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ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

of triliteral names in the shem ha-mephorasch (72 3= 216; which, by the addition of -yh or -al, give 72 angels chesed: mercy, kindness dsx adonai, as transliterated in the lemegeton, etc (cf. 65) y)nwd) in, so, thus, then nkb in the secret dwsb and they are excellent, finished wlkyw hwhy in atziluth yh wyw yh dwy atziluth fs gsecret nature h (see s.d. 1:38-39: thickness, cloud; aub b( revolving; transmigration lwglg 73 chokmah: wisdom hmkx gimel: a camel lmg to trust in, shelter in hsx a day of feast bw+ mwy a title of chokmah hmxk 74 lamed: an ox-goad dml a leader, chief, judge nyyd worn-out; beggars mykd a circuit; roundabout bybs all the way, duration; eternity; booty; witness, proof; ruler d( knowledge (cf. 474 (d 75 nuit, the star goddess (cf. 466 +ywn hues, colours, complexions ynww

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4

e book of solemn utterances. the fetish of a slightly higher civilization, namely ethics. he saw that though mankind was tired of being ruled by spirits, they were only too eager to be ruled by virtues, which gave those who maintained these fictitious qualifications a sure standpoint from which to rail at those who had not. therefore he banned reincarnation and soul and substituted in their place transmigration and karma (doing) the sankh r or tendencies that form the character (individuality) of the individual. ananda metteya in "buddhism"219 explains transmigration in contradistinction to reincarnation as follows. two men standing on the shore of a lake witch the waves rolling land-wards. to the one who is unversed in science it appears that the wave travelling towards him retains its id

nal, and describe what is beyond description in the language of his country. p, under the gentle guidance of ananda metteya, at first found the outward simplicity most refreshing; but soon he discovered that like all other religious systems buddhism was entangled in a veritable network of words. realizing this, he went a step further than gotama, and said "why bother about sorrow at all, or about transmigration? for these are not 'wrong viewyness' as mr. rhys davids would so poetically put it, but matters of the kindergarten and not of the temple; matters for police regulation, and for underpaid curates to chatter about, and matters that have nothing to do with true progress" he then divided life into two compartments; into the first he threw science, learning, philosophy and all things bu

do with true progress" he then divided life into two compartments; into the first he threw science, learning, philosophy and all things built of words- the toys of life; and into 139 the second the invocations of adonai- the work of attainment. then he took another step forward "do as thou wilt" not only is animism absurd, but so also is morality; not only is reincarnation absurd, but so also is transmigration; not only is the ego absurd, but so also is the non-ego; not only is karma absurd, but so also is nibb na. for, all things and no-things are absurd save "i" who am soul and body, good and evil, sorrow and joy, change and equilibrium; who in the temple of adonai, am beyond all these, and by the fire side in my study- mr. x, one with each and all. thus it came about that the study of

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

r properly understood in the west and, in the east, where it is acknowledged as a governing principle of life, it has not proved useful because it has been soporific in its effect, and a detriment to progress. the eastern student regards it as giving him plenty of time; this has negated the driving effort to achieve a goal. the average christian confuses the law of rebirth with what he calls "the transmigration of souls" and frequently believes that the law of rebirth signifies the passing of human beings into the bodies of animals or of lower forms of life. such is by no means the case. as the life of god progresses onwards through form after form, that life in the subhuman kingdoms of nature proceeds progressively from mineral forms into vegetable forms, and from these vegetable forms in

ms of life. such is by no means the case. as the life of god progresses onwards through form after form, that life in the subhuman kingdoms of nature proceeds progressively from mineral forms into vegetable forms, and from these vegetable forms into animal forms; from the animal form stage, the life of god passes into the human kingdom, and becomes subject to the law of rebirth and not the law of transmigration. to those who know something of the law of rebirth or of reincarnation, the mistake seems ridiculous. the doctrine or theory of reincarnation strikes the orthodox christian with horror; yet if one asks him the question which the disciples asked christ about the blind man "master, did this man sin or his fathers that he was born blind (john ix.2, they refuse the implications; or they

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

ties of war by a fresh inflow of life into form, thus preserving the human race, providing the bodies for the next tide of egos and thus peopling the earth. in saying this i seek only to explain the phenomena which can be noted at all times when war is present and which in the world war can be noted on a large scale. the armies of the world are everywhere and are spread over every country; racial transmigration is a universal factor, both from the angle of military necessity and from the plight of the civilians who find themselves in the path of war. this movement of millions of men everywhere is one of the paramount factors which will condition the new civilisation, and its importance is based upon the fact that in twenty-five years' time men and women will be a hybrid race whose fathers

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

ery soul after earth life or lives must at length be so purified as to be re-absorbed into the infinite god (6) that one human life is seldom sufficient; that two earth lives are necessary for almost all to pass; and that if failure result in the second life, a third life is passed linked with a stronger soul who draws the sinner upward into purity: this is a form of the scheme of re-incarnation, transmigration of souls, or metempsychosis (7) that when all the pre-existent souls who have been incarnated here have arrived at perfection, the evil angels are also to be raised, and all lives will be merged into the deity by the kiss of love from the mouth of the holy one, and the manifested universe shall be no more, until again vivified by the divine fiat. it has been suggested by some learne

here he must suffer, but where he may overcome and from whence he must rise again. the zohar adds the statement "and whatever the man learns and displays on earth life, he knew before his incarnation" this is a parallel doctrine to the buddhist scheme of re-incarnation with karma as god--eternal law, relentlessly compelling the individual ego to a new earth life. christian ginsburg states that a "transmigration of souls" was the belief of the pharisees in the time of josephus; and this dogma was held by many jews up to the ninth century of our era. the caraite jews have accepted it ever since the seventh century. st. jerome says it was a doctrine of the early christian church taught only to a select few believers, and origen was of opinion that without transmigration, the incidents of the

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

identical atoms, but their peculiar motions and mode of aggregation have been thus transmitted (by heredity. if haeckel, or any other scientist, knew more than any of them does of the nature of the atom, he would not have improved the occasion in this way. for he only states, in a more metaphysical language than darwin, one and the same thing. the life-principle, or life energy[[footnote(s (see "transmigration of the life atoms "five years of theosophy" p. 533-539. the collective aggregation of these atoms forms thus the anima mundi of our solar system, the soul of our little universe, each atom of which is of course a soul, a monad, a little universe endowed with consciousness, hence with memory (vol. i, part iii "gods, monads and atoms[[vol. 2, page 673] the meaning of soul with haeckel

the chasm between the two classes of phenomena would still remain intellectually impassable" but the complex function of the nerve-cells of the great german empiric, or, in other words, his consciousness, will not permit him to follow the conclusions of the greatest thinkers of our globe. he is greater than they. he asserts this, and protests against all "no one has the right[[footnote(s* in "the transmigration of the life-atoms" we say, to explain better a position which is but too often misunderstood "it is omnipresent. though (on this plane of manifestation) often in a dormant state- as in stone. the definition which states that when this indestructible force is disconnected with one set of atoms (molecules ought to have been said) it becomes immediately attracted by others, does not im

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

me object- man; man, as the highest physical and ultimate form on this earth; the monad, in its absolute totality and awakened condition- as the culmination of the divine incarnations on earth" 2 "the dhyanis (pitris) are those who have evolved their bhuta (doubles) from themselves, which rupa (form) has become the vehicle of monads (seventh and sixth principles) that had completed their cycle of transmigration in the three preceding kalpas (rounds. then, they (the astral doubles) became the men of the first human race of the round. but they were not complete, and were senseless" this will be explained in the books that follow. meanwhile man- or rather his monad- has existed on the earth from the very beginning of this round. but, up to our own fifth race, the external shapes which covered

ture. this force includes the two great forces of attraction and repulsion. electricity and magnetism are but manifestations of it. this is the power which brings about that "continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations" which is the essence of life according to herbert spencer, and that "continuous adjustment of external relations to internal relations" which is the basis of transmigration of souls, punar janman (re-birth) in the doctrines of the ancient hindu philosophers. a yogi must thoroughly subjugate this power before he can attain moksham (6) mantrika-sakti. the force or power of letters, speech or music. the mantra shastra has for its subject-matter this force in all its manifestations. the influence of melody is one of its ordinary manifestations. the power o

BLUE EQUINOX

t were bright nyimas, and may in future .days. again become two suns. such are the falls and rises of the karmic law in nature. the astronomy of the author of this book is not equal to her poetic prose. mercury can hardly be said to have a fiery aura, or to be a silent watcher in the night. nor is it easy to attach any meaning to the statement that mars and mercury were once suns. the theories of transmigration of personality involved are a little difficult! the equinox 58 55. be, o lanoo, like them. give light and comfort to the toiling pilgrim, and seek out him who knows still less than thou; who in his wretched desolation sits starving for the bread of wisdom and the bread which feeds the shadow, without a teacher, hope or consolation, and. let him hear the law. this charge is very impo

DEMONIC BIBLE

aroth, i am ishtar, i am hela" the distinction between male and female entities need only be made, however, in the symbolic marriage to the "forces of darkness" and the male practitioner should not fear calling both male and female beings into his body. as a spiritual being, the sorcerer is neither male nor female. only in the form which his physical body has taken is sex a consideration. through transmigration of the spirit, the sorcerer may choose incarnation in bodies of various races and sex. many spirits and demons also choose to take male and female forms. for example, astaroth (a male demon) is also ishtar (a female demoness, originally the goddess of babylon. the devil has been personified in art and in literature as an androgenous being, with both the breasts of a woman and the er

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

ngs, reflected, changeable, fluctuate, protective, mother, nurture, instinctual, domestic, home, care, subconscious memory, parenting, environment, security, babyhood, public opinion, the public, masses, women. luria, isaac: famous jewish kabbalist. his prayers form part of standard jewish prayer books to this day. one of his major interests was said to be in reincarnation and the doctrine of the transmigration of souls- m- macrocosm: the greater world, or universe. distinguished from the microcosm (q.v, with which it corresponds. magick [magic: definitions of this term vary widely. 1) the art of causing change in the manifest world through the unmanifest. 2) the science and art of causing change (in reality or in consciousness) to occur in conformity with will using means not currently un

bering 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 are re-born into other bodies, either human or animal (see transmigration of souls) after death. relaxation: the first step of true meditation. remanence: occurrence of reactions relating to a bygone material object or condition, as if the object or condition were still present. a term used in dowsing (q.v. retort: in alchemy (q.v, a type of container. in sex magick (q.v, the vagina. results, lusting for: being focused on results rather than on the ritual

ret: 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 reincarnation. treasure map: a drawing or collage used to help the practitioner with magick involving "creative" visualization (q.v. tree of

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

career. in 1857 he left teaching and devoted himself to writing, specializing in the popularizing of science, mainly physiology and medical chemistry. he published many notable works and was equally distinguished for his prodigious output and literary quality. those works having a bearing on occult matters include le lendemain de la mort, ou la vie future selon la science (1872, dealing with the transmigration of souls, l alchimie et les alchimistes (1860, histoire du merveilleux dans les temps modernes (1860.74, and les bonheurs d outre tombe (1892. in 1889 he published a volume of dramas and comedies, la science au theatre. figuier s four-volume histoire du merveilleux was a welldocumented study of the jansenist convulsionaires, the religious revival of the cevennes, the divining rod, a

unreliable tools. he also did not favor palmistry. he advocated the spiritual philosophy that swedenborg had learned by his communication with the angels in place of the esoteric philosophies based upon observation of the natural world, especially the then-popular theosophical wisdom of jakob boehme (1575.1624. he also held swedenborg s visions of the spiritual world over against the teachings of transmigration (the belief that human souls can, after death, be reembodied as animals. he believed that transmigration was a corruption of the truth, that swedenborg had seen in his visions of the spiritual world, human souls sometimes appeared as various animals. as the head of the society for promoting the heavenly doctrines of the new jerusalem, hindmarsh copied many of the forms from methodis

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

hing that is great and noble; zoroaster s disciples were called meghestom. eusebe salverte, author of des sciences occulte (1829, stated that these mobeds were named in the pehivi dialect magoi. they were divided into three classes: those who abstained from all animal food; those who never ate of the flesh of any tame animals; and those who made no scruple to eat any kind of meat. a belief in the transmigration of the soul was the foundation of this abstinence. they professed the science of divination and for that purpose met together and consulted in their temples. they professed to make truth the great object of their study, for that alone, they said, can make man like god whose body resembles light, as his soul or spirit resembles truth. they condemned all images and those who said that

1970s to denote unexplained phenomena such as ufos, ghosts, alien creatures, mysterious fires, and unusual falls from the sky, usually classified as fortean phenomena after the writer charles hoy fort, who pioneered the study of such things. the term never became popular and largely passed out of use in favor of anomalistics (see also occidental society of metempiric analysis) metempsychosis (or transmigration of souls) from the greek meta, after, and empsychos, to animate, the belief that after death, the soul passes into another body, either human or animal. in ancient greece it was roughly equivalent to the idea of reincarnation. the idea seems to have originated in egypt but to have first been advocated by pythagoras around 455 b.c.e. diogenes laertius noted that pythagoras once recog

ously been embodied and passed through bodily death. the idea of reincarnation.that the soul passes through a series of embodiments.stands in contrast to the dominant western christian idea of a single corporeal embodiment followed by resurrection (reunion of the soul with a spiritual body) and life with god in heaven. reincarnation is often associated with, but is not necessarily connected with, transmigration, the idea that at death the soul might pass into the body of an animal, a plant, or even an inanimate object such as a stone. the belief in reincarnation was tied to moral categories in ancient religions, especially the eastern concept of karma, which viewed the present life as the working out of consequences from previous lives. future embodiments will also be determined by the con

d 600 b.c.e. in the fourth century, plato s phaedrus presents a reincarnation myth that seems to have been derived from the ophite religion. a preexistent soul falls from the realm of the gods into earthly existence, where it migrates from one body to the next for some ten thousand years before it returns upward to a place of judgment. plato also introduced into greek thought the possibility of a transmigration of the soul into an animal. in roman literature, the idea of reincarnation is found in the writings of ennius, probably deriving from greek thought. there is no trace of it in jewish literature, although it later entered into some kabalistic teaching. from greek philosophy, it came into the gnostic tradition, and from second- and thirdcentury gnosticism it passed to the manichaeans

e antireincarnationist view appears in the early writings of origen, the third-century theologian who as a young man had converted to christianity. before his conversion he was an accomplished platonist, and he attempted to integrate platonic philosophy and christian thinking in his earliest writings, which, if not affirming reincarnation, do speak of the preexistence of the soul and its possible transmigration. origen later dropped his beliefs and in his biblical commentaries emerged as hostile to reincarnationist thought. a major controversy involving origen s early thought emerged in the sixth century surrounding a group of people who adopted origen s early writings as part of their larger challenge to the roman empire. thus it was that several councils reaffirmed the church s opinion o

ms formed at various stages of embodiment, hubbard says. as soon became obvious in dianetics, clears were not the fully liberated individuals it had been hoped they would be. the idea of engrams from past lives explained the problem, thus a new concept appeared in scientology.the mestclear (mest= matter-energy-space-time. much of hubbard s thinking resonates with the concepts of reincarnation and transmigration of souls found in eastern religions. the goal of scientology training thus became the final clearing of the individual of all engrams and the creation of what is termed an operating thetan. among the abilities of the operating thetan is the soul s capacity to leave and operate apart from the body. the exact content of the teachings of the church of scientology are imparted in the cl

FOCUS OF LIFE

rminating. knowledge of necessities is desirous:-deliberation is but a sorry disatisfaction-a first cause of illusions, harnessing man to a mass of half-realized desires. remember! o ikkah, these present ideas of consciousness obtaining in senses and bodies, are transitory-are destined for usage and other predeterminations-and unnecessary to wakefulness. will is transition; the painful process of transmigration-the labour of birth of death. volition to supersede a thing is inability to realize the living self. for whatever is attained is but the re-awaking of an earlier experience of body. man should most desire a simultaneous consciousness of his separate entities. all consciousness of 'i' is a decline and vegetates good and evil afreshthe compulsion of limit and morality. from spontaneou

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

on. you ascend from the east of the sky, being renewed in your due season, and rejuvenated in your due time. 11 we have encountered the orion constellation before, on the plains of nazca, and we shall encounter it again. meanwhile, let us consider the ancient egyptian book of the dead. parts of its contents are as old as the civilization of egypt itself and it serves as a sort of baedeker for the transmigration of the soul. it instructs the deceased on how to overcome the dangers of the afterlife, enables him to assume the form of several mythical creatures, and equips him with the passwords necessary for admission to the various stages, or levels, of the underworld.12 is it a coincidence that the peoples of ancient central america preserved a parallel vision of the perils of the afterlife

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

j.h. brannan the spear of destiny by trevor ravenscroft the eye in the triangle by israel regardie the confessions of aleister crowley by aleister crowley the autobiography of malcolm x as told to alex haley magick without tears by aleister crowley, edited by regardie thus spoke zarathustra by friedrich nietzche the last testament by greg rickman valis by philip k. dick 84 allen h. greenfield the transmigration of timothy archer by philip k. dick radio free albemuth by philip k. dick what is enlightenment? john white, editor cosmic consciousness by richard bucke. m.d. hitler m a dit by hermann rauschning the fellowship by brad steiger the silencers by timothy green beckley the silver bridge by gray barker the sirius mystery by robert temple also check their sources, if possible. the materi

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

ies comes to be invested with a halo of honour. that is how we may in some instances have to take a bear, bull, cow or snake, presupposing an in carnation, though our mythology may have long ceased to reach so far back as to give a full account of it. then, bordering close upon such a lowering of the god into the animal, comes the penal degradation of m<an into a beast, the old doctrine of transmigration, in which we discover a third reason for the consecration of animals, though it does not warrant an actual worship of them. those myths, e.g. of the cuckoo, woodpecker, nightingale, and so on, furnish a fund of beautiful tales, which enter largely into the hero-worship (see suppl. quadeupeds. foremost of animals i name the horse, the noblest, wisest, trustiest of domestic animals, w

a witch riding her wolf appeared to his brother at night, and offered her attendance, bau$ fylg$ sina; fylgjo beiddi/ seem. 14a. 147a. when a man sees his fylgja, she is giving him up, quitting him. in norway the vulgar opinion is, that the folgie likes to shew herself in the shape of some animal that typifies the character of the man she belongs to (faye p. 77. can this have indi cated a future transmigration? conf. p. 823. there were fylgjor that, like the dwarfs, stuck to certain families: kynfylgjor, csttarfylgjor; and this is important, as teaching the affinity of 1 conf. h. sachs s poem die engels hut, and der lockige knabe, in rebel s karfunkel [not only men, but even some animals, have an angel of their own, keisersp. brosaml. 19. the pass. 337, 46 agrees with caes. heist: zwene e

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

essence. there it remains until the right time for another incarnation with the soul essence in another physical body, for more and different earthly experiences, which are added to the personality memory and remain intact there as the accumulating knowledge and wisdom of the inner self. each personality may incarnate many times, the limit being unknown. reincarnation should not be confused with transmigration: the personality never retrogrades or enters the bodies 200 of animals. the mystical doctrine underlying the necessity of reincarnation is the absorption of the soul personality into the universal mind, the process of perfecting the soul personality. life by life through varied experiences the personality unfolds as we become more and more conscious of the cosmic intelligence with

HEKAS

ake this point for a simple reason, when man observes the seasons around him, the wheel of the agricultural year, the circle of the moon in her seasons and the great cycle of the polar circumcession, he will base his spiritual expression, his magic, upon these perceptions and consequently the circle will arise as a central motif. this is a point to be taken into account and distinguished from the transmigration of techniques demonstrating very specific applications of the motif. we may also add a further interesting etymological note at this juncture, namely that the sorcerer- being 'he who en-sorcels, is also 'he that en-circles, since 'to ensorcel, from ensorcellement ,is 'to encircle, also we may cite sortiere 'to cast lots, and thus the sorcerer is the type of the magical operator who

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

lso called mystagogus. hillel a great babylonian rabbi of the century preceding the christian era. he was the founder of the sect of the pharisees, a learned and a saintly man. hinayana (sans) the "smaller vehicle" a scripture and a school of the buddhists, contrasted with the mahayana "the greater vehicle" both schools are mystical (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

personal desire. there is the karma of merit and the karma of demerit. karma neither punishes nor rewards; it is simply the one universal law which guides unerringly and, so to say, blindly, all other laws productive of certain effects along the grooves of their respective causations. when buddhism teaches that "karma is that moral kernel (of any being) which alone survives death and continues in transmigration" or reincarnation, it simply means that there remains nought after each personality, but the causes produced by it, causes which are undying, i.e, which cannot be eliminated from the universe until replaced by their legitimate effects, and so to speak, wiped out by them. and such causes, unless compensated during the life of the person who produced them with adequate effects, will f

ation "of everything connected with matter or the physical world" and this simply because the latter (as also all in it) is illusion or maya. sakyamuni buddha said in the last moments of his life "the spiritual body is immortal" as mr. eitel, the scholarly sinologist, explains it: the popular exoteric systems agree in defining nirvana negatively as a state of absolute exemption from the circle of transmigration; as a state of entire freedom from all forms of existence, to begin with, freedom from all passion and exertion; a state of indifference to all sensibility -and he might have added "death of all compassion for the world of suffering" and this is why the bodhisattvas who prefer the nirmanakaya to the dharmakaya vesture stand higher in the popular estimation than the nirvanees. but th

ISIS UNVEILED

r the galileans, believed or knew anything about the doctrine of penavtaium. and the sadduoees rejected even that of the resurrection "but the author of this reatitutw was mosah, our master, upon whom be peace! who was the revoltitio [transmigration] of seth and hebel, that he might cover the nudity of his father adam i*rtmta" says the kabala" thus the hint of jesus that john was the raxautio, or transmigration, of elias, seems to prove beyond any doubt the sduiol to which he belonged. until the present day uninitiated kabalists and masons bdieve per- mutation to be synonymous with transmigiation and metempsychosis. but they are as much mistaken in regard to the doctrine of uie true kabalists as to that of the buddhists, true, the zoaor says in one place "all souls are subject to transmigr

he combaie it as a hlaapkemy" peter's theory of sin is that of the jewish kabalists, and is even, in a certain way, platonic. adam not only never sinned, but "as a true prophet, possessed of the spirit of god, which afterwards was in jesus, could not sin" in short, the whole of the work exhibits the belief of the author in the kabalistic doctrine of permutation. the kabala teaches the doctrine of transmigration of the spirit "mosah is the reooltitio ofsethandhebel "tell me who it is who brings about the re-lnrui (the revoltiho)f" is asked of the wise hermes "god's son, tlie tmly man, through the will of god" is the answer of the 'heathen "god's son" is the immortal spirit assigned to eveiy human b^ng. it is this divine entity which is the "only man" for the casket which con- tains our soul

olu- tionists before the day when the mythical noah is made, in the bible, to float in his ark; and the ancient scientists were better informed, and had their theories more logically defined than the modem evolutionists. plato, anaxagoras, pythagoras, the eleatic schools of greece, as well as the old chaldaean sacerdotal colleges, all taught the doctrine of the dual evolution; the doctrine of the transmigration of souls referring only with dtagmni, tables, etc. he myb tbst thajgradiud ddbuement and degndation of mui. monlly siid phyncslly. csa be readily traced throughciut the ethnoksiaj ttana- fonnations down to our times. and at one portion has already degcdentea into ape ?o the dnliied man id the present day will at last, under the action of the inevitable law of aecessity, be abo succe

rd the only land of bliss and eternal rest, called in the zohar 'the palace of love' rcrw'?d\n" in the hindfi religion, moktka; among the gnostics, the 'plerotna of eternal light; and by the buddhists, nirv na. the christian calls it the 'kingdom of heaven' and claims to have alone found the truth, whereas he has but invented a new name for a doctrine which is coeval' with man. the proof that the transmigration of the soul does not relate to man's condition on this earth after death, is found in the zoaor, notwithstand- ing the many incorrect renderings of its translators "all souls which have alienated themselves in heaven from the holy one blessed be his name have thrown themselves into an abyss at their very existence, and have anticipated the time when they are to descend on earth. com

as of the gbeek fhil080phbbs 283 with the whole world of interior knowledge. whereas the old lonico- italian wiwld culminated in anazagoras, the new world began with socrates and plato. pythagoras made the soul a aelf-moving unit, with three elements, the mnu, the phrin and the thutoot; the latter two, shared with the brutes; the first, ijone, being his essential sdf. so the charge that he taught transmigration is refuted; he taught no more than gautama-buddha did, whatever the popular superstition of the hindfi rabble made of it [gautama's teaching] alter his death. whether pytha- goras borrowed from buddha, or buddha from somebody else, matters not; the esoteric doctrine is the same. ilie platonic school is even more distinct in enunciating all this. the real selfhood was at the basis of

c elements. the "three feet are the holy apptieation, the opening, and the paoniom" says one of their books; on man's inner and outer soul, and his body, a i^iantom, a passing shadow. the body, or matter, is also called the 'bival* for "he is the minister of sin, the devil ever creating dissensions between the heavenly intelligence [spirit) and the soul, which he tempts incessantly" heir ideas on transmigration are i^thagorean and kabalistic 'die spirit, or temeami (the divine soul, was in elijah and john the baptist; and the soul of jesus was that of "hamza; that is to say. of the same de- gree of purity and sanctity. untu their resurrection, by whit^ they un- derstand the day when the spiritual bodies of men will be absorbed into god's own essence and being (the nirvana of the hindfla, t

ment of matter. it is the very opposite of personal annihilation" nirvana means the certitude of personal immortality in spirit, not in sovl, which, as a finite emanation, must certainly disintegrate its par- ticles a compound of human sensations, passions, and yearning for some objective kind of existence before the immortal spirit of the ego is quite freed, and henceforth secure against further transmigration in any form. and how can man ever reach this state so long as the up&dana, that state of longing for life, more life, does not disappear from the sen- tient being, from the ahank&ra dothed, however, in a sublimated body? it is the 'upad&na' or ^e intense desire which produces will, and it is wiu, which develops fane, and the latter generates viatter, or an object having form. thus t

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k into the divine light, or unparticled nothingness, of all the stages of being or of evil, the chinese pagodas, we repeat, are nothing but innumerable gilt and belled fanciful repetitions of the primeval monolith. the fire, or light, is still worshipped in the chinese temples; it has not been perceived that, in the very form of the chinese pagodas, the fundamental article of the chinese religion transmigration, through stages of being, out into nothingness of this world has been architecturally emblemed in the diminishing stories, carried upwards, and fining away into the series of unaccountable discs struck through a vertical rod, until all culminates, and as it were, to speak heraldically of it the last achievement is blazoned in the gilded ball, which means the final, or bhuddist, glor

oduction, and a hieroglyphical signalling on, of special truth, eldest of time? do we not recognise in the pyramid the repetition of the first monolith? all the uprights constituting the grand attesting pillar to the supernatural tradition of a fire-born world? the ever-recurring globe with wings, so frequent in the sculptures of the egyptians, witnesses to the electric principle. it embodies the transmigration of the indians, the great pyramid. 93 reproduced by pythagoras. pythagoras resided for a long period in egypt, and acquired from the priests the philosophic transition knowledge, which was afterwards doctrine. the globe, disc, or circle of the phoenician astarte, the crescent of minerva, the horns of the egyptian ammon, the deifying of the ox, all have the same meaning. we trace, am

barbarian lands; everything of this kind was intended to signify the deified fire. fires are lighted in the funeral ceremonies of the hindoos and of the mohammedans, even to this day, though the body be committed whole to earth. wherefore fire, then? cremation and urn-burial, or the burning of the dead practised in all ages imply a profounder meaning than is generally supposed. they point to the transmigration of pythagoras, or to the purgatorial reproductions of the indians, among whom we the earliest find the dogma. the real signification of fire-burial is the commitment of human mortality into the last of all matter, overleaping the intermediate states; or the delivering over of the man-unit into the flame-soul, past all intervening spheres or stages of the purgatorial: the absolute do

until it flashed truth upon the worlds in the grand fire- dogma! that faith to which sprung monuments from all the sea-borders at which glittered the beak-itself an imitation flame of every many-oared, single ship of their adventurous, ocean-dotting fleets, the precursors of the exploring ships of the vikings. we claim the caldron of the witches as, in the original, the vase or urn of .the fiery transmigration, in which all the things of the world change. we accept the sign of the double-extended fingers (pointed in a fork, or of horns, which throughout italy, the greek islands, greece, and turkey, is esteemed as the counter-charm to the evil eye, as the occult magian telegraphic. the horns, or radii of the merry-andrew, or jester, or motley, and the horns of satan,-indeed, the figure of

, is of red jasper, and presents the gorgon s head( gorgoneion, with the legend below, arhgo roromandarh i protect rhoromandares. in india, the great abad is bhudda, bauddha, buddha, or baddha. there is a connection suggested here with the abaddon of the greeks. in the same way, a relation may be traced with budha s spiritual teacher; who was the mythic pythagoras, the originator of the system of transmigration, afterwards transplanted to egypt, and thence to greece. thus in sanscrit it is bud ha-gooros, in greek it is putha-goras, in english it is pythagoras; the whole, budha's spiritual teacher. the crista, or crest, or symbolic knob of the phrygian cap or median bonnet, is found also, in a feminine form, in the same mythic head-cover or helmet, for it unites both sexes in its generative

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the hermeneutic conventions concerning words and letters, such as gematria, are more accurately considered rabbinic, not kabbalistic. topics are diverse: the progression of cosmic cycles, mystical explanations of the mitzvot, the interplay of humankind with the ultimate god, the source and reason behind evil, creation and the end, the mystical significance of the holidays, angels and demons, the transmigration of souls.indeed, a ranging literature full of unpredictable interpretations of scripture. 11. idel, kabbalah: new perspectives (new haven: yale university press, 1988. see in particular chapters 6, 7, and 8. 12. on considering the german hasidim an important source for non-sefirotic kabbalah, see daniel abrams, gfrom germany to spain: numerology as a mystical technique, h in journal

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helen f. death and afterlife in greek tragedy and plato. in hiroshi obayashi, ed.death and afterlife: perspectives ofworld religions.westport, ct: greenwood press, 1992, 49 64. smart, ninian. the religious experience of mankind. 3rd ed. new york: charles scribner s sons, 1984. tripp, edward. the meridian handbook of classical mythology. new york: new american library, 1970. werblowsky, r. j. zwi. transmigration. in mircea eliade, ed. encyclopedia of religion. new york: macmillan, 1987. halloween the holiday we designate as halloween (all hallows eve) has its roots in the day of the dead a day when, to speak metaphorically, the veil between this world and the other world was thin. the present date of all hallows eve was set by the catholic church, which took over the ancient roman day of th

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of existence. this school also first expounded the theory of celestial harmonics or "the music of the spheres" john reuchlin said of pythagoras that he taught nothing to his disciples before the discipline of silence, silence being the first rudiment of contemplation. in his sophist, aristotle credits empedocles with the discovery of rhetoric. both pythagoras and empedocles accepted the theory of transmigration, the latter saying "a boy i was, then did a maid become; a plant, bird, fish, and in the vast sea swum" archytas is credited with invention of the screw and the crane. pleasure he declared to be a pestilence because it was opposed to the temperance of the mind; he considered a man without deceit to be as rare as a fish without bones. the eleatic sect was founded by xenophanes (570-4

anded of them, few married. many of the druids retired from the world and lived as recluses in caves, in rough-stone houses, or in little shacks built in the depths of a forest. here they prayed and medicated, emerging only to perform their religious duties. james freeman clarke, in his ten great religions, describes the beliefs of the druids as follows "the druids believed in three worlds and in transmigration from one to the other: in a world above this, in which happiness predominated; a world below, of misery; and this present state. this transmigration was to punish and reward and also to purify the soul. in the present world, said they, good and evil are so exactly balanced that man has the utmost freedom and is able to choose or reject either. the welsh triads tell us there are thre

eeper, esoteric doctrine was given only to initiated priests. to be admitted to the order, a candidate was required to be of good family and of high moral character. no important secrets were intrusted to him until he had been tempted in many ways and his strength of character severely tried. the druids taught the people of britain and gaul concerning the immortality of the soul. they believed in transmigration and apparently in reincarnation. they borrowed in one life, promising to pay back in the next. they believed in a purgatorial type of hell where they would be purged of their sins, afterward passing on to the happiness of unity with the gods. the druids taught that all men would be saved, but that some must return to earth many times to learn the lessons of human life and to overcom

he sees reflected, loses the opportunity afforded by physical life to unfold his immortal, invisible self. an ancient initiate once said that the living are ruled by the dead. only those conversant with the eleusinian concept of life could understand that statement. it means that the majority of people are not ruled by their living spirits but by their senseless (hence dead) animal personalities. transmigration and reincarnation were taught in these mysteries, but in a somewhat unusual manner. it was believed that at midnight the invisible worlds were closest to the terrestrial sphere and that souls coming into material existence slipped in during the midnight hour. for this reason many of the eleusinian click to enlarge the rape of persephone. from thomassin's recucil des figures, groupes

ey to wisdom that the priests communicated to the new initiates was what they termed the law of analogy. therefore, to the ancients, the study of the stars was a sacred science, for they saw in the movements of the celestial bodies the ever-present activity of the infinite father. the pythagoreans were often undeservedly criticized for promulgating the so-called doctrine of metempsychosis, or the transmigration of souls. this concept as circulated among the uninitiated was merely a blind, however, to conceal a sacred truth. greek mystics believed that the spiritual nature of man descended into material existence from the milky way--the seed ground of souls--through one of the twelve gates of the great zodiacal band. the spiritual nature was therefore said to incarnate in the form of the sy

creature created by magian star gazers to represent the various zodiacal constellations. if the spirit incarnated through the sign of aries, it was said to be born in the body of a ram; if in taurus, in the body of the celestial bull. all human beings were thus symbolized by twelve mysterious creatures through the natures of which they were able to incarnate into the material world. the theory of transmigration was not applicable to the visible material body of man, but rather to the invisible immaterial spirit wandering along the pathway of the stars and sequentially assuming in the course of evolution the forms of the sacred zodiacal animals. in the third book of the mathesis of julius firmicus maternus appears the following extract concerning the positions of the heavenly bodies at the

y treasures, and bearing in her hands a tray loaded with grapes (emblematic of false light, sought to lure him into the chambers of dissipation. this symbol is still preserved among the tarot cards, where it is called the forking of the ways. the forked stick has been the symbol of life among many nations, and it was placed in the desert to indicate the presence of water. concerning the theory of transmigration as disseminated by pythagoras, there are differences of opinion. according to one view, he taught that mortals who during their earthly existence had by their actions become like certain animals, returned to earth again in the form of the beasts which they had grown to resemble. thus, a timid person would return in the form of a rabbit or a deer; a cruel person in the form of a wolf

a cunning person in the guise of a fox. this concept, however, does not fit into the general pythagorean scheme, and it is far more likely that it was given in an allegorical rather than a literal sense. it was intended to convey the idea that human beings become bestial when they allow themselves to be dominated by their own lower desires and destructive tendencies. it is probable that the term transmigration is to be understood as what is more commonly called reincarnation, a doctrine which pythagoras must have contacted directly or indirectly in india and egypt. the fact that pythagoras accepted the theory of successive reappearances of the spiritual nature in human form is found in a footnote to levi's history of magic "he was an important champion of what used to be called the doctri

ore commonly called reincarnation, a doctrine which pythagoras must have contacted directly or indirectly in india and egypt. the fact that pythagoras accepted the theory of successive reappearances of the spiritual nature in human form is found in a footnote to levi's history of magic "he was an important champion of what used to be called the doctrine of metempsychosis, understood as the soul's transmigration into successive bodies. he himself had been (a) aethalides, a son of mercury (b) euphorbus, son of panthus, who perished at the hands of menelaus in the trojan war (c) hermotimus, a prophet of clazomenae, a city of ionia (d) a humble fisherman; and finally (e) the philosopher of samos" pythagoras also taught that each species of creatures had what he termed a seal, given to it by go

eath. if a cat dies a natural death in a house, all they of that house shave their eyebrows: if a dog, they shave the head and all the body. they used to embalm their dead cats, and carry them to bubastis to be interred in a sacred house (montfaucon's antiquities) the most important of all symbolic animals was the apis, or egyptian bull of memphis, which was regarded as the sacred vehicle for the transmigration of the soul of the god osiris. it was declared that the apis was conceived by a bolt of lightning, and the ceremony attendant upon its selection and consecration was one of the most impressive in egyptian ritualism. the apis had to be marked in a certain manner. herodotus states that the bull must be black with a square white spot on his forehead, the form of an eagle (probably a vu

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s or paper; by small attorneys, schemers, money-jobbers, speculators and adventurers--an ignoble oligarchy, enriched by the distresses of the state, and fattened on the miseries of the people. then all the deceitful visions of equality and the rights of man end; and the wronged and plundered state can regain a real liberty only by passing through "great varieties of untried being" purified in its transmigration by fire and blood. in a republic, it soon comes to pass that parties gather round the negative and positive poles of some opinion or notion, and that the intolerant spirit of a triumphant majority will allow no deviation from the standard of orthodoxy which it has set up for itself. freedom of opinion will be professed and pretended to, but every one will exercise it at the peril of

gh their successive spheres. they erected in their holy caves, in which the mystic rites of the mithriac initiations were practised, what he denominates a high _ladder, on the seven steps of which were seven gates or portals, according to the number of the seven principal heavenly bodies. through these the aspirants passed, until they reached the summit of the whole; and this passage was styled a transmigration through the spheres. jacob saw in his dream a _ladder_ planted or set on the earth, and its top reaching to heaven, and the malaki alohim ascending and descending on it, and above it stood ihuh, declaring himself to be ihuh-alhi abraham. the word translated _ladder, is [hebrew _salam, from [hebrew _salal, raised, elevated, reared up, exalted, piled up into a heap _aggeravit [hebrew]

styled themselves _interpreters; a name indicating their claim to the exclusive possession of the true meaning of the holy writings, by virtue of the oral tradition which moses had received on mount sinai, and which successive generations of initiates had transmitted, as they claimed, unaltered, unto them. their very costume, their belief in the influences of the stars, and in the immortality and transmigration of souls, their system of angels and their astronomy, were all foreign. sadduceeism arose merely from an opposition essentially jewish, to these foreign teachings, and that mixture of doctrines, adopted by the pharisees, and which constituted the popular creed. we come at last to the _essenes_ and _therapeuts, with whom this degree is particularly concerned. that intermingling of or

ught to purify the soul. virgil makes the spirit of anchises teach it to neas: and all the expiations and lustrations used in the mysteries were but symbols of those intellectual ones by which the soul was to be purged of its vice-spots and stains, and freed of the incumbrance of its earthly prison, so that it might rise unimpeded to the source from which it came. hence sprung the doctrine of the transmigration of souls; which pythagoras taught as an allegory, and those who came after him received literally. plato, like him, drew his doctrines from the east and the mysteries, and undertook to translate the language of the symbols used there, into that of philosophy; and to prove by argument and philosophical deduction, what _felt_ by the consciousness, the mysteries taught by symbols as an

o says, that the ancient soothsayers, and the interpreters of the will of the gods, in their religious ceremonies and initiations, taught that we expiate here below the crimes committed in a prior life; and for that are born. it was taught in these mysteries, that the soul passes through several states, and that the pains and sorrows of this life are an expiation of prior faults. this doctrine of transmigration of souls obtained, as porphyry informs us, among the persians and magi. it was held in the east and the west, and that from the remotest antiquity. herodotus found it among the egyptians, who made the term of the circle of migrations from one human body, through animals, fishes, and birds, to another human body, three thousand years. empedocles even held that souls went into plants

of the hindus consisted in the belief in the existence of one being only, of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments. their precepts of morality inculcate the practice of virtue as necessary for procuring happiness even in this transient life; and their religious doctrines make their felicity in a future state to depend upon it. besides their doctrine of the transmigration of souls, their dogmas may be epitomized under the following heads: 1st. the existence of one god, from whom all things proceed, and to whom all must return. to him they constantly apply these expressions--the universal and eternal essence; that which has ever been and will ever continue; that which vivifies and pervades all things; he who is everywhere present, and causes the celes

esponsibility. they even retained some idea of the redemption of mankind through the death of a mediator. they retained a tradition of the deluge, perverted and localized. but, around these fragments of primitive truth they wove a web of idolatry, worshipped two subordinate deities under the names of hu and ceridwen, male and female (doubtless the same as osiris and isis, and held the doctrine of transmigration. the early inhabitants of scandinavia believed in a god who was "the author of everything that existeth; the eternal, the ancient, the living and awful being, the searcher into concealed things, the being that never changeth" idols and visible representations of the deity were originally forbidden, and he was directed to be worshipped in the lonely solitude of sequestered forests, w

earches and diffuse argumentation to produce conviction of its truth. nor can we hardly give it the name of _faith; for it was a lively _certainty, like the feeling of one's own existence and identity, and of what is actually present; exerting its influence on all sublunary affairs, and the motive of mightier deeds and enterprises than any mere earthly interest could inspire. even the doctrine of transmigration of souls, universal among the ancient hindus and egyptians, rested on a basis of the old primitive religion, and was connected with a sentiment purely religious. it involved this noble element of truth: that since man had gone astray, and wandered far from god, he must needs make many efforts, and undergo a long and painful pilgrimage, before he could rejoin the source of all perfec

e systems of philosophy was the final deliverance of the soul from the old calamity, the dreaded fate and frightful lot of being compelled to wander through the dark regions of nature and the various forms of the brute creation, ever changing its terrestrial shape, and its union with god, which they held to be the lofty destiny of the wise and virtuous soul. pythagoras gave to the doctrine of the transmigration of souls that meaning which the wise egyptians gave to it in their mysteries: he never taught the doctrine in that literal sense in which it was understood by the people. of that literal doctrine not the least vestige is to be found in such of his symbols as remain, nor in his precepts collected by his disciple lysias. he held that men always remain, in their essence, such as they w

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hose which they had delighted in whilst on earth. here the warrior found his horses, chariots, and arms, the musician his lyre, and the hunter his quiver and bow. in a secluded vale of elysium there flowed a gentle, silent stream, called lethe (oblivion, whose waters had the effect of dispelling care, and producing utter forgetfulness of former events. according to the pythagorean doctrine of the transmigration of souls, it was supposed that after the shades had inhabited elysium for a thousand years they were destined to animate other bodies on [134]earth, and before leaving elysium they drank of the river lethe, in order that they might enter upon their new career without any remembrance of the past. the guilty souls, after leaving the presence of minos, were conducted to the great judgm

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the nefesh. now it sometimes happens that when the soul of an evil man is descending [into the world to be born, and at the same time the soul of a domesticated or wild animal is being emanated [downward into a physical animal being born, the human soul is grafted onto [the soul of the animal] in order to punish it, in accordance with the decisions of the heavenly court. this is a description of transmigration of souls (gilgul, wherein someone who dies without repented (i.e, having done teshuvah) for his sins is sent down again into an animal body. this experience is extremely painful and frustrating for the divine soul, in that it cannot express its divine nature as it can in a human body (by learning torah and doing mitzvot, etc. this experience is meant to gdemonstrate h to this soul w

ot that they describe a simple cause and effect relationship, but that g-d is trying to coax us into observing his commandments with the promise of reward. furthermore, the reward seems to be blessings of material beneficence. and our sages have told us that the true reward for keeping g-d fs commandments awaits us in the afterlife. the explanation is that [this passage] alludes to the concept of transmigration of souls. as you know, the soul is [initially] reincarnated in the mineral or vegetable kingdoms, and afterwards ascends into the animal kingdom, i.e, cattle. if it merits further, it ascends to the kingdom of man. transmigration is the means by which the soul atone for the sins it committed in its first, human lifetime. in the words of the arizal: there is almost no person on earth

ls. as you know, the soul is [initially] reincarnated in the mineral or vegetable kingdoms, and afterwards ascends into the animal kingdom, i.e, cattle. if it merits further, it ascends to the kingdom of man. transmigration is the means by which the soul atone for the sins it committed in its first, human lifetime. in the words of the arizal: there is almost no person on earth that is spared such transmigration. the wicked, after their death, enter purgatory [gehinom] and receive their punishment and atonement there. their judgement there lasts twelve months. although the arizal uses the term gpunishment, h it is important to remember that the suffering the soul endures in gehinom (and in being reincarnated) is meant to gscour h or purify it from the spiritual filth that it accrued during

phonetically inter-related. the first two letters of balaam and balak are the same; the last two letters of balak and amalek are the same; and the first two letters of amalek are the same as the last two letters of balaam. furthermore, the letters of the names balak and balaam that are not common to both spell amalek. these phenomena will be used later. know that all these things are based on the transmigration of the souls [of these nations] and [the significance of] their origins. amalek is the waste product of evil that was separated out of [the soul of] cain, the son of adam. as we will see, there was a good and an evil aspect to cain fs soul. the evil was separated from the good and became the source of amalek. 1 3:184b. 2 3:199b. the arizal on parashat balak 620 this is one of the fi

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of men's lives has debauched and blinded their understandings as to moses, jesus, and the prophets, unless they get [such] convictions from things formerly known, as from the regions of the dead. http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_40.htm (7 of 9 [10/9/2001 12:34:55 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 40-49) the secret commonwealth 48 nor does the ceasing of the visions, upon the seer's transmigration into foreign kingdoms make his lordship's conjecture of the quality of the air and eye [as above] a whit more probable. on the contrary, it confirms greatly my account of an invisible people, guardian over and careful of [the welfare of] men [those fairy people] have their different offices [that is, roles] and abilities in distant countries as appears in daniel 10:13, etc. about is

ften to men of the second sight, than [to be] evil spirits or devils. though they throw great stones, pieces of earth, and wood, at the inhabitants, they hurt them not at all [just] as if they acted not maliciously like devils, but in sport like buffoons and drolls. all ages have offered some obscure testimonies of it [that is, the existence of otherworldly beings] such as pythagoras' doctrine of transmigration; socrates' daemone that gave him precautions of future dangers; plato's classing them into various vehiculated species of spirits; dionysius areopagita's marshalling [of] nine orders of spirits [from] superior [to] subordinate; the [classical] poets [in] their borrowing from the philosophers, and adding their own fancies of fountain, river, and sea nymphs, wood, hill and mountain in

a very important declaration, http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_112.htm (1 of 9 [10/9/2001 12:36:43 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 112-121) commentary 113 figure 8. the power of seven: showing the supernal or divine trinity commentary 114 that the communion between the worlds was a proof against atheism and materialism. page 48 nor does the ceasing of the visions, upon the seer's transmigration into foreign kingdoms make his lordship's conjecture. a whit more probable. what follows is a careful presentation the theory of guardian beings on a regional or national scale, not in any childish political or symbolic sense, but in terms of the holism of the land, that same concept of sacred and divine land that permeates ancestral religion. the reason, kirk says, that seers lose

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at they are not directly concerned with human affairs, but rather with the forms or first principles which are the ordering mechanisms of the universe and everything in it [including humankind. plato conceives the universe as a highly complex, logically intelligible machine which may be understood through philosophy (which is reserved to elite, higher intellects. there is no life after death, but transmigration of the psyche does occur. plato [in the laws] defends belief in the gods because of (1) the doctrine of the immortal psyche, and (2) the evident order in the universe. plato's philosophy concerning immortality can be found in the phaedo, specifically discussions of the recollective basis of knowledge and the cyclical theory of immortality. plato was an adherent of teleology. this is

peats itself" either. rather the components of fourth dimensional existence would continue to exist, although they might be undergoing periodic rearrangement and recomposition. one might draw an analogy to the interchangeability of matter and energy; a seemingly endless variety of transmutation takes place, but the "sum of the whole" remains the same. the chimaera: take the platonic notion of the transmigration of souls. it wouldn't make much sense if entirely new souls could come into being "out of nothing" would it? yet the transmigration theory has been ridiculed on the grounds that (a) world population is expanding, and (b) past incarnations have not been recalled to standards of scientific proof. if "the stuff of which souls are made" can transmutate from other components of a unified

ing of the great abstinence. neither did he feel reincarnation to have been the answer "if people were able to divorce themselves from the stigma attached to personal ego-fulfillment" he wrote "they would not need to play self-deceitful games such as belief in reincarnation as a means of satisfying their natural need for ego-fulfillment" magus lavey, like ouspensky, understood that reincarnation, transmigration, karma, and all theories dealing with the survival of the self were actually approaches to the relationships of the human soul to time. his method of passing this on was taught through an insistence on rejecting self-deceit. he knew perfectly well that reincarnation, karma, and the other theories needed to be viewed as symbols which hid deeper meanings behind their facades. he was h

as a matter of expressing beauty through proportion i could have chosen another number, another symbol. the number of phi is more than mere numbers. i shall hint only briefly at the answer, for i must have further discussion with my magi before others may know the secret meaning of phi. pythagoras used my pentagram as a symbol of his doctrine of reincarnation. others believed phi to represent the transmigration of "souls" because they learned their lessons from non-elect after centuries of misunderstanding and distortion. their theorems are all false, the creations of men and sops to satisfy the non-elect and ensure their continual contentment within the great order. often has intellect been confused with will, being explained as one must survive to ensure the continued existence of the ot

into the night without shame. follow not custom. reach out and grasp your universe. clutch your life. will to control all to your purposes. start existence afresh. will to celebrate your black birthday party. revel in the night. open your senses to set. love, a necessary evil "love consists in the constant beaming forth of a favorable atmosphere. the love of aman for a woman is like an attempt at transmigration, at going beyond ourselves. it inspires migratory tendencies in us- ortega y. gasset classification: v2- c82- 1 author: paul s. uriaz, jr. ii date: january, xiv publication scarab wings, i.1, set-amentet pylon html revision: dec 14, 1997 ce subject: love; evil reading list: 18a "the problem of evil is the problem of liberty. the dwelling place of freedom is the abyss of darkness and

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ied "that will be day zero, and because we will all share the birthday we will all be exactly the same age from that day on, for the rest of our lives. how do you call it when fifty kids come out of the same mother? god knows. fiftuplets. damn" reincarnation, for frenzied gibreel, was a term beneath whose shield many notions gathered a-babeling: phoenix-from-ashes, the resurrection of christ, the transmigration, at the instant of death, of the soul of the dalai lama into the body of a new-born child. such matters got mixed up with the avatars of vishnu, the metamorphoses of jupiter, who had imitated vishnu by adopting the form of a bull; and so on, including of course the progress of human beings through successive cycles of life, now as cockroaches, now as kings, towards the bliss of no-m

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

christians to refer to jesus christ. metaphysical: having to do with the philosophical study of the nature of reality and existence. metaphysics: the branch of philosophy that deals with explanations for the most general questions of being, such as what brought the world into being, and the nature of space, time, god, and the afterlife. world religions: almanac xxiii words to know metempsychosis: transmigration of souls, or the migration of the soul into a different form, animal, or object after death. mezuzah: a small case containing torah passages that observant jews attach to the doorposts of their houses. midrashim: stories that expand on incidents in the hebrew bible. mishnah: the written text of the talmud. mitzvoth: the laws of judaism contained in the torah. moksha: salvation; libe

of philosophy concerned with the evaluation of human conduct. logos: meaning word or logic, it is the defining pattern of the universe, similar to the dao in chinese philosophy. metaphysics: the branch of philosophy that deals with explanations for the most general questions of being, such as what brought the world into being, and the nature of space, time, god, and the afterlife. metempsychosis: transmigration of souls, or the migration of the soul into a different form, animal, or object after death. morality: following the rules of right behavior and conduct. pantheon: a collection of deities, or gods and goddesses. philosophy: the rational or logical investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct. rationalism: belief that knowledge can come exclusively from

ained or universal concepts. rather, a moral action was one that had a moral outcome. the best life, according to aristotle, was one following a moderate course, as guided by reason. consideration of the supernatural the question of immortality was also important for greek philosophers. heraclitus s notion of the fire-soul comes close to addressing immortality, while the pythagorean belief in the transmigration of souls (the belief that souls find another body to reside in after death) held that life continued after death, only in different forms. plato made the first coherent statements about immortality. in fact, through a series of dialogues he sought to prove the immortality world religions: almanac 227 greco-roman religion and philosophy of the soul. in his writings plato repeatedly r

chieve salvation by taking different paths. the upanishads, one of hinduism s sacred texts, declares that all paths lead to the same goal, just as cows of different colors all yield the same white milk. in the bhagavad gita, another 242 world religions: almanac hinduism about hinduism belief. hindus believe that all reality is a unity, expressed by the concept of brahman. they also believe in the transmigration of the soul, or reincarnation (rebirth, and that the quality of a person s next life is determined by his or her character in the present life. followers. hinduism is the third-largest religion in the world, with about 850 million to 1 billion followers. most hindus live in india, but there are significant hindu populations in other countries of south asia. name of god. hindus worsh

ne of ten incarnations, or physical forms, and travels from heaven to earth to set matters right. finally, hinduism recognizes shiva (often spelled siva, the destroyer. shiva embodies the erotic, or sexual, and is alternately compassionate and destructive. brahma, vishnu, and shiva can be thought of as the trinity of hindu gods. reincarnation and karma a core belief of hinduism has to do with the transmigration of the soul, what in the west is often called reincarnation. hindus believe that after death, one s soul is transferred into another body. thus, life consists of an ongoing cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth, continuing through many lifetimes, a cycle called samsara. during one s lifetime, a person accumulates karma, which is the principle that determines how the person will l

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unbroken tradition to the very earliest time. as the hermetic texts continued to influence the growth of european alchemy, astrology, and magic, the author of the books was said to have been adam s grandson, who built the great pyramids of egypt; or an egyptian magician who lived three generations after moses; or a magus from babylonia who instructed pythagoras. the hermetic text decrees against transmigration, the belief that the souls of humans may enter into animals: divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. m delving deeper gordon, stuart. the encyclopedia of myths and legends. london: headline house, 1993. orphic mysteries orpheus may have been an actual historic figure, a man capable of charming both man and beast with his music, but god or human, he modified the dionysi

serves that the wise priest knows he now must reap the fruits of deeds of former births. for be they many or but few, deeds done in covetousness or hate, or through infatuation s power [he] must bear their needful consequence. although the qur an, the holy book received by the prophet muhammed, doesn t really address the concept of past lives and rebirth, sufism, a mystical sect of islam, accepts transmigration of souls as a reality. in the words of the sufi teacher sharf-u d din-maneri: o brother, know for certain that this work has been before thee and me in byone ages. no one has begun this work for the first time. orthodox judaism also rejects reincarnation as doctrine, but the hasidic sect and those who follow the teachings of the kabbalah, a collection of mystical texts first publish

in the words of the sufi teacher sharf-u d din-maneri: o brother, know for certain that this work has been before thee and me in byone ages. no one has begun this work for the first time. orthodox judaism also rejects reincarnation as doctrine, but the hasidic sect and those who follow the teachings of the kabbalah, a collection of mystical texts first published in 1280, accept the belief in the transmigration of souls as a firm and infallible doctrine. rabbi manasseh ben israel (1604 1657, the revered theologian and english statesman, said that reincarnation was a fundamental point of their religion: we are therefore duty bound to obey 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 42 afterlife mysteries the chinese taoists believe that after de

anding hinduism. http//www.hinduism.co.za. 28 september 2001. islam the qur an (or koran, the holy book of islam, has no direct reference to reincarnation, and there are only a few passages that may suggest a concept of rebirth, such as the following: god generates beings and sends them back over and over again, til they return to him. orthodox islamic scholars generally frown upon the concept of transmigration. however, the islamic mystical sect of persia, the sufis, carries on the ancient teachings of rebirth as espoused by moorish and saracenic philosophers in the schools of baghdad and cordova. the sufis claim to keep alive the islamic esoteric philosophies and 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 afterlife mysteries 47 krishna, one

n d u n e x p l a i n e d afterlife mysteries 47 krishna, one of the main gods in hinduism, represented in a thirteenth-century relief (corbis corporation) thequr an, the holy book of islam, has no direct reference to reincarnation. maintain that reincarnation is an important doctrine. the sufi poet jalalu d-din rumi (1207 1273) wrote these lines that are often quoted as containing the essence of transmigration: i died as mineral and became a plant; i died as plant and rose to animal; i died as animal and i was man. yet once more i shall die as man, to soar with angels blest; but even from angelhood i must pass on. judaism the hebrew term for the passage of a soul after death into another physical form human, animal, or inanimate is gilgul neshamot. although reincarnation as a doctrine is

i shall die as man, to soar with angels blest; but even from angelhood i must pass on. judaism the hebrew term for the passage of a soul after death into another physical form human, animal, or inanimate is gilgul neshamot. although reincarnation as a doctrine is generally renounced by jewish theologians and philosophers, the karaites, a jewish sect which rejected rabbinism and talmudism, taught transmigration of the soul. anan ben david, who founded the karaites in baghdad about 765, said that all human souls have a common origin in the primordial human, adam kadmon, whose spiritual essence sends forth sparks which form individual souls. when the later adam of genesis committed sin in the garden of eden, his fall brought about confusion among higher and lower souls throughout creation, w

d sin in the garden of eden, his fall brought about confusion among higher and lower souls throughout creation, which resulted in the need for every soul to pass through a series of incarnations. although anan ben david s teachings were severely criticized as contrary to orthodox belief, gilgul became a part of the kabbalah, the compilation of mystical works collected in thirteenth-century spain. transmigration of souls is also a universal belief in hasidism. according to alan unterman in his dictionary of jewish lore and legend (1994: transmigration gave a new meaning to many aspects of life. the deaths of young children were less tragic, since they were being punished for previous sins and would be reborn in a new life. proselytes to judaism were jewish souls which had been incarnated in

mystical secrets. although tradition declares rabbi simeon ben jochai (c. 80 c.e) as its author, later scholarship acknowledges the contribution of rabbi moses de leon (1240 1305) and other hebrew scholars in the thirteenth century. the zohar states that since the human soul is rooted in the divine, the redemption of the world will be achieved when each individual has undergone the process of the transmigration of souls and completes his or her task of unification. because humans cannot know the most high s plans for each individual, they cannot know how they are being judged at all times, both before and after coming into the world and when they leave it. because the goal of all human souls is to reenter the absolute from which they originally emerged, it is necessary for them to develop

hem aren t having memories of past lives. there are many teachings about reincarnation in jewish mysticism, gershom said. the hebrew word gilgul comes from the same root as the hebrew word for circle or cycle. so the essence of its meaning is similar to the ideal of the wheel of karma. 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 48 afterlife mysteries transmigration of souls is a universal belief in hasidism. m delving deeper crim, keith, ed. the perennial dictionary of world religions. san francisco: harper collins, 1989. eerdmans handbook to the world s religions. grand rapids, mich: wm. b. eerdmans publishing co, 1994. head, joseph, and s. l. cranston, s.l, eds. reincarnation: an east-west anthology. wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing hou

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ur world, its growth and development. 136 the logos. 136 mystery of the female logos. 137[[vol. 1, page] xi contents. page. the seven layu centres. 138 the "elementary germs. 139 the evolution of the elements. 140 the building of the worlds. 145 a neutral centre. 147 "dead" planets- the moon. 149- theosophical misconceptions. 152 the planetary divisions and the human principles. 153 the moon. 155 transmigrations of the ego. 159 the septenary chain. 161 relation of the other planets to the earth. 163- explanations concerning the globes and the monads. 170 the lunar chain and the earth chain. 172 the earth, the child of the moon. 173 classification of the monads. 175 the monad defined. 177 the lunar monads- the pitris. 179 a triple evolution in nature. 181- stanza vi- continued. 191 "creatio

e "seven principles" for the benefit of those who may not have read, or, if they have, may not have clearly understood, in theosophical writings, the doctrine of the septenary chains of worlds in the solar kosmos, the teaching is briefly thus- 1. everything in the metaphysical as in the physical universe is septenary. hence every sidereal body, every planet, whether visible[[vol. 1, page] 159 the transmigrations of the ego. or invisible, is credited with six companion globes (see diagram no. 3, after verse 6 of this commentary) the evolution of life proceeds on these seven globes or bodies from the 1st to the 7th in seven rounds or seven cycles. 2. these globes are formed by a process which the occultists call the "rebirth of planetary chains (or rings" when the seventh and last round of o

combined work of the most venerated sages, fails to show a distinct cosmogony" nevertheless, there is one, and a very distinct one. only as confucius did not admit of a future life* and the chinese buddhists reject the idea of one creator, accepting one cause and its numberless effects, they are misunderstood by the believers in a personal god. the "great extreme" as the commencement "of changes (transmigrations) is the shortest and perhaps the most suggestive of all cosmogonies, for those who, like the confucianists, love virtue for its own sake, and try to do good unselfishly without perpetually looking to reward and profit. the "great extreme" of confucius produces "two figures" these "two" produce in their turn "the four images; these again "the eight symbols" it is complained that tho

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no merit, unless it had passed through the furnace of temptation. nothing is eternal and unchangeable, save the concealed deity. nothing that is finite-whether because it had a beginning, or must have an end-can remain stationary. it must either progress or recede; and a soul which thirsts after a reunion with its spirit, which alone confers upon it immortality, must purify itself through cyclic transmigrations onward toward the only land of bliss and eternal rest, called in the zohar "the palace of love; in the hindu religion "moksha; among the gnostics "the pleroma of eternal light; and by the buddhists "nirvana" and all these states are temporary, not eternal. q. yet there is no reincarnation spoken of in all this. a. a soul which pleads to be allowed to remain where she is, must be pr

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no merit, unless it had passed through the furnace of temptation. nothing is eternal and unchangeable, save the concealed deity. nothing that is finite whether because it had a beginning, or must have an end can remain stationary. it must either progress or recede; and a soul which thirsts after a reunion with its spirit, which alone confers upon it immortality, must purify itself through cyclic transmigrations onward toward the only land of bliss and eternal rest, called in the zohar 'the palace of love' rcrw'?d\n" in the hindfi religion, moktka; among the gnostics, the 'plerotna of eternal light; and by the buddhists, nirv na. the christian calls it the 'kingdom of heaven' and claims to have alone found the truth, whereas he has but invented a new name for a doctrine which is coeval' wi

she emanated" spirit' all souls are dual, and while the soul is a feminine principle, the spirit is masculine. while imprisoned in body, man is a trinity, unless his pollution is such as to have caused his divorce from the' spirit "woe to the soul which prefers to her divine husband [spirit] the earthly wedlock with her terrestrial body" records a text of the book of the keys^ these ideas on the transmigrations and the trinity of man were held by many of the early christian fathers. it is the jumble made by the translators of the new testament and of ancient philosophical treatises, between soul and spirit, that has occasioned the many misunderstand- ings. this is also one of the many reasons why buddha, plotiuus, and so many other initiates are now accused of having longed for the total

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ld, after death, be raised to that lofty rank. it being taught in the mysteries, either by way of allegory, the meaning of which was not made known except to a select few, or, perhaps only at a later day, as an actual reality, that the souls of the vicious dead passed into the bodies of those animals to whose nature their vices had most affinity, it was also taught that the soul could avoid these transmigrations, often successive and numerous, by the practice of virtue, which would acquit it of them, free it from the circle of successive generations, and restore it at once to its source. hence nothing was so ardently prayed for by the initiates, says proclus, as this happy fortune, which, delivering them from the empire of evil, would restore them to their true life, and conduct them to th

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utim 12 ibid. 4:7. parashat vaeira in the beginning of the portion of the torah read this week, the torah details the geneology of moses and aaron. gthese are the names of the sons of levi: gershon, kehat, and merari c. and the sons of kehat: amram, yitzhar, hebron, and uziel. h1 gand amram took his aunt jochebed for a wife, and she bore him aaron and moses. c h2 it is fitting to explain here the transmigrations of the soul of aaron. i have already identified his original root many times, including [in my comments] on the verse gand a new king arose over egypt, h in the exposition of [the three children of amram] moses, aaron, and miriam [i explained there] how both aaron and moses originate in the yesod of abba as it is present in z feir anpin, and how both of them are aspects of abel, th

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