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, and move the symbols answering to the classes under which they fall. also, if it be possible, you can touch them with the symbol, whether it be general or particular. under this heading are included all classes of goodwill, among the which the most difficult by far is to make yourself beloved by religious persons.130 chapter xxi (to transform oneself, and take different faces and forms) in this transmutation, which is rather a fascination, the method of operating is as follows: take the symbol in your left hand, and with it stroke your face. now were it some (ordinary) necromancer who was transformed by the working of some diabolical art, he would soon be discovered (by you. it of abramelin the mage 105 is certain, however, that if he who operateth be instructed in the true and sacred ma

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

e no part whatever in love, as for recreation. but let him copy out each verse of thelema which bears upon this matter, and ponder them, and comment thereupon. for therein is a wisdom and a magick too deep to utter in any other wise. 20 "concerning the meditations- herein is the most potent method of attaining unto the end, for him who is thoroughly prepared, being purified by the practice of the transmutation of 394 deed into devotion, and consecrated by the right performance of the holy ceremonies. yet herein is danger, for that the mind is fluid as quicksilver, and bordereth upon the abyss, and is beset by many sirens and devils that seduce and attack it to destroy it. therefore let the devotee beware, and precise accurately his meditations, even as a man should build a canal from sea t

to do this is an high art, and pertaineth not altogether to the grade of philosophus. neither is it of itself helpful, but rather the reverse in this especial practice. 396 26 "concerning silence- now there may come a time in the course of this practice when the outward symbols of devotion cease, when the soul is as it were dumb in the presence of its god. mark that this is not a cessation but a transmutation of the barren seed of prayer into the green shoot of yearning. this yearning is spontaneous, and it shall be left to grow, whether it be sweet or bitter. for often times it is as the torment of hell in which the soul burns and writhes unceasingly. yet it ends, and at its end continue openly thy method. 27 "concerning dryness- another state wherein at times the soul may fall is this d

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

l symbol, the barren cross on which he has made a rose to flower, occupies himself primarily with spiritual and physiological alchemy. taking for "the first matter of the work" a neutral or inert substance (it is constantly described as the commonest and least valued thing on earth, and may actually connote any substance whatever) he deliberately poisons it, so to speak, bringing it to a stage of transmutation generally called the black dragon, and he proceeds to work upon this virulent poison until he obtains the perfection theoretically possible. incidentally, we have an almost precise parallel with this operation in modern bacteriology. the apparently harmless bacilli of a disease are cultivated until they become a thousand times more virulent than at first, and it is from this culture

ess was to be that i should knock a vase off the mantel-piece. we appointed certain days and hours- with some awkwardness, as my time-distance from her was constantly growing shorter- for me to pay my visit. we got some remarkable results; our records of the interview used to tally with surprising accuracy; but the vase remained intact! this is not one of my notorious digressions; and this is how transmutation comes into it. i found that by first taking the shape of a golden hawk, and resuming my own form after landing in her "temple- a room she had fitted ad hoc- the whole operation became incomparably easier. i shall not indulge in hypotheses of why this should have been the case. a little over four years later- in the meantime we had met and worked at magick together- we resumed these e

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

htened democracy is that it provides more completely for the fooling of the sovereign people than any other known system) 41 chapter xxxvii the right use of government. 1. the tao proceedeth by its own nature, doing nothing; therefore there is no doing which it comprehendeth not. 2. if kings and princes were to govern in this manner, all things would operate aright by their own motion. 3. if this transmutation were my object, i should call it simplicity. simplicity hath no name nor purpose; silently and at ease all things go well. 42 part ii chapter xxxviii concerning the teh. 1. those who possessed perfectly the powers((teh) did not manifest them, and so they preserved them. those who possessed them imperfectly feared to lose them, and so lost them. 2. the former did nothing, nor had need

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

h never occurred until the spinal column collapsed. no treatment could be found even to prolong the agony by an hour. this being recognised, sufferers were thrown from the cliffs at the first sign of the malady. in this way too were all other corpses disposed. it was the most honourable death possible, for becoming 'bread from heaven' for the serviles, they were again worked up into zro itself, a transmutation which in their view would be well worth all the "resurrections of the body" and "immortalities of the soul" of the theoretical, dogmatic, hearsay religions. so much then concerning zro, and the matters immediately connected with it .pa iv. of the so called magic of the atlanteans. magic in atlas was a 'science of sciences. it was the final integration of all knowledge. in method its

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

adabra then is also to be considered as a sentinel before the fortress of the god. why is the name of him spelt khut? we have seen that st is the regular honorific terminitation for a god. ra is, as shown in the old comment, the sun, hoor the warrior mars; who is khu? he is the magical ego of a star. without the yod or iota, khu-t, we get a human conception; the insertion of that letter makes the transmutation to godhead. when therefore ra hoor khut is rewarded or re-guarded with the magick word of the aeon, he becomes god. thus in the next verse. i 'raise the spell of ra hoor khuit. the text may also be read as follows. abrahadabra is the formula of the aeon, by which man may accomplish the great work. this formula is then the 'reward' given by the god, the largesse granted by him on his

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3

onnects by imputation with the early rosicrucians. the triumphal chariot of antimony. by basil valentine. translated from the latin, including the commentary of kerckringius, and biographical and critical introduction. edited by a. e. waite. crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. net. a valuable treatise by one who is reputed a great master of alchemical art. it connects practical chemistry with the occult theory of transmutation. the antimonial fire-stone is said to cure diseases in man and to remove the imperfection of metals. the alchemical writings of edward kelly. from the latin edition of 1676. with a biographical introduction, an account of kelly's relations with dr. dee, and a transcript of the "book of st. dunstan" edited by a. e. waite. crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. net. a methodised summary of the best hermet

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

cooperate and work, some brother or brothers whom we can succour and assist. it really involves the- 9- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust conscious contacting of the ideal of brotherhood, and until we have evolved to the stage where our concept is universal it means finding the particular set of brothers whom we can love and help by means of the law of sacrifice and by the transmutation of selfishness into loving service. thus we can co-operate in the general purpose, and participate in the mission of the group. lecture ii the evolution of substance it is obvious that in such a series of lectures as this it would be impossible to deal adequately in any way with this stupendous subject, even were i equipped to lecture on such a fundamentally scientific matter. again

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

spirit with the lower four; through the example it sets of service, sacrifice, and renunciation, and through the constant streams of light (occultly understood) which emanate from it. the hierarchy might be considered as the aggregate on our planet of the forces of the fifth kingdom in nature. this kingdom is entered through the full development and control of the fifth principle of mind, and its transmutation into wisdom, which is literally the intelligence applied to all states through the full conscious utilisation of the faculty of discriminative love. to develop consciousness in the three lower kingdoms. as is well known, the five kingdoms of nature on the evolutionary arc might be defined as follows: the mineral kingdom, the vegetable kingdom, the animal kingdom, the human kingdom, a

usal body on the higher levels of the mental plane, controlling from thence all the lower vehicles and seeing clearly all that can be seen in the three worlds, in the past and in the future. rule 13. four things the disciple must learn and comprehend before he can be shewn that inmost mystery: first, the laws of that which radiates; the five meanings of magnetisation make the second; the third is transmutation, or the secret lost of alchemy; and lastly the first letter of the word which has been imparted, or the hidden name egoic. this rule cannot be enlarged upon. it concerns mysteries and subjects too immense to be fully handled here. it is included in these rules so that it may form a subject for meditation, for study, and for group discussion. the final rule is very brief and consists

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

h one or other of the permanent atoms in the lower threefold man, and has a direct action upon the spirillae 27(25) found within the atom. we have noted in "letters on occult meditation" that the atoms of the lower threefold man underwent a twofold process: they were first vivified in rotation, and each held the light in ordered sequence until the lower triangle was entirely illumined. eventually transmutation took place, or (to word it otherwise) the polarisation eventually shifted into the three permanent atoms of the triad, and out of the three permanent atoms of the lower triangle. the physical permanent atom is transcended and the polarisation becomes manasic or mental, the astral permanent atom is transcended and the polarisation becomes buddhic, while the mental unit is superseded b

e human unit, for the analogy holds good. we have a correspondence on a tiny scale in the fact that each human life period sees a man taking a more evolved physical body of a greater responsiveness, tuned to a higher key, of more adequate refinement, and vibrating to a different measure. in these three thoughts lies much information, if they are carefully studied and logically extended. d. by the transmutation of the violet into the blue. this we cannot enlarge on. we simply make the statement, and leave its working out to those students whose karma permits and whose intuition suffices- 74- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust e. by the withdrawal of the life, the form should gradually dissipate. the reflex action here is interesting to note, for the greater builders and de

of logical reasoning, employing the imagination, and thereby effecting two things: these are an ability to expand our mental concept and to build the antaskarana, or that bridge which all who seek to function in the buddhic vehicle must build between higher and lower mind; hence the necessity for the use of the imagination (which is the astral equivalent to mental discrimination, and its ultimate transmutation into intuition. all teachers, who have taken pupils in hand for training, and who seek to use them in world service, follow the method of imparting a fact (oft veiled in words and blinded by symbol) and then of leaving the pupil to follow his own deductions. discrimination is thereby developed, and discrimination is the main method whereby the spirit effects its liberation from the t

y the earth, mars and mercury. in- 104- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust connection with this triangle, the analogy lies in the fact that mercury and the centre at the base of the spine in the human being are closely allied. mercury demonstrates kundalini in intelligent activity, while mars demonstrates kundalini latent. the truth lies hid in their two astrological symbols. in transmutation and planetary geometrising, the secret may be revealed. b. the grand man of the heavens. the seven heavenly men are the seven centres in the body of the logos, bearing to him a relationship identical with that borne by the masters and their affiliated groups, to some planetary logos. systemic kundalini goes forward to the vivification of these centres, and at this stage of developmen

at we view the matter from what is to the human being, the group concept, and not the individual. the entire middle section of this treatise on the fires has to do with the development of the consciousness of a heavenly man, and the application by him of the knowledge gained (through the aid of manas or mind) in a previous solar system, to the acquisition of wisdom through objectivity, and to the transmutation of the earlier acquired faculty into applied love. this is his work in the same sense that the work of the cells within his body is to develop the mind principle. when through experience in the three worlds the human units have accomplished this, they can then gain through the final initiations something of the group concept, or the conscious realisation of place, and of energised ac

ich a man must pass, but holds the key to the three major cycles previously mentioned. primarily this number applies to the planetary logos of our scheme and not so much to other schemes. each heavenly man has his number and the number of our heavenly man lies hid in the above three figures, just as 666 and 888 holds the mystery hid of two other heavenly men. this number 777 is also the number of transmutation, which is the fundamental work of all the heavenly men. the basic work of man is accumulation and acquisition, or the acquiring of that which must later be transmuted. the work of transmutation, or the true cycle of 777 commences on the probationary path, and is definitely the activity of a heavenly man being realised and responded to by the cells in his body. only when his body has

vibratory movement can he truly influence the individual cells. this work of transmuting cell activity was begun on this planet during the last root-race, and the divine alchemy proceeds. the progress made is as yet but small, but each transmuted conscious cell increases the speed and the accuracy of the work. time alone is needed for the completion of the work. in connection with this matter of transmutation comes the legend of the philosopher's stone, which is literally the application of the rod of initiation, in one sense. division a- manas or mind and its nature i. three manifestations of manas- 179- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust ii. some definitions of manas: 1. manas is the fifth principle. 2. manas is electricity. 3. manas is that which produces cohesion. 4

d through the driving force of evolution itself. they found (to express it as far as possible in terms of fire, their opposite electrical pole through the activity of animal instinct, and- 196- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust by the blending of the two a human being was produced, the union of the three fires in the causal vehicle. man passes into the fifth kingdom through the transmutation of the discriminative faculty of mind, which as in the animal's individualisation brings about at a certain stage a spiritual individualisation which is the correspondence on higher levels to what transpired in lemurian days. therefore, we have: instinct..the key from the animal into the human kingdom or from the third into the fourth kingdom. manas..the key from the human into the s

gs about at a certain stage a spiritual individualisation which is the correspondence on higher levels to what transpired in lemurian days. therefore, we have: instinct..the key from the animal into the human kingdom or from the third into the fourth kingdom. manas..the key from the human into the spiritual kingdom, or from the fourth kingdom into the fifth kingdom. higher we need not go, for the transmutation of manas proceeds, and much as yet remains to be done. 5. manas is the synthesis of five rays one other definition might be given even though its abstruseness may prove but a bewilderment to the student. manas is the united faculty of four of the heavenly men, synthesised through a fifth heavenly man on the third plane of the system. these five heavenly men were the logoic embodiment

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

until they have taken the second initiation. the second group is comprised of those higher disciples who having controlled and transmuted the entire lower nature make a contact with their monad, spirit or "father in heaven" and discern what that monad perceives. the first form of realisation comes to those who are in process of synthesising the six lower centres into the head centre, through the transmutation of the lower four into the higher three, and then of the heart and throat into the head. the second group through a knowledge of the law works with all the transmuted and purified centres. they know how to achieve the real samadhi or state of occult abstraction through their ability to withdraw the energies into the thousand petalled lotus of the head, and from thence to abstract the

the latter has to do with the etheric body, with the force centers or chakras found in that body and with the distribution of force currents and the awakening of the serpent fire. it might be pointed out that if we divide the human torso into three departments it might be stated that: 1. karma yoga resulted in the awakening of the four centres below the diaphragm, 2. bhakti yoga resulted in their transmutation and transference into the two centres above the diaphragm, yet in the torso, the heart and the throat. 3. raja yoga synthesises all the forces of the body in the head and from there distributes and controls them. raja yoga, which patanjali primarily deals with, includes the effects of all the others. it is only possible when the others have been worked with, but not in the sense of w

16. pain which is yet to come may be warded off- 85- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust the sanskrit words here give a twofold idea. they infer first of all that certain types of coming "misery (as some translations give it) may be avoided by a right adjustment of a man's energies so that through his changed attitude of mind, painful reactions are no longer possible, and through the transmutation of his desires old "pains" are impossible. it infers secondly that life will be so lived in the present that no causes will be set in motion along the line of pain-producing effects. this dual inference will cause in the life of the yogi a dual discipline involving a set determination to practise non-attachment, and a steady discipline of the lower nature. this will bring about a men

earn complete control and to demonstrate the fact that he has completely subdued the lower sex nature. the right use of the sex principle along with entire conformity to the law of the land is characteristic of every true aspirant. apart from a consideration of this along the lines of the conservation of energy, there is another angle from which the aspirant approaches the problem and that is the transmutation of the vital principle (as manifested through the physical organism) into the dynamic demonstration of it as manifested through the organ of sound, or creation, through the word, the work of the true magician. there is as all students of occultism know, a close connection between the organs of generation and the third major centre, the throat centre. this is apparent physiologically

results begin to manifest in him and he is ready to use the remaining four means which will reorient him and bring him eventually to liberation. 52. through this, that which obscures the light is gradually removed. the first result is the gradual wearing away, or attenuation of the material forms which hide the reality. this does not mean the wasting away of the forms but the steady refining and transmutation of the matter with which they are constructed so that they become so purified and clarified that the "light of god" which they have hitherto hidden, can shine forth in all its beauty in the three worlds. this can be demonstrated as literally true upon the physical plane, for through the work of purification and the control of the life currents the light in the head becomes so apparen

ese seven points are borne in mind, it is interesting to note that the symbol of the centre at the base of the spine, the muladhara centre, is the elephant. it is the symbol of strength, of concentrated power, of the great moving force, which once aroused, carries all before it. it is for our fifth root race, the symbol of the most powerful and mighty of the animal kingdom. it is a picture of the transmutation or sublimation of the animal nature, for at the base of the spine is the elephant and in the head is the thousand petalled lotus hiding vishnu, seated in the centre. thus is the animal nature carried upward into heaven- 159- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust by meditation upon this "elephant force" the power of the third aspect, the energy of matter itself and therefor

as he always does, his mystical knowledge and awareness but adding to it the intellectual knowledge and conscious power of the trained occultist and yogi. from the point of power in the head the yogi directs all his affairs and undertakings, throwing upon all events, circumstances and problems the "awakened inner light" in this he is guided by the love, insight and wisdom which is his through the transmutation of his love nature, the- 161- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust awakening of his heart centre and the transference of the fires of the solar plexus to the heart. it might be asked very pertinently here how this junction between head and heart, producing the luminosity of the central organ and the emission of the inner radiance can be brought about. briefly stated, it i

hat desire plays in his life, when he realizes that it is his emotional or astral body which produces the greater part of the trouble in his lower nature, and when he can grasp the technical side of the process which desire-energy follows, then the work of- 170- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust the solar plexus is understood and he can begin the great dual work of transference and transmutation. he has to transfer the energy of the centres below the diaphragm into those above, and in the process transmute and change the energy. the centres are to be found up the spine, but it aids the student considerably if he can grasp the idea of the relative localities in the body which are energized and affected by these centres. all these centres have physical plane organs which are t

d they are produced through the activity of the etheric centres. these details have been given and the above information collated, owing to the importance of the solar plexus in this fourth round of the fourth creative hierarchy (the hierarchy of human monads or spirits, the fourth centre in man whether considered upward or downward. one more technical point might here be given. in the process of transmutation the student should remember that: a. the energy at the base of the spine must go to the head, b. the energy of the sacral centre must go to the throat, c. the energy of the solar plexus must go to the heart. splenic energy concerns solely the physical body. it goes to all the centres. 30-31. by fixing the attention upon the throat centre, the cessation of hunger and thirst will ensue

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

f the race. through all methods employed runs the golden thread of divine purpose, and the way by which the transfer of the human consciousness into that of soul realization and soul awareness is effected is that of meditation. this process of unveiling the self through the negation of the form-side of life and the eventual inability of the various sheaths to hide it, can be described in terms of transmutation as well as in those of transference of consciousness. transmutation is the changing, and re-directing of the energies of the mind, of the emotions and of the physical nature so that they serve to reveal the self, and not simply to reveal the psychical and body natures. we are told, for instance, that we have five main instincts, which we share in common with all animals. these, when

parent tragedy was the releasing in their midst of the form of a fourth identity, whose appearance was like unto that of the son of god. these three friends are symbols of the threefold lower man. the name meschach means "agile" a faculty of the discriminative mind, the mental body. shadrach means "rejoicing in the way" and- 40- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust describes the transmutation of the emotional body, and the turning of the desire towards the way: abednego means "a servant of the sun" and thus emphasizes the fact that the sole function of the physical body is to be the servant of the son (sun, of the ego or soul (see daniel iii, 23-24. there is no escaping the fiery furnace, but the reward is commensurate with the trial. the significance of the second requir

89- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust matter has landed us in the realm of mysticism and of transcendentalism. science and religion are joining hands in the world of the unseen and intangible. these are steps in the right direction. when the mental faculties have been developed racially through our occidental technique in the business world (a vast school of concentration, a transmutation analogous to that which occurs in the realm of the desire nature, must inevitably take place, and has frequently done so. the mind can then be reoriented to the truer and higher values, and focussed in a direction other than that of material living. thus the knower will emerge. therefore, any one who is not purely emotional, who has a fair education, and who is willing to work with p

ment. a person may have a high aspiration and a strong urge towards spiritual living and yet have aspects of his nature still uncontrolled. the energy that pours in during meditation pours down through the mechanism and stimulates the entire sex apparatus. the weak point is always discovered and stimulated. the cure for this situation can be summed up in the words: control of the thought life and transmutation. an intense mental preoccupation and interest should be cultivated in other directions than the line of least resistance sex. there should be an endeavor at all times to keep the energy contacted in the head and to permit it to work out through creative activity of some kind. the eastern teaching tells us that energy, usually directed to the functioning of the sex life, has to be rai

in the work of creative writing, in artistic endeavor, or in some expression of group activity. the tendency in modern times to find the one-pointed thinker and purely mental type evading marriage and as he frequently does leading a purely celibate life, may be a demonstration of the truth of the eastern position. it is causing a good deal of concern among those who study our falling birth rate. transmutation is not surely the death of an activity or a cessation of functioning on any level of consciousness for the sake of a higher. it is the right utilization of the various aspects of energy wherever the self feels they should be used for the furthering of the ends of evolution, and the helping of the plan. the mind, illumined by the soul, should be the controlling factor, and when we thi

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

y the punishment that follows an ill-judged act. their superiors stand by to turn to good account situations brought about by the errors of those inferior in point of development. c. remember also that the law of rebirth holds hidden the secret of the present crisis. groups of egos come together to work out certain karma involved in past days. men have erred grievously in the past. punishment and transmutation are the natural working out. violence and cruelty in the past will reap its heavy karma, but it lies in the hands of you all now to transmute the old mistakes. also bear in mind that principles are eternal, personalities temporal. principles are to be viewed in the light of eternity; personalities from the standpoint of time. the trouble is that, in many situations, two principles ar

trates. the transference of this law to the inner planes and its working out in the new cycle of effort must be undertaken. this law of adaptation involves the appreciation of the need, the recognition of the new force coming in with the new cycle and the consequent bringing together in wide synthesis of the need and of the force, regarding the personal self simply as a focal point for action and transmutation. it involves the transmutation of the five senses and their extension into the subtler planes so that sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell are welded into one synthetic cooperating whole, for use in the great work. on the physical plane, these tend to the unification of the personal life and to the adaptation of the physical world to the needs of the personal self. on the subtler p

simply passes through the heart centre direct to the solar plexus and expends its two aspects of vital life and of soul quality, one energising the blood stream and the other awakening the solar plexus centre. this then becomes the dominant factor in the energy life of the man, and the force through which his desire nature expresses itself, until such time as the aspirant brings about the needed transmutation and re-orientation of his emotional desire nature. then the heart awakens into activity and the life of the solar plexus centre becomes subordinated to that of the heart. this is brought about by the development of group interests, by the cultivation of inclusiveness and the steady loss of interest in the personality, and in things separative and selfish. 3. that of active intelligen

purely selfish or separative. human society is now cohesive and inter-dependent. humanity, as a whole, has already done much in bringing the heart centre into partial activity, and in awakening some of the more important aspects of the throat centre. the problem with many aspirants today is that of the solar plexus, for it is wide open, actively functioning and almost fully awakened. the work of transmutation is however going on simultaneously, leading as one might naturally suppose to a good deal of difficulty and to chaotic conditions. the heart centre is also beginning to vibrate, but is not yet awakened; the throat centre is frequently prematurely awakened, through the transfer of energy from the sacral centre. this is due to several causes sometimes to spiritual purpose and intent, b

or between the emotional response to life and truth or life on the physical plane. some aspirants are too emotional in their reactions; others too materialistic. the effect of this is felt in the midway spot and produces a violent instability. this instability has a direct effect on the solar plexus centre which was the "midway spot" in early atlantean times, and is still the midway point in the transmutation processes of the aspiring personality. it transmutes and transmits the energies of the sacral centre and of the centre at the base of the spine, and is the clearing house for all energies focussed in the centres below the diaphragm. the dangers incident to a premature and uncontrolled pouring in of pure spiritual energy to the mechanism of the personality. that vital spiritual force

eration from emotional control and desire. hence the constant, e'en though badly worded injunction in many of the esoteric books "kill out desire. perhaps a more just rendering for the immediate present would be "re-orient desire" or "re-direct desire, for a constant process of re-orientation of the entire desire nature so that it eventually becomes a habitual state of mind is the clue to all the transmutation processes, and to effective magical work. as progress on the path is made the thought processes of the aspirant become more potent, and the thought-forms created with definite purpose and in the meditation work become more effective in the bringing about of results. it will be apparent therefore that in magical work (which has ever to be wrought out on the physical plane) there will

works. hence eventuates that constant turmoil and frequent ill-health of the beginner in the occult life. he senses the law, he realises the need of raising his key, and frequently he begins with mistakes. he starts to build anew his physical body by diet and discipline, instead of working from the inner outward. in the careful discipline of the mind and the manipulation of thought-matter and in transmutation of emotion comes the working out on the physical plane. add to the two above, physical plane purity as to food and manner of life, and in seven years time the man has built for himself three new bodies around the permanent atoms. 2. the form of the environment. this is really the evolutionary working out of the involutionary group soul. it relates to our contacts, not just exterior

he eyebrows. a hint lies in the words 'let the mother know the father. it has relation to the marriage in the heavens. to dare. these words give the clue to the subordination of the personality, and have a close connection with the solar plexus, the great clearing house of desire and of the astral forces, and also the main centre of the transmutative work. to be silent. this phrase relates to the transmutation of the lower creative energy into the higher creative life. the sacral centre has to relapse into silence. it will be seen then that for the disciple the following centres are of paramount importance: 1. the ajna centre, through which the purified personality expresses itself. 2. the centre at the base of the spine, which is the centre through which complete and utter control and coo

on. these tendencies, based on fear have (because man is divine) acted as a tremendous stimulation of his entire nature, and have carried him forward to his present point of wide comprehension and usefulness; they have produced our modern civilisation with all its defects and yet with all its indicated divinity. out of these instincts carried forward into infinity, and out of the process of their transmutation into their higher correspondences the full flower of soul expression will emerge. i would like to point out the following: the instinct of self-presentation finds its consummation in assured immortality, and of this the work undertaken by the spiritualists and psychic investigators right down the ages is the mode of approach and the inevitable guarantee. the sex instinct has worked o

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

nth lord and of the first lord is essentially the work of the architect and of the magician, and their efforts are seen to perfection in the mineral world. this will not, however, be realised in full potency and magical revelation until the inner eye of true vision is developed and the forms underlying the creative work in the other kingdoms in nature are seen in their real values. the secrets of transmutation are the true secrets of this particular kingdom, and the two words expressing the process and the secret are condensation and transmutation. each kingdom has its key words, which can be translated, though most inadequately, as follows: kingdom process secret objective 1. mineral. condensation. transmutation. radiation. 2. vegetable. conformation. transformation. magnetisation. 3. ani

ght understanding i shall now give you a synopsis of the information, concerning each kingdom, as it comes under consideration. 1. the mineral kingdom influence. the seventh ray of organisation and the first ray of power are the dominant factors. results. the evolutionary results are radiation and potency, a static potency, underlying the rest of the natural scheme. process. condensation. secret. transmutation. the treatise on cosmic fire defines this as follows "transmutation is the passage from one state of being to another through the agency of fire- 140- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust purpose. to demonstrate the radio-activity of life. divisions. base metals, standard metals, precious stones. objective agency. fire. fire is the

ur subject matter. this is not a scientific treatise, as usually understood, but a study in quality and consciousness as they affect the form aspect. much, if not nearly all that exoteric science has posited regarding the mineral kingdom can, for ordinary uses, be accepted as relative fact. but two points should be considered, and they are: 1. the consciousness aspect of the mineral world. 2. the transmutation of forms by fire in that kingdom, leading to an ultimate radiation. the best known example of the effect of the initiation of the mineral by fire can be seen in the great transition and transformation, allotropically brought about, from the carbon stage to that of the perfect diamond. a further qualitative stage can be seen as the radiation or the throwing off of rays, as in radium

re stability to the planet and give the incoming aquarian influences a stable and extended field in which to work. this we shall later elaborate when we take up the study of the zodiacal signs and their relation to the rays- 143- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust we shall now touch upon the next two points, condensation and its hidden secret, transmutation. from the standpoint of external matter, the mineral kingdom marks the densest expression of the life of god in substance, and its outstanding, though oft unrealised, characteristic is imprisoned or unexpressed power. speaking in symbols, a volcano in eruption is a mild expression of this power. from the standpoint of esoteric substance, the four ethers are far more dense and "substa

will and ordered rhythm have produced this earth and the molten content of the planet, regarding the earth as the crust. in the turning of the great wheel, cycle after cycle, these two rays come into functioning activity, and in between their objective cycles the other rays dominate and participate in the great work. the result of this interplay of psychic potencies will manifest in the eventual transmutation of the earth substance, and its resolution back again into that of which it is the objective condensation. again language fails to find the needed terms. they are as yet non-existent. i mention this as an indication of the difficulty of our subject. intangible etheric substance has been condensed into the dense tangible objective world. this under the evolutionary plan has to be agai

ed into the dense tangible objective world. this under the evolutionary plan has to be again transmuted into its original condition, plus the gain of ordered rhythm and the tendencies and qualities wrought into the consciousness of its atoms and elements through the experience of externalisation. this resolution is noted by us as radiation and the radio-active substances. we are looking on at the transmutation process. the resolving agencies are fire, intense heat and pressure. these three agencies have already succeeded in bringing about the divisions of the mineral kingdom into three parts: the baser metals, as they are called, the standard metals (such as silver and gold and platinum, and the semi-precious stones and crystals. the precious jewels are a synthesis of all three, one of the

t we best arrive at their significance. it is as we grasp the radiatory potency of the mineral kingdom that we can begin to investigate the base of the evolutionary ladder and grasp the first steps taken by the life of god, through the medium of manifested forms. if, at the close of this writing, the student can grasp somewhat the meaning of those symbolic words, radiation, magnetism, experiment, transmutation and realisation, and can understand that they embody the purpose and goal of each of the five kingdoms in nature with which we are basically concerned, then the emerging reality of consciousness will be seen, and the prevailing synthesis will be grasped. a. life radiance magnetism- 148- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust we are to

ding. the creative work will proceed and the plan materialise. man's work for the animal kingdom is to stimulate instinct until individualisation is possible. his work for the vegetable kingdom is to foster the perfume-producing faculty, and to adapt plant life to the myriad uses of man and of animals. man's work with the mineral kingdom is to work alchemically and magically. with that process of transmutation and of subsequent revelation i cannot here deal. e. the problem of sex i have stated that the incoming seventh ray plays through the planetary sacral centre, and then through the sacral centre of every human being. because of this, we can look for the anticipated developments in that human function which we designate the sex function. we shall see consequent changes in the attitude o

mbolic events that externalise a spiritual happening and picture forth to man his spiritual goal and god's great objective in the evolutionary process. first, the energies below the diaphragm have to be lifted up and blended with those above the diaphragm. with the process and rules for so doing we cannot here deal, except in one case, the raising of the sacral energy to the throat centre, or the transmutation of the process of physical reproduction and of physical creation into that of the creativeness of the artist in some field of creative expression. through the union of the energies of these two centres we shall come to that stage in our development wherein we shall produce the children of our skill and minds. where, in other words, there is a true union of the higher and the lower en

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the initiations, and to undergo the new birth. the disciples of the world are preparing for the second initiation, the baptism, and for this must come a purification of the emotional desire nature and a dedication of the desire nature to the life of the soul. the initiates of the world are facing the transfiguration initiation. mind control and right orientation towards the soul, with a complete transmutation of the integrated personality, lies ahead of them. there is much foolishness talked these days in connection with initiation, and the world is full of- 16- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust people who are claiming to be initiates. they fail to remember that no initiate makes any claim or speaks about himself. those who claim to be initiates give denial to their cla

man of great significance. the caterpillar becomes transformed into the butterfly. deep in man lies this hidden beauty, unrealised, but struggling for release- 92- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust the life of the indwelling christ produces the transformation of the physical body, but deeper still, that life operates upon the emotional-feeling nature, and through the process of transmutation converts the desires and feelings, the pains and the pleasures, into their higher correspondences. transmutation has been defined as "the passage across from one state of being to another, through the agency of fire."6 it is appropriate in this connection to remember that the threefold lower man, with whom we have been dealing so often in these pages, is a dim reflection of deity its

t (transmuted through the agency of fire, the will or spirit of god) produces the transformation of the physical body. the mind in its turn is therefore the reflection of the highest aspect of deity, the father, or spirit, of whom it is said that our "god is a consuming fire."7 the releasing activity of this form of god's spirit eventually produces that radiance (as a result of transformation and transmutation) which was the distinguishing characteristic of the transfiguration initiation "radiation is transmutation in process of accomplishment" transmutation being the liberation of the essence in order that it may seek a new centre, the process may be recognised as `radio activity' as far as humanity is concerned."8 it was these processes, carried on in the form nature, which led eventuall

lus the power to know, which is inherent in the soul, which recognises intuitively that which is holy, universal and real, and yet which is specific and true for all time to all people. christ revealed the quality of the divine nature through the medium of matter, of form, and "was transfigured before them "the greek word here used is `metamorphosed' the very word used by st. paul to describe the transmutation of the mortal body into the resurrection body; for on the day of fulfilment, when the perfected disciple has attained masterhood, the `robe of glory' shines forth with such splendour through the garment of the flesh that all the beholders perceive it, and, their eyes and ears attuned to finer subtle vibration, they behold their master in all his divine- 98- from bethlehem to calvary

et all the time christ has told us that love is the way into the kingdom, and that the fact of the presence of divinity in each of us makes us eligible for that kingdom. we have omitted to realise that the "vicarious atonement is the harmonising of the disharmony of others by- 131- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust the power of a spiritual presence, which brings about the great transmutation; evil is absorbed and transmuted into good or equilibrised."41 this constitutes the endeavour of christ, and the fact of his presence is the harmonising medium in life. men are not saved by belief in the formulation of a theological dogma, but by the fact of his living presence, of the living immediate christ. it is the realisation of the fact of the presence of god in the human hear

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, only those who are initiate can grasp some of the significance of the statement that "the twain shall be one and together shall express divinity" all that concerns humanity at this time is the necessity for a revelation and a gradual apprehension of the plan which will enable man to a. work consciously and intelligently, b. realise the relation of form and quality to life, c. produce that inner transmutation which will bring into manifestation the fifth kingdom in nature, the kingdom of souls. all this has to be accomplished in the realm of conscious awareness or response, through the medium of steadily improving vehicles or response mechanisms, and with the aid of spiritual understanding and interpretation. with the bigger questions we will not deal. with the consciousness of the life o

forward. next there comes a period in the life of the aspirant when he shifts off the probationary path and moves on to the path of discipleship. this is the result of an activity which is a reflection in his individual personality life of the approach of acquiescence. this takes place upon the battlefield of the astral plane. there the disciple acquiesces consciously in the inevitable process of transmutation which takes place before the personality can be a fit instrument for the soul. he stands between the pairs of opposites, learning the secret of duality, and like arjuna (fixed at the midway point) he seeks the way out, eventually acquiescing in the task ahead. this is the stage of submission to which every disciple subjects himself. it is through acquiescence that the astral aspect o

only from the angle of consciousness and of a defined involutionary procedure. the second stage of aspiration concerns the aspiration or the desire of the soul to appear, and brings the consciousness down on to what we call the astral plane. the inclination of the soul is towards that which is material. we must not forget this fact. we have been apt to regard aspiration as the consummation or the transmutation of desire. however, in the last analysis, it might be said that aspiration is the basis or root of all desire and that we have only used the word "desire" to signify aspiration which has a natural object in the consciousness of man, confining the word "aspiration" to that transmuted desire which makes the soul the fixed objective in the life of the man in incarnation. but all phases

ay 3rd ray of active intelligence 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. personality. mental body. astral body. physical body this is a valuable point for all who are real students to remember and to grasp. ponder upon it, for it is self-explanatory and an understanding of it will make it possible to solve the problems of: 1. alignment 2. the lines of least resistance. 3. the processes of substitution. 4. the alchemy of transmutation. 5. the fields of a. service b. avocation c. vocation. the lack of balance will also emerge if the chart is studied and man can then arrive at an understanding of what he has to do. a study of the two formulas of the first and second rays will make it clear why in humanity (and in the solar system also) these two major rays are always so closely associated, and why all esoteric schoo

nality ray, in its higher aspects, emerges into living expression. great beauty of character or great forcefulness will then appear. 2. gradually, the qualities of the personality energy are transmuted into those of the ego or soul and the fusion of the two energies soul and body is then complete. this technique of fusion might be better understood by all of you if it were called the technique of transmutation, but it must be remembered that the transmutation referred to is not that of bad qualities into good or of bad characteristics into good ones (for this should take place quite definitely upon the path of- 232- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust probation) but the transmutation of the higher aspects of the personality ray into th

he environment, given in terms of appreciation. ponder on this. 4. decentralisation through a. the providing of right interests and the right kind of education and vocational training. b. cultivation of the power to recognise and meet surrounding need, thus evoking the desire to serve and providing the sense of satisfaction which comes from accomplishment and appreciation. c. the careful and slow transmutation of desire into aspiration. 5. reorientation to higher goals and the development of the sense of right direction. this involves a. the cultivation of a wider vision. b. the formulation of an inner programme, intelligently compiled, and suitable for the point in evolution but not so advanced as to be impossible. c. the avoidance of those steps and activities which are doomed to failure

ke to make clear, however, that it is no millennium for which we are working, and that our prime objective at this time is twofold: 1. to break an ancient rhythm and to establish a new and better one. to do this, time is a paramount factor. if we can delay the crystallisation of an evil necessity, and so prevent that which might occur of a calamitous nature, it will give time for the processes of transmutation, for- 416- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust the dissipation of that which must precipitate in some form or other, and for the applied activities of the new group of world servers, who constitute our instrument in the world today. 2. to fuse and blend the united aspiration of all peoples at each may full moon so that a channel

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e demands of the period and to your particular life cycle, will come for you release into service. this service will make greater effort possible with less expenditure of energy and of vitality and, therefore, less physical distress. the great psychologists always become world saviours, because the psychological problem with themselves is faced and solved and solved on the basis of a technique of transmutation. there is little that i can say, for you are gifted with knowledge and with wisdom; there is naught in connection with yourself that i can indicate, for you have studied your problems deeply and i for several years have sought to aid you. one thing only i will say: your problem has far less to do with your own individual equipment than it has to do with your environing conditions. it

usion. the love has been selfish or unreal; the demand for things material has been for- 206- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust that which is not necessary to health or happiness. the magnetic force utilised has been, therefore, wrongly motivated and this process carried forward over so long a time has led to the present dire financial situation in the world. by the transmutation of these factors and the expression of their higher correspondences through right love, right thought or meditation and right technique the financial requirements of the new groups and of the new group of world servers will be found. i would suggest that an elaboration of these ideas should be disseminated among all whom you know who could help. i would ask you to ponder much on thes

words nor would you have been able to profit by them. even now i can only just touch upon the problems. it is peculiarly yours and that of r.s.u. you have, however, made so much progress in overcoming hindrances that my help is warranted. forget- 251- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust not, my brother, that every disciple has some major characteristic which requires transmutation. some know what it is and are working at it and the others fall into two main groups. they are either working furiously to bring about a general change in themselves and thus succeed in bringing their faults to the surface and they do it with such potency that they temporarily handicap their service. or, secondly, they are overwhelmed and depressed by the discovery of their weaknesse

oups. they are either working furiously to bring about a general change in themselves and thus succeed in bringing their faults to the surface and they do it with such potency that they temporarily handicap their service. or, secondly, they are overwhelmed and depressed by the discovery of their weaknesses. they resent being thus handicapped and the energy which should go towards the processes of transmutation is turned towards their lower nature in disgust, self-pity or hurt pride. all this leads to loss of time and produces inevitably the over-emphasis of the personality. the problem with which you and r.s.u. have to deal and which you must eventually solve is, above everything else, the problem of decentralisation. there is in both of you an over-emphasis of the "i" at the centre of the

her and chosen friend: i have watched you with care and understanding during the past year. i know what you have undergone and the measure of your difficulties and problems. these you faced, as usual, with courage. the past lies behind you and though i looked at you with anxiety till a few weeks ago, i no longer do so. you can and will become an integrating force in this group. a great process of transmutation of the lower energies has been going on in you, carried forward, as always, via the solar plexus centre that great clearing house of the personality. this has been for you a culminating crisis in your life, esoterically speaking, though its effects may produce exoteric happenings. these latter are (are they not) of small moment compared to the inner happenings. there were moments whe

master is something which should seldom happen and something which all conscious disciples seek to avoid; something which they never expect and which they never demand. conscious discipleship is only now opening before you as a result of this experience and during the unconscious stage we do occasionally help. this i did. i would ask you to regard the process of such a definite re-orientation and transmutation as now closed probably for this entire life. you have come through to a measure of release and are freed for service in a sense that was before not possible. now i ask you to take several months of complete quiet, giving the solar plexus time to relax, and your brain and mind time to adjust themselves to the newer rhythms. make no plans but follow the lines of service as they open up

personality, and, therefore, power. the disciple works from soul levels which are the levels of divine love. he motivates the mind with love, subduing personality sentiment with universal love, worked out in practice and not preserved in theory. could i aid you, my brother, did i not love you that way? can i ask you to do one piece of work through and in yourself? will you study the theory of the transmutation of mental attitudes through the processes of love processes which in no way negate the holding of these attitudes but which motivate and universalise them. through these processes, a mental concept can become a fact upon the physical plane through the activity of love, rightly used. you could do much with this thought and teach much to those who read your words. i have no special occ

ding yourself as the physical man and holding the thought of physical coordination. interlude wherein you take six long slow breaths, thinking as you do so about coordination. 2. sound the sacred word then inaudibly, regarding yourself as the astral-emotional man- 519- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust holding whilst you do it the thought of the purification and the transmutation of desire. interlude wherein you seek definitely to raise your consciousness higher and, whilst you are doing this, taking seven long slow breaths. 3. sound the sacred word inaudibly again, pondering this time upon the mind as the reflector of the light of the soul and endeavouring to hold the mind steady in that light. interlude wherein you aspire to soul consciousness whilst taking

is is a transformation upon the dual way, leading into the way "the one upon the way gazes around and sees life as through a haze. the fogs and mists of glamour rest upon the valleys and the hills of life and these he must dispel. he must transmute them through the burning rays of radiant light. a chela in the light directs the burning, fiery light which dissipates the enervating fog "this is the transmutation. these fires release the hidden light and blend it with the greater" it is, therefore, under the guidance of a chela who is far more advanced than the chela in the light (though not yet adept) that the first lessons in these three processes are learned. whilst this is going on, the aspirant remains unaware of the master's interest in him. the master is receiving regular reports (base

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axis powers, and the vision of the masses of people has not proved adequate to arrest, as yet, the materialising of this vision. but the spiritual intent of mankind is slowly growing and the great law of contrasts will eventually bring illumination. the lord of the world, the "ancient of days" is releasing new energies into humanity, transmuted in the present furnace of pain and fiery agony. this transmutation will bring about a new power of sacrifice, of inclusive surrender, a clearer vision of the whole and a cooperative spirit hitherto unknown and which will be the first expression of that great principle of sharing, so sorely needed today. i am not here speaking idealistically or mystically. i am pointing out an immediate and possible goal; i am giving a clue to a scientific process wh

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te between themselves, as self-conscious beings, and physical and vital forces. that immediately set up a tremendous activity in the throat centre which is the higher aspect of the sacral centre (the sex centre) and thus led to the initial glamour and to the first definite recognition and consideration of the sex impulse, of sex attraction, and for the initiate of that period of the necessary sex transmutation. this went hand in hand with the earliest yoga, or the cult of the physical body with the objective of its control by the soul, and the consequent merging of the conscious and the subconscious. around the aspirants of that time could then be seen gathering the first clouds and fogs of glamour, though illusion was nowhere present. the first recognition of the plane of the emotions, of

er and the angel, both in the individual and in humanity as a whole. these five are the rays of the physical body, the astral ray, the mind ray, the personality ray and the soul ray. 11. the rays which govern humanity and which condition humanity and the present world problem are as follows: a. the soul ray. 2nd. humanity must express love. b. the personality ray. 3rd. developing intelligence for transmutation into love-wisdom. c. mind ray. 5th. scientific achievement. d. astral ray .6 th .i dealistic development. e. physical ray. 7th. organisation. business. the soul ray controls for an entire life period. the personality rays given above are for the piscean age which is now beginning to pass out; but these have definitely and irrevocably conditioned humanity. you will note also that the

he presentation, for instance, of material substance (scientifically proven) as essentially only a form of energy was as great a revelation as any given by the christ or the buddha. it completely revolutionised men's thinking and was little as you may think it a major blow struck at the great illusion. it related energy to force, form to life, and man to god and held the secret of transformation, transmutation and transfiguration. the revelations of science when basic and fundamental are as divine as those of religion, but both have been prostituted to meet human demand. the era is close at hand when science will bend every effort to heal humanity's sores and build a better and happier world. the revelations of science, though focussed often through one man or woman, are more specifically

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impressions and communications from astral entities or from the animated astral forms to be found in the glamours created by humanity. forget not, nevertheless, that true aspiration is essentially an astral product or reaction; all aspirants in the early stages of their slow re-orientation work through the solar plexus centre, and thus only gradually focus the lower energies there, prior to their transmutation and elevation to the higher centre, the heart centre. there are certain disciples who work deliberately upon the astral plane, under instruction from the master of their ashram, in order to reach such neophytes and thus to impress them with the knowledge and the subtle information needed for their progress. no master works in this manner, and the masters have therefore to use certain

ound above the diaphragm (the head, the heart and the throat centres) are the organs of reception for energies coming from the three planetary centres. 4. the agent for the distribution of the energies received via the head, the heart and the throat centres is the ajna centre between the eyebrows- 110- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust 5. the agent for the purification, transmutation and transmission of the energies of all centres below the diaphragm is the solar plexus centre. it is this centre through which the majority of human beings are at this time working. it is the major controlling centre, both for the reception and the distribution of energies, until such time as the heart centre is awakening and beginning to control the personality. there is necessaril

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ends into the world of men to save mankind and to further the plan. he is then "the fish who swims free in the ocean of matter" the initiate has always to express, in each sign of the zodiac, the consummation and the spiritual fruit of earlier life experience, world experiment and soul achievement. selfishness has ever to be translated into living active service, and desire has to demonstrate its transmutation in the purity of spiritual aspiration for identification with the will of god. there are one or two points which must be dealt with in order to enable you to study with certain definite ideas clearly formulated in your minds. i have hinted at them in some of my earlier books but it will be of service to refer to them again and to expand the ideas somewhat. i would have you carry them

n connection with disciples and the zodiacal signs, gemini and libra are two constellations which through their rulers express 5th and 7th ray energy. for some occult reason, they remain unrelated to any other of the signs. the relation between the other constellations through the planets, as expressing the rays, is as follows: 1. taurus and pisces, through vulcan and pluto, are related to ray 1. transmutation of desire into sacrifice and of the individual will into the divine will. the world saviour 2. leo and aquarius, through the sun and jupiter, are related to ray 2. development of the individual consciousness into world consciousness. thus a man becomes a world server. the world server 3. sagittarius and capricorn, through the earth and saturn, are related to ray 3. the one-pointed di

s back again and again into the sphere of influence of aries which, through the ruling activity of the first ray, both strengthens the will of the man (no matter what his ray) and ends cycle after cycle with the "word of destruction" again and again, he enters into the sign pisces and finds his way around the great wheel until the experience of change and of mutability and the establishing of the transmutation process carry his consciousness from the instinctual and intellectual stages to the faint beginnings of the intuitive processes in gemini. then comes a great process of polarisation and a moment of transference, after which the influence of the fixed cross causes reversal and the lessons gained upon the mutable cross have to be worked out and the effects demonstrated upon the fixed c

of pisces psychic sensitivity. 3. causes the lure of the path, in the first instance the path of evolution and later the lure of the probationary path with the consequence that transference to the fixed cross (which is all that we can intelligently comprehend) begins really in pisces; though impulsed (if i may use such a word) in aries it begins and ends in pisces. 4. precipitates the process of transmutation and eventual escape through death. 5. unfolds the significance, activity and beauty of death and of the work of the destroyer. from this it will be apparent how important and powerful is this sign. through its orthodox ruler, jupiter, that force is brought to bear which "brings all together" and in this case relates the two fishes and binds them together in a functioning relationship

i might here give you the following names for the three crosses taken from the ancient archives and therefore difficult to translate: 1. the mutable cross the cross of changing and absorbed experience. this is the place of action and of reaction, of karmic control and of response to impacts leading to the awakening of consciousness to the nature of the goal ahead. 2. the fixed cross the cross of transmutation. desire becomes aspiration, and selfishness is transformed into selflessness. 3. the cardinal cross the cross of transcendence. personality life and form life and planetary life no longer control. the man stands free. substance, the ocean of life, water, the symbol of desire and the impulse to incarnate are transmuted into soul light and light substance and the urge to tread consciou

d progress during discipleship. the cardinal cross in reality governs both processes but this is only understood when initiation has taken place. 1. aries governs the path of discipleship. the will to return to the source. determination to achieve liberation. the emanating cause of the changes upon the mutable and fixed crosses. 2. taurus the desire to overcome desire. the longing for liberation. transmutation of desire into love. 3. gemini the fusion of the opposites; the intelligent work of at-one-ment; synthesis- 91- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust upon the ordinary wheel, these signs bring about: 1. gemini experience of the pairs of opposites. pronounced and separative duality. the interplay between the twins: soul and form nature

lations, it will have become apparent to you that the main function of the planets is to be distributing agents for the energies emanating from the zodiac as they converge within our solar system and become attracted to our planet. students need to understand more thoroughly than they do that the basis of the astrological sciences is the emanation, transmission and reception of energies and their transmutation into forces by the receiving entity. the energies of the various signs are attracted by the different planets according to their stage of development and by what is esoterically called "ancient relationship" between the informing entities of the planets and of the constellations. this relation exists between beings and is founded on a law of affinity. it is this law of affinity which

f god (as it is esoterically called, he is then an initiate. therefore, leo's assignment of rulers is the truly esoteric one. when the disciple knows saturn as the god who offers opportunity and does not only feel him to be deity who brings disaster, then he is on the path of discipleship in truth and in deed and not just theoretically. when venus is the source of wisdom and the expression of the transmutation of the mind into intuition and of intellect into wisdom, then he is ready for initiation. he is rapidly achieving liberation. the weakness of the rulers of the decanates as given by sepharial lies in the fact that as both mercury and the sun are one, the choice is therefore redundant; he omits saturn and because of this omission, esoterically speaking, the "door is not open" again, t

he dweller in the form and are not consciously registered as potencies by the individual for- 191- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust many aeons of time and not until the life of the form and the reaction to sensitive emotion-feeling has played an active and an educational part in the awakening of the mind. once that awakening of desire and its transmutation into the higher aspiration has taken place, then the virgo influence comes in and the responsive soul developed by the five indirect influences of the cardinal cross begins its active conscious participation in the drama of life. thus the direct and the indirect influences of the seven planets play their varied parts in man's unfoldment, and students would find it of interest and of

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a tradition or a marked tendency to greater emotional control in the handling of life than have women. men do not require or acquire so marked a sex control. the general field of their inhibited life tendency is therefore of greater extent, and consequently (if statistics can be trusted) more men suffer from cancer than do women, though it is a dread disease, feared by all. in the secret of right transmutation lies the cure of cancer, and this will eventually be realised. i am using this phrase not only symbolically but also technically and scientifically. this again will later be seen. in the secret of right rhythmic living and in a right proportional accent upon all phases of life will come (and it is rapidly coming) complete immunity from tuberculosis. in the secret of right understandi

998 lucis trust with its twelve petals reaches downwards towards the solar plexus centre. this last centre, since atlantean days, has been reversed, and its petals are now reaching upwards towards the next centre up the spine, the heart centre, owing to the slowly mounting energies from the solar plexus centre which are seeking to escape from the "prison of the lower regions" through a process of transmutation. as a result the heart centre is beginning slowly to unfold and also to reverse itself. the reversal of the "lotus centres" is always brought about as the result of a dual action the pushing from below and the pull from above. the reversal of the heart lotus and its upward unfolding is due to the following factors: 1. the growing potency of the hierarchical approach. 2. a rapidly est

ble according to the activity of the centre and this is dependent upon the point of development reached by the individual and the preponderant type of energy to which the individual reacts. 3. the incoming energy is transmuted within the centre into forces. this involves a process of differentiation into secondary energies of the primary energy involved, and is an automatic happening; the rate of transmutation process, the strength of the resultant aggregation of forces, and the subsequent radiatory activity producing conditioning results upon the dense physical body) are dependent upon the extent of the unfoldment of the particular centre involved and its awakened or unawakened state. 4. the outgoing forces from a centre play upon the etheric counterpart of the entire intricate network of

onship is being set up between it and the other centres (dependent upon ray, upon conscious objective and training, then you will have the practical mystic, the humanitarian and the occultist. students should remember that there is both an upward and a downward trend of energy within the entire structure of centres, where the aspirant and the disciple are concerned: 1. the upward trend..producing transmutation. from the sacral centre to the throat centre. physical creation is transmuted into artistic creativity. from the solar centre to the heart centre. individual, emotional consciousness is transmuted into group consciousness. from the base of the spine to the head centre. material force is transmuted into spiritual energy. from any or all of the five spinal centres to the ajna centre. u

d living is transmuted into personality integration. from the six centres in relationship into the highest head centre. personality activity is transmuted into spiritual living. this is a wide generalisation, and the process is not carried forward in any sequential fashion or smoothly and in order as the tabulation above might suggest. the process involved is spread over many lives of unconscious transmutation in the earlier stages, and as a result of bitter experience and of conscious effort in the later stages, and becomes increasingly dynamic and effective as the various stages upon the path area trodden by the aspirant. the five rays with which a disciple has to work (two major conditioning rays and three subsidiary rays) have a definite active effect; karmic adjustments provide opport

ordinated expression. this is a final stage of great importance, and only takes place in its completeness at the time of the third initiation, that of the transfiguration. you can see, therefore, how three important words convey the purpose of the scientific unfoldment and the right direction of the centres- 130- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust transmutation. transformation. transfiguration. this process is wisely and safely carried out over a long period of time and returning to our theme of health and of disease when consummated, perfect physical health is the result; in the interim process of adjustment and of change, the reverse is frequently the case. the danger involved in a large number of physical ills can be traced to the condit

bout the violent inhibition imposed by an aspirant upon all emotional reactions and feelings. in their effort to control the astral body, these people resort to a process of direct inhibition and suppression. that suppression makes of the solar plexus centre a great reservoir of drastically- 143- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust retained energy. transmutation of the emotions into aspiration and love and directed control is not present, and the existence of this vibrant reservoir of power brings about cancer of the stomach, of the liver, and sometimes of the entire area of the abdomen. i simply mention these causes (overactivity of a centre and the retention of energy, unexpressed and inhibited) as fruitful sources of cancer. we come back

ergy is directed to the cancer itself, the cancerous condition will be stimulated and the trouble many times increased. the curing of cancer in the early stages falls therefore into two parts: 1. the stimulating of the healthy tissue. 2. the building in of new tissue to replace the diseased tissue which is being gradually absorbed and driven out. cancer always makes its appearance before there is transmutation of the emotional force, for the reason that there are few disciples (and therefore still fewer of the ordinary and majority of people) who have so transmuted emotion. this condition of freedom from emotion is so seldom to be found that at this stage of the world's history it may be said that it does not exist. no one who is an integrated and actively functioning person is ever as pro

interest in, the ray types (as represented for instance in a group) may itself lead to a subtle separative attitude. there is no necessity for any son of god in incarnation upon the physical plane or in the three worlds to "transfuse" his ray quality into his brother. these ray qualities are shared by all alike, and a brother's own soul differing in no way from another soul will effect the needed transmutation or transfusion into the personality life. one may facilitate the process by providing those conditions of harmony and peace wherein a brother is faced with as few contrary attitudes as possible, and where the interplay of love may produce an effective stimulation. but this is not transfusion. what exists in you exists in all, and the love quality (above all other qualities) is the do

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

mines the body nature and produces finally certain physical characteristics. the outstanding type of awareness of the coming new race will be the widespread recognition of the fact of the mystical perception. its primary quality will be the- 80- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust intuitive understanding and control of energy; its contribution to the development of humanity is the transmutation of selfish desire into group love. this can be seen working out noticeably even today in the attitudes of great national leaders who are not, as a rule, animated at all by selfish ambition, but are controlled by love of their nation and thus by some definite form of idealism hence the great emerging ideologies. ponder on this point, get a wider picture of the growth of the human cons

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

rd because of an attained alignment with the soul. initiation is in fact the essential and inevitable process of transferring the primary triplicity of manifestation into the basic duality of spirit-matter. it is the "dissolution of the intermediary" and to this the crucifixion and death of the christ was dedicated and intended to be the revelation, to the initiates of the past 2000 years, of the transmutation of the trinity of manifestation into the duality of purpose. i cannot word this in any other way but the enlightened will comprehend my meaning. the interpreters of the gospel and many disciples of the christian dispensation have singularly failed to grasp this revelation; they have laid the emphasis upon the death of the personality, whereas when christ experienced the "great void o

exus in the spine and seeing that upward moving breath carrying the solar plexus energy up the spine into the head, after passing it- 317- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust through the heart. believe that this takes place. 4. in the interlude between inhalation and exhalation dedicate the energy thus withdrawn by the soul, believing in its consequent and subsequent transmutation (i would remind you that transmutation is the changing of one vibration and one vibratory activity into another and higher one) 5. during exhalation in which the breath is carried on the om sounded inaudibly breathe the solar plexus energy, now focussed in the head, to the throat centre. this should produce increased creative output for humanity. 6. in the following interlude, after

y means of a great awakening of the solar plexus centre. this next race will be buddhic or intuitional, and therefore will embody, as a higher expression upon the turning spiral, the higher mystery of the astral unfoldment in ancient atlantis. it will vision forth the higher correspondence of that achievement. this consummating development will mark its fourth initiation, and will demonstrate the transmutation of the astral life into the buddhic consciousness. 2. the carrying of all this mobilised energy to the heart centre at the fifth initiation for group purposes, and the achieving of this in full waking consciousness. in the final race the process will be repeated on a still higher spiral, and all that concerns the higher centre will be unfolded and occultly consummated, again through

etimes by personality pride; you love deeply and sincerely but are apt to express this through devotion instead of through wise identification. i have for you, however, no real concern. i tell you that you need haste in discarding impediments upon the way but am assured, through study of your soul contact, that you will not be hindered. i ask myself what i can do for you and so aid the process of transmutation and release through right meditation. i would suggest the following experiment in subjective attitudes. that, in the last analysis, is a definition of meditation. the end of all meditation is concerned with: 1. the attitude of the personality to the soul. this is self-control. 2. the attitude of integrated man to humanity. this is service. 3. the attitude of the disciple to the hiera

y and in the manipulation of the energies within the body. august 1942 1. the stabilisation of your life along the line established is the next step. but, my brother, permit not crystallisation. 2. the secret of triplicity is yours. work on it so the mind is clear. 3. love more. wisdom is yours, yet speed it out to others upon the wings of love. 4. learn to transmute. suppression is more easy but transmutation is more safe. transmute. 5. the active double life of the disciple is your next goal. your duty and your goal go hand in hand. you must walk with both at once. thus can the rainbow bridge be built. 6. go out among the sons of men and heal and lift, but balance keep and breadth of view. all ways are good. september 1943 brother of mine: it seems to me that so oft i have to say this ye

at their point of contact and of overlapping an increased intercourse and interplay becomes possible. it is here that you have to find your place. it might be pictured somewhat like the diagram (page 610, as regards my ashram and that of k.h. at this middle point there is a coming and a going; there is relation and contact; there is increased opportunity and inspiration; there are focal points of transmutation, of transition and of transformation. it is towards this area of merging and of fusion that you are now asked to move. reflect upon this and get the deep spiritual implications which this picture of relationship between the ashrams can convey to you. by your effort, your determination and your understanding you can form part of the group which stands in this "middle chamber (to use m

precipitating karma and at the same time experiences little difficulty in arriving at decisions, because his choices and aims will be motivated by the personality and determined by the lower self. later, after a life or lives of balancing, the die is cast and the period of inactivity and of indecision ends and the soul begins to determine action; karma then comes under the processes of conscious transmutation. motives become purified and objectives shift from those of personality ambition to the spiritual goals of humanity. such a life is upon you now, my brother, and i am therefore seeking to make the issues clear to you. personality decisions are not for you; and for you, likewise, the period of indecision must end and it will end when you see soul purpose more clearly. you might here a

e, as the link between you two is strong and you have ever permitted her to speak to you with frankness. you need to learn to protect yourself from people, in a psychic sense. this protection can be applied in several ways. i could myself put around you a protecting shield; i choose not to do so, for you would learn naught thereby. the work must be done by you yourself, and basically involves the transmutation of the sacral centre (not the solar plexus, as you might naturally think) to the throat. in the sacral centre lie the ancient racial fears and deep-seated personal desires. ponder not upon the sacral centre, for that would bring these ancient inheritances to the surface, but let your work be related to the creative throat centre. then perform the following exercise: 1. sound the om w

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

atory to a great and permanent change. it is for this reason that i have said to some of my- 57- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust pupils that when humanity will have solved correctly the jewish problem, and when it has been resolved in a humanitarian and sound manner, then the energy of the planetary solar plexus centre will have been raised to the heart and a great transmutation will have taken place. the dark or materialistic forces correspond in their entirety to the energies of the sacral centre of the planet, dealing with the generation of forms, and their work is to keep the direction of planetary interest upon the form side of divine expression. they are concerned with the life of matter itself, with its magical usage, and with that which is regarded a

r with aggressive and planned intent, whether they preserve an attitude of passivity and acceptance, or a planned neutrality, as in america, or are actively fighting for that which is against the material forces. the world crisis was, as you know, inevitable, but physical warfare could have been avoided if right psychological methods had been employed, and it could have been cured if a process of transmutation and of transference had been correctly carried forward, and if the spirit of sacrifice had also been demonstrated by the world aspirants. the need for group sacrifice has not met with adequate response, except in those cases where it has been imposed by governments upon their nationals. such is the sorry history of what is taking place today. what can be done at the present moment to

isation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust if, therefore, you will say these three stanzas with a focussed affirmative will, a great potency may be released for the salvaging of humanity and the immediate defeat of the forces of aggression. but i would reiterate that the use of these words must be accompanied by the dedication of your personality life to the cause of humanity, and by the transmutation of your personal will into the sacrificial will of the soul. finally, i would ask you to get in touch as soon as you can with the headquarters of the goodwill work and indicate also your willingness to cooperate to the fullest extent with the forces of light. this will serve practically to focus your effort. i would ask you also to make it possible to disseminate this article on the

have: 1. the buddha. the method. detachment, dispassion, discrimination. 2. the christ. the result. individualism, initiation, identification. it is interesting to note that the work of the buddha is expressed in words all beginning with the fourth letter of the alphabet, the letter d. the sense of personality is achieved; the quaternary is transcended, and the buddha gave us the reason for this transmutation and the rules. the work of the christ is expressed for us in words beginning with the ninth letter of the alphabet, the letter i, and this number is the number of initiation. these things happen not idly but all have their underlying purpose. i have here very briefly and inadequately outlined the nature of two great approaches and two minor. these have prepared humanity for the third

, or in the struggle for a deepened spiritual life for man. this "energy of liberation" was sensed, registered and voiced for humanity by franklin d. roosevelt in the four freedoms, so much discussed by men today; he thereby laid the foundation for the new civilisation and the new world culture. d. the energy of the spiritual hierarchy of the planet, as it is applied today by the hierarchy in the transmutation of the sad and sorry past of humanity into the glorious prospect of the new era. this is, as you may well imagine, a sevenfold energy, emanating from and directed by the seven major ashrams, under the direction of the christ and of the senior masters and chohans, deciding in council the method, the extent and the quality of the distribution of the energy involved; they decide also wh

ALICE A BAILEY24 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME V THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS

he points of light moving within the square" this may have its appeal to masons. this subject of the use or misuse of energy is capable of infinite expansion, and in my other books where i give you more upon the centres i have enlarged upon it. i but seek at this time to give you that which can be of immediate use to students and thus lay the foundation for later work. a close study of the needed transmutation of astral and emotional energy into love, the energy of love. this involves the sublimation of personal feeling into group realisation or consciousness, and when carried out successfully produces in time the construction of a higher and subtler body, the buddhic sheath. when this sheath is thus materialised a very high stage of advancement is marked, but the earlier stages can be int

than they are upon humanity. i would add also that the point of lowest descent of the energies has now been reached, and the nature of the present opportunity is therefore changing. these energies have now passed what we might call the turning point and have reached their point of ascension, with all that that phrase implies. as they descend, they produce stimulation; as they ascend, they produce transmutation and abstraction, and the one effect is as unalterable as the other. it is upon this inevitability of the ascending energies, and the effects which they will bring about, that the entire hope of the future depends; nothing can arrest their return or their progress through the planes and back again to their source. upon this dual process of descent and ascension the whole cyclic panora

pward way and let taurus bring illumination and the attainment of the vision; let the mark of the saviour, as the group toils in pisces, be seen above the aura of the group. rule xiii. for applicants: four things the disciple must learn and comprehend before he can be shown the inmost mystery: first, the laws of that which radiates; the five meanings of magnetisation make the second; the third is transmutation or the secret lost of alchemy; and lastly, the first letter of- 15- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust the word which has been imparted, or the hidden name egoic. for disciples and initiates: let the group get ready to reveal the hidden mystery. let the group demonstrate the higher meaning of the lessons learnt, and these a

dy to reveal the hidden mystery. let the group demonstrate the higher meaning of the lessons learnt, and these are four and yet are one. let the group understand the law of synthesis, of unity and fusion; let the threefold mode of working with that which is dynamic carry the group together towards the higher three where the will of god holds sway; let transfiguration follow transformation and may transmutation disappear. let the o.m. be heard right at the centre of the group, proclaiming god is all. rule xiv. for applicants: listen, touch, see, apply, know. for disciples and initiates: know, express, reveal, destroy and resurrect. these are the rules for group initiation and i am dealing with them to give you a fuller understanding of the laws of group life with which i dealt in some of my

ity, simplicity and in its revolutionising quality. upon the path of initiation, the monadic will (of which the egoic will is the reflection and the individual self-will is the distortion) is gradually transmitted, via the antahkarana, direct to the man upon the physical plane. this produces the higher correspondence of those qualities so glibly spoken of by the well-trained but dense esotericist transmutation and transformation. the result is the assimilation of the individual will and the egoic will into the purpose of the monad which is the purpose undeviating and unalterable of the one in whom we live and move and have our being. this is the field of the true burning, for our "god is a consuming fire" this is the burning bush or the burning tree of life of biblical symbolism. this high

will will be seen. it is only as human beings enter into relation with the hierarchy and are gradually absorbed into the hierarchical life and begin to take the higher initiations that the true nature of the divine will will be grasped and the purpose of sanat kumara be revealed by an appreciation of the plan, followed by a consequent cooperation with that plan. all this will be done through the transmutation of desire into aspiration, and then into fixed determination. when, however, the initiate has related these phases of consciousness in his own inner experience, and has permitted those inner realisations to affect his outer experience and daily living, then the underlying purpose will shine forth and he will no longer be working in the dark. you see, my brother, that all that i can d

y to reveal the hidden mystery. let the group demonstrate the higher meaning of the lessons learnt, and these are four and yet are one. let the group understand the law of synthesis, of unity and fusion; let the threefold mode of working with that which is dynamic carry the group together towards the higher three where the will of god holds sway; let transfiguration follow transformation, and may transmutation disappear. let the o.m. be heard right at the center of the group, proclaiming god is all. the key to the significance and the clue to the secret of this rule are to be found in the preparatory rule given to applicants in the earlier book (initiation, human and solar. it is included here so that you can refer to it as you study its higher corresponding rule, as given to initiates and

ok (initiation, human and solar. it is included here so that you can refer to it as you study its higher corresponding rule, as given to initiates and to advanced disciples. rule xiii. for applicants. four things the disciple must learn and comprehend before he can be shewn the inmost mystery: first, the laws of that which radiates; the five meanings of magnetisation make the second; the third is transmutation or the secret lost of alchemy; and lastly, the first letter of the word which has been imparted, or the hidden name egoic. in this earlier rule, the disciple is told that before he can advance to the mysteries which will be revealed to him sequentially as he advances along the path of initiation, there are four things which he must "learn and comprehend" these are: 1. the laws of tha

under its own laws which are different to those which produced radiation. students need to read with increasing care as they advance upon the occult way which leads to the way of the higher evolution. 2. he must study the five meanings of magnetisation. this refers to the five modes in which the law of magnetisation works; this is another name for the law of attraction. 3. he must comprehend what transmutation is and in which consists the secret art (now lost- 161- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust along with the lost word) of alchemy. esoterically speaking, transmutation is the mode whereby force is transmuted or changed into energy. this means (where a disciple is concerned) the transmutation or changing or stepping up of pers

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

niverse. or, it can be the result [6] of systematized application and discipline on the part of the aspirant, producing a more rapid unfoldment of the power and life of the soul. in one analysis of discipleship, it has been defined as "a psychic resolvent, which eats- 7- the labours of hercules away all dross and leaves only the pure gold behind" it is a process of refining, of sublimation and of transmutation, carried steadily forward until at length the mount of transfiguration and of illumination is attained. the hidden mysteries and the forces, latent in human beings, need to be discovered and require to be utilized in a divine manner and in line with divine purpose, intelligently apprehended. when they have thus been utilized, the disciple finds himself en rapport with the universal a

working out "that is too bad, if you were living above the solar plexus, your personality chart would not work out so exactly. the chart of the soul will be used in the astrology of the future; not the chart of the personality. this warning is covered in a positive statement by the tibetan "the basis of the astrological sciences is the emanation, transmission, and reception of energies and their transmutation into forces by the receiving entity. this defines clearly what should be our attitude at full moon meditations and our use of individual horoscopes "the point i seek to make here, says the tibetan "is that it is all a question of developed reception and sensitivity [123] significance of the sign and its polar opposite in the mermaid, the fish goddess, we have the symbol of the at-one

t keg of explosive, the human mind [146] 1. sex. victorian prudishness and psychoanalytical prurience are both undesirable. sex is an energy. it can be inhibited, unrestrainedly exercised, or sublimated. repression or inhibition are no true solutions; promiscuity coarsens life, and makes a man a slave of a master passion. sublimation involves the use of the energy of sex in creative endeavor. the transmutation of human energies opens up a field of speculation and experiment. in physical science, the energy of motion can be transformed into electricity, and that of heat into movement. to what extent, then, can human energies be redirected? first of all, the energy of matter, represented by food, is obviously used to produce that of motion. can the impelling energy of the emotions analogousl

ARTHUR E WAITE TEMPLAR ORDERS IN FREEMASONRY

he thistle, who are princes of the rosy cross, and the grand council of the chapter. the alchemical side of this story is in a similar position to that of the perpetuation myth, of which it is an early version. there is nothing that can be taken seriously. but this is not to say that in either case there is no vestige of possibilities behind. modern science tends more and more to show us that the transmutation of metals is not an idle dream and- speaking on my own part- there are well-known testimonies in the past on the literal point of fact which i and others have found it difficult to set utterly aside. so also there are few things more certain in history than is the survival of knights templar after their proscription and suspension as an order. with this fact in front of us it is not

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

and the white to red, until the glorious colour of the triumphant king has been attained. therefore, i say that though saturn may seem the vilest thing in the world, yet it has such power and effficacy that if its precious essence, which is excessively cold, be reduced to a metallic body by being deprived of its volatility, it becomes as corporeal as, but far more fixed than, saturn itself. this transmutation is begun, continued, and completed with mercury, sulphur, and salt. this will seem unintelligible to many, and it certainly does make an extraordinary demand upon the mental faculties; but that must be so because the substance is within the reach of everyone, and there is no other way of keeping up the divinely ordained difference between rich and poor. in the preparation of saturn t

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

male portion of the androgynous eve, before her "fall" the female portion of adam kadmon; the left side or binah of the right side chochmah in the first sephirothal triad[[vol. 2, page] 270 the secret doctrine "father of the gods" he is the "disrespectful son" in hesiod. hermes calls him the "heavenly man (pymander; and even in the bible he is found again under the name of adam, and, later on- by transmutation- under that of ham. yet these are all personifications of the "sons of wisdom" the necessary corroboration that jupiter belongs to the purely human atlantean cycle- if uranus and kronos who precede him are found insufficient- may be found in hesiod, who tells us that the immortals have made men and created the golden and the silver age (first and second races; while jupiter created t

n race have differed as much as the personalities of their inventors themselves. buffon, bory de st. vincent, lamarck, e. g. st. hilaire, gaudry, naudin, wallace, darwin, owen, haeckel, filippi, vogt, huxley, agassiz, etc, etc, each evolved a more or less scientific hypothesis of genesis. de quatrefages arranges them in two principal groups- one holding to a rapid, and the other to a very gradual transmutation; the former, favouring a new type (man) produced by a being entirely different; the latter teaching the evolution of man by progressive differentiation. strangely enough, it is from the most scientific of these authorities that the most unscientific of all the theories upon the subject of the origin of man has hitherto emanated. this is so evident, that the hour is rapidly approachin

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

n to pure light condensing gradually into form, hence becoming matter or evil. it was left with the early and ignorant christian fathers to degrade the philosophical and highly scientific idea of this emblem (the dragon) into the absurd superstition called the "devil" they took it from the later zoroastrians, who saw devils or the evil in the hindu devas, and the word evil thus became by a double transmutation d'evil in every tongue (diabolos, diable, diavolo, teufel. but the pagans have always shown a philosophical discrimination in their symbols. the primitive symbol of the serpent symbolised divine wisdom and perfection, and had always stood for psychical regeneration and immortality. hence- hermes, calling the serpent the most spiritual of all beings; moses, initiated in the wisdom of

nexplained by any mechanical action known to them, referred it to a soul, a spiritual or preternatural power. air and gases were also at first deemed spiritual, but subsequently they became invested with a more material character; and the same words[[pneuma, spirit, etc, were used to signify the soul or a gas; the very word gas, from geist, a ghost or spirit, affords us an instance of the gradual transmutation of a spiritual into a physical conception (p. 89) this, the great man of science (in his preface to the fifth edition of "correlation of physical forces) considers as the only concern of exact science, which has no business to meddle with the causes "cause and effect" he explains "are therefore, in their abstract relation to these forces, words solely of convenience. we are totally u

line is the duad, the "mother" regarded as the evil, counteracting principle (plutarch, de placitis placitorum; the right side represents the son("his mother's husband" in every cosmogony, as one with the apex; at the basic line is the universal plane of productive nature, unifying on the phenomenal plane father-mother-son, as these were unified in the apex, in the supersensuous world* by mystic transmutation they became the quaternary- the triangle became the tetraktis[[footnote(s* see kant's critique de la raison pure (barni's transl, vol. ii, p. 54* in the greek and latin churches- which regard marriage as one of the sacraments- the officiating priest during the marriage ceremony represents the apex of the triangle; the bride its left feminine side and the bridegroom the right one, whi

BOOK OF PLEASURE

d! is this the value of the will? this "will to power"-how life preserving! how furthering of discriminate selection! how pleasing! most noble explorers! o, you scientists-go on discovering the bottomless pit! when you are sodden with science-the lightning will thunder out the murder? new hope will be born? new creatures for the circus (the conception of) god-head must ever evolve its inertia for transmutation to its very opposite-because it contains it! the master must be the painful learner of his stupidity? the idea of god ever means the forgetfulness of supremacy and godliness. so must be supplanted by fear, eh? there is no atheist, no one is free from auto-biography, there is no fearless pleasurist? the conception is the absence of its indisputable reality within! when the conception

causes subdivision or "double personality, is caused by its own intensity or by shock of resistance determined by some incompatibility of the desired or desire. concentration is dissatisfied desire, a conflict that can never be satisfied, because of its means. when the ego, not appearing to have or not knowing the means of fulfilment, seeks its repudiation, repression, imaginative fulfilment, or transmutation to escape its worry. none of these is the desire's or obsession's annihilation, but its separation or concealment from the rest of the ego, its premature sub-conscious existence. it is held there only when some form of resistance is active, when resistance is dormant- control is given to the presiding obsession, allowing its incarnation in, and swamping of the ego, which has to live

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

ipate in the illumination of the sage through whose mind the life-power formulated its self-expression in these stirring phrases. the meditations in this book include the occult meaning of the twenty-two hebrew letters, illustrated by the tventy-two major tarot keys which correspond thereto. the tarot keys represent the symbolic powers of consciousness in pictorial form, used by initiates for the transmutation of personality and the attainment of union with god. comment has been reduced to such explanation as seems required to make certain qabalistic terms intelligible to the uninitiated. paragraphs of the comment are numbered the same as the paragraphs of the text. dr. paul foster case founded builders of the adytum, a non-profit organization, in order to assure the survival and extension

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mud texts translated into spanish. d. 1230 farid al-din al-'attar. mantiq al-tayr('the speech of the birds) 1230-1306 jacopone da todi franciscan joachite poet and leader 1231 first mention of alchemy in french literature- roman de la rose 1235-1310 arnold of villanova 1235-1310 r. solomon b. abraham adret, spain. teaches llull about kabbalah. 1235 robert grosseteste, bishop of lincoln, discusses transmutation of metals in de artibus liberalibus and de generatione stellarum. 1236-1319 ramon lull 1237 -1285/88 adam de la halle troubadour 1240 abraham abulafia, sicilian kabbalist, founder of ecstatic kabbala, born in saragosa 1240 elhanan b. yakar(london) publishes sefer yetzirah commentary 1240-1321 yunus emre. anatolian sufi troubadour 1241- 1246 toregene khatun 1241: batu's mongol "blue h

published by eugenius philalethes 1659 jean noblet tarot(paris) 1659-61 theatrum chemicum [ed. lazarus zetzner]publisher of rosicrucian texts 1660 jacques vieville tarot. invisible college becomes the royal society. 1661-64 john grueber and albert d'orville travelled from china through eastern tibet to lhasa proceeding on to india. 1665-1723 johann conrad barchusen 1666 helvetius' account of the transmutation in the hague. crassellame lux obnubilata 1667 eirenaeus philalethes an open entrance to the closed palace of the king 1672 francois chosson tarot de marseilles 1674 knorr von rosenroth's kabbala denudata 1677 mutus liber; paradise lost/regained by j. milton. 1680 6 hebrew editions of "sefer yetzirah" collected and printed at lemberg. oldest contains the recensions of sa'adya gaon. 16

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ally called azazel or azazyl, the first angel which preached to the other angels under the throne of god. azazel, who later was called iblis or shaitan, refused to bow before man, noting that his nature of lowly compared to his essence, which was of fire. azazel was cast out from heaven into the earth, along with the fallen angels (the conception of) god-head must ever evolve it s own inertia for transmutation to its very opposite because it contains it..the idea of god ever means the forgetfulness of supremacy and godliness. so must be supplanted by fear. the book of pleasure, austin osman spare within the practice of magic the lore of iblis provides a powerful initiatory model for the sorcerer. essentially the initiate seeks to become like satan, by antinomian methods of separating the s

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net of the terran solar system. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the greek god who served as the lord of the underworld and death. attributed as being the ruler of the zodiac (q.v) sign scorpio (q.v. on the tree of life (q.v) within the kabbalah (q.v) attributed to the unmanifest sephirah (q.v) daath (q.v) and the abyss. keywords include: transformation, degeneration, extremes, horrible, transmutation, refining, crucible, refectory, atomic energy, annihilation, regeneration, subversion, coercion, sewage, elimination, hidden forces, inner psyche. portal adeptus: in the order of the astral star [o.a.s (q.v, a portal adeptus is a sub-grade of adeptus minor (q.v) within the membership of the order, and correlates to the crossing of the veil. the primary principle of this grade is base

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d geburah a negative negative. netzach (venus) and hod (mercury) are said to be hermaphroditic. yesod (luna) is a positive negative, and malkuth (earth) is a negative negative. neither kether nor tiphareth are predominantly male or female. in kether the pairs of opposites are latent and have not yet declared themselves; in tiphareth they are in perfect equilibrium. 43. there are two ways in which transmutation can be effected on the tree; and these are indicated by two of the glyphs which are superimposed upon the sephi roth; one of these is the glyph of the three pillars, and the other is the glyph of the lightning flash. the pillars have been already described; the lightning flash simply indicates the order of emanation of the sephiroth, zigzagging from chokmah to binah and from binah to

are indicated by two of the glyphs which are superimposed upon the sephi roth; one of these is the glyph of the three pillars, and the other is the glyph of the lightning flash. the pillars have been already described; the lightning flash simply indicates the order of emanation of the sephiroth, zigzagging from chokmah to binah and from binah to chesed, backwards and forwards across the tree. if transmutation takes place according to the lightning flash, the force changes its type; if according to the pillar:s, it remains of the same type, but on a higher or lower are as the case may be. 44. this sounds very complex and abstract, but examples will soon serve to show it to be simple and practical when understood. take the problem of the sublimation of sex-force, which besets the psychother

er and altogether subtler type of magnetism popularly referred to as"(salt) it" in tiphareth, the christ-centre, the force becomes spiritual inspiration, illumination, the influx from the higher consciousness. if it is positive in type, it becomes the dionysiac inspiration, a divine [page 138] inebriation; and if it is negative, it becomes the impersonal, all-harmonising christ-love. 45. when the transmutation is worked upon the pillars we are impressed by the truth of the ironical french phrase plus qu'il change, plus c'est ia meme chose. chokmah, pure dynamism, pure stimulus without formed expression, in chesed becomes the upbuilding, organising aspect of evolution; anabolism, as distinguished from the katabolism of geburab. in chesed the chokmah force becomes that peculiarly subtle form

the left-hand pillar, the forcerestraining binah becomes the form-destroying geburah, and again the maker of magical images, mercury-hermes-thoth. 46. from time to time the symbols of occult science have leaked out into popular knowledge, but the uninitiated have not understood the method of arranging these symbols in their pattern as the tree, nor of applying to them the alchem;cal principles of transmutation and distillation wherein lie. the real secrets of their use. chapter xvii binah, the third sephirah title: binah, understanding (hebrew spelling:beth, yod, nun, he) magical image: a mature woman. a matron. situation on the tree: at the bead of the pillar of severity in the supernal triangle. yetziratic text: the third intelligence is called the sanctifying intelligence, the foundatio

ear to you because a jealous god will brook no rival interests in his devotees and is flattered by your pain. it means the deliberate and open-eyed choice of a greater good in preference to a lesser good, and the athlete prefers the fatigue of exercise to the ease of the sloth that puts him out of condition. coal burned in a furnace is sacrificed to the god of steam-power. sacrifice is really the transmutation of force; the latent energy in the coal offeted up on the sacrificial altar of the furnace is transmuted into the dynamic energy of steam by means of the appropriate machinery. 9. there is both psychological and cosmic machinery available in connection with every act of sacrifice which converts it into spiritual energy; artd this spiritual energy can be applied to other mechanisms an

tacles: material success. colour in atziluth: clear rose-pink. briah: yellow. yetzirah: rich salmon-pink. assiah: golden amber. i [page 188] 1. there are three important keys to the nature of tiphareth. firstly, it is the centre of equilibrium of the whole 'rree, being in the middle of the central pillar; secondly, it is kether on a lower arc and yesod on a higher arc; thirdly, it is the point of transmutation between the planes of force and the planes of form. the titles that are bestowed on it in qabalistic nomenclature bear this out. from the point of view of kether it is a child; from the point of view of malkuth it is a king; and from the point of view of the transmutation of force it is a sacrificed god. mystical qabala page 129 2. macrocosmically, that is to say from the kether stan

s factor in psychology and its plane in the universe, 6. the four sephiroth below tiphareth represent the pet sonality or lower self; the four sephiroth above tiphareth are the individuality, or higher self, and kether is the divine spark, or nucleus of manifestation. 7. tiphareth, therefore, must never be regarded as an isolated factor, but as a link, a focussing-point, a centre of transition or transmutation. the central pillar is alwavs concerned with consciousness. the two side pillars with the different modes of the operation of force on the different levels. 8. in tiphareth we find the archetypal ideals brought to a focus and transmuted into archetypal ideas. it is, in fact, the place of incarnation. for this reason it is called the child. and because incarnation of the god-ideal als

or the reasons given above. mystical qabala page 130 9. exoteric religion goes no farther up the tree than tiphareth. it has no understanding of the mysteries of creation as represented by the symbolism of kether, chokmah, and binah; nor of the modes of operation of the dark and bright archangels as represented in the symbolism of geburah and gedulah; nor of the mysteries of consciousness and the transmutation of force as represented in the invisible sephirab daath, which has no symbolism. 10. in tiphareth god is made manifest in form and dwells among us; i.e. comes within range of human consciousness. tiphareth, the son "shows us" kether, the father. 11. in order that form may be stabilised, the component forces out of which it is built must be brought into equllibrium. therefore do we fi

ust necessarily be the lowest evil; we do not realise that matter is crystallised spirit, and spirit is volatilised matter, and that there is no difference of substance between them, any more than there is between water and ice, but both are different states of the one thing, as the alchemists call it; this is the great secret of alchemy which forms the philosophic basis of the secret doctrine of transmutation. mystical qabala page 157 26. but the transmutation of metals is of little save academic importance compared to the transmutation of energy within the soul. it is this that the initiates deal with by means of the technique of the tree of life; and as consciousness transmutes up and down the central pillar of mildness, or equilibrium, so does energy transmute up and down the pillar of

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provides the structure for part two of kenneth grant's nightside of eden. it was reproduced by grant on page 138 of that work above the title "the sigils of the 22 sentinels of the tunnels of set (sigils of the qliphoth, from crowley's equinox, 1912) about the nature of the eleventh false sephirah, daath, gareth knight observed: the abyss is the void between force and form and the place where the transmutation takes place is the 'hidden' sephirah daath--meaning knowledge. the mysteries of daath are profound and were little touched upon in earlier writings on the qabalah. the sephirah has no number allocated to it and by knowledge is meant not so much what we understand by the word, but the word in its biblical usage of sexual union, only here the meaning is a kind of divine union where dif

und and were little touched upon in earlier writings on the qabalah. the sephirah has no number allocated to it and by knowledge is meant not so much what we understand by the word, but the word in its biblical usage of sexual union, only here the meaning is a kind of divine union where differing planes of being impact and there is a resultant change of state brought to birth- a transformation or transmutation of power (gareth knight, a practical guide to qabalistic symbolism. new york: weiser, 1980, pages 32-3) you will remember the words of the archangel gabriel, spoken to john dee through the mouth of his seer kelley, regarding the division of binah (understanding) from geburah (judgement. the abyss and its gateway daath lie between the level of binah and the lower level of geburah on t

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rived from late greek chemeia (chemistry, from chumeia (a mingling, or cheein (to pour out or mix. the aryan root is ghu (to pour, whence comes the modern word gush. e. a. wallis budge, in his egyptian magic, however, states that it is possible that alchemy may be derived from the egyptian word khemeia, the preparation of the black ore, or powder, which was regarded as the active principle in the transmutation of metals. to this name the arabs affixed the article al, resulting in al-khemeia, or alchemy. history of alchemy from an early period the egyptians possessed the reputation of being skillful workers in metals, and, according to greek writers, they were conversant with their transmutation, employing quicksilver in the process of separating gold and silver from the native matrix. the

uring modern times. the theory and philosophy of alchemy the grand objects of the alchemical art were (1) the discovery of a process by which the baser metals might be transmuted into gold and silver (2) the discovery of an elixir by which life might be prolonged indefinitely; and there is sometimes added (3) the manufacture of an artificial process of human life (see homunculus. religiously, the transmutation of metals can be thought of as a symbol of the transmutation of the self to a higher consciousness and the discovery of the elixir as an affirmation of eternal life. the transmutation of metals was to be accomplished by a powder, stone, or elixir often called the philosophers stone, the application of which would effect the transmutation of the baser metals into gold or silver, depen

e things any more clear. the neophyte alchemist also had to acquire a thorough knowledge of the manner in which metals grow in the bowels of the earth. they were said to be engendered by sulphur, which is male, and mercury, which is female, and the crux of alchemy was to obtain their seed .a process the alchemistical philosophers did not describe with any degree of clarity. the physical theory of transmutation is based on the composite character of metals, and on the presumed existence of a substance which, applied to matter, exalts and perfects it. this substance, eugenius philalethes and others called the light. the elements of all metals were said to be similar, differing only in purity and proportion. the entire trend of the metallic kingdom was toward the natural manufacture of gold

bsolute that no trace remains of the original metal. it cannot, however, destroy gold, nor exalt it into a more perfect metallic substance; it, therefore, transmutes it into a medicine a thousand times superior to any virtues which can be extracted from it in its vulgar state. this medicine becomes a most potent agent in the exaltation of base metals. other modern authorities have denied that the transmutation of metals was the grand object of alchemy, and from reasons highlighted earlier, among others, inferred from the alchemistical writings that the object of the art was the spiritual regeneration of mankind. mary ann atwood, author of a suggestive inquiry into the hermetic mystery, and civil war general ethan allen hitchcock, author of remarks upon alchemy and the alchemists, were perh

the hermetic mystery, and civil war general ethan allen hitchcock, author of remarks upon alchemy and the alchemists, were perhaps the chief protagonists of the belief that, by spiritual processes akin to those of the chemical processes of alchemy, the soul of man may be purified and exalted. both somewhat overstated their case in their assertion that the alchemical writers did not claim that the transmutation of base metal into gold was their grand object. while the spiritual quest may have been dominant, none of the passages that atwood and hitchcock quote was inconsistent with the physical aspect of alchemy. eugenius philalethes, for example, in his work the marrow of alchemy, argues forcefully that the real quest is for gold. it is constantly impressed upon the reader, however, in the

d, the positive alchemical doctrine had many adherents at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth. reportedly, a vast association of alchemists called the hermetic society, founded in westphalia in 1790, continued to flourish in the year 1819. in 1837 an alchemist of thuringia presented to the societe industrielle of weimar a tincture he averred would effect metallic transmutation. about the same time several french journals announced a public course of lectures on hermetic philosophy by a professor of the university of munich. figuier further stated that many hanoverian and bavarian families pursued in common the search for the grand arcanum. paris, however, was regarded as the alchemistical mecca. there lived many theoretical alchemists and empirical adepts

hilosophy by a professor of the university of munich. figuier further stated that many hanoverian and bavarian families pursued in common the search for the grand arcanum. paris, however, was regarded as the alchemistical mecca. there lived many theoretical alchemists and empirical adepts. the first pursued the arcanum through the medium of books; the others engaged in practical efforts to effect transmutation. during the 1840s figuier frequented the laboratory of a certain monsieur l, which was the rendezvous of the alchemists of paris. when monsieur l s pupils left the laboratory for the day the modern adepts dropped in one by one, and figuier relates how deeply impressed he was by the appearance and costumes of these strange men. in the daytime he frequently encountered them in the publ

iguier s friend then proceeded to quote in support of his thesis the operations and experiments of m. dumas, a celebrated french savant, as well as those of william prout and other english chemists of standing. passing on to consider the possibility of isomerism in elementary as well as in compound substances, he pointed out to figuier that if the theory of isomerism can apply to such bodies, the transmutation of metals ceases to be a wild, unpractical dream and becomes a scientific possibility, the transformation being brought about by a molecular rearrangement. isomerism can be established in the case of compound substances by chemical analysis, showing the identity of their constituent parts. in the case of metals it can be proved by the comparison of the properties of isomeric bodies w

chemical equivalent of the intermediate body is represented by the arithmetical mean between the equivalents of the other two. such a statement well showed the isomerism of elementary substances and proved that metals, however dissimilar in outward appearance, were composed of the same matter differently arranged and proportioned. this theory successfully demolished the difficulties in the way of transmutation. if transmutation is thus theoretically possible, it only remains to show by practical experiment that it is strictly in accordance with chemical laws, and by no means inclines to the supernatural. at this juncture, the young alchemist proceeded to liken the action of the philosophers stone on metals to that of a ferment on organic matter. when metals are melted and brought to red he

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t she had killed twenty-three horses by sorcery. we are led to wonder most at the ease with which people are brought to bear witness to things utterly beyond the limits of belief. a man of the name of stauff in the territory of berne, declared that when pursued by the agents of justice, he escaped by taking the form of a mouse; and persons were found to testify that they had seen him perform this transmutation. the latter part of the work of the two inquisitors gives minute directions for the mode in which the prisoners are to be treated, the means to be used to force them to a confession, the degree of evidence required for conviction of those who would not confess, and the whole process of the trials. these show sufficiently that the unfortunate wretch who was once brought before the inq

alism and played a significant but unobtrusive part in the modern history of the movement. she was associated with nandor fodor in britain, and after his death she wrote a tribute to him in the journal light (autumn, 1964. sources: edmunds, simeon. spiritualism: a critical survey. london: aquarian press, 1966. philosophers stone a legendary substance which enabled adepts in alchemy to compass the transmutation of metals. alchemists believed that one definite substance was essential to the success of the transmutation operation. by the application or admixture of this substance, often called the powder of projection, any metal might be transmuted into gold or silver. zosimus, who lived at the beginning of the fifth century, was one of the first to allude to the philosophers stone. he said t

ure of this substance, often called the powder of projection, any metal might be transmuted into gold or silver. zosimus, who lived at the beginning of the fifth century, was one of the first to allude to the philosophers stone. he said that it was a powder or liquor formed of diverse metals, fused under a favorable astrological condition. the stone was supposed to contain the secrets not only of transmutation, but of health and life, for through it the elixir of life could be distilled. the author of a treatise on philosophical and hermetic chemistry, published in paris in 1725, stated: modern philosophers have extracted from the interior of mercury a fiery spirit, mineral, vegetable and multiplicative, in a humid concavity in which is found the primitive mercury or the universal quintess

he horoscope. san diego: asc publications, 1982. what are astrological maps: all about astrology. san diego: asc publications, 1996. your love life, venus in your chart. san diego: asc publications, 1996. the poughkeepsie seer title given to andrew jackson davis (1826.1910, a pioneer spiritualist medium from poughkeepsie, new york. powder of projection a powder claimed to assist alchemists in the transmutation of base metal into pure gold (see also philosophers stone) powder of sympathy an occult remedy applied to the weapon that caused a wound, and which supposedly cured the hurt. this method was in vogue during the reigns of james i and charles i, when its chief exponent was sir kenelm digby. digby published his theory in a volume entitled a late discourse. by sir kenelm digby, kt& c. to

. he first studied philosophy, logic, metaphysics, poetry, and music, and became a skilled player on the lute. at the age of thirty, he began to study medicine and soon became one of the most famous physicians of his time. he was director of the famous hospital of bhagdad, and a great many books on medicine, chemistry, and philosophy are ascribed to him. he also wrote treatises on alchemy and the transmutation of metals. some commentators have compared his intellectual attainments with those of galileo and robert boyle. he had a great reputation for his insistence upon the importance of practical experiment over theory. he was one of the first experimenters to mention borax, orpiment, realgar, and other chemical compounds. there is a probably apocryphal story that he dedicated an alchemica

he had a great reputation for his insistence upon the importance of practical experiment over theory. he was one of the first experimenters to mention borax, orpiment, realgar, and other chemical compounds. there is a probably apocryphal story that he dedicated an alchemical work to the emir el mansur, prince of khorassan, who rewarded him with a thousand pieces of gold, but desired to witness a transmutation. rhasis was by now an elderly man and his experiment was unfortunately unsuccessful. el mansur was enraged, and struck him with a whip, saying i have rewarded you richly for your trouble, and now i must punish you for your affirmation of lies! as a result, rhasis was blinded. however, other explanations have been offered for his failing eyesight, including the claim that it resulted

to find the same treatment within their boundaries. at last he sought his native land of germany, where he pored over the great truths he had learned in solitude and seclusion and reduced his universal philosophy to writing. five years of a hermit s life, however, only served to strengthen him in his opinions and he continued to feel that one who had mastered the arts of alchemy, had achieved the transmutation of metals, and had manufactured the elixir of life was designed for a nobler purpose than rumination in solitude. slowly and carefully he began to gather assistants, who became the nucleus of the rosicrucian fraternity. when he had gathered four of these into the brotherhood, they invented among them a magic language, a cipher writing of equal magic potency, and a large dictionary re

ding to the confession, stands open for all eyes but can be read or understood by only a very few. these characters, it is written, are the seal of god imprinted on the wonderful work of creation, on the heavens and earth, and on all beasts. it would appear, too, that some form of practical magic was known to the brotherhood. they were also, they said, alchemists, and claimed to have achieved the transmutation of metals and the manufacture of the elixir of life. modern rosicrucianism the flurry of interest in rosicrucianism in the century following the initial announcement of the existence of a rosicrucian brotherhood was followed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the development of speculative masonry, especially in scotland, and the inclusion of rosicrucian degrees amid the m

uicksilver, aqua vitae, litharge, auri, fine tin, burnt silver, alum, salt and eggs, and saltpeter. the scottish monarch appears to have collected around him a multitude of quacks of all sorts for mention is made of the leech with the curland hair, of the lang dutch doctor, of one fullertone, who was believed to possess the secret of making precious stones, of a dr. ogilvy who labored hard at the transmutation of metals, and many other empirics, whom james not only supported in their experiments, but himself assisted in their laboratory. the most noted of these adventurers was master john damian, the french leich. he probably held an appointment as a physician in the royal household. john soon ingratiated himself with the king, who had a strong passion for alchemy. he remained in james s f

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use etymology of the word have made it elastic and open but faivre believes that six criteria should be fulfilled if one in a fruitful way is to be able to discuss something specifically esoteric (to distinguish it from non esoteric initiations, of which four are primary. the criterias listed are 1) the correspondences, 2) the living nature, 3) conceptions and intermediation. 4) the experience of transmutation, and 5) accordances and 6) transference. 1) the correspondences are the thought of hidden connections between the visible and invisible parts of the universe, in accordance with the hermetic motto as above so below. there are connections between minerals, the human body and the planets etc. 2) the living nature is based on the view of the cosmos as a manifold and hierarchic unity whe

ia, imagio) is a tool for those who wishes to reach knowledge about the self, the world and the myth. it is the eye of fire which penetrates the shell of the outer appearance to make the true significations appear, and uncovers the connections which makes the invisible visible to expand our mundane seeing; the mundus imaginalis to which the mundane eye of flesh has no access. 4) the experience of transmutation. without the experience of transmutation as an important component esoterism could be mistaken for some form of speculative spirituality. the word transmutation can be found in alchemy and refers to the transcendence or passing over from one level to another, the subjects metamorphosis to higher levels. to these four basic components of esoterism can be added two relative components:

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rendel is me/ we. i was given this meaning and conversation by the three sigils which i received from the right of godhood (rog [1] this sigil whose number was 76 was heaven [3] this sigil was the vehicle on earth [2] this sigil was a mystery until tonight. this sigil is like a cross section of the god manifold. it revealed itself to me after fusing the other two sigils. this sigil is revelation/ transmutation/ a unity of heaven and earth. end history. this was when the being, myself) revealed itself/ myself to me. it was like it was beckoning me towards god-hood to form my own manifold and therefore, my own universe. every person was a part of one of these beings (hga's, they were many and there are more others of as. like me, all part of him and he a. this is for all of humanity. the ine

sement. what meaneth this? our brotherhood seeks recreation, thus it is that we are bound beyond time and space into the thrusting disarray of void. to establish a splotch of black amid the white. the inverse spaces bring calamity into their boring tunnels. the point of crossover is the star of daath. we leap and propel our light (under the guidance of the angels) into ideo-spheres and vacuity. a transmutation, ex-nihilo. how this is accomplished is the domain of the given star and is approached quite naturally. the gift of babalon is that we are of her, and the shells of victory become unraveled. this appears paradoxical at first, for she is zos complete. but the schizophrenic shards have a new facet about them, many as a matter of fact. when babalon the great has fallen, her victory shal

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result is a moral disintegration- a throwing out of balance, out of focus, out of equilibrium. chaos surrounds us, because the mysteries have been communicated to those unworthy to receive them, and not until the new body is endowed with a new mind will a new soul be born within it. such an equilibrium can alone be established through wonder- a stepping out from the finite towards the infinite, a transmutation of satan into god. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 8 the secrecy of transcendental knowledge transcendental knowledge is knowledge which transcends the intelligence, yet it need not therefore be knowledge which is beyond the focus of the mind. the differential calculus is common knowledge to the mathematician, and yet it is transcendental to the majority of mankind. so also with pr

s through the shell and presently soars into the air. thus does the static become the dynamic, the material the spiritual. if the shell is the exoteric principle and the yolk the esoteric, what then is the white? the white is the food of the second, the accumulated wisdom of the world centring round the mystery of growth, which each single individual must absorb before he can break the shell. the transmutation of the white, by the yolk, into the fledgling is the secret of secrets of the entire qabalistic philosophy. gknow that all the upper and the lower worlds are comprised in the image of god h, we read in the zohar.13 here we have (1) a unity- the image of god (2) a duality- the upper and lower worlds (3) a trinity- the upper and lower worlds and the image of god; and (4) a quadruplicit

ain is lifted we are transported to ever-higher planes of sublimity until the highest is reached!22 the curtains are the divisions (abysses) between the superconscious thought of god and the conscious thought of man. the ultimate curtain is the shell of the egg- materiality; but before this final curtain can be lifted, a host of intellectual curtains- the white of the egg- have to be dissolved by transmutation into spiritual energy. spiritual deliverance, or attainment, is consequently an act of creation. finally we come to this conclusion: it is not god, or the universe, which is the supreme mystery, but man, man himself, the link between god and the universe. the zohar says: as soon as man appeared, all was achieved, both in the upper and in the lower worlds. for all is contained in man

atic world. thus the whole process of creation is the evolution of light: from an absolute quality to a tangible quality; from what is incomprehensible to what is comprehensible; from what is from god and beyond man to what is of god and within man; for all and everything is light in varying forms of density or purity. from light we come and unto light we go; the great qabalistic secret being the transmutation of darkness, light in its material form into illuminism, that is light in its spiritual form. such is the grand telesma of the world. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 36 chapter iii the problem of good and evil good and evil. thus far we have dealt with the theory of the qabalah in its exoteric, philosophical, and cosmological forms: now we shall enter more and more deeply into its

call it, emerged from out of the yetziratic deity, leaving the four tetragrammatic letters of his name reflected upon the deep. these four letters represent what may be called the materiality of this deity, the elements of air, fire, water, and earth. in themselves they are not spiritual but are reflected upon spirit, the shin by going forth from the yetziratic deity rendering them visible. this transmutation of tetragrammaton- or the despiritualized good sammael- into matter is one of the profoundest mysteries of the qabalah, a mystery so secret that it is nowhere clearly explained. we are told that the name of tetragrammaton is unpronounceable, and this in fact is so, for though yhvh can be pronounced as yahweh, or jehovah, this is not the true name of tetragrammaton, for his name must

serpent, its appearance that of the open mouth of a snake (jaws and tongue, and its numerical value clearly shows its triadic nature; further still, 300, its value, esoterically symbolizes the 300 sephiroth of the three worlds which preceded the creation of the world of matter. though as spiritual fire, or glory, it is the symbol of the shekinah, the sepher yetzirah hints that it also represents transmutation and the devil.23 usually the thirty-first path of the tree of life is referred to it, and according to the 32 paths of wisdom, this path gis called the perpetual intelligence. because it rules the movement of the sun and the moon according to their constitution, and causes each to gravitate in its respective orb h. 24 in other words, it is the equilibrating force in the world of acti

eness or similitude is a lower manifestation. 14 such was the organization of the great vitality, the adam qadmon of assiah, who for ga hundred and thirty years had .intercourse with female spirits h, 15 begetting the evil powers of the world, powers which are endowed with life but not with immortality until they have been set in conflict with the good and have become equilibrated. to effect this transmutation demanded an angelic race of men and, consequently, the creation of the angelic mother. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 52 the creation of eve. in the second chapter of genesis we are told that tetragrammaton elohim took a rib from the body of adam and from it fashioned woman- the passive or feminine essence of the archetypal man. the qabalistic interpretation is as follows: the rib

of the qabalah page 52 the creation of eve. in the second chapter of genesis we are told that tetragrammaton elohim took a rib from the body of adam and from it fashioned woman- the passive or feminine essence of the archetypal man. the qabalistic interpretation is as follows: the rib is the letter od, which when removed from the four letters od heh vau heh leaves heh vau heh, or eve. the actual transmutation from od vau od to od heh vau heh we have already described. the od, as it will be remembered, also symbolizes the ten sephiroth of the yetziratic world, which are reflected in the assiatic world in the form of the garden of eden, which mystically is the garment of god. the od being extracted, the mystical eye is closed- that is, the vision of the yetziratic tree of life is cut off fr

empt to open its secret chambers. light in itself is an invisible vibration which is endowed with visibility by the eye, which in its turn was created by light, that is by countless millions of vibrations playing upon the surface of the living skin until from their irritation was created this most mysterious of all the animal organs of sense. what, then, is mind? mind, we hazard to answer, is the transmutation of light into thought, that is of spirit into reason. light is consequently the conductor between divinity and humanity, between god and man. there is the divine thought; there is light; lastly there is human thought: such is the first great psychic, or mystical, revolution. as man is fashioned from out of inertia, the dust of the earth, and through the breath of life (that is the es

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

thegrowth in lifewhichisofgod.thesymbol ofthelion is embroidered thereon, upon the left side,withthe inscription:faciestertia,faciesleonis.themaster bears a wand, surmounted by a calvary cross, having four circles at the end of the four arms and one circle toward the centre of the lowermost arm. 2. the honourablefraterpracticuswears a yellow robe over his black habit, symbolizing the beginning of transmutation in god.thesymbolofthe eagle is embroidered thereon, upon the left side,withthe inscription:faciesquarta,faciesaquilae. his collar is of violet silk, fromwhichdepends a circular lamina, inscribedwiththe letter he, being the first he of the divine name.hebears a. surmounted by a flaming heart. 3. thehonourablefratertheoreticuswears a blue robe over his black habit, symbolizing the aspi

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

e medieval occult authors.24themagical masonthe power of foresight, as shown by the inscription of the vault door. in the vault were found,inter alia,'wonderful artificial songs; these we may take to be what the eastern adepts called mantrams, that is portions of language in a certain rhythm for recitation in magical ceremonies.they condemned gold-making for profit and luxury as accursed, calling transmutation but a parergon or side work. and lastly we read in thefama:ourphilosophy is not a new invention, but as adam after his fall received it, and as moses and solomon used, also she ought not to be much doubted of or contradicted by other opinions or meanings; but seeing thattruthis always peaceful and brief and always like herself and especially accorded by with jesusinomniparteand all m

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

erly worthless in itself,.andonlyfitto light the fire with; but the training whichtheartist's hand derives from that work is of incalculable 'value. and that is the work which the manas body is achieving everlastingly upon every one of us. well, now, the last question with regard to this point is, taking ourselves to, be self- conscious,and endeavouringt) assist in this great process,inthis great transmutation, how are we to do it? well, by uniting.ourselves,withol,1rhigher self. that is the eastern uniting.prana with manas. manas is striving always, the m:mas. body, real and substantial and veritable, mind, is striving always to mould andtoraise this physical body. as far as self-consciousness resides in this physical body, the process can be helped.by the raising of the physical body to

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

h not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. he prophesied the coming of one who would baptise with the sacred fire" whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor and will gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. needless to say these human automatons are the chaff and their final end can come through only one process: transmutation. for this is the only approved method whereby the wicked shall be removed from the face of the earth. in the bible these soulless beings are referred to throughout as the wicked for they have seen to it that all more specific descriptions of their race have been removed- lest mankind discover them and rise in righteous indignation against their overlords. and thus the death of john t

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

the church of ephesus the church of ephesus is the base chakra. it is known as desirable and is that of the primal instincts. it is desired by and desires the sahasrara (laodicea) centre. the union of these centres locks the organism into the static currents of the treasury of light. the characteristic of the city is that of change, the change from earthly to gnostic worship. this represents the transmutation of purely "nature" oriented vibrations into forces that serve the spiritual goal. this technology includes the correct use of passion and desire with the process of transfiguration. the key here is that all drives and goals must be directed towards the treasury of light. the commendation of the church is given for its patience and labour and it is especially commended because it has

ete the authoress of the only fully extant free spirit scripture, the mirror of simple souls. way before her time, she taught the equality of the sexes, the right not to reproduce and the freedom given by the gnosis. gnostic theurgy page 207 the alchemists the alchemical tradition is varied and complex, it is difficult to summarise its role in the continuum of the gnosis. it primary focus was the transmutation of man into god, the techniques for which were transmitted under the guise of chemical transformation. the texts of the alchemists were coded to avoid the inquisition and hence sustained the secret tradition through the veil of symbolism. some of the major alchemical figures include trithemius (1642-1516, paracelsus (1493-1541) and agrippa (1486-1535. the rosicrucians and knight temp

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z2

elements, etc. unto the first heh h the consecration and charging of telesmata, and the production of natural phenomena, as storms, earthquakes, etc. unto the letter vau w divination in all its branches; and the art of making the link between the subject of the work and the process of divination. and to the final heh h the works and operations of the art of alchemy, the order of its processes and transmutation. index for general reference to the enterer ceremony of the 0= 0 grade 1. a the ceremony itself. the place of the temple. 2. b the hierophant. 3. c the officers. 4. d the candidate 5. e the ceremony of opening. 6. f hierophant states that he has received a dispensation from second order, and commands hegemon to prepare candidate. candidate prepared. speech of hegemon. 7. g admission

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z3

ust begin to study. he affirms that the symbols must be equilibriated in the sphere of sensation before a link can be formulated between them and the forces of the macrocosm. the necessity of examination is insisted upon so that this may be completely done. the kerux then pours out the two fluids to make the semblance of blood. this is to fix in the candidate s sphere the symbols of the forces of transmutation in nature and also to make an astral link between these and the candidate s physical life as a guard of the secrecy of the mysteries. this particular form of transmutation is used as showing the effect of a mixture of forces as producing a third appearance totally different from them. the red color is symbolic of the blood of the candidate. in the ancient mysteries, the candidate s b

guard of the secrecy of the mysteries. this particular form of transmutation is used as showing the effect of a mixture of forces as producing a third appearance totally different from them. the red color is symbolic of the blood of the candidate. in the ancient mysteries, the candidate s blood was actually drawn at this time and preserved as an avenging link in case of his proving unworthy. our transmutation affects the matter quite as well, seeing that the astral link is formally established. the final speech of the hierophant is further intended besides its apparent meaning, to affirm that a person only partially initiated is neither fitted to teach nor to instruct even the outer and more ignorant in sublime knowledge. he is certain, through misunderstanding the principles, to formulat

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM17

center, as hereof more at large and more pain shall be spoken in christianly conference. but now concerning, and chiefly in this our age, the ungodly and accursed goldmaking, which hath gotten so much the upper hand, whereby under colour of it, many runogates and roguish people do use great villainies, and cozen and abuse the credit which is given them; yea, nowadays men of discretion do hold the transmutation of metals to be the highest point and fastigium in philosophy. this is all their intent and desire, and that god would be more esteemed by them and honoured which could make great store of gold, the which with unpremeditate prayers they hope to obtain of the all-knowing god and searcher of all hearts; but we by these presents publicly testify, that the true philosophers are far of an

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ZAM19

ning of the world there hath not been given to man a more excellent, admirable, and wholesome book than the holy bible; blessed is he who possesseth it, more blessed is he who reads it, most blessed of all is he who truly understandeth it, while he is most like to god who both understands and obeys it. chapter xi now, whatsoever hath been said in the fama, through hatred of impostors, against the transmutation of metals and the supreme medicine of the world, we desire to be so understood, that this so great gift of god we do in no manner set at naught, but as it bringeth not always with it the knowledge of nature, while this knowledge bringeth forth both that and an infinite number of other natural miracles, it is right that we be rather earnest to attain to the knowledge of philosophy, no

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

the silence the practice of alchemy has often been associated with the chemical process of turning base metals into gold. how-ever, enochian magick recognizes another important branch of alchemy- turning ignorance into wisdom, sickness into health, and mortality into longevity. it is symbolically called the philosopher's stone, the stone of the magician, and it works through a magical process of transmutation. it is not just a physical process but mental as well. the 'base metal' is the human body and mind, and the 'pure gold' is the body immunized against sickness and age with mind enl ightened to the true nature of things. within and around the human body is an aura, a subtle body of light with several gradations. the lowest of these is called the etheric body. the etheric body consists

he north pole is act ive and outgoing. the south pole is passive and receptive. as with any magnet, like poles repel while opposite poles attract. the task of the magician is to consciously control this magnetic field and 284 direct its magical forces throughout the physical body which is its expression in flesh. the "stone" is magical fire that radiates through the body and, in time, effects the transmutation. this magical fire (sometimes called psychic heat) is produced by means of combined meditational and breathing exercises that follow. the magical fire that transmutes the physical body is known in tantricisrn as kundalini and in tibet as fohat. it is the natural force of the evolution of man that lies latent in the body of light at a point that corresponds to the base of the spine in

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

str. evang. 4, d, not in tertullian, nor irenajus nor lactantius. even jerome and augustine never call the devil lucifer. 986 devil. hands of tlie heathen a twofold enlargement: heathen gods and spirits already malign and gloomy in themselves readily dropt into the christian category of devilish beings; with greater difficulty and more resistance from public opinion, was effected nevertheless the transmutation of the good gods of old into spectres and demons. in this process names for the most part got suppressed or disguised; myths and stories were not so easily to be abolished. in not a few cases the devil may be regarded as a parodi/ or aping of the true god, as the left or wrong-side (taken mildly, the foil p. 515) of the divine being ^i he wants to have the same power, enjoy the same

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

from thine apron the rose, and in the hand of thine earthly body i place another rose, fresh from life, with fragrance, and purity, that it, too, may return unto the dust of the earth to rise again and, through resurrection, become manifest in all its glory. g ganglion.a mass of neuron cell bodies, which serve or function as a center for various nerve impulses. here the exchange, translation, or transmutation of such impulses, and a coordination of the influences passing into or through such body is effected. a ganglion is therefore like a central station of a telephone system or a switchboard for certain electric trunk lines. the ganglia of the autonomic nervous system are of special interest in their functioning and intended purposes to the rosicrucian. the nervous system and the physio

science of mind, or the science which treats of the analysis of the laws of connection and condition of mental phenomena. from the rosicrucian point of view it is more than that: it is the science which treats of the soul, its attributes, mind, and consciousness and its purpose, place, and function, as well as its influence in our lives as regards habits, their formation, adoption, rejection, or transmutation, the action and interaction of the two phases of mind, the objective, including its subjective phase, and the subconscious, and many other forms of psychic and mental existence.[199] r reality.the rosicrucians make a very definite distinction between realities and actualities. as stated under the term actual, actualities are the manifestations of the law and order of vibration. on th

also changes the constructive processes of the physical body which have been holding together, to some degree, the material elements composing it, permitting a new condition to exist whereby these elements begin to separate and return to their primary form of living matter. therefore, it is truly a transition with no indication of death to any part of the former physical and spiritual expression. transmutation.this is not merely an alchemical term but a mystical term. transmutation may be mental, as well as physical, and can be spiritual in a broad sense. transmutation means the changing of the vibratory nature of a material element or the vibratory expression of a spiritual manifestation so that the manifestation or expression is different after the change. the ancient rosicrucians claime

eans the changing of the vibratory nature of a material element or the vibratory expression of a spiritual manifestation so that the manifestation or expression is different after the change. the ancient rosicrucians claimed that it was possible to transmute the baser materials into the more refined. they demonstrated this in their day, as we do in our day, in a material or chemical world, by the transmutation of gross metals into gold or platinum, both of which represent a higher and more refined expression. but they also claimed as we demonstrate today, that the highest demonstration of transmutation and the more ideal, profitable, and noble demonstration is that which occupies our greatest attention in the world today as rosicrucians: this is to transmute the baser elements of our physi

tion and the more ideal, profitable, and noble demonstration is that which occupies our greatest attention in the world today as rosicrucians: this is to transmute the baser elements of our physical natures into the highest ideal expressions and to transmute our desires and thoughts into living spiritual ideals. thus all of us are striving to become true alchemists and demonstrate the real art of transmutation. triangle.a symbol of the numeral 3, and of perfection in the use of natural laws or in any undertaking. there are two phases or qualities of things. from their blending comes a third or new condition or state, having the attributes of both of the separate ones. truth.whatever is real to us is truth. from the philosophical point of view, whatever lacks reality.that is, what we doubt

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

listens to, or is distinct from, either finite man or the infinite essence-for all are one. nor, as just remarked, that a prayer is a petition. it is a mystery rather; an occult process by which finite and conditioned thoughts and desires, unable to be assimilated by the absolute spirit which is unconditioned, are translated into spiritual wills and the will; such process being called "spiritual transmutation" the intensity of our ardent aspirations changes prayer into the "philosopher's stone" or that which transmutes lead into pure gold. the only homogeneous essence, our "will-prayer" becomes the active or creative force, producing effects according to our desire. q. do you mean to say that prayer is an occult process bringing about physical results? a. i do. will-power becomes a living

re typified under the three alchemical properties-sulphur, mercury, and salt. different writers have stated that these are three, seven, ten, and twelve processes respectively; but they are all agreed there is but one object in alchemy, which is to transmute gross metals into pure gold. but what that gold really is, very few people understand correctly. no doubt there is such a thing in nature as transmutation of the baser metal into the nobler; but this is only one aspect of alchemy, the terrestrial, or purely material, for we see logically the same process taking place in the bowels of the earth. yet, besides and beyond this interpretation, there is in alchemy a symbolical meaning, purely psychic and spiritual. while the cabalist-alchemist seeks for the realization of the former, the occ

aterial, for we see logically the same process taking place in the bowels of the earth. yet, besides and beyond this interpretation, there is in alchemy a symbolical meaning, purely psychic and spiritual. while the cabalist-alchemist seeks for the realization of the former, the occultist-alchemist, spurning the gold of the earth, gives all his attention to and directs his efforts only towards the transmutation of the baser quaternary into the divine upper trinity of man, which when finally blended, is one. the spiritual, mental, psychic, and physical planes of human existence are in alchemy compared to the four elements-fire, air, water, and earth, and are each capable of a three-fold constitution, i.e, fixed, unstable, and volatile. little or nothing is known by the world concerning the o

apable of a three-fold constitution, i.e, fixed, unstable, and volatile. little or nothing is known by the world concerning the origin of this archaic branch of philosophy; but it is certain that it antedates the construction of any known zodiac, and as dealing with the personified forces of nature, probably also any of the mythologies of the world. nor is there any doubt that the true secrets of transmutation (on the physical plane) were known in the days of old, and lost before the dawn of the so-called historical period. modern chemistry owes its best fundamental discoveries to alchemy, but regardless of the undeniable truism of the latter, that there is but one element in the universe, chemistry placed metals in the class of elements, and is only now beginning to find out its gross mis

the dawn of the so-called historical period. modern chemistry owes its best fundamental discoveries to alchemy, but regardless of the undeniable truism of the latter, that there is but one element in the universe, chemistry placed metals in the class of elements, and is only now beginning to find out its gross mistake. even some encyclopedists are forced to confess that if most of the accounts of transmutation are fraud or page 142 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt delusion, yet some of them are accompanied by testimony which renders them probable. by means of the galvanic battery even the alkalis have been discovered to have a metallic basis. the possibility of obtaining metal from other substances which contain the ingredients composing it, of changing one metal into another must th

nces, arms, clothes, ornaments, furniture, the body and its parts, the sexes, and our outward condition. all of which would strongly corroborate the idea that philo was acquainted with the ancient cabala. philosopher's stone a term in alchemy; called also the powder of projection, a mysterious principle having the power of transmuting the base metals into pure gold. in theosophy it symbolizes the transmutation of the lower animal nature of man into the highest divine. phren a pythagorean term denoting what we call the kama-manas, still overshadowed by buddhi-manas. plane from the latin planus (level, flat, an extension of space, whether in the physical or metaphysical sense. in occultism, the range or extent of some state of consciousness, or the state of matter corresponding to the percep

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

ct that i got anything out of it. unless you have arrived at a certain condition, mere symbolism is not much use. if you have arrived at a certain condition, it teaches everything. i have just had a letter from my most learned friend [unidentified, saying that he is more and more convinced that one must first attain to spiritual adeptship, before you can get the physical adeptship of [alchemical] transmutation. i think i have evidence to the contrary, but i should not like to set my opinion against that of a man who, in addition to a natural genius for the occult, has been at it since childhood, has the best books and mss, and knows the whole subject. with all these advantages, he has not succeeded, and is very dejected and the letters 57 thinks the fates are against him. from this you may

ch as myself is curious. you may suppose that the medical part interests me. according to modern lights he is wrong in some of the particulars of his physiology, but he has a very good general idea of it. the cures he declares himself to have made, seem incredible, but experience alone could tell us whether it is possible. i suppose paracelsus did quite as much. this part i care for more than the transmutation. this spell of horribly. cold weather prevents me from doing anything practical. i am obliged to be so careful not to get bronchitis again. i can employ the time profitably in copying the second vol. of this ms and by the time i have finished it, i hope it will be warmer and allow me to get to work. your vast reading and general knowledge may cause you to value this ms less than i do

HUEBNER LOUISE WITCHCRAFT FOR ALL WICCA 04

more like sophia loren or brigitte bardot, perhaps. at one time chemists were considered magicians. albertus magnus (1193-1290, considered a wizard in his day, was responsible for the discovery of caustic potash, cinnabar, and ceruse. he was a leader in witchcraft. you may remember his name from the film rosemary's baby. he was a chemist who was preoccupied with turning other metals into gold by (transmutation) alchemy. in the course of his experiments he discovered things that were to be of far more value to succeeding generations than a pot of gold. potassium bicarbonate was discovered by another alchemist of that era. sulphuric ether and hydrochloric acid were other compounds the alchemists discovered as they practiced their kind of witchcraft. the existence of gas, sodium sulphate, pho

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

is a little example respecting an imitation of that which is happening, in a big measure, on our whole earth. what we understand, on our earth, a magnetism and electricity, is nothing else but an appearance of the four-pole magnet. for, as we know already, by an arbitrary pole-changing, electricity can be obtained from magnetism and, in a mechanical way, we get magnetism through electricity. the transmutation of one power into another, properly speaking, is already an alchemistic or magic process, which, however, in the course of time, has been generalized so much that it is no longer regarded as alchemy or magic, but is simply ascribed to physics. for this reason, it is obvious that the four-pole magnet can be used here also. according to the law concerning the problems of magnetism and

f the soul step i magic physical training 1. the material or carnal body 2. mystery of breathing 3. conscious reception of food 4. the magic of water step ii magic mental training 1. autosuggestion or the secret of subcosciousness 2. concentration exercises a. visual b. auditory c. sensory d. olfactory e. taste step ii magic psychic training 1. magic-astral balance with respect to the elements 2. transmutation or refinement of the soul a. by fight or control b. by auto-suggestion c. by transmutation step ii magic physical training 1. conscious pore breathing 2. conscious position of the body 3. body control in everyday life, at will step iii magic mental training 1. concentration of thoughts with 2 or 3 senses at once 2. concentration on objects, landscapes, places 3. concentration on anim

reatest influence on him. should he not own a sufficiently strong volition, he may start from the opposite side by balancing small weaknesses first, and fighting greater faults and weaknesses bit by bit until he has brought them under control. the scholar is offered three possibilities for mastering the passions: 1. systematical utilization of autosuggestion in the way we described previously. 2. transmutation of passions into the opposite qualities, attainable through autosuggestion or through repeated meditations on and continuous assurance of the good qualities. 3. attention and volition. by using this method, you will not allow for any outbreak of the passion, fighting it right in the bud. this method is the most difficult and is appropriate only for people possessing a good deal of vo

ercises. summary of exercises of step ii: i. magic mental training: 1. autosuggestion or the unveiled enigmas of the unconscious. 2. concentration exercises: a) visual (optical) b) auditory c) sensory d) olfactory e) taste exercises concerning the elimination of thoughts (negative state) are continued and deepened here. ii. magic psychic training: mago-astral balance with respect to the elements, transmutation or refinement of character: a) by fight or control b) by autosuggestion c) by transmutation or transforming into the opposite quality. iii. magic physical training: a) conscious pore breathing b) conscious position of the body (carriage) c) body control in everyday life, at will. before falling asleep, the most beautiful and purest ideas are to be taken along into the sleep. end of s

ose if you have learned how to accumulate vital power not only in the whole body but in each single part of it, and to emit the rays of this accumulated force directly to the outside. when you master this exercise, the third stage of the magic physical training will be completed. appendix to step iii the scholar who has arrived at this point of his magic development will already observe a general transmutation of his individuality. his magic faculties will increase in all the spheres. as to the mental sphere, he will have attained a stronger willpower, greater resistance, a better memory, a keener observation, and a clear intellect. in the astral sphere, he will notice that he has become calmer and steadier and, according to his aptitudes, he will further develop the faculties still slumbe

to connect each object you selected to your consciousness so that you have adopted the shape, size, and quality of the object, and that you remain in it for at least five minutes without any interruption. it must be possible for you to overlook and forget your body completely. having managed this task, you can choose bigger objects like flowers, plants, shrubs, trees, etc. for your concentrative transmutation of consciousness. consciousness knows neither time nor space; it is consequently an akasa-principle. nobody should be deterred by the unusual kind of the exercises and by eventual failures at the beginning; patience, perseverance and tenacity will soon lead to the success aimed at. the scholar will learn later what significance these preliminary exercises have for the further magical

s and be able to influence the roots of the illness. when the origin of the sickness happens to be in the mental sphere, the magician first of all has to influence the mind of the patient to restore the harmony. as i mentioned before, the astral sphere can only influence the astral plane, exactly as the material sphere influences the material plane only. this fact must always be kept in mind. any transmutation from one plane to another can only be accomplished with the help of the corresponding matrix or the connecting link of a more subtle power. a thought can never produce any physical power nor cure any physical ailment. but a thought that has been concentrated on faith and conviction can cause strong vibrations in the mental sphere of the patient which are conveyed to the astral body v

lly. a bird is well matched only with another bird. in the same way, an elemental being will have an understanding only with a congeneric being, i.e, a being of the same element. provided it should like to come in contact with another being, it would be bound to adopt a human form and human qualities to approach man in the form of man. at this point the magician will realize why he had to perform transmutation exercises in the previous steps. a gnome will never understand a human being, and vice versa. when operating in this way, either the magician has to become a gnome, or the gnome has to be transmuted into a human being. consequently wishing to enter the kingdom of the earth-sprites, the magician will have to take the shape of a gnome. if he can t imagine what a gnome looks like, he mu

to produce; it requires years of training and practice, and hardly anybody but adepts of the highest ranks can execute such an operation correctly. supposing he has achieved this great skill of making invisible his mental and astral bodies, and eventually his physical body too, the magician is in a position to bring about the disappearance of any material object. another way to do this is by the transmutation of an object from the solid into the astral form by means of imagination in connection with akasa. the object vanishes instantly from the sight of any person whose magic senses have not been sufficiently developed. an object transformed into the astral form can be transferred by the astral body of an entity or by the magician himself to any distance. the magician or entity performing

INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW CHUMBLEY

the following definition: magick is the transmutability of the quintessence of all nature. this is to say that magick is the all-potential power of change characterising the rootnature of all that has existence. secondly, i would suggest a distinction between magick as power and sorcery as the means of manipulating that power through knowledge: sorcery is the knowledge of the universal points of transmutation. its art is to cultivate the ability to manipulate these foci of power in accordance with will, desire and belief. in practical terms, i consider sorcery to be the knowledge of the fundamental principles or sacred letters which govern the control, manipulation and application of magical force. these principles are the sorcerer s alphabet. when focused via ritual, they determine the v

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

and level 3 nourishment. our daily focus upon the above spinning chakra system feeds it as a reality, making it stronger and when it is married with our breath, it begins to set up its own bio-feedback looping system which then automatically keeps our system tuned to the inner theta. delta channels. this occurs because it is the nature of these very frequencies. which comprise the violet light of transmutation. to magnetize the inner realm violet light back to the creation of one spinning chakra column of radiating violet light. original drawing by juan li divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 66 themselves, for they are guided with a deep knowing that everything is part of one great whole. the potency of this meditation and chakra column field again depe

nd utilize for the greater good is the violet light of the seventh ray of spiritual freedom. this is a particular band of energy, or photon energy, which has a particular frequency that is available through the inner plane network. it is a particular frequency or light spectrum that when downloaded and redirected throughout our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bio-system creates powerful transmutation and change. however, this light spectrum only operates at its maximum potential when it is programmed with specific sounds and codes. this explains why step 8 in the luscious lifestyle program focuses on the importance of sacred sound, for sacred sounds have been utilized for thousands of millennia divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 67 by the ind

ld toxicity as violet light transmutes naturally everything it touches and transforms it back to its essence. however, if we are active in the beta field world then we may find the need from time to time to dump unnecessary energies from our shields and this will need to be done without destabilizing the field around us. the best way to do this is again by flooding the filled with violet light as transmutation is the perfect dissipation tool. i also like the program dow boost bio-shield now which strengthens the shield s base energy pattern and also its program codes. it is also important to retune our cellular memory patterns for empowerment and this can be done via a) being thankful for all the learning we have gained through our suffering in the past b) using kinesiology or vibrational

acral chakras) with the spiritual energy (crown and brow chakras) and the unconditional love energy (heart chakra) via the microcosmic orbit technique (as outlined in mantak chia s work, the author of taoist secrets of love. see technique no 11. in chapter 6. others may choose celibacy where celibacy is a choice made not from lack of opportunity for sexual expression but for intentional conscious transmutation of the sexual life force energy into a higher. more refined. creative vibration. a healthy body is a sexual body. the sexual energies must be transmuted into a higher vibration or utilized through either procreation or tantric sharing. q: is there an international; organization of pranic nourishers and if so what is it s agenda? is it a cult or religious movement? no and no. personal

aint germain and it is a cosmic generator of great god controlled power that we can visualize in the centre of our heart chakra where it will radiate the below energies through our bio-systems and out into the world. the energies of spirit descend through the north arm which is white in color and represents the downloading of the virtues of our christ or buddhic identity and of the sacred fire of transmutation. the left arm carries the blue energy of divine power, just like with the violet flame. the left arm also denotes the west and the negative, or minus charge of the trinity in form and denotes the physical nature of man as a crucible into which the light of the god force is poured. the right arm of the cross denotes the east and the positive charge of the trinity and is qualified by t

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

will be (perhaps also in ignorance) in, their "after-state. in respect of which state( before and after this life, all people, in all time, have had an idea. it is purgatory it is limbus 192 the rosicrucians. real world) into which the rosicrucians say they can enter, and bring back, as proofs that they have been there, the old things (thought escaped, metamorphosed in to new things. this act is transmutation. this product is magic gold, or fairy gold, condensed as real gold. this growing gold, or self-generating and multiplying gold, is obtained by invisible transmutation (and in other light) in another world out of this world; immaterial to us creatures of limited faculties, but material enough, farther on, on the heavenly side, or on the side opposite to our human side. in other words

d sense) symbols in the old world and in the new, we think we have abundantly shown-at least, in the occult, shadowy idea. why, supposing that the alchemists ever possessed the power of universal gold-making, they fail of producing any, or of offering one of their rich gifts to the world, is at once answered in these two conclusive, obvious facts: firstly, that if this power of gold-making, or of transmutation, were a recognised possibility, like any other 194 the rosicrucians. art allowed or authorised, it would inevitably become penal or impossible, in order to preserve the existing value of gold, the richest metal; and the professor of the art would be at once put out of sight. secondly, if supposed to be true, and no fable, like any ordinary art or science, the man who had arrived at s

entioned metals, on planetarily corresponding days. these are sol, for gold, on sunday; luna, for silver, on monday; mars, for iron, on tuesday; mercury, for quicksilver, on wednesday; jupiter, for tin, on thursday; venus, for copper, on friday; and saturn, for lead, on saturday (lucas s travels, p. 79; count bernard of treviso. the emblematical sculptures, in which the whole enigma of the art of transmutation is supposed to be contained, are those over the fourth arch of the cemetery of the innocents, at paris, as you go through the great gate of st-denis, on the right-hand side. they were placed there by nicholas flamel. the old traditions, from time immemorial, aver that it is neither proper for sailors nor for servants of the sea to wear beards. that, they have never done so is true, e

ny instances in his treatise de natur metallorum. he produces accounts to this effect out of geberus, hermes, arnoldus, guaccius, thomas aquinas (ad fratrem, c. i, bernardus comes, joannes rtingius, baptista porta, rubeus, dornesius, vogelius, penotus, quercetanus, and others. franciscus picus, in his book de auro, sec. 3, c. 2, gives eighteen instances in which he saw gold produced by alchemical transmutation. to those who allege the seeming impossibility, he rejoins, that difficult things always process of metallic conversion. 315 seem at first impossible, and that even easy things appear impracticable to the unskilled and unknowing. the principles and grounds for concluding that there may be such an art possible as alchemy we shall sum up as follows. firstly, it is assumed that every me

g. the principles and grounds for concluding that there may be such an art possible as alchemy we shall sum up as follows. firstly, it is assumed that every metal consists of mercury as a common versatile and flexible base, from which all metals spring, and into which they may be ultimately reduced by art. secondly, the species of metals, and their specific and essential forms, are not subject to transmutation, but only the individuals; in other words, what is general is abstract and invisible, what is particular is concrete and visible, and therefore can be acted upon. thirdly, all metals differ, not in their common nature and matter, but in their degree of perfection or purity towards that invisible light within everything, or celestial glory or base for objects, which has matter as its

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

ll three of its constituents undergo a remarkable modification. the orange is raised into pure yellow, and produces a decided intensification of the powers of the intellect; the dark red becomes crimson and gradually increases the power of unselfish affection; while the dark purple is transmuted into a lovely pale violet, and quickens the spiritual part of man fs nature. the man who achieves this transmutation will find that lower desires no longer trouble him; and it is with that consummation in view that the development of the centre in which those modifications and transmutations are achieved is so strongly emphasized in the preliminary stages of freemasonry. 392. the unfoldment of this centre is closely asso-ciated with the power of paying attention, as well as with the opening of high

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

ved a secret tradition, and its monks, who devoted themselves to meditation, were possessed of genuine spiritual and occult knowledge. here christian rosenkreutz studied those deeper secrets of nature of which chemistry is but the outer shell, that alchemy which is concerned primarily with the transformation of the lead of the personality into the gold of the spirit, and only secondarily with the transmutation of metals and the manufacture of jewels. christian rosenkreutz now began to travel, and after passing through germany, austria and italy, finally reached egypt, where he was welcomed by the brethren of the egyptian lodge of that white brotherhood to which in past lives he had belonged. 721. in egypt christian rosenkreutz was received into all the degrees of the egyptian mysteries, wh

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

t on the moral level.oto teachings have been denounced as black magick by twentieth- century followers of randolph. among other teachings of the order are the basic ideas of the secret schools, including reincarnation and karma, as well as the law of justice and noninterference with the rights of others. members learn how to contact the hierarchies of the heavenly realm, as well as the process of transmutation, and the acquisition of health and strength through the dismissal of thoughts concerning weakness and age. they believe in the fatherhood of god and the ultimate sisterhood/ brotherhood of humanity. while the aeth priesthood represents the inner circle of the fraternity, the church of illumination constitutes the outer court group that interacts with the public. the focus of the chur

LIBER ALEPH

is satisfied by repeated conjunctions. for this attraction is an antagonism; and the greater this antinomy, the more fierce the puissance of the magnetism, and the quality of energy disengaged by the coition. thus in the union of similars, as of halogens with each other, is no strong passion of explosive force, and the love between two persons of the like character and taste is placid and without transmutation to higher planes. i the book of wisdom or folly 23 f de nuptiis mysticis (of the mystic marriage) my son, how wonderful is the wisdom of this law of love! how vast are the oceans of uncharted joy that lie before the keel of thy ship! yet know this, that every opposition is in its nature named sorrow, and the joy lieth in the destruction of the dyad. therefore, must thou seek ever tho

halt 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 secret of success in this great work: invoke often. t the book of wisdom or folly 91 gm de formula lun (of the formula of the moon) hus then concerning operations of the tao with the yang and the yin is there enough; for thine own art of beauty shall divine for thee, and devise new heavens. but in all these is the formula of the s

that maketh pact with him. for she hath constantly the wit and power to arrange things at his bidding, and she payeth this price of his alliance. but a man hath one jewel, and, bartering this, he becometh the mockery of satanas. let then his tutor thee in thine own art of magick, that thou employ women in all practical matters, to order them with cunning, but men in thy need of transfiguration or transmutation. in a trope, let the woman direct the chess-play of life, but the man alter the rules, if he so will. lo! in ill play is mischief and disorder, but in a new law is earthquake, and destruction of the root of things. therefore is fear of any man that is in commerce with his genius, for none knoweth if his law shall amend the game or do it hurt; and of this the proof is in experience, w

LIBER ASTARTE

ve no part whatever in love, as for recreation. but let him copy out each verse of thelema which bears upon this matter, and ponder them, and comment thereupon. for therein is a wisdom and a magic too deep to utter in any other wise. 20. concerning the meditations. herein is the most potent method of attaining unto the end, for him who is thoroughly prepared, being purified by the practice of the transmutation of deed into devotation, and consecrated by the right performance of the holy ceremonies. yet herein is danger, for that the mind is fluid as quicksilver, and bordereth upon the abyss, and is beset by many direns and devils that seduce and attack it to destroy it. therefore let the devotee beware, and precise accurately his meditations, even as a man should build a canal from sea to

n he] svb figvra clxxv 9 art, and pertaineth not altogether to the grade of philosophus. neither is it of itself helpful, but rather the reverse, in this especial practice. 26. concerning silence. now there may come a time in the course of this practice when the outward symbols of devotion cease, when the soul is as it were dumb in the presence of its god. mark that this is not a cessation, but a transmutation of the barren seed of prayer into the green shoot of yearning. this yearning is spontaneous, and it shall be left to grow, whether it be sweet or bitter. for often times it is as the torment of hell in which the soul burns and writhes unceasingly. yet it ends, and at its end continue openly thy method. 27. concerning dryness. another state wherein at times the soul may fall is this d

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

iber dcccxi by the use of the three methods in one the whole being of man may thus be stimulated. the music will create a general harmony of the brain, leading it in its own paths; the wine affords a general stimulus of its animal nature; and the sex-excitement elevates the moral nature of the man by its close analogy with the highest ecstasy. it remains, however, always for him to make the final transmutation. unless he have the special secretion which i have postulated, the result will be commonplace. so consonant is this system with the nature of man that it is exactly parodied and profaned not only in the sailor's tavern, but in the society ball. here, for the lowest natures the result is drunkenness, disease and death; for the middle natures a gradual blunting of the finer feelings; f

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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 transmutation of the mind to magical consciousness has often been called the great work. it has a far-reaching purpose leading eventually to the discovery of the true will. even a slight ability to change oneself is more valuable than any power over the external universe. metamorphosis is an exercise in willed restructuring of the mind. all attempts to reorganize the mind involve a duality between

tionality, sorrow, guilt, sin and impotence in the process. religions are founded on the fallacy that one can or ought to have one without 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

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

ession: madness the failure. when we strive to make things logical to us instead of ourselves to them, then are we makers of ugliness; affections fail and we decay and all we touch suffers. if i obey my ids, whom do my ids obey? and when my dog obeys me against his wishes, does he obey me or his ids (which means we also obey external influences we know nothing of) if desires were not satisfied by transmutation, sublimation, substitution and other forms of transference, then we should be nothing more than a scrap-heap of thwarted impulses. how often can we desire uninhibitedly, and satiate? also, where there is human congress, the first essentials are religion, law, morality, and conventions with their corollary of reward and punishment. the harness of the ids. only the stoic seeks and prac

ouch of lusty levity cures the illusions of our hemianopic moralities, sensibilities and righteousness; for the life-force is not blind. we are. if god is manifest in all phenomena, our reactions have outstripped the devil himself. if our ethics were as logical as our techniques and methods of design they would at least have appropriateness. whether the psyche develops with the body, or whether a transmutation occurs or is created by us, matters little as long as we endow it with godlike form. chaos wedlocked to chaos gave birth to order. t- p( 9..t"d..1 y..q' 2 .5: e may take. because of our infinite relationships, potentialities are there. the shapes of form are not yet exhausted and there are no miracles beyond living matter. though flesh in its most radiant beauty is miraculous, it doe

MAGIC AND SPELLS

l-like effects generated from shadow weave items have the same benefits and limitations that a shadow weave spellcaster has: effects from the schools of enchantment, illusion, and necromancy gain a +1 bonus on their save dcs and a +1 bonus on caster level checks to overcome spell resistance. the same benefits apply to effects with the darkness designator. effects from the schools of evocation and transmutation have their caster levels reduced by one (though their costs are based on the original caster level. the reduced caster level affects the spell's range, duration, damage, and any other level-dependent variables the effect might have. the effect's save dc is reduced by -1 and caster level checks to overcome spell resistance suffer a -1 penalty. the dc to dispel evocation or transmutati

's range, duration, damage, and any other level-dependent variables the effect might have. the effect's save dc is reduced by -1 and caster level checks to overcome spell resistance suffer a -1 penalty. the dc to dispel evocation or transmutation effects from a shadow weave item is 11+ the reduced caster level. in general, shadow weave users do not bother to create items that include evocation or transmutation effects. shadow weave items cannot generate effects with the light designator. shadow weave items can pose a serious danger to users who are not familiar with the mysteries of the shadow weave. activating a shadow weave item through spell completion, spell trigger, or command word deals 1d4 points of temporary wisdom damage to the user unless the user has the shadow weave magic feat

needed and so that creatures don't blunder into it accidentally. detect magic can reveal a portal's magical aura. if the portal is currently functioning (ready to transport creatures it has a strong aura. if the portal is not currently able to transport creatures (usually because it has a limited number of uses, and they are currently exhausted it has a weak aura strong or weak, a portal radiates transmutation magic. the analyze portal spell can reveal even more about a portal. portal operation creatures who touch or pass through the area of the portal are instantly teleported to the locale the portal's builder has specified (the teleportation effect is similar to teleport without error cast by a 17th-level caster, except that interplanar travel is possible) it is not possible to poke one'

e spell reveals where the portal sends creatures. if it is the type of portal that sends creatures one place and their equipment another place, the spell does not reveal where the equipment goes. malfunctioning portals: the spell reveals only that the portal is malfunctioning, not what sort of malfunction the portal produces. arcane material components: a crystal lens and a small mirror. anyspell transmutation level: spell 3 components: v, s, df (and possibly m, f, and xp) casting time: 15 minutes range: personal target: you duration: instantaneous anyspell allows you to read and prepare any arcane spell of up to 2nd level. you must have an arcane magical writing (a scroll or spellbook) on hand to cast anyspell during the spell's 1sminute casting time, you can scan the spells available and

all your targets must be within 60 feet of each other. a darkbolt deals 2d8 points of damage to a living creature, and the creature is dazed for 1 round unless it makes a will save (a creature struck by multiple-bolts during the same round is dazed for a maximum of 1 round, no matter how many times it fails its save. undead take no damage, but are dazed if they fail their saves. eagle's splendor transmutation level: brd 2, hrp 2, sor/wiz 2, trade 3 components: v, s, m/df casting time: 1 action range: touch target: creature touched duration: 1 hour/level saving throw: will negates (harmless) spell resistance: yes (harmless) the transmuted creature becomes more poised, articulate, and personally forceful. the spell grants an enhancement bonus to charisma of 1d4+1 points, adding the usual be

the machine has an attack bonus of +5 and can make one slam attack each round that deals 1d8+4 points of damage. it deals triple slam damage (3d8+12) against stone or metal. the machine can hurl small rocks (if any are at hand) with an attack bonus of +3. its range increment is 150 feet, and it can throw a rock up to 10 range increments. a thrown rock deals 2d6+4 points of damage. 6. fire stride transmutation [teleportation] level: sor/wiz 4 components: v, s casting time: 1 action range: personal target: you duration: 10 minutes/level or until expended (see text) you gain the ability to step into fires and move from fire to fire. the fires you enter and move between must be at least as big around as you are. fire elementals and other fire creatures are not "fires" for purposes of fire str

ed character, in addition to the obvious effects, suffers a -4 penalty on initiative and a 20% chance to miscast and lose any spell with a verbal component that he tries to cast. the great shout spell cannot penetrate the spell silence. creatures with sensitive ears (such as grimlocks) take double damage from the spell. objects take normal damage, but the attack ignores hardness. greater anyspell transmutation level: spell 6 components: v, s, df (and possibly m, f, and xp) casting time: 15 minutes range: personal target: you' duration: instantaneous r y n y u k .r y as anyspell, except you can read and prepare any arcane spell of up to 5th level, and the prepared spell occupies your 6th-level domain spell slot. greater fantastic machine illusion (shadow- level: craft 9 components: v, s, df

ors make profession (sailor) checks against the same dc as the spell's saving throw. these creatures take 3d8 points of damage upon being sucked in. once inside, creatures and objects take 3d8 points of battering damage each round. they remain trapped for 2d4 rounds. subjects of large or smaller size are ejected from the bottom of the vortex. larger subjects are ejected from the top. maw of stone transmutation level: cavern 7 components: v, s, df casting time. 1 action range: close (25 ft+ 5 ft./2 levels) effect: one cave mouth or natural chamber up to 15 ft. high and wide duration: 10 minutes/level (d) saving throw: none spell resistance: no you cause a single natural opening or natural chamber to become animated. the opening or chamber cannot move, but it can attack. you can order it to

unless the creature generating it makes a caster level check against a dc equal to the caster's level. if an electricity effect is generated outside the glowing cone, the cone blocks the electricity effect if the caster level check fails. if an electricity effect is generated inside the glowing cone, the cone completely negates the electricity effect if the caster level check fails. scatterspray transmutation level: hrp 1, hth 1, sor/wiz 1 components: v, s casting time: 1 action' range: close (25 ft+ 5 ft./2 levels) target: six or more diminutive or fine objects, all within 1 ft, of each other, whose total weight does not exceed 25 lb. duration: instantaneous saving throw: none (see text) spell resistance: no you can point to a collection of little, unsecured items and cause them to fly o

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

s, and the peacock of the far east. to the ancient mystics the phoenix was a most appropriate symbol of the immortality of the human soul, for just as the phoenix was reborn out of its own dead self seven times seven, so again and again the spiritual nature of man rises triumphant from his dead physical body. medi val hermetists regarded the phoenix as a symbol of the accomplishment of alchemical transmutation, a process equivalent to human regeneration. the name phoenix was also given to one of the secret alchemical formula. the familiar pelican of the rose croix degree, feeding its young from its own breast, is in reality a phoenix, a fact which can be confirmed by an examination of the head of the bird. the ungainly lower part of the pelican's beak is entirely missing, the head of the p

poleon and c sar and the zodiacal eagle of scorpio are really phoenixes, for the latter bird--not the eagle--is the symbol of spiritual victory and achievement. masonry will be in a position to solve many of the secrets of its esoteric doctrine when it realizes that both its single- and double-headed eagles are phoenixes, and that to all initiates and philosophers the phoenix is the symbol of the transmutation and regeneration of the creative energy--commonly called the accomplishment of the great work. the double-headed phoenix is the prototype of an androgynous man, for according to the secret teachings there will come a time when the human body will have two spinal cords, by means of which vibratory equilibrium will be maintained in the body. not only were many of the founders of the un

is argonauts is the celestial lamb--the spiritual and intellectual sun. the secret doctrine is also typified by the golden fleece--the wool of the divine life, the rays of the sun of truth. suidas declares the golden fleece to have been in reality a book, written upon skin, which contained the formul for the production of gold by means of chemistry. the mysteries were institutions erected for the transmutation of base ignorance into precious illumination. the dragon of ignorance was the terrible creature set to guard the golden fleece, and represents the darkness of the old year which battles with the sun at the time of its equinoctial passage. deer were sacred in the bacchic mysteries of the greeks; the bacchantes were often clothed in fawnskins. deer were associated with the worship of t

upon the tarot cards have definite masonic interest. the pythagorean numerologist will also find an important relationship to exist between the numbers on the cards and the designs accompanying the numbers. the qabbalist will be immediately impressed by the significant sequence of the cards, and the alchemist will discover certain emblems meaningless save to one versed in the divine chemistry of transmutation and regeneration' as the greeks placed the letters of their alphabet--with their corresponding numbers--upon the various parts of the body of their humanly represented logos, so the tarot cards have an analogy not only in the parts and members of the universe but also in the divisions of the human body. they are in fact the key to the magical constitution of man. the tarot cards must

also a star of the planets; and around it are the four words faith, hope, love, and patience. the double-headed eagle, or phoenix, subtly foreshadows the ultimate androgynous state of the human creature. rosicrucian alchemy was not concerned with metals alone. man's own body was the alchemical laboratory, and none could reach rosicrucian adeptship until he had performed the supreme experiment of transmutation by changing the base metals of ignorance into the pure gold of wisdom and understanding. p. 138 he should dictate. these four founded the "fraternity of the rose cross" they prepared its secret cipher language and, according to the fama, a great dictionary in which all forms of wisdom were classified to the glorification of god. they also began the work of transcribing the book m, bu

or initiates, those of the higher degrees being no longer subject to the laws of mortality; candidates were accepted into the order only after long periods of probation; adepts possessed the secret of the philosopher's stone and knew the process of transmuting the base metals into gold, but taught that these were only allegorical terms concealing the true mystery of human regeneration through the transmutation of the "base elements" of man's lower nature into the "gold" of intellectual and spiritual realization. according to this theory, those who have sought to record the events of importance in connection with the rosicrucian controversy have invariably failed because they approached their subject from a purely physical or materialistic angle. these adepts were believed to have been able

use they are blinded by the opinions of their sects. we bear witness that never since the beginning of the world has there been given to man a more excellent book than the holy bible. blessed is he who possesses it, more blessed he who reads it, most blessed he who understands it, and most godlike he who obeys it. chapter xi. we wish the statements we made in the fama fraternitatis concerning the transmutation of metals and the universal medicine to be lightly understood. while we realize that both these works are attainable by man, we fear that many really great minds may be led away from the true quest of knowledge and understanding if they permit themselves to limit their investigation to the transmutation of metals. when to a man is given power to heal disease, to overcome poverty, and

of israel. it represents completion of the process of regeneration and the consummation of the great work. click to enlarge table xii, figures 12-19 click to enlarge table xiii, figures 1-4 click to enlarge table xiv, figures 5, 7, and 8 click to enlarge table xv, figures 6, 9, and 10 next: alchemy and its exponents sacred texts esoteric index previous next p. 149 alchemy and its exponents is the transmutation of base metals into gold possible? is the idea one at which the learned of the modern world can afford to scoff? alchemy was more than a speculative art: it was also an operative art. since the time of the immortal hermes, alchemists have asserted (and not without substantiating evidence) that they could manufacture gold from tin, silver, lead, and mercury. that the galaxy of brillia

ord to scoff? alchemy was more than a speculative art: it was also an operative art. since the time of the immortal hermes, alchemists have asserted (and not without substantiating evidence) that they could manufacture gold from tin, silver, lead, and mercury. that the galaxy of brilliant philosophic and scientific minds who, over a period of two thousand years, affirmed the actuality of metallic transmutation and multiplication, could be completely sane and rational on all other problems of philosophy and science, yet hopelessly mistaken on this one point, is untenable. nor is it reasonable that the hundreds declaring to have seen and performed transmutations of metals could all have been dupes, imbeciles, or liars. those assuming that all alchemists were of unsound mentality would be for

MEANING OF MASONRY

crosses upon the apron thus corresponding with the three crosses of calvary. to sum up the import of the teaching of the three degrees, it is clear, therefore, that from grade to grade the candidate is being led from an old to an entirely new quality of life. he begins his masonic career as the natural man; he ends it by becoming through its discipline, a regenerated perfected man. to attain this transmutation, this metamorphosis of himself, he is taught first to purify and subdue his sensual nature; then to purify and develop his mental nature; and finally, by utter surrender of his old life and losing his soul to save it, he rises from the dead a master, a just man made perfect, with larger consciousness and faculties, an efficient instrument for use by the great architect in his plan of

clothing, or covering, when his transitory outer body shall have passed away" there are celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial..and as we have borne the image of the earthly we also shall bear the image of the heavenly" and the celestial body must be built up out of the sublimated properties of the terrestrial one. this is one of the secrets and mysteries of the process of regeneration and self-transmutation, to promote which the craft was designed. this is the true temple-building that masonry is concerned with. the apron being the masonic symbol of the bodily organism, changes and increasing elaborateness in it as the mason advances to higher stages in the craft symbolize (in theory) the actual development that is gradually taking place in his nature. moreover, as in the outer heavens

l, supreme blissful because in a state of holiness or wholeness; royal because a son of the king of all; powerful because of its power to subdue, transmute and redeem all that is be low its own purity and perfection. 4& 5. ezra and nehemiah. in the great mystery system of egypt, which long anteceded the hebrew system, the regenerate candidate, who had achieved the highest possible measure of self-transmutation of his lower nature, was accorded the title of osiris. it was the equivalent of attaining christhood. the nature of the perfectioning process and the rituals in connection therewith are, thanks to certain modern scholars, available to us and are recommended to the student who desires to know how arduous and real that process was and the extremely high degree of regeneration aimed at

rstand, and even when the desire for wisdom is at last awakened, the education of the understanding is a long process. nature in all her kingdoms builds slowly, perfecting her aims through endless repetitions and apparently wanton waste of material. and in the things of the kingdom which transcends nature, the same method prevails. souls are drawn but slowly to the light, and their perfecting and transmutation into that light is often very gradual. for long before it is able to distinguish shadow from substance, humanity must try its prentice-hand upon illusory toys and substitutions for the genuine secrets of reality. for long before it is worthy of actual initiation upon the path that leads to god it must be permitted to indulge in preliminary unintelligent rehearsals of the processes th

MORALS AND DOGMA

tal words the wind that breathes through their skulls. controller of love or hate, this science can at pleasure confer on human hearts paradise or hell: it disposes at will of all forms, and distributes beauty or deformity as it pleases: it changes in turn, with the rod of circe, men into brutes and animals into men: it even disposes of life or of death, and can bestow on its adepts riches by the transmutation of metals, and immortality by its quintessence and elixir, compounded of gold and light. this is what magic had been, from zoroaster to manes, from orpheus to apollonius thyaneus; when positive christianity, triumphing over the splendid dreams and gigantic aspirations of the school of alexandria, publicly crushed this philosophy with its anathemas, and compelled it to become more occ

all, the perfect emancipation of his will, which assures him the universal empire of azoth, and the domain of magnetism, that is, complete power over the universal magical agent. this magical agent, which the ancient hermetic philosophers disguised under the name of"_prima materia" determines the forms of the modifiable substance; and the alchemists said that by means of it they could attain the transmutation of metals and the universal medicine. there are two hermetic operations, one spiritual, the other material, dependent the one on the other. the whole hermetic science is contained in the dogma of hermes, engraven originally, it is said, on a tablet of emerald. its sentences that relate to operating the great work are as follows "thou shalt separate the earth from the fire, the subtil

mes. this is the grand hermetic arcanum. what the adepts call dead matter are bodies as found in nature; living matters are substances assimilated and magnetized by the science and will of the operator. so that the great work is more than a chemical operation; it is a real creation of the human word initiated into the power of the word of god. the creation of gold in the great work is effected by transmutation and multiplication. raymond lulle says, that to make gold, one must have gold and mercury; and to make silver, silver and mercury. and he adds "i mean by mercury, that mineral spirit so fine and pure that it gilds even the seed of gold, and silvers that of silver" he meant by this, either electricity, or od, the astral light. the salt and sulphur serve in the work only to prepare the

is the law of the imagination, is the very necessity of being, is the immutable law of reason and truth. the absolute is that which is. to find the absolute in the infinite, in the indefinite, and in the finite, this is the magnum opus, the great work of the sages, which hermes called the work of the sun. to find the immovable bases of true religious faith, of philosophical truth, and of metallic transmutation, this is the secret of hermes in its entirety, the philosophal stone. this stone is one and manifold; it is decomposed by analysis, and re-compounded by synthesis. in analysis, it is a powder, the powder of projection of the alchemists; before analysis, and in synthesis, it is a stone. the philosophal stone, say the masters, must not be exposed to the atmosphere, nor to the gaze of t

al agent, the astral light, the light of life, fecundated by the mental force, the intellectual energy, which they compare to sulphur, on account of its affinities with the divine fire. as to the salt, it is absolute matter. whatever is matter contains salt; and all salt [nitre] may be converted into pure gold by the combined action of sulphur and mercury, which sometimes act so rapidly, that the transmutation may be effected in an instant, in an hour, without fatigue to the operator, and almost without expense. at other times, and according to the more refractory temper of the atmospheric _media_ the operation requires several days, several months, and sometimes even several years. two primary laws exist in nature, two essential laws, which produce, by counterbalancing each other, the uni

of that glorious _light, that sends forth its bright and brilliant beams from the holy ark of alliance and covenant "let us with the deepest veneration and devotion adore the great source of life, that glorious spirit who is the most merciful and beneficent ruler of the universe and of all the creatures it contains "the secret knowledge of the grand scottish master relates to the combination and transmutation of different substances; whereof that you may obtain a clear idea and proper understanding, you are to know that all matter and all material substances are composed of combinations of three several substances, extracted from the four elements, which three substances in combination are _salt, sulphur, and _spirit. the first of these produces _solidity, the second _softness, and the th

all material substances are composed of combinations of three several substances, extracted from the four elements, which three substances in combination are _salt, sulphur, and _spirit. the first of these produces _solidity, the second _softness, and the third the _spiritual, vaporous particles. these three compound substances work potently together; and therein consists the true process for the transmutation of metals "to these three substances allude the three golden basins, in the first of which was engraved the letter m. in the second, the letter g. and in the third nothing. the first, m. is the initial letter of the hebrew word _malakh, which signifies _salt; and the second, g. of the hebrew word _geparaith, which signifies _sulphur; and as there is no word in hebrew to express the v

m. in the second, the letter g. and in the third nothing. the first, m. is the initial letter of the hebrew word _malakh, which signifies _salt; and the second, g. of the hebrew word _geparaith, which signifies _sulphur; and as there is no word in hebrew to express the vaporous and intangible _spirit, there is no letter in the third basin "with these three principal substances you may effect the transmutation of metals, which must be done by means of the five points or rules of the scottish mastership "the first master's point shows us the brazen sea, wherein must always be rain-water; and out of this rain-water the scottish masters extract the first substance, which is salt; which salt must afterward undergo a _seven-fold_ manipulation and purification, before it will be properly prepare

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

ahadabra then is also to be considered as a sentinel before the fortress of the god. why is the name of him spelt khut? we have seen that st is the regular honorific termination for a god. ra is, as shown in the old comment, the sun; hoor the warrior mars; who is khu? he is the magical ego of a star. without the yod or iota, khu-t, we get a human conception; the insertion of that letter makes the transmutation to godhead. when therefore ra hoor khut is rewarded or re-guarded with the magick word of the aeon, he becomes god. thus in the next verse. i 'raise the spell of ra hoor khuit' the text may also be read as follows. abrahadabra is the magick formula of the aeon, by which man may accomplish the great work. this formula is then the 'reward' given by the god, the largesse granted by him

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

o humble, were admirable artists. that masons may have benefited from outside contributions to their repetoire of symbolic expression is beyond doubt. but the terrain was prepared beforehand to receive them. traditional symbolism was a framework that was ready to accept these diverse influences. a vital force fully aware of its own universal nature, it did not hesitate to create the synthesis and transmutation of everything it found valid in its inheritance from the past. hence it is legitimate to detect the most diverse influences in traditional symbolism, but it would be erroneous to view it as debatable syncretism, or even heresy. furthermore, during the middle ages everything, even that which seems most profane to us, remained within the universal christian vision, marked by a connecti

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or impregnation. two is the recognition of the idea (thoth- the envisioning of number three, which is the realization of the whole state of being (xepera. the aforementioned state cannot be reached or even understood by any but those who seek only this and naught other "when i am that i am not, and i am not that i am, then i am that i am- ronald k. barrett v, i am manuscript lucifer: realization, transmutation, light the human man looks at his diplomas and degrees with pride as he should. he relishes in his bank books and property with zeal as he should. he dreams of his future with secured thought that all will be diamonds and nectar as it might. he stands on a hilltop and crows to all about that his acme has and will be reached! he will die rich and smart! to his eyes, all the changes in

d thought that all will be diamonds and nectar as it might. he stands on a hilltop and crows to all about that his acme has and will be reached! he will die rich and smart! to his eyes, all the changes in him he can see. his brain is fuller, his coffers are abundant, and his mien is enhanced. but he is the same man, and this he cannot see! the fire of lucifer will burn you beyond recognition! the transmutation of your being, when nearing completion of this stage, will horrify you. sometimes it will offend you. the light from the veil (grail, however, is warm and all-embracing. you will reach out to it and claim it as part of your new self. this you must do or go back to a dire fate. you will rise out of the embers where masses of forgotten and discarded existences have died and passed into

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them have as their object the awakening of the elemental bases of what must develop into the instrument of the higher. awakened and purified <48' they may be consecrated to the great work, in order that they may become worthy vehicles for the indwelling of the light. first, however, it ishecessary that they be awakened. for, psychological truism that it is, until their presence is realised their transmutation cannot be accomplished. in symbolic form and pageantry, the ceremony of each grade calls forth the spirits of a particular element. and as a steel placed in ciose to a magnet receives soie degree of its magnetism, and comparable to the electrical phenomenon of induction, so the presence of power induces bower. contact with tge appropriate type of elemental jorce prodices an identical

ction within the sphere of the neophyte, and it is thus that growth and advancement proceeds. the speeches of the officers deal almost exclusively with the knowledge pertaining to that element and grade, and excerpts from fragmentary remains of the ancient mysteries and from certain of the books of the qabalah do much towards producing an impressive atmosphere. the element offered for the work of transmutation in the grade of zelator is the introduction 29 earthy part of the candidate. the ritual symbolically admits him to the first rung of that mighty ladder whose heights are obscured in the light above. this first rung is the lowest sphere of the conventional tree of life, malkuth, the sanctum regnum. to it are ascribed the first grade of zelator, and the element of earth. herein, after

stand w <174> of altar in= sign, 3rd ad. behind phil. the four officers in grade signs. hiereus. from the centre outwards, so moveth the point as it traceth the line and the cross. equated and equilibrated lie here the four elements of the body of osiris slain. 2nd ad. may the corrosive cross return upon itself, from without inward from the four quarters to the center, and become by sacrifice and transmutation, an offering acceptable, a body glorified. chief adept unseen sounds gongs once. 2nd ad (to phil) you will now quit the temple for a short time, and on your return, the ceremony of your advance will be proceeded with. phil. gives sign of silence and is led out by hiereus <175> rite of the pentagram and the five paths. temple arranged as in diagram. 2ndad. sits on dais at s. e. 3rdad

ourisheth vegetable life and bring to growth and perfection the living herbiage. this is further shown by the figure itself putrifylng and decaying as it reaps the grass of the field "as for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth" the top of the scythe forms the tau cross of life, showing that what destroys also renews. the whole is a representation of the eternal transmutation of the life of nature, which reforms all things into fresh images and similitudes. this symbol represents the corrosive and destructive action of the infernalfire as opposedto the celestial- the dragon of the waters, the typhon of the egyptians, the slayer of osiris- which later yet rises again in horus. the scorpio, serpent of evil, delineated before <180> the figure of death in the

bols must be equilibriated in the sphere of sensation before a link can be formulated between them and the forces of the macrocosm. the necessity of examination is insisted upon so that this may be completely done. 3 70 the golden dawn: volume 111 book five the kerux then pours out the two fluids to make the semblance of blood. this is to fix in the candidate's sphere the symbols of the forces of transmutation in nature and also to make an astral link between these and the candidate's physical life, as a guard of the secrecy of the mysteries. this particular form of transmutation is used as showing the effect of a mixture of forces as producing a third appearance totally different from them. the red colour is symbolic of the blood of the candidate. in the ancient mysteries, the candidate's

guard of the secrecy of the mysteries. this particular form of transmutation is used as showing the effect of a mixture of forces as producing a third appearance totally different from them. the red colour is symbolic of the blood of the candidate. in the ancient mysteries, the candidate's blood was actually drawn at this time and preserved as an avenging link in case of his proving unworthy. our transmutation effects the matter quite as well, seeing that the astral link is formally established. the final speech of the hierophant is further intended besides its apparent meaning, to affirm that a person only partially initiated is neither fitted to teach nor to instruct even the outer and more ignorant in sub <143> lime knowledge. he is certain, through misunderstanding the principles, to f

s, earthquakes, etc. unto the great holy letter shin w are allotted three classes of works: spiritual development, transformations and invisibility. unto the letter vau t divination in all its branches; and the art of making the link between the subject of the work and the process of divination. and to the final heh il the works and operations of the art of alchemy, the order of its processes and transmutation <153> foreword by frater a. m. a. g. this document, which was presented to advanced members of the zelator adeptus minor grade, lists under the name of the pentagrammaton several modes of magical working. it comprises, altogether, seven formulae. for the first five of these, i have provided herewith examples of the appropriate kind of ritual in order to enable the reader or stude.nt

he descent of that supernal light which cometh with healing in its wings. and i <242> solemnly pledge myself to use this body of transformation of the goddess isis, for the forwarding of the highest aspirations of my soul, and for the pursuit of the great work, that it may in very truth become a* the student should substitute hisher own magical name. ritual for transformation 43 1 perfect body of transmutation. formulate before me now in the evoked elements of air, 0 ye powers of yesod, a true and tangible form of isis, that through its assumption, my own inner being may be wholly dissolved as though eaten up by the airs of the spirit, and transformed into a divine transfiguration. to the end that by the descent of the shekinah and my assumption into the holy spirit, i may become the embod

the path of tau, and manifest unto me a body of transformation, showing forth thy love and power and stability. grant unto me the mighty power and help of the archangel gabriel who rules over the fundamental strength of yesod, that he may command to my assistance the choir of angels the kerubim that they may formulate with power this form of isis. let them give life and vitality unto this form of transmutation before me. let them bind therein the reflection of the light of the supernals so that by my assumption of it, the body of transformation may become a solid link, tangible and unbreakable with all those powers of love and understanding which rise rank upon rank to the feet of the holy spirit. grant that the wisdom and light of the divine ones may descend and through this form, manifes

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

s in these wondrous caverns; all intent upon the abstruse study of analyses and syntheses to theend of conquering the possible; the reduction or destruction of pain and waste in physical organism,the rejuvenation of man, the obtainment of the general solvent, or menstrum universale, whichshould possess the power of removing all the seeds of disease from the human system, therebyrenewing life, the transmutation of baser to superior metals, or the elevation of the divine in man.twice had the iron-tongued bell echoed through the rocks, startling the monks from their reveriesand duties, proclaiming some potent special secret found. once it was the mystery solved, that alloyand baser metal had yielded to transmutation to silver, and again, once to the richer gold, but theirproducts were not per

and baser metal had yielded to transmutation to silver, and again, once to the richer gold, but theirproducts were not permitted to result in ease and luxury.the greatest secret yet lay hid, the prolongation, the rejuvenation of animal life. 221twas death to strikethe tocsin-bell, save by him whose skill had solved one of four problems: first, the rejuvenation ofthe ever-burning lamp; second, the transmutation to silver; third, the transmutation to gold; andfourth, the discovery of the elixir vitae.of this last, long had the frater, signor gualdi, a magister templi, daily hoped for the final solution;that he was on the verge of the discovery he had no doubt, and his belief was imbued in the minds ofhis fellows, he longed to sound the bell and startle his own soul. in letters of fire he had

als in abundance, in powders and pastes, and allapparently in confusion, surrounded the wells, on shelves, in closets, and drawers, in bottles, jars andboxes, stored to all appearance in unknown quantities. these were nature's unadulterated gifts to beused for the health and preservation of man.the small laboratory was made famous in the early part of the 16th century by the followingdiscovery of transmutation by the chemists of the rosicrucians: while examining and investigatingthe amalgam of mercury, lead and arquifoux with the readily fusible bismuth, wonderful changesappeared by the introduction of a solution known to the theorici as 'primitia' or primordial solution.slowly did these changes appear, when a whitish metal, in grains and dendrites, of the colour ofsilver with a similar lu

s are among the impossible: this may be, but the approach, to us, seems at our door, andnot a drew, nor a fable. this possibility is based upon the assumption that every metal consists ofmercury as a versatile and flexible base, out of which all metals have their being, and. into whichthey may be ultimately reduced by art. 2nd: that the species of metals and their specific forms arenot subject to transmutation, but only the individual or primal parts, which are visible and can beacted upon. 3rd: all metals differ in their degree of perfection or purity toward the invisible light orlife which is within everything, the 'celestial glory, or primordial base, which has matter for itscover, or exterior, or mask. 4th: art overleaps and transcends nature, accomplishing, quickly thatwhich nature re

ossibility?4th alchemist:not altogether so, for the rosicrucian alchemist claims to be able to gather the subtle, escapinggases or fumes, he or retain them and reduce them to material shape, thus, metaphorically, they enterthe outer world or exterior of visible and material matter, and bring back into visible, tangible formold things metamorphosed into new things. this is the true significancy of transmutation. theinvisible escaping light or fire of certain metals seized upon, that is this 'fairy gold, is condensedinto real gold, through the influence of 'primitia' or primordial solution.we thus figuratively express our ability 'to go beyond the line of this physical world, to pass as itwere into the next world, work in it, and come back in safety bearing our well earned trophies ofmarketa

ire: hence the hiddensignificancy in the aphorism 'by fire the nitre of the dew is extracted, or 'igne, nitrum, roris,invenitur'.the great revival in this class or branch of rosicrucianism was at paris. in march 1623, when thenumber 36 was thus distributed, 6 in paris, 6 in italy, 6 in spain, 12 in germany, 4 in sweden and 2in switzerland.you well remember what was said to you of the discovery of transmutation to silver, and theexcitement occasioned thereby, as narrated to you in the preceding grade of theoricus, but thewildness of enthusiasm was evinced, when the practicus philosophers sounded that terrible bell,which announced the double discovery of the transmutation to 'white gold, or platinum. and that ofvirgin gold.the sole attention of the 6 alchemists of the practicus grade was giv

nd the world, remained unknown,invisible, illuminated; serving their god and as well mankind, assisting the feeble, frail andsuffering. they were overcome and astonished at the immensity of the power accorded by god222sgrace to man.a long list of eminent men, experts and profound students have examined the product of gold by art,and have verified its production in its material state by alchemical transmutation.this chamber, frater, although small in size, is intended to represent the laboratory of thesephilosophers, as you perceive, and is the second in the series of four rooms on the south side of thesacred hall, that occupied by the theorici being the first, and which leads into this by a connectingpassage-way. here you beheld loss of confusion in the retorts, bulbs, receivers, worms and

, until the great galileo severed the bond. through chaldea,egypt, arabia, continental europe and england as well; these anchorites, these musty monks havesought the supposed unattainable in chemistry, alchemy, astrology, or other science; ever intent onobtaining the elixir of life, the vampire-food, that shall enable man to live forever in unalloyedhealth, and this with the discovery of metallic transmutation would enable them to enjoy luxury andrituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliasecond section46 ease of body to the extent of their desire.we will question them of things terrestrial, celestial and the destiny of the soul, and meditate onwhat we hear. this is the astrologic and astronomic cavern of the rosaic philosophers. disturb nottheir calculations, but draw nigh in silence

mercury and essential salt. the central or primal generativepower they termed in their magic language mercury, green-lion, the serpent, or seed; the whichgiving a seminal impression to animal, vegetable or mineral kingdom caused production. thisphoenix power so long sought for by our chemists, is now presumed to be within the knowledge ofgualdi: in its impure state it has solved the enigma of the transmutation to silver and gold. it is theprimitia or primordium solution, the i.n.r.i, and is doubtless contained within the aphoristic motto,dropped by the magister gualdi when overcome by the discovery.igne nitrum roris inventur.the silvery tones, 3 and 4 are again distinctly heard.4th philos.:prepare, the council requires our presence.the 4 astronomers, two and two, precede the cond. of n. an

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aves and mutter ominous words, as the night wind blows through their skulls. mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men; it disposes even of life and death, can confer wealth on its adepts by the transmutation of metals and immortality by its quintessence or elixir, compounded of gold and light. such was magic from zoroaster to manes, from orpheus to apollonius of tyana, when positive christianity, victorious at length over the brilliant dreams and titanic aspirations of the alexandrian school, dared to launch its anathemas publicly against this philosophy, and thus forced it to become mor

eride, doubt or believe, whether they threaten or fear, what matters it to science or to us? such actually are the issues of occult philosophy, and we are in a position to meet the charge of insanity or the suspicion of imposture when we affirm that these privileges are real. to demonstrate this is the sole end of our work on occult philosophy. the philosophical stone, the universal medicine, the transmutation of metals, the quadrature of the circle and the secret of perpetual motion are neither mystifications of science nor dreams of delusion. they are terms which must be understood in their proper sense; they formulate the varied applications of one and the same secret, the several aspects of a single operation, which is defined in a more comprehensive manner under the name of the great

planation of the triad and the origin of the dogma of the trinity. the magical dogma is also one in three and three in one. that which is above is like or equal to that which is below. thus, two things which resemble one another and the word which signifies their resemblance make three. the triad is the universal dogma. in magic principle, realization, adaptation; in alchemy azoth, incorporation, transmutation; in theology god, incarnation, redemption; in the human soul thought, love and action; in the family father, mother and child. the triad is the end and supreme expression of love; we seek one another as two only to become three. there are three intelligible worlds which correspond one with another by hierarchic analogy; the natural or physical, the spiritual or metaphysical, and the

his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will, assuring him universal dominion over azoth and the domain of magnesia, in other words, full power over the universal magical agent. this agent disguised by the ancient philosophers under the name of the first matter, determines the forms of modifiable substance, and we can really arrive by means of it at metallic transmutation and the universal medicine. this is not a hypothesis; it is a scientific fact already established and rigorously demonstrable. nicholas flamel and raymond lully, both of them poor, indubitably distributed immense riches. agrippa never proceeded beyond the first part of the great work, and he perished in the attempt, struggling to possess himself and to fix his independence. now, ther

ilty woman suffering in the next world for certain eccentric acts, began to imitate, without any reason, the peculiarities of the dead person. to this occult influence must be attributed the terrible power of a parent's curse, which is feared by all nations on earth, as also the imminent danger of magical operations when anyone has not reached the isolation of true adepts. this virtue of sidereal transmutation, which really exists in love, explains the allegorical marvels of the wand of circe. apuleius speaks of a thessalian woman who changed herself into a bird; he won the affections of her servant to discover the secrets of the mistress, but succeeded only in transforming himself into an ass. this allegory contains the most hidden secrets of love. again, the kabalists say that when a man

t of faith; in physics, the composition, decomposition, recomposition, realization and adaptation of philosophical mercury, called azoth by the alchemists; in dynamics it multiplies our forces by those of perpetual motion; it is at once mystical, metaphysical and material, with correspondent effects in the three worlds; it procures charity in god, truth in science and gold in riches, for metallic transmutation is at once an allegory and reality, as all the adepts of true science are perfectly well aware. yes, gold can be made really and materially by means of the stone of the sages, which is an amalgam of salt, sulphur and mercury, thrice combined in azoth by a triple sublimation and a triple fixation. yes, the operation is often easy and may be accomplished in a day, an instant; at other

of life, the science of good and evil. to find the exact scale of correspondences in things appreciable by science is to fix the bases of faith and thus become possessed of the rod of miracles. now, there exists a principle and a rigorous formula, which is the great arcanum. let the wise man seek it not, since he has already found it; let the profane seek for ever: they will never find. metallic transmutation takes place spiritually and materially by the positive key of analogies. occult medicine is simply the exercise of the will applied to the very source of life, to that astral light the existence of which is a fact, which has a movement conformed to calculations having the great magical arcanum for their ascending and scale. this universal arcanum, the final and eternal secret of tran

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entary on the sepher yetzirah the sacred book of the kabalah. this commentary is extremely rare, but the sympathetic potencies of our chain led us to the discovery of a copy which has been preserved since the year 1643 in the protestant church at rouen. on its first page there is written: ex dono, then an illegible name, followed by dei magni. the creation of gold in the great work takes place by transmutation and multiplication. raymund lully states that in order to make gold we must have gold and mercury, while in order to make silver we must have silver and mercury. then he adds: gby mercury, i understand that mineral spirit which is so refined and purified that it gilds the seed of gold and silvers the seed of silver. h doubtless he is here speaking of od, or astral light. salt and sul

ature of things, or rather modifies their appearances at pleasure, according to the strength of the operator's will and the fascination of ambitious adepts. the spoken word creates its form, and when a person held infallible confers a name upon a given thing, the latter is really transformed into the substance signified by the name. the masterpiece of speech and of faith in this order is the real transmutation of a substance without change in its externals. had apollonius offered a cup of wine to his disciples, and said to them: gthis is my blood, of which ye shall drink hence-forth to perpetuate my life within you h; and had his disciples through centuries believed that they effected transformation by repeating the same words; had they taken the wine, despite its odor and taste, for the r

e triad multiplied by itself represent wisdom in its application to the absolute. it is with the absolute therefore that we are concerned here. to discover such absolute in the infinite, the indefinite and the finite, is the great work of the sages, that which is termed by hermes the work of the sun. to find the immovable foundations of true religious faith, of philosophical truth and of metallic transmutation, here is the whole secret of hermes and here the philosophical stone. this stone is both one and manifold: it is decomposed by analysis and recomposed by synthesis. in analysis it is a powder, the alchemical powder of projection; before analysis and in synthesis it is a stone. the philosophical stone, say the masters, must not be exposed to the air, nor to the eyes of the profane; it

nesia, the great magical agent, the astral light, the light of life, fertilized by animic force, by intellectual energy, which they compare to sulphur on account of its affinities with divine fire. as to salt, it is absolute matter. all that is material contains salt, and all salt can be converted into pure gold by the combined action of sulphur and mercury, which at times act with swiftness that transmutation can take place in an instant or in an hour, without labour for the operator and almost without expense. at other times, when the tendencies of the atmospheric media are adverse, the operation requires several days, months, and occasionally even years. as we have said, there are two palmary natural laws. two essential laws. which, balanced against another, produce the universal equili

allibility than the android of albertus magnus. an imprisoned person with no other book than the tarot, if he knew how to use it, could in a few years acquire universal knowledge, and would be able to speak on all subjects with unequalled learning and inexhaustible eloquence. in fact, this wheel is the real key to the oratorical art and the grand art of raymund lully; it is the true secret of the transmutation of shadows into light; it is the first and most important of all the arcana of the great work. by means of this universal key of symbolism, all allegories of india, egypt and judea are illuminated; the apocalypse of st. john is a the book of hermes 139 kabalistic book the sense of which is indicated rigorously by the figures and numbers of the urim, thummim, teraphim and ephod, all r

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

e 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, represented by fair janet the lack of distinction between her pregnancy and the manifestation of tam lin is significant in this context, for if she cannot redeem him in his original form, from the otherworld, she will http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_12

RUBY TABLET OF SET

st, past, present, and future would all be part of a single continuum. this wouldn't necessarily mean that "history repeats 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 st

2. the best means for transcribing philosophical thought is through a. myths b. religious dogma c. scientific parallels d. symbolism 23. what is the city of the pyramids? a. binah b. magickal initiation c. the human brain d. kether 24. the word 'occult' means a. hidden knowledge b. ancient knowledge c. hermetic science d. metaphysical 25. according to aristotle) is the proper color of elements in transmutation" a. yellow b. red c. black d. white 26. a pantheon of gods called "loas" are from what system of magic? a. tibetan b. druid c. nordic d. voodoo 27. animism is the belief in a. a soul b. a supreme god c. animal gods d. anthropomorphic gods part ii the second part of this test requires that the answers be written in the provided blanks. please print, type or write legibly, because answ

terpret the symbolism of the pentagram. 82. what is meant by the term "the temple in man" 83. what is "sex magick" and its value if any? 84. what is the kundalini? the fire snake? 85. what is meant by the "ordeal with the demon crowley" 86. what was the secret seal of the a.a, and what did it mean? 87. what is the abyss? 88. when does human peak performance occur? why? 89. in alchemy, the mundane transmutation of metals was symbolic of what? 90. how can the rejection of gods aid setians in conquering death? 91. what are ley lines? 92. what constitutes a "school" in ouspenskian terms? 93. define "symbols" and "symbolism. 94. what determines that which is humanly possible? 95. what is the best way to work with a "false personality" 96. what is meant by "the law of the forbidden" 97. what is

ne of serpents, self-completion, and the seeker "seek further" april 11th is the birthday of anton szandor lavey, and his word came to mind as i reopened my working of the previous day. totally indulging our selves in black magick to the point of obliterating the mundane is how we must accomplish the statement on the "red sheet" of the temple of set, inc:(2 "in the aeon of set the elect will seek transmutation of the individual will from that of a mutant beast to that of a god" i soon found myself so immersed in my working that i was drawing hieroglyphs, some of which i didn't know the meaning of. instead of translating the stele of xem, i began to work on a translation of what i'd written down. chills ran up and down my spine as i read "i, my self, am set. you, your selves, are the neter

'at is not part of us. if we depend on the word of set, all obstructions to our growth, including the neters we create, will fall and not hinder us. when we become aware of who we are, there is nothing to be afraid of. setamorphosis is a composite of a dictionary definition of metamorphosis and the statement on the "red sheet" that we will to metamorphose from a beast to a god, setamorphosis is a transmutation of our selves, by the will of set, into the neter xem-set as part of the true creation written of in the book of coming forth by night. aleister crowley referred to the aeon prior to 1904 ce as the aeon of isis, following the male-female polarity revealed to him. with an understanding of the book of coming forth by night, we might want to change the name of the first aeon to the aeon

eeker, as there are many on the way to offer assistance. much knowledge rests in the temple of earth. the magus of the aon is generous in the distribution of this knowledge, and others too are teachers and guides. the seeker must extract all that he can from this school, for if not, he cannot hope to go further and enter the inner temple. wherein is kept the veil. the way of xepera is the path of transmutation. as with the cup of knowledge, the substance within, when drunk, is transformed, and therefore transforms its receptor. likewise when the one who hopes to become drinks of the cup with fervor and unblemished work, he is transformed. he is nearing the sanctuary. this wine of learning, through black magic, has become a fire, a flame- gifted yet earned, never again to be taken away, but

cosmos that is, and construction of the individual universes of the god. sekemti: the perfection- the name of the prince of darkness has changed with almost every aeon, altered by the will of the entity, through the magi, because of necessity. this need is born of the work to ever perfect the prince as well as the initiates. by these changes, we denote stages of evolution. the final stage of this transmutation cannot be accomplished by other than the pure, perfected being, sterile and free of the causalities which erode humanity. at this point the seeker is armed with knowledge, magic power, will, and a name revealed in abysmal darkness by maat. every action, desire, and hope made by the being becomes a magical act. the universe stirs and moves at the whim of the magician. there is no turn

y were able this way to give life to it in this dimension, so indeed the old ones could come through. i saw a symbol then of the pentagram with its five points (only after comprehending first what this "order" of set was, indicating five phases that would be. i understood this to be only as an aid to help me remember the five important steps: 1.that i (or any being that would want to help in this transmutation) would first have to understand the reason for and the workings of the order of set, i.e, the macro to the micro. 2.the second step would be higher man raising himself through self-initiation and selfpurification. for unless there is understanding of the principles of the order of set and unless the tool itself (our being) be purified, the next three steps could not continue. 3.the t

und tcham ceptre and anx, symbols of the authority of the seekers' individual leading principles and the life which those obsessions can accord. the twon jackals at the bottom of each tower have a violent nature according to ipsissimus crowley since according to him they are there to lay in wait for the corpses of those unworthy to pass the gates and who are slain in the attempt. is there truly a transmutation process hidden within the jackal? some years ago we were taught there was. the question for the unfortunates who do not make it past the towers could be of minor academic interest only. the guardians cannot harm one whose self is strong to the point of making him invulnerable. it is not so much the guardians who interest the viewer of atu xviii as it is the landscape beyond the walls

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

asch inspiring the "eye" and "mind" for this task. this cell is the place for the fundamental creation of form. the influence of mercury has stirred up the water and the alchemy has started. in this phase of creation "vac" is important "vac" is an aspect of sarasvati as the goddess of speech, signifying sound, or rather the primordial sounds of creation. breath is air and the component needed for transmutation, as seen in the techniques of pranayama. it is this mercurial air of creation the water has stirred up. the rite of ingress, or the establishment of the point and its adversary into the one. the text itself called the eight steps of the rite of ingress gives a detailed outline of the procedure to follow (p. 124- 125) and several important keys to its understanding are freely given to

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

ding like hammers in the dawn, or perhaps it was the singing (the one busy performing, the other booing the performance, or their blast--delirium that spared them full foreknowledge of the imminent. but for whatever reason, the two men, gibreelsaladin farishtachamcha, condemned to this endless but also ending angelicdevilish fall, did not become aware of the moment at which the processes of their transmutation began. mutation? yessir, but not random. up there in air-space, in that soft, imperceptible field which had been made possible by the century and which, thereafter, made the century possible, becoming one of its defining locations, the place of movement and of war, the planet-shrinker and power-vacuum, most insecure and transitory of zones, illusory, discontinuous, metamorphic- becau

him how to eat it. he discovered that he was a bloody-minded person "i'll show them all" he swore "you see if i don't" the eaten kipper was his first victory, the first step in his conquest of england. william the conqueror, it is said, began by eating a mouthful of english sand. o o o five years later he was back home after leaving school, waiting until the english university term began, and his transmutation into a vilayeti was well advanced "see how well he complains" nasreen teased him in front of his father "about everything he has such big-big criticisms, the fans are fixed too. loosely to the roof and will fall to slice our heads off in our sleep, he says, and the food is too fattening, why we don't cook some things without frying, he wants to know, the top-floor balconies are unsaf

SAPPHIRE TABLE OF SET MAIN

"horizontal (natural; relating to the objective universe) slots. my current projects fit into these slots: one slot was filled by my runic work, another with the shaman/poem-singer circle, third with beelzebub's workshop, and the final one with my o.tr. work. the vertical axis i sensed had to do with my ammonian work (at this time i was not a member of the order of amon- it resembled the further transmutation i needed to do in order to achieve the promise of this vision. i entered into dialogue with priestess marie kelly, who discussed the oa with me. at first i felt a need to discuss the theoretical possibility that amn might be taken up as an onic word. soon, however, my interest in the oa became more personal, and i understood the implications of a long series of past experiences that

o? have my interests become more one-pointed or more broad, for example _i_ have become more one-pointed _myself_ in the sense that denytenamun covers everything of my previous plans/dreams/projects and synthetizes them on a higher plane. at the same time my magical interests are outwardly more varied than ever (from rune magic to gurdjieff to magical applications of cognitive science to ammonian transmutation. but i think the essential thing is that i have become really onoriented/ rooted. almost everything i do is in some way related to my interest in furthering the on of set and protecting the temple of set. i seek to enlargen and recreate our vision and the scope/depth of the on (much of what i've mentioned is to this effect. yet i also seek to preserve the setian past by translating "

SAPPHIRE TABLET OF SET

"horizontal (natural; relating to the objective universe) slots. my current projects fit into these slots: one slot was filled by my runic work, another with the shaman/poem-singer circle, third with beelzebub's workshop, and the final one with my o.tr. work. the vertical axis i sensed had to do with my ammonian work (at this time i was not a member of the order of amon- it resembled the further transmutation i needed to do in order to achieve the promise of this vision. i entered into dialogue with priestess marie kelly, who discussed the oa with me. at first i felt a need to discuss the theoretical possibility that amn might be taken up as an onic word. soon, however, my interest in the oa became more personal, and i understood the implications of a long series of past experiences that

o? have my interests become more one-pointed or more broad, for example _i_ have become more one-pointed _myself_ in the sense that denytenamun covers everything of my previous plans/dreams/projects and synthetizes them on a higher plane. at the same time my magical interests are outwardly more varied than ever (from rune magic to gurdjieff to magical applications of cognitive science to ammonian transmutation. but i think the essential thing is that i have become really onoriented/ rooted. almost everything i do is in some way related to my interest in furthering the on of set and protecting the temple of set. i seek to enlargen and recreate our vision and the scope/depth of the on (much of what i've mentioned is to this effect. yet i also seek to preserve the setian past by translating "

SEVEN SHADES OF SOLITUDE

ho engages with none but the spirits, genii and deities of the path. the hermitage of the journeyman resides under the patronage of abel or habil, he who is perpetually overcome in the ordeals of initiation. it may also be seen to reside under the auspices of the witch-father called qinaya habil-zhiva, he who is known as the resurrector of abel, who watches over all such deeds that succeed in the transmutation of will through self-sacrifice. the gifts bestowed at this station of the soul are numerous and it is within this hermitage that any true aspirant must secure himself in introspective contemplation if he is truly to comprehend the orientations and dispositions of his own nature. by abiding long hours in the companie of this solitude one may find the wellspring of the magical power wi

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

ruse, had we the key to the mystic phraseology they were compelled to adopt, might open the way to yet more noble acquisitions. the philosopher's stone itself has seemed no visionary chimera to some of the soundest chemists that even the present century has produced (mr. disraeli, in his "curiosities of literature (article "alchem, after quoting the sanguine judgments of modern chemists as to the transmutation of metals, observes of one yet greater and more recent than those to which glyndon's thoughts could have referred "sir humphry davy told me that he did not consider this undiscovered art as impossible; but should it ever be discovered, it would certainly be useless) man cannot contradict the laws of nature. but are all the laws of nature yet discovered "give me a proof of your art" s

plutarch, all these, as the showman enchants some trembling children on a christmas eve with his lantern and phantasmagoria, mejnour exhibited to his pupil "and now laugh forever at magic! when these, the very tricks, the very sports and frivolities of science, were the very acts which men viewed with abhorrence, and inquisitors and kings rewarded with the rack and the stake "but the alchemist's transmutation of metals "nature herself is a laboratory in which metals, and all elements, are forever at change. easy to make gold, easier, more commodious, and cheaper still, to make the pearl, the diamond, and the ruby. oh, yes; wise men found sorcery in this too; but they found no sorcery in the discovery that by the simplest combination of things of every-day use they could raise a devil that

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

in performing the ordinary, processes of metal-working, in egypt, there grew up in that country the belief that magical powers existed in fluxes and alloys; and the art of manipulating the metals, and the knowledge of the chemistry of the metals and of their magical powers were described by, the name "khemeia" that is to say "the preparation of the black ore (or "powder) which was regarded as the transmutation of metals. to this name the arabs affixed the article al, and thus we obtain the word al-khemeia, or alchemy, which will perpetuate p. 21 the reputation of the egyptians as successful students both of "white magic" and of the "black" art. but in addition to their skill as handicraftsmen and artisans the egyptians were skilled in literary composition, and in the production of books, e

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

as. he derives his conceptual language from neoplatonic philosophy, and his augustine and the church 169 work on the divisions of nature constitutes a further extension of the teachings in dionysius the areopagite. those teachings were based upon the idea of an utterly transcendent god, from whom the sense-perceptible world nevertheless originated. human beings are caught up in the process of the transmutation of all things back into this god, whose goal is to be what he was from the beginning. everything is to be reintegrated into god, who has gone forth into the cosmic process and in due course arrives once more at perfection. for this to happen, however, humanity must find the way to the logos that was made flesh. erigena takes up and extends this idea; for it is in the scriptures that

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

y of conceptual combination based upon the template of resonance. my understanding is characterized by a combination of ideas both very ancient and very modern that have been synthesized through the filter of the aeonic word- xeper- the word of the prince of darkness. therefore, this is a book of magical formula. the purpose of this bbok is to initiate the seeds of individualization and spiritual transmutation by revealing certain methodologies based upon my formula. what you are reading right now will be understood, or vaguely apprehended by those who are ready for it, and acknowledged as something quite different by all others. in physical evolution, mutation is the great vehicle of change over time. in the left hand path the evolution of consciousness occurs through transmutation .on ma

nce is recognized through its revelation of principle into the matter of human perception. 5. just as god is reflected within nature and the universe, god s adversary- the devil- is reflected within that which is not nature and not of the universal order 6. in physical evolution, mutation is the great vehicle of change over time. in the left hand path the evolution of consciousness occurs through transmutation. 7. within the synchronicity to resonate we..become 8. the formula is an essential inscription into time that extends a specific key of transformative knowledge. 9. these principles can only be understood, and appreciated, through the work of the path to them, and only(eventually) within the context of a higher state of being 10. the path will not come to you, you must go to it, awak

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

his is a quote right out of the hindu scriptures, the "bhagavad gita, and it was supposedly from the hindu sun god, krishna. oppenheimer, a jew, appointed to his august scientific position by 33rd degree mason, president franklin d. roosevelt, was deep into the occult and was a cabalist magician. as michael hoffman ii and a few other keen-minded observers have pointed out, the a-bomb project, the transmutation of matter into intense forms of energy, was long an alchemical objective of the illuminati magicians. like the hindu god who represents them, it is the fondest desire of these wicked, nihilistic men that they become the destroyer of worlds.4 and then, from the burned out carcass, like the phoenix rising from the ashes, is to come the new city of glory, the kingdom of the illuminati

THE BLACK LODGE

ntity influences of controls of all those wicked devils that walk upon the earth, those that thou sawest even as little black specks that stained the heaven of urania (nuit as seen by the greeks. and all these are the excrement of choronzon" what we must understand about these religions is that they are "skew-wise: that is, they are arguments in circles, not expanding helixes. they do not lead to transmutation, that is, to initiation, but to permutation, in the mathematical sense of this word# any system of therugy that a magus creates begins immediately to suffer the erosion of demoniac forces. this is what is written: thou shalt be vexed by dispersion. since the function of those forces is to keep the soul in the state wherein it is, they try to devise byways in the path propounded by th

THE BOOK OF PLEASURE

d! is this the value of the will? this "will to power"-how life preserving! how furthering of discriminate selection! how pleasing! most noble explorers! o, you scientists-go on discovering the bottomless pit! when you are sodden with science-the lightning will thunder out the murder? new hope will be born? new creatures for the circus (the conception of) god-head must ever evolve its inertia for transmutation to its very opposite-because it contains it! the master must be the painful learner of his stupidity? the idea of god ever means the forgetfulness of supremacy and godliness. so must be supplanted by fear, eh? there is no atheist, no one is free from auto-biography, there is no fearless pleasurist? the conception is the absence of its indisputable reality within! when the conception

causes subdivision or "double personality, is caused by its own intensity or by shock of resistance determined by some incompatibility of the desired or desire. concentration is dissatisfied desire, a conflict that can never be satisfied, because of its means. when the ego, not appearing to have or not knowing the means of fulfilment, seeks its repudiation, repression, imaginative fulfilment, or transmutation to escape its worry. none of these is the desire's or obsession's annihilation, but its separation or concealment from the rest of the ego, its premature sub-conscious existence. it is held there only when some form of resistance is active, when resistance is dormant- control is given to the presiding obsession, allowing its incarnation in, and swamping of the ego, which has to live

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

himself joined the alchemists and magicians in work sessions that went nearly around the clock, all of their experiments counted for naught. 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 298 mystery religions and cults it was the italian alchemist/sorcerer antonio francisco prelati, a former priest, who told him that a mortal cannot hope to achieve the transmutation of base metals into gold without the help of satan. and the only way that an alchemist or a sorcerer could hope to arouse satan s interest in his work was by dedicating the most abominable crimes to his name. under prelati s direction, de rais set about to commit his first abominable crime. he lured a young peasant boy into the castle and into the chambers that he provided for prelat

anthropo, meaning human being. totem an animal, bird, plant, or any other natural object that is revered as a personal or tribal symbol. transference the process of change that happens when one person or place is transferred to another. transience a state of impermanence, or lasting for only a brief time. remaining in a place only for a short time, or the brief appearance of someone or something. transmutation the act of transforming or changing from one nature, form, or state into another. tribulation great affliction, trial, or distress. in christianity, the tribulation refers to the prophesied period of time which precedes the return of jesus christ to earth, in which there will be tremendous suffering that will test humanity s endurance, patience, or faith. ufo literally an unidentifie

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anthropo, meaning human being. totem an animal, bird, plant, or any other natural object that is revered as a personal or tribal symbol. transference the process of change that happens when one person or place is transferred to another. transience a state of impermanence, or lasting for only a brief time. remaining in a place only for a short time, or the brief appearance of someone or something. transmutation the act of transforming or changing from one nature, form, or state into another. tribulation great affliction, trial, or distress. in christianity, the tribulation refers to the prophesied period of time which precedes the return of jesus christ to earth, in which there will be tremendous suffering that will test humanity s endurance, patience, or faith. ufo literally an unidentifie

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. 21 december 2002. the rosicrucians the citizens of paris awoke one morning in 1622 to find that their city had been ornamented with posters which the brethren of the rosy cross (rosicrucians) had scattered to announce that their secret order was now moving among the parisians to save them from the error of death. in the seventeenth century, the rosicrucians were rumored to have accomplished the transmutation of metals, the means of prolonging life, the knowledge to see and to hear what was occurring in distant places, and the ability to detect secret and hidden objects. such announcements were met with great excitement. it was a time of reformation and enlightenment, and all of europe was looking forward to the new world that the alchemists and magicians promised was about to emerge from

0, he became a recluse, for he could see that europe was not yet ready for the complete reformation which he so yearned to present to it. for one thing, he claimed to have acquired the fabled philosopher fs stone, which enabled him to produce all the gold and precious gems necessary to allow him to build a house where he could live peacefully and well. to share the power of the legendary stone of transmutation with the unwise, the worldly, and the greedy would be disastrous. quietly, rosencreutz accepted only a handful of carefully evaluated students to whom he imparted the knowledge that he had acquired in ancient egypt and the connection that he had made with the mystery schools and the esoteric teachings of great masters. he was particularly enthusiastic about telling his students about

although rosencreutz had been buried in secret, one of the brothers happened by chance to discover his burial chamber and read the promise inscribed above the entrance that rosencreutz would return in 126 years. the discovery of the illu- 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 30 secret societies rosicrucians were rumored to have accomplished the transmutation of metals. mined father fs prediction inspired the surviving brothers to work in earnest to spread the teachings of christian rosencreutz throughout the world. between 1604 and 1616, three manifestos were released in germany by the secret brotherhood of the rosicrucians (from the latin, rosae crucis, grose cross h. the first two pamphlets called upon the educated and influential to u

erstand the true relationship of humankind to the universe and to perceive truly the distinctions between the material and the divine. the manifestos condemned all those who contributed to the moral decay of europe, and the brotherhood promised to help alleviate all suffering and to eradicate all ignorance. the illumined father christian rosencreutz possessed the wisdom and the wealth through the transmutation of base metals to elevate the common people of europe. the manifestos also shared some startling assertions, among them: 1. the end of the world was near, but those who had become enlightened by the new reformation would be initiated into a higher consciousness. 2. new stars had appeared in the constellations of cygnus and serpentarius that predicted the destruction of the roman cath

, but those who had become enlightened by the new reformation would be initiated into a higher consciousness. 2. new stars had appeared in the constellations of cygnus and serpentarius that predicted the destruction of the roman catholic church. 3. the illumined father divined the secret code that god placed in the universe in the beginning of time and blessed those who possess such magic. 4. the transmutation of base metals into gold and precious gems is a natural miracle that has been revealed to such magi as christian rosencreutz. forget about the efforts of the pseudo-chemists. 5. the rosicrucian fellowship has wealth to distribute, but it does not wish a single coin from anyone. the manifestos created great excitement in early seventeenth-century europe. royalty, common folk, merchant

n e d secret societies 37 shapeshift someone or something that is able to change form or shape. subversive to cause the ruin or downfall of something or to undermine or overthrow principles, an institution, or a government. supernatural relating to or pertaining to god or the characteristics of god; a deity or magic of something that is above and beyond what is normally explained by natural laws. transmutation the act of transforming or changing from one nature, form, or state into another. 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 38 secret societies chapter 6 magic and sorcery the earliest traces of magical practice are found in the european caves of the paleolithic age, c. 50,000 b.c.e, in which it seems clear that early humans sought by s

io: world books, 1961. seligmann, kurt. the history of magic. new york: meridian books, 1960. spence, lewis. an encyclopedia of occultism. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1960. helvetius (1625.709) while not a great deal is known about the life of john fredrick schweitzer, called helvetius, his place in the history of alchemy is secure because, according to tradition, he witnessed a genuine transmutation of base metal into gold and later replicated the process in the presence of doubtful observers. on december 27, 1666, when he was working in his study at the hague, a stranger appeared and informed him that he would remove all helvetius fs doubts about the existence of the philosopher fs stone that could serve as the catalyst to change base metals into gold because he possessed such

s of metal of the color of brimstone and, for their size, extremely heavy. with those three bits of metal, the man told helvetius, he could make as much as 20 tons of gold. helvetius examined the pieces of metal, taking the opportunity of a moment fs distraction to scrape off a small portion with his thumbnail. returning the metal to his mysterious visitor, he asked that he perform the process of transmutation before him. the stranger answered firmly that he was not allowed to do so. it was enough that he had verified the existence of the metal to helvetius. it was his purpose only to offer encouragement to alchemical experiments. after the man fs departure, helvetius procured a crucible and a portion of lead into which, when the metal was in a molten state, he threw the stolen grain he ha

d when the grain evaporated and left the lead in its original state. thinking that he had been made the fool by some mad burgher fs whimsey, helvetius returned to his own experiments, forgetting about the dream of a magical philosopher fs stone. some weeks later, when he had almost forgotten the incident, helvetius received another visit from the stranger. he impatiently told the man to perform a transmutation before his eyes or to leave. this time the stranger surprised him by agreeing to prove that what he and his brother alchemists most desired truly did exist. he admonished helvetius that one grain was sufficient for the process to be accomplished, but it was necessary to wrap it in a ball of wax before throwing it on the molten metal, otherwise its extreme volatility would cause it to

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iosity of the majority in our so distrustful and so credulous century. however, as we have just explained, that is not the true science. men rarely seek the truth from its own sake; they have always a secret motive in their efforts, some passion to satisfy, or some greed to assuage. among the secrets of the qabalah there is one above all which has always tormented seekers; it is the secret of the transmutation of metals, and of the conversion of all earthly substances into gold. alchemy borrowed all these signs from the qabalah, and it is upon the law of analogies resulting from the harmony of contraries that it based its operations. an immense physical secret was, moreover, hidden under the qabalistic 191 parables of the ancients. this secret we have arrived at deciphering, and we shall s

inating the will of others so as to prevent them doing what they will, and forcing them to do what they do not will; 4 degree- by exciting apparitions and dreams; 5 degree- by curing a large number of illnesses; 6 degree- by restoring life to subjects who display all the symptoms of death; 7 degree- lastly, by demonstrating (if need be, by examples) the reality of the philosophical stone, and the transmutation of metals, according to the secrets of abraham the jew, of flamel, and of raymond lully. all these prodigies are accomplished by means of a single agent which the hebrew calls od, as did the chevalier de reichenback, which we, with the school of pasqualis martinez, call astral light, which mr. de mirville calls the devil, and which the ancient alchemists called azoth. it is the vital

he jew abraham. the secret fire of the masters of alchemy was, then, electricity; and there is the better half of their grand arcanum; but they knew how to equilibrate its force by a magnetic influence which they concentrated in their athanor. this is what results from the obscure dogmas of basil valentine, of bernard trevisan, and of henry khunrath, who, all of them, pretended to have worked the transmutation, like raymond lully, like arnaud de villeneuve, and like nicholas flamel. the universal light, when it magnetizes the worlds, is called astral light; when it forms the metals, one calls it azoth, or philosophical mercury; when it gives life to animals, it should be called animal magnetism. the brute is subject to the fatalities of this light; man is able to direct it. it is the intel

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ation and reintegration, or restoring elements to their appropriate role in the creative process. sturzaker states that geburah is the "centre of the dark night of the soul, which relates to the progress between tiphareth and binah, and the crossing of the abyss. dion fortune terms the sephiroth as the "sacrificial priest of the mysteries, and resumes a description of geburah as involved with the transmutation of force from one level to another (i.e. sacrificing coal in a furnace to turn into steam and drive the engine. this is the true nature of sacrifice as represented by geburah, rather than that of tiphareth, which is a sacrifice based on an "incorrect" belief that is not shed until after the awareness appropriate to tiphareth is attained. even at the stage of geburah, an "incomplete u

ascribed. she also was responsible for keeping the forces of chaos breaking through into the world, which denotes netzach function in maintaining a regularity to the expansions of chesed. harmachis is horus of the horizon, and is connected with the sphinx, which in turn is symbolic of the four elemental sephiroth. the horizon is that of the veil of paroketh. the sephirah embodies the energies of transmutation through sacrifice, hope and rebirth. this sequence is explored in the appropriate ritual of the sapphire temple given later. chapter eleven; hod, the crystal watercourse in the psyche, hod is the intellect as balanced against the sephirah of the emotions, netzach. the alchemical hermaphrodite is composed of these two sephiroth, as hermes represents the mind, and aphrodite the emotion

ater and sprinkle circle saying; the seven of perfection is purified and resolved to the one circle of light. take incense and cense circle saying; the seven of perfection is consecrated and resolved to the one circle of light. take cup and hold up, saying; i invoke the power of netzach, the power of glory, the power of victory, in the name of jehovah tzabaoth, lord of hosts, to work this oath of transmutation. drink wine. write oath on paper. holding oath above candle say; by the furnace of victory, by the graal of understanding, by the oath of transmutation, i bind this work of mine unto its perfection. burn the oath. finish with the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram. 8. hod; the ritual of the crystal crystal; bdlch; the crystal acts as a receptacle and focus of light, demonstrati

icture, a favourite painting or photograph, or a tarot card, and make a list of as many separate objects, colours and images on it as you can. this illustrates the process of discernment, and definition, which is the process of separation. think of appropriate and inappropriate ways that this process is utilised by yourself in your daily life. 2. find common examples of sacrifice, in terms of the transmutation from one form to another. observe the role sacrifice plays in nature, and its necessity. what are the usual barriers to sacrifice? 3. find an example where control is seen to be exercised. what is control, and how does it work? what is its counterbalance? what assumptions about the universe does 'control' rely on, and how true is it that anything can be "controlled? chapter six 1. at

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sonality around the new center. once the unifying center is found, the next step is to gradually and systematically build a new "ideal" personality around it in an organized, purposeful manner and with clear, achievable goals in rnind.30 practical psychosynthesis commences with the construction of this new personality. this process involves the active utilization of all available energies and the transmutation of unconscious and previously latent forces-development of those aspects of the personality whch are weak or insufficient. it is accomplished through techruques of auto-suggestion, affirmation, visualization, and by the systematic training of the less developed functions of imagination, will, and memory. finally, all the various psychological energies and functions must be coordinate

nality whch are weak or insufficient. it is accomplished through techruques of auto-suggestion, affirmation, visualization, and by the systematic training of the less developed functions of imagination, will, and memory. finally, all the various psychological energies and functions must be coordinated as the new personality acheves a stable organized form. there are many levels in this process of transmutation and selfrealization, and as stated earlier, they are not always entirely pleasant. it is a multi-faceted process which includes several stages-the elimination of impediments which block the flow of energies between the superconscious and the lower realms of consciousness, evolvement of latent or dormant higher functions (memory, will, imagination, etc, and stages where the ego must y

eatment, and all techmques used are subservient to the health, well-being, and psychc integration of the individual. the keeping of a diary, dream analysis, free association, hypnosis, group analysis, psychodrama, relaxation, meditation, music therapy, autosuggestion, humor therapy, chromotherapy, disidentification, visualization, development of the will, utilization of the symbols and metaphors, transmutation and sublimation of sexual energies, and development of the irnagination are but a few of the methods used to obtain self-realization. one of the goals of psychosynthesis is to integrate the superconscious, as much as possible, into the conscious and unconscious realms. numerous metaphors for ths process of self-realization and self-integration can be found in the language of the alch

o obtain self-realization. one of the goals of psychosynthesis is to integrate the superconscious, as much as possible, into the conscious and unconscious realms. numerous metaphors for ths process of self-realization and self-integration can be found in the language of the alchemists. what spiritual alchemy describes as the transformation of lead into gold is simply another way of describing the transmutation of the mundane into the spiritual, discord into harmony, and the personal into the transcendent. imagination and the transconscious self with the lines between psychology and magic becoming increasingly transparent, we arrive at a new more transcendent interpretation of consciousness. the connecting link between all parts of the self is the transconscious se2f.31 composed for the mos

nd will, the transconscious is a reconciling intelligence with a unique nature. it has the ability to move through, communicate with, and cause change on all levels of the psyche, and it is capable of a wide range of powers associated with cornrnunication and transformation. the imagination is the essential aspect of the transconscious self. it is a potent medium for the processes of inspiration, transmutation, integration, and transcendence. the transconscious imagination operates as a single organized mechanism, purposefully flowing between all portions of the psyche with a unifying objective. its vast creative resources are a primary influence in the development of music, dance, literature, and other art forms. the transconscious imagination expresses itself in two ways, the intuitive i

discover that the psychologist's pursuit of a healthy, integrated human psyche, the alchemist's search for the philosophers' stone, and the magician's quest to complete the great work are all natural complements of each other. humanity's spiritual development is a long and arduous journey, an adventure through strange lands full of surprises, difficulties, and even dangers. it involves a drastic transmutation of the "normal" elements of the personality, an awakening of potentialities which had hitherto been dormant, a raising of consciousness to new realms, and a functioning along a new inner dimension.36 psychology and magic 137 endnotes 1. arnold toynbee, quoted in walsh, perspectives and patterns: discourses on history, 73. 2. leshan, the dilemma ofpsychology, xiii. 3. one could say th

168. the first element of earth corresponds to the tattva known as prithivi which is represented by a yellow square. traits of this element include cohesion, materialization, and solidarity. apas is attributed to water, the second element and the principle of liquid, portrayed by a silver crescent. tejas corresponds to fire, the third element, symbolized by a red triangle. its attributes include transmutation and heat. vayu is assigned to air, the fourth element, represented by a blue circle. vayu symbolizes motion and the principle of vapor or gas. the fifth and final element of ether or spirit is referred to as akasha, symbolized by a black oval. unity and limitlessness are its characteristics. prithivi earth yellow te jas fire red vayu air blue akasha spirit black w apas water silver f

ection (when psychc blockage occurs at this center, it is usually described as a feeling of being "all choked up" or having "a lump in the throat) malfunctions of the thyroid, as well as speech and hearing disorders, are under the dominion of the fifth chakra. the essence of this center is associated with sound, particularly vibration. in yoga the visuddha is a very important center of alchemical transmutation. it is also said to produce a secretion of immortality. 6. ajna, the brow or third eye chakra, is located in the forehead. it is associated with the pituitary gland and the frontal lobes of the brain. the word ajna means "order" or "command" which indicates that activation of ths chakra is indicative of true order and mastery. the traditional color here is translucent blue. an altern

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er, as hereof more at large and more plain shal be spoken of in christianly conference. but now concerning (and chiefly in this our age) the ungodly and accursed gold-making, which hath gotten so much the upper hand, whereby under colour of it, many runagates and roguish people do use great villanies, and cozen and abuse the credit, which is given them: yea now adays men of discretion do hold the transmutation of mettals to be the highest point, and fastigium in philosophy, this is all their intent, and desire, and that god would be most esteemed by them, and honored, which could make great store of gold, and in abundance, the which with unpremeditate prayers, they hope to attain of the alknowing god, and searcher of all hearts: we therefore do by these presents publickly testifie, that th

dmirable and wholesome book than the holy bible. blessed is he that hath the same, yet more blessed is he who reads it diligently, but most blessed of all is he that truly understandeth the same, for he is most like to god, and doth truly understandeth the same, for his most like to god, and doth come most near to him. but whatsoever hath been said in the fama concerning the deceivers against the transmutation of metals, and the highest medicine in the world, the same is thus to be understood, that this so great gift of god we do in no manner set at naught, or dispise it. but because she bringeth not with her always the knowledge of nature, but this bringeth forth not only medicine, but also maketh manifest and open unto us innumerable secrets and wonders. therefore it is requisite, that w

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to the existence of each other. further, the qabalist does not even recognize their independence as two opposing powers, but as one under the one supreme deity; the external visible matter world of evil and darkness, and the internal spiritual higher world of goodness and light, beneficent and malevolent as the ancient gods of babylonia. the unique athanor of philosophic and moral alchemy was the transmutation of darkness into light. gquand l fhomme grandit dieu s feleve h. it was but a reconstruction of the same idea as held in exodus, xxxiii, moses was unable to look at god face to face; it was also the same idea as held by charles darwin. the theory of evolution. the growth of the protoplast into man, of evil into good. khephra, god of the morning emerging from the black thunders of nig

us: gthese excretions also serve as a manure to the earth, which brings forth fruits to nourish the body; thus death reverts always to life, and evil itself serves for the renewal and nourishment of good. h*1. the most important of all the arcana of the magnum opus was the transformation of darkness into light. again, we have the white and black triangles, the unique athanor of moral alchemy, the transmutation of darkness into light. gthe stone becomes a plant, the plant an animal, the animal a man, and man greatens into deity. h*2 *1. the mysteries of magic, p. 150 *2. ibid, p. 30. nothing is absolutely evil, nothing is accursed for ever, not even the archangel of evil, for a time will come when his name and angelic nature will be restored to him* la kabbale, frank, p. 217. thus we rise t

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um xiv. in divination, arcanum xiv is regeneration or temperance. arcanum xiv is figured by the genie of the sun holding a golden urn and a silver urn, and pouring from one to the other the conducting fluid of life. the genie is crowned with flame to indicate that it is a spirit; and its feet are winged to signify its rapid movements. the fluid transferred from one urn to another is the symbol of transmutation; and the eight rays of the sun which show behind the genie's head signify that the positive, or masculine, forces of the universe are exactly equilibriated by the negative, or feminine, forces. the cloak over the shoulder of the spirit indicates the perpetual fecundation of matter, as symbolized by the cloak, by spirit. this ensemble pictures the combination and interchange of mascul

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or which god hath appointed him. 6. the sixth is, to know god, and christ, and his holy spirit: this is the perfection of the microcosmus. 7 the seventh, to be regenerate, as henochius the king of the inferiour world. these seven secrets a man of an honest and constant minde may learn of the spirits, without any offence unto god. the mean secrets are likewise seven in number. 1. the first is, the transmutation of metals, which is vulgarly called alchymy; which certainly is given to very few, and not but of special grace. 2. the second is, the curing of diseases with metals, either by the magnetick vertues of precious stones, or by the use of the philosophers stone, and the like. 3 the third is, to be able to perform astronomical and mathematical miracles, such as are hydraulick-engines, to

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a ver y a o r las grandes realidades internas. 54 arcanum 8 let us study, in this lecture, the eighth key of basil valentine (illustration of viridarium chymicum) the eight key is a clear and perfect alchemical allegory of the processes of death and resurrection that inevitably occur in the esoteric preparation of the philosophical stone. the entire inner preparation of the stone and the metallic transmutation are represented in this allegory. the entire human material employed in this work dies, it becomes rotten, corrupted and becomes blackened within the philosophical egg, then it becomes marvelously white. the entire summary of the great work is found within the philosophical egg. the masculine and feminine sexual principles are contained within the egg. thus, like the fledgling that e

uy malos. empero el s per hombre no es el resultado de ninguna evoluci n, sino el producto de una tremenda revoluci n de la conciencia. 62 adam christ is so much different from the terrestrial adam, as the lightning is from a black cloud. lightning is born from a cloud, yet it is not a cloud. lightning is the super man while the cloud is the man. to be born is a sexual problem, the path is sexual transmutation. a rectangle appears in the ninth key, this represents the four elements of alchemy. by carefully studying this rectangle, we discover a double circle that wisely symbolizes the mercurial matter with its two properties (generation and regeneration. the double circle contains three serpents that emerge from three hearts. indeed, we need to work with mercury, sulfur and salt in order t

the phoenix bird that is born from its own ashes stands upon the double circle of mercurial matter. we need to become imitators of this mythological bird; however, this is only possible when we work with the grain. the eagle of volatility is the terrestrial adam that is dominated by the crow of putrefaction. the moon goddess carries upon her head a white swan. we must whiten the crow with sexual transmutation until transforming it into the immaculate swan of ascension. the entire symbolism of the great work is enveloped within the ninth key. no one can work with the sephirothic tree without being an alchemist and a kabbalist. the wiseman of the ninth arcanum must search for the treasury within the ninth sphere. it is necessary to study the explanatory statements, the principles and method

he human life span of sexual enjoyment ends. after having attained the venusian initiation, in other words, after the adam christ has been born within us, we must then extract the philosophical egg from the rottenness of the matter and deliver it to the son of man, meaning to transplant the totality of the sexual energies to adam christ; this is how he becomes absolutely strong. the path is named transmutation and sexual sublimation. whosoever reaches these heights becomes a master of samadhi. the same energy that produces sexual sensations (when it is transmuted) then produces mystical ecstasy. christ, buddha, hermes, quetzalcoatl and many other avatars were suprasexual [the forge of] vulcan sexual energy is divided into three distinct types. first: the energy having to do with the reprod

smuta, produce entonces el xtasis m stico. cristo, buda, hermes, quetzalcoatl y muchos otros avataras, fueron suprasexuales. vulcano: la energ a sexual se manifiesta en tres tipos diferentes. el primer tipo se relaciona con la reproducci n de la especie, el segundo con las esferas del pensamiento y la voluntad, el tercero con el mundo del esp ritu puro. 68 all of the processes related with sexual transmutation are possible because of the intervention of the vital body. this is the archeus14 that elaborates the blood and the semen in the human organism. this is vulcan that transmutes the seminal liquor into christic energy. the vital body is the vehicle of the soul-consciousness in the human being. the consciousness is the flame and the vital body is the wick. vulcan exists within the micro

s. el superhombre debemos ser primero hombres completos, m s tarde, despu s de la resurrecci n nos elevamos de hecho al reino del superhombre. el hombre actual no es m s que un fantasma de hombre. 92 arcanum 14 very beloved disciples, let us now study the fourteenth arcanum of the tarot. it is convenient to state that the profound wisdom of this arcanum is classically divided into three parts: 1) transmutation, 2) transformation, and 3) transubstantiation. we are going to study each one of these three parts separately. transmutation in the card of the fourteenth arcanum, there appears an angel who has the sun on his forehead. if we observe the angel, we will see that he has the square and the triangle of gnostic esotericism on his vesture. the angel has a cup in each hand and he mixes the

l the fire from the devil; this is how we transform ourselves into gods. the esoteric pentagram shines upon the forehead of the male goat [see image on next page. the caduceus of mercury replaces the sexual organs. in synthesis, we can state that the caduceus of mercury represents the sexual organs. every alchemist needs to work with the caduceus of mercury. this work is performed by means of the transmutation. the five pointed star shines when we steal the fire from the devil. we need to develop the kundalini and to dissolve the i, only in this way can we attain liberation. the work with the demon the initiates of the fourth path, which is the path of the astute man, choose to work with the devil on the process of the dissolution of their i. the tenebrous ones violently attack anyone who

tegration is represented in any perfect human being. sixth: universal infinite compassion. seventh: this seventh definitive step is only possible within human-gods. these are super-men. the mystery of baphomet it is indeed true and certain that the mystery of baphomet is sexual alchemy. we transform the lead of our personality into the gold of the spirit based on rigorous comprehension and sexual transmutation. this is how the i is annihilated. the rose elaborates its perfume with the mud of the earth; the perfume of the rose is transmuted mud. the door of eden sex is the door of eden. the guardian of this door is the assyrian sphinx, the egyptian sphinx, the bull (golden calf) of moses with the sword between its paws. this is the psychological i reflected in the baphomet that with his swo

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duplication, repetition, analogy, rhythm and periodicity. 3. when the primordial idea of unity is added to the idea of a binary, what results is a ternary. it draws us out from the absolutism of dualism. it is the synthesis after experiencing thesis and anti-thesis: the creative third force. three is the number of creation, the cause of everything comprehensible. it represents both adaptation and transmutation. it is binah, the holy spirit or third person of the trinity on the tree. it is characterized by the first geometrical shape, the triangle. the triangle of art in the western magical tradition is where materializations occur when doing evocations. as the number and sphere of the first creative force actualizing itself in binah, the mother, it gives birth to all of the remaining sephi

e week. as each of the seven days of the week was considered to be under the auspices of specific spirits in the heavens, so did mother nature generate in her womb a concrete expression of that star in the form of the seven principle metals. talismans were often made of the specific planetary metals and then worn. the science of alchemy seeks to release the spirit from the metal in the process of transmutation. we can visualize the same process happening within us, and much of the psychological interpretation of carl jung uses alchemical allegories. herbs, too, are rooted in ancient lore and are connected to planetary correspondences. many of the charts and correspondence tables have the seven planetary spirits at their center. the ancients did not know about the three other planets which

nt that a practicing qabalistic philosopher should perhaps explore these hidden gates. figure 9-l we have mentioned that there is an intimate relationship between venus, or daleth, the door (represented in tarot by the empress [see figure 9-m, and nun, which in the qabalistic scheme is connected to scorpio (ruled by mars. here is clothed one of the greatest secrets of occultism. it has to do with transmutation of the life force at the throat center, ruled by venus. this transformation is allegorically portrayed in tarot by nun, death, which, since it is connected to scorpio, rules the sexual organs. in the image developed by dr. case, the skeleton figure in this tarot key has a crook in his neck to represent the change in energy flow at the venus chakra. dr. case tells us this mystery is a

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tion between binah, the worldto- come, and yom kippur. in her transformed condition, the female is a crown on the male rather than a separate vessel to receive the seminal fluid, and consequently there is no intercourse. the transposition of the female to the status of the crown signifies, therefore, the ascetic eroticism suitable to the final phase of salvation.211 the temporal dimension of this transmutation is underscored by the fact that the seventh millennium is associated with the secret of eternality, the cosmic sabbath, attained with the restitution of the six millennia, which correspond typologically to the six days of creation, to their ontic source, an ascent that culminates not with binah but with arikh anpin, literally the longfaced and metaphorically the long-suffering, the s

o the law of dichotomy implies not an abrogation of that law but rather a deepening of it by adhering to its source in keter, the realm of unmitigated mercy and unwarranted forgiveness hence the identification of the thirteen covenants mentioned in conjunction with circumcision and the thirteen attributes of mercy. the second circumcision, which foreshadows the eschatological moment, triggers the transmutation of the carnal body into the semiotic body, that is, the body composed of the twenty-two hebrew letters, which are contained, in turn, in the tetragrammaton, the mystical essence of torah, configured as an anthropos in the imagination of the visionary. in brief, we can say that the esoteric gnosis of kabbalah, which underlies the hasidic teaching championed by shneur zalman, advocates

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in its results. it is an epitome of the redemption. just consider it in detail and you will realize this. we begin by intoning the letters i.n.r.i. we recall the varied significance attributed to these letters jesus nazarenus rex judicorum. it is, of course, a form of the 4-fold name (yod he vau he, but its essential significance is not creative but redemptive. the sun in virgo accomplishing the transmutation of scorpio. the virgin mother treading on the head of the serpent that the father may be born anew in the son. it is the key to the whole rosicrucian philosophy, the redemtion of matter, transforming the human into the divine. the blending of the dew and fire in purification and consecration. the exaltation of the cross of light. so, from the four we pass to three the triangle of spi

ad from the lower seven sephiroth. the symbolic sphere dropped into water has double significance: it is boiling and scented. in modern surgery, boiling is a purifying process. all germ of evil is destroyed and in this symbolic act, the postulant offers all that he has attained for ultimate purification; but he must not only be purified but etherealized and raised to a higher plane. the spirit of transmutation of the physical into the resurrection body. herein the significance of the perfume and the spiritual connotation of the sense of smell: a sense which more than any other, reaches to those mysterious centres which link the physical brain with pictures stored up in the sphere of sensation which we name "memory" and which is one of the peculiar attributes of saturn. the time between the

ceus, symbol of healing, infused with the spirit of his higher self at the preceding equinox. he is therefore marked out for redemption, whether we look on him as the spirit of the earth or as that of man living on the earth. emphasis must be laid on the fact that the willingness to receive the new spiritual influx must first be demonstrated by man before the higher powers can perform the work of transmutation in him. this is the reason why the four officers wait silently till kerex faces them. he, as it were, impels the spiritual powers of his soul to turn outwards towards the vast cosmic force, which at the equinox sends new life and strength into the world of men. this new life is broken up into four streams of power before it reaches man. with a prayer and adoration, each officer recei

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already discussed in chapters 3 and others, particularly chapter 56. the title of the chapter refers to the old rime "see-saw, margery daw, sold her bed to lie upon straw. was not she a silly slut to sell her bed to lie upon dirt" the word "see-saw" is significant, almost a comment upon this chapter. to the master of the temple opposite rules apply. his unity seeks the many, and the many is again transmuted to the one. solve et coagula. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 134 [137] 64 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta xi-delta constancy i was discussing oysters with a crony: god sent to me the angels din and doni "an man of spunk" they urged "would hardly choose to breakfast every day chez laperouse "no" i replied "h would not do so, but think of his woe if laperouse were

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ds "water" is the vehicle whereby we feel such things "air" their menstruum wherein these feelings are mentally apprehended. it is called "whirling" because of the instability of thought, and the fatuity of reason, on which we are yet dependent for what we call "life "rushing fire" is the world in which wandering thought burns up to swift-darting will. these four stages explain how the non-ego is transmuted into the 280 ego. a "spell" of god is any form of consciousness, and a "scourge" any form of action. the charge, as a whole, demands for the adept the control of every detail of the universe which his angel has created as a means of manifesting himself to himself. it covers command of the primary projection of the possible in individuality, in the antithetical artifice which is the devi

hat is as yet ignorant of that name, let him repeat a word worthy of this particular ritual. such are abrahadabra, the word of the aeon, which signifieth "the great work accomplished; and aumgn interpreted in part iii of book 4<matter is that the word aum, which expresses the course of breath (spiritual life) from free utterance through controlled concentration to silence, is transmuted by the creation of the compound letter gr:mu-gamma-nu to replace m: that is, silence is realized as passing into continuous ecstatic vibration, of the nature of "love" under "will" as shewn by gr:mu-gamma-nu= 40+ 3+ 50= 93 gr:alpha-gamma-alpha-pi-eta, gr:theta-epsilon-lambda-eta-mu-alpha etc, and the whole word has the value of 100, perfection perfected, the unity in completion, and equ

ein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, mystery of mystery, in her name babalon. and i believe in the serpent and the lion, mystery of mystery, in his name baphomet. and i believe in one gnostic and catholic church of light, love and liberty, the word of whose law is gr:theta-epsilon-lambda-eta-mu-alpha. and i believe in the communion of saints. and, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, i believe in the miracle of the mass. and i confess one baptism of wisdom whereby we accomplish the miracle of incarnation. and i confess my life one, individual, and eternal that was, and is, and is to come. gr:alpha-upsilon-mu-gamma-nu, gr:alpha-upsilon-mu-gamma-nu, gr:alpha- upsilon-mu-gamma-nu "music is now played. the child enters with the ewer

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divine alike in evil and in good. aspasia may skin me close, and lais load me with disease. poor pleasures, bitter bargains, these? i shall despise diogenes. follow your fancy far enough! at last you surely come to god. there is thus in this school no attempt to deny that nature is, as zoroaster said "a fatal and evil force; but nature is, so to speak "the first matter of the work, which is to be transmuted into gold. the joy is a function of our own part in this alchemy. for this reason magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 97 we find the boldest and most skillful adepts deliberately seeking out the most repugnant elements of nature that their triumph may be the greater. the formula is evidently one of dauntless courage. it expresses the idea of vitality and manhood

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onsciousness, and thus create the illusion which the aspirant calls sorrow, and the uninitiate, evil. the sexual act, even to the grossest of mankind, is the agent which dissipates the fog of self for one ecstatic moment. it is the instinctive feeling that the physical spasm is symbolic of that miracle of the mass, by which the material wafer, composed of the passive elements, earth and water, is transmuted into the substance of the body of god, that makes the wise man dread lest so sublime a sacrament suffer profanation. it is this that has caused him, in half-instinctive, half-iontellectual half-comprehension of the nature of the truth, which has driven him to fence the act about with taboos. but a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. his fear has created phantoms, and his malobservati

consecrate. it is one thing to be like a sow, unconscious of the mire, and unable to discriminate between sweet food and sour; another to take the filth firmly and force oneself to discover the purity therein, initiating even the body to overcome its natural repulsion and partake with the soul at this eucharist. we 'believe in the miracle of the mass' not only because meat and drink are actually "transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, but because we can make the "body and blood of god" from any materials soever by virtue of our royal and pontifical art of magick. now when brillat-savarin (was it not) served to the king's table a pair of old kid gloves, and pleased the princely palate, he certainly proved himself a master-cook. the feat is not one to be repeated constantly, but on

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OTO GNOSTIC MASS

ll, and in one womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, mystery of mystery, in her name babalon. and i believe in the serpent and the lion, mystery of mystery, in his name baphomet. and i believe in one gnostic and catholic church of light, life, love and liberty, the word of whose law is velhma. and i believe in the communion of saints. and, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, i believe in the miracle of the mass. and i confess one baptism of wisdom whereby we accomplish the miracle of incarnation. and i confess my life one, individual, and eternal that was, and is, and is to come. aumgn. aumgn. aumgn. music is now played. the child enters with the ewer and the salt. the virgin enters with the sword and the paten. the chi

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ncourse of angels rushing toward me from every side, and they melt upon the surface of the egg in which i am standing in the form of the god kneph, so that the surface of the egg is all one dazzling blaze of liquid light. now i move up against the tablet- i cannot tell you with what rapture. and all the names of god, that are not known even to the angels, clothe me about. all the seven senses are transmuted into one sense, and that sense is dissolved in itself (here occurs samadhi) 33. let me speak, o god; let me declare it. all. it is useless; my heart faints, my breath stops. there is no link between me and p. i withdraw myself. i see the table again (he was behind the table for a very long time. o.v) and all the table burns with intolerable light; there has been no such light in any of

ind that he endures it, and passes on, if so be that he pass on. yet there is nothing higher than this, for it is perfectly balanced in itself. i cannot read a word of the holy table, for the letters of the table are all wrong. they are only the shadows of shadows. and whoso beholdeth this table with this rapture, is light. the true word for light hath seven letters. they are the same as ararita, transmuted. 34 there is a voice in this aethyr, but it cannot be spoken. the only way one can represent it is as a ceaseless thundering of the word amen. it is not a repetition of amen, because there is no time. it is one amen continuous. shall mine eye fade before thy glory? i am the eye. that is why the eye is seventy. you can never understand why, except in this vision. and now the table recede

of initiation. verily also is it a tomb. thinkest thou that there is life within the masters of the temple, that sit hooded, encamped upon the sea? verily, there is no life in them. their sandals were the pure light, and they have taken 74 them from their feet and cast them down through the abyss, for this aethyr is holy ground. herein no forms appear, and the vision of god face to face, that is transmuted in the athanor called dissolution, or hammered into one in the forge of meditation, is in this place but a blasphemy and a mockery. and the beatific vision is no more, and the glory of the most high is no more. there is no more knowledge. there is no more bliss. there is no more power. there is no more beauty. for this is the palace of understanding: for thou art one with the primeval t

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tract some sense from that extraordinary treatise on mysticism,"konx om pax. another failure, but an excusable one. i will now beseech adonai as best i may to give me back my lost powers. for i am no more even a magician! so lost am i in the illusions that i have made in the search for adonai, that i am become the vilest of them all! 10.27. a strange and unpleasant experience. my thought suddenly transmuted itself into a muscular cry, so that my legs gave a violent jerk. this i expect is at bottom the explanation of the bhuchari-siddhi. a very bad form of uncontrolled thought. i was on the edge of sleep; it woke me. the fact is, all is over! i am done! i have tried for the great initiation and i have failed: i am swept away into strange hells. lord adonai! let the fires be informing; let t

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ians i was able to overpower by "authority" now the mount was of glistening whiteness, exceeding white as snow: yet dead and unluminous. and i beheld a vision, even like unto that of the universal mercury;48 and i learnt that i myself was sulphur and unmercurial. now having attained the mercurialising of my sulphur i was able (in my vision) to fecundate the mountain (of salt. and it was instantly transmuted into gold. what came ye out into the wilderness for to see? no: into living, glowing, molten light: the light that redeemeth the material world! so i returned: having difficulty to find the earth. but i called on s.r.m.d. and v.n.r. who were glad to see me; and returned into the body: to waste the night in gibing at a foolish medico (it is worth noting here how very much more coherent t

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die in thee as sea-foam in the clouds, and yet possess thee as a frail white mist possesses the stripped limbs of the sun? 10. o what art thou, o god my god, thou soft pearl set in a bow of effulgent light? o thou drop of shimmering dew! thou surging river of bewildering beauty who speedest as a blue arrow of fire beyond, beyond! o how can i measure the poisons of thy limbeck, and yet be for ever transmuted in the athanor of thine understanding? 50 11. o what art thou, o god my god, thou disrober of the darkness of the abyss? o thou veil'd eye of creation! thou soundless voice who, for ever misunderstood, rollest on through the dark abysms of infinity! o how can i learn to sing the music of thy name, as a quivering silence above the thundering discord of the tempest? 12. o what art thou, o

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be as a sacred work of the divine magic of light, and not to be performed to pander unto thy curiosity regarding the secrets of another. and if by this means thou shalt arrive at a knowledge of another's secrets, thou shalt respect and not betray them. hb:heh book v alchemical processes. a. the curcurbite or the alembic. b. the alchemist. c. the processes and forces employed. d. the matter to be transmuted. e. the selection of the matter to be transmuted, and the formation, cleansing and disposing of all the necessary vessels, materials &c, for the working of the process. f. general invocation of the higher forces to action. placing of the matter within the curcurbite or philosophic egg, and invocation of a blind force to action therein, in darkness and in silence. g. the beginning of the

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

s the centre of his group; the force animating the units of the group and binding them into a homogeneous whole. a disciple is one who is transferring his consciousness out of the personal into the impersonal, and during the transition stage much of difficulty and of suffering is necessarily endured. these difficulties arise from various causes: a. the disciple's lower self, which rebels at being transmuted. b. a man's immediate group, friends, or family, who rebel at his growing impersonality. they do not like to be acknowledged as one with him on the life side, and yet separate from him where desires and interests lie. yet the law holds good, and only in the essential life of the soul can true unity be cognized. in the discovery as to what is form lies much of sorrow for the disciple, bu

of government, and permits no disturbance from the lower self; where bliss itself is reached that is based, not on circumstances in the three worlds, but on that inner realisation of existence apart from the not-self, an existence that persists when time and space and all that is contained therein, are not; that is known when all the illusions of the lower planes are experienced, passed through, transmuted and transcended; that endures when the little world of human endeavour has dissipated and gone, being seen as naught; and that is based on the knowledge that i am that. such an attitude and experience is for all those who persist in their high endeavour, who count all things but naught if they may but achieve the goal, and who steer a steady course through circumstances, keeping the eye

ation; the hands held out in assistance to the world, and the whole life- 45- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust subordinated to the call of service. then all that comes is for the best sickness, opportunity, success, and disappointment, the gibes and machinations of enemies, the lack of comprehension on the part of those we love all is but to be used, and all exists but to be transmuted. continuity of vision, of aspiration, and of the inner touch, is seen to be of more importance than them all. that continuity is the thing to be aimed at, in spite of, and not because of circumstances. as the aspirant progresses he not only balances the pairs of opposites, but is having the secret of his brother's heart revealed to him. he becomes an acknowledged force in the world and

inspring of activity, and have their origin upon the mental plane. when these three aspects of the manifesting ego, the god within, are brought under control, co-ordinated, and utilised, then, even unconsciously to himself, will the voice of the disciple be heard, demanding the opening of the door. when the lower life upon the physical plane is fertilised, the emotional stabilised, and the mental transmuted, then naught can prevent the latch upon that door being lifted, and the disciple passing through. only synchronous vibration to that which lies the other side of the door produces its opening, and when the key of the disciple's life is attuning itself to that of the hierarchical life, then, one by one, the doors will open, and nothing can keep them closed. rule 4. let the disciple tend

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

sences of this plane are more difficult for us to comprehend, having not, as yet, the- 38- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust seeing eye upon that plane. they are in themselves the warmth and heat of the emotional body, and of the body of feeling. they are of a low order when upon the path of desire, and of a high order when upon the path of aspiration, for the elemental is then transmuted into the deva. their grades and ranks are many, but their names matter not save in one instance. it may be of interest to know the appellation applied to the devas of fire whose part it is to tend the fires that will later destroy the causal body. we need to remember that it is the upspringing of the latent fire of matter and its merging with two other fires that causes destruction. the

their union through the action of the will, the objective solar system, or the son, was produced that son of desire, whose characteristic is love, and whose nature is buddhi or spiritual wisdom. by the bringing together (in microcosm) of spirit and matter, and their coherence by means of force (or the spiritual will) that objective system, the causal body, is being produced; it is the product of transmuted desire, whose characteristic (when fully demonstrated) will be love, the expression eventually on the physical plane of buddhi. the causal body is but the sheath of the ego. the solar system is but the sheath of the son. in both the greater and the lesser systems, force centres exist which are productive of objectivity. the centres in the human being are reflections in the three worlds

ension of the matter aspect, and the laws governing energy on the astral and the mental planes. this is stated in connection with average man, the rank and file of humanity. objective or exoteric information is largely that obtained or ascertained by men in the hall of learning by means of the five senses, and by experiment. experiment in due course of time and after many cycles of incarnation is transmuted into experience, and this produces eventually that which we call instinct, or the habitual reaction of some type of consciousness to a given set of circumstances, or of environment. these two factors of the senses and of experimental contact can be seen working out in the animal and human kingdoms; the difference between the two exists in the ability of the man consciously to remember

the period wherein consciousness is awakened on the five planes of evolution. c. to attain to the consciousness of the centre in the body of the logos of which any particular planetary logos is the sumtotal. this carries them to the seventh initiation and covers the period of the awakening of consciousness on the seven planes of the solar system. these expansions are attained by the aid of mind, transmuted in due course of time into love-wisdom, and entail the conscious control of the entire seven planes of the solar system, or of the lowest cosmic plane. second: the work of the heavenly men who in their totality are the seven centres in the body of the logos. this work is again threefold- 168- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust a. to attain to full self-consciousness, o

ric, or the solar plane of adi- 181- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust electricity on the monadic plane demonstrates as the first manifestation of form, as that which causes forms to cohere. matter (electrified by "fire by friction) and the electric fire of spirit meet and blend, and form appears. form is the result of the desire for existence, hence the dynamic fire of will is transmuted into the burning fire of desire. i would call attention to the choice of those two phrases, which might also be expressed under the terms: dynamic electrical manifestation. burning electrical manifestation. here on the second plane, the sea of electrical fire, which distinguished the first plane, is transformed into the akasha, or burning etheric matter. it is the plane of the flaming s

ir, or merge in their opposite pole, and are consequently again lost. this results in: synthesis. homogeneity. the rarity instead of the density of matter. the fourth cosmic ether, the buddhic, is the plane of air, and is also the plane of absorption for the three worlds. this rarefication of dense matter (as we know it) simply means that at the close of the evolutionary process it will have been transmuted and be practically, from our point of view, non-existent; all that will be left will be the positive atoms, or certain vortices of force which having absorbed the negative will- 188- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust demonstrate as electrical phenomena of a form inconceivable to man at his present stage of knowledge. these vortices will be distinguished by: 1. intense

gdom is so inexplicable to man as his present stage of intelligent apprehension that we will not pause to consider it. in relation to the animal kingdom it might be said that the key whereby entrance is effected into the human kingdom is that of instinct. this instinct, towards the final stages of the animal's evolution, and as it becomes more and more detached from the group soul,26(111) becomes transmuted into mentality, or into that embryo mind which is latent in animal-man, and which simply needed the stimulating vibration which emanated from the earth's primary to be fanned into something definitely human. we must always bear in mind that the method of individualisation on this globe was not the one followed on others, and that many of the present advanced units of humanity individual

shown. he becomes an intelligent creator, and by the time he has taken the four major initiations he has: 1. developed perfectly the brahma aspect, which as pointed out functions primarily in the three worlds. it is the active intelligent aspect. 2. achieved the point of development at which a heavenly man, the divine manasaputra, commenced this circle of manifestation we call a solar system. 3. transmuted manas into wisdom or love. 4. synthesised the rays of activity or intelligence and is beginning to merge this synthesis into the higher one of love-wisdom. to sum it all up in words of fire: the fire of matter has blazed out perfectly, and the vibratory activity of the man has been keyed up to synchronise with that of a heavenly man, thus enabling a man to function consciously, or be vi

the sixth, and it must be remembered that: a. the planets venus and jupiter are exceedingly closely connected with the earth, and form eventually an esoteric triangle. b. saturn is the synthesising scheme for the four planets which embody manas purely and simply, or is the major resolution of the minor four, and eventually for all the seven. see figure c. mercury, the star of the intuition, or of transmuted manas, is, at this stage, considered as the fifth scheme. therefore, the heavenly men of venus and jupiter are magnetically linked with the heavenly man of our scheme. the relationship of the logos of jupiter and his influence will not be realised nor felt until the sixth round is in full force, though during the sixth root-race his vibration will be acknowledged and sensed; in the midd

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attention of the student (at the beginning of his instruction) to the practical work to be done in liberating this light so that it may "shine forth in a dark place" i. e, on the physical plane. it should be borne in mind that, occultly speaking, when the lower nature is controlled it can manifest the higher. when the second aspect of the lower personal self, the emotional body, is subjugated or transmuted then the christ light (the second aspect egoic) can be seen. later, in its light, the monad, the father, the one, will stand revealed. equally, when the first aspect of the lower personal self, the mental body, is restrained, then the will aspect of the ego can be known, and through its activities, the purpose of the logos himself will be cognized. there are certain lines of least resis

d the third major centre, the throat centre. this is apparent physiologically in the change of voice seen during the adolescent period. through the true conservation of energy and abstention from incontinence, the yogi becomes a creator on the mental plane through the use of the word and of sounds, and the energy which can be dissipated through the activity of the lower centre is concentrated and transmuted into the great creative work of the magician. this is done through continence, pure living and clean thinking, and not through any perversions of occult truth such as sex magic and the enormities of the sex perversions of various so-called occult schools. the latter are on the black path and do not lead to the portal of initiation. 39. when abstention from avarice is perfected, there co

e. there are two thoughts seeking expression in this sutra. one refers to the veil or covering which prevents the illumination of the mind, and the other to the state of realization which is achieved when a man has freed himself from this veil. that which covers up the light (the "bushel" referred to by the christ in the new testament) is the changing, fluctuating sheaths or bodies. when they are transmuted and transcended the light of god (the second divine aspect) can flood the lower man and he knows himself as he is. illumination pours in and he knows himself as something different to the forms through which he is functioning. he is no longer centred, no longer polarized in his forms, but is actually in a condition of disembodiedness. his consciousness is that of the man out of incarnat

sciousness from one objective to another, so he alters himself, and this is true in all realms and states, higher or lower. the effect of the transference of our conscious thinking state from a low objective to a high one produces a flow of energy of a vibratory quality equivalent to the higher objective. this produces a change or a mutation in the vestures of the thinking entity, and they become transmuted and brought to a condition where they are adequate to the thought or desire of the man. carried to their conclusion, a transformation is produced, and the words of st. paul become therefore clear "be ye therefore transformed by the renewing of your mind- 209- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust change your line of thought and you will change your nature. desire that which i

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to reveal the psychical and body natures. we are told, for instance, that we have five main instincts, which we share in common with all animals. these, when used with selfish and personal objectives, enhance the body life- 34- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust strengthen the form or material nature and so serve increasingly to hide the self, the spiritual man. these must be transmuted into their higher counterparts, for every animal characteristic has its spiritual prototype. the instinct of self-preservation must eventually be superseded by realization of immortality, and "dwelling ever in the eternal" man will walk the earth and fulfill his destiny. the instinct which causes the lower self to thrust its way forward, and force itself upward, will eventually be trans

formed into the domination of the higher or spiritual self. the assertion of the little or lower self will give way to that of the higher self. sex, which is an animal instinct powerfully governing all animal forms, will give place to a higher attraction, and will, in its noblest aspects, bring about conscious attraction and union between the soul and its vehicle; whilst the herd instinct will be transmuted into group consciousness. a fifth instinct, namely the urge to inquire and to investigate, which characterizes all minds at a high or a low level, will give place to intuitive perception and understanding, and so the great work will be accomplished and the spiritual man will dominate his creation, the human being, and lift all his attributes and aspects into heaven. through meditation

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ives of, and responds to these ideas. this is a point to be borne in mind in all dealings with others and should modify judgments. to apprehend a principle justly marks a point in evolution. a principle is that which ensouls a statement dealing with the highest good of the greatest number. that a man should love his wife is a statement of a principle governing the personality but it must later be transmuted into the greater principle that a man must love his fellow men. principles are of three kinds and the higher must be reached via the lower (a) principles governing the lower personal self, dealing with the actions or active life of that lower self. they embody the third aspect or the activity aspect of logoic manifestation and form the basis of later progress. they control the man durin

nvolves the transmutation of the five senses and their extension into the subtler planes so that sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell are welded into one synthetic cooperating whole, for use in the great work. on the physical plane, these tend to the unification of the personal life and to the adaptation of the physical world to the needs of the personal self. on the subtler planes they must be transmuted until they are adequate to the needs of the group of which the individual forms a fragmentary part. the ability to do this is one of the things that the great ones look for in those individuals whose privilege it may be to inaugurate the new age. above all, they look for an enlarged channel from the soul to the physical brain, via the mind. such an enlarged channel indicates that a man

ed and carried up to the throat centre, then the aspirant becomes a conscious creative force in the higher worlds; he enters within the veil, and begins to create the pattern of things which will bring about eventually the new heavens and the new earth. when the energies of the solar plexus expressions hitherto of the potent desire nature, feeding the emotional life of the personality are equally transmuted and re-oriented, then they are carried to the heart centre and there is brought about as a result a realisation of group consciousness, of group love, and group purpose which makes the aspirant a server of humanity and a fit associate of the elder brethren of the race. when these three transfers have been consummated then an activity transpires in the head centre, the ultimate governing

ount importance: 1. the ajna centre, through which the purified personality expresses itself. 2. the centre at the base of the spine, which is the centre through which complete and utter control and coordination is achieved, through the arousing of the purifying agency of fire. 3. the sacral centre, wherein the basic force of our particular solar system, the force of attraction of form to form is transmuted, and the attractive force of the soul takes the place of the reproductive creative material activity. 4. the solar plexus centre which, situated in the centre of the body and being the organ of the astral body and of the lower psychism, gathers together all lower forces and redirects them under the impulse of the soul to their higher repositories. i realise that the teaching given here

nse individualism, the cult of the personality, and the production of ancestor and hero-worship. it is leading, however, to the assertion of the self, of the divine inner ruler, and out of our newest science, psychology, will emerge a knowledge of the assertive and dominant spiritual self, and lead finally to the manifestation of the kingdom of souls on earth. and what of the instinct to enquire? transmuted into divine investigation and transformed by the application of the light of the soul in the realm of enquiry, we shall have humanity carried forward into the hall of wisdom and thus man will leave behind the experiences of the hall of knowledge. our great educational centres will become schools for the development of intuitive perception and of spiritual awareness. the following table

research. 2. sex. spiritual union. religion. at-one-ment .m ysticism. 3. herd. group consciousness. brotherhood. 4. self-assertion. assertion of the self. psychology. 5. enquiry. intuition. education. thus the fears which beset humanity, having their roots in instincts, seem nevertheless to be divine characteristics, misapplied and misused. when, however, they are rightly understood and used, and transmuted by the knowing soul, they produce awareness and are the source of growth and that which conveys to the dormant soul- in time and space- the needed impulse, impetus and urge to progress which have carried man forward from the caveman stage and the prehistoric cycle, through the long period of history, and can be trusted today to carry him forward with increasing rapidity, as he now arriv

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

only complete synthesis, except the macrocosmic deity, registers a self-recognition which is potent enough today to enable him to differentiate reactions to. a. the triplicity (as the bhagavad gita calls it) of the knower, the field of knowledge, and knowledge. b. a growing realisation that the field of knowledge is but an appearance or an illusion, that knowledge itself can be a hindrance unless transmuted into wisdom. c. an evolutionary growth in responsiveness to one or other of these three, and which indicates a developing sensitivity. this is leading to a growth of interest in the knower and to a belief that this knower is the soul, one with deity, illimitable and eternal and in time and space the- 25- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis

earth. they will also teach the sounding of the tones that correspond to the gradations of violet, and through that sounding enable man to utilise the ethers, as he now utilises physical plane matter for his various needs- 84- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust they will enable human beings so to control the ethers that weight will be for them transmuted, and motion will be intensified, becoming more rapid, more gliding, noiseless, and therefore less tiring. in the human control of the etheric levels lie the lessening of fatigue, rapidity of transit, and the ability to transcend time. until this prophecy is a fact in consciousness, its meaning is obscure. they will also teach men how rightly to nourish the body and to draw from the surr

re" of a kingdom hitherto controlled and directed in its growth by the element of water. similarly, the coming in of the seventh ray inaugurated a tremendous event in the mineral kingdom. this i referred to in an earlier book. through the effect of sound and fire, the mineral kingdom has also been initiated, and in the great world war, in the steel factories and the other factories where metal is transmuted into articles for the use of man, the world of minerals, and the entity which informs that world, are passing through a major initiation. this was made possible by the personality ray of the entity, manifesting through this kingdom, subjecting itself to the initiatory fire. this is of course expressed symbolically, the only way in which any aspect of this planetary truth can be grasped

cular point of view is necessarily the right one because they themselves live and act in accordance with it, and it suffices for them; it is based on the fact that sex is one of the fundamental primeval urges, one of the substantial instincts, and is consequently the dominating factor in the animal side of man's nature; it is based upon the excessive intimacy of the subject, an intimacy which was transmuted into an indecent secret during the periods wherein the race succumbed to an excessive puritanism and prostituted a natural function into a prurient mystery. this intimacy relating to the subject of sex caused it to be regarded as an unmentionable episode, and as a topic to be shunned by decent people, instead of being regarded as an instinctual and natural process, as instinctual and as

ower into union with the higher, and thereby the beautifying of the temple of the lord will be tremendously accelerated. in the coming aquarian age this will go rapidly forward. the majority of people today live below the diaphragm, and their energies are turned outward into the material world and prostituted to material ends. in the coming centuries this will be corrected; their energies will be transmuted and purified, and men will begin to live above the diaphragm. they will then express the potencies of the loving heart, of the creative throat, and of the divinely ordered will of the head. of this relation between the lower and the higher, physical plane sex is the symbol- 182- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust but in the head of m

and expands into the human state of awareness. pleasure and pain become definite factors in unfoldment, and the long agony of humanity commences. love then is seen in its naked selfishness, but also its potential glory can be sensed. love or attractive desire then attracts to itself that which it feels it needs, but later, that is changed into what it thinks it should have, and this, in time, is transmuted into that which it knows is the divine non-material heritage of a son of god. ponder on these last few words, for in the true understanding of love as feeling, love as thinking, and love as aspiration will come a clarification of man's problem and his liberation from the thralldom of the lower loves into the liberty of love itself, and into the freedom of the one who possesses all thing

hree times repeated, become the four, then the life of. reveals itself in beauty. it is interesting to note that the numerical value of the word "four" is the same in detail as that of the word "force, if you eliminate the number five. for humanity, it is the fifth energy which leads to the battlefield, the energy of the discriminating mind, and when that has been in due time used, controlled and transmuted "only the four remains and force has gone. note the detail of the numbering: f o r c e 6 6 9 3 5. 29. ii. number of adept, using energy. f o u r- 215- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust 6 6 3 9 .24. 6. the creator, unifying the subjective and the objective. it is apparent that force in the first group ends in separativeness, for five

d this twentieth century have produced. that much of their magical work has been turned into selfish channels by the tendency of this materialistic age, and that many of their wise and true discoveries in the realm of energy are today adapted to ends which serve man's hatred or love of self, is equally true. but this in no way militates against the wonder of their achievements. when the motive is transmuted from pure scientific interest to love of the divine revelation, and when service to the race is the determining force, then we shall see the true white magic. hence therefore the need to turn the mystic into the occultist, and to train the modern aspirant in right motive, mind control and brotherly love, all of which must and will express themselves through harmlessness. the most potent

ving in the wonder of their past and go forth into the future to demonstrate the fact of illumination, which is the goal of all mental effort. when the intellect of the french is turned towards the discovery and the elucidation of the things of the spirit, then they will carry revelation to the world. when their egoic ray dominates the third ray, and when the separative action of the fifth ray is transmuted into the revealing function of this ray, then france will enter into a period of new glory. her empire will then be of the mind, and her glory of the soul. it is obvious that the governing faculty is strongly the outstanding characteristic of great britain. england is an exponent of the art of control, and her function has been, as you may realise, to- 238- a treatise on the seven rays

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

christ. both embodied in themselves certain cosmic principles, and by their work and sacrifice certain divine potencies poured through and upon mankind. the work done by the buddha, and the message which he sounded, stimulated intelligence into wisdom. wisdom is a cosmic principle, and a divine potency. this the buddha embodied. but love came to the world through christ, and he, through his work, transmuted emotion into love. as "god is love" the comprehension that christ revealed the love of god makes clear the magnitude of the task he undertook a task far beyond the powers of any teacher or messenger who had preceded him. the buddha, when he achieved illumination "let in" a flood of light upon life and upon our world problems, and this intelligent understanding of the causes of world dis

al and in the race. today humanity aspires to great heights, and this aspiration is responsible for the great national movements seen in so many countries. at the same time, individual disciples are striving anew towards illumination, incited thereto by their longing to meet world need. spiritual selfishness, which has been such a characteristic of aspirants in the past, has to be transcended and transmuted into love of man and a sharing in the "fellowship of christ's sufferings."25 self must be lost to sight in service. service is rapidly becoming the keynote of the time, and one of the incentives in racial endeavour. the meeting of disaster and the undergoing of painful experiences is ever the lot of the individual disciple. it is becoming obvious that the world disciple, humanity itself

experiment and ends with an experience" these words are true of god and of man. god had such faith in man's innate spirituality and what is spirituality but the expression, in form, of divinity? that he ventured on a great experiment which has led into the christian experience. faith in christ! faith in humanity! faith in man's responsiveness to the experiment! faith that the vision given will be transmuted or developed into experience! such was the faith of god in humanity. the christian faith, in spite of dogma and doctrine, and in spite of the distortions of the academic theologian and the impositions of a few unintelligent churchmen, has brought together god and man, blended in the christ, and so presented the truth that each human being can also have faith to venture the experiment an

ttain if we fall back upon unthinking faith and blind acceptance of all that theology can tell us. relatively easy to believe, this is the line of least resistance to the majority. it is difficult to fight one's way to that stage of experience where the divine programme for man becomes clear, and the possibilities which christ dramatised for us become something permitting us no rest until we have transmuted it into personal experience, through the experiment of initiation. the new birth is as much a natural event and as much a result of the evolutionary process as is the birth of a child into the world of physical life. eternally, down the ages, men have made and will continue to make the great transition, proving the fact of this experience. it is something which all must face at some tim

e relied was potent to penetrate the maya and dispel the glamour. pure desire was left desire for god. he had been tried in two aspects of his nature the material and the divine and as god-man he overcame the evil one. primarily, both temptations lay in the region of desire. the call is to personal desirelessness- 80- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust so with christ, desire was transmuted into power, though victory achieved led to developments which had in them the possibility of danger. it was in the realm of power that christ was next tried. a character that has been carried to a high degree of perfection and which has established a unity between the source of power, the soul, and the instrument of power, the personal lower self, produces what we call a personality. th

are told, signifies "illusion" distortion. here we have reference to the emotional-feeling body, with its power to misrepresent and to deceive, to mislead and to delude. where emotion enters in, and where the focus of attention is in sensitive and sensuous reaction, that which is not true rapidly appears, and the man becomes the subject of illusion. it is this body of illusion which is eventually transmuted, and so changed and stabilised that it provides a clear medium for the revelation of deity. john means "the lord hath spoken" and herein is the mind nature typified, because it is only when the mental aspect begins to manifest that we have the appearance of speech and of that thinking, speaking animal which we call "man" so, in the apt symbology of the scripture, christ's three friends

hod of application and the techniques employed are frequently un-christlike is sadly true, but the foundational concepts will bear with equanimity the light which christ can throw upon them. the principal difficulty has been that our intellectual grasp of the concepts runs ahead of our own personal development, and therefore colours disastrously our application of them. when these basic ideas are transmuted into world ideals by the consecrated thinkers of the race, and applied in the spirit in which christ conceived of them, then we shall indeed inaugurate a new world order- 105- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust it is of supreme value for us to realise that what christ really did was to usher in the era of service, even if we are only beginning today (two thousand years

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

salvaging matter (through utilising it and building it into forms) has been carried forward to a desired point. it is not primarily due to the attainment of a certain spiritual stature by the man and the demonstration of certain spiritual qualities. this desired stature and these spiritual qualities are manifested when the vehicles have been "occultly saved, and matter has thus been transformed, transmuted and symbolically "raised up into heaven. when the vehicles vibrate in unison with the soul, then is liberation achieved. a. the points of crisis just as there are five points of crisis in the life of a man as he achieves the goal of initiation (which we call the five initiations, so there are five similar points of crisis in the process of taking form in the three worlds, with three of

in the lower three, and which focusses through the soul body on the higher levels of the mental plane before being "precipitated into incarnation, as it is esoterically called. modernising the concept, we might say that the energies which animate the physical body and the intelligent life of the atom, the sensitive emotional states, and the intelligent mind have eventually to be blended with, and transmuted into, the energies which animate the soul. these are the spiritual mind, conveying illumination; the intuitive nature, conferring spiritual perception; and divine livingness. after the third initiation the "way" is carried forward with great rapidity, and the "bridge" is finished which links perfectly the higher spiritual triad and the lower material reflection. the three worlds of the

eatise on white magic. ray one. the energy of will or power. the destroyer aspect. souls on this ray are spoken of occultly as "crashing their way into incarnation. they appropriate dynamically that which they require. they brook no hindrance in the satisfactions of their desires. they stand alone in a proud isolation, glorying in their strength, and their ruthlessness. these qualities have to be transmuted into that intelligent use of power which makes them powerful factors in the plan, and magnetic centres of force, gathering workers and forces around them. an illustration of this can be seen in the work of the master morya, who is the centre, the magnetic attractive centre of all esoteric groups, conferring on them, by his power, the capacity to destroy that which is undesirable in the

he law of vibration, the atomic law of the solar system. 2. the law of cohesion, an aspect of the law of attraction. 3. the law of disintegration. 4. the law of magnetic control, governing the control of the personality by the spiritual nature, via the soul nature. 5. the law of fixation. by means of this law the mind controls and stabilises. 6. the law of love, whereby the lower desire nature is transmuted. 7. the law of sacrifice and death (a treatise on cosmic fire, p. 569) these seven laws concern the form side of life. to these ten laws must be added the seven laws of the soul which we are here considering. these begin to play upon the man and produce his more rapid spiritual unfoldment after he has been subjected to the discipline of the probationary path, or the path of purification

at personality in the good of the greater whole. b. this constitutes the basic cause of evolution itself individual, planetary and systemic. c. this instinct is the result of the development of manas, or mind, and the emergence of the intelligence. it is the peculiar quality or instinctual nature through the means of which humanity empresses the first ray of willed intent, fostered by desire, and transmuted into intelligent activity. 4. the urge to creative life, through the divine faculty of imagination. this urge is, as can easily be seen, closely connected with the fourth ray of harmony, producing unity and beauty, won through conflict. a. this, on the form side, leads to warfare, struggle and the building of forms which must later be destroyed. on the life side, it leads to quality, vi

eing carried forward. c. the approach of enlightenment carries the disciple through the gate of initiation, and is the effect of the same energy playing upon the personalities of the disciples of the world, and transforming their spirit of aspiration into the light of initiation. the mysteries of the world, the flesh and the devil (to use the symbolic formal terminology of christianity) are to be transmuted with rapidity into those of the mysteries of the kingdom of god, the energy of the soul, and the revelation of divinity. the secret hid by the inverted lotus (the world) is to be revealed by the opened lotus of the kingdom of souls. the secret of the flesh, which is the prison of the soul, is revealed by the perfume of the unfolding lotus of the soul. the mystery of the devil will event

or to have an "idee fixe" in this connection, it will usually be discovered that the man who succumbs to an "idee fixe" has not only a fifth ray mental body but either a sixth ray personality or a sixth ray emotional body. in the advanced man 1. the true thinker, or mental type awake and alert. 2. the one who knows the plan, the purpose and the will of god. 3. the one whose intelligence is being transmuted into wisdom. 4. the scientist, the educator, the writer. i have given the above in connection with the rays of the mental body in order to enable us to grasp not only the complexity of the problem but also the inevitability of success through the play of the many energies upon and through any one single human mind. it is not necessary here to elaborate upon the energies which create and

theric body, with all its seven centres, which is swept into activity when the basic centre is awakened, and the kundalini fire is aroused. it might be of value to students to point out that frequently when a student is under the impression or belief that the kundalini fire has been aroused in him, all that has really happened is that the energy of the sacral centre (i.e. the sex centre) is being transmuted and raised to the throat, or that the energy of the solar plexus centre is being raised to the heart. aspirants do, however, love to play with the idea that they have succeeded in arousing the kundalini fire. many advanced occultists have mistaken the raising of the sacral fire or of the solar plexus force to a position above the diaphragm for the "lifting of the kundalini" and have the

the significance of the above may be found difficult of comprehension for it is one of the mysteries of a higher initiation. therefore, it will be seen that we begin and we end with an expansion of consciousness. the first one led to the inclusion of the material world, and the second one includes or appropriates, consciously and intelligently, the spiritual world. we see the desire consciousness transmuted into aspiration for the spiritual realities and the focussed, vital approach to the kingdom of god. we see the appearance on the physical plane of the imprisoned consciousness, limited and confined for purposes of defined, intelligent development, within an evolving form, and the final emergence upon the mental plane of the enriched, released consciousness into the full freedom of the m

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

s evil. 1. manifest the nature of the soul, through the integrated personality. the nature of the soul is love and the will-to-good- 18- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. transfer the energy, now turned to the vitalising of the physical body and physical creation, to the nurturing of the creative faculty upon the mental plane; thus the entire human family will be transmuted into a dynamic, self-conscious, creative agency. 3. usher in a period of spiritual unfoldment in every kingdom in nature. at the close of this period, the door into the animal kingdom will again be opened and opportunity offered to waiting embryonic souls. many also, at this time, can take initiation and hence the balancing of forces at either end of the human line of unfoldment. this i

ooking clear-eyed upon the world of human affairs "in the world, yet not of the world" is the right attitude expressed for us by the christ. increasingly must the normal and powerful life of the emotional, astral, desire and glamorous nature be controlled and rendered quiescent by the life of the soul, functioning through the mind. the emotions which are normally self-centred and personal must be transmuted into the realisations of universality and impersonality; the astral body must become the organ through which the love of the soul can pour; desire must give place to aspiration and that, in its turn, must be merged in the group life and the group good; glamour must give place to reality, and the pure light of the mind must pour into all the dark places of the lower nature. these are the

h we now contemplate. part vi i do not intend to continue giving you only reiterated advice upon the treading of the path of discipleship. you are adult men and women and know the way. the practical application of the ancient rules is your personal responsibility. what you do is your own affair. you have reached maturity and should be ready for the next step. that step will be taken when you have transmuted knowledge and theory into wisdom, practice and expression. it is only in a spirit of real detachment that the best work of a disciple is done. the disciple comes to realise that because of this detachment he is (for the remainder of his life) simply a worker one of a great army of hierarchical workers with supposedly no personality inclinations, objectives, or wishes. there is for him n

e, and as souls who walk the lighted way? the need of humanity for love and light, the need of the hierarchy for channels and for those who will work under direction upon the earth can call forth all that you have to give and can evoke your soul (the only true reward that the disciple seeks) in power and love. this will happen to you, if you will forget the little self. that your knowledge may be transmuted into wisdom and the eye of vision control your living processes and all your undertakings is the desire (deep within my heart) for each and all of you. your master, friend and teacher, the tibetan section two personal instructions to disciples by the tibetan to b. s. d. november 1931 brother of mine: i would say to you the following words: waste not time in the realisation of the years

cipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust and that the soul grows and expands its flower of life as it reaches towards the sun. it sends its beauty and aroma forth into the world of souls and hence into the world of men. one hint only would i give you at this time. your one-pointed devotion is known and the powerful vibration of your aspiration is realised. let devotion now be transmuted into an all-embracing love to all beings, so that that love can unfold within its radiation the seen and the unseen, the known and the unknown, the loved and that which needs loving. such is the attitude of consciousness which radiates from the lord of life. watch your physical strength somewhat and live not at so high a tension. relax a little during the coming months and foster those

aracteristic of the first ray. the intent was to make you strong in what had been your weakest point. detachment, strongly felt in love (for forget not that the first ray is only the first sub-ray of the great cosmic ray of love) is the factor which will bring release and understanding, not only to you but to all around you. the aspect of devotion which the astral body so easily expresses must be transmuted into detached but selfless love. remember that true love has sometimes to stand aside and look on peacefully whilst others learn their lessons a thing hard indeed for you to do, brother of mine. all i would ask you to do along the line of meditation is a simple voiced act of consecration to the service of the soul which is, in the last analysis, the service of humanity and of the hierar

l body is on the sixth ray. this, i think, you have yourself suspected. this gives you intensity in aspiration and the dynamic will to push forward which has sufficed hitherto to carry you over all obstacles. you have succeeded in avoiding the usual difficulties of personality development where the sixth ray is concerned, and fanatical adherences to people or schools of thought. that is good. the transmuted, reoriented, higher attributes of those qualities should be your goal. you have a seventh ray physical body. you will note, therefore, in your personality equipment two lines of force which are in the first ray field of vital effectiveness: the fifth ray of concrete science and the seventh ray of ceremonial order or magic. the other energies which constitute your working material are al

further progress is made, the joy of the soul begins to pour through the worn and weary vehicles, and gradually the positive nature of the soul takes hold. when this is strong enough and the man is sufficiently decentralised, it is the soul quality which will persist in spite of physical limitations, and the inner sense of weariness will then be carefully negated and consciously and intelligently transmuted. there will be the recognition of personality distress but also a planned effort to transcend it. this process of "divine imposition" gradually brings in the healing force and thus perfect health in some life is the reward of the initiate's effort to live as a soul and not to feel as a personality. it is this divine pouring in of the soul's quality of life which is the true key to self

ch. but you have made progress, my brother, and have no cause for depression or to waste time in regret over the past. the only regret that is justifiable is based on failure to learn the lessons of failure. you, however, are learning. there are, as well you know, still certain mental activities belonging to your old state of mind which seethe beneath the surface of your life. these, too, must be transmuted and it is for you to discover the method. i can but indicate need and opportunity. as for the method you should follow in meditation, i would suggest the procedure outlined below: 1. achieve alignment and then raise the consciousness as high as possible. assume then the attitude of the soul. 2. sound the sacred word, breathing it out throughout the entire personality. 3. ponder next upo

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

ies the test of the true intentions of the united nations. the spiritual potentialities of the german people must not be forgotten. we must look forward towards that which they can be trained to become. practically speaking, they can more easily be changed under right methods of teaching and conditioning than any other nation in europe. germany still expresses the herd consciousness. this must be transmuted into group consciousness the consciousness of the free individual who collaborates with other men of goodwill for the benefit of the whole. great britain great britain has been a great and imperialistic power. her acquisitive spirit, her tenacity and the firmness of her political manoeuvres in the past have warranted this charge. she has played "power politics" and has become expert in

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

then the buddha will pass to the work which awaits him. one of the senior disciples of the christ, ranking next to the christ in hierarchical status, will take his place and carry on the work, connected with mankind. by the time this particular master takes over his task, the intelligent principle or knowledge, which is the outstanding characteristic of humanity, will have been to a large extent transmuted into wisdom by the world intelligentsia, though not as yet by the masses of men. wisdom is the predominant characteristic of the buddha and the momentum of this wisdom energy will eventually be so strong that it will need no further distribution or control by the buddha. he can then re-orient himself to higher spheres of activity where his true work lies, and begin to work with an aspec

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

living in the wonder of their past and go forth into the future to demonstrate the fact of illumination which is the goal of all mental effort. when the intellect of the french is turned towards the discovery and the elucidation of the things of the spirit, then they will carry revelation to the world. when their egoic ray dominates the third ray and when the separative action of the fifth ray is transmuted into the revealing function of this ray, then france will enter into a period of new glory. her empire will then be of the mind and her glory of the soul. it is obvious that the governing faculty of the ray of will or power is the outstanding characteristic of great britain. england is an exponent of the art of control and her function has been to produce the first tentative grouping of

qually right in their time and place, but that the modern disciple should be discarding the old methods and steadily learning to employ the new and more modern and effective modes of work. this he must learn to do optimistically and with assurance, knowing that the benefits and the experience gained under the sixth ray system of discipline is still his most precious possession because it has been transmuted from method and mode into characteristics and established habits. it is the new ways of working and the new forces and objectives which the disciple of this present era has to master; he must do this relying upon the lessons learnt in the past and must base his new structure of truth upon the foundations and the stabilised orientations, which must now be established. the first step for

discriminating taste has reached a relatively high stage of development during the past two thousand years and "good taste" is a highly cherished mass virtue and objective today. this is a totally new thing and one which has been hitherto the prerogative of the highly cultured few. ponder on this. it connotes evolutionary achievement. for the disciples of the world, this sense of taste has to be transmuted into its higher correspondence a discriminating sense of values. hence the clear emphasis laid in all textbooks on discipleship upon the need to develop discrimination. desire taste discrimination; these are the values, under the sixth ray, for all evolutionary unfoldment and peculiarly the goal of all disciples. the methods whereby the activity of the sixth ray and its objectives have

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

reaction of the aspirant to the truth, to reality when he first becomes aware of that which lies beyond the astral plane. he interprets all that he there senses and sees in terms of glamour, of emotional understanding, of a sentient fanaticism. he forgets that truth lies beyond the world of feeling altogether, unaffected by it, and can only be sensed in its purity when feeling is transcended and transmuted. the second major glamour is self-pity. the world today is divided into three groups, all of whom are subject to certain phases of- 66- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust glamour: 1. those who are atlantean in their consciousness and are, therefore, completely glamoured by: a. that which is material and to be desired. b. that which they feel in all relationships. c. tha

onal self is now very highly developed; it is a useful instrument which the- 160- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust soul can use; it is a highly trained agent for service; it is essentially a piece of adequate and useful equipment. it has, however, its points of weakness which are liable at any time to present points of crisis; it has likewise its points of strength which can be transmuted with relative ease into points of tension; on the whole, it is a dependable instrument and one which can render good service. can it and should it be sacrificed so that (esoterically speaking) its life is lost and in its place consecration and devotion are substituted? this is a hard problem for all disciples to solve, to understand and to make effectively practical. only by crossing th

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es as a man makes contact with his own soul and sets up a stable relationship with that soul; then he becomes a soul-infused personality. as you well know, the threefold personality is to the soul what the spiritual triad is to the monad: a clear medium of expression. most students are or should be today occupied with this attractive energy, for until they have mastered the desire nature and have transmuted it into aspiration and soul control, they cannot hope to comprehend the dynamic energy of electric fire. this attractive magnetism is the energy dominating and controlling the hierarchy. 3. the intelligent activity of fire by friction. students would be well advised to re-read a treatise on cosmic fire where i deal at length with these three conditioning energies. this third energy is t

ALICE A BAILEY18 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME III ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

and with uranus when considering the highly developed man. they would find some interesting and convincing results eventuate. students would also do well to remember that the twelve constellations which constitute our particular zodiac are themselves the recipients of many streams of energy coming to them from many sources. these blend and fuse with the energy of any particular constellation and transmuted and "occultly refined" eventually find their way into our solar system. i would like to call attention, at this point, to some comments i made in a treatise on cosmic fire which are apposite and helpful. i am somewhat paraphrasing "astrology is concerned with the effect produced in the substance of the sheaths by the influences, vibrations, etc, of the various planets. these are, esoter

e are interchangeable in their use and it is difficult to tell to which the esoteric planet refers unless you have been told. hence my above reference to uranus. in connection with aries, which expresses or is the agent primarily of the first ray of will or power, the ray of the destroyer, it should be stated that first ray energy comes from the divine prototype in the great bear, that it becomes transmuted into the force and activity of the planetary logos of the first ray, and works out as his triple activity under the guidance of the three ruling planets mars, mercury and uranus. mars embodies sixth ray force which leads to idealism, destructive fanaticism frequently, struggle, strife, war, effort and evolution. god's idea in aries becomes the concrete plan in capricorn whether that obj

dies sixth ray force which leads to idealism, destructive fanaticism frequently, struggle, strife, war, effort and evolution. god's idea in aries becomes the concrete plan in capricorn whether that objective is the full flower of the planetary life in all its forms, the ambition of a personality working out its own ideas and ambitious worldly projects or the spiritual aspiration (worldly ambition transmuted into its higher aspect) of the initiate, who seeks to work out god's plans and make them his own. in every case, mars leads to the battle ground of scorpio. mercury, embodying the energy of the fourth ray, eventually carries the man around the wheel of life and through the medium of conflict enables him to achieve harmony. mercury illumines the mind and mediates between the soul and the

vantages of physical incarnation and of constant worldly undertakings; thus after a period of re-creation, he passes out into incarnation in pisces and begins again the great round of manifested life, for pisces is the ocean wherein he is "the fish" controlled by the laws of substance or material existence. in the second great stage, he passes from aries to taurus, because desire has at last been transmuted into aspiration. after proving his steadfastness to the ideal of the spiritual life in the intervening signs, he passes again into pisces, from the opposite direction to his usual procedure, having earned the right to mount the cardinal cross of the heavens, the power to take a final planetary initiation and the privilege of passing on to one of the seven paths to which i have made refe

going on. 3. virgo in virgo, the man who was fluid in pisces and emotionally selfish and full of desire in sagittarius, begins to focus still more intently and to reason and think. the latent soul is becoming interiorly active; a germination process is proceeding; the hidden man is making his presence felt. the intellect is awakening and instinct after passing through the emotional stage is being transmuted into intellect. 4. gemini in the undeveloped man or the average man, the experiences undergone on three arms of the mutable cross have brought him to the stage where the "dream of life" can be changed into the recognition of the reality, and the great illusion can be seen as undesirable and untrue. the sense of duality is, at this stage, instinctual but becoming increasingly real and st

ic planets are more explicit in their inferences and man appears, when ready for their influence, to be responsive in a fourfold way which he is not in the earlier stages. they embody the recognitions and the reactions which condition man's consciousness when he is preparing to transfer off the mutable cross and mount the fixed cross. he comes, therefore, 1. through venus under the power of mind, transmuted into wisdom through the instrumentality of love. 2. through the moon under the bondage of form in order through form experience to achieve release and the "uplift of matter" in vulcan. 3. through the earth under the influence of planetary experience (which is different to individual experience) in order to transmute his personal consciousness into group awareness. 4. through pluto under

are felt also as life-giving in other forms of planetary life and other kingdoms in nature but with these we will not deal as we are confining our attention to humanity. aquarius, as you know, is one of the arms of the fixed cross. this cross is outstandingly the cross of discipleship and of the three major initiations in connection with which it might be pointed out that: 1. in taurus desire is transmuted into aspiration, darkness gives place to light and illumination, the eye of the bull is opened which is the spiritual third eye, or the "single eye" of the new testament "if thine eye be single" said the christ "thy whole body shall be full of light" this single eye takes the place of the two eyes of the personal self. the attention of the man becomes focussed upon spiritual attainment

s of men upon the mutable cross and are closely concerned with the mass incarnation of the fourth creative hierarchy. their function is to fuse and blend into one cooperative whole the great dualities expressing themselves through the fourth kingdom in nature. the significance of this will be obvious. it is easily apparent how, through the influences of mercury and jupiter, material desire can be transmuted into divine love, and the conflict which is the distinguishing characteristic of the human family can be instrumental in resolving dissonance into harmony. the definite pattern and direction of this process has to take form upon the mutable cross before the energies of the fixed cross can change the ambitious selfish man into the selfless disciple. all this has perforce to be initiated

ded result of the sex relation. father-spirit and mother-matter when brought together produce the son. the tests and difficulties and pains of this era are symptoms or indications of the "entering into manifestation" of the new civilisation and culture. they portend the birth of the new era for which the entire world waits. this will happen if speaking esoterically the sixth ray energy of mars is transmuted into the sixth ray energy of neptune, for the one is "objective and full of blood" and the other is "subjective and full of life" a great mystery is veiled and hidden in the above relationship, for cancer-neptune is expressive of the seventh ray which rules and controls the eighth creative hierarchy. this is one of the five hierarchies whose names are unknown to us and this particular o

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

th the precision of her keen mind and filled it with the magnetic potency of her own great long-suffering heart. some have asked why she should have had to suffer for she did suffer mentally and emotionally as well as physically. i alone know how triumphantly she opened herself to receive the impact of many types of destructive forces so rampant in this time of world turmoil and how amazingly she transmuted them, thus safeguarding all those hard pressed, struggling aspirants and younger disciples who have come to her and to her school through the years. by far the greater part of her life work has always been subjective. we have seen the outer effects, watched the outer comings and goings, helped her and loved her, sometimes criticised, sometimes complained, but always gone on, with her an

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

the apparently unattainable the other than himself. only when he becomes the occultist does the mystic learn that all the time the magnet which attracted him, and the dualism which coloured his life and thoughts and which gave motive to all he sought to do, was his true self, that one reality. he recognises then that assimilation into and identification with that one reality enables duality to be transmuted into unity and the sense of- 71- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust search to be transformed into the effort to become what he essentially is a son of god, one with all sons of god. having accomplished that, he finds himself one with the one in whom we live and move and have our being. next, i would point out that the lowest expression o

quately. a. the heart centre corresponds to the "heart of the sun" and therefore to the spiritual source of light and love. b. it is brought into functioning activity after the second initiation. that initiation marks the completion of the process whereby the emotional nature (with its outstanding quality of desire) is brought under soul control, and the desire of the personal lower self has been transmuted into love. it is the organ for the distribution of hierarchical energy, poured out via the soul into the heart centre of all aspirants, disciples and initiates; in this way this energy is made available and brings about two results: 1. the regeneration of humanity through love. 2. the relationship, firmly established, between a rapidly developing humanity and the hierarchy. in this way

s" is always brought about as the result of a dual action the pushing from below and the pull from above. the reversal of the heart lotus and its upward unfolding is due to the following factors: 1. the growing potency of the hierarchical approach. 2. a rapidly establishing soul contact. 3. the response of the unfolding heart lotus to the pull of the master's ashram. 4. the surging upwards of the transmuted energies from below the diaphragm, via the solar plexus, in response to spiritual will. 5. the growing understanding by man as to the nature of love. there are other factors but these are the ones you will most easily understand if you will regard them as symbolic and not too literally. until the year, 1400 a.d, the relation of the solar plexus centre to the heart centre might be pictor

oned suppression of the sex life, and of all thought connected with the sex life, by misguided aspirants; they are those who find the teaching monastic and celibate of the middle ages the line of least resistance. in that period of time, good people taught that sex was evil and wicked, something not to be mentioned, and a potent source of trouble. normal reactions, instead of being controlled and transmuted into creative activity, were violently suppressed and all thoughts anent the sex life were refused expression. nevertheless, energy follows the direction of thought, with the result that that particularly magnetic type of energy attracted an increasing number of cells and atoms to itself; therein is found the source of the tumours, growths and cancers so prevalent today. the same thing

energy of life itself, localised and qualified, can be either life-giving or death bestowing. all diseases except those due to accidents, wounds resulting in infections, and epidemics can in the last analysis be traced to some condition of the centres, and therefore to energy running wild, to energy overactive and misdirected or insufficient and lacking altogether, or retained instead of used and transmuted into a higher corresponding centre of energy. the mystery of the blood still remains to be solved, and will receive increasing attention as time goes on. the anemias, so prevalent today, are also due to excess of energy. i can only lay down general indications, state causes, and then leave to the intelligent investigators the task of studying effects, after accepting as a possible hypot

ot affect the soul, overshadowing its reflection, the personality, in the three worlds. what i have said, therefore, will have little meaning for the average reader. from the angle of the personal self, regarding itself as the dweller on the threshold, the attitude or state of mind has been inadequately portrayed as one of complete obliteration in the light of the soul; the glory of the presence, transmuted by the angel, is such that the personality completely disappears, with its demands and its aspirations. naught is left but the shell, the sheath and the instrument through which the solar light can pour for the helping of humanity. this is true to a certain degree, but is only in the last analysis man's attempt to put into words the transmuting and the transfiguring effect of the third

ons of god. 7. the ray of the soul conditions and determines the technique to be employed. the ray in the personality vehicles most closely related to the second ray (for which all the subrays act as channels) is the one through which the healing energy must flow. 8. the second subray of the soul ray determines the approach to the healing problem immediately confronting the healer; this energy is transmuted into healing force when passing through the appropriate personality vehicle. to be appropriate it must be on the line of 2-4-6. 9. the appropriate vehicle can be either the mental body or the emotional body. with the mass of men being centred in the astral nature, the healing will usually be most successful if the healer's channel of transmission is that body also. 10. a triangle of ene

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

t into the arena of life with a certain amount of knowledge of what has been discovered in the past and what is his intellectual heritage; with a certain amount of mental activity, which can be developed and trained if the man himself so desires it and brings it about by the right handling of himself in relation to his environment; with certain mental ideals, dreams and speculations, which can be transmuted into valuable assets if the man is dowered with persistence, if his imaginative faculties have not been dulled by an unbalanced, enforced curriculum, and if he has been fortunate enough to have a wise teacher and some understanding senior friends- 43- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust it will be apparent to you also that the task of the new education is to take the civ

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

sources of inspiration must be added lesser ones, such as mental impression, telepathically registered and coming from a multitude of thinkers and minds. these work both as individuals and as members of a group. there is also emotional inspiration to which in its most easily recognisable appearance we give the name of aspiration. all these are, esoterically considered, evocative of desire, to be transmuted into will if (and only if "the energy of the will-to-good is the emanating principle and the actuating result of the inspired impulse; it must constitute the motivating impulse at the centre of the disciple's being" thus spoke one of the masters not long ago to a disciple who sought to grasp the synthetic effect of inspiration. it is the will and its immediate evocation which is the maj

s for you so that (again) you may intelligently go forward. the first meditation was concerned with the transfer of energy from the solar plexus centre to the heart centre, so that the great dividing barrier (of which the diaphragm is the exoteric symbol) could be bridged and the emotional personality be controlled by the heart. by this means, the selfish individuality of the average man could be transmuted into the group awareness of the dedicated disciple. i sought to help you set up a facility of transference which would be of primary importance to you in your daily lives. the second meditation was concerned with the impartation of a major concept. i wonder if it was so registered by you? the idea behind that meditation was the free flow of directed energy. you need ever to bear in mind

building of the antahkarana. bear in mind here, as always, that the etheric body is a physical mechanism. it was this meditation which started the rhythm which made possible the presentation of the new invocation to the world; i refer not solely to its use by you but to its use by many disciples in many ashrams. the exhaustion of emotion and its transference as a force into the heart, there to be transmuted into the energy of love, was symbolically undertaken during the time that humanity was developing certain new recognitions. humanity, through the exhaustion of emotional energy (incidental to the war agony) is today far more heart- conscious than at any other time in its history. had you realised that and the opportunity with which you were presented? the world of men has been subjected

o the life of the occultist, and must he first of all register and accept what is conveyed to him as inexplicable but to be admitted, and to be viewed as incontrovertible though beyond comprehension? or what? let me reiterate to you the well-known truth that no man is an initiate apart from understanding, that the life of the initiate is one of constant registration of new knowledge which must be transmuted into practical wisdom, of occult facts which must take intelligent place in the life-service of the initiate, and of new inclusions of areas of consciousness; these latter must become the normal field of experience and of expression; they then become the ground for further expansion. every revelation has to be mastered from four angles: 1. the mental, occult, spiritual, hierarchical and

and the occult significance of the words "my strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure" can be grasped. the perfected strength of the ashram (symbolised by the number 10) becomes available to the disciple whose- 228- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust purity of heart has enabled him to penetrate into the ashram; his knowledge becomes more rapidly transmuted into wisdom as his mind is subjected to the play of the higher understanding of those with whom he is associated; gradually he begins to contribute his own quota of light and of understanding to those just entering and to those who are his equals. the strength, availability and usefulness of an ashram is that of the sum total of all that its members can contribute, plus that which those

n is ever composed of atoms and cell units which vibrate to the energy of the ray which controls the physical body. this is a basic occult fact given out in a definite statement for the first time but ever deducible and implied when the student studies intelligently and has a real grasp of basic esoteric implications. through the powerful aspiration of your first ray astral body (which is in fact transmuted desire) and its intelligent expression, and through the third ray power of your directing, awakening brain, soul contact is fairly easy of achievement for you at this particular point in your evolution. your real problem is to free the results of this contact from distortion and glamour by the power of the illumined mind an illumination achieved through conflict and discrimination and r

you. as you considered the theme of shamballa (and later rejected my suggestion to write upon it) you brought yourself in contact with the energy emanating from shamballa. yet, my brother, had you occupied yourself with my suggestion and dealt with the theme the way into shamballa much of that shamballa force would have been- 365- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust transmuted along constructive lines and creative endeavour, and your condition would not be what it is today. you may well ask here: if all this is so, what then shall i do? have i failed in the tests for initiation? what do you suggest? most certainly you have not failed. you are at the climax or peak of the testing period. the only point to be determined is: can you overcome in this life and fre

red in world reconstruction. i would ask you to ponder on this, for all disciples throughout the world can begin to prepare themselves for increased future activity. there are three outstanding aspects of the new age pattern which must be borne in mind: 1. the aspect of healing. i would express it thus, for humanity will take much patient care before the shock and the pain of the present has been transmuted into gained experience and understanding. compassionate lovers of humanity can do this healing work. 2. the aspect of clarification. the bewilderment of humanity as a whole requires recognition by the forces of reconstruction. time and effort must be given to clear explanation and to the pointing out of the law of cause and effect. trained interpreters are required. 3. the aspect of reo

hers "know where to find you" the part that you have to play will slowly emerge and become clear to your mind and you, i know, will meet requirements as they arise. third: your work must increasingly be that of the teacher, and you must learn more and more to bring through, for the use of the many, the knowledges stored up by your soul through many lives of training; this knowledge, rapidly being transmuted by you into wisdom, must be made available for your personality to use as it seeks to help and train other personalities to become soul conscious. if you were to move into the more advanced ashram you might find that you could not do this, for you would not only be occupied in making certain needed adjustments, but would also have to apply yourself to fresh learning. it has been felt by

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

l plane is a definite state of awareness even if (from the spiritual angle) it has no true being. it embodies the great creative work of humanity down the ages, and is the product of the `false' imagination and the work of the lower psychic nature. its instrument of creative work is the sacral and the solar plexus centres. when the energies, finding expression through these two centres, have been transmuted and carried to the throat and heart by advancing humanity, then the foremost people of the race will know that the astral plane has no true existence; they will then work free from its impression, and the task of freeing humanity from the thraldom of its own creation will proceed apace. in the meantime a group of disciples is being slowly built up (of which this second group is a part a

nd the soul of humanity, death is inevitable, good and necessary; it is also a practice with which we are all most familiar in our own experience and in watching it in others. but we need to remember that the worst death of all (as far as humanity is concerned) would be if a form of civilisation or a body form became static and eternal; if the old order never altered and the old values were never transmuted into higher and better ones, that would indeed be a disaster. we need to bear in mind also that the forces of destruction or death are two-fold: first, the rapidly emerging and developing life with its demand for more room for expression and fuller experience, and its spiritual aspiration for change and progress; and secondly, the reactionary forces and the conservative attitudes which

elty, terror, murder and agony rests squarely on the shoulders of the seven men in germany. had the aspirants and the disciples of the world realised the situation earlier, and had they worked more wholeheartedly, the present catastrophe could have been held within bounds; it could have been retained and the problem worked out upon the inner planes of thought and desire, and could there have been transmuted and the needed readjustments made. but they failed to understand, and the storm broke upon the physical plane. the next twelve months will be decisive in human affairs. by the end of 1942, chaos and difficulty will still be present, but the sound of the victor's trumpets will be heard. will the victors be the forces of light, under whose banners fight the allies, or will evil triumph an

ed by the soul, as it dominates the human mind and controls the personality. the secret of the will is also closely- 225- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust tied in with the recognition of the unconquerable nature of goodness and the inevitability of the ultimate triumph of good. this is not determination; it is not whipping up and stimulating desire so that it can be transmuted into will; it is not an implacable, unshakable, immovable focussing of all energies in the need to triumph (the enemies of the forces of light are adept at that. victory for the united nations does not lie in the effort to produce this focussing with better effect than the enemy. the use of the will is not expressed by an iron fixation to stand steady and not yield to evil forces. deter

brother, the buddha, he is preparing for the next step. today the hierarchy is facing a climaxing activity. from the full moon of may, 1944, until the full moon of may, 1945, the members of the hierarchy will unitedly be putting forth their maximum effort to close the door upon the forces of evil, to direct the shamballa energy (now let loose upon the world) so that its destructive aspect may be transmuted or directed towards the stimulation which will result in the rebuilding of the world. this will then affect not only the members of the hierarchy, but all on earth who respond to hierarchical impression. have the following statement in mind "the focussed and concentrated work of the hierarchy at the time of the full moon of may, 1944 is by their united effort, their blended thought and

energy of the second ray of love-wisdom. it is for this "reception" that he started to prepare at the time of the april full moon. i have told you elsewhere that this direct impact of the shamballa energy upon humanity very seldom occurs. it has been loosed only three times during the entire history of the human kingdom. at other times, it makes its impact directly upon the hierarchy, and is then transmuted or stepped down so that humanity can take it. the three times it has been directed, unimpeded and untransmuted, towards humanity are: 1. at the time of the individualisation of animal-man when the mind principle was implanted. this was the birth hour of the human soul. 2. in atlantean days when the power of the black lodge was so great that defeat faced the hierarchy and the destruction

ose physical plane sicknesses which originate in the etheric body. c. they will also demonstrate to the materialistic thinkers of the world the fact that the superconscious world exists and that angels and men who are out of incarnation and possess no physical bodies can be contacted and known. d. they will train human beings in the knowledge of superhuman physics so that weight shall be for them transmuted. motion will become more rapid, speed will be accompanied by noiselessness and smoothness, and hence fatigue will be eliminated. in the human control of etheric levels lies the overcoming of fatigue and the power to transcend time. until this prophecy is a fact and recognised as such, the meaning of the above words will remain obscure. e. they will teach humanity how rightly to nourish

cipline, training and instruction. because the senior disciples and initiates have reached a goal which has seemed for long quite unattainable to the average aspirant, it is assumed that they have attained; the fact that they have only passed a milestone upon the endless way of bliss is entirely forgotten. but, owing to the impulsion of life itself, progress ever continues; knowledge must ever be transmuted into wisdom; love must ever be accompanied by divine will; planning must ever give way to divine purpose; light must ever be succeeded by life; from the hierarchy, the initiate must pass to shamballa, and from shamballa he will follow one or other of the seven paths; the path of evolution gives place to the way of the higher evolution; planetary recognitions eventually expand into solar

that the task of those who admit no alibis would be greatly lightened and the coming of the christ would be much nearer than it is today. what we call inertia is not simply psychological in nature. the qualities of matter or substance itself are involved. inertia is the slowest and the lowest aspect of material substance and is called in the eastern philosophy, the quality of tamas. it has to be transmuted into a higher quality, that of activity or (giving it its technical term) its rajasic quality, and this leads later on to the highest quality of rhythm or sattva. to the rhythm of life under which the christ and the spiritual hierarchy operate, and which vibrates in harmony with human need and hierarchical response, i call you not. i do, however, call you to demonstrate the quality of a

ALICE A BAILEY24 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME V THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS

accepted disciples and initiates we are faced with a similar condition on a higher turn of the spiral, but with this difference (one which you can hardly grasp unless at the point where the word goes forth to you: that the initiate stands alone in "isolated unity" aware of his mysterious oneness with all that is. the urge which distinguished his progress in arriving at personality-soul fusion is transmuted into fixity of intention, ability to move forward into the clear cold light of the undimmed reason, free from all glamour and illusion and having now the power to voice the three demands. this he can now do consciously and by the use of the dynamic will instead of making "application in triple form" as was the case before. this distinction is vital and significant of tremendous growth a

little that i can do to make it clearer. as humanity builds or creates the triangles of light and of goodwill, they are in reality invoking a response activity from two of the buddhas of activity the one who works through the medium of the will aspect, and the one who works through love in humanity, intelligently applied. forget not that these three great buddhas summarise in a peculiar sense the transmuted essence of the previous solar system in which intelligent activity was the goal. today, that essence underlies all the activity of this solar system but is motivated by love, which was not the case in the earlier manifestation. the buddhas themselves form a deeply esoteric triangle. the two types of triangles now being created by a mere handful of people are related to that basic triang

e o.m. into the originating sound, bringing certain basic transformation and resulting in a transfiguration which extends to the entire planet and has reference to a certain major planetary initiation. with these matters we are not concerned. with them, only a few of the more advanced masters are concerned. therefore we will wait until, through resolution, we have resolved our spiritual problems, transmuted our lower natures and undergone the lower aspects of both transformations, and are consequently ready for the third initiation that of the transfiguration. rule fourteen in this final rule for disciples and initiates, a great summation is embodied. i would here point out again (as i have so frequently in the past) that the obvious meaning no matter how elevated is not that with which we

elation with the heart and the heart centre. b. as a recipient of mental energy or of energy from the soul, the ajna centre becomes the directing agency; this is the centre which controls the pituitary body. c. these energies are received via the head centre, which controls the pineal gland. emotional energy enters the personality system via the solar plexus centre, where it either controls or is transmuted and elevated. it is this triple mechanism in the head both objective and subjective which uses the physical brain as a receiving agent and as a transmitting agent. it is this which is brought into creative activity and thus under the control of the disciple in training or in process of being prepared for initiation. i have not hitherto emphasised this, nor do i wish to do so, for it is

d in the lower three, and which focusses through the soul body on the higher levels of the mental plane before being precipitated into incarnation as it is esoterically called. modernising the concept, we might say that the energies which animate the physical body and the intelligent life of the atom, the sensitive emotional states, and the intelligent mind, have eventually to be blended with and transmuted into the energies which animate the soul. these are the spiritual mind, conveying illumination; the intuitive nature, conferring spiritual perception; and divine livingness. after the third initiation the "way" is carried forward with great rapidity, and the "bridge" is finished which links perfectly the higher spiritual triad and the lower material reflection. the three worlds of the s

erefore, before the bridge can be truly built and "projected on the upward way, providing safe travelling for the pilgrim's weary feet (as the old commentary puts it, the disciple must begin to react in response to the closed lotus bud or jewel at the centre of the opened lotus. this he does when the sacrifice petals of the egoic lotus are assuming control in his life, when his knowledge is being transmuted into wisdom, and his love for the whole is growing; to these is being added the "power to renounce. these three egoic qualities when functioning with a measure of potency produce an increased activity at the very centre of soul life, the heart of the lotus. it should be remembered that the correspondences in the egoic lotus to the three planetary centres are as follows: shamballa..the j

ight must enter vertically and be diffused or radiated horizontally" this creates the cross of service upon which the disciple is pendant until the cross of sanat kumara is revealed to him; he knows then why this planet is for wise and adequate reasons the planet of distress, dispassion and detachment. when he knows this, he knows all that our planetary life can tell him and reveal to him. he has transmuted knowledge into wisdom. it is at the centre of this cross of service that the point of fusion and the point of tension must be found. the point of fusion is created by the focussing of all the power, aims and desires of the disciple dynamically upon the mental plane; the point of tension is created when the invocative power of this focal point becomes capable of evoking response from tha

ealised, is also under control a control which is related to normal and proper direction from the throat centre and to the preservation of life on the physical plane, if the initiate chooses to incarnate for service ends. the solar plexus centre, which has received and distributed the energy of the astral plane, the energy of desire and of emotion, is likewise cleansed and purified; its energy is transmuted to such an extent that it can pass under the complete control of the heart centre, which henceforth and until the seventh initiation of the resurrection is "that whereby the initiate performs his hierarchical obligations" therefore, at the great renunciation, the three lower centres reach a point of utter purification or speaking symbolically of utter emptiness. no energy of their own (

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

ign leo represents fire or spirit; taurus, earth or body; aquarius, air or mind; and scorpio represents water likened to the soul. leo, as the lion, is the strength of the lower nature, and is the serpent of force which, if directed upward, overcomes. taurus, the bull, is always the symbol of creative force. aquarius, the man, is the light-bearer, or light-bringer. scorpio, the scorpion, is often transmuted with aquila, the eagle. which rises at the same time with scorpio; they are closely linked in symbolism. scorpio is 'the monster of darkness, who stings to death, and yet preserves and reproduces, symbolizing not only generation but regeneration. as the latter it is aquila, the eagle, the bird of the sun which has conquered the dark side of scorpio (that adversary that can drag man down

. which rises at the same time with scorpio; they are closely linked in symbolism. scorpio is 'the monster of darkness, who stings to death, and yet preserves and reproduces, symbolizing not only generation but regeneration. as the latter it is aquila, the eagle, the bird of the sun which has conquered the dark side of scorpio (that adversary that can drag man down lower than the beasts, but when transmuted is the eagle of light, which can exalt above the gods" the celestial ship of the north. vol. i (e. v. straiton. the "eye of the bull" in taurus, the magnificent fixed star, aldebaran, is one of the reasons why this constellation is regarded as conferring illumination. in ancient days it was called the leading star of the heavens, and taurus has always been connected with light and, ther

he causes, initiated in the world of mental effort, must manifest and achieve objectivity. it is the place also where the mechanism of contact is developed, where, little by little, the five senses open up to the human being new fields of awareness and present to him fresh spheres for conquest and achievement. it is the place, therefore, where knowledge is gained, and where that knowledge must be transmuted into wisdom. knowledge, we know, is the quest of sense, whilst wisdom is the omniscience of the synthetic knowledge of the soul. without understanding in the application of knowledge, however, we perish; for understanding is the application of knowledge in the light of wisdom to the problems of life, and to the attainment of the goal. in this labor, hercules is faced with the tremendous

equirements, and the satisfaction that they have reached a certain status of development which entitles them to go on. but one thing still lacks: they have not what might be called "the technique of the presence; they have not privilege and prerogative to possess. they believe in the fact of the soul, in the possibility of perfection, in the path which must be trodden; but belief has not yet been transmuted into knowledge of the spiritual realm and they know not how to make their goal! so they, as hercules did start on the fivefold search [71] the first stage of that search is full of encouragement for them, had they been able to recognize the happening. like hercules, they meet nereus, the symbol of the higher self, and, later on in the history of the disciple, he is the symbol of the tea

e words summarize the objective self-awareness or the conscious aspect of the evolving human being: instinct, intellect, intuition. the sign which we are now studying is predominantly the sign of instinct; but the sublimation of instinct is the intuition. in the same way, as matter has to be lifted up into heaven, so instinct has to be likewise lifted up, and when it has been thus transcended and transmuted, it manifests as intuition (symbolized by the doe. the intermediate stage is that of the intellect. the great need of hercules now is to develop his intuition and to become familiar with that instantaneous recognition of truth and reality which is the high prerogative and potent factor in the life of a liberated son of god. meaning of the story eurystheus, therefore, sent hercules to ca

it to the sacred temple at mykenae, where he laid it down before the altar, in the holy place. then he stood back, pleased with his success. this is one of the shortest of the stories but though we are told very little, this labor, when considered thoughtfully, is one of profound and outstanding interest and the lesson it holds is of deep import. there is no success for the aspirant until he has transmuted instinct into intuition, nor is there right use of the intellect until the intuition is brought into play, interpreting and extending the intellect and bringing realization. then instinct is subordinated to both [85] labor iv the capture of the doe or hind- part 2 (cancer, june 21st- july 21st) qualities of the sign cancer is called the crab and the greeks tell us that it was the crab t

aimants have a point and the problem of all disciples is to use the instinct correctly, in its right place, and in its proper way. he must learn to use the intellect under the influence of diana, the huntress, daughter of the sun, and through it become en rapport with the world of human ideas and research. he must learn to carry that capacity of his into the temple of the lord and there to see it transmuted into intuition, and through the intuition become aware of the things of spirit and of those spiritual realities which neither instinct nor intellect can reveal to him (and again and again the sons of men, who are also sons of god, must recapture these spiritual realities, upon the endless way [95] labor v the slaying of the nemean lion (leo, july 22nd- august 21st) the myth the great pr

ed. perhaps the word "crucified" would have a true significance if we substituted for it the word "sacrificed, for in the unfoldment of the christ consciousness in the form, stage by stage, various aspects of the divine nature are seen as being sacrificed. in taurus, the symbol of creative force expressing itself through desire, we see the lower aspect of the divine creative force, sexual desire, transmuted into, or sacrificed to, its higher aspect. it had to be raised up into heaven.[104] in leo, we see cosmic mind working out in the individual as the lower reasoning mind, and this lower aspect has likewise to be sacrificed and the little mind of man must be subordinated to the universal mind. in scorpio, which is the third arm of the fixed cross, we find cosmic love or cosmic attraction

see esoteric astrology, p. 205 et seq) the dimensions of the task which hercules undertook are thus plainly apparent. he had to learn the art of transmuting the energies that so frequently precipitate human- 83- the labours of hercules beings into catastrophic tragedies. the nine forces which have wrought unspeakable havoc among the sons of men since the beginning of time had to be redirected and transmuted. men today are still striving to achieve what hercules succeeded in accomplishing. problems arising out of the misuse [145] of the energy known as sex engage our attention on every hand. the love of comfort, luxury and outer possessions still grows apace. the pursuit of money as an end instead of a means shrinks the lives of countless men and women. thus, the task of destroying the firs

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

vanish and coalesce into one body. it is commonly said that two can overpower one, especially if they have sufficient room for putting forth their strength. know also that there must come a twofold wind, and a single wind, and that they must furiously blow from the east and from the south. lf, when they cease to rage, the air has become water, you may be confident that the spiritual will also be transmuted into a bodily form, and that our number shall prevail through the four seasons in the fourth part of the sky (after the seven planets have exercised power, and that its course will be perfected by the test of fire in the lowest chamber of our palace, when the two shall overpower and consume the third. for this part of our magistery skill is needed, in order to divide and compound the su

dwellers upon earth shall be restored by resurrection to a glorified life. then the operations of earthly nature shall cease, and the heavenly and eternal dispensation shall take its place. when the sun in the winter pursues his course far away from us, he cannot melt the deep snow. but in the summer he approaches nearer to us, the quality of the air becomes more fiery, and the snow melts and is transmuted by warmth into water. for that which is weak is always compelled to yield to that which is strong. the same moderate course must be adopted in the fiery regimen of our magistery. for it is all important that the liquid should not be dried up too quickly, and that the earth of the sages should not be melted and dissolved too soon, otherwise your fishes would be changed into scorpions. if

twelve keys of basil valentine 57 of 95 a spirit, and then that which is less volatile. but when by continued gentle heat, it is reduced to an acid, the spirit is not so volatile as it was before. for in the distillation of the acid the water issues first, and then the spirit. and though the substance remains the same, its properties have become very different. it is no longer wine, but has been transmuted by the putrefaction of gentle heat into an acid. that which is extracted with wine or its spirit, has widely different properties and powers from that which is extracted with an acid. for if the crystal of antimony be extracted with wine or the spirit of wine, it causes vomiting and diarrhoea, because it is a poison, and its poisonous quality is not destroyed by the wine. but if it be e

nature would have nothing to tell us. for which let us laud and praise god. twelve keys of basil valentine 64 of 95 tenth key in our stone, as composed by me and by those who have long preceded me, are contained all elements, all mineral and metallic forms, and all the qualities and properties of the whole world. in it we find most powerful natural heat, by which the icy body of saturn is gently transmuted into the best gold. it contains also a high degree of cold, which tempers the fervent heat of venus, and coagulates the mercury, which is thereby also changed into the finest gold. all twelve keys of basil valentine 65 of 95 these properties slumber in the substance of our stone, and are developed, perfected, and matured by the gentle coction of natural fire, until they have attained th

ained from his urine a clear salt, which is volatile, and renders other fixed substances volatile, causing them to rise with it in the alembic. but the same does not fix. if a man drank nothing but wine, yet for all that the salt obtained from his urine would have a different property from that gained out of the lees of wine. for it has undergone a chemical change in the human body, having become transmuted from a vegetable into an animal salt v v just as horses that feed on oats, straw, etc, change those vegetable substances into flesh and fat, while the bee prepares honey out of the precious juices of flowers and herbs. the great change which takes place in these and other substances is due to putrefaction, which separates and transmutes the constituent elements. the common spirit of sal

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

base substances that protector deities like tsiu marpo once feasted upon during their careers as malicious local deities before subjugation. as these figures still exhibit such fierce tendencies and appetites, these offerings act as lures to attract them. second, as the goal of such rituals is connected with a tantric buddhist program, such profane substances, which are indicative of sa.s.ra, are transmuted into sacred substances within the environment of the ritual site to suit ritual ends. these references to flesh and blood are also indicative of the symbolically antinomian nature of tantric practice, which recognizes distinctions like pure and impure, sacred and profane, to be equally empty from the perspective of non-duality between subject and object.121 these concepts will be explor

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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 augusta into a fac-simile of gold. it is easy to recognize in the two spirits- the greek accents or signs[[diagram) spoken of by ragon (vide supra- atma and buddhi, or "divine spirit and its vehicle (spiritual soul. the six or the "senary" is dealt with later, while the septenary will be fully treated in the course of this volume (vide the "mysteries of the hebdomad) the ogdoad

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tal traditions on both sides of the "black water- the oceans that separate the two easts- are as full of allegories about the downfall of pleroma, of that of the gods and devas. one and all, they allegorized and explained the fall as the[[vol. 1, page] 417 the angels slandered. desire to learn and acquire knowledge- to know. this is the natural sequence of mental evolution, the spiritual becoming transmuted into the material or physical. the same law of descent into materiality and re-ascent into spirituality asserted itself during the christian era, the reaction having stopped only just now, in our own special sub-race. that which, perhaps ten millenniums ago, was allegorized in pymander in a triune character of interpretation, meant as a record of an astronomical, anthropological, and ev

h replaces adam kadmon* justin martyr tells us that, owing to his ignorance of these four sciences, he was rejected by the pythagoreans as a candidate for admission into their school[[vol. 1, page] 434 the secret doctrine. numbers, points; from points, lines; from lines, superficies; from superficies, solids; from these, solid bodies, whose elements are four- fire, water, air, earth; of all which transmuted (correlated, and totally changed, the world consists (diogenes laertius in vit. pythag) and this may also, if it does not unriddle the mystery altogether, at any rate lift a corner of the veil off those wondrous allegories that have been thrown upon vach, the most mysterious of all the brahmanical goddesses, she who is termed "the melodious cow who milked forth sustenance and water (the

BLUE EQUINOX

l, and in one womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, mystery of mystery, in her name babalon. and i believe in the serpent and the lion, mystery of mystery, in his name baphomet. and i believe in one gnostic and catholic church of light, life, love and liberty, the word of whose law is thelema. and i believe in the communion of saints. and, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, i believe in the miracle of the mass. and i confess one baptism of wisdom whereby we accomplish the miracle of incarnation. the equinox 252 and i confess my life one, individual, and eternal that was, and is, and is to come. aumgn. aumgn. aumgn. music is now played. the child enters with the ewer and the salt. the virgin enters with the sword and th

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

xtent 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 the wearer. angel: from the greek, meaning "messenger" an entity in the hierarchy of heaven. each has no free will, and has one purpose. they are the intermediaries between god and humankind. they bear teachings, w

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

tomed gushes of solar-spiritual energy that cause the divine inebriation of ecstasy; it is gold, as the basis of money, which is the objective representative of externalised life-force; for verily, money is life and life is money, for without money we can have no fullness of life. life-force, manifesting on the physical plane as energy and on the mental plane as intelligence and knowledge, can be transmuted by the appropriate alchemy into money, which is a token of the capacity or energy of someone. money is the symbol of human energy, by means of which we can store up our output of work hour by hour, receiving it back as wages at the end of the week, and spending it on necessities or saving it for future use as we think fit. the gold which backs the notes is a symbol of human energy, and

, because the positive pole is always the giver of the stimulus, but never the producer of the result. the malkuth aspect of isis is the bnght fertile mother, the goddess of fecundity, thus indicating the end-result of the operation of isis on the physical plane. 77. the situation of malkuth at the foot of the pillar of equilibrium places it in the direct line of the descent of power from kether, transmuted in daath, the invisible sephirab, and passing on to the planes of form via tiphareth. this is the path of consciousness, whereas the two side pillars are paths of function; but the two side pillars also converge on malkuth via the thirty-first and twenty-ninth paths. consequently everything ends in malkuth. 78. we who are incarnated in physical bodies are standing in malkuth, and when w

DONALDTYSON DEMON

nder the foundations of their houses to catch demons and prevent them from entering the houses through the ground. they also made amulets with avertive verses against specific demons, such as those that might threaten the life of women during childbirth. during their period of babylonian captivity, the ancient hebrews absorbed many sumerian demons into their own folklore, and over time these were transmuted into uniquely jewish demons, such as lilith, the demon who strangles children in their cribs and visits solitary men in their beds to provoke nocturnal emissions. lilith began her life as a class of babylonian demon known as the lilitu. in addition to the direct personification of the forces of nature, demons were formed by the vilification of the gods and goddesses of other cultures. m

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eserving the old, unpublished records of england s past, many of which were kept in the archives of monasteries. he was a voluminous writer on science, his works including monas hieroglyphica (1564, de trigono (1565, testamentum johannis dee philosophi summi ad johannem guryun transmissum (1568) and an account of the manner in which a certayn coppersmith in the land of moores, and a certayn moore transmuted copper to gold (1576. it is usual to dismiss kelley as a rogue and dee as his dupe, but if the angelic visions were purely for money, they both could have done better for themselves. dee seemed to be an honest man of unusual talents, devoting his life to science and the pursuit of mystical knowledge. the angelic language called enochian, which dee and kelley used when invoking spirits i

g so earnest, i commanded a fire to be made, saying to myself, i fear, i fear indeed, this man hath deluded me. my wife wrapped the said matter in wax, and i cut half an ounce of lead, and put it into a crucible in the fire. being melted, my wife put in the medicine, made into a small pill with the wax, which presently made a hissing noise, and in a quarter of an hour the mass of lead was totally transmuted into the best and finest gold, which amazed us exceedingly. i ran with this aurified lead, being yet hot, to the goldsmith, who wondered at the fineness, and after a short trial by the test, said it was the most excellent gold in the world. the next day a rumour of this prodigy went about the hague and spread abroad, so that many illustrious and learned persons gave me their friendly vi

to mr. brectel, a silversmith, who first mixed four parts of silver with one part of the gold, then he filled it, put aquafortis to it, dissolved the silver, and let the gold precipitate to the bottom; the solution being poured off and the calx of gold washed with water, then reduced and melted, it appeared excellent gold, and instead of a loss in weight, we found the gold was increased, and had transmuted a scruple of the silver into gold by its abounding tincture. doubting whether the silver was now sufficiently separated from the gold, we mingled it with seven parts of antimony, which we melted and poured out into a cone, and blew off the regulus on a test, where we missed eight grains of our gold; but after we blew away the red of the antimony, or superfluous scoria, we found nine gra

t grains missing, yet it was pale and silverlike but recovered its full colour afterwards, so that in the best proof of fire we lost nothing at all of this gold, but gained, as aforesaid. these tests i repeated four times and found it still alike, and the silver remaining out of the aquafortis was of the very best flexible silver that could be, so that in the total the said medicine or elixir had transmuted six drams and two scruples of the lead and silver into most pure gold. helvetius died at the hague august 29, 1709. helvetius, john friedrich encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 720 henge of keltria the henge of keltria is a druid organization founded in 1987 by tony and sable taylor, who had developed their druid perspectives as members of arndraiocht fein, the organizat

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s marvelous powder, which sendivogius employed with the same results seton had achieved. sendivogius fared badly, however, when the powder came to an end. he had used it chiefly in liquid form, and into this he had dipped silver coins which immediately had become pure gold. when the powder gave out, sendivogius was driven to the practice of gilding coins, which, it was reported, he had previously transmuted by legitimate means, and this brought upon him the wrath of those who had trusted him. there are many intriguing accounts of successful alchemical operations with the philosophers stone, but most students of the field have surmised that the great work accomplished was a personal and spiritual transformation rather than any chemical miracle. the close association of ideas of the philosop

ic signs this result would be secured. the heart of a black cat, dried and steeped in honey, was also believed to be effective (for various instances of potent enchantments, see solomon) sympathetic magic was often resorted to by the arabic witch and wizard, just as it was among the ancient hebrews and assyrians. the great repertory of semitic occultism is the kabala, but here the occult has been transmuted into hebrew mysticism. sources: thompson, c. j. s. the mysteries and secrets of magic. london: allen lane, 1927. reprint, causeway, 1973. thompson, r. c. devils& evil spirits of babylonia 2 vols. london: luzac, 1903.04. semitic magic. london: luzac, 1908. sensitive the term sensitive, often interchangeable with psychic, refers to a person with psychic powers, but eschews communication w

on for the hospitality he had received in scotland, entertained him for some time in haussen house, and to him seton disclosed the information that he was a master of the art of alchemy and proved his words by performing several transmutations. haussen could not keep this information to himself and confided it to venderlinden, a physician of enkhuysen, and showed him a piece of gold that had been transmuted from lead. venderlinden s grandson, in turn, showed it to the celebrated author d. g. morhoff, who wrote a letter concerning it to langlet du fresnoy, author of the histoire de la philosophie hermetique (3 vols, 1742. seton visited amsterdam and rotterdam, traveled by sea to italy, then went through switzerland to germany, accompanied by wolfgang dienheim, a professed skeptic of alchemy

scot of the seventeenth century. seton, dienheim said was short but stout, and high coloured, with a pointed beard, but despite his corpulence, his expression was spiritual and exalted. he was, added dienheim, a native of molier, in an island of the ocean. seton demonstrated several experiments of importance. in one of these the celebrated physician zwinger himself brought the lead that was to be transmuted. a common crucible was obtained at a goldsmith s, and ordinary sulphur was bought on the road to the house where the experiment was to take place. seton handled none of these materials and took no part in the operation except to give those who followed his directions a small packet of powder that transformed the lead into the purest gold of exactly the same weight. zwinger appears to ha

icture is often modified or symbolical. a dying man may appear to the percipient in a normal state of health. as myers noted: mr. l. dies of heart disease when in the act of lying down undressed in bed. at or about the same time mr. n. j. s. sees mr. l. standing beside him with a cheerful air, dressed for walking and with a cane in his hand. one does not see how a system of undulations could have transmuted the physical facts in this way. in cases of collective reception, an added difficulty is presented. why should only a few people in a room be sensitive to the waves and other strangers outside the room not at all receptive? why should a crystal gazer get a telepathic message at the time of his own choosing, when he happens to look into the crystal? how can the pictures in the crystal so

ESOTERISM AND THE LEFT HAND PATH

nsformation from our human nature to a godlike nature is the goal of the left hand path. unlike many satanists or theories in new age, dragon rouge does not believe that man is already godlike and simply has to recognize this. we must use the dark forces to and the qliphotic principles to break down and build up ourselves again, until we have the ability to give birth to ourselves as gods. we are transmuted from being creations of the past to becoming creators of the future. the two latter criterias of faivre corresponds to a certain degree to the philosophy of dragon rouge. there are principles in different dark traditions that corresponds to each other and which makes eclectic studies fruitful. oden, shiva, hermes and lucifer can be compared and one can find corresponding aspects. the la

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

ff, 52-3. 2 ficino, p. 573; cf. walker, p. 52. 3 e. garin (medioevo e rinascimento, p. 172) draws a contrast between mediaeval "bassa magia" and "magia rinascimentale. 4 sloane, 1305, f. 152 verso. 80 ficino's natural magic seem that the primitive talismanic image might be expanded by renaissance artists into figures of immortal beauty, figures in which classical form has been both recovered and transmuted into something new. and yet there is absolute continuity between the old magic and the new. both rest on the same astrological presuppositions; both use in their methods the same groupings of natural substances; both employ talismans and invocations; both are pneumatic magic, believing in the spiritus as the channel of influence from the above to the below. finally, both are integrated

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

divine form reflected in a beam of light, a form which will vanish utterly back into the ayin when this beam is cut off. existence, therefore, is light; perhaps that light which present-day science calls gradiation h. the sephirotic scheme according to the zohar the act of creation took place as follows: when the most mysterious wished to reveal himself, he first produced a single point which was transmuted into a thought, and in this he executed innumerahle designs, and engraved innumerable gravings. he further graved within the sacred and mystic lamp a mystic and most holy design, which was a wonderous edifice issuing from the midst of thought. 4 this edifice is elohim, the conjunction of the gwho h and the gthese h, as already explained. again we read: before god created the world, his

rals 0 to 9. in thirty-two mysterious paths of wisdom did the lord write. he created his universe by the three forms of expression: numbers, letters, and words. ten ineffable sephiroth and twenty-two basal letters: three mothers [a (a, aleph, air; m (m, mem, water; w (sh, shin, fire, seven double [b g d k p r th, and twelve simple [letters [h v z ch t i l n s o tz q] 6 the gsingle point which was transmuted into a thought h is the first sephirah,7 kether or crown. git is the principle of all the principles, the mysterious wisdom, the crown of all that which there is of the most high, the diadem of the diadems. h8 the divine name in kether is ehyeh, gi am. the sephirotic scheme (see plate ii on page 25) may be condensed as follows: kether is also called abbah, the father; it is the will or

urther: suppose that the four worlds of the qabalistic cosmology are represented by ice, water, steam, and gas, and that their final state is called electricity, or complete dematerialization (no-thingness; then the ultimate object of the messianic act is to re-establish this nirvana. symbolically, this potent mystery is depicted in the eucharist, or high mass, in which the bread and the wine are transmuted into the body and blood of christ; that is matter into god. as we have already stated, it was on account of the potency of this mystery that it was so heavily shrouded. here existed an idea which could either re-create divinity or plunge mankind into still deeper depths of devilry. it could exalt man to supreme genius or cast him down into complete madness. its potency was so stupendous

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

ast,one fortunate day i met him. we seemed friends almost at once. perhapsitwas that i knew his mind so very well from friendshipwithhis printedpages-evenperhaps there may have been some link out thepast-3beall this as it may, i am one of manywhohave much to thank him for. in an age of outward turmoil and unrest he has told us of the things within: of how the base metal of material desires may be transmuted into spiritual gold. in'theway of divine union' and'thebook of the holy grail' he has given to the world priceless treasures. hidden within them are deep mysteries(moremenofmark,1922, p. 22).they werenotdestined to remain friends for long. initially allwentwell;coburntooka seriesofphotographsofwaite as imperatorofthe order, at earl'scourtsquare, and three portrait studies for publicatio

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

, in histheosophy,describes man as of seven parts, thus: physical body, ethereal or life body, astral or sentient soul body, intellectual soul, spirit-filled conscious255 ness soul, life spirit or spiritual body and spirit man oratma.to this he adds man can have the following arrangement of his members, thus:1.physical body. 2. life body. 3. astral body. 4. i as the soul kernel. 5. spirit self as transmuted astral body. 6. life spirit as transmuted life body. and spirit man as transmuted physical body. max heindel, in hisrosicrucian cosmo-conception,gives a rather different view: he specifies the ego as three-fold spirit- divine spirit, life spirit and human spirit. these reflect themselves upon the 'human mind of concrete thought'306themagical masonwhich dwells in three bodies- the desire

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS Z2

at unto thee a divination shall be as a sacred work of the divine magic of light, and not to be performed to pander unto the curiosity regarding the secrets of another; if by this means thou shalt arrive at a knowledge of another s secrets, thou shalt respect and not betray them. h alchemy a. the curcurbite or the alembic b. the alchemist. c. the processes and forces employed. d. the matter to be transmuted. e. the selection of the to be transmuted, and the formation, cleansing and disposing of all the necessary vessels, materials, etc, for the working of the process. f. general invocation of the higher forces to action. placing of the matter within the curcurbite or philosophic egg, and invocation of a blind force to action therein, in darkness and silence. g. the beginning of the actual

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

y of the finest swedish legends have been given us in various places, but a still greater number must be lying ungathered: afzelius's sago-hiifder, welcome as they are, go too much on the plan of extracting the juice from whatever came to hand. norway can hardly be less stocked with legend than sweden, it has moreover its popular lays to shew, into which songs of pit e face. xv the edda have been transmuted, witness the lay of thorns hammer (p. 181) and the solar-lay. in our own day, j. w. wolf is labouring on the popular traditions of belgium, and rob. chambers on those of scotland, with zeal and visible success. the fairy-tale (miirchen) is with good reason distinguished from the legend, though by turns they play into one another. looser, less fettered than legend, the fairy-tale lacks t

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

flection or meditation. hence, subconsciousness is the incentive of all we do not wish for. let us learn how to transmute this, so to speak, antagonistic aspect of our ego, so that it not only does no harm, but on the contrary will help to realize our desires. subconsciousness needs time and space in the material world for its realization, two basic principles valid for all things that have to be transmuted into reality from the causal world. withdrawing time and space from the subconscious, the opposite polarity will cease to bring its influence to bear upon us, and we shall be able to realize our wishes through the subconscious. this sudden elimination of the subconscious offers the key for the practical use of autosuggestion. if, e.g, we inculcate in the subconsciousness the wish of not

. we must understand how to transplant our consciousness optionally into every object, animal and human being. similar to the concentration on objects, put some objects which you are using every day in front of you. sitting in your habitual position, fix your eyes for a short while on one of the objects, and inculcate the shape, color and size of it firmly in your mind. now imagine yourself being transmuted into this object. in a way you must feel as the object itself and adopt all its properties. you have to be quite certain of the fact that you are fastened to the spot you have been put, unable to abandon it except through an outside influence. you should even be capable by intense concentration to regard your surroundings from the point of this object, and to grasp its relationship to o

in question. the scholar must be able to transmute his consciousness in any form he likes to without interruption if he wishes to regard this as being mastered. adepts who have been practicing this exercise for years are able to understand any animal and handle it by their will power. in connection with this fact, all we need is to remember the legend of werewolves and other tales i which wizards transmuted themselves into animals. but fairy tales and legends have a far deeper significance to the magician. there is no doubt that these are cases of the so-called black magicians, who adopt all sorts of animal shapes in the invisible world not to be recognized whole doing their wicked work. the good magician will always condemn such actions, and his spiritual faculties allow him to see throug

al element with the help of the imagination. never omit this process of dissolution, because, having performed its task, an elementary can easily become independent due to its instinct of self-preservation, and if you forget to do so, it will escape from your sphere of influence and become a vampire. in this case the magician would have to face all the resulting karma caused by such an elementary transmuted into a vampire. therefore carelessness and conscientiousness are seriously recommended when you are handling elementaries. many magicians determine, right at the birth-act, the kind of disintegration of the elementary by destroying the name of the elementary in question, burning it, performing a certain rite, a sign r a gesture, or using a formula which they fixed in advance. all this i

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

ommand that all food, all fluid, and all that i ingest from this moment on that flows through my digestive system bio-shield. is automatically converted into the perfect frequency of light and divine nutrition that my body needs now! so it is! so it is! so it is! then anything you eat, you say to yourself i eat because i love it, not because i need it and all that i eat and drink is automatically transmuted into what my body needs now. this reinforces the original field program and reprograms any limiting self talk. like chocolate is so bad for me or i need this food for nourishment to survive. both of which are limiting statements. yes it is possible that the sheer attitude of everything i eat is good for me to override all toxicity but this requires focus and mind mastery, hence the bio

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

. beauty became bifurcated (so to express, and irregular; heated as it were into a sinister a devilish (forbidden) temptation, for passion of taste. excess, or a deviating superflux or overdoing, of desire supervened. longing became delirious: because lucifer, or the lost one unchastened presumption had passed his lightning-like availing spear of apotheosising enchanted tempting death through the transmuted human female body; advanced and addressed in its snaring graces to hell s perfectness. the arts subserving mythology. 325 was one. beards have nought of beauty, apart from strength. beards are barbarous hence their name. hair is of the beasts, excrementa; tentacula. the greek artists exercised their talents in the production of a kind of beauty mixed of that of the two sexes, merging an

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

the sunlight cannot directly reach, so are there many souls in the world who are unable to receive and assimilate this divine force. as man by means of mirrors can reflect the sunlight into a cave or cellar, so also can man reflect the spiritual light upon those darkened souls, and perchance present it to them so that they may be able to receive it and profit by it. all light in the world is but transmuted sunlight; if we burn coal and make gas, or if we burn oil in a lamp, the energy is none the less converted solar energy. 349. the great architect sends forth his power at all levels, but most of all on the higher planes. but the majority of men are not yet sufficiently developed on those higher planes to be directly affected by this force. if, however, those men who are already somewhat

LIBER ALEPH

art thou writest a symbolic representation of thy will, so that when thou next seest it, thou are reminded of that will, or it may be that another, seeing it, will obey that will. here then is a case of incarnation and assumption, which, before it was understood, was rightly considered gramarye or magick. again, thy will to live causeth thee to plant corn, which in due season being eaten is again transmuted into will. thus thou mayst in many ways impress any particular will upon the proper substance, so that by due use thou comest at last to its accomplishment. so general is this formula, in truth, that all conscious actions may be included within its scope. there is also the converse, as when external objects create appetite, whose satisfaction again reacteth upon the physical plane. prai

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

tract some sense from that extraordinary treatise on mysticism, konx om pax. another failure, but an excusable one. i will now beseech adonai as best i may to give me back my lost powers. for i am no more even a magician! so lost am i in the illusions that i have made in the search for adonai, that i am become the vilest of them all! 10.27. a strange and unpleasant experience. my thought suddenly transmuted itself into a muscular cry, so that my legs gave a violent jerk. this i expect is at bottom the explanation of the bhuchari-siddhi. a very bad form of uncontrolled thought. i was on the edge of sleep; it woke me. the fact is, all is over! i am done! i have tried for the great initiation and i have failed: i am swept away into strange hells. 1 son of sir henry howard, an ambassador somew

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r h is the vehicle whereby we feel such things; gair h their menstruum wherein these feelings are mentally apprehended. it is called gwhirling h because of the instability of thought, and the fatuity of reason, on which we are yet dependent for what we call glife. h grushing fire h is the world in which wandering thought burns up to swift-darting will. these four stages explain how the non-ego is transmuted into the ego. a gspell h of god is any form of consciousness, and a gscourge h any form of action. the charge, as a whole, demands for the adept the control of every detail of the universe which his angel has created as a means of manifesting himself to himself. it covers command of the primary projection of the possible in individuality, in the antithetical artifice which is the device

that he may constrain him to consent to continue in communication until the consciousness becomes capable of clear comprehension, and of accurate transmission of the transcendent truth of the beloved to the heart that holds him* the essence of this matter is that the word aum, which expresses the course of breath (spiritual life) from free utterance through controlled concentration to silence, is transmuted by the creation of the compound letter mgn to replace m: that is, silence is realized as passing into continuous ecstatic vibration, of the nature of glove h under gwill h as shewn by mgn= 40+ 3+ 50= 93= agaph= qelhma, etc; and the whole word has the value of 100, perfection perfected, the unity in completion, and equivalent to kf [sic, s.b [k. kf= 520, the conjunction of the essential

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

ruck gives the key-note of nature (fa; sometimes also an olive branch, to indicate the harmony she preserves among natural things with her regenerating power. by the processes of death and corruption she gives life to a number of creatures of diverse forms through periods of perpetual change. the cymbal is made square instead of the usual triangular shape in order to symbolize that all things are transmuted and regenerated according to the harmony of the four elements. dr. sigismund bacstrom believed that if a physician could establish harmony among the elements of earth, fire, air, and water, and unite them into a stone (the philosopher's stone) symbolized by the sixpointed star or two interlaced triangles, he would possess the means of healing all disease. dr. bacstrom further stated tha

llectual sun, christ and lucifer respectively; and the material sun, the jewish demiurgus jehovah. lucifer here represents the intellectual mind without the illumination of the spiritual mind; therefore it is "the false light" the false light is finally overcome and redeemed by the true light of the soul, called the second logos or christ. the secret processes by which the luciferian intellect is transmuted into the christly intellect constitute one of the great secrets of alchemy, and are symbolized by the process of transmuting base metals into gold. in the rare treatise the secret symbols of the rosicrucians, franz hartmann defines the sun alchemically as "the symbol of wisdom. the centre of power or heart of things. the sun is a centre of energy and a storehouse of power. each living b

f the ancient mysteries will result in the rediscovery of that secret teaching without which civilization must continue in a state of spiritual confusion and uncertainty. when the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; and when the state governs, he is ruled by fear. before men can live together in harmony and understanding, ignorance must be transmuted into wisdom, superstition into an illumined faith, and fear into love. despite statements to the contrary, masonry is a religion seeking to unite god and man by elevating its initiates to that level of consciousness whereon they can behold with clarified vision the workings of the great architect of the universe. from age to age the vision of a perfect civilization is preserved as the i

extant, man's lower nature was symbolized by a tremendous, awkward creature resembling a great sea serpent, or dragon, called leviathan. all symbols having serpentine form or motion signify the solar energy in one of its many forms. this great creature of the sea therefore represents the solar life force imprisoned in water and also the divine energy coursing through the body of man, where, until transmuted, it manifests itself as a writhing, twisting monster- man's greeds, passions, and lusts. among the symbols of christ as the savior of men are a number relating to the mystery of his divine nature concealed within the personality of the lowly jesus. the gnostics divided the nature of the christian redeemer into two parts--the one jesus, a mortal man; the other, christos, a personificatio

all mortal creatures must bend. the eagle was also the hermetic symbol of sulphur, and signified the mysterious fire of scorpio- the most profoundly significant sign of the zodiac and the gate of the great mystery. being one of the three symbols of scorpio, the eagle, like the goat of mendes, was an emblem of the theurgic art and the secret processes by which the infernal fire of the scorpion was transmuted into the spiritual light-fire of the gods. among certain american indian tribes the thunderbird is held in peculiar esteem. this divine creature is said to live above the clouds; the flapping of its wings causes the rumbling which accompanies storms, while the flashes from its eyes are the lightning. birds were used to signify the vital breath; and among the egyptians, mysterious hawkli

greater or less weight, and that none of that metal of gold and silver so refined and procured be permitted to be used or disposed of in any other place or places within their majesties dominions" after this repealing measure had become effective, william and mary encouraged the further study of alchemy. dr. franz hartmann has collected reliable evidence concerning four different: alchemists who transmuted base metals into gold not once but many times. one of these accounts concerns a monk of the order of st. augustine named wenzel seiler, who discovered a small amount of mysterious red powder in his convent. in the presence of emperor leopold i, king of germany, hungary, and bohemia, he transmuted quantities of tin into gold. among other things which he dipped into his mysterious essence

f st. augustine named wenzel seiler, who discovered a small amount of mysterious red powder in his convent. in the presence of emperor leopold i, king of germany, hungary, and bohemia, he transmuted quantities of tin into gold. among other things which he dipped into his mysterious essence was a large silver medal. that part of the medal which came in contact with the gold-producing substance was transmuted into the purest quality of the more precious metal. the rest remained silver. with regard to this medal, dr. hartmann writes "the most indisputable proof (if appearances can prove anything) of the possibility of transmuting base metals into gold, may be seen by everyone who visits vienna; it being a medal preserved in the imperial treasury chamber, and it is stated that this medal, cons

osed to receive one who could give him boundless riches. raymond made only one condition; that the gold he made should not be expended upon the luxuries of the court or upon a war with any christian king; and that edward himself should go in person with an army against the infidels. edward promised everything and anything "raymond had apartments assigned him in the tower, and there he tells us he transmuted fifty thousand pounds weight of quicksilver, lead, and tin into pure gold, which was coined at the mint into six million of nobles, each worth about three pounds sterling at the present day. some of the pieces said to have been coined out of this gold are still to be found in antiquarian collections [while desperate attempts have been made to disprove these statements, the evidence is s

ause the seed of wisdom is not within him, but wisdom may be imparted to an ignorant person, however ignorant he may be, because the seed of wisdom exists in him and can be developed by art and culture. hence a philosopher is only an ignorant man within whose nature a projection has taken place. through art (the process of learning) the whole mass of base metals (the mental body of ignorance) was transmuted into pure gold (wisdom, for it was tinctured with understanding. if, then, through faith and proximity to god the consciousness of man may be transmuted from base animal desires (represented by the masses of the planetary metals) into a pure, golden, and godly consciousness, illumined and redeemed, and the manifesting god within that one increased from a tiny spark to a great and glorio

MEANING OF MASONRY

represent a series of discrete but co-ordinated parts connecting man's outer nature with his inmost divine principle and providing the necessary channels for reciprocal action between the spiritual and material poles of his organism. in other words, and to use an alternative symbol of the same fact, man is potentially a seven-branched golden candlestick. potentially so, because as yet he has not transmuted the base metals of his nature into gold, or lit up the seven candles or parts of his organism with the promethean fire of the divine principle. meanwhile that symbol of what is possible to him is offered for his reflection and contemplation, and he may profitably study the description of regenerated, perfected man given in meaning revelation 1, 12-20. to summarize, the seven officers ty

art from the temporal body now clothing him) is a triadic unit, rooted in and proceeding from the basic divine substance. observe that in the first degree the points of the compasses are hidden by the square. in the second degree, one point is disclosed. in the third both are exhibited. the implication is that as the candidate progresses, the inertia and negativity of the soul become increasingly transmuted and superseded by the positive energy and activity of the spirit. the fire triangle gradually assumes preponderance over the water triangle, signifying that the aspirant becomes a more vividly and spiritually conscious being than he was at first. opening and closing the lodge first or entered apprentice degree if the lodge with its appointments and officers be a sacramental figure of on

result of all its past habits and experiences are not suddenly eliminated or easily subdued. self-will and pride are very subtle in their nature and may continue to deceive their victim long after he has purged himself of grosser faults. as cain was the murderer of abel, so every taint of base metal in oneself debases the gold of the vital and immortal principle. it must be renounced, died to and transmuted in the crucial process of the third degree. hence it is that the candidate is entrusted with a name tha t designates himself at this stage and that indicates that he is still" in worldly possessions" that is, that some residue of the spirit of this world yet lingers in him which it is necessary to eliminate from his nature before he can be raised to the sublime degree of master. examina

h the soul, as gold by reason of its supreme value and warm colour is associated with spirit. the silver serpent is the emblem of divine wisdom knitting the soul's new-made vesture together. 7. the pale blue and silver of the master mason's apron become intensified in the deep blue and gold ornamentation worn by the grand lodge officers, who in theory have evolved to still deeper spirituality and transmuted themselves from silver into fine gold" the king's daughter (the soul) is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought gold" i.e, wrought or fabricated by her own spiritual energies. a prayer at lodge closing o sovereign and most worshipful of all masters, who, in thy infinite love and wisdom, hast devised our order as a means to draw thy children nearer thee, and hast so ordained its

vertheless shown in the" raising" of the candidate to the rank of master mason and his" reunion with the companions of former toils" implying the reintegration and resumption of all his old faculties and powers in a sublimated state, just as the limbs of the risen osiris were said to reunite into a new whole and as the christian master withdrew his mutilated body from the to mb' and reassumed it, transmuted into one of supernatural substance and splendour. we have, therefore, now to consider how the royal arch degree exhibits the attainment of a new order of life. but it may be as well to say in advance that for those unhabituated to looking beyond surface-values and material meanings the exposition about to be given, dealing as it will with the profound spiritual truths and advanced psych

st we are still here in the flesh may be surprising or even incredible. but such doubt is unwarranted, and the masonic doctrine negates it. as has been already shown to the contrary, that doctrine postulates not the absence but the possession of the material organism as a necessary factor in advancing the evolution of the human spirit; that organism is the vessel in which our base metal has to be transmuted into gold; it is the fulcrum furnishing the resistance requisite for the spirit's energizing into unfoldment a nd self-con sciousness. physical death is therefore not an advancement of, but an interference with, the work of regeneration" the night cometh when no man can work" and when the soul merely passes from labour to refreshment until recalled to labour once more at the task of sel

desire it pours from a pure and perfect heart. the greek's quest of wisdom was something much more than a mere desire for larger information and maturer judgment about one's place in the universe. merely to know certain facts about the hidden side of life profits nothing unless the knowledge is allowed to influence and adapt our method of living to the truths disclosed. then the knowledge becomes transmuted into wisdom; one becomes the truth one sees; and a man's life becomes truth made substantial and dynamic. but to bring this about one must first be informed about or initiated into certain elements of the truth and be persuaded that it is truth before setting about to become it. the greek method, therefore, began by initiating the mind into certain truths about the soul's own nature, hi

MORALS AND DOGMA

one to the realm of darkness. remaining there three days, he rose again, and again ascended northward in the heavens, to redeem the earth from the gloom and darkness of winter, which soon became emblematical of sin, and evil, and suffering; as the spring, summer, and autumn became emblems of happiness and immortality. soon they personified the sun, and worshipped him under the name of osiris, and transmuted the legend of his descent among the winter signs, into a fable of his death, his descent into the infernal regions, and his resurrection. the moon became isis, the wife of osiris; and winter, as well as the desert or the ocean into which the sun descended, became typhon, the spirit or principle of evil, warring against and destroying osiris. from the journey of the sun through the twelv

le-_zuben-es chamali_ in the west _zuben-hak-rabi_ in the east, and _zuben-el-gubi_ in the south, the latter immediately below the tropic of capricorn, and so within the realm of darkness. from these names, those of the murderers have perhaps been corrupted. in zuben-hak-rabi we may see the original of jubelum akirop; and in zuben-el-gubi, that of jubelo gibs: and time and ignorance may even have transmuted the words es chamali into one as little like them as gravelot. isis, the moon personified, sorrowing sought for her husband. nine or twelve fellow-crafts (the rites vary as to the number, in white aprons, were sent to search for khir-om, in the legend of the master's degree; or, in this rite, the nine knights elu. along the path that the moon travels are nine conspicuous stars, by which

as yet made us to understand, with all his learned words, how heat comes to us from the sun, and light from the remote stars, setting out upon its journey earth-ward from some, at the time the chaldeans commenced to build the tower of babel? or how the image of an external object comes to and fixes itself upon the retina of the eye; and when there, how that mere empty, unsubstantial image becomes transmuted into the wondrous thing that we call sight? or how the waves of the atmosphere striking upon the tympanum of the ear--those thin, invisible waves--produce the equally wondrous phenomenon of hearing, and become the roar of the tornado, the crash of the thunder, the mighty voice of the ocean, the chirping of the cricket, the delicate sweet notes and exquisite trills and variations of the

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

onsciousness, and thus create the illusion which the aspirant calls sorrow, and the uninitiate, evil. the sexual act, even to the grossest of mankind, is the agent which dissipates the fog of self for one ecstatic moment. it is the instinctive feeling that the physical spasm is symbolic of that miracle of the mass, by which the material wafer, composed of the passive elements, earth and water, is transmuted into the substance of the body of god, that makes the wise man dread lest so sublime a sacrament suffer profanation. it is this that has caused him, in half-instinctive, half intellectual half-comprehension of the nature of the truth, that has driven him to fence the act about with taboos. but a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. his fear has created phantoms, and his malobservation

consecrate. it is one thing to be like a sow, unconscious of the mire, and unable to discriminate between sweet food and sour; another to take the filth firmly and force oneself to discover the purity therein, initiating even the body to overcome its natural repulsion and partake with the soul at this eucharist. we "believe in the miracle of the mass" not only because meat and drink are actually "transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, but because we can make the 'body and blood of god' from any materials soever by virtue of our royal and pontifical art of magick. now, when brillat-savarin (was it not) served to the king's table a pair of old kid gloves, and pleased the princely palate, he certainly proved himself a master-cook. the feat is not one to be repeated constantly, but o

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

regnates h lilith, and she gbears h for him gdemon-children, h i.e, negative, abusive, and evil energy, which spreads evil throughout the world. according to the midrash,5 lilith was adam fs first wife, created out of the earth just as he was. she insisted on lying on top of adam during intercourse, and when he refused, insisting that it was more proper for him to lay on her, she left him and was transmuted into a demon. we mentioned previously that the dichotimization of mankind into male and female was g-d fs way of assuring proper balance between the male drive to retreat into abstract unity with the divine and female drive to manifest g-dliness in this world. the glue which holds these two opposite drives together, enabling them to rectify reality properly, is the attraction or passion

at he had been suffering from severe shoulder pains for two days. my master looked at him and said that this pain came from his having interrupted between rinsing the fingertips and reciting grace after meals by studying a chapter of the mishnah. he thus transgressed the instruction of our the arizal on parashat ekev 702 sages to proceed directly from the rinsing to the blessing.4 in so doing, he transmuted the word for gdirectly h [teikef, tav-kaf-pei] into the word for gshoulder h [kateif, kuf-tav-pei, and he felt the pain there. from this we see that one must not make any interruption between the rinsing and the recital of grace, even with words from the torah. if one wishes to converse [at his table] in the torah, as our sages have said one should, he should do so before the rinsing of

signify the revelation within the occultation, so to speak. the glight h or glow or expression shining from the face is obstructed by the beard, except for this part of the visage that is free of hair. in the cheeks, then, all the emotion expressed in the face but covered by the beard can be seen. as we said, the glight h shining from the face is the good will of forgiveness. this must be largely transmuted into the contracted form of hair in order to be able to reach the sinner in a form he can assimilate, but the exception is the cheek, the one part of the face that remains uncovered in order to express most fully g-d fs unmitigated good will .translated from sefer halikutim 805 parashat nitzavim [second installment] in the course of exhorting the jewish people to perform g-d fs commandm

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

turn to a swan, but more white than the hovering virgin snow when it is not yet sullied with the earth" the qabalistic sephirah of daath is the conjunction of chokmah and binah on 34 the golden dawn the tree of life, the child of wisdom and understanding -knowledge. it <61> refers to the symbolic sphere formed within or above the rmch by means of experience obtained, and this assimilated becomes transmuted into intuition and faculty of mind. but fundamentally it is the ascent of the dragon or, if you wish, an upwelling of the unconscious archetypes- a highly dangerous and unbalancing ascent, until they are assimilated to consciousness- which first renders daath a possibility. it is the fall which is responsible for the acquisition of self-knowledge 'thus it stands proven" claims blavatsky

ation, and there shall then abide in thee fire with light, wind with fire, power with wind, knowledge with power, and with knowledge an integrity of sober mind" not enough is it to be illuminated. the problem is not quite as simple as that. it is in vain that the wine of the gods is poured into broken bottles. each part of the soul, each elemental aspect of the entire man must be strengthened and transmuted and brought into equilibrium and harmony with the others. integration must be <74> the rule of the initiate, not pathology. in such a vehicle made consecrate and truly holy by this equilibriation, the higher genius may find a worthy and fit dwelling. this and this alone, may ever constitute the true nature of initiation. with each of the grades just described, a certain amount of person

nto thee a divination shall be as a sacred work of the divine magic of light, and not to be performed to pander unto thy curiosity regarding the secrets of another, and if by this means thou shalt arrive at a knowledge of another's secrets, thou shalt respect and not betray them. v il alchemy a-the curcurbite or the alembic. b-the alchemist. c-the processes and forces employed. d-the matter to be transmuted. e-the selection of the matter to be transmuted, and the formation, cleansing and disposing of all the necessary vessels, materials, etc, for the working of the process. f-general invocation of the higher forces to action. placing of the matter within the curcurbite or philosophic egg, and invocation of a blind force to action therein, in darkness and silence. g-the beginning of the act

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

seases from top to toe, from the falling evil and convulsion of the sinews to the wen and excrescence on the eye-brow called ceannaid. most of them are in the way of prayers called orrtha, but said to be of more efficacy than any prayer now pronounced. the words, the secret commonwealth 64 notwithstanding [this tradition of power and sanctity] are much corrupted in [the] process of time, by being transmuted through so many mouths; and it is not easy to reconcile them all to good sense, or [give] a meaning proper for the designed conveyance [of benefit. besides that they are used by many of bad conversations, and who do not understand much of what they utter [all of] which makes others to suspect that the good words and the spells are but the policy of the counterfeit angel of light to lead

c ends. this road also is available to the adept, but the implications of the 'harrowing of hell' are that the third road is now open to any that are able to perceive it. the third road 'to fair elfland, is the middle of the three roads. in the detailed vision, it may lead to the secret castle that houses the grail or to a low hill on which the third tree grows. this is the tree of mediation, the transmuted grail, the power of the underworld transformed through human consciousness to encompass all worlds. it is to this place, upon the third road, that thomas and the faery queen 'this night maun gae. the vow of silence (verse 15) thomas is advised not to speak while in faeryland, no matter what wonders are shown to him. this motif occurs in the grail legends also, where it is tied to the as

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

of the sacred alphabet. every star within is the seed of a star without this cell tells about the secrets of the pentagram and how it works as the cosmic unifier between the cosmomatrix. it continues the voyage started in the previous cell and discusses the optical path of mediation between the summoner and the summond. the union of the external and the internal shreds of gnosis that meets in the transmuted vessel. in this process, where the summoner becomes the summoned and the hunter the hunted the importance of the fetisches are introduced. this refers to the physical presentation of objects of power. we can among these include the common weapons of the warrior of the noble arte, colours, banners and signs are other highly physical objects that are treated. through this act the process

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

speaks without uttering a sound. he is the conjurer and history is his trick. no, not history: something stranger. the explanation of this conundrum is to be heard, at this very moment, on certain surreptitious radio waves, on which the voice of the american convert bilal is singing the imam's holy song. bilal the muezzin: his voice enters a ham radio in kensington and emerges in dreamed-of desh, transmuted into the thunderous speech of the imam himself. beginning with ritual abuse of the empress, with lists of her crimes, murders, bribes, sexual relations with lizards, and so on, he proceeds eventually to issue in ringing tones the imam's nightly call to his people to rise up against the evil of her state "we will make a revolution" the imam proclaims through him "that is a revolt not onl

SATANGEL

f enoch. although declared apocryphal and thus destroyed by the church these were most influential from around the 13th century onwards. a full version only appeared around the 18th century when an original copy was discovered which had been preserved by the ethiopic-church. according to this text enoch had been chosen by the lord as a writer of truth. in an early passage of the chronicles, he is transmuted into angelic form and allowed to visit heaven, receiving his information first hand. then the lord said to micha-el: go and strip enoch of his own clothes; anoint him with oil, and dress him like ourselves and micha-el did as he was told. he stripped me of my clothes, and rubbed me over with a wonderful oil like dew; with the scent of myrrh; which shone like a sunbeam. and i looked at m

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

te some secrets, to trace some movements of the ideal, but, too feeble to command them, yields to superstition, sees sin where there is none, while committing sin, under a false guidance; weakly seeking refuge amidst the very tumults of the warring passions of the actual, while deserting the serene ideal, pining, nevertheless, in the absence of the ideal, and expiring (not perishing, but becoming transmuted) in the aspiration after having the laws of the two natures reconciled (it might best suit popular apprehension to call these three the understanding, the imagination, and the heart) child: new-born instinct, while trained and informed by idealism, promises a preter-human result by its early, incommunicable vigilance and intelligence, but is compelled, by inevitable orphanhood, and the

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

and the beast; the witches parable of the lovely lady vs. the crone on her broom; the druid/satanic/catholic alternating of black and white priest vestments; the front and obverse (hidden) sides of the great seal of the united states; the reversing of the cross and the reading of the lord's prayer backwards in satanic worship, ad naseum. all fields, all things, must be reversed. negative must be transmuted into positive. bad will be good. black shall be white. the ugly shall be adjudged beautiful and the beautiful is to be spoiled, scarred, and made repugnant and revolting. god shall be debased and satan exalted. illuminism, therefore, is a system of dualism (thesis and antithesis) which cyclically repeats as synthesis results. then, the conflicting forces of the duality cycle clash again

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL 1

ably directed toward evil as they exert their malevolent powers. when these evil spirits penetrate the material world and the circumstances of human life, they conceal themselves in every aspect of human existence. in many instances, the gods of the old religions become the demons of the new. the asuras, a race of gods in the early vedas (sacred hindu texts composed around 1500 to 1200 b.c.e, are transmuted to powerful evil beings with the advent of the new deities of indra and vishnu. the raksasas are a class of entities who attack humans with the intended goal of driving them insane or causing them material ruin. as in many theologies, there is an ambivalence concerning certain deities. in hinduism, the most terrifying of the gods, such as kali, durga, and shiva, although seemingly demon

dicating the most abominable crimes to his name. under prelati s direction, de rais set about to commit his first abominable crime. he lured a young peasant boy into the castle and into the chambers that he provided for prelati. under the alchemist s instruction, de rais brutally killed the boy and used his blood for writing of evocations and formulas. satan did not appear and no base metals were transmuted into gold, but gilles de rais no longer cared. he had discovered an enterprise far more satisfying than the alchemist s quest. he had discovered sadistic satisfaction and pleasure in the torture and murder of children. on september 13, 1440, jean the bishop of nantes signed the legal citation which would bring the baron gilles de rais to trial. among the charges levied on him were the k

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

by agreeing to prove that what he and his brother alchemists most desired truly did exist. he admonished helvetius that one grain was sufficient for the process to be accomplished, but it was necessary to wrap it in a ball of wax before throwing it on the molten metal, otherwise its extreme volatility would cause it to vaporize. to the alchemist fs astonishment and his great delight, the stranger transmuted several ounces of lead into gold. then he permitted helvetius to repeat the process by himself, allowing the alchemist to convert six ounces of lead into pure gold. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d magic and sorcery 45 helvetius found it impossible to keep a secret of such immense value and importance. soon the word of his remarka

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

ne fundamental life current, infinite and omnipresent, expressing itself in diverse ways. ths we can call if we wish, god, libido, the collective unconscious-depending upon what system of religion or metaphysic we subscribe to. within this universal life are archetypal images-nodal points which act as termini or power stations through whch, as it were, the root life-stream flows and is diluted or transmuted so as to be assimilable or available to a lower form of life. these primordial archetypes of the collective unconscious are the psychic "forms into which repeated ancestral experiences have molded the typically human mode of apprehension" generally speaking then, these primordial archetypes, man's first definition of the manifold forces of nature, comprise what in magic we mean by gods

dissolution of harmful complexes whose newly freed energies can be controlled and used toward more positive ends. dispelling these complexes requires the methods of objectification, critical analysis, and discrimination (in magic, the shadow aspects of the psyche are collectively called the evil persona-they must be recognized, subjugated to the magician's hgher spiritual will, and their energies transmuted and employed for the completion of the great work) 3. realization of one's true sey the discovey or creation of a unibing center. the intermediate link which, if focused on and identified with, allows for the integration/unification of the lower and higher selves, and freedom from selfish interests and personal limitations. a point of connection between the individual and the divine sel

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

asonable and worthwhile pursuit. since spiritual vision is such a rare commodity, few people make a deliberate and conscious decision to study the art. they are drawn to it by blind need and an innate natural propensity. to be ripe to receive magic requires an inner discontent with contemporary society. before one can approach magic in a productive way, this dissatisfaction with the world must be transmuted into something positive. usually this occurs at the personal level. seemingly by chance students encounter a human being who is spiritually awakened, and recognize intuitively the worth of that person. they ide- alize their paragon and seek to emulate him or her. in doing so, they make the first blind call upon their own spirit, which begins to awaken. at this point they will be drawn

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tahiyya died some of his tribe migrated to spain. much of the illustrious past of the knights templar was that they worshipped a head, which was called baphomet. the name according to shah21 is a corruption of the arabic abufihamat which means father of understanding. in sufic terminology, ras el fahmat (head of knowledge) is a point meaning the mentation of man after the process of refinement, a transmuted consciousness. in a left hand path perspective, the witch or sorcerer by calling baphomet or cain within, becomes like this symbol they perceive thus allowing a permission to channel the anthropomorphic and deific power within themselves, thus becoming a source or axis pole of this idea. lilith az the mother of witches the queen of the witches sabbat is none other than lilith, known in

WAITE ASPECTS OF MASONIC SYMBOLISM

d brought to the east. it is pointed out to him that he represents the cornerstone of a building- as it might be, the whole masonic edifice- but he is immediately counselled to raise a superstructure from the foundation of that corner-stone- thus reversing the image. that of the corner- stone is like an externalization in dramatic form of an old rosicrucian maxim belonging to the year 1629 "be ye transmuted from dead stones into living, philosophical stones" from my point of view, it is the more important side of the symbolism; it is as if the great masonic edifice were to be raised on each candidate; and if every neophyte shaped his future course both in and out of masonry, as though this were the case actually, i feel that the royal art would be other than it now is and that our individu

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when the rose of the spirit blooms upon the cross of our body. the three principle-elements are the three mother letters of the hebraic alphabet. when one is practicing the arcanum a.z.f. one is working with these three principle-elements within the great laboratory of nature. one works with mercury, sulfur and salt when one practices the arcanum a.z.f; this is how the lead of the personality is transmuted into the gold of the spirit; this is how we elaborate the golden child of alchemy within ourselves. these three principle-elements become manifested within the four elements of nature. there exists the heat of fire and air, the humidity of air and water, and the dryness of fire and earth. these are the three principle-elements, the i.a.o, the sulfur, mercury and salt contained within th

remember that the number seven represents magical power in all of its strength. the holy seven is the sanctum regnum of sexual magic; number seven is the intimus served by all of the elemental forces of nature. every one who works with the arcanum a.z.f. receives the flaming sword of the seventh arcanum. in the name of truth we affirm that the flaming sword of the great hierophants is absolutely transmuted semen. it is the outcome of sexual magic. this is how we transform ourselves into terribly divine gods. the sexual organs are the legitimate laboratorium oratorium of the amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae. these are the sanctum regnum where the hierophant receives the sword of justice. vitriol in the alchemical garden of pleasures, we find the word vitriol. this word (vitriol) is an acr

c bica de jesod (el sexo. las dos esfinges blanca y negra que tiran su carro simbolizan las fuerzas masculinas y femeninas. la coraza es la ciencia divina que nos hace poderosos. el guerrero debe aprender a usar el b culo y la espada. as lograr la gran victoria. nuestra divisa es thelema (voluntad) 50 let us remember that there are seven vices that we must transmute into wisdom and love: pride is transmuted into the solar faith and into the humility of the christ. lunar avarice is transformed into hope, altruism [and generosity. the fatal venusian lust is transmuted into the chastity of venus and into charity of the spirit. martian anger is transmuted into the marvelous force of love [and meekness. laziness is transmuted into prudent mercurian diligence. gluttony is transmuted into saturni

ar faith and into the humility of the christ. lunar avarice is transformed into hope, altruism [and generosity. the fatal venusian lust is transmuted into the chastity of venus and into charity of the spirit. martian anger is transmuted into the marvelous force of love [and meekness. laziness is transmuted into prudent mercurian diligence. gluttony is transmuted into saturnian temperance. envy is transmuted into jupiterian philanthropy and happiness for others. we can disintegrate our defects and dissolve the psychological "i, only by means of the science of transmutations. work with the arcanum a.z.f. in order to receive the sword. the rulers of the seven planets are: gabriel: moon raphael: mercury uriel: venus michael: sun samael: mars zachariel: jupiter orifiel: saturn the seven notes o

contact in the triveni, next to the coccyx, the kundalini awakens [the serpent of brass nachash. the sexual act among initiates, male and female, has only one objective, that of establishing a contact of opposite poles in order to awaken their kundalini. with the sexual contact, the mercury of secret philosophy multiplies (the seminal liquor increases. when the ens seminis is not ejaculated it is transmuted into seminal vapors. these vapors, at the same time, convert themselves into energies and are bipolarized into positive and negative. the positive are solar forces, the negative are lunar forces. these solar and lunar energies rise through the pair of sympathetic cords that are known as the two witnesses- id and pingal. the medullar channel has an internal orifice that normally is found

y the ninth key of basil valentine in the illustration of viridarium chymicum. the ninth key represents old saturn falling and the goddess moon victoriously rising. saturn is the lead and the moon is the silver (the terrestrial adam, the psychological i. it must fall and die so that the adam christ can be born within us. we need to transmute the lead into gold. the lead of our personality must be transmuted into the gold of the spirit. the moon-mercury-sophic (the ens seminis) must rise and return inwardly and upwardly. to disincarnate signifies to perpetuate error. the psychological i, the terrestrial adam is born millions of times; in order to satisfy desires. terrestrial births are the perpetuation of ignorance. to be born in spirit and in truth signifies death for the terrestrial adam

ellos que no tienen conflicto sexual de ninguna especie. la sexualidad en personas de sexo normal, est en equilibrio perfecto con las esferas de pensamiento, sentimiento y voluntad. esas personas no abusan del sexo ni tienen aberraciones de ninguna especie. 67 the sphere of suprasexuality is the sphere of internal illumination. sexual enjoyment precedes the mystical ecstasy. sexual sensations are transmuted into sensations of ineffable ecstasy. the age of mystical ecstasy is always preceded by the age of sexual enjoyment. thus, the human life span of mystical ecstasy begins where the human life span of sexual enjoyment ends. after having attained the venusian initiation, in other words, after the adam christ has been born within us, we must then extract the philosophical egg from the rotte

n the macrocosmos, in the human being and in nature. the great vulcan of nature is eden, this is the etheric world. cosmic rhythms any alchemist fledgling (after having been crowned) is getting away little by little from the sexual act. the connubial secret is more distant each time according to certain cosmic rhythms marked by the oriental gong. this is how the sexual energies are sublimated and transmuted in a continuous ecstasy. the alchemist fledgling that worked in the magisterium of fire in former reincarnations performs this laboratory work in a relatively short time. however, those who for the first time work in the great work need at least (20) twenty years of intense work in order to enter into the second part for another (20) twenty years in order to slowly withdraw from the lab

nonetheless, i always follow the star which leads my interior. indeed, that star is always the same; it does not change in any of our reincarnations. it is the star of the father. thus, what is most important for us is to incarnate that star of the father. behold here the mystery of the arcanum seventeen. when the sap, which is contained within the cups of gold and silver, is wisely combined and transmuted, it allows us to attain the incarnation of the star. the star, crucified on the cross, is the christ. en los ashrama del indost n se practica muy secretamente la magia sexual! todo verdadero yogui iniciado de la india trabaja con el arcano a.z.f. ense ado por los grandes yoguis indostan es que visitaron el occidente del mundo, y si esto no ha sido ense ado por stos grandes yoguis inicia

WOLFSON ELLIOT ALEF MEM TAU KABBALISTIC MUSINGS ON TIME TRUTH AND DEATH

e traditional standing-prayer. when the worshipper has climbed to the top of the ladder of prayer, the scala contemplativa, and he is bound to and absorbed in the source of the will, all his petitions are fulfilled, since this source is the world of mercy (olam rahamim)225 that has no opposing force of judgment, the coincidentia oppositorum wherein all demerits are rendered meritorious, all guilt transmuted into innocence.226 in this place of conjunction a place tellingly designated in one zoharic passage as the place that is no place 227 there is perfect harmony, indeed convergence, of the human and divine wills. moreover, in this place that is no place, the space of pure mercy, there is no opposite, nothing contrary. here one can ascertain the temporal pulse of divine creativity, identif

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thy son in a shining robe of glory (she puts the robe on postulant and points to the cross on the floor) sh "the last shall be the first; and the lowest, the highest. yea, malkuth shall be exalted unto the throne of kether and all shall be consumed and become infinite and holy. for behold! the stone which the builder rejected, the same shall become the chief cornerstone. the cross of suffering is transmuted with the keystone of the arch; and raised thereon above the earth, the son shall offer that which he hath received and peradventure then may behold the face of his father (the postulant must fold up the cross into a cube and kneel thereon, supported by sh and kg. postulant holds his crystal in both hands and bends his head (there is a pause (magus appears behind veil) mg "be still, my s

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