirium of death. modern views on dreaming modern scientists have studied the relationship of eye movements to dreaming. professors n. kleitman and e. aserinsky of the

s for our knowledge of the eddy brothers. according to olcott, the family tree showed psychic powers for generations back. in 1692, in salem, their grandmother four times removed was sentenced to the pyre as a witch. in horatio and william, the psychic taint made its appearance in infancy. a fanatical father tried to suppress it with the utmost cruelty. he employed means of torture to break their trances, poured boiling water over them, or placed red-hot coal on their heads. when the children grew older, their father realized the money-making possibilities in their strange gift and hired them out as mediums. as eloquent evidence of the savage treatment the boys had received at the hands of ignorant investigators, olcott saw grooves of ligatures, scars of hot sealing wax, and marks of handc

in any case, they lived and worked together. between 1909 and 1913 beraud, by then known as eva c, centered her mediumship on materializations. joint experiments by richet and baron schrenck-notzing, with bisson always present, built upon previous observations and elucidated several obscure points. the period also afforded an added opportunity for richet to check his earlier findings. during her trances the medium appeared to suffer much, writhing like a woman in childbirth, and her pulse rose from 90 to 120. the materializations, under the control of an entity named berthe, were always slow and seemingly difficult. very few forms were well developed or remained for a long time. all this was in striking contrast with the ease of former years. perhaps the rigor of the control had to do wit

m highlighted the extraordinary challenge of such apparitions of the virgin mary and the dilemma they pose for those who see them. ganzfeld setting encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 618 whereas the story of lourdes now depends upon hearsay accounts and traditions of a century ago, the case of garabandal is so topical that film records were actually taken of the girls during their trances, and direct interviews were recorded with conchita herself. in the bbc feature it was clear from interviews with conchita that she faces a strange problem, intensified as the date of the miracle, known only to her, presumably approaches. if there is no miracle, she will be branded a fake or hysteric. if there is a miracle, her privacy and family life will be invaded and disrupted by public

all while helping to fight a fire. within two years she was totally blind and paralyzed. three years later in 1923, neumann believed she had a vision of st. therese of lisieux, known as the little flower and her blindness disappeared. supposedly, she took no food or drink from that time until her death in 1962. it was in 1926 that her stigmata began to appear during a weekly series of visions and trances from thursday at midnight to early friday morning. she became a worldwide celebrity. every catholic school child throughout the time until her death knew her name as well as those of the saints. in 1932 the catholic church had attempted to conduct its own investigation of her claims, but could not agree on the terms with neumann s father. neither did psychical researchers ever investigate

, james was virtually in charge of all arrangements for piper s seances. when, because of other duties, he dropped his inquiries for a period of two years, he wrote to the spr (london) and induced them to engage piper for experiments. the result, he wrote of his personal investigations, is to make me feel as absolutely certain as i am of any personal fact in the world that she knows things in her trances which she cannot possibly have heard in her waking state. he admitted there was a strong case in favor of survival when the following message, obtained while a ms. robbins had a sitting with piper, was submitted to him: there is a person named child, who has suddenly come and sends his love to william and to his own wife who is living. he says l. neither robbins nor piper knew child, who w

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

of her seance arrangements. referring mainly to this first period of his experiences, he wrote in 1890 in proceedings of the society for psychical research (vol. 6, pt. 17: and i repeat again what i said before, that, taking everything that i know of mrs. piper into account, the result is to make me feel as absolutely certain as i am of any personal fact in the world that she knows things in her trances which she cannot possibly have heard in her waking state, and that the definite philosophy of her trances is yet to be found. james also made the famous statement: if you wish to upset the law that all crows are black. it is enough if you prove that one crow is white. my white crow is mrs. piper. piper s controls when james began his experiments, a claimed french doctor, phinuit, was in ex

ibit physical phenomena, except for one single strange manifestation: she could withdraw the scent from flowers and make them wither in a short time. to establish rapport with her spirit communicators, she utilized psychometric influences (see psychometry, usually asking for an object belonging to the departed. james succeeded in hypnotizing her and found the conditions of the hypnotic and medium trances entirely different. he found no signs of thought transference either in the hypnotic condition or immediately after it. of the earliest trances there is no contemporary record. when, owing to other duties, james relinquished direct control of the piper seances he wrote to various members of the society for psychical research of the puzzling and remarkable facts of the mediumship. it was as

FRATER U D PRACTICAL SIGIL MAGIC

ng one fs breath in an uncomfortable position until one nearly dies, h: kenneth grant4 regards it as belonging to sex magic. he sees the death posture (referring to spare himself) as a technique whereby the conscious mind is switched off (that is to say, gintermediately slain h) by sexual activity, which means that all conscious thoughts will cease. anyway, the crucial point, as with most magical trances, is that you can achieve a state of non-thinking or no-mind this way, whereby the conscious mind collapses for a short span of time (sometimes, as with an orgasm, only for seconds) and leaves free a direct channel to the unconscious. in the following text, two non-sexual variants of the death posture, which have proved themselves well in practice, particularly for people who are new to mag

tras play a mantra-yoga, tantra (of hindu and buddhist origin, buddhism g (for example, gom mani peme um, o t they l sigils, it is not strictly utright itioning, ogma, etc) incapable of working with any but one sigil by repeating it over and over again, for hours on end, if possible. the monotony of this procedure es occur even after in eastern cultures mantras are also employed to induce magical trances and mystical states of consciousness etc, beca use they tend to tranquilize the cious mind when monotonously repeated over a cp eriod of time. thus, thand direct access to the un conscious is severy important part in (including zen, and many other eastern philosophies. these mantras may be more or less free of recognizable sense (for example, ghram hrim hrum h, or they may carry a meanin h

ncarnations h show that we oving close to another technique of regression.reincarnation therapy. but the intention of the sigil magician is different insofar as s/he employs atavisms to charge sigils further or to start magical operations. for example, a talisman charged while one is in a greptile consciousness h will work more powerfully than a talisman charged while in a state of normal magical trances of course, we must bear in mind that all of these atavistic states of consciousness have their own shortcomings and strong points. it would be downright foolish to demand highly intellectual work from a reptile with its small, barely developed brai won ft be suitable to give us a lot of knowledge about life underwater, and the karma of a fish is not responsible for problems of hunting in t

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

y to the world as to themselves. they have nothing rosicrucian-except the name? and yet, from their ranks would come two men whowereconcerned with spiritual philosophy and who would, in time, create the darkly glittering splendour of the golden dawn.therosicrucian freemasons were not, of course, the only established body of occultists in victorian england. mesmerism, or animal magnetism, with its trances and etheric fluids, still had its followers, although the continuing refusal of the medical profession to consider its claims as a curative agent prevented any real study of its phenomena in orthodox scientific circles.itremained the property of occultists, clairvoyants and those spir255 itualists who were able, by mental juggling, to fit the rationalist theory of animal magnetism into a w

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

carriedajicurved wand, thelituus.thetheomanteia these were a special class of diviners, often old men, whowere!fwilling to offer sacrifices and deliver prophecies in any place( and at any time. they crowned themselves with laurel,and'threw themselves into an hysterical frenzy. three varieties are'jmentioned-thosepossessed bydaimonesor spirits; those) inspired by the gods; and those who fell into trances and oq] recovery related strange accounts of what they had seen or; heard. such performers would now be called spiritualisticf mediums,.the ancients commonly believed that aged men indying:could foresee the future; this originated the idea expressed by) the modern poet campbell, who wrote:'tisthe sunsetoflife which gives me mystical loreandcoming events casttheirshadows before.necromancy a

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

describe the practice relating to this linking up to the cosmic consciousness in a further chapter. the magical trance should not be mixed up with the state produced by spiritualistic mediums, provided we have to do with genuine psychical phenomena and mediums of integrity. mostly a lot of mischief is done in this line to mislead credulous people. the real spiritualistic mediums bring about their trances whether with the help of a prayer, a hymn or some other meditation, or through a sort of passivity (emptiness) of the mind, conjuring up a spontaneous displacement (shifting) of the consciousness. in this state it is possible for elementals, deceased people and certain low beings to induce the astral body together with the material body to manifestations and other undertakings. from the he

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

then she knew it to be goody newton: and that the spirit spoke to the defendant and would have her promise him to follow his advice and p. 109 she would have all things after her own heart, to which she says she answered that she would have nothing to say to him, for her trust was in the lord "that within a month after the said florence had kiss'd her, she this defendant fell very ill of fits or trances, which would take her on a sudden, in that violence that three or four men could not hold her; and in her fits she would be taken with vomiting, and would vomit up needles, pins, horsenails, stubbs, wooll, and straw, and that very often. and being asked whether she perceived at these times what she vomited? she replied, she did; for then she was not in so great distraction as in other part

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

by means of it (and by the secret powers which lie in the hyper-sensual, heaped floors of it, out of the every-day senses, the egyptians struck together, as it were, a bridge, across which they paraded into the supernatural; the magic portals receiving them as on the other and armed side of a drawbridge, shaking in its thunders in its raising (or in its lowering, as out of flesh. athwart this, in trances, swept the adepts, leaving their mortality behind them: all, and their earth-surroundings, to be resumed at their reissue upon the plains of life, when down in their humanity again. in the cities of the ancient world, the palladium, or protesting talisman (invariably set up in the chief square or place, was there is but little doubt the reiteration of the very earliest monolith. all the ob

LIBER ALEPH

o their destruction. c liber aleph vel cxi 64 bl de ratione magi vit (of the rule of life of a magician) tudy logic, which is the code of the laws of thought. study the method of science, which is the application of logic to the facts of the universe. think not that thou canst ever abrogate these laws, for though they be limitations, they are the rules of thy game which thou dost play. for in thy trances though thou becomest that which is not subject to those laws, they are still final in respect of these things which thou hast set them to govern. nay, o my son, i like not this word, govern, for a law is but a statement of the nature of the thing to which it applieth. nor nothing is compelled save only by nature of its own true will. so therefore human law is a statement of the will and of

to this fulness and perfection? art thou there, o my son? it is well, and blessed be the bed wherein thou was begotten, and the womb of thy sweet mother hilarion, my concubine, holy and adulterous, the scarlet woman! amen! l liber aleph vel cxi 136 e# de ecstasia samadhi, quo modo ab illis differt (of the ecstasy of samadhi, how it differs from these) onfuse thou not this beatific vision with the trances called samadhi; yet is samadhi the pylon of the temple hereof. for samadhi is the orgasm of the coition of the unlike, and is commonly violent, even as the lightning cometh of the discharge between two vehicles of extreme difference of potentials. but as i shewed formerly concerning love, how each such discharge bringeth either component more nigh to equilibrium, so is it in this other mat

ladness, the greater part of mine own initiation and advancement to the operation of women. notwithstanding all these things, i bow humbly before allan bennett, and repent mine insolence, for his saying was sooth. o the book of wisdom or folly 171 #x de via propria feminis (of the path proper to women) t is indeed easy for a woman to obtain the experience of magick, in a certain sort, as visions, trances, and the like; yet they take not hold upon her, to transform her, as with men, but pass only as images upon a speculum. so then a woman advanceth never in magick, but remaineth the same, rightly or wrongly ordered according to the force that moveth her. here herefore is the limit of her aspiration in magick, to abide joyous and obedient beneath the man that her instinct shall divine so tha

LIBER CXLVIII SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK

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, 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 fri

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

ith age; it grows deeper and intenser with every satisfaction. it seems as if in the noblest en this secretion constantly increases.which certainly suggests an external reservoir.so that age loses all its bitter-ness. we find gbrother lawrence, h nicholas herman of lorraine, at the age of eighty in continuous enjoyment of union with god. buddha at an equal age would run up and down the eight high trances like an acrobat on a ladder; stories not too dissimilar are told of bishop berkeley. many persons have not attained union at all until middle age, and then have rarely lost it. it is true that genius in the ordinary sense of the word has nearly always showed itself in the young. perhaps we should regard such cases as nicholas herman as cases of acquired genius. now i am certainly of opinio

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

he sentence awarded on our own testimony, whether we like it or not. i am aware that this is a somewhat cowardly way of dealing with the question; i prefer to insist that if we once admit that the unknowable (by reason) to consciousness may be known (by concentration) to super-consciousness, the difficulty vanishes. i think huxley goes too far in speaking of a man .self-hypnotised into cataleptic trances. without medical evidence of a large number of cases. edward carpenter, who has met yogis, and talked long and learnedly with them, tells a different story. even had we a large body of evidence from anglo-indian medical men, the proof would still be lacking. they might not be the real men. the indian native would take intense delight in bringing round the village idiot to be inspected in t

LIBER MMM

can win even a few seconds of mental silence, but even this is quite a triumph. aim for complete vigilance over the arising of thoughts and try to lengthen the periods of total quiescence. like the physical motionlessness, this mental motionlessness should be practiced at set times and also whenever a period of inactivity presents itself. the results should be recorded in your diary. the magical trances magic is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. the will can only become magically effective when the mind is focused and not interfering with the will. the mind must first discipline itself to focus it s entire attention on some meaningless phenomenon. if an attempt is made to focus on some form of desire, the effect is short circuited by lust of result. e

should not involve anything of spiritual or egocentric, or emotional significance, nor should you select anything with any possibility of failure. by persisting with such simple beginnings you become capable of virtually anything. all works of metamorphosis should be committed to the magical diary. 18 magic success in this part of the syllabus is dependent on some degree of mastery of the magical trances and metamorphosis. this magical instruction involves three techniques: ritual, sigils, and dreaming. in addition, the magician should make himself familiar with at least one system of divination: cards, crystal gazing, runesticks, pendulum, or divining rod. the methods are endless. with all techniques, aim to silence the mind and let inspiration provide some sort of answer. whatever symbol

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

ierophants of the rites of sabazius, did not carry their secrets away with the downfall of their sanctuaries. they are still preserved, and those who are aware of the nature of soma, know the properties of other plants as well (isis unveiled) herbal compounds were used to cause temporary clairvoyance in connection with the oracles, especially the one at delphi. words spoken while in these imposed trances were regarded as prophetic. modem mediums, while under control as the result of partly self-imposed catalepsy, give messages somewhat similar to those of the ancient prophets, but in the majority of cases their results are far less accurate, for the soothsayers of today lack the knowledge of nature's hidden forces. the mysteries taught that during the higher degrees of initiation the gods

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

m realm inception (2010--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 27 class participation ok, so dreams are important. first, begin a dream journal. i find this a pain in the ass, and prefer to record dreams audibly with a microphone, rather than a pen. second, do not burst out of bed, but instead take a moment recall your dreams before they slip from the mind as your daily activities begin third, deep trances are nothing more than a kind of dreaming where consciousness remains, so stilling the mind would allow conscious travel of the astral world. deep trances are difficult, but you may be able to take advantage of the brainwaves experienced during sleep by setting an alarm clock for the middle of the night. the gentler the waking, the better. and, as long as you can turn off the alarm without

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

e. khabs 'a star' is an unit of nuit, and therefore nuit herself. this doctrine is enormously difficult of apprehension, even after these many years of study. hadit is the "core of every star (verse 6. he is thus the impersonal identity within the individuality of "every man and every woman. he is "not extended; that is, without condition of any sort in the metaphysical sense. only in the highest trances can the nature of these truths be realized. it is indeed a suprarational experience not dissimilar to those characteristic of the "star-sponge" vision previously described that can help us here. the trouble is that the truth itself is unfitted to the dualistic reason of 'normal' mankind. hadit seems to be the principle of motion which is everywhere, yet is not extended in any dimension exc

s, annihilation, death! readers will perhaps understand this better through an analogy. remember occasions when you were very sick, hypersensitive, or near a nervous breakdown, when a loud noise, a sudden light, or a visitor wishing to make small talk irritated you or made you afraid. physical health is extremely important to the initiatic process, for the mind is subjected to enormous strains in trances or magickal operations. if the body is not healthy, the mind may become unbalanced, and this in planes so subtle that they escape completely to perception by vulgar psychiatry. there are completely "normal" people on the intellectual and emotional planes who are nevertheless "morally" insane. and people whose development on the "moral" plane buddhi-manas neschamah is rudimentary, that is

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

mysticism and infringed celibacy. gaufridi and his mistress were obsessed by their mutual chimeras, and the brain of the one reflected the nightmares of the other. was not the marquis de sade himself infectious for certain depleted and diseased natures? the scandalous trial of father girard is a fresh proof of the deliriums of mysticism and the singular nervous affections which it may entail. the trances of la cadiere, her ecstasies, her stigmata, were all as real as the insensate and perhaps involuntary debauchery of her director. she accused him when he wished to withdraw from her, and the conversion of this young woman was a revenge, for there is nothing more cruel than depraved passions. an influential society, which intervened in the trial of grandier for the destruction of the possib

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

ompanied by an apparent beginning of putrefaction and a strong corpse-like odour: the exceptional occurrence would be labelled with a suitable name, and the matter would be at an end. we have no wish to alarm anyone, and if, out of respect for men with diplomas who represent orthodox science, it is requisite to term our theories concerning resurrection the art of curing exceptional and aggravated trances, nothing, i hope, will hinder us from making such a concession. but if ever a resurrection has taken place in the world, it is incontestable that resurrection is possible. now, the bodies corporate protect religion, and religion asserts positively the fact of resurrections; therefore resurrections are possible. from this escape is difficult. to say that such things are possible outside the

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

source of all his ills, the messenger and his message. he told baal about a quarrel between mahound and ayesha, recounting the rumour as if it were incontrovertible fact "that girl couldn't stomach it that her husband wanted so many other women" he said "he talked about necessity, political alliances and so on, but she wasn't fooled. who can blame her? finally he went into- what else- one of his trances, and out he came with a message from the archangel. gibreel had recited verses giving him full divine support. god's own permission to luck as many women as he liked. so there: what could poor ayesha say against the verses of god? you know what she did say? this 'your god certainly jumps to it when you need him to fix things up for you' well! if it hadn't been ayesha, who knows what he'd h

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

author of there is a river (1942, both of which are important books about the life and work of edgar cayce. astonishing tales of clairvoyant feats such as the location of missing persons, objects, and criminals have filled many books by a number of authors. equally intriguing are the glife readings h that the seer gave regarding the past incarnations of individuals. others speak of the series of trances in which cayce gave a detailed recreation of everyday life in ancient atlantis, and spoke of the great crystal that powered their society. according to his clairvoyant insights, cayce perceived a secret room in the sphinx, a veritable hall of records that would reveal many remarkable facts about the evolution of humankind on earth. he also put forward a number of prophecies about the futur

the area averages one-half inch of rainfall every two years. in addition to geoglyphs that seem to correspond to constellations, a number of the figures resemble water animals (a frog, a duck, a whale, for example, all of which are replicated on nazca pottery. in addition to rain dances and rituals, the nazca, like many other ancient societies, had a priestly caste that included shamans. entering trances or performing rituals to get in touch with animal spirits is a common practice among shamans, and the bestiary images of the nazca could reflect the animals they respected and the animal spirits a shaman would want to tap. in october 2001, colgate university professor anthony aveni said that his 30-year aerial and ground survey of the more than 800 nazca lines had led him to conclude that

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

t could obtain sufficient light and publicity. this event we are perhaps about to prepare, for one would not permit us the audacious hope of accomplishing it. here, in the first place, are the facts, in all their singularity. we have verified them, and we have established them with a rigorous exactitude, abstaining in the first place from all explanation and all commentary. mr. home is subject to trances which put him, according to his own account, in direct communication with the soul of his mother, and, through her, with the entire world of spirits. he describes, like the sleep-wakers of cahagnet, persons whom he has never seen, and who are recognized by those who evoke them; he will tell you even their names, and will reply, on their behalf, to questions which can be understood only by

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