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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

urio' p. xxxii. quintam feriam in honorem jovis honorasti, p. xxxvii. on thursday evening one must neither spin nor hew; superst, swed. 55. 110. and germ. 517. 703. the esthonians think thursday holier than sunday^ what punishment overtook the transgressor, may be gathered from another superstition, which, it is true, substituted the hallowed day of christ for that of donar: he that shall work on trinity sunday (the next after pentecost, or shall wear anything sewed or knitted (on that day, shall be stricken by thunder; scheffer's haltaus, p. 225 (see suppl. if jupiter had these lionours paid him in the 8tli century, if the capitulare of 743 thought it needful expressly to enjoin an' ec forsacho thunarc' and much that related to his service remained uneradicated a long time after; it canno

was consiilted. 2 the lettish laima, at the birth of a child, lays the sheet imder it, and determines its fortune. and on other occasions in life they say' taip laima leme' so fate ordained it; no doubt laima is closely connected with lemti (ordinare, disponere. she runs barefooted over the hills (see ch. xvii, watersprites. there is also mentioned a dchlda (nursing-mother, from debt to suckle. a trinity of jmrcae, and their spinning a thread, are unknown to the lettons; conf. stender's gramm. p. 264. ehesas dainos pp. 272 ;309. 310. the lithuanians do know a iverjkya (spinner. the ausland for 1839, no. 278 has a pretty lithuanian legend: the dieves valditoycs were seven goddesses, the first one spun the lives of men out of a distaff given her by the highest god, the second set up the warp

4 7 INITIATION CEREMONY

, sword. hegemon: white robe, white nemyss, black collar, red shoes, lamen, scepter. candidate: black robe, red shoes, sash. required materials for the altar 2 red tapers calvary cross of 6 squares 16th key of the tarot required materials for the temple banners of the east and west temple pillars hebrew letters: mem, ayin, peh, resh, shin alchemical symbol of sulphur on the tree of life tablet of trinity operating through the sephiroth tablet of 7 yetziratic palaces in 10 sephiroth tablet of qlippoth with 12 princes enochian fire tablet 3 red lamps censer 4 chairs 3 cups of water 3 small altars part iii (temple arranged as in diagram. temple is darkened) hiero: honoured hegemon, you have my command to present the practicus with the necessary admission badge and to admit him (her. heg: rise

e alchemical symbol of mercury was explained to you in the previous grade. the symbol of salt embraces all the sephiroth but malkuth, and is as it were, the reconciler between the sulphur and the mercury. the horizontal dividing line implies the precept of hermes as above, so below. hiero: resumes his place. hiereus: heg: pract: move to the tablets in the west. hiereus: this tablet represents the trinity operating through the sephiroth, and reflected downwards in the four triangles of the elements, through the tree of life. notice that air is reflected from kether through tiphareth to yesod. water is reflected from binah through chesed to hod; and fire is reflected from chokmah through geburah to netzach. while malkuth is earth, the receptacle of the other three. on this second tablet is t

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

es with romance and passion, originally because this coincided with peak female fertility. moon magick for the increase of love and fertility is still practised under the auspices of the waxing moon. it was not until about 3,000 years ago that the male role in conception was fully understood in the west, and only then were the sky father deities able to usurp the mysteries of the divine mother. a trinity of huge, carved stone goddesses, representing the three main cycles of the moon, and dating from between 13000 and 11000 bc, was found in france in a cave at the abri du roc aux sorciers at angles-sur-l'anglin. this motif continued right through to the triple goddess of the celts, reflecting the lunar cycles as maiden, mother and crone, an image that also appeared throughout the classical

estess consecrates the salt and the high priest the water and they mingle them. the high priestess then creates the first circle and the high priest the second. casting a triple circle three is a sacred number in magick and for special ceremonies you can create a triple circle of both power and protection. the number three represents the three aspects of the god figure in many religions: the holy trinity, the triple goddess, the three aspects of the moon -maiden, mother and wise woman or crone- the trefoil or triple god of the celts, and the even older egyptian trinity of isis, osiris and horus, the young sky god. this triplicity is still celebrated when we turn our money over and bow three times to the moon for good luck* create your first two circles of light and salt water* return to th

orus was the ancient egyptian sky god, represented as a falcon or a falcon-headed man. his eyes were the sun and moon and his wings could extend across the entire heavens. he was frequently associated with the morning aspect of ra, the sun god, and worshipped as re-harakhte. the son of isis and osiris, he is often depicted as an infant on his mother's lap and together the parents and child form a trinity. horus brings clarity of mind and purpose and the ability to seize upon an opportunity, and is effective for uncovering secrets, deception and illusion. lugh lugh, the celtic 'shining one, who gives his name to lughnassadh, celtic festival of the first harvest, was the young solar deity who replaced the dagda, father of the gods, as supreme king. he was associated with sacrifice, as the su

courage, righteous anger, protection of the vulnerable, psychic protection and the correction of injustice. as an avenging goddess, she should be used only as a focus for positive rituals, for, like fire, her innate power can blaze out of control. shiva shiva, or siva, is the hindu god of both creation and destruction, good and evil, fertility and abstinence. with vishnu and brahma, he forms the trinity of the modern hindu gods. he is the lord of the dance who, it is said, will one day bring about the destruction of the world. his symbol is the phallus, representing creative power, and many hindus regard his benevolent, creative aspect as predominant. shiva has three eyes, represented by the sun, the moon and fire. his third eye allows him to see inwards and also to destroy whatever it lo

he centre of your altar or on any flat surface, together with your three chosen oils (or you can work with a single fragrance if you prefer* to the south of it, set your money pot with the lid open and your coins* place your symbols of abundance on the tray to the north of the dish* arrange your gold, blue or beeswax candles in a triangle (this sacred shape represents the triple goddess, the holy trinity and the egyptian isis, osiris and horus. the candle at the apex of the triangle should be in the north, with the other two forming the base to the south, so that the triangle creates a protective enclosure. if you have room, set your candles in holders on the floor or in candlesticks on small tables or chairs at each of the points and have the altar in the centre. this is my preferred meth

ABRAMELIN1

place, using the ceremonies before spoken of, first by sprinkling thyself, then, making. a perfume, you shall sign the cross with holy oil on the forehead, and anoint your eyes, using prayer in all these consecrations. then open the lamen and pray before the altar upon your knees; and then an invocation may be made as follows: an invocation of the good spirits. in the name of the blessed and holy trinity, i do desire ye, strong and mighty angels (here name the spirit or spirits you would have appear, that if it be the divine will of him who is called tetragrammaton, etc, the holy god, the father, that ye take upon ye some shape as best becometh your celestial nature, and appear to us visibly here in this place, and answer our demands, in as far as we shall not transgress the bounds of the

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

ne day in the living quarters of l.k. barnes attired in a beret, a suit of some dark, fibrous material, and a attache case which contained- besides correspondence from various balkan embassies and a photograph of the f-104 fighter being crated up for shipment to luxembourg- additional material on the necronomicon which proved his bona fides. also at that meeting was the third member of the unholy trinity, james wasserman of studio 31 who- according to a south american cult leader- died during the last year, but who has been able with assistance from the stone of the wise and certain of the formulae in this book, to go on about his business like unto a living man. with simon's manuscript, barnes' occult vision and aesthetic scruples, and wasserman's production experience and tireless labour

ne day in the living quarters of l.k. barnes attired in a beret, a suit of some dark, fibrous material, and a attache case which contained- besides correspondence from various balkan embassies and a photograph of the f-104 fighter being crated up for shipment to luxembourg- additional material on the necronomicon which proved his bona fides. also at that meeting was the third member of the unholy trinity, james wasserman of studio 31 who- according to a south american cult leader- died during the last year, but who has been able with assistance from the stone of the wise and certain of the formulae in this book, to go on about his business like unto a living man. with simon's manuscript, barnes' occult vision and aesthetic scruples, and wasserman's production experience and tireless labour

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

wed by a mark of exclamation; its reference to the theogony of "liber legis" is explained in the note, but it also refers to kteis phallos book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 10 and sperma, and is the exclamation of wonder or ecstasy, which is the ultimate nature of things. note (1) silence. nuit, o; hadit; ra-hoor-khuit, i. commentary (the ante primal triad) this is the negative trinity; its three statements are, in an ultimate sense, identical. they harmonise being, becoming, not-being, the three possible modes of conceiving the universe. the statement, nothing is not, technically equivalent to something is, is fully explained in the essay called berashith. the rest of the chapter follows the sephirotic system of the qabalah, and constitutes a sort of quintessential comm

et any book for free on: www.abika.com 12 duality to unity, and thence to negativity, and is thus a hieroglyph of the great work. the word pan is then explained, pi, the letter of mars, is a hieroglyph of two pillars, and therefore suggest duality; a, by its shape, is the pentagram, energy, and n, by its tarot attribution, is death. nox is then further explained, and it is shown that the ultimate trinity, o, is supported, or fed, by the process of death and begetting, which are the laws of the universe. the identity of these two is then explained. the student is then charged to understand the spiritual importance of this physical procession in line 5. it is then asserted that the ultimate letter a has two names, or phases, life and death. line 7 balances line 5. it will be notice that the

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

ast 666; magus 9 degree= 2square a. a. who is the word of the aeon thelema; whose name is called v.v.v.v.v. 8 degree= 3square a. a. in the city of the pyramids; ou mh 7 degree= 4square a. a; ol sonuf vaoresagi 6 degree= 5square, and. 5 degree= 6square a. a. in the mountain of abiegnus: but frater perdurabo in the outer order or the a. a. and in the world of men upon the earth, aleister crowley of trinity college, cambridge- xxv contents (this portion of the book should be studied in connection with its parts i. and ii) 0 the magical theory of the universe. i the principles of ritual. ii the formulae of the elemental weapons. iii the formula of tetragrammaton. iv the formula of alhim: also that of alim. v the formula of i. a. o. vi the formula of the neophyte. vii the formula of the holy gr

i, and konx om pax "unity" transcends "consciousness. it is above all division. the father of thought- the word- is called chaos- the dyad. the number three, the mother, is called babalon. in connection with this the reader should study "the temple of solomon the king" in equinox i, v, and liber 418. this first triad is essentially unity, in a manner transcending reason. the comprehension of this trinity is a matter of spiritual experience. all true gods are attributed to this trinity<christian trinity are of a nature suited only to initiates of the ix degree of o.t.o, as they enclose the final secret of all practical magick> an immeasurable abyss divides it from all manifestations of reason or the lower qualities of man. in the ultimate analysis of reason, we find a

which i.a.o. are all fathers of different kinds balanced by h.h.h, 3 mothers, to complete the universe. in a third, the true formula of the beast 666, i and o are the opposites which form the field for the operation of a. but this is a higher matter unsuited for this elementary handbook. see, however, liber samekh, point ii, section j> the same idea is expressed by the rosicrucian formula of the trinity "ex deo nascimur. in jesu morimur per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus" this is also identical with the word lux, l.v.x, which is formed by the arms of a cross. it is this formula which is implied in those ancient and modern monuments in which the phallus is worshipped as the saviour of the world. the doctrine of resurrection as vulgarly understood is false and absurd. it is not even "scriptu

mouth wide open, through the buccal cavity with the lips so shaped as to modify the sound from a to o (or u, to the closed lips, when it becomes m. symbolically, this announces the course of nature as proceeding from free and formless creation through controlled and formed preservation to the silence of destruction. the three sounds are harmonized into one; and thus the word represents the hindu trinity of brahma, vishnu, and shiva; and the operations in the universe of their triune energy. it is thus the formula of a manvantara, or period of manifested existence, which alternates with a pralaya, during which creation is latent. analysed qabalistically, the word is found to possess similar properties. a is the negative, and also the unity which concentrates it into a positive form. a is t

as no special significance as such, because unity is omniform. it represents kether, which is the source of all things equally without partaking of any quality by which we discriminate one thing from another. continuing on these lines, the number of knocks will refer to the sephira or other idea qabalistically cognate with that number. thus, 7 knocks will intimate venus, 11 the great work, 17 the trinity of fathers, and 19 the feminine principle in its most general sense. analyzing the matter a little further, we remark firstly that a battery of too many knocks is confusing, as well as liable to overweight the other parts of the ritual. in practice, 11 is about the limit. it is usually not difficult to arrange to cover all necessary ground with that number. secondly, each is so extensive i

d that deifiest, being that race, most royally run, to spring sunshine through winter storm. glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! first semichorus: men. glory to thee from gilded tomb. second semichorus: women. glory to thee from waiting womb. men. glory to thee from earth unploughed! women. glory to thee from virgin vowed! men. glory to thee, true unity of the eternal trinity! women. glory to thee, thou sire and dam and self of i am that i am! 358 men. glory to thee, eternal sun, thou one in three, thou three in one! chorus. glory and worship unto thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree "these words are to form the substance of the anthem; but the whole or any part thereof shall be set to music, which may be as elaborate as art can. but even should other anthem

infinity. wherein sorrow is joy, and change is stability, and selflessness is self. for the interplay of the parts hath no action upon the whole. and this contemplation shall be performed not by simple meditation- how much less then by reason- but by the method which shall have been given unto him in his initiation to the grade. 17. following which method, it shall be easy for him to combine that trinity from its elements, and further to combine sat-chit-ananda, and light, love, life, three by three into nine that are one, in which meditation success shall be that which was first adumbrated to him in the grade of practicus (which reflecteth mercury into the lowest world) in "liber xxvii "here is nothing under its three forms" 18. and this is the opening of the grade of ipsissimus, and by t

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

low enough spirits to please anybody; but turn my thoughts to magick- the years fall off. i am again the gay, quick, careless boy to whom the world was gracious. let this serve for an epitaph: gray took eleven years; i, less. elegy written in a country farmyard by cock-a-doodle-doo here lies upon this hospitable spot a youth to flats and flatties unknown; the plymouth brethren gave it to him hot; trinity, cambridge, claimed him for her own. he climbed a lot of mountains in his time he stalked the tiger, bear and elephant. he wrote a stack of poems, some sublime, some not. tales, essays, pictures, plays my aunt! at chess a minor master, hoylake set his handicap at two. love drove him crazy. three thousand women used to call him pet; in other matters- shall we call him "lazy? he had the gift

and the whole man is temporarily engulphed in what is naturally not far from a condition of insanity (now, athanasius! it's all right; the lady has gone away to think it over) in- shall i say "anglo-saxondom" or "teutonic breeds" or "bourgeoisie, so as to include some of the french whom when they are good are very good indeed, but when they are bad, they are horrid- the presiding god/gods of this trinity is/are: 1. sex, 2. religion, 3 "drugs" and the greatest of these is sex, actually the main root of which the other two are tough and twisted stems, each with its peculiar species of poisonous flowers, sometimes superficially so attractive that their nastiness passes for beauty. i shall leave it to the psychoanalysts to demonstrate the reduction to sex, merely remarking that though i agree

he sore spot, magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 303 analyse it, probe it; then disinfection and the vis medicatrix naturae, complete the cure. i had just finished this when in comes your very pertinent "supplementary" postcard "doesn't hypocrisy fit in here, somehow" indeed it does, my child! corresponding to, and the poison bacillus of, that centre of infection, 38 is a trinity of pure evil, the total abnegation of thelema. well known to the psycho-analyst: the name thereof shame- guilt- fear. the anglo-saxon or bourgeois mentality is soaked therein; and his remedy so far from our exploratory-disinfection method, is to hide the gangrened mass with dirty poultices. he has always a text of scripture or some other authority to paint his foulest acts in glowing colou

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

nifested as the one: it is the universe freed from its conditions. not only are all forms and ideas destroyed, but also those conceptions which are implicit in our ideas of those ideas<black is white" but "the whiteness of black is the "essential" of its blackness "naught= one= infinity; but this is only true "because" of this threefold arrangement, a trinity or "triangle of contradictories> each part of the universe has become the whole, and phenomena and noumena are no longer opposed. but it is quite impossible to describe this state of mind. one can only specify some of the characteristics, and that in language which forms no image in mind. it is impossible for anyone who experiences it to bring back any adequate memory, nor can we conceive

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

99 a giving freely; charity hqdc 200 wings mypnk a branch pn( bone; substance, essence; body mc( archetypal nwmdq summer cyq a sling; a casting-net (lq divination; witchcraft msq 201 light (ch) r) 202 to make empty qqb corn, grain; a field; son; pure, empty; chosen; purity, innocence rb a lifting up hpyqz apertures mybqn many; much; great, mighty; multitude, abundance br 203 lead; initials of the trinity, xwr nb b; passed away, perished; feather, wing (moreover the genital member; cf. 248& 447) rb) to lie in wait br) a well, spring: a title of malkuth r)b created )rb exotic, foreign; dwelling rg greater (ar )br 204 commencement of the name abra-melin )rb) pearl; race; age rd the righteous qydc 205 splendrous rd) mighty; hero rbg mountain rh 206 assembly; area )rd) hail drb spake; word, thi

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

t 36. a crescendo of ecstasy in the mere thought of performing these rituals; which are in preparation under the great guidance of v.v.v.v.v. the new comment each element- fire, earth, air, water, and spirit- possesses its own nature, will, and magical formula. each one may then have its appropriate ritual. many such in crude form are described in the golden bough of dr. j.g. frazer, the glory of trinity! in particular the entry of the sun into the cardinal signs of the elements at the equinoxes and solstices are suitable for festivals. the difference between 'rituals' and 'feasts' is this: by the one a particular form of energy is generated, while there is a general discharge of one's superfluous force in the other. yet a feast implies periodical nourishment. al ii,37 "a feast for the fir

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OTO GNOSTIC MASS

nd that deifiest, being that race, most royally run to spring sunshine through winter storm. glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! first semichorus, men: glory to thee from gilded tomb! second semichorus, women: glory to thee from waiting womb! men: glory to thee from earth unploughed! women: glory to thee from virgin vowed! men: glory to thee, true unity of the eternal trinity! women: glory to thee, thou sire and dam and self of i am that i am! men: glory to thee, beyond all term, thy spring of sperm, thy seed and germ! women: glory to thee, eternal sun, thou one in three, thou three in one! chorus: glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree (these words are to form the substance of the anthem; but the whole or any part thereof shall be set

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

word tycarb by solom meir ben moses, a jewish qabalist, who embraced the christian faith in 1665, and took the name of prosper rugere. these all have a christian tendency, and by their means prosper converted another jew, who had previously been bitterly opposed to christianity. the first is \ymt djy \tcwlc ba jwr b, ben ruach ab, shaloshethem yechad themim: the son, the spirit, the father, their trinity, perfect unity. the second is wdwbut djy \tcwlc ba jwr b, ben ruach ab, shaloshethem yechad thaubodo: the son, the spirit, the father, ye shall equally worship their trinity. the third is wdwbut uwcy wmc rca ywncar yrwkb, bekori rashuni asher shamo yeshuah thaubodo: ye shall worship my first-born, my first, whose name is jesus. the fourth is wdwbut uwcy wmc rca br awbb, beboa rabban ashar

277, is 30+ 600+ 200+ 2+ 5= 837 (by gematria) lz tt, tat zal, the profuse giver. thus, by writing the mem as a final instead of the ordinary character, the word is made to bear a different qabalistical meaning. it is to be further noted with regard to the first word in the bible, tycarb, berashith, that the first three letters, arb, are the initial letters of the names of the three persons of the trinity: b, ben, the son; jwr, ruach, the spirit; and ba, ab, the father. furthermore the first letter of the bible is b, which is the initial letter of hkrb, berakhah, blessing; and not a, which is that of rra, arar, cursing. again, the letters of berashith, taking their numerical powers, express the number of years between the creation and the birth of christ, thus: b= 2000, r= 200, a= 1000, c=

wa, auphamim, the wheels. it is also called ba, the father. the third sephira, or triad, is a feminine passive potency, called hnyb, binah, the understanding, who is co-equal with chokmah. for chokmah, the number 2, is like two straight lines which can never enclose a space, and therefore is powerless till the number 3 forms the triangle. thus this sephira completes and makes evident the supernal trinity. it is also called ama, ama, mother, and amya, aima, the great productive mother,15 who is eternally conjoined with ba, the father, for the maintenance of the universe in order. therefore she is the most evident form in which can know the father, and therefore is she worthy of all honour. she is the supernal mother, co-equal with chokmah, and the great feminine form of god, the elohim,16 i

seraphim (isaiah vi, 6. this sephira is also called djp, pachad, fear. the number 6. and from these two issued the uniting sephirah, trapt, tiphereth, beauty or mildness,18 represented by the divine name tudw hwla, eloah va-daath, and the angelic names \ynanc, shinanim (psalm lxviii, 18) or \yklm, melekim, kings. thus by the union of justice and mercy we obtain beauty and clemency, and the second trinity of the sephiroth is complete. this sephira, or path or numeration for by these latter appellations the emanations are sometimes called together with the fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth, and ninth sephiroth, is spoken of as ypna ryuz, zauir anpin, the lesser contenance, or microprosopus, by way of antithesis to macroprosopus, or the vast countance, which is one of the names of kether, the fi

, hod, splendour, answering to the divine name twabx \yhla, elohim tzabaoth, the gods of armies, and among the angels to \yhla ynb, beni elohim, the sons of the gods (genesis vi, 4. the number 9. these two produced dwsy, yesod, the foundation or basis, represented by yj la, the mighty living one, and ydc, shaddai: and among the angels by \yca, aishim, the flames (psalms civ, 4, yielding the third trinity of the sephiroth. the number 10. from this ninth sephira came the tenth and last, thus completing the decad of the numbers. it is called twklm, malkuth, the kingdom, and also the queen, matrona, the inferior mother, the bride of microprosopus; and hnykc, shekinah,19 represented by the divine name ynda, adonai,20 and among the angelic hosts by the kerubim \ybwrk. 17 add, in another sense, c

ical meaning of the term alqtm, metheqela, balance. in each of the three trinities or triads of the sephiroth is a duad of opposite sexes, and a uniting intelligence which is the result. in this, the masculine and feminine potencies are regarded as the two scales of the balance, and the uniting sephira as the beam which joins them. thus, then, the term balance may be said to symbolize the triune, trinity in unity, and the unity represented by the central point of the beam. but, again, in the sephiroth there is a triple trinity, the upper, lower and middle. now, these three are represented thus: the supernal, or highest, but the crown, kether; the middle by the king, and the inferior by the queen; which will be the greatest trinity. and the earthly correlatives of these will be the primum m

iad being placed above, the second and third below, in such a manner that the three masculine sephiroth are on the right, three feminine on the left, whilst the four uniting sephiroth occupy the centre. this is the qabalistical tree of life, on which all things depend. there is considerable analogy between this and the tree yggdrasil of the scandinavians. i have already remarked that there is one trinity which comprises all the sephiroth, and that it consists of the crown, the king, and the queen (in some senses this is the christian trinity of father, son and holy spirit, which in their highest divine nature are symbolized by the first three sephiroth, kether, chokmah, and binah) it is the trinity which created the world, or, in qabalistic language, the universe was born from the union of

is the abode of darkness. next follow seven hells occupied by thoe demons which represent incarnate human vices, and torture those who have given themselves up to those vices in earth-life. their prince is lams, samael, the angel of poison and of death.24 his wife is the harlot, or woman of whoredom \ynwnz tca, isheth zanunim;25 and united they are called the beast, awyj, chioa. thus the infernal trinity is completed, which is, so to speak, the averse and caricature of the supernal creative one. samael is considered to be identical with satan. the name of the deity, which we call jehovah, is in hebrew a name of four letters, hwhy; and the true pronunciation of it is known to very few. i myself know some score of different mystical pronunciations of it. the true pronunciation is a most secr

wyhh, yhhw, hhyw, hyhw, whyh, hwyh, ywhh. there are three other tetragrammatic names, which are hyha, eheieh, existence; ynda, adonai, lord; and alga, agla. this last is not, properly speaking, a word, but is a notariqon of the sentence ynda \lwul rwbg hta, ateh gibor le-olahm adonai, thou art mighty for ever, o lord! a brief explanation of agla is this: a, the one first; a, the one last; g, the trinity in unity; l, the completion of the great work. but hwhy, the tetragrammaton, as we shall presently see, contains all the sephiroth with the exception of kether, and specially signifies the lesser countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistic sephirothic greatest trinity, and the son in his human incarnation in the christian acceptation of the trinity. therefore, as the son reveals

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

t your life! fondle your child, and buss your wife! trust not, fear not, street straight and strong! don t worry, but just get along. i used to envy all my balti coolies21 120 in an inverse kind of religious hysteria, though every one a perfect fool is, to judge by philosophic criteria, my lord archbishop. the name of winchester, harrow, or eton22 makes them not two inches stir. 125 they know not trinity, merton, or christchurch; they worship, but not at your back-pews-high-priced church. i ve seen them at twenty thousand feet on the ice, in a snow-storm, at night fall, repeat their prayer23 will your grace do as much for your three 130 as they do for their one? i have seen may you see! they sleep and know not what a mat is; seem to enjoy their cold chapaties* are healthy, strong and some

tead of kneeling to receive the blessing of the officating bishop, i renounce for ever this idolatrous church; and was quietly removed. he told mathilde doriac that he had been to eton and cambridge neither institution, however, preserves any record of scuh admission. the imagination of george, indeed, is tremendously fertile with regard to events in his own life. his own story is that he entered trinity college, cambridge, in 1856, and was sent down two years later for an article which he had contributed to some university of college magazine. no confirmation of any sort is to be found anywhere with regard to these or any other statements of our author. there is, however, no doubt that in 1861 he quarreled with his family; went over to paris, where he settled down, at first, like every tu

ght without and saw that all things were alike in this; that nought might escape the threefold misery. the soul, he said, the soul, the i, is as all of these; it is impermanent as the ephemeral flower of beauty in the water that is born and shines and dies ere sun be risen and set again. and he humiliated his heart and sang the following verse: brahma, and vishnu, and great shiva! truly i see the trinity in all things dwell, some rightly tinged of heaven, others duly pitched down the steep and precipice of hell. nay, not your glory ye from fable borrow! these three i see in spirit and in sense, these three, o miserable see! sorrow, absence of ego, and impermanence! and at the rhythm he swooned, for his old mantra surged up in the long-sealed vessels of sub-conscious memory, and he fell int

rect5 is the twined, and the twined is the coiled, and the coiled is the twin, and the twin are the stoopers. they think as the big- nose-folk. save us, o lord! 1 nechesh the serpent and messiach the redeemer. 2 abigenos, abiagnus, biagenos, abiegnus, metatheses of the name of the mystic mountain of initiation. the next paragraph has been explained in the essay qabalistic dogma. 3 the belief in a trinity ignorance of daath. 4 belief in monism, or rather advaitism. crowley was a monist only in the modern scientific sense of that word. 5 confusion of the various mystic serpents. the big-nose-folk= the jews. we leave the rest to the insight of the reader. appendix ii 118 abracadabra* amethsh. ye fylfar. mysterium matris.1 evocatio. lucus. ain elohim. the chariot. four hundred and eighteen. fi

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ge which poureth forth from the stern of a ship full of hogs. o! eros, fly, speed! await not the awakening oil to scorch thy cheek, lest thou discover that thy darling has grown hideous and wanton, and that in the place of a fair maiden there slimeth a huge slug fed of the cabbage-stalks of decay. o theos! o pantheos! o atheos! triple god of the brotherhood of warriors. evoe! i adore thee, o thou trinity of might and majesty- thou silent unity that rulest the hearts of the great. alas! that men are dead, their thrones of gold empty, and their palaces of pearl fallen into ruin! grandeur and glory have departed, so that now in the elysian fields the sheep of woolly understanding nibble the green turnip-tops of reason and the stubble in the reaped cornfields of knowledge. now all is rational

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three of the more obscure books of the zohar. 3 weh note: this observation led mathers to miss-identify a picture of moses as metatron in his edition (not translation, the mss were in english) of "the greater key of solomon" to christianity. the first is, bn rvch ab shlvshthm ichd thmim, ben, ruach, ab, shaloshethem yechad thaubodo "the son, the spirit, the father, ye shall equally worship their trinity" the third is bkvri rashvni ashr shmv ishvo thobvdv, bekori rashuni asher shamo yeshuah thaubodo "ye shall worship my first-born, my first, whose name is jesus" the fourth is, bbva rbn ashr shmv ishvo thobvdv, beboa rabban asher shamo yeshuah thaubodo "when the master shall come whose name is jesus ye shall worship" the fifth is, bthvlh ravih abchr shthld ish vo thashrvh, bethulh raviah ab

40+ 200+ 2+ 5= 277, is 30+ 600+ 200+ 2+ 5= 837= by gematria thth zl, tet zal, the profuse giver. thus by writing the m final instead of the ordinary character, the word is made to bear a different qabalistical meaning. it is to be further noted with regard to the first word in the bible, brashith, that the first three letters, bra, are the initial letters of the names of the three persons of the trinity: bn, ben the son; rvch, ruach, the spirit; and ab, ab the father. furthermore the first letter of the bible is b, which is the initial letter of brkh, berakhah, blessing; and not a, which is that of arr, arar, cursing. again, the letters of berashith, taking their numerical powers, express the number of the years between the creation and the birth of christ, thus: b= 2,000, r= 200, a- 1,00

the wheels (ezek. i. it is also called ab, ab, the father. the third sephira, or triad, is a feminine passive potency, called binh, binah, the understanding, who is co-equal with chokmah. for chokmah, the number 2, is like two straight lines which can never enclose a space, and therefore it is powerless till the number 3 forms a triangle. thus this sephira completes and makes evident the supernal trinity. it is also called ama, ama, mother, and aima, mima, the great productive mother, who is eternally conjoined with ab, the father, for the maintenance of the universe in order. there fore is she the most evident form in whom we can know the father, and therefore is she worthy of all honour. she is the supernal mother, co-equal with chokmah, and the great feminine form of god, the elohim, in

, seraphim (isa. vi. 6. this sephira is also called pchd, pachad, fear. the number 6. and from these two issued the uniting sephira, thparth, tiphereth, beauty or mildness, represented by the divine name alvh vdoth, eloah va-daath, and the angelic names, shinanim, shnanim (ps. lxviii. 18, or mlkim, melakim, kings. thus by the union of justice and mercy we obtain beauty or clemency, and the second trinity of the sephiroth is complete. this sephira, or "path" or "numeration- for by these latter appellations the emanations are sometimes called- together with the fourth, fifth, seventh eighth, and ninth sephiroth, is spoken of as zoir anpin, zaur anpin, the lesser countenance, microprosopus, by way of antithesis to macroprosopus, or the vast countenance, which is one of the names of kether, th

splendour, answering to the divine name alhim tzbavth, elohim tzabaoth, the god of armies, and among the angels to bni alhim, beni elohim, the sons of the gods (gen. vi. 4. the number 9. these two produced isvd, yesod, the foundation or basis, represented by al chi, el chai, the mighty living one, and shdi, shaddai; and among the angels by ashim, aishim, the flames (ps. civ. 5, yielding the third trinity of the sephiroth. 79 the number 10. from this ninth sephira came the tenth and last, thus completing the decad of the numbers. it is called mlvth, malkuth, the kingdom, and also the queen, matrona, the inferior mother, the bride of microprosopus; and shkinh, shekinah, represented by the divine name adonai, adni, and among the angel hosts by the kerubim, krvbim. now, each of these 5 weh not

stical meaning of the term mthqla, metheqla, balance. in each of the three trinities or triads of the sephiroth is a duad of opposite sexes, and a uniting intelligence which is the result. in this, the masculine and feminine potencies are regarded as the two scales of the balance, and the uniting sephira as the beam that joins them. thus, then, the term balance maybe said to symbolise the triune, trinity in unity, and the unity represented by the central point of the beam. but, again, in the sephiroth there is a triple trinity, the upper, lower, and middle. now, these three are represented thus: the supernal, or highest, by the crown, kether; the middle by the king, and the inferior by the queen; which will be the greatest trinity. and the earthy correlatives of these will be the primum mo

g placed above, the 80 second and third below, in such a manner that the three masculine sephiroth are on the right, the three feminine on the left, whilst the four uniting sephiroth occupy the centre. this is the qabalistical "tree of life" on which all things depend. there is considerable analogy between this and the tree yggdrasil of the scandinavians. i have already remarked that there is one trinity which comprises all the sephiroth, and that it consists of the crown, the king, and the queen (in some senses this is the christian trinity of father, son, and holy spirit, which in their highest divine nature are symbolised by the first three sephiroth, kether, chokmah, and binah) it is the trinity which created the world; or, in qabalistical language, the universe was born from the union

the third is the abode of darkness. next follow seven hells occupied by those demons which represent incarnate human vices, and those who have given themselves up to such vices in earth-life. their prince is samael, smal, the angel of poison and death. his wife is the harlot, or woman of whoredom, ashth znvnim, isheth zennuim; and united they are called the beast, chiva, chioa. thus the infernal trinity is completed which is, so to speak,the averse and caricature of the supernal creative one. samael is considered to be identical with satan. the name of the deity, which we call jehovah, is in hebrew ad name of four letters, ihvh; and the true pronunciation of it is known to very few. i myself know some score of different mystical pronunciations of it. the true pronunciation of it is a most

hvih, hhiv, vhhi, vihh, vhih, hihv, hivh, hhvi. there are three other tetragrammatic names, which are ahih, eheieh, existence; adni, adonai, lord; and agla. this last is not properly speaking, a word, but is a notariqon of the sentence, athh gbvr lovlm adni, steh gebor le0olahm adonai "thou art might, for ever, o lord" a brief explanation of agla is this; a, the one first; a, the one last; g, the trinity in unity; l, the completion of the great work. but ihvh, the tetragrammaton, as we shall presently see, contains all the sephiroth with the exception of kether, and specially signifies the lesser countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistical sephirotic greatest trinity,and the son in his human incarnation, in the christian acceptation of the trinity. therefore, as the son reveal

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volume of the book is open, the angel waiteth without, for the summer is at hand. come away! for the aeon is measured, and thy span allotted. come away! for the mighty sounds have entered into every angle. and they have awakened the angels of the aethyrs that slept these three hundred years. for in the holy letter shin, that is the resurrection in the book of thoth, that is the holy spirit in the trinity, that is three hundred in the tale of the years, hath the tomb been opened, so that this great wisdom might be revealed. come away! for the second triad is completed, and there remaineth only the lord of the aeon, the avenger, the child 165 both crowned and conquering, the lord of the sword and the sun, the babe in the lotus, pure from his birth, the child of suffering, the father of justi

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hither to my chamber to enflame myself in praying at the altar that i have set up. and i am ready, robed, armed, anointed. 11.35. ardesco!"the thirteenth day. it is eight o'clock in the morning. being entered into the silence, let me abide in the silence! amen 139 printed by ballantyne co. limited, london a. colin lunn,"cigar importer and cigarette merchant, 3 bridge street, 19 king's parade, 31 trinity street, cambridge. sole agent for loewe co.'s celebrated straight grain briar pipes. yenidyeh cigarettes no 1 a."a connoisseur's cigarette. these are manufactured from the finest selected growths of 1908 crop, and are of exceptional quality. they can be inhaled without causing any irritation of the throat. sole manufacturer: a. colin lunn, cambridge."the bulk of the typewriting employed i

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r and between each. there is a small white ring in the center of the bar. there is a small white ring directly below the center of the figure. illustration on page 281 approximated /o /o \o /o__o__o_ o o o- o- diagram 47. the symbol of sulphur on the tree of life. the alchemical symbols of sulphur and of salt on the tree of life are then shown. after which the "hiereus" explains the tablet of the trinity operating through the sephiroth; and the "hegemon" that of the seven yetziratic palaces23 containing the ten sephiroth; and 281 the qliphoth24 with their twelve princes, who are the heads of the evil of the twelve months of the year. the "hierophant" then confers upon the practicus the title of "lord of the twenty-seventy path" and the third part of the ritual comes to an end. illustration

and the "hegemon" that of the seven yetziratic palaces23 containing the ten sephiroth; and 281 the qliphoth24 with their twelve princes, who are the heads of the evil of the twelve months of the year. the "hierophant" then confers upon the practicus the title of "lord of the twenty-seventy path" and the third part of the ritual comes to an end. illustration on page 282 described "diagram 48. the trinity operating through the sephiroth" this is a standard tree of life, with the sephiroth represented as white rings and all twenty-two paths represented as lines. sephiroth one through three are enclosed within an upward pointing triangle. sephiroth four through six are enclosed within a downward pointing triangle. sephiroth seven through nine are enclosed within a downward pointing triangle

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at logic is condemned unflinchingly as puerile. the best escape for the logician is to argue that the three assertions are closely consecutive, so closely that mind thinks them one; just as the two points of a pair of compasses pressed upon certain parts of the body are felt as one point only. while the mystic will mutter some esoteric darkness about the true interpretation of the doctrine of the trinity. i think one should add that these results of my introspection are almost certainly due to my own training in philosophy and magic, and that nothing but the intensification of the introspective faculty is due to the hashish. probably, too, this effect (alpha) would be suppressed or unnoticed in a subject who had never developed his introspection at all. yet i am inclined to believe that th

gs should be cut into three' whose will<magus of power in taro= will> assenting all things were so divided. for the mind of the father said "into three" governing all things by mind. and there appeared in it the triad, virtue and wisdom and multiscient truth" thus floweth forth the form of the triad<<ritual of the path of the daughter of the firmament> thus is formulated the creative trinity which is, as it were, the essential preliminary to manifestation. this mystic son of the eternal parents, having for his number 3, is typified in all the sacred scripts by that number. thus it is written of the manifestation of the son of god upon the earth "shiloh shall come (the initial of which mystery-name is hb:shin= 300. and in the grecian tongue it is written "in the beginning was t

ken by the holy pythagoras "god geometrises" let us behold the work of his fingers! the following illustration includes a circumscribed equilateral triangle. in the original, the triangle and circle are composed of solid lines. the form given here is an approximation. one son incomprehensible. 3 /hb:shin /hb:aleph hb:mem. one father 1- 2. one mother incomprehensible. incomprehensible. fig. i- the trinity unmanifest. 171 the following illustration includes a circumscribed equilateral triangle with solid rays extending to nearly the center. in the original, the triangle and circle are composed of solid lines. the form given here is an approximation. one son eternal. 3/ 4. one father eternal.1- 2.one mother eternal. fig. ii- the trinity in manifestation. in both of these symbols the all-inclu

he center. in the original, the triangle and circle are composed of solid lines. the form given here is an approximation. one son eternal. 3/ 4. one father eternal.1- 2.one mother eternal. fig. ii- the trinity in manifestation. in both of these symbols the all-including circle represents the underlying idea of the number 0: the infinite: parabrahman: the ain soph. in the first is shown the mystic trinity before manifestation; as it were unlimited, unbound, and unbounded, inoperative because of its diffusiveness and dispersion. in the second figure we behold their concentration: focalisation: producing by their joint action the number of manifestation- 4. in the worlds- assiah: in the taro, the princess- the throne of the spirit: in the tetragram, the he final, and in symbolic language- the

ng; that scale is therefore inverted. for by the mighty sacrifice of the man made flesh and by his torturous pilgrimage is evolved that glorified son who is greater than his father. in alchemy we have again the descending arc, for we find that the "red" powder cast upon the water of the metals produceth the golden sol. but it is important not to confuse. the christians have terribly muddled their trinity by making the son the second instead of the third principle; whilst with them the holy spirit at one time symbolizes the mother and at another the son. thus at the annunciation and at the baptism of the christ the s.s. appeareth as a dove, emblem of venus and the mother: whilst the s.s. that descended upon the apostles at 175 pentecost was in reality the spirit of the christ, and therefore

as before him the aeons were proclaimed. the positions of the last two letters of the word have been relatively changed, so as to render the meaning more harmoniously. 181 we will now proceed to the first word of the text as thus decapitated, taking b'rasheth as the title rather than as the first word. this latter stands bet-resh-aleph, which hath three letters, symbolising thereby the unmanifest trinity. now its letters further exemplify the trinity, for that they are the initials of three hebrew words, which are the names of the persons thereof, viz: bet-nunfinal ben, the son. resh-vau-chet ruach, the spirit (here the mother. aleph-bet ab, the father. note how here again the son is first for humanity and the father last. these three letters, then, symbolise the three in one unmanifest. y

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ccursed dyad, thereby enabling the abramelin demons to assume material form: one in his own shape, another in that of i.a. now, the demon that looked like i.a. had a revolver, and threatened to shoot him (d.d.c.f, while the demon that resembled himself was equally anxious to shoot i.a. fortunately, before the demons could fire, v.n.r. came into the room, thus formulating the symbol of the blessed trinity, of which her great purity of character would naturally fit her to be a prominent member. now, the only probability about this story, which d.d.c.f. related on his magical honour as a 7= 4, was that d.d.c.f. saw double. frater p, however, was not going to judge any isolated story by the general laws of probability, so, bowing gracefully, he rose and set out 267 to find frater i.a, whom he

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hadowed the existence of several undiscovered elements, so now did frater p, by his law of the correspondences of the ruach, prove, not only historically, philosophically, theologically and mythologically the existence of the everywhere proclaimed jechidah as being one, but in a lesser degree: that when an egyptian thought of ptah, a greek of iacchus, a hindu of parabrahman and a christian of the trinity as a unity, they were not thinking of four gods, but of one god, not of four conditions but of one condition, not of four results but of one result; and, that should they set out to attain unity with their ideal, the stages 187 they would progress through would be in all cases essentially the same, the differences, if any, being due to the mental limitations of the experimenter, his educat

ate place; the morning breeze grew still and dead as it played around his face. so we fled from the mother troll under the dawning grey; we left the hill of the bloody bowl; ere ever the sun uprose, but the dead man's heart till judgment-day shall there with the troll repose. victor b. neuburg. 238 reviews dare to be wise. by john mctaggart ellis mctaggart doctor in letters fellow and lecturer of trinity college in cambridge, fellow of the british academy. watts and co, 17 johnson's court, fleet street, e. c. price 3"d. only the price threepence saved my reason "dare to be wise" is startling enough; but when one saw who it was that advised it "our object" quoth he("our" being the "heretics "is to promote discussion upon religion, philosophy, and art" these desperate conspirators! what is t

h academy. watts and co, 17 johnson's court, fleet street, e. c. price 3"d. only the price threepence saved my reason "dare to be wise" is startling enough; but when one saw who it was that advised it "our object" quoth he("our" being the "heretics "is to promote discussion upon religion, philosophy, and art" these desperate conspirators! what is the parry-lytic liar about to allow such things in trinity "in seeking truth of all sorts many virtues are needed" this daring thinker "happiness and misery have much to do with welfare" these burning words may rekindle the fires of smithfield "here we find the need of courage. for, if we are to think on these matters at all, we must accept the belief for which we have evidence, and we must reject the belief for which we have no evidence. and, som

of, there are none to beat the undergraduates who wagged their rudimentary tails round the toothless old hound that yelped "dare to be wise" on last 8th december. i hate christianity as socialists hate soap; but i would rather be saved 239 with livingstone and gordon, havelock and nicholson, than damned with charles watts and john mctaggart ellis mctaggart doctor in letters fellow and lecturer of trinity college in cambridge, and fellow of the berritish ac-ad-em-y. i wonder, by the way, whether "letters" isn't a misprint. if not, did he really qualify at the sorbonne? aleister crowley. the arcane schools. by john yarker. william tait, 3 wellington park avenue, belfast. 12s. net. the reader of this treatise is at first overwhelmed by the immensity of brother yarker's erudition. he seems to

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goddess, as she is called, who sleeps coiled up at the mouth of the sushumn. but before we deal with either of these exercises, it will be necessary to explain the mystical constitution of the human organism and the six chakkras which constitute the six stages of the hindu tau of life. the constitution of the human organism firstly, we have the atman, the self or knower, whose being consists in a trinity in unity of, sat, absolute existence; chit, wisdom; ananda, bliss. secondly, the anthak rana or the internal instrument, which has five attributes according to the five elements, thus: spirit. atma. air. manas.76 the mind or thought faculty. 1. spirit. fire. buddhi. the discriminating faculty. water. chittam.77 the thought-stuff. earth. ahank ra. egoity. 2. air. the five organs of knowledg

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ngers, etc, etc, all were provided against. then i obtained a confederate. ultimately the grand sceptic of all devised the following test just as i had passed the note to my medium "if i can't manage any of the old ways, i'll try and write down the number and put it on the mantelpiece" and this was the test. the medium was to be taken from whewell's court (were we were) over to the great court of trinity- well out of all hearing. i was to be left alone with the sceptic, who by this time suspected everybody of being a confederate. he was to touch the card in my presence and then take me away in the opposite direction. the medium was then (at a given time) to return, and tell the card. now it happened that in the course of general argument about fairness, which i encouraged to enable myself

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the rudiments of embryonic emotion, or feeling the physical plane reflection of love. thus we have one aspect of the threefold nature of god, intelligence demonstrating through the atom; and through the form we have the love, or attractive quality manifesting. this can also be expressed in the recognition that in these two aspects of the central divine life you have the third person of the logoic trinity co-operating with the second; you have the intelligent activity of divinity, or the holy spirit aspect, working in connection with the second aspect, or the son, who is the builder of forms. this is brought out in an interesting manner in proverbs viii. where wisdom cries aloud (wisdom in the old testament representing the christ aspect, and after pointing out that he was with god before e

out of the garden of eden (the place where there is no scope for necessary development, and by the wandering of the prodigal son in the far country, you have the various stages which are pictured in the christian bible where man makes the discovery that he is not the form, but that he is the one who utilises it. he is intelligence, and therefore he is made in the image of the third person of the trinity; he is love, and through him the love aspect of the deity will some day perfectly manifest, and he will be able to say with his elder brother, the christ, in reply to the demand "lord, show us the father" that "he that hath seen me, hath seen the father" for god is love; and finally, through him the highest aspect, the will of god will become manifest, and he will be perfect, even as his f

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is produced by the minute sounds produced by the atoms composing that form. these sounds grow out of the other group and affect inferior groups or kingdoms, if the word "inferior" may be used in connection with any department of divine manifestation. for instance, the human kingdom (the fourth creative hierarchy) was produced by a triple aum sounded in a particular key by the three persons of the trinity in unison, god the father, god the son, and god the holy spirit, or shiva, vishnu, and brahma. this sound is still going forth; the interplay and interblending of the many tiny notes of each human being produces a great united sound which can be heard in the high places and which, in its turn, is having a definite effect upon the animal kingdom. it is one of the factors which produces anim

e principle, the breath of life. the occultist believes the following statement "life we look upon as the one form of existence, manifesting in what is called matter, or what, incorrectly separating them; we name spirit, soul, and matter in man. matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence; soul is the vehicle for the manifestation of spirit, and these three as a trinity are synthesised by life, which pervades them all" purusha. the spiritual self. the embodied self. the word literally means "the dweller in the city" that is, in the body. it is derived from the sanskrit "pura" which means city or body, and "usha" a derivative of the verb "vas" to dwell. quaternary. the fourfold lower self, or man, in the three worlds. there are various divisions of this, b

r into english certain words used in this book, so that the reader may understand their connotation. the majority of the definitions have been culled from the theosophical glossary, the secret doctrine, and the voice of the silence- 132- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust endnotes 1 key to diagram of solar and planetary hierarchles the solar hierarchy the solar logos the solor trinity or logatcopyright 1998 lucis trust a treatise on cosmic fire by alice a. bailey copyright 1951 by lucis trust copyright renewed 1979 by lucis trust dedicated with gratitude to helena petrovna blavatsky, that great disciple who lighted her torch in the east and brought the light to europe and america in 1875 "to the god who is in the fire and who is in the waters; to the god who has suffuse

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the object of their co-operation is the perfected manifestation of the cosmic lord of love. this should be pondered upon for it reveals a mystery. the blending of the three fires, the merging of the three rays, and the co-operation of the three logoi have in view (at this time and within this solar system) the development of the essence of the cosmic lord of love, the second person in the logoic trinity. earlier it was not so, later it will not be, but now it is. when viewed from the cosmic mental plane these three constitute the personality of the logos, and are seen functioning as one. hence the secret (well recognised as fact, though not understood) of the excessive heat, occultly expressed, of the astral or central body of the triple personality. it animates and controls the physical

fold personality as a means to contact the lower three planes. all this has for purpose the development of perfect self-consciousness. above the triad stands the monad or the father in heaven a point of abstraction to man as he views the subject from the physical plane. the monad stands to him in the position of the absolute, in the same sense as the undifferentiated logos stands to the threefold trinity, to the three persons of logoic manifestation. the parallel is exact. 1. the monad. 2. the threefold triad, atma-buddhi-manas, or spiritual will, intuition, and higher mind. 3. the body egoic or the causal body, the shrine for the buddhic principle. this body is to be built by the power of the mind. it is the manifestation of the three. 4. the threefold lower nature, the points of densest

lt books about the eighth sphere. i would suggest that in this linking factor of intelligent mind, we have a clue to the mystery. when mind becomes unduly developed and ceases to unite the higher and the lower, it forms a sphere of its own. this is the greatest disaster that can overtake the human unit. therefore we have: monad, the microcosmic absolute. pure spirit. the one and only. the monadic trinity. first aspect..atma or spiritual will- 151- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust second aspect..buddhi, the christ principle. third aspect..manas, or higher mind. the son aspect in objectivity. the body egoic or causal body. the lower quaternary. 1. the mental body. 2. the astral or emotional body.8(96) 3. prana, or vital energy. 4. etheric body. the microcosm reproduces th

e buddhas of activity. i would call- 227- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust attention to the dual significance of that name "buddha of activity" bearing out, as it does, the reality of the fact that entities at their stage of evolution are active love-wisdom and embody in themselves the two aspects. the three buddhas of activity have a correspondence to the three persons of the trinity. these entities are divided into three groups of thirty-five each, and in themselves embody the three major centres of the planetary logos, those three groups which we know as the "three departments" for it should be emphasised that each department forms a centre: a. the head centre..the ruling department b. the heart centre..the teaching department c. the throat centre..the mahachohan's d

al body the ring-pass-not of the central life is formed. within this sheath are to be found three atoms, which have been termed the mental unit, the astral permanent atom and the physical permanent atom; they correspond individually to the seventh principle of each of the three persons of the microcosmic triad, a reflection (in the three worlds of the microcosm) of the three persons of the logoic trinity. h. p. b. hints at this in connection with the logos when she speaks of the visible sun being the seventh principle of the brahma aspect, the physical permanent atom of the logos.65,(144)66- 300- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust ii. the nature of the permanent atoms 1. the purpose of the permanent atoms. the three permanent atoms are in themselves centres of force, or t

s and the sun, viewed as the centre of the buddhic principles, and from thence the logos animates his dense physical manifestation. finally, on the three lower planes we have his gaseous, liquid, and dense bodies or sheaths, forming in themselves a unity in one peculiar sense; they are as much a coherent whole as the three higher planes form a unified triple expression of the three persons of the trinity. we have a similar analogy in the subplanes of each plane in the system, and this will become ever more apparent as man achieves a greater clarity of vision, and can consciously ascertain for himself the truth about the subjective life. let us briefly take these planes and study the life or force manifestation on each, laying the emphasis upon the lower four, and not so much upon the plane

lar condition: the three higher subplanes concern the spirit aspect in the causal body, the three lower subplanes concern primarily the mental sheath, or fire by friction; the fourth subplane is that on which the force centres of the mental body are to be found. so it is on the physical plane for man his etheric centres being located in matter of the fourth ether. each of the three persons of the trinity manifests equally as does a man, as spirit, soul or ego, and substance. in connection with brahma, we have the spirit aspect animating the three higher subplanes of every plane, or the first fire aspect. his soul aspect is found on the fourth subplane of each plane whereon are situated the etheric centres of all manifested entities. his substance aspect is primarily contacted on the three

ts electrical aspect on the second plane, and demonstrates thus also on the third and fourth planes, but finds its central demonstration on manasic levels, shining through the causal vehicles of the egoic groups. only two and a half planes then remain through which the fire by friction aspect may manifest, eighteen subplanes in all which concern the third aspect of the second person of the logoic trinity. for man, the microcosm, a similar differentiation is possible; his monad can be studied in its threefold essence on its own plane, his egoic aspect likewise, and the brahma aspect of the ego is found within the permanent atoms. students should therefore study with care: 1. the planes. the manifestation of brahma, the third or substance aspect, and should apply to this entity the same trip

festation of which as yet nought is known) 9. it should be remembered that we are dealing with a physical incarnation of these great entities and that their permanent atoms, with the exception of the physical, are extra-systemic. 10. the causal body of the heavenly men is upon the third subplane of the cosmic mental plane, while that of the solar logos and those of the three persons of the logoic trinity are upon the first subplane. 11. the permanent atoms of men are upon the atomic subplane of each plane, with the one exception of the mental unit. those of the animal groups are upon the second subplane; those of the vegetable groups are upon the third subplane; those of the mineral groups are upon the fourth subplane. there is, therefore, a close analogy between these focal points of forc

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olution of that hitherto held, seen that which is hidden from those who abide by the tradition, substituted that which is newly seen, donated the acquired possession to those who hold out empty hands, and passed on to inner halls of learning" students would do well in studying these few sutras relating to ishvara to bear in mind that they have reference to the son of god, the second person of the trinity as he manifests through the medium of the solar system, to the macrocosmic soul. the secondary meaning has reference also to the divine son of god, the second aspect monadic, as he manifests through the medium of a human being. this is the microcosmic soul. the following synonyms of the ishvara aspect may be found of value. the macrocosm. ishvara, the second aspect .w hose nature is love

ning of the words in the secret doctrine by h. p. blavatsky "life we look upon as the one form of existence, manifesting in what we call matter; or what, incorrectly separating them, we name spirit, soul and matter in man. matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by life, which pervades them all" 28. through the sounding of the word and through reflection upon its meaning, the way is found. this is a very general paraphrase but conveys nevertheless the correct significance of the terms used in the sanskrit. only vivekananda, among the many translators, gives this interpretation, putting it as follows "the repetition of the om and medita

alities of the form aspect of manifestation whether referring to the manifestation of a human atom or of a solar deity, and simply indicates the natural triplicity of substance, its septenary nature, and its various mutations. it expresses the nature of that aspect of divine life which is called brahma by the hindu, and the holy spirit by the christian. this is the third aspect of the trimurti or trinity, the aspect of active intelligent matter, out of which the body of vishnu or of the cosmic christ is to be built in order that shiva, the father or the spirit may have a medium of revelation. it might therefore be of use if the nature of the four divisions of the three gunas were indicated, after giving the synonyms for these gunas. the three gunas: 1. the qualities of matter, 2. the aspec

it is the world of mastery, therefore the home of the masters, and all liberated souls whose "food is contemplation" and whose lives are "for a thousand mundane periods" therefore who have immortality. then he describes the three highest planes, with the great existences who are the lives of those planes and in whom we "live and move and have our being" these correspond to the three planes of the trinity and of these existences in their various groups, the following comments by vyasa are illuminating. he states: 1 "their lives are chaste" i. e, free from impurity, or the limitations of the lower forms. 2 "upwards there is no impediment to their thinking and in regions below there is no object obscure to their thought" they know all things within the solar system. 3 "by them no laying down

derstand this sutra, it is essential that certain relationships are comprehended relationships between matter, the senses and the one who experiences. the christian believes that "all things were made by the word of god" the oriental believer holds that sound was the originating factor in the creative process and both teach that this word or sound is descriptive of the second person of the divine trinity- 184- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust this sound or word threw into peculiar activity the matter of the solar system, and was preceded by the breath of the father which started the original motion or vibration. first, therefore, the breath (pneuma or spirit) impinging upon primordial substance and setting up a pulsation, a vibration, a rhythm. then the word or sound, causi

system, and was preceded by the breath of the father which started the original motion or vibration. first, therefore, the breath (pneuma or spirit) impinging upon primordial substance and setting up a pulsation, a vibration, a rhythm. then the word or sound, causing the pulsating vibrating substance to take form or shape, and thus bringing about the incarnation of the second person of the cosmic trinity, the son of god, the macrocosm. this process eventuated in the seven planes of manifestation, the spheres wherein seven states of consciousness are possible. all of these are characterized by certain qualities and differentiated from each other by specific vibrating capacities and called by certain terms. the following tabulation may prove useful if the student will bear in mind that the f

m of expression for the spirit. matter has been brought into a state where its vibration can synchronise with that of the soul, and the result is that for the first time spirit can make its presence felt, for "matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of experience and the soul is the vehicle for the manifestation of spirit on a higher turn of the spiral. these three are a trinity synthesized by life which pervades them all" to the man who has achieved this there is no rebirth. he is free and liberated, and can say with full conscious realization of the significance of the words "my life (the lower physical life) is hid with christ (the soul life) in god (the spirit (col: iii. 3) book iv. illumination a. consciousness and form. b. union or at-one-ment- 204- the ligh

dent can appreciate more intelligently if he follows the golden rule which reveals the mystery of creation and studies himself. the microcosm reveals the nature of the macrocosm. he will find that he, the real or spiritual man, the thinker, or the one life in his tiny system, is responsible for the creation of his mental, emotional and physical bodies, his three lower aspects, the "shadow" of the trinity, just as his spirit, soul and body are the reflections of the three divine aspects, father, son and holy spirit. he will find that he is responsible for the formation of all the organs in his body, and for all the cells of which they are composed and as he studies his problem more closely he will become aware that his consciousness and life pervades, and is therefore responsible for, myria

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me a transmitting agent, and can pass on, via the mind and from thence to the physical brain, some of the realizations and concepts of the spirit aspect. students would do well to remember the words in the secret doctrine "matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by life, which pervades them all."15(81) this, in the academic language of occultism, is the realization of the mystic. cardinal richelieu calls contemplation that state "in which man sees and knows god without using the imagination and without discursive reasoning" and tauler expresses it thus "god desires to dwell in the superior faculties the memory, the intellect, and the w

be. many are now co-ordinating the mind with these two, and, through our present widespread educational systems, we are welding into a coherent unity that sum-total which constitutes a human being: the mental, emotional and physical natures. through concentration and the earlier aspects of the meditation work, this co-ordination is rapidly hastened, and is followed later by the unifying with the trinity of man of another factor, the factor of the soul. this has always been present, just as mind is always present in human beings (who are not idiots, but it is quiescent until the right time comes and the needed work has been done. it is all a question of consciousness. professor max m ller in his book theosophy or psychological religion says that "we must remember that the fundamental princ

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

h. p. blavatsky expresses this with accuracy in the words "life we look upon as the one form of existence, manifesting in what is called matter; or what, incorrectly separating them, we name spirit, soul and matter in man. matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by life, which pervades them all (the secret doctrine. vol: i. p. 79. 80) through the use of matter the soul unfolds and finds its climax in the soul of man, and this treatise will concern itself with the unfoldment of that soul and its discovery by man. 5. knowledge might be divided into three categories: first, there is theoretical knowledge. this includes all knowledge of wh

true and equally finitely false. the three aspects of divinity, the central energy, or spirit, the coordinating force or soul, and that which these two use and unify are in reality one vital principle manifesting in diversity. these are the three in one, the one in three, god in nature, and nature itself in god. carrying the concept, for the sake of illustration, into other realms of thought this trinity of aspects can be seen functioning in the religious world as the esoteric teaching, the fundamental symbology and doctrines of the great world religions and the exoteric organisations; in government it is the sum total of the will of the people whatever that will may be, the formulated laws, and the exoteric administration; in education it is the will to learn, the arts and sciences, and t

how then shall we describe him through the medium of language? if this is so of man, how much greater is the difficulty when we seek through words to express that inexpressible sum total of which the terms spirit, soul, and body are regarded as the main component differentiations? how shall we define that undefinable life that men have (for the sake of understanding) limited and separated into a trinity of aspects, or persons, calling the whole by the name of god? yet where this differentiation of god into a trinity is universal and age-long in use, where every people ancient and modern employ the same triplicity of ideation to express an intuitive realisation, there is warrant for the usage. that some day we may think and express the truth differently may indeed be so, but for the averag

the terminology of the ageless wisdom, these three are called electric fire, solar fire, and fire by friction, and their purpose in relation to each other is summed up for us in the words of the secret doctrine as follows "matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit and these three are a trinity, synthesized by life which pervades them all" s. d. i. 80. humanity, being the meeting-place for all the three types of energy, constitutes therefore a "midway point" in the consciousness of the creator. this "midway point" has to be seized by the active creating agent in some such manner as the aspirant has to learn to seize his midway points in the tiny bit of magical and creative work w

eflected in the four levels of the etheric division of the physical plane as regards the physical body of all forms. these four etheric levels, or these four grades of vital substance constitute what is called the "true form" of all material objects or phenomena, and they are responsive to the four higher types of spiritual energy which we usually call divine. this relation between the prototypal trinity and its plane of merging and the etheric reflection is found in all forms according to the type of energy which predominates. in each of the four kingdoms in nature all four types are found, but the fourth etheric is found in fuller degree in the mineral kingdom than in the human, whilst the highest of the four ethers is found in greater proportion in the human than in the other three king

group thinkers group to which he belongs. this concept can be traced back all the way from a family group to the group of egos who, closely interlinked, form a group on the higher level of the mental plane, and on again to the seven major thinkers of the universe, the lords of the seven rays. these seven, in their turn, are swept into activity by the three supreme magical workers, the manifested trinity. these three, in due course, will be recognized as responsive to the thought of the one creator, the unmanifested logos. the word "recognition" is one of the most important in the language of occultism and holds the clue to the mystery of being. it is related to karmic activity and on it the lords of time and space depend. it is hard to illustrate this in simple terms, but it might be said

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

f healing volume v i. stanzas for disciples ii. the fourteen rules for disciples and initiates i ii. the rays and the initiations- 2- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by life, which pervades them all. the secret doctrine vol. i. page 80. third edition three souls, one man three souls which make up one soul: first, to wit, a soul of each and all the bodily parts, seated therein, which works, and is what does, and has the use of earth, and ends the man downward: but, tending upward for advice, grows into, and again is grown into by the next so

nd the soul-cosmic, universal, planetary and individual leads inevitably to an unfoldment of the mental apparatus (with a subsequent development of the, as yet, quiescent brain cells) which must eventually produce a co-ordination of the thinking faculty, and resultant illumination. the nature of our septenary universe must be considered, and the relation of the threefold human being to the divine trinity must be noted. a general idea of the entire symbolic picture is of value. each student, as he takes up the study of the rays, must steadily bear in mind that he himself-as a human unit-finds his place on one or other of these rays. the problem thus produced is a very real one. the physical body may be responsive to one type of ray force, whilst the personality as a whole may vibrate in uni

rged. the esotericist, however, regards spirit-matter as the first unity, and the son therefore is the second factor. this son, who is divine life incarnate in matter, and consequently the producer of the diversity and immensity of forms, is the embodiment of divine quality. we might therefore utilise for the sake of clarity the terms life-quality-appearance as interchangeable with the more usual trinity of spirit-soul-body, or life-consciousness-form. i shall utilise the word life when referring to spirit, to energy, to the father, to the first aspect of divinity, and to that essential dynamic electric fire which produces all that is, and is the sustaining, originating cause and source of all manifestation. i shall use the word appearance to express that which we call matter, or form, or

em, gathered to themselves that substance which they required for manifestation and built it into those forms and appearances through which they could best express their innate qualities. within the radius of their influence, they gathered all that now appears. this aggregated, qualified material constitutes their body of manifestation, just as the solar system is the body of manifestation of the trinity of aspects. this idea can best be apprehended if one remembers that every human being is, in his turn, an aggregate of atoms and cells built into form and having scattered throughout that form organs and centres of differentiated life which function in rhythm and relation, but which have varying influences and differing purposes. these aggregated and animated forms present an appearance of

volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust i have now laid down the basic premise that all that is known to us is a manifesting divine entity, expressing itself through three aspects which (for the purposes of this treatise and because they are more in line with the terminology of emerging modern thought) i choose to call life-quality-appearance. these are but other names for the trinity of all the great religions, and are synonymous with the christian phrase, father, son and holy ghost (those old anthropomorphic terms; with spirit, soul and body, the current phraseology; and with the life, consciousness and form of the indian philosophy. may i interpolate here the comment that modern thinkers would do well to bear in mind that the importance of christianity lies in the re

between the carnal mind and the heavenly nature, and all aspirants who are occupied with an intelligent struggle towards liberation bear witness to the same. paul points out that victory is won through christ, and i give a clue to the importance of this study of the rays when i state that, esoterically, these seven rays are the sevenfold expressions of the cosmic christ, the second person of the trinity. bewildered men and women go in their thousands to the clinics of the psychologists, carrying with them the burden of their dual natures; and psychologists in their thousands recognise this duality and seek to unify the dissociated aspects. when the true nature of the seven rays is grasped, and when their effect on humanity in expressing the seven types of men is also understood, we shall

and in its undifferentiated state, prior to being swept into activity through the creative process, is not possessed of soul, and does not therefore possess the qualities of response and of radiation. only when, in the creative and evolutionary process, these two are brought into conjunction and fusion does the soul appear and give to these two aspects of divinity the opportunity to manifest as a trinity and the chance to demonstrate sentient activity and magnetic radiatory light. as all that we shall posit in this treatise is to be approached from the angle of human evolution, it might be stated that only when the soul aspect is dominant is the response apparatus (the form nature of man) fulfilling its complete destiny, and only then does true magnetic radiation and the pure shining forth

lume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust particular force or type of energy, with the emphasis upon the quality which that force exhibits and not upon the force aspect which it creates. this is a true definition of a ray. the rays and the races we have been told in the past teaching of the ageless wisdom that a human being is a triple aspect of energy, and that he is essentially a trinity, as is the deity. we speak of him technically as monad-ego-personality. we define him as spirit-soul-body. i should like to point out here that in studying the human family as a unit and as a whole, it also will be discovered to be essentially a monad, with seven egoic groups, within which all souls (in incarnation and out of incarnation) find their place, and with forty-nine corresponding

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

might touch. mary, the virgin, in the symbolism of the ancient wisdom, stands for virgin matter, for the substance which nurtures and nourishes and hides within itself the christ child, the christ consciousness. in the last analysis, it is through form and matter that god stands revealed. that is the story of the divine incarnation. matter, overshadowed by the holy ghost, the third person of the trinity, brings to the birth the second aspect of the trinity, in the person of christ cosmic, mythical and individual. associated with the story-book of the heavens there are three constellations (besides the constellation virgo) which are symbolised by women. there is cassiopeia, the woman enthroned. this is the constellation which is the symbol of the stage in human life at which matter and for

, and the truth of this can be realised if we study the christian concept of the virgin mary overshadowed by the holy ghost. the holy ghost is that aspect of divinity which is the active principle in matter, and of this the physical body is a correspondence. the emotional, sentient nature is a dim and distorted reflection of the love-nature of god which the cosmic christ, the second person in the trinity, is engaged in revealing; and this aspect (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 t

powerful sacred animal signs, are both cosmical and spiritual. these four are known as the consecrated animals of the zodiac, while the signs themselves represent the basic fundamental elements of life, fire, earth, air and water."6 these four signs are taurus, leo, scorpio and aquarius, and they constitute pre-eminently the cross of the soul, the cross upon which the second person of the divine trinity is crucified. christ personified in his mission these four aspects, and as the cosmic christ he exemplified in his person the qualities for which each sign stood. even primitive man, unevolved and ignorant, was aware of the significance of the cosmic spirit, immolated in matter and crucified upon the four-armed cross. these four signs are to be found unequivocally in the bible, and are reg

age, relating them to each other. our consideration of the previous initiations may make the meaning clear. john typifies the personality which is reaching perfection and whose nature is becoming irradiated by divine love, the major characteristic of the second person of the divine triplicity, the soul, the son of god, whose nature is love. as we have seen, mary represents the third person of the trinity, the material aspect of nature which cherishes and nurtures the son and gives birth to him in bethlehem. in these words christ, utilising the symbolism of these two persons, relates them to each other, and practically says: son, recognise who is to give thee birth at bethlehem, the one who shelters and guards the christ life. to his mother, he says: recognise that in the developed personal

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here and there, but that chosen already has the needed quality (note this difference) and nothing whatever is imposed. it will be apparent, therefore, that substance itself exists in three- 51- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust major categories, and that these three categories are the correspondences in substance to the three persons of the trinity or to the three bodies of incarnated man. they are also the analogy in the third aspect of divinity (the life of the third person of the trinity) to the quality of the three periodical vehicles through which manifestation takes place. one division or type of this substance is dynamically electrified and from this all first ray egos choose the material needed in the three worlds. another ty

entiated, as they are when in manifestation. an analogy to this appears when a man dies. then his three aspects mind or will, emotion or love, and physical appearance vanish. there is then no person. yet, if one accepts the fact of immortality, the conscious being remains; his quality and purpose and life are united with his undying soul. the outer form with its differentiations into a manifested trinity, has gone never again to return in exactly the same form or expression in time and space. the interplay of soul and mind produces the manifested universe, with all that is therein. when that interplay is persisting, either in god or in man, we use (for how else can we speak with clarity) terms of human origin and therefore limiting, such is our present stage of enlightenment or should we s

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

mode of ascertaining truth or falsity. this is a statement difficult for you to comprehend. visualisation is literally the building of a bridge between the emotional or astral plane and the mental level and is, therefore, a personality correspondence to the building of the antahkarana. the astral plane, the second aspect of the personality, is the correspondence to the form-building aspect of the trinity, the second aspect. the creative imagination "pictures a form" through the ability to visualise and the thought energy of the mind gives life and direction to this form. it embodies purpose. thereby a rapport or line of energy is constructed between the mind and the astral vehicle and it becomes a triple line of energy when the soul of the disciple is utilising this creative process in som

n your meditation and realise quietly and silently that: a. you are now face to face with your own soul, and standing before the angel of the presence- 422- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust who is yourself. b. you, the personal self, and the angel, the divine self, are one essential reality, manifesting through three aspects. you are, therefore, a reflection of the trinity of deity. c. there is in reality no separation or duality, no i, or thou, but simply a god in manifestation, whose nature is light. 5. then say: a. having pervaded this world of the little, manifested self with one fraction of myself, i remain greater, wider and overshadowing all my daily living. ponder on this thought for five minutes. b. i, the manifesting self, through the magical power

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nuous thread of the divine- 27- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust will as it issued from the father's house (shamballa, passed into the understanding custody of the kingdom of god and, through the medium of the christ, was brought to the attention of mankind. through the instrumentality of certain great sons of god, the three divine aspects or characteristics of the divine trinity will, love and intelligence have become a part of human thinking and aspiration. christians are apt to forget that the crisis in the final hours of the christ was not that spent upon the cross, but those spent in the garden of gethsemane. then his will in agony and almost despair was submerged in that of the father "father" he said "not my will but thine be done (luke xxii.42) something ne

as to the very nature of god himself? do we yet know all that can be known about god? if so, god is very limited. may it not be possible that our present ideas of god, as the universal mind, as love and as will may be enriched by some new idea or quality for which we have as yet no name or word, and of which we have no slightest understanding. each of the three present concepts of divinity of the trinity were entirely new when first sequentially presented to the mind or consciousness of man. for some years now the spiritual hierarchy of our planet has been drawing nearer to humanity and its approach is responsible for the great concepts of freedom which are so close to the hearts of men everywhere. the dream of brotherhood, of fellowship, of world cooperation and of a peace, based on right

e given through an understanding of these influences and in order to revivify the ancient faiths by expanding them into their larger undying relationships. thus, the twelve annual festivals will constitute a revelation of divinity. they will present a means of bringing about relationship, first of all, during three months with the three great spiritual centres, the three expressions of the divine trinity. the minor festivals will emphasise the interrelation of the whole, thus lifting the divine presentation out of the individual and the personal, into that of the universal divine purpose; the relationship of the whole to the part and of the part to that whole will be thereby fully expressed. humanity will, therefore, invoke the spiritual power of the kingdom of god, the hierarchy; the hier

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

s art of symbol reading, of "spiritual reading" as our ancient master, patanjali, calls it. this power to interpret symbols ever precedes true revelation. the comprehension of a truth for which a line or a series of lines composing a symbolic form may stand is not all that has to be done. a good memory may remind you that a series of lines forming a triangle or a series of triangles signifies the trinity, or any series of triplicates within the macrocosmic or microcosmic manifestation. but that activity and accuracy of the memory will do naught to awaken the dormant brain cells or call into play the intuition. it must be remembered (and here becomes evident the value of a certain amount of technical or academic occultism) that the plane whereon the intuition manifests and where the intuiti

vailable for his task and has mastered some facts anent the etheric vehicle. the pairs of opposites are clearly seen by him, even if he is as yet influenced by one or other of them- 147- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust he is aware of a basic disagreement between his vision of goodness and his expression of that goodness. he has learnt that he is a triple reflection of a higher trinity and that this trinity is for him the reality. he understands that mind, emotions and physical being are intended eventually to manifest that reality. in the last analysis, he knows that if that intermediate aspect of himself, the etheric body, can be controlled and rightly directed, then vision and expression will and must finally coincide. he is also aware that the dense physical body (th

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

in the manifestation of the divine androgyne, and in the seven centres of force which are the seven spiritual energies. hierarchy iii. the third creative hierarchy (or the eighth) is a peculiarly interesting one. they are called "the triads" for they hold in themselves the potencies of triple evolution, mental, psychical, and spiritual. these triads of life are inherently the three persons of the trinity and the flower of the earlier system from a certain angle. from another angle, when studied as the "flower of the earlier eight" they are the eightfold points awaiting opportunity to flame forth. they are the devas who are ready for service, which is to give to another hierarchy certain qualities which are lacking. this hierarchy is regarded as the great donors of immortality whilst- 24- a

e who have (in previous kalpas of logoic manifestation) passed beyond the human stage altogether. they are, therefore, the arupa or formless groups, as the remaining are the rupa groups or those having forms. the fourth creative hierarchy, or the ninth, must ever be regarded in this solar system as occupying what might be considered as the third place, first, the lives or the three persons of the trinity. second, the prototypes of man, the seven spirits. third, man or the lowest manifestation of the self-conscious spirit aspect. this needs to be carefully considered and has no reference to the form aspect but solely to the nature of the lives expressing themselves through other lives who are also self-conscious, or fully intelligent. this, certain of the hierarchies are not. the four lower

thus the great cycle of struggle towards expression starts and the foundational words of the secret doctrine, with which you are all so familiar, expresses the goal and the purpose of the first sign of the cardinal cross "matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesised by life which pervades them all" s.d. i. 80. what appears in aries as spiritual energy enters into the soul stage in cancer, in which sign the soul incarnates for the first time in form, reaches a point of equilibrium in libra, in which sign soul and personality achieve a balance of cooperation and, in capricorn, the will nature arrives at fulfilment and a visioned goal is reac

ses man into the planetary centre which we call the hierarchy. 3. the death by fire or burning in aries releases man into another centre to which we give the name shamballa. there is much to work out, is there not, in these ideas which i offer to you as suggestive considerations and as hints related to the science of triangles, which is the esoteric basis of astrology, just as the doctrine of the trinity (microcosmic and macrocosmic) is the esoteric basis of occultism. death is, therefore, of three kinds. this science of divine dying underlies the well-known phrase "the lamb slain from the foundation of the world" and when the relationship between aries, scorpio and pisces is properly understood (as the linking and merging of the three crosses) a new light will be thrown upon all subsidiar

hysical sun but the motivated life activity and the subjective experience of the inner man will be conditioned by energies coming to him from the "heart of the sun" i would here recall to your minds the teaching of the ageless wisdom as given in the secret doctrine and elaborated by me in my later books, that the sun has to be discovered and known in its triple nature which is threefold as is the trinity. the tabulation below may serve to make this idea somewhat clearer: 1. physical sun. form .p ersonality. influencing mutable cross. 2. heart of the sun. soul consciousness. influencing fixed cross. 3. central spiritual sun. life .influencing cardinal cross. by the word "influencing" i here refer to the energies pouring from these three aspects of the sun through the three crosses to our pl

is practically entirely occupied with manipulating the forces inherited from that system and inherent in the very nature of substance itself. this divine aspect is to the whole general divine manifestation what the lower nature (form life or personality in the three worlds of human evolution) is to the soul where an individual human being is concerned. as regards these three persons of the divine trinity, we might say that: 1. aries is the focal point of the expression of the first aspect of divinity, the will aspect. 2. leo is the focal point for the expression of the second aspect, the love-wisdom or consciousness aspect. this, primarily where humanity is concerned. 3. virgo is the focal point for the expression of the third aspect, that of active intelligence. in that sign the highest f

transmutative processes of life experience, to aspiration and finally the relinquishing of desire in scorpio. aquarius, alcyone and humanity constitute a most interesting triangle of force. alcyone is one of the seven pleiades and is called the "star of the individual" and sometimes the "star of intelligence" it was potently active during the previous solar system wherein the third person of the trinity was peculiarly omnipotent and active, just as today the cosmic christ, the second person of the trinity, is- 120- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust peculiarly active in this solar system. the energies coming from alcyone impregnated the substance of the universe with the quality of mind. as a consequence of this most ancient activity, t

d are learning increasingly to react to it. in this world period and in a peculiar manner, as far as the race (aryan) to which the western world belongs, neptune is known esoterically as the initiator. in certain ancient formulas, the great teacher of the west and the present world initiator, christ, is spoken of as neptune, who rules the ocean, whose trident and astrological symbol signifies the trinity in manifestation and who is the ruler of the piscean age. the formula runs as follows, speaking esoterically. the fish goddesses who have leapt from earth (virgo) to water (pisces) unitedly give birth to the fish god (christ) who introduces the water of life into the ocean of substance and thus brings light to the world. thus does neptune work" this is, however, a great mystery, revealed o

a theme would prove profitless and unimportant. when, however, the consciousness of man is opened up in such a manner that it can register that which is proceeding and taking place in the three lower kingdoms in nature, then further light and information will be given. this will take place in a period of human history when libra is dominant and the three divine aspects of the third person of the trinity, the holy spirit, the creator law, sex and money will give the clue to the three lower kingdoms. law, natural law (the externalisation of the subjective spiritual law) will give the clue to the animal kingdom; sex or the consciousness of affinity will reveal the mystery of the vegetable kingdom; money will unveil the secret of the mineral kingdom and all this will come about through the ac

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

all is movement and livingness. he begins by learning the nature of the forces which make him what he is, as a man; he then learns to bring in a higher energy, that of the soul, to control these forces. he studies the nature of the spirit, soul and matter, usually calling them life, consciousness and form, or life, quality and appearance, and thus gains some insight into the nature of the divine trinity and the electrical nature of all phenomena, including the human being. 8. esoteric psychology is also regarded as of major importance. this marks a shift of attention away from the more material presentation of the old schools of esotericism, with their emphasis upon planes, the material building processes and the constitution of the forms. in the new schools, the emphasis will be upon the

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

gated that eventually it constitutes one of the major factors in the release of the centres. finally the time comes when the initiate works simply with three types of energy whilst expressing himself in incarnation: the energy of life itself, the negative energy of the personality, and the positive energy of the soul. thus he is an expression in conscious manifestation of the three aspects of the trinity. certain things should be established as occult facts in the consciousness of the healer before he is able to work constructively. 1. first of all, that there is nothing but energy and this energy manifests itself as many differing and varying energies. of these many energies, the universe is composed. likewise man's bodies or vehicles of manifestation are without exception constituted of

es, for the life force uses the blood stream and psychic force works through the nervous system. these two departments of the human organism are those which cause the greatest amount of trouble at this time and will even more in the future. the race learns through suffering, and only dire need drives man to seek solution and relief. from the present standpoint of healing, man forms again a lesser trinity of importance: a. the dense physical body, of which science and medicine know much. b. the etheric body, which is the next field of endeavour, of experiment and of discovery. c. the astral body which, simultaneously with the etheric, is the next object for scientific control. the science of psychology will work here. 3. the activity aspect, which manifests primarily through the organs of a

he solar angel is the throat centre. e. the sacral centre registers the energy of the third aspect of divinity, just as the solar plexus centre registers that of the second aspect and the basic centre expresses the energy of the first aspect. here again you have the lower centres reflecting the throat, heart and head centres and thus completing the higher and the lower manifestation of the divine trinity in man. this centre was brought into full functioning activity in old lemuria, the first human race; its energy is that of the holy spirit, overshadowing virgin substance. here again we find also another divine reflection in the following- 108- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust eventually, in the divine hermaphrodite (later to appear) you

ise the major divine aspects in the kingdoms in nature, in the planet and in the solar system eventually. be not betrayed into placing these interlaced spheres of living energy on the right or the left of the spinal cord. constantly a movement, an interplay and a reversal is going on. i can but portray the nature of a symbol which will indicate the special path of the three energies of the divine trinity. i indicate not a fact in location or place, for it is this materialising and localising of the main concept which has produced so much danger. the initiate-student seeks to grasp the relation of the three basic energies, the three paths of living fire, their relation and inter-relation and their sequential polarisation. he seeks not to narrow the teaching down to points and lines and plac

ll eventually have to work through his own centres in relation to the patient whose ills he is endeavouring to heal. he must remember, consequently, three factors: the centres, their related glands, and the group of organs for which these two are responsible. you have in the seven areas of the body, governed by the seven major centres and their affiliated glands, the appearance again of the basic trinity of manifestation- 123- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. life or spirit..the energy centre. 2. soul or quality..the gland. 3. form or matter..the organs in any particular area governed by any one centre. this brings us to another law which the healer must ever have in mind. law vii when life or energy flows unimpeded and through right d

le. also the teaching anent the five and the two energies which meet in man have only lately been given out by me, for the first time in any detail, although they were hinted at in the secret doctrine. i wonder sometimes if any of you realise the epoch-making importance of the teaching which i have given out anent the seven rays as manifesting energies. speculations as to the nature of the divine trinity have ever been present in the discussions and thinking of advanced men and that since time began and the hierarchy started its agelong task of influencing and stimulating the human consciousness but information anent the seven spirits before the throne of the trinity has not been so usual and only a few writers, ancient or modern, have touched upon the nature of these beings. now, with all

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

ined 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 of darkness" and chant

the emphasis upon the "eye" in this formula. it is a keynote and appears in various guises. behind all the ideas lies the concept of seeing, of a seeing one, looking on at the created whole. this same concept is to be found in the fundamental masonic symbol of the eye of god which dominates everything within the temple. in this formula we have: 1. the eye of god. shiva is the first person of the trinity, the destroyer, but at the same time the final absorber, the whole and yet the part. this is the organ of the divine will or power, the eye, through whose directed gaze the power flows outward to its created whole. in the case of the human spirit, it is the monad. 2. the eye of vision, indicating this time not the directing energy, but the conscious observer- 183- discipleship in the new a

high grade integrated personality, en rapport with the soul. d "fire, water and the earth all need the vital air. the air is life" the clue again to this is to be found in the secret doctrine, i.80, where we find the words "matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit and these three are a trinity, synthesised by life, which pervades them all" you can see, therefore, upon careful reflection how simple this matter is, exoterically considered, and how the key to understanding lies in conscious identification with all three, both sequentially through growth and simultaneously through initiation. i have here given you an occult hint. secondly, i would have you note how this formula refe

r" it is this concept which has been travestied and distorted by the christian teaching anent the "vicarious atonement" this grew out of a basic confusion between the law of sacrifice and the law of assembly, and took place when any understanding of the nature of the father remained a supreme mystery; the whole process was then interpreted in terms of the first and highest aspect of the essential trinity, of which man knew nothing, instead of in terms of the second aspect, the building, magnetic aspect of love. we are if it could be but realised in process of re-interpreting and re-arranging what can be called "the doctrinal structure underlying the relation between knowledge and wisdom" this involves the destruction of old concepts such as the trinity of manifestation, and the assembly of

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ever, tied up with the human mechanism or response apparatus, and serve to put the man in touch with aspects of the phenomenal world for which the response mechanism, which we call the personality, exists. they are the product of the activity of the divine soul in man, which takes the form of what we call "the animal soul" which really corresponds to the holy ghost aspect in the human microcosmic trinity. all these powers have their higher spiritual correspondences, which manifest when the soul becomes consciously active and controls its mechanism through the mind and the brain. when astral clairvoyance and clairaudience are not below the threshold of consciousness, but are actively used and functioning, it means that the solar plexus centre is open and active. when the corresponding menta

y will you discover and cooperate with the divine plan and follow the guiding hand of god in world affairs. the real work of reconstruction will be done by those who, in the silence of their own hearts, have walked with god and learnt his ways. 5. find two other people to work with you. there is a unique potency in this triple relationship. god himself, so say all the world scriptures, works as a trinity of goodness, and you can, in your tiny sphere, do the same, finding two other people of like mind with you to form a goodwill triangle of light and spiritual interplay. each of the two who cooperate with you can, in their turn, do the same, and thus a great network of goodwill can spread throughout the world. through it the forces of light will be able to work and you, in your place and sp

new conception as to the world of spiritual realities and perhaps of the very nature of god himself? may it not be possible that our present ideas of god as the universal mind, as love and as will, may be enriched by a new idea and quality for which we have as yet no name or word and of which we have as yet no faintest understanding? each of the three present concepts as to the divine nature the trinity have been entirely new when first sequentially presented to humanity. what this third major approach will bring to humanity we do not and cannot know. it will bring about as definite results as did the two earlier approaches. for some years now the spiritual hierarchy has been drawing nearer to mankind, and this is responsible for the great concepts of freedom which are so close to the hea

ntelligence..g. oodwill..j. une full moon (gemini) the remaining nine full moons will be concerned with the divine characteristics and their development in mankind. thus the twelve festivals will constitute a revelation of divinity. they will present a means of bringing about relationship, first of all during three months with the three great spiritual centres, the three expressions of the divine trinity. the minor festivals will emphasise the inter-relation of the whole, thus lifting the divine presentation out of the individual and the personal into that of the universal divine purpose; the relationship of the whole to the part and of the part to that whole will be thereby fully expressed. humanity will therefore invoke the spiritual power of the kingdom of god, the hierarchy; the hierar

renunciation, christ, for the first time, anchored on earth a tenuous thread of the divine will, as it issued from the father's house (shamballa, passed into the understanding custody of the kingdom of god, and through the medium of the christ was brought to the attention of mankind. through the instrumentality of certain great sons of god the three divine aspects or characteristics of the divine trinity will, love and intelligence have become a part of human thinking and aspiration. christians are apt to forget that the crisis in the final hours of the christ was not in those spent upon the cross, but during those spent in the garden of gethsemane, when his will in agony and almost despair was submerged in that of the father "father" he said "not my will but thine be done (luke xxii. 42)

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

as we understand it during the early treading of the path of discipleship is concerned with great verities which are (from the insight of the enlightened ones) only the a b c of life. these truths are: the manifestation of divinity on the physical plane. the doctrine of avatars. this religious history reveals. the nature of consciousness, through the development of psychology. the doctrine of the trinity, as it expresses itself through the aspects and the attributes. these four expressions of truth will be found to convey all the knowledge with which the initiate must stand equipped when he climbs the mount of transfiguration at the time of the third initiation. they have given him a spiritual perception of the plan. of that life, we know nothing whatsoever. the contemplation of its signif

h the doctrine of avatars or of world saviours. it is in this connection that the words i gave you previously are pertinent- 104- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust 1 "the group must understand the nature of the three" this will be seen to refer to the three major centres and the nature of their relationship, and not specifically to the trinity. 2 "the nature of the one must be grasped and comprehended" this has reference to the fact that our planetary life is itself a centre within a still greater life, and is today one of the three planetary centres (even if not yet one of the seven sacred planets) which are the custodians of the force, in process of transmission, which will be to the greater life what shamballa, the hierarchy

h of the divine current revelation as a disciple can grasp in time and space) and revelation which is the synthesis of the divine expressive purpose. this is related to the will-to-good which is, in its turn, a complete expression of the love nature of deity. c. the (as yet) unrecognised purpose which evoked the creative activity of our planetary logos. this brought the third aspect of the divine trinity into play. the usual reasons brought forward by the finite mind of man to account for what is called by us "manifestation" and to explain the dualism of all existence and the relation of spirit-matter, are by no means the real explanation of the divine purpose; they are based on man's own essential dualism; they are the highest explanation of his own divine nature which he can achieve at t

ntal law in this solar system, and therefore in our planetary life experience, that the substance through which divinity (in time and space) expresses itself is karmically conditioned; it is impregnated by those qualities and aspects which are the product of earlier manifestations of that being in whom we live and move and have our being. this is the basic fact lying behind the expression of that trinity or triad of aspects with which all the world religions have made us familiar. this trinity is as follows: 1. the father aspect this is the underlying plan of god. the will aspect. the essential cause of being. purpose. life purpose, motivating evolution. the note of synthetic sound. utilises the sutratma 2. the son aspect. t he quality of sensitivity. the love aspect. the nature of relatio

ridge has to be built by the aspirant who is focussed upon the mental plane, because it is mental substance (in three grades) which must be used, and the three aspects of the mind the manasic permanent atom, the son of mind or ego, and the mental unit are all involved in the process. students would do well to learn that this process of building the antahkarana is one of the means whereby man, the trinity, becomes a duality. when the task is completed and the antahkarana is definitely built thus producing perfect alignment between the monad and its expression upon the physical plane the body of the soul (the causal body) is completely and finally destroyed by the fire of the monad, pouring down the antahkarana. there is then complete reciprocity between the monad and the fully conscious sou

comes responsive to and attracted by the point of tension upon the mental plane. at this stage the disciple is occupied with two energies: one, quiescent and held within a ring-pass-not, but at a point of extreme tension, and the other active, picture-forming, outgoing and responsive to the mind of the bridge-builder. in this connection it should be remembered that the second aspect of the divine trinity is the form-building aspect, and thus, under the law of analogy, it is the second aspect of the personality and the second aspect of the spiritual triad which are becoming creatively active. the disciple is now proceeding with the second stage of- 320- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust his building work, and so the numerical sig

spirit to the world of forms, to the united hierarchy and to the council chamber of the lord. upon this i may not here enlarge, for we must not diverge too far from our study. one thing only can be said: from that high place, atma-buddhi-manas (will, love and intelligent action) can be seen in united activity and the theory of an existing plan and the belief in the three divine aspects, or in the trinity of energies, is factually demonstrated. the first ray of will or power is distinguished by the highest known divine quality (there are others still higher. in the word, goodwill, the secret purpose of the planetary logos is hidden. it is being slowly brought to the attention of humanity by means of the three phrases: god is love. goodwill. the will-to-good. these three phrases, in reality

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

uned to the soul and bring its beauty into manifestation, redeem it. all this is implicit in the sign of the virgin and its labor. in the secret doctrine is a clear statement of the whole message of this sign "matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this turn of the spiral; and soul is the vehicle on a higher turn of the spiral for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by life which pervades them all. the constellations and stars the three constellations in close proximity to that of virgo are: coma berenice, the mother of the form only; the centaur, the man riding upon a horse or the horse with a man's head and torso, representing the human being, for man is an animal plus a god. this is the lowest of the constellations and it is notable tha

usness latent in the form. the mutable cross and the planetary rulers virgo is one of the arms of the mutable cross, with its opposite sign of pisces, and the airy gemini and fiery sagittarius completing the four arms. it is the common cross of those who have probationary status. its description is as follows "the mutable cross is the cross of the holy spirit, of the third person of the christian trinity, as it organizes substance and evokes sensitive response from substance itself (note the beautiful correlation of this statement with the fact that the holy spirit over-shadowed mary) on this cross the man reaches the stage of acquiescence and aspiration, and so prepares himself for the fixed cross of discipleship. it is notable that "the mutable cross of the personality dedicates the- 70

d in virgo, when he did not understand that the queen of the amazons was to be redeemed by unity, not killed. over and over again the tibetan emphasizes the fact that it is "through the medium of humanity that a consummation of 'light' effectiveness will be produced which will make possible the expression of the whole. we still make the mistake of hercules, when we forget that the triangle of the trinity is an equilateral triangle, all angles of equal importance, to the working out of the plan (esoteric astrology, pp. 558 et seq) it is in virgo, after complete individualization in leo, that the first step toward the union of spirit and matter is made "the subordination of the form life to the will of the indwelling christ [122] the three rulers of the sign virgo definitely relate it to eig

gittarius. one, aquila, the eagle flying straight into the face of the sun, the bird out of time and space, the symbol of immortality, the symbol of that secret hidden thing that lies back of our souls even; for we are told that matter or form is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul, and soul on a higher turn of the spiral is the vehicle for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity unified by life that pervades them all. the other constellation is cygnus, symbol of soul. sagittarius, the aspirant, looking to the left and to the right: to the right seeing aquila and saying to himself "i am spirit flying straight for my home; looking the other side and seeing cygnus, the swan, with its four stars in the form of a cross and saying "i am the soul crucified in matter from

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

reatise will be found of interest to those who have not sufficient leisure to master the more complete works on the kabalah. the old testament has been of necessity referred to, but i have by intention made no references to the new testament, or to the faith and doctrines taught by jesus the christ, as the saviour of the world: if any desire to refer to the alleged reference in the kabalah to the trinity, it will be found in the zohar ii, 43, b: and an english version of the same in "the kabbalah" by c. d. ginsburg. wm. wynn westcott, m.b, etc. the kabalah it must be confessed that the origin of the kabalah is lost in the mists of antiquity; no one can demonstrate who was its author, or who were its earliest teachers. considerable evidence may be adduced to show that its roots pass back to

of contraction and extension; thus jehovah, ihvh 26, was extended to ivd-ha-vv-ha, and so 10, 5, 6, 5 or 26 became 20, 6, 12, 6 or 44. by extension zain, z.7, became 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 or 28; or 28 was regarded as 2 and 8 or 10. the tetragrammaton, jehovah 26 was also at times regarded as 2 and 6 or 8: so el shaddai, god almighty, al shdi, 1, 30, 300, 4, 10, was 345 and then 12 and then 3, a trinity. a quaint conceit was that of the change of the spelling of the names of abraham and sara: at first abram abrm and sarai shri, became abrhm and shrh: they were 100 and 90 years old and were sterile: now h, heh, was deemed of a fertile type, and so the letter h was added to abram, and the yod i, converted into an h of the name sarai. in the very old "sepher yetzirah" is found the allocation

never be uttered by the common people, and whose true pronunciation has been for many centuries confessedly lost to the jews and has never been known to the christians (see diagram) the views of the kabalists on cosmogony are not easy to explain, but as before said the supreme boundless god, the "ain suph" was not the direct creator of the world, nor was the world made out of nothing. the highest trinity of "the crown, king and queen" having arisen by divine emanation, its powers descended and expanded into the seven lower sephiroth, and produced the universe in their own image, a decad of forces, as a whole constituting the adm qdmun adam quadmun, or adam kadmon, the primordial or archetypal man; the world produced is the existing universe of which we have cognizance. the universe is call

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

the spirit, but claims to have the right, drawn from ahigher power, to compeleven the queen of earth, heaven, and hell to grant the request. give mewhat i ask, and thou shalt have honour and offerings; refuse, and i will vex thee by insult. socanidia and her kind boasted that they could compelthe gods to appear. this is all classic. no oneever heard of a satanic witch invoking or threatening the trinity, or christ or even the angels orsaints. in fact, they cannot even compelthe devil or his imps to obey they work entirely by hisgood-will as slaves. but in the old italian lore the sorcerer or witch is all or nothing, and aims at limit-less will or power.of the ancient belief in the virtues of a perforated stone i need not speak. but it is to be remarkedthat in the invocation the witch goes

initenature or the primal source by penance and study. i mention this because a reviewer hasreproached me with exaggerating the degree to which diabolism introduced by the church since1500 is deficient in italy. but in fact, among the higher class of witches, or in their traditions, it ishardly to be found at all. in christian diabolism the witch never dares to threaten satan or god, orany of the trinity or angels, for the whole system is based on the conception of a church and ofobedience.the herb concordia probably takes its name from that of the goddess concordia, who was repre-sented as holding a branch. it plays a great part in witchcraft, after verbena and rue. page 60 incantation.i boil the cluster of concordiat o keep in concord and at peace with melaverna, that she may restore to

BLACK SERPENT1

ublic square. some people are trying everything within their power to force the teaching of "intelligent design (the next step in the evolution of creationism) upon american school curriculums. and as we have seen with our current president, george w. bush, declarations of "faith" have become a good way for seeking public office. on televangelist programs, such as the fodder one might view on the trinity broadcast network, it is not uncommon for us to hear sermons about how "america was originally a christian nation" and "we need to take america back for christ" many christians in the southern states believe, quite firmly, that the founding fathers of our great nation were evangelical christians like themselves, and that they intended for the constitution to be observed in a biblical conte

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

craft as a luciferian gnosis cannot be denied. the great work in reference to set is for the magician to seek divinity, that is awareness, individuality and personal power. by believing in yourself rather than something higher than you (the only higher angelick or demonic being is you, the luciferic angel or holy guardian angel) you become as your models. within the black tradition the luciferian trinity which is composed of samael lilith cain hold significance in the model of practice within the cult. this trinity is an alchemical process of becoming in which the magician aligns and utilizes the deific associations of samael lilith cain to transform their consciousness into the divine essence which is baphomet, the head of knowledge. to described samael, a small section as follows is from

ook of sexual magick, goetic sorcery, a luciferian approach to the 72 spirits of the shemhamforasche, yatuk dinoih and other works focused on the darksome rites of the path of shadow sorcery and so-called skir-hand witchcraft, introduced by nathaniel j. harris, a hereditary witch from the uk. known as akhtya seker arimanius, ford also is the author of liber hvhi, an explaination of the luciferian trinity and the rituals of the qlippoth, the book of the witch moon which features an introduction by chaos magician peter j. carroll and numerous articles and essays. michael w. ford s grimoires may be found here: http//algol.chaosmagic.im[[vol. 2, page xv[[eh eme didache ouk estin eme, alla tou pemphantos me "my doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me- john vii. 16[[vol. 2, page xvi] modern s

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

a race, by being merged in their own progeny (by exudation; that is to say, the sexless race reincarnated in the bisexual[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] is esoterically a septenary which represents seven men, or rather groups of men. for the first adam- the kadmon- is the synthesis of the ten sephiroth. of these, the upper triad remains in the archetypal world as the future "trinity" while the seven lower sephiroth create the manifested material world; and this septenate is the second adam. genesis, and the mysteries upon which it was fabricated, came from egypt. the "god" of the 1st chapter of genesis is the logos, and the "lord god" of the 2nd chapter the creative elohim- the lower powers* thus saith pymander "this is the mystery that to this day was hidden. nature

lised nations of antiquity. why? each separate people has given a different explanation, according to the peculiar tenets of their (exoteric) religion. that it was the number of numbers for those initiated into the sacred mysteries, there can be no doubt. pythagoras. calls it the 'vehicle of life' containing body and soul, since it is formed of a quaternary, that is wisdom and intellect, and of a trinity or action and matter. the emperor julian 'in matrem, etc' expresses himself thus 'were i to touch upon the initiation into our sacred mysteries, which the chaldees bacchized, respecting the seven-rayed god, lighting up the soul through him, i should say things unknown to the rabble, very unknown, but well known to the blessed theurgists (p. 141. and who, acquainted with the puranas, the bo

nknowable on the plane of universal manifestation. but here is the interpretation thereof given by the modern christians from the kabala. as declared by the author just cited "to the fulness of the world in general with its chiefest content, man, the term elohim-jehovah applies. in extracts from the zohar, the rev. dr. cassell (a kabalist, to prove that the cabbalah sets forth the doctrine of the trinity, among other things says 'jehovah is elohim (alhim. by three steps god (alhim, and jehovah become the same, and though separated each and together, they are of the same one" similarly, vishnu becomes the sun, the visible symbol of the impersonal deity. vishnu is described as "striding through the seven regions of the universe in three steps" but with the hindus this is an exoteric account

l. 2, page] 62 the secret doctrine. later, to remodel and correct what was said. but let us see what the same tablet says further on- 7. there were seven of them (the wicked gods (then follows the description of these, the fourth being a "serpent" the phallic symbol of the fourth race in human evolution. 15. the seven of them, messengers of the god anu, their king. now anu belongs to the chaldean trinity, and is identical with sin, the "moon" in one aspect. and the moon in the hebrew kabala is the argha of the seed of all material life, and is still more closely connected, kabalistically, with jehovah, who is double-sexed as anu is. they are both represented in esotericism and viewed from a dual aspect: male or spiritual, female or material, or spirit and matter, the two antagonistic princ

" hydrogen is gas only on our terrestrial plane. but even in chemistry hydrogen "would be the only existing form of matter, in our sense of the term* and is very nearly allied to protyle, which is our layam. it is the father and generator, so to say, or rather the upadhi (basis, of both air and water, and is "fire, air and water" in fact: one under three aspects; hence the chemical and alchemical trinity. in the world of manifestation or matter it is the objective symbol and the material emanation from the subjective and purely spiritual entitative being in the region of noumena. well might godfrey higgins have compared hydrogen to, and even identified it with, the to on, the "one" of the greeks. for, as he remarks, hydrogen is not water, though it generates it; hydrogen is not fire, thoug

e vedas" who entered into the rishis and inspired them by her revelations; just as bath-kol is said to have inspired the prophets of israel and the jewish high-priests. and both exist to this day, in their respective sacred symbologies, because the ancients associated sound or speech with the ether of space, of which sound is the characteristic. hence fire, water and air are the primordial cosmic trinity "i am thy thought, thy god, more ancient than the moist principle, the light that radiates within darkness (chaos, and the shining word of god (sound) is the son of the deity("pymander" 6* thus we have to study well the "primary creation" before we can understand the secondary. the first race had three rudimentary elements in it; and no fire as yet; because, with the ancients, the evolutio

the highest deity, would not have personified it by pollux, a demi-god only[[footnote(s* pindar. nem. x, 60, dissen* schol. eurip "orestes" 463, dindorf. see decharme's "mythol" etc, p. 654* the monad is impersonal and a god per se, albeit unconscious on this plane. for, divorced from its third (often called fifth) principle, manas, which is the horizontal line of the first manifested triangle or trinity, it can have no consciousness or perception of things on this earthly plane "the highest sees through the eye of the lowest" in the manifested world; purusha (spirit) remains blind without the help of prakrit (matter) in the material spheres; and so does atma-buddhi without manas "morals" p. 484 f* this strange idea and interpretation are accepted by decharme in his "mythologie de la grece

heless into matter by virtue of that same evolution, as the second logos of the "father[[footnote(s* see the "primeval manus of humanity* the "heavenly man- please mark again the word- is "the logos" or the "son" esoterically. therefore, once that the title was applied to christ (declared god and the very god himself) christian theology had no choice. in order to support its dogma of the personal trinity it had to proclaim, as it does, that the christian logos is the only true one, and that all the logoi of other religions were false, and only the masquerading evil principles, satan. now see where this led western theology to "for the mind, a deity abounding in both sexes, being life and life, brought forth by its word another mind or workman; which, being god of the fire and the spirit, f

ather of mankind, established sexual intercourse as the means of peopling the world. happily for the human race the "elect race" had already become the vehicle of incarnation of the (intellectually and spiritually) highest dhyanis before humanity had become quite material. when the last sub-races- save some lowest- of the third race had perished with the great lemurian continent "the seeds of the trinity of wisdom" had already acquired the secret of immortality on earth, that gift which allows the same great personality to step ad libitum from one worn-out body into another (b) the first war that earth knew, the first human gore shed, was the result of man's eyes and senses being opened; which made him see that the daughters of his brethren were fairer than his own, and their wives also. t

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been well deserved, and no one was more to be blamed[[vol. 1, page] xxxi introductory. in that affair than the missionaries and colonel wilford themselves. the former, on the testimony of sir william jones himself (see asiat. res, vol. i, p. 272, were silly enough to maintain that "the hindus were even now almost christians, because their brahma, vishnu and mahesa were no other than the christian trinity* it was a good lesson. it made the oriental scholars doubly cautious; but perchance it has also made some of them too shy, and caused, in its reaction, the pendulum of foregone conclusions to swing too much the other way. for "that first supply on the brahmanical market" made for colonel wilford, has now created an evident necessity and desire in the orientalists to declare nearly every ar

itance, from the first appearance of the architects of the globe he lives in, the unrevealed deity was recognised and considered under its only philosophical aspect- universal motion, the thrill of the creative breath in nature. occultism sums up the "one existence" thus "deity is an arcane, living (or moving) fire, and the eternal witnesses to this unseen presence are light, heat, moisture- this trinity including, and being the cause of, every[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] that absolute wisdom which transcends the ideas of time and space. mind, as we know it, is resolvable into states of consciousness, of varying duration, intensity, complexity, etc- all, in the ultimate, resting on sensation, which is again maya. sensation, again, necessarily postulates limitation

o us apart from change, and motion best symbolises change, its essential characteristic. this latter aspect of the one reality, is also symbolised by the term "the great breath" a symbol sufficiently graphic to need no further elucidation. thus, then, the first fundamental axiom of the secret doctrine is this metaphysical one absolute- be-ness- symbolised by finite intelligence as the theological trinity. it may, however, assist the student if a few further explanations are given here. herbert spencer has of late so far modified his agnosticism, as to assert that the nature of the "first cause* which the occultist more logically derives from the "causeless cause" the "eternal" and the "unknowable" may be essentially the same as that of the consciousness which wells up within us: in short

tage of re-awakening (see comments, stanza ii) in the kabala it is also father- mother-son. but whereas in the eastern doctrine, these are the seventh principle of the manifested universe, or its "atma-buddhi- manas (spirit, soul, intelligence, the triad branching off and dividing into the seven cosmical and seven human principles, in the western kabala of the christian mystics it is the triad or trinity, and with their occultists, the male-female jehovah, jah-havah. in this lies the whole difference between the esoteric and the christian trinities. the mystics and the philosophers, the eastern and western pantheists, synthesize their pregenetic triad in the pure divine abstraction. the orthodox, anthropomorphize it. hiranyagarbha, hari, and sankara- the three hypostases of the manifesting

ic or astral "photographs" but during the minor pralayas, once over-taken by the "night" the planets remain intact, though dead, as a huge animal, caught and embedded in the polar ice, remains the same for ages[[vol. 1, page] 19 proem. not perish with created things (or achyuta, a name of vishnu; whereas the orthodox christian separates his personal creative deity into the three personages of the trinity, and admits of no higher deity. the latter, in occultism, is the abstract triangle; with the orthodox, the perfect cube. the creative god or the aggregate gods are regarded by the eastern philosopher as bhrantidarsanatah "false apprehension" something "conceived of, by reason of erroneous appearances, as a material form" and explained as arising from the illusive conception of the egotisti

are similar to those of human or even animal beings. life we look upon as "the one form of existence" manifesting in what is called matter; or, as in man, what, incorrectly separating them, we name spirit, soul and matter. matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by life, which pervades them all. the idea of universal life is one of those ancient conceptions which are returning to the human mind in this century, as a consequence of its liberation from anthropomorphic theology. science, it is true, contents itself with tracing or postulating the signs of universal life, and has not yet been bold enough even to whisper "anima mundi" the i

o differentiated objectivity, or even become the (to man, so far) invisible protyle of science. but, as the hour strikes and it becomes receptive of the fohatic impress of the divine thought (the logos, or the male aspect of the anima mundi, alaya- its heart opens. it differentiates, and the three (father, mother, son) are transformed into four. herein lies the origin of the double mystery of the trinity and the immaculate conception. the first and fundamental dogma of occultism is universal unity (or homogeneity) under three aspects. this led to a possible conception of deity, which as an absolute unity must remain forever incomprehensible to finite intellects "if thou wouldest believe in the power which acts within the root of a plant, or imagine the root concealed under the soil, thou h

r life itself. let us render this in the mathematical language of the author of "the source of measures" speaking of the "measure of a man" and his numerical (kabalistic) value, he writes that in genesis, ch. iv, v. 1 "it is called the 'man even jehovah[[footnote(s* a vedantin of the visishtadwaita philosophy would say that, though the only independent reality, parabrahmam is inseparable from his trinity. that he is three "parabrahmam, chit, and achit" the last two being dependent realities unable to exist separately; or, to make it clearer, parabrahmam is the substance- changeless, eternal, and incognizable- and chit (atma, and achit (anatma) are its qualities, as form and colour are the qualities of any object. the two are the garment, or body, or rather attribute (sarira) of parabrahmam

is credited by the orientalists with having created the five dhyani-buddhas- a candidate becomes virtually a bodhisattva, created such by the high initiator (c) fohat, being one of the most, if not the most important character in esoteric cosmogony, should be minutely described. as in the oldest grecian cosmogony, differing widely from the later mythology, eros is the third person in the primeval trinity: chaos, gaea, eros: answering to the kabalistic en-soph (for chaos is space[[chaino "void) the boundless all, shekinah and the ancient of days, or the holy ghost; so fohat is one thing in the yet unmanifested universe and another in the phenomenal and cosmic world. in the latter, he is that occult, electric, vital power, which, under the will of the creative logos, unites and brings togeth

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nd that deifiest, being that race, most royally run to spring sunshine through winter storm. glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! first semichorus, men: glory to thee from gilded tomb! second semichorus, women: glory to thee from waiting womb! men: glory to thee from earth unploughed! women: glory to thee from virgin vowed! men: glory to thee, true unity of the eternal trinity! women: glory to thee, thou sire and dam and self of i am that i am! men: glory to thee, beyond all term, thy spring of sperm, thy seed and germ! women: glory to thee, eternal sun, thou one in three, thou three in one! chorus: glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree (these words are to form the substance of the anthem; but the whole or any part thereof shall be set

loved, and we are stretched at our ease among the vines. the equinox 14 but these thy prophets; they must cry aloud and scourge themselves; they must cross trackless wastes and unfathomed oceans; to await thee is the end, not the beginning [lxv, ii, 55-62] aum is here quoted as the hieroglyph of the eternal .a. the beginning of sound .u. its middle, and .m. its end, together form a single word or trinity, indicating that the real must be regarded as of this three-fold nature, birth, life and death, not successive, but one. those who have reached trances in which .time. is no more will understand better than others how this rnay be. 20. bestride the bird of life, if thou wouldst know. the word .know. is specially used here in a technical sense. avidya, ignorance, the first of the fetters, i

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ty, the mystery of mysteries, the sphinx at the gates of all spirituality. all conceivable ideas begin and end as light in its emotion, the ecstasy which the creation of the idea of self induces. the idea is unity by the formula of self, its necessary reality as continuity, the question of all things, all this universe visible and invisible has come out of it. as unity conceived duality, it begot trinity, begot tetragrammaton. duality being unity, is time, the complex of conception, the eternal refluctuation to the primeval reality in freedom-being trinity of dualities, is the six senses, the five facets of sex-projecting as environment for self-assimilation in denial, as a complete sexuality. being tetragrammaton of dualities is twelvefold by arrangement, the human complex, and may be cal

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radually grew in strength, so the old religion was slowly pushed back. back until, about the time of the reformation, it only existed in the outlying country districts. non-christians at that time became known as pagans and heathens "pagan" comes from the latin there were other more definite adoptions from the old religions, especially in the early formative years of christianity. the idea of the trinity, for instance, was taken from the old egyptian triad. osiris, isis and horus became god, mary and jesus. december 25th, as the birthdate of]esus, was borrowed from mithraism which also believed in a second coming and indulged in the "eating of god. in many religions of the ancient world were found immaculate conceptions and sacrifice of the god for the salvation of the people. witchcraft a

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

passion, originally because this coincided with peak female fertility. moon magick for the increase of love and fertility is still practised under the auspices of the waxing moon. it was not until about 3,000 years ago that the male role in conception was seite 6 wicca01.txt fully understood in the west, and only then were the sky father deities able to usurp the mysteries of the divine mother. a trinity of huge, carved stone goddesses, representing the three main cycles of the moon, and dating from between 13000 and 11000 bc, was found in france in a cave at the abri du roc aux sorciers at angles-sur-l'anglin. this motif continued right through to the triple goddess of the celts, reflecting the lunar cycles as maiden, mother and crone, an image that also appeared throughout the classical

estess consecrates the salt and the high priest the water and they mingle them. the high priestess then creates the first circle and the high priest the second. casting a triple circle three is a sacred number in magick and for special ceremonies you can create a triple circle of both power and protection. the number three represents the three aspects of the god figure in many religions: the holy trinity, the triple goddess, the three aspects of the moon -maiden, mother and wise woman or crone- the trefoil or triple god of the celts, and the even older egyptian trinity of isis, osiris and horus, the young sky god. this triplicity is still celebrated when we turn our money over and bow three times to the moon for good luck* create your first two circles of light and salt water* return to th

orus was the ancient egyptian sky god, represented as a falcon or a falcon-headed man. his eyes were the sun and moon and his wings could extend across the entire heavens. he was frequently associated with the morning aspect of ra, the sun god, and worshipped as re-harakhte. the son of isis and osiris, he is often depicted as an infant on his mother's lap and together the parents and child form a trinity. horus brings clarity of mind and purpose and the ability to seize upon an opportunity, and is effective for uncovering secrets, deception and illusion. lugh lugh, the celtic 'shining one, who gives his name to lughnassadh, celtic festival of the first harvest, was the young solar deity who replaced the dagda, father of the gods, as supreme king. he was associated with sacrifice, as the su

nger, protection of the vulnerable, psychic protection and the correction of injustice. as an avenging goddess, she should be used only as a focus for positive rituals, for, like fire, her innate power can blaze out of control. shiva seite 39 wicca01.txt shiva, or siva, is the hindu god of both creation and destruction, good and evil, fertility and abstinence. with vishnu and brahma, he forms the trinity of the modern hindu gods. he is the lord of the dance who, it is said, will one day bring about the destruction of the world. his symbol is the phallus, representing creative power, and many hindus regard his benevolent, creative aspect as predominant. shiva has three eyes, represented by the sun, the moon and fire. his third eye allows him to see inwards and also to destroy whatever it lo

he centre of your altar or on any flat surface, together with your three chosen oils (or you can work with a single fragrance if you prefer* to the south of it, set your money pot with the lid open and your coins* place your symbols of abundance on the tray to the north of the dish* arrange your gold, blue or beeswax candles in a triangle (this sacred shape represents the triple goddess, the holy trinity and the egyptian isis, osiris and horus. the candle at the apex of the triangle should be in the north, with the other two forming the base to the south, so that the triangle creates a protective enclosure. if you have room, set your candles in holders on the floor or in candlesticks on small tables or chairs at each of the points and have the altar in the centre. this is my preferred meth

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

founder of the church of god in christ (pentecostal, bishop c. h. mason, with "god's handiworks in nature" early twentieth century. photo courtesy sherry sherrod dupree collection, university of florida, gainesville\ 91\ 4 "medical doctors can't do you no good" conjure and african american traditions of healing in the mid twentieth century the reverend addie battle, pastor of the mount zion holy trinity spiritualist church of cleveland, ohio, rendered an account of her life "i was born of farming parents on january 15, 1903, near tuskegee, alabama" she began "i had three older brothers and five older sisters" toiling in the rugged cotton fields of the alabama black belt, addie and her family saw few material returns from their labor "most of the time we had almost nothing to eat because o

hat appear in the black spiritual tradition contribute to the movement's sense of itself as a faith with an archaic institutional heritage, and, according to hans baer, they provide an atmosphere of respectability for members of the movement who seek religious symbols of social status. other spiritual practices derived from popular catholic traditions include prayers to the blessed mother and the trinity, the use of holy oil, and the celebration of saints' feast days, especially the feast of saint joseph, a holiday that remains popular in new orleans among black spiritualists and italian american women today. nevertheless, although some black spiritualists refer to themselves as "sanctified catholics" the religious content and significance of their traditions hold different meanings for th

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oul ascends and descends(influenced by the "epistles of the brethren of purity) popular in medieval spain and provence -translations made by kabbalists moses ibn tibbon and samuel ibn motot 1054 rome splits from orthodox church, forms catholic church 1058-1111 ghazali (persian muslim scholar and mystic) 1060 r. solomon ibn gabirol said to have created a woman 1062-1110 petrus alfonsi proof of the trinity based on the tetragrammaton. 1071-1126 guilhelm ix duca d'aquitania, vii conte di poitiers troubadour c. 1075 yehuda ha-levi born. friend of abraham ibn ezra. helped amalgamate ismailite thought and muslim mysticism to jewish thought. 1075-1129 rupert of deutz. trinitarian division of history: the age of the father from the creation to the fall; of the son from the fall to the passion; and

arabic. c. 1150: abbess hildegard of bingen (1078-1179, hailed as the "sibyl of the rhine" writes the scivias and a series of important letters; she also composes music and verse, including the ordo virtutum. c.1150 "the ysagoge in theologiam" text from the school of abelard (christian knowledge of jewish speculation)held that the old testament evidenced in hebrew the incarnation of the word and trinity in the unity of divine essence more than the latin or greek. c.1150 geoffrey of monmouth's "life of merlin" 1150 fl. ya aqob nazir (the nazirian) underwent in jerusalem initiation into mystical and angelogical traditions one of the handfull of jews from provence who were alledged daily access to the revelations of the prophet elia and who had initiated maimonides to the kabbalah< for the l

fluence of the planets- after 1269 sordello italian troubadour. 1270-1340 nicholas of lyra, franciscan exegete. the report that he was of jewish descent dates only from the fifteenth century. turned to rashi for biblical interpretation. 1270 thomas aquinas is sympathetic to the idea of alchemical transmution in his summa theologia. 1270-1348 abner de burgos(aka alfonso de valladolid) proof of the trinity based on the tetragrammaton. experimented with letter combinations in visions; wrote "moreh sedek: conceptions of shekinah and shi'ur komah(measure of the body).identifies metatron with the son in the trinity. hokhmah, binah, and da'at as christological trinity. 1271 mongols conquered the area around harran. they deported the populace of the city, walled up the city gates, and left it. r

abalist; divine names. 1280 abulafia's preaching to christians in italy. joachimist-influenced kabbalah absorbed to some degree by beguin/franciscan church of philadelphia that holds "the keys of david: a joachimist/qblhist exegesis of scripture. 1280 ramon martin: pugio fidei discusses the tetragrammaton christologically, discusses how name science and sefirotic science support the notion of the trinity, and calls the messiah by the hebrew letter yod. uses the word cabala by name and mentions his predecessor petras alphonsi. 1280? sefer ha-zohar written by moses de le n but attributed to simon ben yohai. 1280-1340 joseph ibn kaspi kabbalist "menorat kesef" equates the merkabah ladder with jacob's ladder and reintroduces the universal soul as propounded by batalyawsi. 1282-1288 arnald vill

io super significatione nominis tetragrammaton. trinitarian proof in yhvh. joachim's alpha and omega as triangle and circle signifying the unity of the 3-in-1 "introductio in librum ioachim de semine scripturarum. commentary delineates a historical timeframe based on the letters of the hebrew and latin alphabets. demonstrates letter shapes of the hebrew and latin tetragrammata are figures for the trinity. 1294- 1307 temur ljeytu khan d.1297 guido bonatti italian astrologer influenced dante among others. 1300-1362 moses narboni kabbalist epistle on the shi'ur qoma identifies jacob's ladder with the height of the body or totality of created beings. 1300 fra dolcino anticipates the angel of philadelphia's appearance as "holy pope. arnald of villanova writes a number of important treatises on

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on it. after which a severe check was given to the rest, much to this purpose: that they very well knew, and were in their consciences convinced, that they had forged false fictitious books, had fooled others, and cheated them, and thereby had diminished regal dignity amongst all. they knew likewise what ungodly deceitful figures they had made use of, in so much as they spared not even the divine trinity, but accustomed themselves to cheat people all the country over. it was also now as clear as day with what practices they had endeavoured to ensnare the true guests, and introduce the ignorant: in such a manner that it was manifest to all the world that they wallowed in open whoredom, adultery, gluttony, and other uncleannesses: all which was against the express orders of our kingdom. in b

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to be president of the european commission and heath would take the uk into the community. wilson (jesus college, university college, healey (balliol, jenkins (balliol, and heath (balliol) are such an inspiration to us all. look what an oxford education can do for you. in this same period, even the liberal party leaders did oxford proud in the form of jo grimond (balliol, bil, and jeremy thorpe (trinity college, the author of the book, europe: the case for going in. later leaders of the liberal party (now the liberal democrats, david steel and paddy ashdown are also bilderbergers and supporters of the european superstate. once again, maybe all these connections are simply a coincidence, but you have every right to know they exist. it's called democracy. all those members of the bilderberg

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that it was "infinitely tiny".15 we now know this is true. sirius b is a dwarf star and fantastically heavy. the story goes that they said there was a third star, which also orbits sirius a, and takes 50 years to complete a circuit. again this was undiscovered at the time, but its existence was confirmed by astronomers in 1995 and it is known as sirius c.16 the illuminati symbolism of three- the trinity- appears to be related, at least in part, to these three stars of the sirius system. the constant reference to the number 50 in ancient myth could relate to these 50-year orbits, temple suggests, and they also symbolised sirius b and c as "the twins" using their combined orbit periods of 100 years as a code for them, he says. certainly there is endless reference to "twin" symbolism through

hittites. the old testament calls him adad and the hadad. r.a. boulay believes this is also the hebrew god, yahweh/yahveh or jehovah. the daughter of sin, known as inanna or ishtar (semitic, was a warrior goddess deity of many lands under different titles. ishtar's symbol was the lion and also the pleiades and venus. together with sin (shamash) and ishkur (adad, she became part of another ancient trinity of gods under many different names. sin was the father, ishkur the son, and ishtar the female. from ishkur and ishtar, we get the new age myth of the "ashtar command. many new agers claim this is a force of extraterrestrial "saviours" who are preparing to take the chosen ones off the planet when the brown stuff hits the spinning propeller. a sort of jesus with a spaceship. other front-line

includes the lighted torch (illuminated ones; the pyramid and all-seeing eye (apparently used by the serpent sirians in atlantis; the lion (the "sun" and symbol of the serpent cult; the snake, fish, and flying reptile (gargoyle, and other reptilian symbolism; the hard "k" sound used in names and words (ka, ki, etc; the red cross or fire cross on the white background (the flag of england; and the trinity, symbolised as the trident and later the fleurde- lis and other three-pointed forms. the reptilian-illuminati know that the balanced fusion of male and female energy create a third and immensely powerful force and this is one reason for their obsession with the "trinity. new agers and others talk about the need to balance 106 children of the matrix male and female and they are right. but w

malta are another elite and extremely sinister secret society and they have been around for the same period as the knights templar. the ruling bloodlines and their secret society web, the illuminati, are obsessed with symbolism and ritual and, as i have indicated, they use the same symbols and ceremonies today that their ancestors did who ruled the sumer empire, atlantis, and lemuria. the serpent trinity the edda tells the story of how thor-indara fought a constant battle with the serpent cult. the text equates "st george, the dragon-slayer of cappadocia (turkey, with the european god, thor, who was also a "dragon-slayer. both were said to have fought the "serpent dragons of the abyss- their underground cavern systems and bases? in the edda, the serpent cult engages in human sacrifice and

cult engages in human sacrifice and blood drinking. same old story, and again we see the theme of the nordics or "aryans" in conflict with the serpent people. the edda says there were three main leaders of this serpent cult. they were the serpent goddess known as el; her consort, the male entity called wodan (votan was the atlantean fire god; and their son, baldr or balder. this was the serpent "trinity" of mother-father-son. el was also known as eldi or "fiery el, the "hound, and, highly significantly, as "mary".24 from this cult and "fiery el" came the term hell "burning in hell" and "fires of hell" el or hel was the norse queen of the underworld and her followers became known as "kinsman of hel".25 in medieval times, this was symbolised as the "harlequin, the lover of the maiden columb

spiration for the children's stories of mother hubbard or "mother hubur, as she was to the babylonians. mother hubbard was distressed because she couldn't find a bone for her dog (a domesticated wolf- mother hubur, also tiawath, was described as the "plague, the fearful dragon, the dragon which shines brightly, the female spirit who devours with a serpent's mouth. the other members of the serpent trinity in the edda, consort wodan and son balder, were major "gods" of the reptiliancontrolled nazis. the nazis were the creation of the teutonic knights network (illuminati) in germany which has always been associated with the highly significant reptilian bloodline known as the habsburgs. the teutonic knights operated in the same "holy land" in the same period as the knights templar and the knig

cause it has to work so hard to suppress human consciousness, which, in its true power, is far greater than the juveniles that seek to control. these guys know that humans are potentially far more powerful and so they have to hit us from every angle to keep us in comatose ignorance. one of their most effective weapons for this has been the pagan cult known as christianity. the christian "serpent" trinity the serpent trinity of el, wodan, and balder, the mother-father-son, has been repeated in many guises. the emphasis in the serpent trinity was on the mother and son. in babylon, that major stronghold of the serpent cult, the "son" was ninus/tammuz (balder) and the "mother" was queen semiramis (el. the edda explains how one of the centres for the serpent cult during the conflicts with thor/

chivalric banners and when they fought in her honour, they would scream her name as a battle cry. they were fighting for el under the name of mary and for the many faces of the serpent cult 171 balder under the name of jesus. this would explain why christianity, which claims to be a religion based on love, has been such a vehicle for global genocide and torture. the "holy ghost" of the christian trinity is also regarded as feminine in hebrew and the early christian church considered it to be so. the very name bible comes from byblos, home of a shrine to an earlier version of mary known as astarte. this shrine dates to neolithic times and astarte was believed to be the "true sovereign of the world. she is worshipped elsewhere as mother mary, hathor, demeter, aphrodite, and, in india, as ka

goddess and daughter of hecuba or..hecate.20 helen was also known as helle and selene and was worshipped at a spartan sexual festival called the helenphoria that included sexual symbols carried in a basket called the helene.21 troy or troia means "three places" in greek and hebrew and almost certainly relates to the triple-goddess symbolism of atlantis and lemuria with one deity divided into the "trinity, or three aspects. hecate was known as "hecate of the three ways".22 troy or troia is also the origin of the name tripoli, the capital of libya, which is so associated with the reptilian amazons. the legends of troy say that helen married the "moon-king" menelaus, who was promised immortality because of this "sacred marriage. when helen went off with prince paris, menelaus wanted to protec

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books which have been stolen and hoarded overhundreds of years of religious dictatorship and so taken out of public circulation. theroman church and the babylonian brotherhood are one and the same.nimrod was also eannus, the god with two faces, who was later known to theromans as janus. one of the anunnaki brothers, enki the serpent god, was alsofigure 6: the fleur-de-lis, symbolof the babylonian trinity of nimrod,queen semiramis and tammuz,among other things. 53known as ea. the freemasonic eagle with two heads looking left and right, east andwest, is symbolic of nimrod in the role of eannus, and i would suggest that the eagle issymbolic of the winged draco. eannus, it was said, held the keys to the doors of heavenand he was the sole intermediary between god and humanity, therefore any bel

place madefamous by the trojan wars and the wooden horse legend, was another aryan centre. itwas the old capital of the hittites. many of the reptile-aryan bloodlines appear to have75been based in troy and it remains a sacred place for those at the upper levels of thesecret society network who are aware of their true origins. troy or troia means threeplaces in greek and hebrew, an allusion to the trinity, another belief that christianityhas stolen from the ancient world. in english, troy or troia is tripoli, the name of thecapital of libya today and home to that brotherhood frontman, colonel gaddafi. onceagain, troy relates to the extraterrestrial full-bloods and crossbreeds, hence the constantobsession with that name by the brotherhood. in the iliad epic, believed to have beenwritten by t

ercest conflict ensued between the followers of the stpaul version of jesus as the supernatural son of god, and the arians, who believed hewas a man, not god. the arians were named after anus, a churchman in alexandria,egypt, who questioned that jesus could be the same as god. had not jehovah said thathe was the only god? how then could god be in three parts as the father, son and holyspirit? the trinity is a pagan concept and part of babylonian and egyptian belief.now if we lived in a world full of mature adults, we would allow people the respect andfreedom to believe anything they like so long as they dont impose it on others. justbecause we may think it is wrong or a nonsense should not matter. my problem withchristianity and religion in general is not that anyone believes it, that is t

together andpondered on the remarkable twist of destiny which led four people, who attended oxforduniversity in the same period, to become the leading political names of 1960s and 1970s,just as the united kingdom was committing itself to membership of the europeancommunity. wilson (jesus college, university college, jenkins (balliol, heath (balliol),healey (balliol, grimond (balliol, and thorpe (trinity college) are such an inspirationalexample of what can happen when you have an oxford education. the fact that oxford hasalways been a major brotherhood centre and, with cambridge, is a key recruiting groundfor manipulators of the next generation, is purely coincidental, of course.heath, a shape-shifting reptilian, was manipulating britain toward membership ofthe community right through the

d zal was theson of sam. in 1969, charles manson and his satanic family murdered nine people,including the actress sharon tate. manson operated in california in the flower poweryears when a group called the process had a high profile in cities like san francisco.the process emerged in britain and then established branches in california and newyork. the group celebrates adolf hitler and worships a trinity of jehovah, lucifer, andsatan. in the british occult magazine, the lamp of thoth, a writer by the name ofsoror h, said of charles manson (he) showed many of us what it is like to actuallycommit the crime wed like to commit. manson went astray where others like theprocess succeeded. he got caught.45 another serial killer, henry lee lucas, who issaid to have murdered 360 people, including hi

els. the european union is truly a fasciststate in accordance with the fascist symbol.another form of symbolism is known as reverse speech or word inversion. a greatdeal more research is being done into this today and it is one of the mysteries held bythe brotherhood since ancient time. under this system, for instance, the car hirecompany, avis, becomes siva, one of the gods in the hindu triad or trinity. the symbolof siva is the penis and, like neptune and satan, siva is usually pictured with atrident.13 avis, which is owned by the brotherhoods international telephone andtelegraph, have formerly registered the words wizard and golden file astrademarks, as in the wizard of avis. sun and sex rite symbolism is constantly usedin advertising by the brotherhood corporations. these words and sym

either is perfect symbolism for the brotherhood, especially thelatter. dealey plaza, the site of the first freemason temple in dallas, is shaped like apyramid with the capstone missing (see figure 51 overleaf. the top is truncated by arailway bridge. the main pyramid is cut into two more by main street which runsdirectly through the centre. it is, in fact, three pyramids, two inside the one: the trinity408or triad. two energies interactingproduce a third. if anyone thinks this ismere coincidence they should do alittle research into the background ofthe brotherhood secret societies at thetop levels and see the staggeringobsession they have with their symbolsand rituals. kennedy was killed nearthe so-called grassy knoll on the rightof the pyramid and lee harvey oswaldwas murdered while unde

rookline, massachusetts, on may 29th 1917. the protection of the president on thisfatal trip to dallas was organised by the new orleans cia station which was housed ina masonic temple building. dallas is just ten miles south of the 33rd degree of latitudeand the founding lodge of the scottish rite of freemasonry was in charleston, exactlyon the 33rd degree. the first atom bomb was exploded at the trinity site on the 33rddegree of latitude. the kennedy motorcade travelled down elm street once home to theblue front tavern, the meeting place for freemasons, and at 12.22 pm it arrived indealey plaza. elm street was known as bloody elm street because it was the scene ofcountless gun fights, stabbings and other acts of violence. the national offices oftexaco oil are on elm street. close to deale

the 33rddegree of latitude. the kennedy motorcade travelled down elm street once home to theblue front tavern, the meeting place for freemasons, and at 12.22 pm it arrived indealey plaza. elm street was known as bloody elm street because it was the scene ofcountless gun fights, stabbings and other acts of violence. the national offices oftexaco oil are on elm street. close to dealey plaza is the trinity river which used toflood the plaza for many years until the introduction of flood defences. into this openair temple of the ancient brotherhood came jackie kennedy, representing the goddess,the queen of love and beauty and her scapegoat sun king, john e kennedy. he wasthe sacrifice in the ancient ritual of the killing of the sun king: the ceannaideachwhich is gaelic for wounded head. kenne

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expansion. it builds upon the two previous aeons and shares a common theme with all other aeons of the current cycle of expansion. the law of the aeon, thelema, xeper, deitus or will to come into being as a god incorporates the words of the two previous aeons with the word of the current aeon and forms a single statement identifying man s purpose in this aeon. the word deitus completes an unholy trinity: the will, the expansion of consciousness, and personal divinity. to understand the law of the aeon means to reject any supra-personal deity and recognize oneself as a god. this is also the essence of satanism in all the forms it has taken. the universal subconscious often is called god. since the universal subconscious is the source of nearly all conscious thought, i say with st. thomas g

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tion& proclamation" nine times. 2 nights before full moon: recite "lord's prayer" backwards nine times. 1 night before full moon: burn pact giving body, mind, and soul to lucifer, chant i give my body to lucifer, i give my mind to lucifer, etc. night of full moon: consecrate body as a temple to the dark lord [beginning immediately following the full moon] all of 1st lunar month: invoke the unholy trinity& unholy spirit every night. all of 2nd lunar month: call upon the nine lords of the abyss and invoke my unholy guardian demon every night. all of 3th lunar month: invoke satan every night. all of 4th lunar month: invoke lucifer every night. all of 5th lunar month: invoke belial every night. all of 6th lunar month: invoke leviatan every night. etc. nightly ritual 1. dress for ritual and mak

ess and consecrate this body as a temple to the dark lord* i bless and consecrate this temple in the name of satan and in the name of lucifer* i set myself apart to the dark lord and to the forces of darkness* i bless and consecrate this body in the name of satan and in the name of lucifer(*repeat each line three times**repeat this section three times (drink from chalice) invocation of the unholy trinity unholy trinity of hell, i invoke thee. unholy trinity of hell, i summon thee. unholy trinity of hell, i conjure thee. come forth, unholy trinity of hell, and manifest thyself within this body, this temple which i have prepared. come forth, unholy trinity of hell, and manifest thyself. fill me with the unholy spirit. come forth, unholy trinity of hell, and manifest thyself (drink from chali

urnt a pact giving his body, mind, and soul to lucifer the magician may begin to feel a presence in the room whenever he begins his nightly ritual. when the magician consecrates his body to the dark lord he begins to become a nexus or gate to acausal entities, dark gods, or forces. whatever these beings or forces are exactly they are traditionally called demons. the purpose of invoking the unholy trinity or unholy spirit is to permanently open this gate between the worlds. in christian theology the trinity is the father (macroscosm, son (microcosm, and holy spirit (link. similarly, the unholy trinity represents the forces of darkness, the satanic magician, and the magical link between the forces of darkness and the satanic magician] invocation of the nine lords of the abyss nine great lord

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kind to become available at the present moment. i see from an article in the november number of this magazine that foyle's are issuing crowley's magick in a cheap edition, thus rendering it available for the general student, who has probably never heard of, or could not afford to purchase, the privately printed edition which appeared in paris a couple of years ago. the third person of this unholy trinity of revealers of the mysteries is my humble self, who has been doing much the same thing as mr. regardie in a series of articles on the cabbala which has been running in my own magazine, the inner light. i know that i undertook this work under a strong inner compulsion that this teaching must now be given out to the world; that it was the will of those who held the keys that the door should

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will be observed by reference to diagram i that the lightning flash must proceed from kether outwards and downwards to the right to reach chokmah, and then turns on a level course to the left and proceeds an equal distance beyond kether upon that side, and there establishes binah. the result is a triangular figure upon the glyph, and it is called the triangle of the three supernals, or the first trinity and is separated from the rest of the sephiroth by the abyss, which normal human consciousness cannot cross. here are the toots of existence, hidden from our eyes. chapter vii the three supernals 1. having considered in outline the development of the three first divine emanations, we are now in a position to obtain a deeper insight into their nature and significance, for we can study them

ond triangle might not inaptly be termed the ethical triangle, the third may well be called the magical triangle; and if we assign to kether the sphere of the three in one, the undivided unity, and to tiphareth the sphere of the redeemer or son, we may be justified in referring to yesod the sphere of the holy spirit, the enlightener; mystical qabala page 35 this is an attribution of the christian trinity that fits better upon the tree than its assignation to the three supernals, which brings the son in the place of abba, the father, and the holy spirit in the place of ama, the mother, and is obviously irrelevant and productive of innumerable discrepancies in the correspondences and symbolisms. in this we see an example of the value of the tree as a method of counterchecking vision or medit

e how they group, reflect, and react upon each other. 7. at the head of the pillar of severity, the negative, feminine pillar, is binah, the great mother. now to binah is assigned the sphere of saturn, and saturn is the giver of form. at the head of the pillar of mercy is chokmah, the supernal father, a male potency. thus we see that we have here the apposition of form and force. 8. in the second trinity we have the apposition of chesed (jupiter) and geburah (mars. again we have the pairs of opposites of construction in jupiter, the lawgiver and beneficent ruler, and destruction in mars, the warrior and destroyer of evil. it may be asked why such a male potency as geburah should be placed in the feminine pillar. it must be remembered that mars is a destructive potency, one of the infortune

ect, and free from the danger of the temptation of unbalanced force that is met with in either pillar, but it confers no magical powers save those of sacrifice in tiphareth and psychism in yesod. mystical qabala page 40 16. we have noted the three trinities of the tree in our preliminary discussion of the ten sephi roth. let us recapitulate these again for clearness' sake. mathers calls the first trinity of kether, chokmah, and binah the intellectual world; the second trinity of chesed, geburah, and tiphareth the moral world; and the third trinity of netzach, hod, and yesod the material world. to my way of thinking, this terminology is misleading, for these words do not connote in our minds what is meant by these worlds. the intellect is essentially a concreting of intuition and apprehensi

isleading, for these words do not connote in our minds what is meant by these worlds. the intellect is essentially a concreting of intuition and apprehension, and as such is an unsuitable term for theworld of the three supernals. with the use of the term moral world for chesed, geburah, and tiphareth i agree; it is identical with my term, ethical triangle; but with the term material world for the trinity [page 60] of netzach, hod, and yesod i emphatically disagree, for this term belongs exclusively to malkuth. these three sephiroth are not material but astral, and for this trinity i propose the term astral, or magical world; it is not well to wrest words from their dictionary meaning, even if you define your use of them, and this mathers has not troubled to do. 17. the intellectual sphere

e find marsgeburah immediately below it on the pillar of severity; thus is the force locked up in form set free by the destructive influence of mars, the siva aspect of the godhead. chokmah, the zodiac, represents kinetic force; and chesed, jupiter, the benign king, represents organised force; and the two are synthesised in tiphareth, the christ-centre, the redeemer and equilibrator. 24. the next trinity, of netzach, hod, and yesod, represents the magical and astral side of things. netzach (venus [page 84] represents the higher aspects of the elemental forces, the green ray; and hod (mercury) represents the mind side of magic. the one is the mystic and the other the occult, and they synthesise in the elemental yesod. this pair of sephiroth should never be considered apart, any more than th

lodges; the worship of pantheistic nature-forces and elemental operations take place under the presidency of god the father; and the regenerative ethical aspect of religion, which is the exoteric aspect for this epoch, is under the presidency of god the son in fiphareth. 21. the initiate, however, transcends his epoch, and aims at uniting all three modes of adoration in his worship of deity as a trinity in unity; the son redeeming the pantheistic nature worship from debasement and making the transcendental father comprehensible to human consciousness, for "whoso bath seen me hath seen the father" 22. tiphareth, however, is not only the centre of the sacrificed god, but also the centre of the inebriating god, the giver of iliumination. dionysos is assigned to this centre [page 194] as well

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ed by a sorcerer, and one wishes merely to escape the effects of it and cause it to return to him who has cast it, one must take, on saturday, before sunrise, the branch of a one-year-old hazel tree and recite the following prayer: i cut thee, branch of this year, in the name of him whom i wish to wound as i wound thee. the branch is then laid on the table and other prayers said, ending with holy trinity, punish him who has done this evil, and take him from among us by thy great justice, that the sorcerer or sorceress may be anathema, and we safe. harrison ainsworth s famous novel, the lancashire witches, deals with the subject and the pendleton locality in england. ancient and mystical order of seekers the ancient and mystical order of seekers was founded in the 1950s by clifford bias (d

ources: edelstein, emma jeanette levy. asclepius: a collection and interpretation of the testimonies. new york: arno press, 1975. ashcroft-nowicki, delores (1929) delores ashcroft-nowicki, the head of the servants of the light, a contemporary school of ritual magic, is a sensitive psychic who came from a family of psychics. as a youth, she studied at the royal academy of dramatic art and later at trinity college, the course of her education being interrupted by an early brief marriage. she later studied fencing, through which she met her second husband, whom she married in 1957. around 1963, the pair came into contact with the fraternity of the inner light, the magical organization founded by dion fortune. they took the study course and were formally initiated in 1967. they also came to kn

ubourg, michel. haiti prehistorique. port-au-prince, haiti: editiones panorama, n.d [1966. le mouvement folklorique en haiti. port-au-prince, haiti: imprimerie de l etat, 1952. aubrey, john (1626.1697) john aubrey, an antiquarian whose work stands as the fountain of the modern revival of druidism, was born into a well-todo family in easton pierse, wiltshire, england, on march 12, 1626. he entered trinity college oxford in 1642 but his stay was cut short the following year due to an outbreak of smallpox and the beginning of the civil war that would eventually lead to the execution of the king. through the rest of the decade he studied the megaliths of the country, particularly stonehenge, studied law, and worked for his father. his father died in 1652 and he inherited his father s estates

d steven f. white, eds. ayahuasca reader: encounters with the amazon s sacred vine. synergistic press, 2000. ayperor (or ipes) a count of the infernal empire. ayton, w(illiam) a(lexander (1816.1909) modern alchemist and member of the famous hermetic order of the golden dawn occult society. he was born april 28, 1816, in london, england, and was educated at charterhouse school (then in london) and trinity hall, cambridge (matriculating 1837; latin prize essay, 1838.39; b.a, 1841. he was ordained as a deacon in the church of england in 1841 and became a clergyman two years later. after serving in vari- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. ayton, w(illiam) a(lexander) 135 ous country parishes, he was appointed vicar of chacombe, northamptonshire, in 1873. ayton was a freemason a

ranza, jacob. backward masking unmasked. shreveport, la: huntington house, 1983. bacon, francis (1561.1626) francis bacon, generally considered the father of modern science, is also revered by modern astrologers and occultists for his incorporation of magic and the astrological arts into his worldview. bacon was born on january 22, 1561, in london, england. he was but 12 years old when he entered trinity college, cambridge, and three years later moved on to gray s inn to pursue legal studies. he was admitted to the bar in 1582. two years previously he had been elected to parliament. his political maneuverings would ultimately lead to his downfall. he steadily advanced in office until he offended queen elizabeth in 1593. he subsequently made some unfortunate political alliances but recovere

president of the society for psychical research, serving his term between two periods as vice-president, from 1882 to 1892 and from 1895 to 1930 (his brother, the rt. hon. gerald w. balfour, another keen student of psychical research, was president of the society for psychical research from 1906 to 1907) born july 25, 1848, at whittinghame, east lothian, scotland, balfour was educated at eton and trinity college, cambridge university (m.a. he was awarded honorary degrees in law and philosophy by british, american, and polish universities. from 1874 to 1885, he was a member of the british parliament, and after holding various official posts, he became prime minister (1902.05, first lord of the admiralty (1915.16, and foreign secretary (1916.19. in the field of psychical research, he held ma

niversity books, 1963. balfour, gerald william (2nd earl of balfour (1853.1945) brother of arthur j. balfour, first earl of balfour. he was a statesman, classical scholar, and student of psychical research. he joined the society for psychical research soon after its formation and served as president from 1906 to 1907. born april 9, 1853, at whittinghame, scotland, balfour was educated at eton and trinity college, cambridge university (m.a. in 1887 he married lady betty, daughter of the first earl of lytton. he was elected member of parliament for central leeds from 1885 to 1906 and held various government posts; he was also private secretary to his brother. like his brother, he was very active in psychical research and also took an important part in organizing and studying the group of aut

on of an ancient temple was discovered a bas-relief with the figure of a naked woman carved upon it, and it is not unlikely, according to j. collin de plancy (author of dictionnaire infernal, 6th ed, 1803, that this figure was the original deity of the bensozia cult. bentley, w(illiam) perry (1880) engineer and parapsychologist born february 22, 1880, at westerly, rhode island. he was educated at trinity college, hartford, connecticut, and massachusetts institute of technology, and became chairman of uvalde construction, dallas, texas. bentley was a member of the american association for advancement of science, the american society for psychical research, and the society for psychical research, london, england. he contributed to a fund for a fellowship in parapsychology at duke university

int michael. borri said that he had seen in heaven a luminous palm branch that was reserved for him. he uttered a number of heretical views, including that the virgin was divine in nature, that she had conceived through inspiration, and that she was equal to her son, with whom she was present in the eucharist, that the holy spirit was incarnate in her, and that the second and third persons of the trinity were inferior to the father. all of these views are rejected by the roman catholic church. according to some writers, borri later proclaimed himself to be the holy spirit incarnate. in any case, he was arrested after the death of innocent x by order of the inquisition, and on january 3, 1661, he was condemned to be burned as a heretic. he succeeded in escaping to germany, where he received

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iagrams are the triangle; the double triangle, forming a six-pointed star and known as the sign or seal of solomon; the tetragram, a fourpointed star formed by the interlacement of two pillars; and the pentagram, a five-pointed star. these signs were traced on paper or parchment or engraved on metals and glass and consecrated to their various uses by special rites. the triangle evoked a universal trinity found in all things. deity, time, and creation. the triangle was generally traced on the ground with the magic sword or rod, as in circles of evocation where the triangle was drawn within it and, according to the position of the magician at its point or base, so the spirits were conjured (summoned up) from heaven or hell. the double triangle, or the sign of solomon, is symbolic of the macr

strument and agency in the elementary world, the philosophers stone; one chief member in the human world, the heart; and one sovereign prince in the nether world, lucifer. two was the number of marriage, charity, and social communion. it was also regarded sometimes as an unclean number; in the bible, beasts of the field went into noah s ark by twos. three had a mysterious value as shown in time s trinity. past, present and future; in that of space.length, breadth, and thickness; in the three heavenly virtues.faith, hope, and charity; in the three worlds of man.brain (the intellectual, heart (the celestial, and body (elemental. four signifies solidity and foundation. there are four seasons, four elements, four cardinal points, four evangelists. five, as it divides ten, the sum of all number

iety for psychical research 3, no. 9 (1885. myers, arthur thomas, and f. w. h. myers. mind-cure, faith-cure, and the miracles of lourdes. proceedings of the society for psychical research 9, no. 24 (1893. myers, frederic william henry (1843.1901) a leading theoretician during the first generation of psychical research. he was born february 6, 1843, at keswick, cumberland, england, and educated at trinity college, cambridge. for 30 years myers filled the post of an inspector of schools at cambridge. here his resolve to pursue psychical investigation was born in 1869 after a starlight walk and talk with henry sidgwick. his theory was that if a spiritual world ever manifested to humans, a serious investigation must be made to discover unmistakable signs of it. for if all attempts to verify sc

in ecstasy, we still retain consciousness of personality. iamblichus diminished the real principle of mysticism still farther in theory, and denied that man has a faculty, eternally active and in accessible, to passion; the intellectual ambition so lofty in plotinus subsided among the followers of iamblichus into magical practice. proclus was the last of the greek neoplatonists. he elaborated the trinity of plotinus into a succession of impalpable triads, and surpassed iamblichus in his devotion to the practice of theurgy. with proclus, theurgy was the art that gave human beings the magical passwords that carried them through barrier after barrier, dividing species from species. above all being is god, the non-being, who is apprehended only by negation. when we are raised out of our weakne

on, scotland, a new age spiritual center. address: stewards of the findhorn foundation, the park, findhorn bay, forres, moray, scotland iv36 otz. website: http/ www.findhorn.org. neuburg, victor (benjamin (1883.1940) poet, editor, and associate of occultist aleister crowley. neuburg was born on may 6, 1883, in london, england. he was educated at the city of london school, southwest london, and at trinity college, cambridge. an early freethinker, his first poems were published in the agnostic journal and freethinker. around 1906 at cambridge, neuburg came in contact with crowley, also a poet, who had read some of neuburg s pieces in the agnostic journal. crowley initiated neuburg into his secret society, the a a, giving him the name frater omnia vincam. he also initiated a homosexual relati

l projection. london, 1935. reprint, new york: samuel weiser, 1966. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. out-of-the-body travel 1161 owen, alan robert george (1919) mathematician and parapsychologist. he was born july 4, 1919 at bristol, england. during world war ii, he studied at cambridge university (b.a. 1940, m.a. 1945, ph.d. 1948. after graduation he became a research fellow at trinity college, cambridge (1948.52) and met c. d. broad, who kindled owen s interest in parapsychology. owen also met and, in 1952, married iris may pepper. he joined and became president of the cambridge society for psychical research, and was a council member of the society for psychical research. while at cambridge, he conducted research on poltergeist. the published results, can we explain th

sting from beyond. london, 1952. perriman, florence. secrets of a famous clairvoyante. london, 1936. perrott-warrick research unit the perrott-warrick research unit, a parapsychological research program located within the psychology department at the university of hertfordshire in england, was launched in 1995 following richard wiseman s reception of a perrott- warrick fellowship (administered by trinity college cambridge. wiseman, a practicing stage magician, had received his ph.d. in psychology from edinburgh university before joining the faculty at hertfordshire. since receiving the fellowship, he has launched a multifaceted research program that includes probes into the paranormal, intuition, false memory syndrome, and lying and deception. he has also worked on promoting the public und

re, college lane, hatfield, herts, al10 9ab, england. the unit has an internet site at http//phoenix.herts.ac.uk/pwru/hmpage.html. sources: the perrott-warrick research unit. http/ phoenix.herts.ac.uk/pwru/hmpage.html. may 23, 2000. perry, michael c(harles (1933) british clergyman concerned with parapsychology. he was born june 5, 1933, at ashby-de-la-zouch, leicestershire, england. he studied at trinity college, cambridge university, england (first class honors in natural sciences and theology. he obtained his b.a. in 1955, his m.a. in 1959, and was ordained as a priest of the church of england in 1959. in 1963, he was appointed chief assistant for publishing at the society for the promotion of christian knowledge, london. he has written a number of books, edited the series mowbray s libr

e biography of a ghost-hunter. london: athenaenum press, 1930. price, henry habberley (1899.1984) emeritus professor of logic who also became a prominent figure in the field of parapsychology. price was born on may 17, 1899, at neath, south wales, britain. he was educated at winchester college and new college, oxford (b.s, m.a. he was a fellow of magdalen college, oxford (1922.24) and a fellow of trinity college, oxford (1924.35) prior to beginning his long tenure as wykeham professor of logic, university of ox- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. price, henry habberley 1239 ford and fellow of new college, oxford (1935.59. he was named emeritus fellow of new college at the time of his retirement. price was honored as the gifford lecturer at aberdeen university for the 1959.6

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orm and dimly lighted? a dryad the phorkyads! approach them if you dare and speak to them if you are not affrighted. mephistopheles why not- i see a something and i wonder. i must confess although it hurts my pride: the like of them i ve never yet espied. why, worse mandrakes, they look yonder. how can the deadly sins then ever be considered ugly in the least degree if one has seen this monstrous trinity? we would not suffer it to dwell upon the threshold of our grimmest hell. here in the land of beauty it is rooted, the classic, antique land reputed. they seem to scent me now and stir and chitter; like vampire bats they peep and twitter. a phorkyad give me the eye, my sisters, to espy who to our temple dares to come so nigh. mephistopheles most honoured! i approach you, with your leave, t

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

f the magical incantation in them. ficino and his contemporaries believed that the orphic hymns were by orpheus himself and were of extreme antiquity, reflecting the religious singing of a priscus magus who lived long before plato. ficino's revival of orphic singing has deep importance for him because he believes he is returning to the practice of a most ancient theologian and one who foresaw the trinity.2 it thus has underlying it the same type of historical error as that which induced his profound respect for the hermetica. ficino used to sing the orphic songs, accompanying himself probably on a lira da braccio.3 they were set to some kind of simple monodic music which ficino believed echoed the musical notes emitted by the planetary spheres, to form that music of the spheres of which py

1(a) the zodiacal sign aries with its three decans. i (b) the first decan of aries. francesco del cossa, palazzo schifanoja, ferrara (p. 57. 2. botticelli "primavera, uffizi gallery, florence (p. j6. ficino's natural magic how could a pious christian reconcile such a revival with his christianity? no doubt the renaissance religious syncretism, by which the neoplatonic triad was connected with the trinity would account for regarding sun-worship theoretically and historically as a religion having affinities with christianity, but this would hardly account for the revival of it as a religious cult. the moving force behind this revival was probably, as walker has suggested, ficino's deep interest in the egyptian magical religion described in the asclepius. it was on this, and only secondarily

he mystical commentary on the song of solomon. and g. scholem has pointed out that he seems to refer to abraham abulafia's techniques of letter-combinations.2 the pious and enthusiastic young man above all valued his hebrew and cabalist studies because he believed that they led him to a fuller understanding of christianity, and certified the truth of the divinity of christ and the doctrine of the trinity. his seventy-two cabalist conclusiones are introduced as "confirming the christian religion from the foundations of hebrew wisdom* the sixth conclusion states that the three great names of god in cabalist secrets, within the quaternary name (the tetragrammaton, refer to the three persons of the trinity.4 and the seventh conclusion affirms that "no hebrew cabalist can deny that the name of

ino but also for all later christian neoplatonists, dionysius was one of the main christian allies. the author of the celestial hierarchies was, of course, not really the areopagite with whom st. paul spoke but an unknown writer who composed under strong neoplatonic influence his work on nine orders of angels which he grouped into triads, each group of three representing one of the persons of the trinity. these nine angelic orders have their abode far above, or beyond the spheres of the universe, being orders of a purely spiritual or divine nature. 1 see r. klibansky, the continuity of the platonic tradition, london, warburg institute, 1939, pp. 42 ff. 2 hence he was, for ficino, not only the oilmen of platonism but the columen of christian theology (commentary on dionysius' liber de trini

substance, but are so in quality and disposition. the eighth sphere, whose movement is opposite to that of the planets and which has the qualities of candor and splendor. the chrystalline sphere, which has simple motion and the quality of candor. the empyrean, where all is stable and the lumen of which is a quality of light superior to candor. in the stable and lucens empyrean is accommodated the trinity expressed in the nine orders of angels of dionysius. there are legions of angels in the orders and their number exceeds the faculty of human computation. the nine orders are: seraphim, cherubim, thrones; the hierarchy of the father. dominions, virtues, powers; the hierarchy of the son. principalities, archangels, angels; the hierarchy of the spirit.3 ficino interprets dionysius as having s

onysius. there are legions of angels in the orders and their number exceeds the faculty of human computation. the nine orders are: seraphim, cherubim, thrones; the hierarchy of the father. dominions, virtues, powers; the hierarchy of the son. principalities, archangels, angels; the hierarchy of the spirit.3 ficino interprets dionysius as having said that the first order drinks its liquor from the trinity direct (liquorem suum a sola' r. roques, l'univers dionysien, paris, 1954, pp. 240 ff. 2 recent scholarship is tending to put the pseudo-dionysian writings a good deal earlier than the sixth century a.d, the date formerly conjectured. see eleuterio elorduy, ammonio sakkas. i. la doctrina de la creacion y del mal en proclo y el ps. areopagita, burgos, 1959, pp. 23 ff. 3 de christiana religi

.2 the linking of the hierarchies with the spheres of the cosmos he got from dante who, in his convivio correlates the hierarchies with the spheres3 and, above all, in the paradiso, sets out the souls of the blest on the spheres of the seven planets; places the apostles and the church triumphant in the eighth sphere; in the ninth sphere ranges the nine angelic hierarchies; and crowns all with the trinity in the empyrean. ficino was a great student of dante, and was certainly thinking of the paradiso in the passage on the hierarchies analysed above for he makes a reference to dante's poem in it.4 the analysis of the varying quality of the light, expressed by different words for 1 ibid, loc. cit. 2 summa theologiae, pars i, quaest. 108, articles 5, 6. cf. m. de gandillac "astres, anges et ge

ind. he also uses such many varying terms for light in his de sole' and de lumine,1 though i am not sure that the terms are always used consistently with the same degrees of meaning. ficino has intensified the continuity between hierarchies and spheres by introducing an almost astrological suggestion into the relationships between the hierarchies, which are said to "drink" the influences from the trinity, a word wrhich recalls the expression used in the de vita coelitus comparanda where the spiritus of the world is thought of as poured out through the stars and drunk by its recipients here below. and if we add one more term to the light series, the term "sol" for the planet sol or the sun, the drinking in of spiritus from the sun would connect with the higher series, the higher "liquor" dr

ld make no attempt to "operate" with angels, beyond the normal christian prayers and supplications, nor try to reach the virtues which move the heavens in order to become a worker of miracles' ficino, pp. 965-75- 2 ibid, pp. 976-86. 3 this transition is definitely made in the de sole, which first discusses the planet sol and its central importance and, in the last chapter, compares the sun to the trinity and the nine orders of angels de sole, cap. xii; ficino, p. 973. 120 pseudo-dionysius and theology of a christian magus the angelic continuation beyond the stars was of course normal to christian thought, and is, for example, exquisitely expressed in terms of music by shakespeare's lorenzo: sit, jessica. look how the floor of heaven is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: there's not

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

ered 33 degree mason of all time, has more blasphemy. listen to him describe the ouroboros, the symbol of the serpent devouring his own tail "it is the body of the holy spirit, the universal agent, the serpent devouring its own tail [morals and dogma, p. 734, teachings of the 28th degree, knight of the sun, or prince adept] thus, freemasonry blasphemes both jesus christ and the holy spirit of the trinity. what did jesus christ say about this type of situation "all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the holy ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. and whosoever speaketh a word against the son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the holy ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world t

, who worships sex in all forms, and never lets an opportunity slip by him to depict the great sex act. masonic author, george oliver, says that in ancient times, the gavel referred to the hammer of the god thor [oliver, signs and symbols, macoy publishing and masonic supply co, 1906, p. 14. we know that thor is an ancient pagan god, one whom freemasons worship. in fact, thor is part of the pagan trinity in scandinavia [pike, morals and dogma, p. 552; also w.l. wilmshurst, the masonic initiation, trismegistus press, 1980, p. 92] however, albert pike makes identification of thor very easy for us, as he states, on page 15 of morals and dogma, that thor is another name for sirius, the blazing star or the pentagram. now you can see why this masonic web site depicted three different types of ga

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

th, 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 quadruplicity- the knower, the upper world, the lower world, and the image of god. yet this quadruplicity is in itself a duality- the knower and the image of god; because this image includes the upper and lower worlds. the absorption of the knower in the image is the great work- the re-establishment of unity or equilibrium. concer

things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and godhead. h 41 and again: gfor in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, for we are also his offspring. h 42 but of all philosophies the closest-allied are those of the vedanta and of lao-tze. the indian system is a trinity in unity, the ineffable, incomprehensible brahm becoming apparent in the trimurti (tri= three and murti= bodies, brama, vishnu, and siva- creation, preservation, and destruction. the atman is reality, and the apparent world is maya, or illusion. man within him possesses an atman, or soul, which can only attain to reality through absorption by the atman or over-soul. this absorption is effe

, or life-giving energy, which filled it. the ain soph aur is, consequently, pictured as contraction and expansion, a sucking-in and throwing-out within itself; it therefore symbolizes the centripetal and centrifugal energies of creation, which through their rhythm constitute the infinite light out of which the universe is made; this light has been called the idealized blood of the universe. this trinity of primal causes- the ayin, the ain soph, and the ain soph aur- is concealed in the first three verses of the book of genesis: the creation out of god, since everything in gthe heavens and the earth h comes from the no-thing; the spirit of god; and the light which emanated from god's spiritual voice (the totality of the 22 letters) or words- hlet there be light h. the graspable beginning i

wm) and the exoteric jesus (ovwy) it comes second; in the esoteric yeheshuah (hvwhy) it comes in the middle; and in serpent (whk) it comes last. in yeheshuah it is the letter of mercy, for it is the central equilibrating fire; in all the others it is the letter of wrath, for it is out of equilibrium, and particularly so in shaddai and the serpent. in actual conception these three sephiroth form a trinity in unity of knowledge, that which knows and that by which it is known; they unite in themselves everything and are themselves united to the no-thing (4) dsc 'hesed, grace, love, mercy, or compassion. from 'hokmah emanate six sephiroth, secret wisdom of the qabalah page 29 which, as we have explained, symbolize the dimensions of matter 'hesed is the right arm of macrocosmos; it endows the w

the earthly adam. his task there is to cause death, that is to reverse the life process; as the zohar says, gthe end of all flesh has come before me [sammael) h; for he, as the evil serpent, gtakes away the souls of all flesh h, 12 that is he liberates them from matter. he is called the angel of venom, of poison, of death; for sam means gpoison h and el means gangel h. his number is 131, that is trinity set between two unities, the whole adding up to 5- the microcosm. his world is now the yetziratic world reversed; that is to say assiah is the simulacrum, shadow, or image, of yetzirah. its three supernal sephiroth are tohu, the formless, bohu, the void, and chshk- darkness. its seven lower sephiroth are seven hells. each of these ten infernal sephiroth is inhabited by a host of demons, of

e power to create and to destroy life; that is to exhale it and breathe it in. thus we see evolved that mysterious and mystical order of revolution. first there is god, or the gods, energy finding its source in the ayin. finally, in the reflection of god is the world emanated, and from the earth emerges man in the form of conscious matter. god in himself is unity, the world is duality, and man is trinity in unity. and as the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters, so does the intelligence of man move upon the face of the fluxes of matter, and through equilibrium it seeks loss of its identity by stilling them in the spirit of god. when this is accomplished, then will the magic mirror of illusion vanish into the no-thing-ness out of which it was evolved. in the account of the creati

stupendous active and consequently demoniacal force is released; for eve is gthe mother of all living things h (including the gmother of god h) the female, or negative, force of jah (yh- the heh of which is ever seeking to reunite with the od. in its lower aspect od represents microcosmic man; in its higher it represents the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. as man is a trinity in unity inhibited by a gleam of the supernal shin- the shin which, volatilizing into light, enabled tetragrammaton to become visible-so also is the od threefold in nature. it represents not only the pillars of severity, mercy, and mildness, but also formation, reformation, and transformation; activity, passivity, and equilibrium; and good, evil, and deliverance. thus it is not one od but

is the od threefold in nature. it represents not only the pillars of severity, mercy, and mildness, but also formation, reformation, and transformation; activity, passivity, and equilibrium; and good, evil, and deliverance. thus it is not one od but three odin, which to unite must climb the three trunks of the inseparable trees and, interlacing in kether, the crown, reformulate the letter shin, a trinity in unity. thus will it deliver back to tetragrammaton the power he lost in his fall from the world of yetzirah. such is the accomplishment of the messianic act. secret wisdom of the qabalah page 57 the integration of the disintegrated. thus far the mystery of the od, the positive force of jah (yh; next, as to eve, who being possessed of the negative force, the heh, has upset the balance of

ready explained, symbolizes among other things the crucifixion of christ- christ between the aggressive and passive thieves. as christ expires, his secret wisdom of the qabalah page 60 soul is liberated and the veil of the temple (the pyramid) is rent in the midst. the three flames, or odin, of the letter shin represent the od, aur, and ob, the active, equilibrating, and passive forces of life. a trinity in unity. the messianic act, or great work, consists in freeing the hidden shin from the elemental pyramid in which it is imprisoned. then the four elements vanish and the splendour of the shekinah enwraps, like a caul of light, the divine child- the messiah. from this esoteric doctrine it will be seen that the messiah does not come from outside, he does not descend upon the pyramid; in pl

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

ent of our present god- idea, which investigation serves to accentuate the conclusions arrived at in the evolution of woman relative to the inheritance of each of the two lines of sexual demarcation. e.b.g. contents- chapter introduction i--sex the foundation of the god-idea ii--tree, plant, and fruit worship iii--sun worship--female and male energies in the sun iv--the dual god of the ancients a trinity also v--separation of the female and make elements in the deity vi--civilization of an ancient race vii--concealment of the early doctrines viii--the original god-idea of the israelites ix--the phoenician and hebrew god set or seth x--ancient speculations concerning creation xi--fire and phallic worship xii--an attempt to purify the sensualized faiths xiii--christianity a continuation of p

dwin, prehistoric nations, p. 223. the ash is the scandinavian tree of life, and, like the sacred trees of all nations, is emblematical of the continuation of existence. this tree has a triple root, which peculiarity doubtless accounts for its sacred character. it is both female and male, and is said to be regarded as a "sort of logos or wisdom" it is the first emanation from the deity, and yet a trinity in unity. to insult or injure this tree was sacrilege, to cut it down was an offense punishable with death. in the old egyptian and zoroastrian story, appear the descriptions of two trees of life, also a tree of knowledge. in the accounts given of these trees, the ficus, the female tree of life, represents the life of the soul, while the palm, the male tree of life, is that which gives phy

the fact that sun-worship underlies all forms of religion, and under protestant christianity no pains has been spared in eliminating the female element from the god-idea; hence the ignorance which prevails at the present time in relation to the fact that the creator once comprehended the forces of nature, which by an older race were worshipped as female. chapter iv. the dual god of the ancients a trinity also. although the god of the most ancient people was a dual unity, in later ages it came to be worshipped as a trinity. when mankind began to speculate on the origin of the life principle, they came to worship their deity in its three capacities as creator, preserver, and destroyer or regenerator, each of which was female and male. we have observed that, according to higgins, when this tr

preserver, and destroyer or regenerator, each of which was female and male. we have observed that, according to higgins, when this trinity was spoken of collectively, it was called after the feminine plural. by the various writers who have dealt with this subject during the last century, much surprise has been manifested over the fact that for untold ages the people of the earth have worshipped a trinity. forster, in his sketches of hindoo mythology, says "one circumstance which forcibly struck my attention was the hindoo belief of a trinity" maurice, in his indian antiquities, observes that the idea of three persons in the deity was diffused amongst all the nations of the earth, in regions as distant as japan and peru, that it was memorially acknowledged throughout the whole extent of egy

belief of a trinity" maurice, in his indian antiquities, observes that the idea of three persons in the deity was diffused amongst all the nations of the earth, in regions as distant as japan and peru, that it was memorially acknowledged throughout the whole extent of egypt and india "flourishing with equal vigor amidst the snowy mountains of thibet, and the vast deserts of siberia" the idea of a trinity is supposed to have been first elaborated on the banks of the indus, whence it was carried to the greek and latin nations. astrologically the triune deity of the ancients portrayed the processes of nature. this recondite doctrine as understood by the very ancient people which originated it, involved a knowledge of nature far too deep to be appreciated or understood by their degenerate desc

of the ancients portrayed the processes of nature. this recondite doctrine as understood by the very ancient people which originated it, involved a knowledge of nature far too deep to be appreciated or understood by their degenerate descendants, except perhaps by a few philosophers and scholars who imbibed it in a modified form from original sources in the far east. after the establishment of the trinity, the creative energy, which had formerly been represented by a mother and child, came to be figured by the mother, father, and the life derived therefrom. sometimes the trinity took the form of the two creative forces, female and male, and the great mother. whenever the two creative principles were considered separately, there always appeared stationed over or above them, as their creator

ation of heat, in other words light is no longer adored as essence of the deity, heat or passion having become the most important element in creative power. after the ancient worship of the virgin and child had become somewhat changed or modified so as to better accommodate itself to the growing importance of the male, the most exalted conception of the deity in egypt seems to have been that of a trinity composed of mout the mother, ammon the father, and chons the infant life derived from the other two. mout is identical with neith, but she has become the wife as well as the mother of ammon. directly below this conception of the deity is a triad representing less exalted attributes, or lower degrees of wisdom, under the appellations of sate, kneph, and the child anouk; and thus downward, t

other. in referring to the doctrines contained in the geeta, one of the sacred writings of the hindoos, faber observes "in the single character of brahm, all the three offices of brahma, vishnu, and siva are united. he is at once the creator, the preserver, and the destroyer. he is the primeval hermaphrodite, or the great father and the great mother blended together in one person" the fact that a trinity in unity, representing the female and male energies symbolized by the organs of generation, formerly constituted the deity throughout asia is acknowledged by all those who have examined either the literature or monumental records of oriental countries. the rev. mr. maurice bears testimony to the character of eastern religious ideas in the following language "whoever will read the geeta wit

quities, vol. iv, p. 705. according to sir w. jones, the brahme, vishnu, and siva coalesce to form the mystic om, which means the essence of life or divine fire. in the bhagavat geeta the supreme god speaks thus concerning itself "i am the holy one worthy to be known; and immediately adds "i am the mystic [trilateral] figure om; the reig, the yagush, and the saman vedas" it is a unity and still a trinity. this om or aum stands for the creator, preserver, and destroyer or regenerator, and represents the threefold aspect of the force within the sun. the doctrine maintained throughout the geeta is not only that the great life-force represents a trinity in unity, but that it is both female and male. on this subject maurice, in his indian antiquities, says "this notion of three persons in the d

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

ich is itsterm-thishas been mr waite's life task. personally,iwould describe him as a sacramentalist rather than a catholic.but was waite a christian? fromwhathe wrote to robertson nicoll (see p. 134)itis clear that he believed in the atonement, albeit as a universalistwhoaccepted thatallmen would ultimately be saved. as to the person of christ, he made one dogmatic statement on the nature of the trinity:'thechrist is god immanent intheuniverse and man.thefather is god in the transcendence.theholyspirit is thebondof unity between them.'buthe promptly qualified it by adding that 'these points are of personal understanding(the uizyofdivine165--afterword. 164union,p.244).in the sameworkhe setouthis idea of the nature of christ 'meanwhile, as onewhois assured that there have been many saviours

p. 23 and 189; the date 1857 can be deduced from references to the civil war and to a period four years previously; see pp. 202 and 145. 6.harleiansociety publications, vol. 25,theregisterbookofmarriagesbelongingtotheparishofstgeorge,hanoversquare, in thecountyofmiddlesex,p. 19. my attention was drawn to this entry by charles jacobs. 7. waite, diary, 29 september 1937.chapter21.this was evidently trinity church, kentish town, where the revd t.w. hathaway was curate during the early 1860s.2.therevd seton patterson rooke (1824-1901) was a graduateoforiel college, oxford,whoseceded to rome in 1851 and becameadominican friar. see w. g. gorman,convertstorome(1910, p. 236.thedate of the baptism was supplied by frhubertedgar, o.p.,ofstdominic's priory, southampton road, haverstock hill. 3. st jos

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cs, geometry and music, with chapters on pictorial art with perspective, on military arts, on modes of recording time, and on geography: there are also chapters on divination and the arts of geomancy. part the second referred chiefly to the microcosm, and appeared in two volumes.thefirst in 1619. it began with an essay on divine numbers, then followed the divine harmony with considerations of the trinity, and lastlyman was considered as to hisanima media,his senses and his mental powers and lastly of the sex relations.52themagical masonthe second half of the second volume of the greathistoriacontained seven parts; on prophecy, prophetic sleep, divin255 ation, memory, on nativities, on good and evilspirits;:on physiognomy and character, on chiromancy or the study of a meaning in the lines o

studies and aims of those who have been led by fate and necessity to join an occult fraternity. fate has thrown us together,buthas not compelled us to the association. the old rosicrucianmottowas,'inclinantastra- noncertenecessitant'.ourstars- or destiny- incline us to our fate, they do not necessitate any result. again,'astraregunthomines-sedregitastradeus'.thestars dominate mankind, the divine trinity, in each man and above all men rules these starry influences. let us then who have gathered together as aspirants to rosicrucian wisdom take a strict survey of our aims and aspira255 tions, and let us seek to know what our faith will teach us, and what is our explanation of the marvellous. there is no such thing as a miracle.thatis, there is never an absolute reversal of any natural law. e

ations and change the conditions of the astral and physical forms of all and of everything of less exalted spirituality than he himself has attained to. there are living forces, elemental, in all the visible and invisible things around us; these he can use and order to his purpose; and by these the rash and ignorant may be ruined. but no power is given to the most skilled of men over the immortal trinity that broods over humanity and animates each ego, for this and these are as sparks from the insupportable flame of the majesty of god, and are beyond the influence of any that dwell in the world of form.70themagical mason[this paper was read to the members of the isis temple of the golden dawn at an unrecorded date.itwas preservedbythe revd w. a. ayton and later came into the possession of

hich might become too ordinary a business. they were types of the first sephirotic triad. freemasons little know how close they have been to the personation of the most exalted types of omnipotence. the letter g in the centre of a fellow crafts lodge, has received several explanations; i would add that it has a relation to ghimel, the hebrew g, the third letter of the alphabet, the three, meaning trinity of deity; the third sephira is binah, the mother of microprosopus, the son, a feminine potency, mother of god, with uncial greek capital g. the present masonic interpretation is folly, the idea of a modern ornamental lecturer. again the two parallel lines, the one moses, the other king solomon, enclosing a circle, bearing a central point, is purely kabbalistic. the point is tiphereth, beau

of divinity; in the compound formof'ruachelohim, which seemstohave really meant 'the spirits of the gods, male and female, it is translated 'the spirit of the living god, the 'divine spirit, and is used at times very nearly as the theosophist uses the word atma, our highest conception. calmet, the author of thebible dictionary,remarks that 'ruach' means spirit, and may be:1.thethird person of the trinity. 2. breath of animal life. genesis vii. 12; numbers xvi. 22; jobxii.10. 3.therational soul capable of choosing eternal happiness. 4.thewind. 5. an angel, demon, ghost, or soul, asi.samuel xvi. 14. 6.thebreath. genesis vi. 17. 7.thedisposition of mind, as in numbers v. 14,'thespirit146themagical masonof jealousy; and in isaiahxi.2, we find ruach meaning alternately the 'spirit of thelord',o

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res refers to the ten sephiroth in balanced disposition. it is also the opened out form of the double cube and the altar of incense.theazoth lecture3741. the hexagram of tiphereth is formed from the pillars on each side. in chesed is the water, in geburah is the fire and tiphereth unites and reconciles them just asmforms the reconciliation betweeneandc'.42. this diagram (see below) represents the trinity operating through the sephiroth and reflected downwards in the four triangles of the elements. air is reflected from kether through tiphereth unto yesod, water is reflected from binah through chesed to hod, fire is reflected from chokmah through geburah into netzach. while malkuth is earth, the receptacle of the other three. 43. in the hegemon's badge on the tree of life, the cross embrace

is the eternalsilence, because 1 is necessarily alone;itcannot multiply or. divide. directly, however, the unity comes into manifestation, it emanates the ten sephiroth, andnotill any particular order.ifone might symboliseitby an earthly image, when the time for manifestation arose the whole ten sephiroth flashed forth at once. these tenthescienceofnumbers167sephiroth consisted of the one and the trinity in unity, thereforejhethree transcendental, supernal, and uncognisable by man, and the seven cognisable by man. here we havetheseven principlesofman. sevenisthe key tothemosaic condition, and there we get the second key: the 7 days of creation, the 7. principles of man, the 7 great planets, the 7 archangels, and 7 angels, and soon, symbolised in every great religion;the 7 great gods and th

cut off at the top (fig 12. to see one instance of how these symbols are written on the face of physical nature, and how everyone of them must be in fact just as true on the physical plane asitis on the abstract metaphysical or spiritual plane, consider a ray of light. we know it is threefold; we pass it through the triangle, that is the prism, whose section is triangular, and the unity becomes a trinity, three prismatic colours coming from the white light and retiring into the white light again, and each one being in itself a perfect vehicle forthemanisfestation of light. we thus reach the conception, that every true symbol is the material presentation of a spiritual truth, and that it is necessary that every spiritual truth should have its material manifestation occurring all round us al

universal and real world, the accidental, individual, or phenomenal world, as one- as above, so below- and it teaches us to look at the zodiacs of all nations, and to find therein the central point- the invariable and immovable central point 255 typifying the divine creator, from whom radiate all diversity; that diversity being all still himself, teaching us the oneness of things, teaching us the trinity in unity, and teaching us the higher pantheism, and that they are all one- three aspects of the same truth. so in the egyptian zodiac we find the bird-formed deity, symbol of the supreme creator, occupying the centre; in the hindu zodiac we find the man in the attitude of prayer generally, and half-hidden by clouds; but in many of them, and also in the chinese, we find the man, or sometime

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rks are arcana coekstia, his commentary on the books of genesis and exodus, published at london between 1749 and 1756; and vera chrisriana religio, his principal dogmatic work, published at amsterdam in 1771. all of his works have been translated into english. the most noticeable differences between swedenborg s system and most other expositions of christian theology are over the doctrines of the trinity and vicarious atonement. swedenborg also denied the divine inspiration of all of the canonical scriptures, rejecting the poetical books in the old testament and the epistles in the new. avignon he moved to berlin where he became librarian to frederick the great and began to translate the works of swedenborg into french3[3. here he met a polish count, thaddeus leszczy grabianka (1740 1807

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nation. however, i am afraid that you would be very, very wrong. in the early christian church there were many that taught reincarnation. clement of alexandria, origen, jerome, gregoras, augustine and irenaeus- to name but a few. it was only during the council of nicea in 325 ad that the concept of reincarnation became unpopular and this was coupled with the development of teachings regarding the trinity, eternal hellfire, purgatory and other dogma's which were imported into the church for political reasons by emperor constantine. it was only in ad 553 at the second council of constantinople that reincarnation was finally and formally condemned. in regards to scripture itself it is obvious that church copyists have removed many of the classic reincarnation references, however, references s

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

e found at the heart of most religions. in the early christian church there were many who taught the doctrine of reincarnation. clement of alexandria, origen, jerome, gregoras, augustine and irenaeus to name but a few. it was only during the council of nicea in 325 ad that the concept of reincarnation became unpopular. this disavowal was coupled with the development of new teachings regarding the trinity, eternal hellfire and purgatory that were imported into the church for political reasons by emperor constantine. it was only in ad 553 at the second council of constantinople that the church finally and formally condemned the doctrine of reincarnation. in both hinduism and buddhism reincarnation is a central doctrine. in the bhagavad gita, we find krishna expounding the theory of reincarna

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ENOCHALL

p. msti: subservient angel of fire angle of earth tablet. mtas: kerubic angel of fire angle of earth tablet. mtdi: kerubic angel of water angle of water tablet, angel, companion of tdim. mto: cacodemon of fire angle of air tablet, counterpart of the angel toco. murifri: angel who appeared to dee and kelley on june 2, 1583. mvrl: subservient angel of water angle of earth tablet. na: lord of hosts/ trinity (cf. enay. na-hath: name of the enochian letter representing h. nanaeel: my power/ power (c.f. micalz, lonsa. naaa: kerubic angel of water angle of fire tablet, angel, companion of anaa. also see navaa. nabaomi: governor of the first division of the aethyr zen (52. 39 naco: subservient angel of earth angle of air tablet, also known as nadco. na-e-el: nanaeel, power. nai (meaning unknown) n

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erefore, one day it will come to pass, that the mouth of this viper shall be stopped, and his triple crown shall be brought to naught, of which things more fully when we shall have met together. chapter xii for conclusion of our confession we must earnestly admonish you, that you cast away, if not all, yet most of the worthless books of pseudo chymists, to whom it is a jest to apply the most holy trinity to vain things, or to deceive men with monstrous symbols and enigmas or to profit by the curiosity of the credulous; our age doth produce many such, one of the greatest being a stage-player, a man with sufficient ingenuity for imposition. such doth the enemy of human welfare mingle among the good seed, thereby to make the truth more difficult to be believed, which in herself is lustre of s

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artake of the honours of the whole world. and darkness will fly from thee. this is the strength of all powers. with this thou wilt be able to overcome all things, and to transmute all what is fine and what is coarse. in this manner the world was created; the arrangements to follow this road are hidden. for this reason i am called chiram telat mechasot, one in essence, but three in aspect. in this trinity is hidden the wisdom of the whole world. it is ended now, what i have said concerning the effects of the sun. finish of the tabula smaragdiagthe calling forth of the higher genius invocation of thoth r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 at the ending of the night: at the limits of the light: tho-oth stood before the unborn ones of time! then was formulated the universe:

GREENFIELD ALLEN SECRET CIPHER OF THE UFONAUTS

gynous reference. the letter 0 used as a word has an occult meaning that, when used to refer to a male being, renders the phrase androgynous. the cross references are complex. for example, koot hoomi= 109= androgynous, but also lord hadit now (from a qabalistic standpoint, identical with lord hadit won (compare the 1970s new age control seth. seth= 58= hadit. hadit, nuit and ra hoor khuit are the trinity of the book of the law) although the names are of ancient egyptian deities, in the book of the law they are transformed into the forces basic to the present aeon. the androgynous lam= 24= god but also now (or won. lam, as we note elsewhere in this book, is the prototype of the modern gray alien. both beings carry the implication of divine victory of the androgynous god. interestingly, aia

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ment at this time, most faithfully, willingly to show unto me those things which i shall demand or require of him, and truly execute my desires. nevertheless, o most holy god, thy will and not mine be done, through jesus christ our lord. amen. the secret grimoire invocation :i i call upon thee, sachiel, castiel, and asasie, in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost, blessed trinity, inseparable unity, i invoke and entreat thee, sachiel, castiel, and asasiel, in this hour to attend to the words and conjurations which i shall use by the holy names of god, el, elohim, elohe, eeoba, sabaoth, elion, eschiros, adonay, jay, tetragrammaton, saday; i conjure and excite you by the holy names of god, hagios, otheos, ischyros, athanatos, paracletos, agla, on, alpha and omega, au

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st.and truthful.explanation for our use of the triangle in this fashion is the fact that it was used by the old mystics of egypt and possibly atlantis, to represent the divine (or so-called spiritual) creations of the universe, while the triangle with the point upward was used to represent the material creations of the world (the pyramids of egypt typify the material triangle) the doctrine of the trinity is an after-creation of the old mystical law of the triangle. by comparing the laws given in our temple lectures regarding the two triangles (in the first degree temple monographs) with this doctrine, one will find at once the similarity, as well as an explanation of why the triangle with the point downward represents divine or spiritual creations. throughout the work of the higher degrees

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

son of the eternal andtruegod, creator of heaven and earth and all that is in themwipius,sother,emanuelprimogenitus,homonsionbones,viaveritassapientiavirtusleofmediatoragnusrexpastorprophetassacerdosathanatosparadetusalpha etomegaall by these high, great, glorious, royal and ineffable names of the omnipotent god and his only son our lord and saviourjesus christ the second essence of the glorious trinity. i exorcise, command, call upon and conjure the spiritvassagowheresoever thou art (east, west, north or south, or being bound to anyonecrystaliomant;ji,or the artofinvocatingspiritsbythecrystal105description of the crystaltheinvocant must be provided with a crystalofabout nine inches in diameter, or at least the sizeofa large orange, properly ground and polished so as to be free. from spec

always in pain and have no heart to move about or do any thing after business is over.letme know where to address you when you get to'paradise'-andwith kind regards believe me, yours faithfully and fraternally. now act like a philosopher and take care of yourselfliwalter moseley of buijduas park. he had been initiated into freemasonry in apollo university lodge no. 357, oxford, when a student at trinity college, but although remaining a member for the remainder of his life he was not an active freemason. he appears to have been more interested in practical magic. on his death his collection was bought by redway and included a number of hockley mss, including the crowned angel'smagnumopus.2see letter2.3 richard monckton milnes, rst baron houghton (1809-85, politician, dilettante writer, an

c [rucian)msbut surely you don't intend copying what is already inprint-'silenceafter clamour'.thequestions in my diaries. have no direct connection with the book i received from thec.a.lwhen i commenced the diary my views were unitarian with jesus as an inspiredman-butfrom the c.a.'s teaching they were suddenly changed toa"267god--thedivine birthofjesus and their holy spirit (orinfluence)-butthe trinity as held by priests of the athenasian creed i do not and cannot understand and i have determined to dwell no more uponitand in this i am supported by my learned friend bro. dresser.theimmaculate conception&divine birth of jesus as a matter of belief has to me no difficulty.ofcourse you will perceive my questions&can ask any of your communicants thesame-butthe two stand255 points are not the

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

uced by an androgynous creator god, usually identified as atum or ra-atum. he is said to have masturbated and swallowed his own semen in order to reproduce himself. as a result of this act, shu was sneezed out and tefnut was spat out. atum then lovingly embraced his fledglings. at first, shu and tefnut were not fully differentiated from the creator. in the coffin texts they are often treated as a trinity: the one who developed into three. this may be why the monotheistic theology of king akhenaten found a place for shu and tefnut as aspects of the god of light. some early statues of akhenaten and his queen, nefertiti, probably represent them as shu and tefnut. in more orthodox egyptian thought, some kind of separation was necessary for the process of creation to continue. texts ranging in

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of the god, at first androgynous,afterwards male. it is from padma-yoni "the bosom of the lotus" from absolute space, or from the universe outside timeand space, that emanates the cosmos, conditioned and limited by time and space. the hiranya garbha "theegg (or the womb) of gold, from which brahma emerges, is often called the heavenly lotus. the god,vishnu- the synthesis of the trimurti or hindu trinity- during the "nights of brahma" floats asleep onthe primordial waters, stretched on the blossom of a lotus. his goddess, the lovely lakshmi, rising from thebosom of the waters, like venus-aphrodite, has a white lotus beneath her feet. it was at the churning of theocean of milk- symbol of space and of the milky way- by the gods assembled together, that lakshmi,goddess of beauty and mother of

e, was the first to force upon me the certitude of a life hereafter, thus adding anadditional horror to one already great enough. with a view to a clearer comprehension of the situation, i must interrupt these recollections with a few wordsabout myself. oh how, if i could, would i obliterate that hated self!born in switzerland, of french parents, who centred the whole world-wisdom in the literary trinity ofvoltaire, j. j. rousseau and d'holbach, and educated in a german university, i grew up a thoroughmaterialist, a confirmed atheist. i could never have even pictured to myself any beings- least of all a being- above or even outside visible nature, as distinguished from her. hence i regarded everything that couldnot be brought under the strictest analysis of the physical senses as a mere ch

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e horrible "middle passage" and, according to bancroft, an impartial historian, two hundred and fifty thousand out of three and a quarter millions were thrown into the sea on that fatal passage, while the remainder were consigned to nameless misery in the mines, or under the lash in the cane and rice fields. the guilt of this great crime rests on the christian church "in the name of the most holy trinity" the spanish government (roman catholic) concluded more than ten treaties authorizing the sale of five hundred thousand human beings; in 1562 sir john hawkins sailed on his diabolical errand of buying slaves in africa and selling them in the west indies in a ship which bore the sacred name of jesus; while elizabeth, the protestant queen, rewarded him for his success in this first adventure

ings conflicting statements about the christos principle in man. some call it the sixth principle (buddhi, others the seventh (atma. if christian theosophists wish to make use of such expressions, let them be made philosophically correct by following the analogy of the old wisdom-religion symbols. we say that christos is not only one of the three higher principles, but all the three regarded as a trinity. this trinity represents the holy ghost, the father, and the son, as it answers to abstract spirit, differentiated spirit, and embodied spirit. krishna and christ are philosophically the same principle under its triple aspect of manifestation. in the bhagavad-gita we find krishna calling himself indifferently atma, the abstract spirit, kshetraj a, the higher or reincarnating ego, and the u

ok without injury into the mirror, whose light proceeds from the lord of light. moreover, the zohar teaches that the soul cannot reach the abode of bliss, unless she has received the "holy kiss" or the reunion of the soul with the substance from which she emanated-spirit. all souls are dual, and, while the latter is a feminine principle, the spirit is masculine. while imprisoned in body, man is a trinity, unless his pollution is such as to have caused his divorce from the spirit "woe to the soul which prefers to her divine husband (spirit) the earthly wedlock with her terrestrial body" records a text of the book of the keys, a hermetic work. woe indeed, for nothing will remain of that personality to be recorded on the imperishable tablets of the ego's memory. q. how can that which, if not

ly one" means here, esoterically, the atma, or atma-buddhi. q. moreover, it is very strange to find nirvana spoken of as something synonymous with the kingdom of heaven, or the paradise, since according to every orientalist of note nirvana is a synonym of annihilation! a. taken literally, with regard to the personality and differentiated matter, not otherwise. these ideas on reincarnation and the trinity of man were held by many of the early christian fathers. it is the jumble made by the translators of the new testament and ancient philosophical treatises between soul and spirit, that has occasioned the many misunderstandings. it is also one of the many reasons why buddha, plotinus, and so many other initiates are now accused of having longed for the total extinction of their souls-"absor

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 origin of this archaic branch of philosophy; but it is certai

human principles (exoterically, it is a term to express the state of our dual manas, when, reunited during a man's life, it bathes in the radiance of buddhi, the spiritual soul. for taijas means the radiant, and manas, page 148 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt becoming radiant in consequence of its union with buddhi, and being, so to speak, merged into it, is identified with the latter; the trinity has become one; and, as the element of buddhi is the highest, it becomes buddhi-taijas. in short, it is the human soul illuminated by the radiance of the divine soul, the human reason lit by the light of the spirit or divine self-consciousness. cabala (heb) the hidden wisdom of the hebrew rabbis of the middle ages derived from the older secret doctrines concerning divine things and cosmogo

deity, deva-deus, from the root div "to shine" a deva is a celestial being-whether good, bad or indifferent-which page 150 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt inhabits "the three worlds" or the three planes above us. there are 33 groups or millions of them. devachan (sans) the "dwelling of the gods" a state intermediate between two earth-lives, and into which the ego( atma-buddhi-manas, or the trinity made one) enters after its separation from kamarupa, and the disintegration of the lower principles, after the death of the body, on earth. dhammapada (sans) a work containing various aphorisms from the buddhist scriptures. dhyana (sans) one of the six paramitas of perfection. a state of abstraction which carries the ascetic practicing it far above the region of sensuous perception, and ou

onate kamarupic condition: almost equivalent to the sanskrit word tamas "the quality of darkness" and probably derived from the latter. timaeus of locris a pythagorean philosopher, born at locris. he differed somewhat from his teacher in the doctrine of metempsychosis. he wrote a treatise on the soul of the world and its nature and essence, which is in the doric dialect and still extant. triad or trinity in every religion and philosophy-the three in one. universal brotherhood the subtitle of the theosophical society, and the first of the three objects professed by it. upadhi (sans) basis of something, substructure; as in occultism-substance is the upadhi of spirit. upanishad (sans) lit "esoteric doctrine" the third division of the vedas, and classed with revelations (sruti or "revealed wor

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nd remarkable man. w. a. ayton, the son of william capon ayton, was born in the bloomsbury district of london on 28 april 18i 6, and was therefore in his 73rd year when he joined the g.d. in 1888 (westcott was then forty and mathers thirty-four) he was educated at charterhouse school in the city of london (long before it moved to more salubrious surroundings in surrey in 1872) and matriculated at trinity hall, cambridge, in 1837 (scholar, latin prize essay 1838-9, ba 1841. he was ordained deacon in the latter year and priest in 1843. he served in various rural parishes in the north midlands before he was appointed vicar ofchacombe in 1873 (aet. 57. whether or not he had any particular vocation for the priesthood is a matter for conjecture, introduction ii introduaion 12 the alchemist of th

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craft of tibet or the gestures of fingers (mudras) performed by the bali priests in their cults in the orient, or the exorcism ritual of magicians. the synthesis will always remain the same. at a trial, the hand with three fingers raised for the oath as confirmation of a truthful statement may also be regarded as a magical gesture. from the christian point of view the raised fingers symbolize the trinity. each of the numerous lodges and sects has its own rites. the lodges of the freemasons, for example, are all bound to a fixed sign, word and touch. a lot could be said about this problem from the historical point of view. for practical magic respecting the magical training, however, studies like these would be absolutely useless. it is of no importance at all to the genuine magician if he

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

nd unorthodoxy had already made its appearance in the diocese. in 1324 the kyteler case occurred, one of the participants being burnt at the stake, while other incriminated persons were subsequently followed up, some of whom shared the fate of petronilla. in 1327 adam dubh, of the leinster tribe of o'toole, was burnt alive on college green for denying the doctrines of the incarnation and the holy trinity, as well as for rejecting the authority of the holy see. 2 in 1335 pope benedict xii wrote a letter to king edward iii, in which occurs the following passage "it has come to our knowledge that while our venerable brother, richard, bishop of ossory, was visiting his diocese, there appeared in the midst of his catholic people men who were heretics together with their abettors, some of whom a

actually an eye-witness of the man's being carried in the air above their heads. at the instigation of a ghost a lawsuit took place at downpatrick in 1685. the account of this was given to baxter 1 by thomas emlin "a worthy preacher in dublin" as well as by claudius gilbert, one of the principal parties therein concerned: the latter's son and namesake proved a liberal benefactor to the library of trinity college--some of his books have been consulted for the present work. it appears that for some time past there had been a dispute about the tithes of drumbeg, a little parish about four miles outside belfast, between mr. gilbert, who was vicar of that town, and the archdeacon p. 168 of down, lemuel matthews, whom cotton in his fasti describes as "a man of considerable talents and legal know

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irat christians? j78 christos and sc^rfiia-acbamoth 183 secret doctrine uuriit by jesus 191 jesut never daimed to be god 193 new tcatament narrative* and hmdal^aads 199 antiquity irf the 'logos' and 'christ' 205 comparative vi^n-wocship 209 chapter v mysteries of the kabala ain-soph and the sn>hiroth 212 the primitive wisdom-rdigion 216 the booii of omint a compilation of old-world trends 217 the trinity of the kabala 222 gnostic and-naaarene systems coatiasted with hindo myths 225 kabaliim in the book of etdeui 232 story of the reantrection of jainu's daiuhter found in the history of krislina 241 untnutwcvth^ teadungs of the early fathera 248 thdr pcnecuting spirit 249 chapter vi esoteric doctrines op buddhism parodied in christianity dccimons of nicene cooudl, how arrived at 251 murder o

the history of krislina 241 untnutwcvth^ teadungs of the early fathera 248 thdr pcnecuting spirit 249 chapter vi esoteric doctrines op buddhism parodied in christianity dccimons of nicene cooudl, how arrived at 251 murder of hypatia 252 origin of the eab- ymbdoctrine al cosmogony 264 diagrams of hindfl and cbaldaeo-jewish systems 265 ten mythical avatarv of viahnu 274 trinity of man uught by paul 281 sooatea and i^to on soul and spirit 283 ?ftue buddhism, what it is 288 digitizecoy google contents chapter vn early cheistian heresies and secret sooeties naiareani, otohitea, and modem druiei (or 'hunxa-ita] 201 etymology of lao 298 'hennelic brotben egypt 307 ivue meaning ol nirvlna 319 ite jaina aect 321 christuuuandchnbtibiii 323 itie gnoatka and their detra

egypt 307 ivue meaning ol nirvlna 319 ite jaina aect 321 christuuuandchnbtibiii 323 itie gnoatka and their detracts* 325 buddha, jeaiu, and aptdloniua of tr>iui 341 section ii chapter viii jesuitry and masonry the zoaar and rabbi shimon the order of jesuita and iti r^tioo to aome of the muonic ordera, crimes permitted to its memben principles of jesuitry compared with tboae of pagan morallits. trinity erf man in egyptian soak rf iht dtad penecution of templan by the cburch 381 secfet maaonic dpben 3s5 jehovah not the "ineffable nanw' 398 chapter ix -the vedas and the bible ne*rly evwy myth baaed on some gnat truth 405 whence the christian sabbath 406 antiquity of the ved s 410 ^rthasoran doctrine of the potentialities of number* 417 'd*ys of (bnetu and 'days' of brahmi 422 fall ot man a

ries, strove to blend the doctrines of plato with those of aristotle, and by combining the two philosophies added to their theosophy the primeval docbioes ot the oriental kabala, then the christians from rivals became persecutors. once that the metaphysical allegories of plato were being prepared to be discussed in pubuc in the form of grecian dialectics, all the elaborate system of the christian trinity would be unraveled and the divine pres- tige completely upset. the eclectic school, reversing the order, had adopted the inductive method; and this method became its death-kndl. of all things on earth, logic and reasonid>le explanations were the most hateful to the new religion of mystery; for tbey threatened to unv^ the whole groundwork of the trinitaiian conception; to apprise the multi

eclectic school. the fathers had decided to pervert the meaning of the word daimon" and tbey dreaded above all to have the esoteric and true meaning of the word rasit unveiled to the multitudes; for if once the true sense of this sentence, as well as that of the hebrew word ludt (translated in the septuagint 'angels' while it means emanations" were understood rightly, the mystery of the christian trinity would have crumbled, carry- ing in its downfall the new religion into the same heap of ruins with the ancient mysteries. this is the true reason why dialecticians, as well as aristotle himself, the 'prying philosopher' were ever obnoxious to christian theology. even luther, while on his work of r^orm, feeling the ground insecure under his feet, notwithstanding that the dogmas had been redu

"hie kabala the oriental as well as the jewish shows that a number of emanatione (the jewish sephiroth) issued from the firat principle, the chi^ c^ which was wiedom. this wisdom is the logos of philo, and michael, the chi^ of the gnostic eons; it is the ormazd of the persians; minerva, goddess of wisdom, of the greeks, who emanated from the head of jupiter; and the second person of the christian trinity. the eariy fathers of the church had not much call to exert their imagination; they found a ready-made doctrine that had existed in every theogoay for thousands of years before the christian era. their trinity is but the trio of sephiroth, the first three kabalistic lighie of which moses nschmanides says, that "they have never been teen by any one; there is not any defect in uiem, nor any

he male rd, or light of wisdom, prudence or intd- ligence, sephira, the female part of himself; while from this dual being proceeds the third emanation, the binah or reason, the second intelli- gence the holy ghost of the christians. therefore strictly speaking there is a tetraktts or quaternary, consisting of the unintelligible first monad and its triple emanation, which properly constitutes our trinity. how then avoid perceiving at once that had not the christians pur- posely disfigured in their interpretation and translation the mosaic genetie to fit their own views, their religion, with its present dogmas, would have been impossible? the word rasit, once taught in its true sense of the principle and not the beginning, and the anathematized doc- 02. lae.eil 63. ta* cii^ qf oxf. xi. xzzi

with svayammih, they are the t n sephi- roth of the hebrew kabaliats, the ten hindfi prajdpatu the ain-soph of the former, answering to the great unknown, expressed by the mystic a u m of the latter. says franck, the translator of the kabala "the ten sephiroth are divided into thr^ dasaes; each of them presenting to us the divinity utider a different aspect, the whole still remaining an iridwmliu trinity "the first three sephiroth are purely intellectual or metaphysical; they express the absolute identity of existence and thought, and form what the modem kabalists called the intelligible world which is the first manifestation of god "the three that follow make us conceive god in one of their as- pects, as the identity of goodness and wisdom; in the other they show to us, in the supreme goo

and if he introduced the jehovah-worship it was not in its mono- theistic character, but simply as that of one of the many gods of the neighboring nations a tutelary deity to whom he had given the prefer- ence, and chosen among "all other gods" following the christian dogmas seriatim, if we concentrate our atten- tion upon one which provoked the fiercest battles until its recognition, that of the trinity, what do we find? we meet it, as we have shown, northeast of the indus; and tracing it to asia minor and europe, recog- nise it among evety people who had anything like an established religion. 82. t sttm. vi, 20-22. digitizecoy google 46 isis unveiled it was tau^t in tbe oldest chaldaean, egyptian, and mithraltic schools. the chaldaeaa sun-god, mithra, was called 'triple' and the trinitar

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(egypt, athena (greece) and rhiannon (celts. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 79. all wise, all knowing she gives and takes life and reminds us of our innate inner wisdom and of the divine spark within and asks us to radiantly manifest this into the world. the high priestess embodies love, mercy and compassion. then we have: the triple goddess. the original trinity, symbolizes the 3 faces of the great goddess. stage 1: the virgin as strong and self defined. stage 2: the mother as the nurturing source of all nourishment and. stage 3: the crone representing death and transformation. the role of the triple goddess is to remind us of our sacredness regardless of our age for all stages are precious, and also to remind us that there is one multi-faceted go

ur 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 the pink light of divine love which is released when we act appropriately with the challenges of the left arm. the southern section of the cross carries the energies of divine wis

arries the energies of divine wisdom, or the golden flame of illumination which imbues both the left and right arm with direction and purpose. the violet light ray is the seventh ray of spiritual freedom which is refracted to form the 3 rays of blue, pink and golden light. the cross also symbolizes the perfect integration of god and man and the freedom we find when we release the energies of this trinity within us and allow them to radiate through our world. for those who are open to and relate to this cross, you may wish to use the below technique. divine nutrition program. technique no. 31. sit in meditation, use the love breath meditation and centre yourself into the energy of love. fill yourself with the violet light as per the cosmic cable hook-in meditation in chapter 7 and as per te

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, is variously depicted, similarly to the following marks: fig 1. fig 2. fig 3. fig 4. fig 5. the english broad arrow. 49 fig. 6. these are the three nails of the passion. in figs, 1 and 2 they are unmistakably so, with the points downwards. figs. 3 and 4 have the significant horizontal mark which, in the first centuries of christianity, stood for the second (with feminine meanings) person of the trinity; but the points of the spikes (spicce, or thorns) are gathered upwards in the centre. in fig. 5 there are still the three nails; but a suggestive similarity to be remarked in this figure is a disposition resembling the crux-ansata an incessant symbol, always reappearing in egyptian sculptures and hieroglyphics. there is also a likeness to the mysterious letter tau. the whole first chapter

in front of their caravans (reade s veil of isis. all the early fathers held god the creator to consist of a subtile fire. when the holy spirit descended upon the apostles on the day of pentecost, it was in the form of a tongue of fire, accompanied by a rushing wind. see anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 627 (parkhurst, in voce, grb. the personality of jehovah is, in scripture, represented by the material trinity of nature; which also, like the divine antitype, is of one substance. the primal, scriptural type of the father is fire; of the word, light; and of the holy ghost, spirit, or air in motion. this material trinity, as a type, is similar to the material trinity of plato; as a type, it is used to conceal the secret trinity. see anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 627. holy fires, which were never suffered

e body, rendering it visible in the form of an apparition, and enabling it to affect material objects, make noises, move articles, and such-like things perceptible to the living sense in short, to spucken. according to its nature, this composite being takes a longer or shorter time to be dissolved; the geist alone being immortal (the gnostics and their remains, note to p. 46. an ancient homily on trinity sunday has the following: at the deth of a manne, three bells should be ronge as his knyll in worship of the trinitie. and for a woman* who was the second person of the trinitie, two bells should* this is a curious direct assertion that the saviour of the world was feminine. 152 the rosicrucians. be ronge. here we have the source of the emblematic difficulty among the master-masons, who co

tre. the worlds spiritual and temporal, being rendered subject to the operation of the original type, or idea, became, in their imitation of this invisible ideal, first intelligible, and then endowed with reciprocal meaning outwards from themselves. this produced the being (or thought) to whom, or to which, creation was disclosed. this is properly the son, or second ineffable person of the divine trinity. thus that which we understand as a human mind became a possibility. this second great, only intelligible world, the rosicrucians call macrocosmos. they distribute it as into three regions or spheres; which, as they lie near-to, or dilate the farthest from, the earliest-opening divine brightness, they denominate the empyr um, the theraeum. and the elementary region, each filled and determi

hic expressions, meaning the salvator mundi, show the roman letter i (jesus) mosaic tables of stone. 225 in front, in large size; the letter h (which is feminine, and greek in its origin, meaning here man, as born of woman) much smaller; and behind, interlacing and combining the first two letters, is the single curved or cursive s, which stands for s.s, the holy spirit, or the third person of the trinity. the whole, in another way, is jesus hominum salvator. nearly all the sacred monograms, with the intention of making the letter denoting the man prominent, present the letter i large; in the heraldic language surtout, or over all. the monogram of the saviour is sometimes seen in the ark, or vesica double lithoi: the "tables" of stone. jachin. pillar) yjy the law (man. boaz (left pillar) zu

ple s.s.s. coiled around the phallus. 169 170 171 figs 169, 170, 171. in fig. 170 we have the prince of wales s feathers, from the tomb of edward the black prince, in canterbury cathedral. this badge presents the idea of the fleur-de- lis, ich dien! i serve! fig. 171 represents the egyptian triple plumes, which are the same badge as the fleur-de-lis and the prince of wales s feathers, meaning the trinity. fig. 172 also (ante) referred to as fig. 191 is a gnostic gem. it represents the chnuphis serpent, spoken of at page 220. a famous inscription (delphic e) was placed above the portal of the temple at delphi. this inscription was a the temple at delphi. 239 single letter, namely, the letter e, the name of which in greek was e, which is the second person of the present of the indicative of

mstances, the character of which our readers will by this time not fail to recognise. the glory of woman and the punishment of woman after the fall, as indicated in genesis, go hand in hand. it was in honour of woman, and to raise into dignity the expression of the condemned means (until sanctified and reconciled by the intervention of the s.s, or of the holy spirit, or of the third person of the trinity, which is her mark and betrayal, but which produced the world in producing man, and which saved the world in the person of the redeemer, born of woman. it is to glorify typically and mystically this fleshly vehicle, that the order of the garter or garder that keeps it sacred was instituted. the knights of the garter stand sentinel, in fact, over woman s shame, at the same time that they pr

or enriched with precious stones (as the george may be, such being prohibited by the laws of the order. at what time the collar of s.s. came into england is not fully determined; but it would seem that it came at least three hundred years since. the collar of s.s. means the magian, or first order, or brotherhood. in the christian arrangements, it stands for the holy spirit, or third person of the trinity. in the gnostic talismans, it is displayed as the bar, curved with the triple s. refer to the cnuphis abraxoids occurring in our book, for we connect the collar of s.s. with the theology of the gnostics. that the order of the garter is feminine, and that its origin is an apotheosis of the rose, and of a certain sin290 the rosicrucians. gular physiological fact connected with woman's life

motions and instincts; which are true, and which are infallible because they contradict the apparent and the reasonable, which is never true. hence we cannot know god through god, or rather through the intellect; but we must know god through the saviour, or through the heart or affections; which entity, or sum of heart and affections, is second god, or man in the image &c. the third person of the trinity is the holy ghost, or recognition in which both are seen in the spirit, wherein, and absorbing the two others, is interfluent, miraculous, instant union and assumption of god and means, in belief. this is the groundwork of all religious systems. god's anger (the denunciation, or the shaking-off, by the all-pure and the all-powerful) is shown in those 336 the rosicrucians. immortal (become

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infinity. wherein sorrow is joy, and change is stability, and selflessness is self. for the interplay of the parts hath no action upon the whole. and this contemplation shall be performed not by simple meditation--how much less then by reason- but by the method which shall have been given unto him in his initiation to the grade. 17. following which method, it shall be easy for him to combine that trinity from its elements, and further to combine sat-chit-ananda, and light, love, life, three by three into nine that are one, in which meditation success shall be that which was first adumbrated to him in the grade of practicus (which reflecteth mercury into the lowest world) in liber xxvii "here is nothing under its three forms" 18. and this is the opening of the grade of ipsissimus, and by th

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ources that the formation of the temple in egypt was 7. figure 1 8. 9. a double square, and in the centre were three cubes standing one upon another, forming an altar(*churchward, the arcana of freemasonry, p. 43) upon which were laid their volumes of the sacred lore- not the same as our own, of course, for ours had not yet been written. those cubes represented the three aspects or persons of the trinity- osiris, isis and horus- as may be seen from the signs engraved on them (see fig. 1) which, however, is copied not from an egyptian altar, but from an illustration in mr. evans f book on crete; but at a later period we find only a double cube. 10. there were two pillars at the entrance to the temple, and on them were squares representing earth and heaven(*ibid, p. 44) one of them bore a na

t of the gods was in reality but little different from the cult of angels and saints in the catholic church. just as christians look to st. michael and to our lady as real personages and hold festivals in their honour, so in ancient egypt adoration was offered to isis and osiris, and to other deities likewise. in the ultimate these august names referred to aspects of the godhead, amen-ra, for the trinity in egypt was represented by father, mother, son- osiris, isis and horus instead of the christian presentation of father, son, and holy spirit; but below that divine level there were then, as there are now, great beings in whom the ideal was embodied, who acted as representatives and as channels of god fs threefold power and grace to man. furthermore there are hierarchies of angels belongin

master of the first grand lodge represented wisdom, and his two wardens strength and beauty, as in our lodges today. the predominant power outpoured was that wisdom which is perfect love, the quality that is indeed most needed in the world at the present time. the master of the second grand lodge re-presented strength, and his wardens wisdom and beauty, and the strength of the first aspect of the trinity was the predominant quality of the lodge. the master of the third grand lodge typified beauty, and the wisdom and the strength were made subordinate to that third aspect of the hidden light. 69. as every one present had to bear his part in building the form, exact co-operation and perfect harmony were absolutely necessary, and only people who could forget themselves entirely in the great w

divine love, and bounded his actions by duty and destiny, he could not err. 115. the same device also signifies the first manifest-ation of the deity. it was held by the egyptians there were three successive manifestations; the first aspect far above our reach, the second and third successively lower, and their conception of these three was very similar to that of the three persons of the blessed trinity in christianity and the trimurti among the hindus; in fact, practically all philosophical religions have recognized the triple manifestation of the deity. in the book of dzyan the same emblem, but without the two lines, was used to denote the same reality, the first logos or word; while in christian mysticism it signifies the christ within the bosom of the father. it was also considered to

ent. some say that there are three because king solomon had two other important people associated with him in the building of the temple; but the deeper fact is that the pillars on the t c b c and the columns near the pedestals of the three principal officers are intended to symbolize the three aspects of the divine life in manifestation, which have been spoken of by various religions as the holy trinity. in the earliest times in egypt, as we have already explained, there were three kinds of grand lodges, with somewhat different methods of working, according as the r.w.m. represented wisdom, strength or beauty. in our modern days we have only one of these types, in which the master fs pedestal signifies wisdom, and the working is that of the second person of the trinity, the christ. in the

e r.w.m. represented wisdom, strength or beauty. in our modern days we have only one of these types, in which the master fs pedestal signifies wisdom, and the working is that of the second person of the trinity, the christ. in the now practically defunct rite of swedenborg the chair of the master represented strength. 119. in the process of the development of our universe, the third member of the trinity first exercised his portion of the divine power in preparing the world of matter; then the second person put forth his energy, and that was the beginning of the evolution of conscious life. this is symbolized in the opening of the lodge. at first the w.j.w. fs miniature column, which signifies the third person and the first outpouring of divine activity, is erect, but at the moment when th

ed for the following luminous sug-gestions to bro. ernest wood. they are an interpretation of the three columns in the light of the principles embodied in his book, the seven rays, and i commend them to the careful study of the brn. 138. in order to understand the full significance of the columns presided over by the three principal officers, we must recall the occult teaching of the great divine trinity of father, son and holy ghost, or shiva, vishnu and brahma. in their unity they are one universal god in whom everything exists, whether it be animate or inanimate, for there is nothing but that. but in their separate appearances, the holy ghost is the maker or builder of the outer world, and the son is the life in all beings, the glight that lighteth every man that cometh into the world h

ic and corinthian, symbolize these three divisions of the world- the field of consciousness, as it has been called in the bhagavad gita. 140. all the living beings which people this world display the light of the divine life and consciousness in their varying degrees. they are all parts of god the son, the christ, the great sacrifice, the divine life crucified on the cross of matter. he also is a trinity, and this is seen in the three powers of consciousness appearing in man as the spiritual will, the intuitional love and the higher intelligence, which are the root of all human will, love and thought. since the officers are the life in the lodge, they represent these qualities in consciousness, which are called in sanskrit philosophy ichchha, jnana and kriya. the r.w.m. expresses the divin

hat our speculative inter-pretations were already known at the early date mentioned. 239. there is also a translation from an ancient persian inscription, which runs: square thyself for use; a stone that may 240. fit in the wall is not left in the way. 241. the r. w. m. has as his jewel the square, which indicates the third outpouring of divine force, from the first logos, the first person of the trinity, and has therefore the same significance as the gavel, his instrument of government. the symbolism of the gavel is very profound; to explain it i must draw attention to what is probably the oldest symbol in the world (fig. 8a. 242. figure 8. 243. 244. this long line with two crossed bars upon it has for uncounted thousands of years been the special sign of the supreme being. the pygmy race

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candidates are prepared for discipleship, and the path proper, or the greater mysteries, in which are conferred within the great white lodge itself five great initiations, which lead the disciple from the life of earth to the life of adeptship in god, to become a living flame, as it is said, for the lighting of the world. he is taught that god, both in the universe and in man, shows himself as a trinity of wisdom, strength and beauty, and that these three aspects are represented in the great white lodge in the persons of its three chief officers, through whom the mighty power of god descends to men. 27. the occult records 28. it will be seen that this occult knowledge depends no more upon the study of books and records than do the experiences of the mystics; both belong to a higher order

ms resting on a column, itself set on an altar base as in the lion s gate scheme, has now come to light at mycenae- a singular illustration of the minoan source of its cult. 243. of the columns themselves, each one may be regarded as a separate religious entity, since in place of a common entablature the superstructure is in each case separately rendered by a kind of architectural shorthand. this trinity of baetylic pillars (which has many parallels in semitic cult) itself recalls the triple arrangement seen in the case of the temple fresco at knossos and of several late minoan and mycenaean shrines. the triple gold shrines of mycenae are also coupled with seated doves. 244. the seated birds, as already observed, symbolize in this and other cases the descent of the divinity into the posses

ice; but it was not originally intended to be an appendage to christianity, as it has now become in england, but rather an independent sacramental channel through which the lord of love may pour down his blessing upon initiates of every faith, for it was founded thousands of years before the birth of the disciple jesus in palestine. thus although it is the christ, the second person of the blessed trinity, who is adored in the rose-croix, the christ whose love is outpoured in the sovereign chapters of heredom, in our co-masonic ritual we speak of him only as the lord of love, and do not bind our brn. especially to the doctrines of the last great faith which he founded in person on earth; for he is the lord of all religions alike, and the rose-croix is no less his than the glorious sacrament

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oints of the star three points up, two points down symbolizing man s spiritual nature. in satanism the pentagram is also used, but since satanism represents the carnal instincts of man, or the opposite of the spiritual nature, the pentagram is inverted to perfectly accommodate the head of the goat its horns, representing duality, thrust upwards in defiance; the other three points inverted, or the trinity denied. the hebraic figures around the outer circle of the symbol which stem from the magical teachings of the kabala, spell out leviathan, the serpent of the watery abyss, and identified with satan. these figures correspond to the five points of the inverted star (136) peter h. gilmore see also church of satan; lavey, anton for further reading: bessy,maurice. a pictorial history of magic

e. new york: avon, 1993. crowley, aleister edward aleister crowley (october 12, 1875 december 1, 1947, the most famous and influential ritual magician of the twentieth century, was born edward alexander crowley in leamington, warwickshire, england. his father was a preacher for the exclusive plymouth brethren, and he soon rebelled against his strict, fundamentalist upbringing. he was a student at trinity college in cambridge from 1894 to 1897, but dropped out before completing a degree. his interests in the occult and sexual activity crowded out his studies. although crowley did not consider himself a satanist, he sometimes sported a satanist image e.g, he often referred to himself as the beast, an allusion to the beast of the book of revelation english author, magician, and occultist, ale

e dark secret of harvest home in this 1978 film a photographer and his wife move to a quiet new england hamlet from manhattan, and find that things are not as idyllic as they seem. one of the better movies about a couple who stumble onto a secret satanist cult. dee, john astrologer john dee (1527 1608) was born in london of a welsh family. he was educated in cambridge, where he became a fellow of trinity college. magic and alchemy were among his major interests from his earliest years, and he began collecting books and manuscripts. he became a well-known mathematician. he is best known to modern satanists through the inclusion of some of his enochian keys in the latter section of anton lavey s the satanic bible. during the reign of the catholic mary tudor, he was accused of being a heretic

briefly popular in the early 1990s. according to an article, supposedly translated from a piece in the finnish newspaper ammennusastia, geologists researching the makeup of our planet s crust in siberia drilled deep into the earth. microphones were then lowered into the shaft they had created. they were startled to hear countless millions of people crying out in pain and misery. as reported in a trinity broadcasting newsletter: a geological group who drilled a hole about 14.4 kilometers deep in the crust of the earth are saying that they heard human screams. screams have been heard from the condemned souls from earth s deepest hole. terrified scientists are afraid they have let loose the evil powers of hell up to the earth s surface. the information we are gathering is so surprising, that

id of what we might find down there, stated dr. azzacov, the manager of the project in remote siberia (ship of fools website) many members of the team refused to continue the work. a later embellishment of the story was that luminous vapors escaped from the hole, forming a glowing, batlike creature (a bat out of hell, so to speak. the words i have conquered appeared in russian in the heavens. the trinity broadcasting network broadcast the tale at least three times, and sent out a story about the hellhole to their internet mailing list. a charon, hell s ferryman in greek mythology (dover pictorial archive) hermetic order of the golden dawn 111 tongue-in-cheek well to hell story also appeared in the biblical archeology review. to the chagrin of the editors, many of their readers took the art

om the cycle of death and rebirth. although there are variations in detail from text to text, the endtime events outlined in the puranas are remarkably consistent, and the basic puranic scenario has persisted in contemporary hindu accounts of the eschaton. the agent of destruction is shiva or vishnu in the form of shiva. in the classical formulation, brahma, vishnu, and shiva constitute a kind of trinity,with brahma creating the world, vishnu maintaining the world, and shiva destroying the world. at the close of a day of brahma, the worlds are first dried out by a scorching sun. this drought is so severe that even the waters of the netherworld are dried out.when everything is so dried out that the earth is parched and cracked, a terrible wind blows through the worlds, drawing the life-brea

it is a ritual theurgic body that emphasizes purity of ritual, as well as the eucharist as the center of initiation, through which the invocation of angels and planetary spirits is made. spirit communication often takes place during the mass, when members of the clergy, who are clairvoyant, may have visions. during the mass a mystical language is perceived and spoken. the absolute, emanating the trinity, is viewed as the head of a gnostic hierarchical system. the trinity is the source of lucifer, the morning star, and sophia, the female divine being who is often revered as our lady of mt. carmel. the neo-pythagorean church is subject to a supreme heliophant, and its american jurisdiction is under bishop pierre-antoine saint-charles of boston, whereas michael bertiaux in chicago is over th

title of the grimoire sought by the central character (an unscrupulous rare-book dealer played by johnny depp, the nine gates to the kingdom of shadows. despite the familiar landscape, however, polanski managed to turn out an intriguing film that explores themes rarely plumbed in horror movies, such as the real seductiveness of evil. the omen, damien: omen 2, and the final conflict in the unholy trinity of a-grade horror movies, the omen is perhaps the third most important film, following the exorcist and rosemary s baby. unlike the other two, however, the omen (1976) spawned two sequels, damien in 1978 and the final conflict in 1981. the core of the story line involves the exploits of a child in the sequels a young man seemingly destined to walk the halls of political power. unfortunatel

involves the exploits of a child in the sequels a young man seemingly destined to walk the halls of political power. unfortunately, he is the son of satan. the order of infernal light the order of infernal light (oil) is a satanic aesthetic order founded on february 24, 2000, by reverend dianna genesis lewinsky. there were ten founding members, three of whom constituted the council of the unholy trinity. the order, which is based in sydney, australia, is affiliated with the first church of satan. the oil is not just another satanic church, but rather focuses on using music and art to enhance the quality of life, and for the general aesthetic expansion of society as a whole. the first paragraph of the order s original statement of purpose reads: the purpose of the order of the infernal lig

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s to the primum mobile, the kerubic signs to uranus and the mutable signs to neptune; in the book of thoth the cardinal signs were referred to pluto (discovered in the 1930s. while on the subject of the outer planets, there is evidence in the book of thoth that crowley for a time (possibly prior to the discovery of pluto) referred neptune to kether and uranus to chokmah (vide the table the triple trinity of the planets, included in various arrangements in 777 revised) but later changed this arrangement, referring pluto to kether, neptune to chokmah and uranus to da ath (see the description of atu xxi, ibid p. 119. cols. cxlix cli. agrippa (tom. ii cap. xxxvii) gives a somewhat different set of images for the decans, along with the significance of each. it is believed agrippa derived from l

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aac newton, its effect upon the spiritual destinies of man! consider also that no force cometh ever to the end of its work! the air that is moved by my breath is a disturbance or change of equilibrium that cannot be fully compensated and brought to naught, though the ons be endless. who then shall deny the possibility of magick? well said frazer, the most learned doctor of the college of the holy trinity in the university of cambridge, that science was but the name of any magick which failed not of its intended effect. g the book of wisdom or folly 51 ay de machina magica (of the mechanism of magick) o! i put forth my will, and my pen moveth upon the paper, by cause that my will mysteriously hath power upon the muscle of my arm, and these do work at a mechanical advantage against the inert

demonstration of the existence of that thyr other than its conformity with general law. thou therefore, creator and transmitter of thine own energy, needest not to ask whether by this or by some other means thou performest thy work. yet i know not why this thyr of the mathematicians and the physicians should not be one with the astral light, or plastic medium or aub, aud, aur (these three being a trinity) of which our own sages have spoken. and this meditation may bring forth much knowledge physical, which is good, for that which is above is like that which is beneath, and the study of any law leadeth to the understanding of all law. so mayst thou learn in the end that there is no law beyond do what thou wilt. b the book of wisdom or folly 57 be de necessitate voluntatis (of the necessity

d the metaphysical ekstacy is the holy ghost, whose name is hriliu. these are then the sun, mercury, and venus, whose sacred letters are r (r, b (b, and d (d. but the last of the diverse letters is h (h, which in the tarot is the star whose eidolon is d (d; and herein is that arcanum concerning the tao of which i have already written. of this will i not write more plainly. but mark this, that our trinity is our path inwards in the solar system, and that h being of our lady nuith starry, is an anchor to this magick which else were apt to deny our wholeness of relation to the outer as to the inner. my son, ponder these words, and profit by them; for i have wrought cunningly to conceal or to reveal, according to thine intelligence, o my son! b liber aleph vel cxi 88 gi de quibusdam artibus ma

arcanum of their balance and proportion; for herein lieth the mystery of their holiness. o liber aleph vel cxi 108 dd de stella macrocosmi (of the star of the macrocosm) hus far then concerning the pentagram, how it is of the cross, and its virtue of the highest; but the hexagram is for the most part a detail of the formula of the rose and cross. already have i shewed unto thee how the most holy trinity is the yang; but the spirit, and the water (or fluid) and the blood, that bear witness in the inferior, are of the yin. thus the operation of the hexagram lieth wholly within the order of our plane, uniting indeed any soul with its image, but not transcendentally, for its effect is cosmos, the vau hat springeth from the union of the yod and the h. thus is it but a glyph of that first formu

o nuith our lady and her lord hadith, for the miracle of the anatomy of the child ra-hoor-khuit, as it is shewn in the design minutum mundum, the tree of life. for though wisdom be the second emanation of his essence, there is a path to separate and to join them, the reference thereof being aleph, that is one indeed, but also an hundred and eleven in his full orthography; to signify the most holy trinity, and by metathesis it is thick darkness, and sudden death. this is also the number of aum, which is amoun, and the root-sound of omne, or, in greek, pan, and it is a number of the sun. yet is the atu of thoth that correspondeth thereunto marked with zero, and its name is mat, whereof i have spoken formerly, and its image is the fool. o my son, gather thou all these limbs together in one bo

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all things. 5. he hath established the elements, the athyr, the air, the water, the earth, and the fire. 6. he hath established the wanderings stars in their courses. 7. he hath ploughed with the seven stars of his plough, that the seven might move indeed, yet ever point to the unchanging one. 8. he hath established the eight belts, wherewith he hath girdled the globes. 9. he hath established the trinity of triads in all things, forcing fire into fire, and ordering all things in the stable abode of the kings of agypt. 10. he hath established his rule in his kingdom. 11. yet the father also boweth unto the power of the star 418 and thereby 12 liber dcccxiii vel ararita 12. in his subtlety he expandeth it all into twelve rays of the crown. 13. and these twelve rays are one. 13 vii a 0. then

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ein sorrow is joy, and change is stability, and selflessness is self. for the interplay of the parts hath no action upon the whole. and this contemplation shall be performed not be simple meditation.how much less then by reason? but by the method which shall have been given unto him in his initiation to the grade. sub figura i 3 17. following which method, it shall be easy for him to combine that trinity from its elements, and further to combine sat-chit-ananda, and light, love, life, three by three into nine that are one, in which meditation success shall be that which was first adumbrated unto him in the grade of practicus (which reflected mercury into the lowest world) in liber xxvii, ghere is nothing under its three forms. h 18. and this is the opening of the grade of ipsissimus, and b

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word tycarb by solom meir ben moses, a jewish qabalist, who embraced the christian faith in 1665, and took the name of prosper rugere. these all have a christian tendency, and by their means prosper converted another jew, who had previously been bitterly opposed to christianity. the first is \ymt djy \tcwlc ba jwr b, ben ruach ab, shaloshethem yechad themim .the son, the spirit, the father, their trinity, perfect unity. the second is wdwbot djy \tcwlc ba jwr b, ben ruach ab, shaloshethem yechad thaubodo .the son, the spirit, the father, ye shall equally worship their trinity. the third is wdwbot owcy wmc rca ywncar yrwkb, bekori rashuni asher shamo yeshuah thaubodo .ye shall worship my first-born, my first, whose name is jesus. the fourth is wdwbot owcy wmc rca br awbb, beboa rabban ashar

277, is 30+ 600+ 200+ 2+ 5= 837 (by gematria) lz tt, tat zal, the profuse giver. thus, by writing the mem as a final instead of the ordinary character, the word is made to bear a different qabalistical meaning. it is to be further noted with regard to the first word in the bible, tycarb, berashith, that the first three letters, arb, are the initial letters of the names of the three persons of the trinity: b, ben, the son; jwr, ruach, the spirit; and ba, ab, the father. furthermore the first letter of the bible is b, which is the initial letter of hkrb, berakhah, blessing; and not a, which is that of rra, arar, cursing. again, the letters of berashith, taking their numerical powers, express the number of years between the creation and the birth of christ, thus: b= 2000, r= 200, a= 1000, c=

wa, auphamim, the wheels. it is also called ba, the father. the third sephira, or triad, is a feminine passive potency, called hnyb, binah, the understanding, who is co-equal with chokmah. for chokmah, the number 2, is like two straight lines which can never enclose a space, and therefore is powerless till the number 3 forms the triangle. thus this sephira completes and makes evident the supernal trinity. it is also called ama, ama, mother, and amya, aima, the great productive mother,15 who is eternally conjoined with ba, the father, for the maintenance of the universe in order. therefore she is the most evident form in which can know the father, and therefore is she worthy of all honour. she is the supernal mother, co-equal with chokmah, and the great feminine form of god, the elohim,16 i

seraphim (isaiah vi, 6. this sephira is also called djp, pachad, fear. the number 6. and from these two issued the uniting sephirah, trapt, tiphereth, beauty or mildness,18 represented by the divine name todw hwla, eloah va-daath, and the angelic names \ynanc, shinanim (psalm lxviii, 18) or \yklm, melekim, kings. thus by the union of justice and mercy we obtain beauty and clemency, and the second trinity of the sephiroth is complete. this sephira, or .path. or .numeration..for by these latter appellations the emanations are sometimes called.together with the fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth, and ninth sephiroth, is spoken of as ypna ryoz, zauir anpin, the lesser contenance, or microprosopus, by way of antithesis to macroprosopus, or the vast countance, which is one of the names of kether, th

, hod, splendour, answering to the divine name twabx \yhla, elohim tzabaoth, the gods of armies, and among the angels to \yhla ynb, beni elohim, the sons of the gods (genesis vi, 4. the number 9. these two produced dwsy, yesod, the foundation or basis, represented by yj la, the mighty living one, and ydc, shaddai: and among the angels by \yca, aishim, the flames (psalms civ, 4, yielding the third trinity of the sephiroth. the number 10. from this ninth sephira came the tenth and last, thus completing the decad of the numbers. it is called twklm, malkuth, the kingdom, and also the queen, matrona, the inferior mother, the bride of microprosopus; and hnykc, shekinah,19 represented by the divine name ynda, adonai,20 and among the angelic hosts by the kerubim \ybwrk. now, each of these sephirot

ical meaning of the term alqtm, metheqela, balance. in each of the three trinities or triads of the sephiroth is a duad of opposite sexes, and a uniting intelligence which is the result. in this, the masculine and feminine potencies are regarded as the two scales of the balance, and the uniting sephira as the beam which joins them. thus, then, the term balance may be said to symbolize the triune, trinity in unity, and the unity represented by the central point of the beam. but, again, in the sephiroth there is a triple trinity, the upper, lower and middle. now, these three are represented thus: the supernal, or highest, but the crown, kether; the middle by the king, and the inferior by the queen; which will be the greatest trinity. and the earthly correlatives of these will be the primum m

ad being placed above, the second and third below, in such a manner that the three masculine sephiroth are on the right, three feminine on the left, whilst the four uniting sephiroth occupy the centre. this is the qabalistical .tree of life. on which all things depend. there is considerable analogy between this and the tree yggdrasil of the scandinavians. i have already remarked that there is one trinity which comprises all the sephiroth, and that it consists of the crown, the king, and the queen (in some senses this is the christian trinity of father, son and holy spirit, which in their highest divine nature are symbolized by the first three sephiroth, kether, 21 [sometimes \yyjh o, otz ha-chayim, thus making possible the fudging of a different set of gematria identities. t.s] on the qaba

roth, and that it consists of the crown, the king, and the queen (in some senses this is the christian trinity of father, son and holy spirit, which in their highest divine nature are symbolized by the first three sephiroth, kether, 21 [sometimes \yyjh o, otz ha-chayim, thus making possible the fudging of a different set of gematria identities. t.s] on the qabalah 15 chokmah, and binah) it is the trinity which created the world, or, in qabalistic language, the universe was born from the union of the crowned king and queen. but according to the qabalah, before the complete form of the heavenly man (the ten sephiroth) was produced, there were certain primordial worlds created, but these could not subsist, as the equilibrium of balance was not yet perfect, and they were convulsed by the unbal

of these primal worlds. t.s] 23 [in the equinox publication this replaced a reference to one of the tables accompanying mathers. introduction. t.s] 16 liber lviii those vices in earth-life. their prince is lams, samael, the angel of poison and of death.24 his wife is the harlot, or woman of whoredom \ynwnz tca, isheth zanunim;25 and united they are called the beast, awyj, chioa. thus the infernal trinity is completed, which is, so to speak, the averse and caricature of the supernal creative one. samael is considered to be identical with satan. the name of the deity, which we call jehovah, is in hebrew a name of four letters, hwhy; and the true pronunciation of it is known to very few. i myself know some score of different mystical pronunciations of it. the true pronunciation is a most secr

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e out your life! fondle your child, and buss your wife! trust not, fear not, street straight and strong! don.t worry, but just get along. i used to envy all my balti coolies21 in an inverse kind of religious hysteria, though every one a perfect fool is, to judge by philosophic criteria, my lord archbishop. the name of winchester, harrow, or eton22 makes them not two inches stir. 125 they know not trinity, merton, or christchurch; they worship, but not at your back-pews-high-priced church. i.ve seen them at twenty thousand feet on the ice, in a snow-storm, at night fall, repeat their prayer23.will your grace do as much for your three as they do for their one? i have seen.may you see! they sleep and know not what a mat is; seem to enjoy their cold chapaties* are healthy, strong.and some are

tead of kneeling to receive the blessing of the officating bishop .i renounce for ever this idolatrous church. and was quietly removed. he told mathilde doriac that he had been to eton and cambridge.neither institution, however, preserves any record of scuh admission. the imagination of george, indeed, is tremendously fertile with regard to events in his own life. his own story is that he entered trinity college, cambridge, in 1856, and was sent down two years later for an article which he had contributed to some university or college magazine. no confirmation of any sort is to be found anywhere with regard to these or any other statements of our author. there is, however, no doubt that in 1861 he quarreled with his family; went over to paris, where he settled down, at first, like every tu

ght without and saw that all things were alike in this; that nought might escape the threefold misery .the soul. he said .the soul, the i, is as all of these; it is impermanent as the ephemeral flower of beauty in the water that is born and shines and dies ere sun be risen and set again .and he humiliated his heart and sang the following verse: brahma, and vishnu, and great shiva! truly i see the trinity in all things dwell, some rightly tinged of heaven, others duly pitched down the steep and precipice of hell. nay, not your glory ye from fable borrow! these three i see in spirit and in sense, these three, o miserable see! sorrow, absence of ego, and impermanence! and at the rhythm he swooned, for his old mantra surged up in the long-sealed vessels of sub-conscious memory, and he fell int

rect5 is the twined, and the twined is the coiled, and the coiled is the twin, and the twin are the stoopers. they think as the big-nose-folk. save us, o lord! 1 nechesh the serpent and messiach the redeemer. 2 abigenos, abiagnus, biagenos, abiegnus, metatheses of the name of the mystic mountain of initiation. the next paragraph has been explained in the essay .qabalistic dogma. 3 the belief in a trinity.ignorance of daath. 4 belief in monism, or rather advaitism. crowley was a monist only in the modern scientific sense of that word. 5 confusion of the various mystic serpents. the big-nose-folk= the jews. we leave the rest to the insight of the reader. abiegnus. mysterium i. n. r. i. mysterium lvx. pastos. trinitas. unitas. serpentes 86 appendix ii ain elohim. the chariot. four hundred and

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t in one, produce the number 3; as it is written .for the mind of the father said that .all things should be cut into three. whose will. assenting all things were so divided. for the mind of the father said into three, governing all things by mind. and there appeared in it the triad, virtue and wisdom and multiscient truth. thus floweth forth the form of the triad. thus is formulated the creative trinity which is, as it were, the essential preliminary to manifestation. this mystic son of the eternal parents, having for his number 3, is typified in all the sacred scripts by that number. thus it is written of the manifestation of the son of god upon the earth .shiloh shall come (the initial of which mystery-name is c [chaldaan oracles, fragment 13 in the westcott/ cory editions; known from q

t the great mystery of the tetractys, and to go further we must resort to the twin sister of the science of number.which, indeed, is but number made flesh: geometry, or absolute symbolism. even as it was spoken by the holy pythagoras .god geometrises. let us behold the work of his fingers! one father incomprehensible one son incomprehensible 1. 2. 3. a m c one mother incomprehensible. fig. i..the trinity unmanifest* for it is written (genesis 1: 27:\da arb jbqnw rkz wta arb \yhla \lxb wmlxb \dah-ta \yhla arb .and the elohim created mankind: in the likeness of the elohim created they them: male and female created they them. now if adam be in the similitude of the elohim: and are male and female, then must the elohim be also male and female. now in the first of these mysterious three verses

lord. is the angel of the elohim of the divided name. therefore is the tetragrammaton symbolic of the manifested presence of the elohim; and if the elohim be male and female, so also must be the tetragram. also is the number of ma (also 91) by aiq bekar 1+4+5= 10.the perfection of the sephiroth. a note on genesis 7 one father eternal. one son eternal. 4. 1. 2. 3. one mother eternal. fig. ii..the trinity in manifestation in both of these symbols the all-including circle represents the underlying idea of the number 0: the infinite: para-brahman: the ain soph. in the first is shown the mystic trinity before manifestation; as it were unlimited, unbound, and unbounded, inoperative because of its diffusiveness and dispersion. in the second figure we behold their concentration: focalisation: pro

ding; that scale is therefore inverted. for by the mighty sacrifice of the man made flesh and by his torturous pilgrimage is evolved that glorified son who is greater than his father. in alchemy we have again the descending arc, for we find that the red powder cast upon the water of the metals produceth the golden sol. but it is important not to confuse. the christians have terribly muddled their trinity by making the son the second instead of the third principle* remember that the enumeration of the name \yhla jwr is 300= c [lat .fire of god [lat .o lamb of god! who takest away.who takest away the sins of the world.give us peace] liber mmcmxi 10 whilst with them the holy spirit at one time symbolizes the mother and at another the son. thus at the annunciation and at the baptism of the chr

hoth as before him the aons were proclaimed. the positions of the last two letters of the word have been relatively changed, so as to render the meaning more harmoniously. we will now proceed to the first word of the text as thus decapitated, taking b.rasheth as the title rather than as the first word. this latter stands bet-resh-aleph, which hath three letters, symbolising thereby the unmanifest trinity. now its letters further exemplify the trinity, for that they are the initials of three hebrew words, which are the names of the persons thereof, viz: b ben, the son. jwr ruach, the spirit (here the mother. ba ab, the father note how here again the son is first for humanity and the father last. these three letters, then, symbolise the three in one unmanifest. yet is there in them the all-p

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he spirit, to a consciousness of the divine presence. reuchlin describes such an ascent in de arte kabbalistica;51 another can be found in the hermetica.52 some of these ascents are deeply christian in their character. in de occulta philosophia agrippa. rises through the three worlds, the elemental world, the celestial world, the supercelestial world. where he is in contact with angels, where the trinity is proved. the hebrew names of god are listed, though the name of jesus is now the most powerful of all names."53 viewed with these writings in the background, masonic symbolism certainly seems to reflect these ideas. the first degree on the tree of life the first degree tracing board gives an overview of western metaphysics and of the objectives of masonry. the idiom in which masonry's te

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

t mamoun--the passageways and chambers of the great pyramid--the riddle of the sphinx--the pyramid mysteries--the secret of the pyramid coffer-the dwelling place of the hidden god. 41 isis, the virgin of the world the birthdays of the gods--the murder of osiris--the hermetic isis--the symbols peculiar to isis--the troubadours--the mummification of the dead. 45 the sun, a universal deity the solar trinity-christianity and the sun--the birthday of the sun--the three suns- the celestial inhabitants of the sun--the midnight sun. 49 the zodiac and its signs primitive astronomical instruments--the equinoxes and solstices--the astrological ages of the world--the circular zodiac of tentyra--an interpretation of the zodiacal signs- the horoscope of the world. 53 the bembine table of isis plato's in

finitude of ever-evolving individualities" the universality of the law of evolution was emphasized by spencer, who applied it not only to the form but also to the intelligence behind the form. in every manifestation of being he recognized the fundamental tendency of unfoldment from simplicity to complexity, observing that when the point of equilibrium is reached it is click to enlarge a christian trinity. from hone's ancient mysteries described. in an effort to set forth in an appropriate figure the christian doctrine of the trinity, it was necessary to devise an image in which the three persons--father, son, and holy ghost--were separate and yet one. in different parts of europe may be seen figures similar to the above, wherein three faces are united in one head. this is a legitimate meth

of the heavenly bodies, astronomical principles and terminology were introduced into his religious systems. the tutelary gods were given planetary thrones, the celestial bodies being named after the deities assigned to them. the fixed stars were divided into constellations, and through these constellations wandered the sun and its planets, the latter with their accompanying satellites. the solar trinity the sun, as supreme among the celestial bodies visible to the astronomers of antiquity, was assigned to the highest of the gods and became symbolic of the supreme authority of the creator himself. from a deep philosophic consideration of the powers and principles of the sun has come the concept of the trinity as it is understood in the world today. the tenet of a triune divinity is not pec

indus, babylonians, and egyptians had their trinities. in every instance these represented the threefold form of one supreme intelligence. in modern masonry, the deity is symbolized by an equilateral triangle, its three sides representing the primary manifestations of the eternal one who is himself represented as a tiny flame, called by the hebrews yod. jakob b hme, the teutonic mystic, calls the trinity the three witnesses, by means of which the invisible is made known to the visible, tangible universe. the origin of the trinity is obvious to anyone who will observe the daily manifestations of the sun. this orb, being the symbol of all light, has three distinct phases: rising, midday, and setting. the philosophers therefore divided the life of all things into three distinct parts: growth

wer of the solar orb, and have accepted the sun, or one of its symbolic beasts or birds, as their emblem. witness the lion of the great mogul and the eagles of c sar and napoleon. click to enlarge the winged globe of egypt. from maurice's indian antiquities. this symbol, which appears over the pylons or gates of many egyptian palaces and temples, is emblematic of the three persons of the egyptian trinity. the wings, the serpents, and the solar orb are the insignia of ammon, ra, and osiris. p. 50 name implies, is also a solar deity. his fight with the nubian lion, his battles with the philistines, who represent the powers of darkness, and his memorable feat of carrying off the gates of gaza, all refer to aspects of solar activity. many of the ancient peoples had more than one solar deity; i

arent earth, his astral soul lives in unison with the sidereal anima mundi. he is in it, as it is in him, for the world-pervading element fills all space, and is space itself, only shoreless and infinite. as to his third spirit, the divine, what is it but an infinitesimal ray, one of the countless radiations proceeding directly from the highest cause--the spiritual light of the world? this is the trinity of organic and inorganic nature--the spiritual and the physical, which are three in one, and of which proclus says that 'the first monad is the eternal god; the second, eternity; the third, the paradigm, or pattern of the universe' the three constituting the intelligible triad" long before the introduction of idolatry into religion, the early priests caused the statue of a man to be placed

t was employed to represent divinity--the highest appreciable state or condition. artists, attempting to portray divinity, often show only a hand emerging from an impenetrable cloud. the cloud signifies the unknowable divinity concealed from man by human limitation. the hand signifies the divine activity, the only part of god which is cognizable to the lower senses. the face consists of a natural trinity: the eyes representing the spiritual power which comprehends; the nostrils representing the preservative and vivifying power; and the mouth and ears representing the material demiurgic power of the lower world. the first sphere is eternally existent and is creative; the second sphere pertains to the mystery of the creative breach; and the third sphere click to enlarge the threefold life of

s the fish with the procreative mystery. friday is also sacred to the followers of the prophet mohammed. the word nun means both fish and growth, and as inman says "the jews were led to victory by the son of the fish whose other names were joshua and jesus (the savior. nun is still the name of a female devotee" of the christian faith. among early christians three fishes were used to symbolize the trinity, and the fish is also one of the eight sacred symbols of the great buddha. it is also significant that the dolphin should be sacred to both apollo (the solar savior) and neptune. it was believed that this fish carried shipwrecked sailors to heaven on its back. the dolphin was accepted by the early christians as an emblem of christ, because the pagans had viewed this beautiful creature as a

e eighteenth century were representative of primitive christianity. sir william hamilton, british minister at the court of naples, declares that in 1780, isernia, a community of christians in italy, worshiped with phallic ceremonies the pagan god priapus under the name of st. cosmo (see two essays on the worship of priapus, by richard payne knight) father, mother, and child constitute the natural trinity. the mysteries glorified the home as the supreme institution consisting of this trinity functioning as a unit. pythagoras likened the universe to the family, declaring that as the supreme fire of the universe was in the midst of its heavenly bodies, so, by analogy, the supreme fire of the world was upon its hearthstones. the pythagorean and other schools of philosophy conceived the one div

MARS COCIDIUS AND THE REDCAPS IN LANCASHIRE

ocidius who was widely worshiped by the civil and military population alike. the roma n military had a tradition (for the most part, jews and druids aside) of respecting the genius loci (local gods, since like all soldiers they needed as much luck as they could get. so they took on the local cult but gave it a roman gloss. my private worship has for some years been reserved for the roman/etruscan trinity of laran (mars, turan (venus) and lupercus (faunus sometimes called silvanus. this came about as the result of a strange chain of events. i had already made a study of roman domestic pagan worship (the cult of the lars familiaris or familiar spirits) and the survival in northern britain of the folk veneration of the spirits of the hearth and the ancestors. particularly house familiars brow

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 5

& rivers of water issued out of the sand of the wilderness, and by that great power that led the children of israel into the land of canaan& by that great power that destroyed sonachoribs great host& by that great& almighty power of him that walked on the sea as on dry land& by that almighty power that raised the dead lazarus out of his grave& by that almighty power of the blessed& holy& glorious trinity that did cast the devil& all disobedient angels out of heaven into hell that thou thief return immediately& restore the goods again which thou hast stolen away, therefore in& by the names of the almighty god before rehearsed i charge thee, thou thief to restore the goods again immediately or else the wrath of god may fall upon thee& force thee to come immediately. amaythe meaning of masonr

MEANING OF MASONRY

takes the form of the cross. the inward development which the second degree symbolizes is typified by the lowering of the triangular flap of the apron upon the rectangular portion below. this is equivalent to the rite of confirmation in the christian churches. it denotes" the progress we have made in the science" or in other words it indicates that the higher nature of the man, symbolized by the trinity of spirit, has descended into and is now permeating his lower nature. hitherto, in his state of ignorance and moral blindness, the spiritual part of his nature has, as it were, but hovered above him; he has been unconscious of its presence in his constitution; but now, having realized its existence, the day-spring from on high has visited him, and the nobler part of him descends into his l

of humanity itself; of which the great initiate st. paul said" know ye not that ye are the temple of god" a perfect humanity was the great temple which, in the counsels of the most high, was intended to be reared in the mystical holy city, of which the local jerusalem was the type. the three great master-builders, solomon and the two hirams, are a triad corresponding after a manner with the holy trinity of the christian religion; hiram abiff being the chief architect, he" by whom all things were made" and" in whom (as st. paul said, using masonic language) the whole building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in the lord" the material of this mystical temple was the souls of men, at once the living stones, the fellow craftsmen and collaborators with the divine purpose. but i

gation" not to attempt to extort the secrets of a superior degree" which they had not attained. now the hebrew word hiram means guru, teacher of" supreme knowledge" divine light and wisdom, and the liberty that comes therewith. but this knowledge is only for the perfected man. it is that knowledge that hiram said was" kno wn to but three in the world" i.e, known only in the counsels of the divine trinity, but it is knowledge that with patience and perseverance every mason, every child of the creator" may in due time become entitled to a participation in" but just as adam and eve's attempt to obtain illicit knowledge caused their expulsion from eden and defeated the divine purpose until they and their posterity should regain the paradise they had lost, so also the completion of the great my

ree are one. and there are three that bear witness in earth, and these three agree in one" the meaning of this metaphysical assertion is that, just as a ray of white light splits up (as in the rainbow) into three primary colours which still remain organically united, so both the self-knowing spirit in man and his psychical nature, although monadic essentially, are prismatically dissociable into a trinity. the sp irit in man in its triple aspects is, therefore, appropriately typified by the three principals. they represent the three high attributes of the spirit--holiness, royal supremacy, functional power--referred to in the title of the order; holy-royal-arch. the middle and neutral term of these three must be considered as differentiating itself into a passive and an active, or a negativ

rsified tribes, have assembled convergently and finally coalesced and become fused into a unity or new whole" a city that is compact together" and it is this" city" this blessed condition, which mystically is called "jerusalem" within whose walls is the peace which passeth understanding and whose palaces reveal to the enfranchised soul the unfailing plenteousness and fecundity of the indissoluble trinity of wisdom and love and power from which man and the universe have issued and into which they are destined to return. the antithesis of this" heavenly city" is the confused babylon city of this world, of which it is written to all captives therein" come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues (rev. xviii. 4. and, in a word, the roya

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ponsorship. he said that being grand master for the whole state of missouri helped him win a u.s.senate seat in 1940. truman's sister, mary jane truman, was the grand matron of missouri in theorder of the eastern star, a masonic organization. as the 33rd president, this 33rd degree mason initiated the nuclear age, the crowning success ofalchemy, when the first a-bomb exploded at the 33rd parallel trinity test site (alamogordo) whitesands, new mexico, at the 33rd parallel. he was responsible for killing of thousands of japanese(the yellow peril) at two cities close to the 33rd parallel, hiroshima and nagasaki.on august 6, 1945 at 8:15 a.m. united states b-29 bomber enola gay, on mission no. 13, droppedan atomic bomb called little boy on hiroshima, japan near the 33rd parallel. this was dayo

MORALS AND DOGMA

of antagonism; of good and evil, light and darkness. it is cain and abel, eve and lilith, jachin and boaz, ormuzd and ahriman, osiris and typhon. three, or the triad, is most significantly expressed by the equilateral and the right-angled triangles. there are _three_ principal colors or rays in the rainbow, which by intermixture make _seven. the three are the _blue, the _yellow, and the _red. the trinity of the deity, in one mode or other, has been an article in all creeds. he creates, preserves, and destroys. he is the generative _power, the productive _capacity, and the _result. the immaterial man, according to the kabalah, is composed of _vitality, or _life, the breath of life; of _soul_ or _mind, and _spirit. salt, sulphur, and mercury are the great symbols of the alchemists. to them m

be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason" moral disorders produce physical ugliness, and in some sort realize those frightful faces which tradition assigns to the demons. the first druids were the true children of the magi, and their initiation came from egypt and chald a, that is to say, from the pure sources of the primitive kabalah. they adored the trinity under the names of _isis_ or _hesus, the supreme harmony; of _belen_ or _bel_ which in assyrian means lord, a name corresponding to that of adona; and of _camul_ or _cama l, a name that in the kabalah personifies the divine justice. below this triangle of light they supposed a divine reflection, also composed of three personified rays: first _teutates_ or _teuth, the same as the _thoth_ of

great torches in the east, west, and south, forming a triangle, give it light; and, like the delta or triangle suspended in the east, and inclosing the ineffable name, indicate, by the mathematical equality of the angles and sides, the beautiful and harmonious proportions which govern in the aggregate and details of the universe; while those sides and angles represent, by their number, three, the trinity of power, wisdom, and harmony, which presided at the building of this marvellous work. these three great lights also represent the great mystery of the three principles, of creation, dissolution or destruction, and reproduction or regeneration, consecrated by all creeds in their numerous trinities. the luminous pedestal, lighted by the perpetual flame within, is a symbol of that light of

and the succeeding gnostics. by means of its utterance, the letter yod, it creates the worlds, first in the divine intellect as an idea, which invested with form became the fabricated world, the universe of material reality. yod and he, two letters of the ineffable name of the manifested deity, represent the male and the female, the active and the passive in equilibrium, and the vav completes the trinity and the triliteral name [hebrew, the divine triangle, which with the repetition of the _he_ becomes the tetragrammaton. thus the ten sephiroth contain all the sacred numbers _three _five _seven, and _nine, and the perfect number _ten, and correspond with the tetractys of pythagoras. being is being [hebrew _ahayah asar ahayah. this is the principle, the "beginning" in the beginning was, tha

the first at eight years of age, when he was invested with the zennar. each degree dispensed something of perfection "let the wretched man" says the hitopadesa "practise virtue, whenever he enjoys one of the three or four religious degrees; let him be even-minded with all created things, and that disposition will be the source of virtue" after various ceremonies, chiefly relating to the unity and trinity of the godhead, the candidate was clothed in a linen garment without a seam, and remained under the care of a brahmin until he was twenty years of age, constantly studying and practising the most rigid virtue. then he underwent the severest probation for the second degree, in which he was sanctified by the sign of the cross, which, pointing to the four quarters of the compass, was honored

and production, glitters among the stars, and aldebaran leads the hosts of heaven(_tsbauth. algenib in perseus and almaach and algol in andromeda form a right-angled triangle, illustrate the 47th problem, and display the grand master's square upon the skies. denebola in leo, arcturus in bo tes, and spica in virgo form an equilateral triangle, universal emblem of perfection, and the deity with his trinity of infinite attributes, wisdom, power, and harmony; and that other, the generative, preserving, and destroying powers. the three kings form, with rigel in orion, two triangles included in one: and capella and menkalina in auriga, with bellatrix and betelgueux in orion, form two isosceles triangles with tauri, that is equidistant from each pair; while the first four make a right-angled para

ed, within two circles, the double cube, or perfection; or the perfect ashlar. the _crux ansata_ is found on the sculptures of khorsabad; on the ivories from nimroud, of the same age, carried by an assyrian monarch; and on cylinders of the later assyrian period. as the single tau represents the one god, so, no doubt, the triple tau, the origin of which cannot be traced, was meant to represent the trinity of his attributes, the three masonic pillars, wisdom, strength, and harmony. the prophet ezekiel, in the 4th verse of the 9th chapter, says "and the lord said unto him 'go through the midst of the city, through the midst of jerusalem, and mark the letter tau upon the foreheads of those that sigh and mourn for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof" so the latin vulgate, and

way he unfolds and manifests himself, masonry leaves to creeds and religions to inquire. to every mason, the soul of man is immortal. whether it emanates from and will return to god, and what its continued mode of existence hereafter, each judges for himself. masonry was not made to settle that. to every mason, wisdom or intelligence, force or strength, and harmony, or fitness and beauty, are the trinity of the attributes of god. with the subtleties of philosophy concerning them masonry does not meddle, nor decide as to the reality of the supposed existences which are their personifications: nor whether the christian trinity be such a personification, or a reality of the gravest import and significance. to every mason, the infinite justice and benevolence of god give ample assurance that e

m; and the universe, and all stars and worlds, and light and life, and men and angels and all living creatures were; and harmony, or the preserving power, order, and beauty, maintaining the universe in its state, and constituting the law of harmony, motion, proportion, and progression--wisdom, which _thought_ the plan; strength, which _created: harmony, which _upholds_ and _preserves--the masonic trinity, three powers and one essence: the three columns which support the universe, physical, intellectual, and spiritual, of which every masonic lodge is a type and symbol--while to the christian mason, they represent the three that bear record in heaven, the father, the word, and the holy spirit, which three are one _qu_ what do the three greek letters upon the delta? s[_iota, eta, and _sigma]

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

fit; when we take no pleasure, and find nothing to admire, in our work, we are doing it wrong. 36. there are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. each element fire, earth, air, water, and spirit possesses its own nature, will, and magical formula. each one may then have its appropriate ritual. many such in crude form are described in the golden bough of dr. j. g. frazer, the glory of trinity! in particular the entry of the sun into the cardinal signs of the elements at the equinoxes and solstices are suitable for festivals. the difference between 'rituals' and 'feasts' is this: by the one a particular form of energy is generated, while there is a general discharge of one's superfluous force in the other. yet, a feast implies periodical nourishment. 37. a feast for the first ni

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

son and bourgeois of paris (december 15, 1623; gilles de harlay, master mason and sworn mason to the king (february 24, 1579; jeanne legrand, his wife (july 13, 1580; pierre breau, employed on royal construction projects and excelling in masonry (january 8, 1606; anne breau, his wife (october 18, 1617. an intriguing indication of the connection of saint sauveur to the templars is its proximity to trinity hospital, located on the corner of rue saint denis and the rue darnetal or greneta in the censive district of the temple* this hospital, one of the oldest in paris, was founded in 1202 by two private citizens, jean palee and guillaume estuacol, to take care of "poor pilgrims" sometime around 1210 a chapel was erected at the hospital, which was long administered by the members of a religiou

gious community, the premontres d'hermieres "this order" writes pierre bonfons "was continued charitably for a good length of time until the abbot of hermieres placed there other monks who were more inclined to seek their own personal profit than to give charity of* this is indicated from the status of the templar domain according to the harvest record of 1247 "it is in a splendid site before the trinity" also "in the year 1217, there was mention of the church of the trinity, in front of which church there were houses of the episcopal censive district belonging to the templars (lebeuf, vol. 1, 115. it should be specified that the rue greneta was also partially in the censive district of the benedictine abbey saint magloire. the templars and the parisian builders 125 either a spiritual or t

urch of the trinity, in front of which church there were houses of the episcopal censive district belonging to the templars (lebeuf, vol. 1, 115. it should be specified that the rue greneta was also partially in the censive district of the benedictine abbey saint magloire. the templars and the parisian builders 125 either a spiritual or temporal nature" in 1547 the court of parliament reorganized trinity and delegated five "good bourgeois of the city of paris to administer it."28 cocheris points out the existence in trinity chapel of a confederation of the ascension, which he connects to tailors of religious habits. it may be more likely, however, that this was the seat of a confederation of stonecutters, for the ascension of our lord was depicted on the coat of arms of the association of

ous habits. it may be more likely, however, that this was the seat of a confederation of stonecutters, for the ascension of our lord was depicted on the coat of arms of the association of masons and stonecutters.29 according to a trade legend, it was a stonecutter who unsealed the stone that covered the tomb of jesus and a mason who demolished the rest of it to enable jesus to ascend to heaven.'0 trinity chapel was also the seat of the confederation of the passion and resurrection of our lord, which received patent letters from charles v awarding them the privilege of staging the mystery of the passion and other catholic mystery plays. such performances, which were very popular during the middle ages, offered religious and initiatory amphibological sense relevant to the rituals of craftsme

ese plays survived for an audience of diverse quality made up mostly of the "mechanically minded" meaning artisans, according to pierre bonfons, who was a contemporary of this era (the first edition of his book, itself a revision of the 1532 book by gilles corrozet, was published in 1586) eventually, similar passion confederations were formed in paris and its suburbs, causing the confederation of trinity church to assert its privilege and request the authorities to ban these rival associations. with an act of november 17, 1548, the parliament of paris satisfied this request by forbidding the staging of all sacred mysteries, including those of the passion of our savior, and permitting the staging of only "profane, honest, and licit mysteries" trinity hospital, originally intended to give su

ir crafts without the requirement of any fee or masterpiece. justification for their status would be provided by the professional skills of their eventual students, who would themselves enjoy the status of the sons of masters* by a declaration of henri ii given in paris on february 2, 1553, craft masters in the city of paris could take on a second apprentice only from among the children raised at trinity hospital. two acts of parliament, one of december 3, 1672, and one of august 22, 1798, specifically confirmed "the rule over the rights and privileges of those who taught the art of craft and masonry in the hospital of the trinity and those who have learned it in said hospital" 32 these institutions prove the long existence of social work among craftsmen, notably masons. other examples can

72, and one of august 22, 1798, specifically confirmed "the rule over the rights and privileges of those who taught the art of craft and masonry in the hospital of the trinity and those who have learned it in said hospital" 32 these institutions prove the long existence of social work among craftsmen, notably masons. other examples can be found in connection to saint gervais hospital and a second trinity hospital located on the left bank. bordering the saint nicolas des champs and saint sauver parish were notre dame de bonne nouvelle on the north and, to the south, the parishes of saint gilles and saint loup and saint merri, located in the templar's domain. the church of notre dame de bonne nouvelle is the most recent church, having first been erected from 1624 to 1628. the masons who live

colorful streets: the rue du grand hurleur (formerly the rue grand hue leu, or hue loup) and the rue du petit hurleur.33 the term hurler, meaning "to howl" is still a compangonnage term, which is significant given that these streets were already in existence in the thirteenth century. from 1242 to 1540, the rue du petit hurleur was known as rue jean palee, referring to the name of the founder of trinity hospital. this quarter also had a rue du renard [fox (which should not be confused with the current street that holds that name) which is interesting given that journeymen designated as "foxes" those aspirants to their ranks. saint merri church is also of ancient origin. in the seventh century there was already a chapel by this name built on a site that was then part of the territory of sa

e hotel d'o at 60 rue vielle du temple. abbe lebeuf states that in his day (1754) nothing remained of the old hotel except its chapel, which people called the saint nicholas chapel. the number of guests it sheltered, which varied every year from 15,000 to 16,000, reached the astounding figure of 32,238 people in 1789. these "poor travelers" just like the "transients" we saw earlier in relation to trinity hospital, were originally pilgrims, most often those beginning the journey to saint james of compostella. later, it was more than likely that these transients and travelers were not only the faithful on pilgrimage, but mendicants and vagabonds as well. a vagabond was one who had no profession, trade, or sure abode, while valid mendicants were "the homeless who wandered the land."43 the pol

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untiring. they must be fought in all of their manifestations. their names are the cult of stupidity, the cult of conventionality, and the cult of the victim. you should record each of your victories over hem in your magical diary- your victory book. your life should be a series of victories over these cults; do not be distracted and think minor cults like christianity are our enemies. this is the trinity we oppose: the cult of stupidity teaches that it is a bad thing to be smart. the cult begins in secondary school where smart people are held not to be popular. it uses words like "nerds "geeks" and even "brains"to exclude those individuals who concern themselves with the mysteries. it exists in the workplace where many topics are deemed "too deep" for discussion during coffee break, and a

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

3114 bce. although they projected events forward until at least 4772 ce, they did not think it would continue forever. their sacred book, the chilam balam, tells us: all moons, all years, all days, all winds, reach their completion and pass away. so does all blood reach its place of quiet, as it reaches its power and its throne. measured was the time in which they could praise the splendor of the trinity. measured was the time in which they could know the sun s benevolence. measured was the time in which the grid of the stars would look down upon them; and through it, keeping watch over their safety, the gods trapped within the stars would contemplate them. even the dualistic philosophy of zoroastrianism, with its opposing gods of good and evil, ahura mazda and ahriman, was set in motion w

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

eburah the fire triangle. and tiphareth unites and reconciles them so as to form a reconciliation between them in the form of the hexagram. the symbol of salt on the tree of life embraces all the sephiroth but malkuth, and is as it were, the reconciler between the sulphur and mercury. the horizontal dividing line implies the precept of@ hermes "as above so below" the drawing rep <269> resents the trinity o- erating through tre a sephiroth and reflected downwards in the four trian les of the elements. air is re 8 ected from kether through tiphareth a v to yesod. water is reflected from binah throu h chesed to hod; fire is re 8 ected from chokmah through geburah to netzach; while earth is mal- v a kuth, the receptacle of the other three. oa w fifth knowledge lecture 85 (note: the following a

spoken. 3rd ad. returns to place. hs. to altar. heg. rises as phil, comes to altar. hs. and heg. stand on either side of phil. w. of altar, facing east. hiereus in guardianship and not in enmity, have i barred your venturing, 0 philosophus. now may it be revealed unto you how that in my lamen of office is hidden the key which you seek. for the triangle in the circle is the high symbol of the holy trinity, and the first three sephiroth and of binah wherein is the sphere of saturn, ruler of the path tau. therefore do i wear it, and therefore, when you entered the hall of the neophytes in the= m, when first the the golden dawn: volume i1 book three hood-wink was raised, you beheld before you the sword that barred and the symbol which overcometh the barrier. the lamen in its more special attri

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

on of christianity. everyone is aware that julian had the misfortune to be a hero out of season of plutarch, and that he was, if one may say so, the don quixote of roman chivalry; but what most people do not know is that he was one of the illuminated and an initiate of the first order: that he believed in the unity of god and in the 4 the doctrine of transcendental magic universal doctrine of the trinity; that, in a word, he regretted nothing of the old world but its magnificent symbols and its too gracious images. julian was not a pagan; he was a gnostic allured by the allegories of greek polytheism, who had the misfortune to find the name of jesus christ less sonorous than that of orpheus. the emperor paid in his person for the academical tastes of the philosopher and rhetorician, and af

stians will give the empire of the world into the hands of god his father? on penetrating into the sanctuary of the kabalah one is seized with admiration in the presence of a doctrine so logical, so simple and at the same time so absolute. the essential union of ideas and signs; the consecration of the most funda12 the doctrine of transcendental magic mental realities by primitive characters; the trinity of words, letters and numbers; a philosophy simple as the alphabet, profound and infinite as the word; theorems more complete and luminous than those of pythagoras; a theology which may be summed up on the fingers; an infinite which can be held in the hollow of an infant's hand; ten figures and twenty-two letters, a triangle, a square and a circle: such are the elements of the kabalah. suc

n, which is the grand pantacle that is to say, the most simple and complete abridgement of the science of all things. grammar itself attributes three persons to the verb. the first is that which speaks, the second that which is spoken to, and the third the object. in creating, the infinite prince speaks to himself of himself. such is the explanation 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; i

his which imparts such power to the uneven number in magic. now, the most perfect of the odd numbers is three, because it is the trilogy of unity. in the trigrams of fohi, the superior triad is composed of three yang, or masculine figures, because nothing passive can be admitted into the idea of god, considered as the principle of production in the three worlds. for the same reason, the christian trinity by no means permits the personification of the mother, who is shown forth implicitly in that of the son. for the same reason, also, it is contrary to the laws of hieratic and orthodox symbology to personify the holy ghost under the form of a woman. woman comes forth from man as nature comes forth from god; so christ himself ascends to heaven and assumes the virgin mother: we speak of the a

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

aberrations of black magic. the misconstrued doctrine of zoroaster and the magical law of two forces constituting universal equilibrium, have caused some illogical minds to imagine a negative divinity, subordinate but hostile to the active deity. an impure duad comes thus into being. men were mad enough to halve god; the star of solomon was separated into triangles, and the manichaens imagined a trinity of night. this evil god, product of sectarian fancies, inspired all manias and all crimes. sanguinary sacrifices were offered him; monstrous idolatry replaced the true religion; black magic traduced the transcendent and luminous magic of true adepts, and horrible conventicles of sorcerers, ghouls and stryges took place in caverns or desert places, for dementia soon changes into frenzy and

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

otation of the seasons, the quarters, and the relationships between daemones, fairies, angels, and humans, the relevant illustrations show typical models employed through the centuries, with emphasis on the basic attributes known to be used in pagan and early christian celtic culture. where he has described metaphysical models, such as the formation of the septenary from the four elements and the trinity, we have used simple mathematical or geometric patterns, in the time-hallowed method of magical and spiritual tuition worldwide. overall the illustrations are intended to help the reader not only with kirk's text itself but with my commentary upon it, which selects certain of the magical and metaphysical elements of the thesis, and aims to reveal the presence of a coherent initiatory tradi

d many things so, that there are more ways to save than to destroy. there is some resemblance also, and allusions in nature, that all things being sevenfold, or composed of it, most usually have a virtue beyond whatever is composed of any other number, examples are such as sunday, the seventh day of rest, or the sun, the seventh planet; seven being composed of four and three, the elements and the trinity, comprehending both worlds. but how things having this numeral relation and the secret commonwealth 71 resemblance, being so remote, come to partake and derive a secret virtue beyond other things from the prototype or first pattern cannot be well given account of yet in ep. jude, enoch is named the seventh (son) of adam. finis coronat opus. http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_70.htm (1 of

stupendous providence to give warnings of. remarkable events, either in the air, earth, or waters. the method is again defined, and linked commentary 97 to the elemental fourfold model (see figure 8. at the close of his book kirk gives a typical esoteric elemental theory for the power of seventh children, as it arises (he says) from the fusion of the four elements with the spiritual power of the trinity (see page 70 and figure 8. page 30. he saw a. shroud creep up around a walking healthy person's legs. this is a classic example of second sight, and as the shroud progresses so does the person draw nearer to death. it must be stressed that this is, in kirk's thesis, a symbolic action made by the fairy people, and not an efflux from the human, nor is it an example of 'clairvoyance' or perce

er of negative energy. page 47. the true solution. seems. to be as follows. kirk summarizes his own ideal statement on the second sight, in what was for him, perhaps, a very important declaration, http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_112.htm (1 of 9 [10/9/2001 12:36:43 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 112-121) commentary 113 figure 8. the power of seven: showing the supernal or divine trinity commentary 114 that the communion between the worlds was a proof against atheism and materialism. page 48 nor does the ceasing of the visions, upon the seer's transmigration into foreign kingdoms make his lordship's conjecture. a whit more probable. what follows is a careful presentation the theory of guardian beings on a regional or national scale, not in any childish political or symboli

his his editor comments 'this is the knoll called "great fairies hill. not far away is the "little fairies hill. the fairies hills of pagan mythology became angels hills in the minds of the early christian saints' one may be permitted to question whether this metamorphosis really occurred, and whether the idea of angels or angles is not actually older than even the onslows or ange lows. the irish trinity of st patrick, st bride, and st columba, are said all to lie buried in one spot at dunence, and the place-name dunence seemingly implies that that site was an on's low, or dun ange. the term angel is now understood to mean radically a messenger, but the primary sense must have been deeper than this: in english ingle- as in ingle-nook- meant fire, and according to skeat it also meant a darl

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of greece and rome with the thought of the east. 6. the mystic diagrams it is very probable, therefore, that in these diagrams squares may represent treasures or the substance-side, while circles may represent gods or the energy-side- but these can interchange, for the substance of one plane or phase becomes the energy of the plane below. the three strokes seem to represent the potential triad or trinity latent in all manifestation, and this triad acting within the tetrad of the squares produces the infinite ordering into twelves or dodecads. we should also recollect that in all probability we have only a very faulty reproduction of these diagrams, for we have to take into account the translating and copying and re-copying by ignorant scribes. the three lines are said to be three voices wh

icity that is in jesus. satan possesses great memory. biblical christianity bears this out. according to the bible, satan tempted jesus several times (matthew 4:1-11. satan did this through a knowledge of the old testament. when jesus refuted satan's biblical charges, he referred to the old testament. as we will learn later, the satanic authority of modern man makes up two parts of the diabolical trinity. this diabolical trinity can absorb strength via the new testament. as satanists, we have biblical authority to explain the satanic truths, for the purpose of self advancement. satan possesses great will. the apostle paul instructs the youthful timothy to be firm but gentle with christians who are frustrated with their religion. again we find a keen draw to satanism is its great will that

s satan; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. can there be a reaping of the harvest without the sowing of the seed? which angels are it that reap the harvest? those of jehovah or satan? a roaring lion: 1 peter 5:8 be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary satan, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. the activities of satan the diabolical trinity: the biblical satan has a trinity, as jehovah has a trinity. as jehovah assumes the role of father, satan assumes the role of the father figure. jesus christ is likened to the antichrist. at one point they are both flesh and blood. and the satanic spirit becomes the counter to the holy spirit. revelation 16:13 and i saw three unholy spirits like fire come out of the mouth of the dragon, an

n i learned as a catholic of "pagan" is "one who worships false gods" for this commentary "paganism" will mean any religion of non-christian, non-hebrew origin prior to 1900. this is from the viewpoint of a society that uses the bible as a frame of reference for religious matters. any religion other than the hebrew worship of yhwh (yahweh- jehovah, or the catholic and anglican worship of god as a trinity of divine being, or the protestant worship of jesus christ, is the worship of false gods, and therefore paganism, neo or not. from the viewpoint of our culture then, we are considered pagans. clearly there will be a revolution in thinking once the setian influence is more widespread. the 1900 cutoff is arbitrary, and i chose it because the proliferation of esoteric literature which made th

enance of mental and emotional health. christianity when one looks at the judeo-christian religions using these same four criteria, some interesting conclusions surface. christianity is blatantly pagan, using the roman catholic church as an example (we know that, but our well-meaning friends don't) let's take a look, and then see how modern judaism compares after that. 1. deities: the famous holy trinity that used to give me a headache in catechism class is still not adequately explained. the holy trinity is god the father, god the son (jesus christ) and god the holy ghost. count that. you get 3, and i always got 3, but it's not: it's one. an incredible amount of human hours and lives and material resources have been used in trying to explain that idiocy. there is some fascinating reading

us, a carmelite nun also known as the little flower, is a well know example, a saint who still continues to "perform miracles" and whose story is spread through the blessed rose petals her followers pass out to souls in need. she is very popular in wisconsin. the word "cult" is not used lightly either, as the behavior of these devout folks does meet the description of cultist behavior. so far the trinity of god is still the basic dogma. the established goal of christianity is even more insistent than previous religions on the fact that the soul is to achieve union with god in this life, with the culmination in the hereafter to the extent even of loss of identity. it still spells stasis and loss of self determination. the protestant denominations, even those which reject the doctrine of the

rinity of god is still the basic dogma. the established goal of christianity is even more insistent than previous religions on the fact that the soul is to achieve union with god in this life, with the culmination in the hereafter to the extent even of loss of identity. it still spells stasis and loss of self determination. the protestant denominations, even those which reject the doctrine of the trinity and allow only for jehovah (yahweh-yhwh) as the deity, do no better in the end. 2. the mysteries of christianity are basically those termed the sacraments, which are given during special rituals. these allow the recipient to "receive grace" and deepen his relationship with god. they explain not only the ordering of the objective universe, but also the subjective, so that the individual exp

and conditioned by externally imposed images of them. known as the hebrew satan, i chose to bring forth a magus, according to the fashion of my word. he was charged to form a church of satan, that i might easily touch the minds of men in this image they had cast for me. the hebrew term "satan" is a corruption of the hieroglyphic set-hen,14 just as the hebrew "yahweh" and its derivative christian trinity are corruptions of the earlier osirian cult.15 by the end of the xxv dynasty the priesthood of set in egypt was probably destroyed,16 and the subsequent loss of the hieroglyphic language virtually eliminated the original set from human knowledge. only the osirian corruption survived in legend- principally through plutarch, who described it in some detail in his moralia.17 the archetypical

ot rose observed in a razor for a goat, it is true that "to dabble in sorcery at all is to make a very imperious kind of demand on the universe" the initiate who decides to continue his state of separateness from nuit's inertia may be one of the most domineering forces in the universe. i also suspect this may be the answer to exactly what that unforgivable sin against the third person of the holy trinity, as spoken of in the bible, must be: while the magus who was jesus openly used as a threat punishment to come for those who spoke against the word of which he was the embodiment, far more unforgivable in the eyes of the advocates of inertia- regardless of the name they attach to it- is the rejection of it. it is therefore a sin which will be forgiven in "neither this world nor the next. wh

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ollows him outside. the graves of ismail and his mother hagar the egyptian lie by the north--west face of the house of the black stone, in an enclosure surrounded by a low wall. abu simbel approaches this area, halts a little way off. in the enclosure is a small group of men. the water-carrier khalid is there, and some sort of bum from persia by the outlandish name of salman, and to complete this trinity of scum there is the slave bilal, the one mahound freed, an enormous black monster, this one, with a voice to match his size. the three idlers sit on the enclosure wall "that bunch of riff-raff" abu simbel says "those are your targets. write about them; and their leader, too" baa, for all his terror, cannot conceal his disbelief "grandee, those _goons- those fucking _clowns_ you don't have

he bellowed "maaaa-aa" then the three of them all laughed once more, so that saladin had no way of telling if they were simply insulting him or if his vocal cords had truly been infected, as he feared, by this macabre demoniasis that had overcome him without the slightest warning. he had begun to shiver again. the night was extremely cold. the officer, stein, who appeared to be the leader of the trinity, or at least the primus inter pares, returned abruptly to the subject of the pellety refuse rolling around the floor of the moving van "in this country" he informed saladin "we clean up our messes" the policemen stopped holding him down and pulled him into a kneeling position "that's right" said novak "clean it up" joe bruno placed a large hand behind chamcha's neck and pushed his head dow

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uerunt gentes et populi meditati sunt inania? then make the figure as doth follow: and recite psalm cxv. credidi propter quod locutus sum. finally, on the last day [of the month] a mass shall be said, for the dead. the prose shall be omitted and also the gospel of st. john, but at the end of the mass the warlock shall recite: confitemini domino quoniam bonus. in honour of the most holy and august trinity, the father, the son, and the holy ghost, amen (from lansdowne and sloane mss. british museum. the grand clavicle the conjuration of a spirit with whom it is sought to make a pact. this ritual follows the archetypal faustian pact, where the sorcerer pays with their immortal soul. such a belief would no doubt dissuade many a potential conjurer. the arrangement of the pact contains an intere

come like a fiery furnace to judge the living and the dead k (the conjuration of malign spirits dealing in the bodies of people, as it is done by saint peter, fifteenth century. exorcism ii in the name of the father, and the son, and the holy spirits, amen. i conjure you, elves and all kinds of demons, of the night and of the day, by the father, and the son, and the holy spirit, and the undivided trinity, and by the intercession of the most blessed and glorious ever virgin mary, by the prayers of the prophets, by the merits of the patriarchs, by the intercession of the angels and archangels, by the intervention of the apostles, by the passion of the martyrs, by the faith of the confessors, by the chastity of the virgins, and by the intercession of all the saints, and by the seven sleepers

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oints of the star- three points up, two pointing down- symbolizing man's spiritual nature. in satanism the pentagram is also used, but since satanism represents the carnal instincts of man, or the opposite of spiritual nature, the pentagram is inverted to perfectly accomodate the head of the goat- its horns, representing duality, thrust upwards in defiance; the other three points inverted, or the trinity denied. the hebraic figures around the outer circle of the symbol which stem from the magical teachings of the kabala, spell out "leviathan, the serpent of the watery abyss, and identified with satan. these figures correspond to the five points of the inverted star. the symbol of baphomet is placed on the wall above the altar. candles the candles used in satanic ritual represent the light

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k with the tongues of serpents, and the baying of the hounds, and the great bell sound that cracks the barrier-and great are we who rule, and small are ye who suffer. der tag des kreuzes und des dreiecks ist geschaffen. ein grosses rad mit winkeln in unerkannten ausmassen, gerettet f r die kinder der set, f llt die leere und wird zur sonne am firmament der verachtung! the day of the cross and the trinity is done. a great wheel with angles in dimensions unrecognized, save for the children of set, fills the void and becomes as the sun in the firmament of wrath! proclamation celebrant: siehst du im osten das morgenrot! see the red sunrise in the east! wir wollen die macht! we desire power! all: wir werden die macht haben! we shall have power! celebrant: wir wollen das reichtum! we desire weal

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ism. torah: the first five books of the tanakh: genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy. tori: the gate that marks the entrance to a shrine. its shape is regarded as a symbol of shinto. totem: some sort of object or, perhaps, animal that assumes a spiritual symbolism for a clan or tribe. transcendent: going beyond the ordinary, beyond the universe and time, into spiritual dimensions. trinity: in christianity, the union of the father, son, and holy spirit as three divine persons in one god. tsukiyomi: the shinto moon-god and the ruler of night. ujiko: a named child whose name is entered at birth at the local shinto shrine. upanishads: the core of hindu philosophy; collections of texts, originally part of the vedas, that explain such core hindu beliefs as karma, reincarnation, n

red across religions, although many shared similar characteristics. this is true in the monotheistic faiths that consider abraham as a founder of their religion. these are judaism, christianity, and islam. the jewish name for god is yahweh, or yhwh. another common variation on the name is jehovah. christianity refers to god as the father, the son, and the holy spirit. this refers to the christian trinity, in which god is believed to exist as himself, within jesus christ, the son of god, and as a purely physical representation in the holy spirit. islam refers to god as allah. muslims, the followers of islam, have ninety-nine different variations of god s name. the religion of baha grew out of islam and came to call baha (glory or splendor) its god. zoroastrianism calls upon ahura mazda( lor

den of eden; this act, in turn, led to the separation of humans from god. resurrection: the rising of jesus christ from the dead three days after his crucifixion, or death on a cross. sacrament: a sacred rite, or ceremony. saint: in christianity, someone who is judged to be particularly holy and worthy. salvation: the deliverance of human beings from sin through jesus christ s death on the cross. trinity: in christianity, the union of the father, son, and holy spirit as three divine persons in one god. virgin birth: the christian belief that jesus christ was the son of god and born of a virgin mother. 120 world religions: almanac christianity the historic jesus of nazareth jesus was a jewish teacher and healer from the first century ce. although jesus is accepted as an actual historical fi

cross) and subsequent resurrection (rising from the dead) all make up for the sins of humankind. a belief in jesus and his suffering leads to salvation. followers. christians number about 2.1 billion, making christianity the world s largest religion. name of god. the christian god is called god and is also known as the lord or the father. jesus is believed to be the son of god. the concept of the trinity makes god a combination of god the father, the son, and the holy spirit. symbols. the cross and the simplified sketch of a fish are two dominant christian symbols. worship. religious services are held in churches. most christians pray and observe the sacraments, or rites, of baptism and holy communion. dress. there is no special dress for christians. texts. the bible, consisting of the old

ng over doctrine (a set of ideas held by a religious group) and beliefs. from about 275 the church, especially in asia minor (the area of modern-day turkey, world religions: almanac 125 christianity became involved in doctrinal arguments. for the next several hundred years, large councils of bishops (clergymen who rank above priests) met to decide matters such as the nature of the doctrine of the trinity. under the doctrine of the trinity, god is united into a single figure with three sides: the father (a creative side, son (the earthly part, and holy spirit (the supernatural, or spiritual, aspect. still, some believed that god the father was more powerful than the other two parts. councils in 325 and 381 decided that issue. they wrote the nicene creed, a statement of belief in one god wit

god. the catholic church in the west also felt the power of islam when spain was invaded in the eighth century and muslim, or moorish, rule was established there. although in some instances the two religions managed to live peacefully side-by-side, relations were more typically hostile. such hostility was a result of different beliefs about jesus. christians see christ as godlike and part of the trinity. but for muslims, jesus was just one more prophet or messenger of god, and muhammad was the major prophet. muslims also believe the bible is not accurate. for them, the qur an, the holy book of islam, is the final word of god. the religious differences between muslims and christians led to tension between the two groups. this hostility led to the crusades, a series of military expeditions

n christianity, resulting in three major branches: roman catholicism, eastern orthodoxy, and protestantism. in addition, some scholars consider that there have 130 world religions: almanac christianity been four major schisms, with the fourth being the creation of the eastern rite churches, or oriental orthodox and assyrian churches. rise of the eastern orthodox church doctrinal disputes over the trinity were at the heart of the disagreement between the western church, centered in rome, and the eastern church, centered in constantinople. in 1014 the western church included filioque in the nicene creed, the life and deeds of jesus are portrayed in the gospels of the new testament. they include (clockwise from left) his birth, baptism, the last supper, and his resurrection from the dead. art

f christianity. these later creeds record the attempts of followers to make sense of the teachings of jesus and to combine them in an organized body of thought and belief. not all christians agreed on all creeds, and this, among other differences, led to an array of christian denominations. three primary doctrines, however, are fairly standard across denominations: incarnation, atonement, and the trinity. the doctrine of incarnation holds that jesus was both man and god at the same time. according to this creed, god the father became incarnate, or took on bodily form, for the sake of humanity. it was not that jesus was half human and half divine. rather, as the council of nicea decided in 325, jesus was of the same substance as god the father. the doctrine of atonement speaks of reconcilia

th will be in heaven. concepts of what heaven will be like differ as well. fewer christians believe in the existence of hell, where unbelievers or sinners are punished. there is also no complete agreement as to whether hell is eternal and whether its punishment is spiritual or physical. some christians reject the notion of hell altogether. the third major doctrine of christianity is belief in the trinity. while christianity is monotheistic, it also holds the concept that the single, eternal god is composed of the father, the son, and the holy spirit. this three-in-one concept of god stirred great debate in early christianity, just as the idea that jesus was wholly human and wholly divine at the same time did. added to these basic beliefs are others, not necessarily held by all denomination

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rtance of equilibrium is constantly reiterated in the kabalah. the "siphra dtzeniouta" or "book of mystery" opens with a reference to this equilibrium as a fundamental necessity of stable existence. 36. heavens. the hebrew word heshamaim hshmim, has in it the element of aesh, fire, and mim, water; and also shem, name; the name is ihvh, attributed to the elements. shma is in chaldee a name for the trinity (parkhurst. shmsh is the sun, and light, and a type of christ, the sun of righteousness. malachi iv. 2. 37. were produced. the hebrew word bra, is the root. three hebrew words are used in the bible to represent the idea of making, producing or creating. briah, briah, giving shape, genesis i. 1. oshih, ashiah, completing, genesis i. 31. itzirh, yetzirah, forming, genesis ii. 7. to these the

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er and lightning, and mist and cloud, and to ensure a bright clear sky wherein the sun might run his course. under the heading of "magical figures" must certainly be included the so-called ptah- seker-ausar figure which is usually made of wood; it is often solid, but is sometimes made hollow, and is usually let into a rectangular wooden stand which may be either solid or hollow. the three gods or trinity of ptah, seker (socharis, and ausar (osiris, are intended to represent the god of the sunrise (ptah, the god of the night sun (seker, and the god of the resurrection (osiris. the name ptah means "opener" and is usually applied to the sun as the "opener" of the day; and the name seker means "he who is shut in" that is to say, the night sun, who was regarded as the sun buried temporarily. no

ow to obtain the protection of ptah, seker, and osiris, and how to make them do for the man that which they did for themselves, and so secure their attributes. to attain this end a figure was fashioned in such a way as to include the chief characteristics of the forms of these gods, and was inserted in a rectangular wooden stand which was intended to represent the coffin or chest out of which the trinity ptah-seker-ausar came forth. on the figure itself and on the sides of the stand were inscribed prayers on behalf of the man for whom it was made, and the egyptian believed that these prayers caused the might and powers of the three gods to come and dwell in the wooden figure. but in order to make the stand of the figure as much like a coffin as possible, a small portion of the body of the

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which represents mankind. the literature on this subject is vast and confusing, but there are certain basic ideas to be found in all cabalistic writings. bernhard pick (op. cit, p. 104-5) has written that "the idea of god according to the writings of the old and new testaments is entirely different. the same is the case with the notion of creation. the cabala teaches not the trinily, hut the ten-trinity of god" furthermore, man has power over god, for "when the cabalist prays, god shakes his head, changes at once his decrees, and abolishes heavy judgments (ibid, p. 97. the secret of the room the mural was described as having been designed to give a feeling of space by the opening up of the wall. all right, let us be literal about this and open up the wail behind the mural. the meditation

n the front of jove's temple at peloponnessus. as the solar eye it was the symbol of the arabian god of. jethro, the black father-in-law of moses, and of the arabic motto "allah" or "i am that i am" all ancient temples of arabia were decorated with the eye, which had first appeared as the symbol of osiris, isis and horus of egypt.42 the eye represented the mystic symbol of the so-called egyptian "trinity" expressed in these words, often inscribed on the statues of isis "i am all that has been, that is, or shall be, and none among mortals has hitherto taken off my veil" she was the daughter of saturn and her name meant ancient. she married her brother osiris, and was pregnant by him even before she had left her mother's womb, according to plutarch's account. she and her brother-husband comp

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hose on the banners, but their meaning allows a deeper understanding. thus, here is a list: a f b j d h l i e a g k c a c b k d h e f g i j l 6 rtk hnyb hrwbg trapt dsj hmkj jxn dwh dwsy twklm 10 9 8 7 3 5 6 4 2 1 7 triangle and the hexagram taking a look at the symbology of the triangles on the banners, we notice that they also represent various rosicrucian concepts. these concepts represent the trinity of creation in various forms. also, they represent a microcosmic/macrocosmic relationship. the various diagrams below provide a simple example of those concepts. for i am the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end' saith the lord, god who liveth in light, since none can come to him, or near him" hwchy hwhy 8 this is the manifestation of the three mother letters in the equilbrium of the

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s that follow and see if you agree. many secret orders and societies display and use secret handshakes and signs. in wales (great britain) the order of the true ivorites was established in 1836 and prospered for many years. some believe two lodges of ivorites still exist today. pictured here are some of their secret signs and handshakes. four hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun because the higher trinity of man's being must be present before soul-union can take place..the omnific royal arch word can only be given in groups of three. their right hands are then raised above their heads or they give at low breath the word: jah-buh-lun, je-ho-vah, g-o-d. c.c. zain ancient masonry the greatest, but the most terrible moment in the life of a mason..the three supreme officials of the lodge, with t

e-headed eagle (symbolizing one body of god, two heads) the triple tau yet another proof of the deviltry of the jahbuhlun hoax is the symbol of the triple tau, which is the most important symbol of the royal arch degree. made up of three interlinking tau symbols (t, these three are said to represent a triad of sacred, jewish powers of king, priest, and prophet. in other words, the mason assumes a trinity of the triple tau is the most significant symbol, or logo, of the royal arch mason. it represents the mason who has reached either the seventh degree of the york rite or 13th degree of the scottish rite as embodying within the attributes of the godhead, or holy trinity, by blasphemously declaring himself to be the great i am that i am, thus identifying himself with satan's promise in the g

e mason who has reached either the seventh degree of the york rite or 13th degree of the scottish rite as embodying within the attributes of the godhead, or holy trinity, by blasphemously declaring himself to be the great i am that i am, thus identifying himself with satan's promise in the garden "ye shall be as gods" hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 57 jewish spiritual powers.7 actually, this trinity of the jews is in competition with the true godhead of the bible: father, son, and holy spirit "i am that i am" the mason proclaims equally blasphemous is that in the lecture on the seventh, or royal arch degree, of the york rite, the mason initiated is asked the question "are you a royal arch mason" his answer is required to be "i am that i am."8 in other words, in this degree's ritual th

hands (x) and the il cornuto horned devil sign given with the left hand as it holds the prelate's hat (from the book, how the pope became infallible, by august bernhard hasler, 1981, doubleday& co, garden city, new york) this image was found under the root of a tree dug up in roscommon in ireland. it is made of brass. the gilding, however, is now almost worn off. it is on display at the museum of trinity college, dublin "to this deity in particular they apply themselves for success when they go out a hunting or fishing, and for the relief of all such as are indisposed" miramba (from the book, the round towers of atlantis, by henry o'brien, published 2002; originally in 1834; adventures unlimited press, kempton, il 60946) 232 codex magica cover of a popular witchcraft publication in the u.s

nly places. the serpent has no power or control whatsoever over us, and we solidly reject his many works, among which, regrettably, is the symbology of the great seal of the united states. advertisement for a cigarette brand. the three most prominent symbols (1) all-seeing eye (2) the sign of eternity resembling the figure 8 lying on its side (3)the three dots, or points, indicative of the unholy trinity. the guardian angel organization in new york city has as its logo an all-seeing eye in a triangle, and angel wings. message "we are watching" the riddle of the great seal of the united states 271 reason (la raison, an engraving by darcis in the national museum, paris, france, was said to capture the spirit of the bloody, illuminatiinspired french revolution. what we see is symbolism of the

the guardian angel organization in new york city has as its logo an all-seeing eye in a triangle, and angel wings. message "we are watching" the riddle of the great seal of the united states 271 reason (la raison, an engraving by darcis in the national museum, paris, france, was said to capture the spirit of the bloody, illuminatiinspired french revolution. what we see is symbolism of the unholy trinity of lucifer- father (lion, mother (goddess, and son (allseeing eye. art illustration from the book, active meditation, by robert leichtman, m.d. and carl japikse (ariel press. the hermetic monk holds the solar disk with cross and all-seeing eye. 272 codex magica this bizarre advertisement for cable-tv's the learning channel. the tattoos on this man are real. the all-seeing eye is in what hi

in this intriguing, obviously staged ritual image. this photo, from the american bar association's (aba) annual convention in 1999, shows attorney philip anderson (left, president of the aba, janet reno, attorney-general of the united states, and president bill clinton. notice that each of the three stand erect, a somber and knowing look on their faces, their bodies arranged to create a mystical trinity of unity. behind them we find the aba logo, which is in the shape of an unfinished pyramid (usa today newspaper, august 10, 1999, p. 8a) from the herder dictionary of symbols (chiron publications, illinois, we have two different representations of the alchemical/mystical concept of "trinity as unity" at left is a rosicrucian seal and at right is an illustration from valentinius's duodecim

k to egypt freemasonry today freely admits its connection to the religion and rituals of ancient egypt and proudly displays egyptian idols (the sphinx, etc) in and around its lodge facilities and at its international headquarters, the house of the temple in washington, d.c. moreover, in the ritual ceremonies of the higher masonic degrees, the hindu pantheon of deities is honored as the true "holy trinity."1 in the hindu religion, the whole universe is said to be centered in the heart. the yogi, in meditation, is claimed to be listening to the heartbeat of the universe, which is the great god shiva's beating 308 codex magica heart. this expresses the basic oriental idea that divinity lies in the heart of every person, but needs to be "realized" or awakened. devotion to the secret chiefs wit

t 317 318 codex magica hand on heart 319 robert fludd (1574-1637, medical doctor and hermeticist of the late english renaissance, was a rosicrucian and practitioner of the magical arts who emphasized the power of visual and imaginative symbols. 320 codex magica michael servetus who, in 1555, was burned at the stake by calvinists for having published a treatise disagreeing with the doctrine of the trinity. servetus, an enemy of christ, was an llluminist who worked to bring in heresies to pollute christianity. he has been called "the father of unitarianism" a top official of the orthodox hierarchy in greece gives the initiate sign. the pope with palestinian leader yassar arafat, at the vatican on september 15, 1982. eugene vintras, a frenchman who taught occult spiritual philosophy, wears th

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ty, the mystery of mysteries, the sphinx at the gates of all spirituality. all conceivable ideas begin and end as light in its emotion, the ecstasy which the creation of the idea of self induces. the idea is unity by the formula of self, its necessary reality as continuity, the question of all things, all this universe visible and invisible has come out of it. as unity conceived duality, it begot trinity, begot tetragrammaton. duality being unity, is time, the complex of conception, the eternal refluctuation to the primeval reality in freedom-being trinity of dualities, is the six senses, the five facets of sex-projecting as environment for self-assimilation in denial, as a complete sexuality. being tetragrammaton of dualities is twelvefold by arrangement, the human complex, and may be cal

ty, the mystery of mysteries, the sphinx at the gates of all spirituality. all conceivable ideas begin and end as light in its emotion, the ecstasy which the creation of the idea of self induces. the idea is unity by the formula of self, its necessary reality as continuity, the question of all things, all this universe visible and invisible has come out of it. as unity conceived duality, it begot trinity, begot tetragrammaton. duality being unity, is time, the complex of conception, the eternal refluctuation to the primeval reality in freedom-being trinity of dualities, is the six senses, the five facets of sex-projecting as environment for self-assimilation in denial, as a complete sexuality. being tetragrammaton of dualities is twelvefold by arrangement, the human complex, and may be cal

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l immortality (1928; the reality of a spiritual world (1930; and my philosophy (1933. m delving deeper jolly, w. p. sir oliver lodge. london: constable, 1974. tabori, paul. pioneers of the unseen. new york: taplinger, 1973. fredric w. h. myers (1843 1901) fredric william henry myers was born in 1843 in keswick, cumberland, england, into the family of a clergyman. he was educated at cheltenham and trinity college, cambridge. in 1865, he became a lecturer in the classics at cambridge, but in 1872, he resigned that position to become a school inspector. myers published several volumes of poetry, though it was as an essayist that he became known (essays, classical and modern [1885. 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 mediums and mystics 169

atanic rituals. new york: avon, 1972. temple of set the ancient egyptians were perhaps the first to personify evil as a distinct force in the universe, but they retained a concept of unity by representing the evil god set as a brother of horus, prince of light and goodness. although set was actually the younger brother of osiris who, with isis, his wife, and horus, his son, comprised the egyptian trinity he was represented as horus s brother, because set stood for the opposing forces of evil and darkness. set was jealous of osiris s power and sought to seize the throne from him. in ensuing struggle, osiris was dismembered, leaving horus to oppose his evil brother/uncle. in the war between the two that ensued, horus and the forces of good prevailed. in the story of set s insurrection can be

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ion, inference from subliminally acquired knowledge and hyperaesthesia. saltmarsh used the above criteria to proclaim 183 of the 349 cases as being wholly satisfactory cases of precognition. one of these, the case of the derailed engine, will serve as an illustration of the sort of experience that saltmarsh assessed as truly precognitive. a minister s wife and daughter were staying at lodgings at trinity, near edinburgh, scotland, on july 15, 1860. it was a bright sunday afternoon, and between three and four o clock, mrs. w. told her daughter to go out for a short walk on the railway garden, the name that she had given a strip of ground 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 174 mysteries of the mind between the seawall and the railway emb

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e the seven sacraments of the church, the fourteen articles of faith, the creeds of the apostles and athanasius; 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 20 secret societies knights templar parade in 1930 (corbis corporation. to uphold the doctrines of the two testaments, including the interpretations of the church fathers, the unity of god and the trinity of his persons, and the virginity of mary both before and after the birth of jesus. to go beyond the seas when called to do so in defense of the cause. to retreat not from the foe unless outnumbered three to one. in addition to the rules of conduct and discipline, humility was one of the first principles of membership in the knights templar. the helmet of the templar must bear no crest; hi

pplication to his studies was intense, and he soon distinguished himself as a scholar. he slept only four hours per night, ate a light meal, participated in various forms of recreation for two hours, then used the remaining 18 hours for study. when he left cambridge, he traveled to holland to study with mercator (1512.1594) and other learned men of his day. returning home, he was made a fellow of trinity college, and he gained a wide reputation as an astronomer. dee left england again soon after acquiring fame as an astrologer and an astronomer, and he taught at many european universities. in 1551, he was back in england and was received by king edward vi (1537.1553, who awarded him a pension of 100 crowns per annum. this stipend dee later exchanged for a rectory at upton-upon-severn. duri

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

ctive had to be baptised with the name of the victim.it must, however, be remembered that the witches were not peculiar in their belief that a form of words couldaffect the forces of nature. bede records[68] that on the occasion of a storm at sea, a christian bishop"showed himself the more resolute in proportion to the greatness of the danger, called upon christ, andhaving in the name of the holy trinity, sprinkled a little water, quelled the raging waves".a modern version of a magical curse on an enemy is recorded by lady wilde[69] in ireland "a woman wentto the saints' well (in innis-sark, and, kneeling down, she took some of the water and poured it on theground in the name of the devil, saying 'so may my enemy be poured out like water, and lie helpless on theearth. then she went round t

vil crush him" still moremodern is the method of casting a curse by burning a candle in front of a saint's image in church; in thecandle are stuck pins, and the enemy is supposed to waste away as the candle burns, exactly as was supposedto happen when a wax figure was melted with pins stuck in it.there are many charms and spells still in vogue in which the name of the christian deity, usually the trinity,is used, but in origin they belong to the pre-christian religion. under a slight change of name much of theold religion still survives in europe and can be found by any who are sufficiently interested to search for it.as an anthropological field of research europe is almost untouched; yet in our midst the primitive cults stillcontinue, though slightly overlaid by what we arrogantly term ci

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

hen the poor, the blind, the outlaws of the old world will be invited to the feast, and will receive a wedding garment. they will gaze the one upon the other with inexpressible tenderness and a smile that is ineffable because they have wept so long. iv the quaternary the quaternary is the number of force. it is the ternary completed by its product, the rebellious unity reconciled to the sovereign trinity. in the first fury of life, man, having forgotten his mother, no longer understood god but as an inflexible and jealous father. the sombre saturn, armed with his parricidal scythe, set himself to devour his children. jupiter had eyebrows which shook olympus; jehovah wielded thunders which deafened the solitudes of sinai. 21 nevertheless, the father of men, being on occasion drunken like no

devoted to the burden of power, will administer the interests and the wealth of the universal family. at that day, according to the promise of the gospel, there will be no more than one flock and one shepherd. xvi the number sixteen sixteen is the number of the temple. let us say what the temple of the future will be! when the spirit of intelligence and love shall have revealed itself, the whole trinity will manifest itself in its truth and in its glory. humanity, become a queen, and, as it were, risen from the dead, will have the grace of childhood in its poesy, the vigour of youth in its reason, and the wisdom of ripe age in its works. all those forms, which the divine thought has successively clothed, will be born again, immortal and perfect. all those features which the art of success

dividual unreason, have laid hands on dogma, have, in the very act, lost the spirit of charity; they have excommunicated themselves. the catholic, that is to say the universal, dogma merits that magnificent name by harmonizing in one all the religious aspirations of the world; with moses and mohammed, it affirms the unity of god; with zoroaster, hermes and plato, it recognizes in him the infinite trinity of its own regeneration; 78 it reconciles the living numbers of pythagoras with the monadic word of st. john<gospel legend itself is a macedoine of those of bacchus, adonis, osiris, and a hundred others, and that the mass, and christian ceremonies generally, have similarly pagan sources- o. m> so much, science and r

n? reason, in protesting against dogma, proves sufficiently that she has not invented it; but she is forced to admire the morality which results from that dogma. now, if morality is a light, it follows that dogma must be a sun; light does not come from shadows. between the two abysses of polytheism, and an absurd and ignorant theism, there is only one possible medium: the mystery of the most holy trinity. between speculative theism, and anthropomorphiosm, there is only one possible medium: the mystery of incarnation. between immoral fatality, and draconic responsibility, which would conclude the damnation of all beings, there is only one possible mean: the mystery of redemption. the trinity is faith. 80 the incarnation is hope. the redemption is charity. the trinity is the hierarchy. incar

of the word, it is the white writing of god upon the great book of night. light is the source of thought, and it is in it that one must seek for the origin of all religious dogma. but there is only one true dogma, as there is only one pure light; shadow alone is infinitely varied. light, shadow, and their harmony, which is the vision of beings, form the principle analogous to the great dogmas of trinity, of incarnation, and of redemption. such is also the mystery of the cross. it will be easy for us to prove this by an appeal to religious monuments, by the signs of the primitive word, by 182 those books which contain the secrets of the qabalah, and finally by the reasoned explanation of all the mysteries by the means of the keys of qabalistic magic. in all symbolisms, in fact, we find ide

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

m. a full cross-referencing of the sephiroth by their numerical reduction is given in figure 2. a final point of gematria is that the value of the word swan, the symbolic bird of kether and illumination, is brbvr= 410, which is also the value of magic (mqa'ar) and the confession of god's unity (the shema, shma'a. the triune crown the triple crown worn by the pope can be viewed as representing the trinity of kether extended in itself, chockmah and binah, for above the abyss the sephiroth merge with each other in the same way that the four lower sephiroth below the veil merge within malkuth. figure 3 illustrates the attribution of the letters to the trinity, and a further breakdown is utilised by spelling the letters again in full. the tarot cards to which these letters are assigned offer va

binah, for above the abyss the sephiroth merge with each other in the same way that the four lower sephiroth below the veil merge within malkuth. figure 3 illustrates the attribution of the letters to the trinity, and a further breakdown is utilised by spelling the letters again in full. the tarot cards to which these letters are assigned offer valuable descriptions of the nature of this creative trinity of forces. kaph in kether kaph, as previously described, is the hand of god transmitting the vital spark to man, and the hand of man receiving the divine influx (as painted on the ceiling of the sistene chapel by michelangelo, for example. its tarot glyph is that of the wheel, which is the prime symbol of synchronicity, kether being the pivot and malkuth being the hub. of course, the numbe

he ding-an-sich, the "thing-initself. the medieval kabbalists, such as abraham ibn ezra, followed on from the neoplatonic school of plotinus in utilising a threefold division of the functions of the psyche. these were; nefesh (npsh; breath, spirit, soul, person, character in drama, tombstone) ru'ah (rvch; wind, spirit, ghost, disposition) neshamah (nshmh; breath, soul, life, living creature) this trinity, as developed by such kabbalists as rabbi moses korduero and rabbi yitzchaq loria, is usually taken to represent; nefesh: animal vitality ru'ah: self-awareness neshamah: transcendent awareness eliphas levi summarises these elements as the passions, the reason, and the higher aspirations, and puts it that "the body is the veil of the nephesch, the nephesch is the veil of ruach, ruach is the

, thereby making a parallel to the four worlds; chiah atziluth neschamah briah ru'ah yetzirah nefesh assiah a final addition to these teachings came with the 13th century occultists, when the concept of a "yechidah" was added, referring to the ultimate spark of god within the psyche. the word comes from the root ichid, meaning "oneness, and is a similar root to ichid "privacy, union with god. the trinity of yechidah, chiah and neschamah were all bound up under the title of the neschamah, and attributed to kether, chockmah and binah. the ru'ah was attributed to the sephiroth of chesed to yesod, and the nefesh to malkuth. crowley, in his little essays towards truth, describes the elements finally arrived at thus; yechidah point, quintessential principle of soul chiah creative impulse (will)

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

ligions. most of them resolve themselves when all theological argument and intellectual quibbling are eliminated, into some such relationship as father, mother, and son. osiris, isis, and horus are an excellent example. this is true also of the christian system where, upon careful consideration we find the holy ghost defined as a feminine aspect of godhead.11 and in the hebrew qabalah we have the trinity on the tree of life of chesed("mercy, gevurahl2("might) and tiphareth("equilibrium" or "beauty. co-relating this latter triad with traditional symbolism, chesed is masculine, referred to jupiter, a paternal wisdom symbol. gevurah, feminine, is attributed to mars, indicative of great power. one alchemical aphorism expresses this duality in the words "man is peace and woman is power" bearing

ars, indicative of great power. one alchemical aphorism expresses this duality in the words "man is peace and woman is power" bearing all these in mind, we conclude that as chesed represents the father and gevurah the mother,l3 so tiphareth which is beauty, is the reconciler between them. interestingly enough, tiphareth is referred to the sun, and corresponds to the thrd member of the theological trinity, the son. looking at these trinities as so many expressions of psychological fact-that is, as previously defined, as factors active w i t h the psyche itself-we are struck by the similarity of the religious point of view with the idea of the middle way.14 it is the pursuit of ths middle path which leads to self-conquest and the steady growth of the golden flower, the wakening of the impris

d soul within. the father and mother may be said to correspond to the two pillars of the temple, to the two extremes or opposites. in this sense they are the tendencies exhibited by all the phenomena of nature. they are the extremes of spirit and matter, love and hate, life and death, ebb and flow, systole and diastole. nature itself is the embodiment of the two extremes, the two opposites of the trinity. to the student of the psyche, to the one who the knowledge of his higher self, the counsel given to avoid the opposites. his task is to refrain of extreme actions. in certain schools of magic, where the rites of by adepts who at one time thoroughly they employed, initiation ceremonies depicted higher self and its rebirth by means of a techrucal and meditation. therein, the higher self was

THE PAGAN BOOK OF WORDS PRAYERS CHANTS AND RHYMES

stir. this is the book of the servant of the godse luminous one! our eyes are upon you. light our paths and light our visions. lead us through the dark. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com morning prayer to aphrodite hail mother! the sun has risen. another day has begun. i wash my face in these new born rays and take my first step in the ways of love. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com trinity by the divinity of three, so mote it be! eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com land prayer grain goddess, upon your body i live. you give to us the gift of life and the gift of nourishment. to you, i offer my love, my courage and my strength. so mote it be. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com hail mother! hail mother, full of grace, your people

THE ROSICRUCIAN MANIFESTOS

come to pass, that the mouth of those vipers will be stopped and the triple crown will be brought to nought, as thereof at our meeting shall more plain and at large be discoursed. for conclusion of our confession, we must earnestly admonish you, that you put away, if not all, yet the most books written by false alchemists, who do think it but a jest, or a pastime, when they either misuse the holy trinity, when they do apply it to vain things, or deceive the people with most strange figures, and dark sentences and speeches, and cozen the simple of their money; as there are nowadays too many such books set forth, which the enemy of man s welfare doth daily, and will to the end, mingle among the good seed, thereby to make the truth more difficult to be believed, which in herself is simple, ea

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

e we are never sated, and as our lips taste the nectar of true poetry we tremblingly clutch the crags of parnassus in search for the asphodel of love, wisdom, and beauty. here, as we turn some beetling height, the dying rays of the swinburnian sun sink, those rays that ruffled the vestal purity of the clouds to the rosy blush of a lover fs kiss, and in the departing light we again find the mystic trinity midst the hellebore and thistles of existence, enthroned, eternal. the sun sinks, and the last notes of the nightingale die into the stillness of falling night. the emerald sky like the robe of some car-borne astarte, slashed with an infinite orange and red, fades into the sombre garment of night; and above silently breaks a primal sea gemmed with all the colours of the opal, deepening int

ondon fs wicked city? perhaps you might yourself have one wee fling, if you were pretty. what might not hard starvation drive you to, with death so near and sure? perhaps it might drive even virtuous you, if you were poor.*5 *1. conventional lies. max nordau *2. fundamental problems, p. vii *3. beverland, 238 *4. ibid. 414 *5. oracles, vol. ii, p. 5. and in gorpheus h he well describes the social trinity: nay! virtue is the devil fs name for vice, and all your righteousness is filthy rags wherein ye strut, and hide the one base thought. to mask the truth, to worship, to forget; these three are one *orpheus, vol. iii, p. 208. the moral character of a nation is its true capital, and the two great laws of existence are. gthe struggle for life, h and gthe struggle for the ideal, h if then the

away. rose of the world, rose of the uttermost abode of glory, rose of the high host of heaven, mystic, rapturous rose! the extreme passion glows deep in this breast; thou knowest (and love knows* rosa mundi, vol. iii, pp. 51-55. thus we end our chapter which we have called gthe mother. h and as diana, luna, and hecate are one, so rosa mundi, rosa coeli, rosa inferni, unite triformis in one great trinity in unity. and as the moon kisses the sea, so does diana embrace the wave-born aphrodite, as she rises from the blue foam, star of the deep; she who pours back into the ocean of eternity the pure waters of inexhaustible chastity mingled with the never-dying flames of inextinguishable love. at last she has been disclosed to us, she concerning whom it was prophesied in the beginning of time;

d sacrifices his only begotten son (unity) on the blood-stained altar of evolution, by ascribing to it a tendency to dividuality, thus barbarously immolating his sacred child by rendering him one with the divine fiat of genesis* gheaven and earth and the ten thousand things come from existence, but existence comes from non-existence. h gthe t a o begets unity, unity begets duality; duality begets trinity; and trinity begets the ten thousand things. h .lao-tze. berkeley, nearly two hundred years ago now, answered the scientists apparently for all time, by stating: g cit seems no less absurd to suppose a substance without accidents, than it is to suppose accidents without a substance. h and that, gthough we should grant the unknown substance may possibly exist, yet where can it be supposed t

THE TAROT OF C C ZAIN

ie sounds a trumpet, whereupon it opens and a man, woman and child rise from it, still dressed in their winding sheets. the sarcophagus is the tomb through which man ascents to a higher life. the scarab is symbol of the immortality of the soul. the genie blowing the trumpet is the call to ascend to higher spheres. a man, woman and child arise together to indicate that immortality depends upon the trinity of positive and negative soulmonads united about their deific ego. the innocence of the ego is represented by the child. the real tomb is the physical body which confines and envelops the soul while it develops its powers through the functions of social life; its relations to other life-forms. after one life in human form it has acquired self-consciousness and has no need to return to eart

negative soulmonads united about their deific ego. the innocence of the ego is represented by the child. the real tomb is the physical body which confines and envelops the soul while it develops its powers through the functions of social life; its relations to other life-forms. after one life in human form it has acquired self-consciousness and has no need to return to earth. as indicated by the trinity rising from the grave, there are opportunities for family life and other experiences on the next plane, the total ensemble symbolizing this entering into a new and active life in a realm above matter. the adept--arcanum xxi. in divination, arcanum xxi may be read as success or attainment. arcanum xxi is figured by a kneeling young girl playing on a harp of three strings. above is a wreath

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

he ascending triangle will illustrate his nature in itself. ab is father, bl lord. al is word or logos, son, bl lord. lb is heart or spirit, bl lord. vvvv (all rise) glory to the father, and to the son, and to the holy ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world end. amen (sign of admiration) thus my brother, does the word of this degree declare the nature of the most holy trinity. so much, perhaps, you were already aware of; for none can be more sensible than myself of the progress you have made; yet it may possibly have escaped you that these same letters can be read in a sense file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c5.html (20 of 22 [12/28/2001 2:03:44 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. diametrically opposite to the f

the volume of the sacred law, about which you will arrange the three letters in the form of a triangle; interlock the fingers of your hands and place the palms upon my forehead, look into my eyes and say after me; file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p2c7.html (5 of 14 [12/28/2001 2:04:51 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. i, in the name of the holy trinity one and indivisible, and in the presence of this perfect and princely chapter of the holy order of the rose croix of heredom, do hereby and hereon most solemnly promise and swear that i will hele, conceal, and never reveal the mysteries of a sovereign prince rose croix. i swear eternal fealty and allegiance to the supreme council by whose authority this chapter is constituted in the person

e o.t.o. now learn also this, that god is never to be known by thee; for all thou knowest is but thy creation as truly as thou art his. thou knowest him as thou art he. now there are three that bear witness in heaven: the father, the word, and the spirit; and these three are one. and there are three that bear witness on earth; the spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three are one. in that trinity iao, i is the father, a the spirit, o the word; and in this a the spirit, m the water, sh the blood; and in all these are 358, mshich, the messiah, our lord and saviour jesus christ, in his death who gave up the spirit, the water and the blood, as st. john beareth witness in his evangel. hence is jesus christ alpha and omega, the symbol of the union of god and man. here then is a second tr

instruction no word is wasted; and that by deep and continuous study of the text may ye enlighten your souls. now then at last are ye indeed initiates of freemasonry; now at last are ye worthy to rule and govern the rite in the law of righteousness and truth, giving light, life, liberty and love to all men of full age, free and of good report, that solicit admission to the lodge. of the most holy trinity the most holy trinity, one and indivisible, is hidden: by our aryan brethren in the trigram aum by our egyptian brethren in the trigram aumn by our gnostic brethren in the trigram iao by our hebrew brethren in the trigram ihv and amn by our chinese brethren in the trigram tao and its symbol by our brethren of the royal arch in the tripartite word of their degree file//c /documents%20and%20

of master by our christian brethren in the trigram ihs by ourselves in many ways secretly; and openly in the trigram o.t.o. many other hieroglyphs of him are known to you; but all of these are one; and though he is all, and in all, and above all, yet there is one aspect of him on which all insist, namely, that by which he is one with our own nature, in flesh as in spirit. a second tracate on the trinity washed in pure wine, and consecrated with the smoke of the cakes of light, come ye now with holy awe unto the shrine; come ye trembling and joyous, while the veil of the most holy mystery is rent by the sword of your most high grand master. behold the trinity most holy one and indivisible, iao. one is the most holy trinity; and three are its persons or masks. one is its spirit, one its ind

ngs/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c3.html (10 of 18 [12/28/2001 2:05:41 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. from this duplicity of speech hath sprung infinite confusion in the vulgar mind. for they understand not that man is the guardian of the life of god; woman but a temporary expedient; a shrine indeed for the god, but not the god. thus do they blaspheme who worship the false trinity of father-mother-son: blind mouths that gape poison, let them perish in the day of be-with-us. moreover, the holy spirit is the unity in the trinity; for the father and the son are indeed guardians of the quintessence, heirs to the quintessence, of the substance of the quintessence, but they are not the quintessence itself. and this is of the godhead; but in earth it is the son that combin

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

dmiratione qui causam ignorant. magick is the connexion of natural agents and patients, answerable each to other, wrought by a wise man, to the bringing forth of such effects as are wonderful to those that know not their causes. 3 in all these, zoroaster was well learned, especially in the first and highest: for in his oracles he confesseth god to be the first and the highest; he believeth of the trinity, which he would not investigate by any natural knowledge: he speaketh of angels, and of paradise; approveth the immortality of the soul; teacheth truth, faith, hope, and love, discoursing of the abstinence and charity of the magi. of this zoroaster, eusebius in the theology of the phoenicians, using zoroaster s own words: h c ad verbum scribit (saith eusebius) deus primus, incorruptibilium

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

ph. de incred. tab. xxxi. see also diodor. sic. lib. v& euripid. hippol. v. 145. 5 pausan. lib. ii, c. 38. 86 on the worship in the vision of ezekiel, god is described as descending upon the combined forms of the eagle, the bull, and the lion,1 the emblems of the therial spirit, the creative and destructive powers, which were all united in the true god, though hypostatically divided in the syrian trinity. man was compounded with them, as representing the real image of god, according to the jewish theology. the cherubim on the ark of the covenant, between which god dwelt,2 were also compounded of the same form,3 so that the idea of them must have been present to the prophet s mind, previous to the apparition which furnished him with the description. even those on the ark of the covenant, th

as a mark of adoration, kissed him on the posteriors. all this time the worshippers held burning torches in their hands. the abbot of little sense, already mentioned, held the office of master of the ceremonies at these meetings, and it was his duty to see that the new-comers duly performed their homage. after this they trampled on the cross, and spit upon it, in despite of jesus and of the holy trinity, and performed other profane acts. they then seated themselves at the tables, and after they had eaten and drunk sufficiently, they rose and joined in a scene of promiscuous intercourse between the sexes, in which the demon took part, assuming alternately the form of either sex, according to that of his temporary partner. other generative powers 209 wicked acts followed, and then the devil

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

self in the warp and woof of all woven fabrics. each indi- vidual thread has its strength along its length, but no power to resist force applied against it to the side. but when two threads are crossed and locked into each other, their force vectors are balanced. the whole cloth will resist tearing not only at right angles but from all directions. just as christ is the third element in the divine trinity and reconciles the other two, so the juncture of the cross is the balance point between the powers represent- ed by the arms. this point is outside time and space. raised up on the cross, jesus became immortal, no longer subject to change and decay. the cross is symbolically separate from the constantly shifting forms of being. thus, the host is blessed with the cross to lock in its purity

sephiroth and absorbs it, as though his or her flesh were a suit of clothing for the tree. just as the right sleeve of a jacket goes on the right arm of its wearer, so does the right side of the magus clothe the right side of the tree. in working magic, the magus becomes adam kadmon, not a reflected image of adam kadmon. in magic the cross may be used singly, in groups of three to accord with the trinity of first principles, or in groups of four to stand for the powers of the mate- rial world: if it is necessary, the magus can destroy the cross by tracing it in reverse order to the way it was formed, first mentally absorbing the horizontal ray from the right to the left of the thing crossed, then the vertical ray from the bottom to the top. potencies are always absorbed into the left side

ixed and eternal-it cannot be altered in part without destroy- ing the whole. formed of three points joined each to the others by two reciprocat- ing rays, it defines the second dimension of space, the plane. the number three is used to symbolize completion on the level of spirit. the equilateral triangle is a glyph that stands for the perfection of the unmanifest, as revealed through its highest trinity of emanation. it is the force that goes out, the force that takes in, and the force that reconciles opposites. since this trinity is most apparent in the sexual polarity of the material world, the triangle is bound up with imagery of father, mother, and child. the upward-pointing triangle is often said to stand for the phallus, and the downward-pointing triangle for the delta of venus, whe

triangle for the delta of venus, when these figures appear in primitive art and religion. this view betrays a limited understanding of symbol- ism. it would be just as accurate to say that the upward-pointing triangle symbol- ized fire, and the downward-pointing triangle, water. both the phallus and the elementary principle of fire are themselves only symbols for the active emanation of the first trinity. fire is no closer to the absolute because it has physical sub- stance, whereas the triangle is an abstract geometric shape-if anything, its physi- cal nature sets fire farther away from its root essence. a triangle may be rotated so that any side acts as the base and any point as the apex. the opposite principles are in this way shown to be composed of the same stuff acting in reverse pol

cheek. the western world suffers the incongruity of warrior popes and saintly caesars because neither knows in his heart which pose he should adopt at a given moment. jesus shared this uncertainty. at times he lashed out at his tormentors, as when he drove the moneylenders from the temple. at times he doubted his passive role, as when he questioned his fate on the cross. cultures that keep their trinity balanced are more stable in the long term than those that exalt one point over the other two. hinduism is a religion in which no single aspect of the trinity is allowed to dominate heavily. a culture with many gods, like hinduism with its thousands of deities, may be more rational, if it expresses a balanced trinity of principles, than a monotheistic culture where one face of the godhead h

hat exalt one point over the other two. hinduism is a religion in which no single aspect of the trinity is allowed to dominate heavily. a culture with many gods, like hinduism with its thousands of deities, may be more rational, if it expresses a balanced trinity of principles, than a monotheistic culture where one face of the godhead has eaten the other two. the drawback of a completely balanced trinity of forces is that it tends to make a culture inert. a society out of balance is at least on the move, even if it is moving to its annihilation. where there is no movement there is no life, and human virtue cannot express itself. perhaps the best state of affairs is a slight bias toward the child principle, which creates tension and flux. in magic the triangle forms the basis of practical w

ognize that submission is as much a voluntary act as defiance. or, as the poet milton put it "they also serve who only stand and wait."7 the threefold aspect of god has been expressed through many different metaphors, each true in part, but incomplete. one is grammatical-the subject, verb, and object. another is geometric-the elements of point, radius, and circle. eastern philosophy conceives the trinity as three kinds of essential motion-the rajasic, tamasic, and sattvic. these have found expression in astrology as the car- dinal, fixed, and mutable signs of the zodiac. briefly, this dynamic notion of the trinity states that everything in creation is made of motion, which can be linear, rotary, or vibratory in nature. these motions are never pure but always mixed. the rajasic, or cardinal

ing in creation is made of motion, which can be linear, rotary, or vibratory in nature. these motions are never pure but always mixed. the rajasic, or cardinal, is the male principle; the tamasic, or fixed, is the female principle; and the sattvic, or mutable, is the neu- tral principle. to some extent these motions correspond to the spiral, the circle, and the wave. the value of this view of the trinity is its denial that a thing need be material to be real. as a ritual symbol the triangle is used sparingly in the art, but might be employed more often with a little ingenuity. its common function is the enclosing of evoked spirits outside the protective circle during traditional rituals of ceremo- nial magic. the magus stands within the circle and calls up a hostile spirit inside the trian

he apex into potential being once again. it would be an error to link the triangle with evil. it is a magical tool with qual- ities that can be used for good or bad purposes. its primary meaning is the mani- festation of force. the eye of god is represented shining forth from inside a triangle. here, the center is the first point from which all else emanates, and the three corners are the primary trinity. if the triangle is collapsed, this radiation of first principles can be shown graphically: each of the sides, which are the north-south, east-west, and up-down axes of space, has a common center in the pupil of god's eye. the chinese game of rock, paper, and scissors reveals a deep understanding of the trinity. most children have played it. in the orient it is taken more seriously than it

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lchemists captured this dynamic relationship in the symbol of the squared circle. along with the making of the philosopher's stone and the discovery of the water of life, the squaring of the circle was the prime achievement of alchemy. it was represented geometrically by a circle within which was a triangle, within which was a square, within which was a circle. from the unity of the circle arises trinity, and trinity gives birth to quaternity, which in the highest mystery returns to unity once again. the center and perimeter meet and are the same. the same shifting of emphasis between three and four that occupied the minds of alchemists and christian theologians is evident in buddhist symbolism as well. as jung points out (psychology and alchemy, p. 96, all lamaistic mandalas are based on

tudent it is sufficient if he will be content to work with one legend at a time (the book of thoth [new york: weiser, 19741, pp. 150-1) the square brackets in the above quotation are mine. crowley viewed the dynamic of the name as a series of family trines in which the father and mother (i and first h) alternately generate the son (v) and daughter (second h. the generative unit is complete in the trinity, but this trinity endlessly alternates its polarity, male-female-male giving way to male-female-female, and vice versa. the v elevates his twin sister, the second h, to the throne of the now barren mother, the first h, whom she replaces. her mature beauty arouses the creative lust of the v, who ascends to the throne of his father, the i. by this ascent he is transformed and his old identit

nd the fixed quality. the symbol of aries, which is the first of the fire signs, and as dee observes "the origin of the fiery triplicity (hieroglyphic monad, p. 13, stands for the shin (u) of the esoteric name of jesus. notice that shin, which is the hebrew letter associated with fire, has three points, even as the fiery symbol of aries has three points. these may be taken to stand for the divine trinity. dee states that he has added the sign of aries to the monad "to signify that in the practice of this monad the use of fire is required (theorem x. had dee not added the sign of aries, the symbol of the monad would accurately represent tetragrammaton. he regarded the insertion of the fifth symbol, the sh in ihshvh, as necessary to act as a channel through which the power of the ternary (su

the sign of aries, the symbol of the monad would accurately represent tetragrammaton. he regarded the insertion of the fifth symbol, the sh in ihshvh, as necessary to act as a channel through which the power of the ternary (sun, the hieroglyphic monad moon, earth, or cardinal, mutable, fixed) might pass into the septenary. the cross in the glyph of the monad exhibits these essential principles of trinity, quarternity, and septernity, as well as the role played by the fifth factor in joining and balancing these principles. it is a christian cross, having a lower arm that is longer than the upper arm. in theorem vi, dee says that the cross may signify either the ternary or the quaternary. the ternary- is expressed by the cross of two straight lines "having a copulative centre" the quaternary

e, the unity of the paternall substance is signified, from which proceeds one son, equall to him; by the next procession, also simple, viz. of two to two, is signified by the second procession the holy ghost from both, that the son be equall to the father by the first procession; and the holy ghost be equal to both by the second procession. hence that super-excellent, and great name of the divine trinity in god is written with four letters, viz. lod, he, and vau, he, where it is the aspiration he, signifies the proceeding of the spirit from both: for he being duplicated, terrninates both syllables, and the whole name, but is pronounced jove as some will, whence that jovis of the heathen, which the ancients did picture with four ears, whence the number four is the fountain, and head of the

ately we shall find that each of them has equally a recondite meaning. the first letter, which also stands for the number ten, and which by its form reminds us of the mathematical point, teaches us that god is the beginning and end of all things. the number five, expressed by 7 the second letter, shows us the union of god with nature-of god inasmuch as he is depicted by the number three, i.e, the trinity; and of visible nature, inasmuch as it is represented by plato and pythagoras under the dual. the number six, expressed by 1, the third letter, which is likewise revered in the pythagorean school, is formed by the combination of one, two, and three, the symbol of all perfection. moreoever the number six is the symbol of the cube, the bodies (solids, or the world. hence it is evident that t

the twelve banners:-ihvh, ihhv, ivhh, hvhi, hvih, hhiv, vhhi, vihh, vhih, hihv, hivh, hhvi (the kabbalah unveiled [i8871 [london: routledge and kegan paul, 19621, pp. 30-1) but ihvh, the tetragrammaton, as we shall presently see, contains all the sephiroth with the exception of kether, and specially signifies the lesser countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistical sephirotic greatest trinity, and 248 tetragrammaton the son in his human incarnation, in the christian acceptation of the dinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does ihvh, jehovah, reveal ahih, eheieh. and adni is the queen "by whom alone tetragrammaton can be grasped" whose exaltation into binah is found in the christian assumption of the virgin. the tetragrammaton ihvh is referred to the sephiroth, th

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ddhism and yoga, and "one of the rare human beings to dare to prophesy a distinctive new creed and to devote himself..to the promulgation of that creed."xvi -141- the details of crowley's life are fairly well-known, based on his own autobiography and numerous popular biographies, so i won't reiterate all of them here. i will simply provide a brief sketch of his background and context. educated at trinity college in cambridge, crowley was from an early age fascinated with poetry and pagan religion and was a prolific author of both verse and prose. while still a student at cambridge he had published his first collection of poetry, aceldama, and his notorious erotic collection, white stains (1898. having inherited a large amount of money while still young, he was financially independent for m

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hen he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: when he gave to the sea his decree. when he appointed the foundations of the earth: then i was by him, as one brought up with him" proverbs, viii. 22 ff. having described the coming into being of khepera and the place on which he stood, the legend goes on to tell of the means by which the first egyptian triad, or trinity, came into existence. khepera had, in some form, union with his own shadow, and so begot offspring, who proceeded from his body under the forms of the gods shu and tefnut. according to a tradition preserved in the pyramid texts[fn#4] this event took place at on (heliopolis, and the old form of the legend ascribes the production of shu and tefnut to an act of masturbation. originally these

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ny years of experiments, terrible sacrifices and tremendous difficulties. there exists a transmutator agent (the philosophical stone, a heavenly influence (cosmic religiosity, diverse astral influences (esoteric astrology, influence of letters, numbers, correspond-dences, and sympathies (kabbalah. the sacred principles of alchemy are: 1. unity 2. a pair of opposites (man/woman; active/passive) 3. trinity (active, passive, neutral) 4. the elements (fire, air, water and earth) the entire work of the great work (the magnus opus) is synthesized in the seal of solomon. the six points of the star are masculine; the six outer obtuse angles that exist between point and point are feminine. in synthesis, this star has twelve rays: six masculine and six feminine. the star of solomon is the perfect sy

he third is the origin of the sexual force. these three profundities of the resplendent dragon of wisdom are beyond the intimus. the intimus must be sought within the unknowable profundities of oneself. the number 22 the three profundities of the resplendent dragon of wisdom emanated from a mathematical point, this is the ain soph, the interior atomic star that has always smiled upon us. the holy trinity emanated from this inner star; the three profundities will return, they will fuse together again with this inner star. la primera facultad que desarrolla el candidato es la del grado de oyentes, la clariaudiencia y o do oculto. realmente s lo despu s de siete a os de aprendiz comienza la iluminaci n, sin embargo los estudiantes creen que los poderes se van a desarrollar inmediata-mente, y

s del resplandeciente drag n de sabidur a emanaron del punto matem tico, ste es el ain soph, la estrella at mica interior que siempre nos ha sonre do; la santa trinidad eman de sta estrella interior, las tres profundidades se regresar n y fusionar n con sta estrella interior. 142 the number 22 is kabbalistically added as follows: 2+ 2= 4 the holy three emanates from the inner star, thus, the holy trinity plus its inner star is the holy four, the mysterious tetragrammaton, which is iod-he-vav-he. now we comprehend why the twenty-second arcanum is the crown of life. be thou faithful unto death, and i will give thee a crown of life -revelation 2: 10 blessed by the one who incarnates the spirit of wisdom (chokmah; those buddhas who do not renounce nirvana can never incarnate the cosmic christ

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pal possession. if a symbol could stand for ten different things, we need to understand what particular thing we want it to mean in a given situation, and draw boundaries around the other elements that it may attract. we refine this by adding more layers of symbolic meaning to the talisman to help clarify our intent and purpose. for example, the symbol of a triangle may mean fire or it may mean a trinity. if we add the name michael in hebrew we clarify our purpose by calling on the fiery energy of michael; or if we include a planetary sigil of mars, it will be a different kind of fiery energy. but if we add other images and god-names which identify it as trinity, or as representing binah on the tree of life, then the image of the triangle changes in psychic structure because we design it i

he 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 sephiroth on the tree, and to it is attributed the planet saturn. aristo

which is concentrated at a point. it is then communicated to the father principle, chokmah, through the first letter, aleph, called the fiery intelligence. case points out that the other letter, beth or b, is the intelligence which forms the path to binah. chokmah possesses the latent potency of becoming binah, just as two always points to three. binah, the mother, completes this first qabalistic trinity. levi calls the triad the universal dogma and the basis of magical doctrine. the father exists in potentiality in chokmah, wisdom, and as number two finds fulfillment in number three, binah, understanding. ab=3 demonstrates this relationship (1+2 =3. it is shown as an arrow going straight up when placed on a saturn kamea (see figure 5-a. fabre de 'olivet, the great hebrew language scholar

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

regard to music, 3 is said to be mistress, because harmony contains 3 symphonies, the diapason, the diapente, and the diatessaron. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott ezekiel xiv. v. 14 mentions 3 men who saw a creation, destruction and a restoration; noah of the whole world, daniel of the jewish world jerusalem, and job of his personal world. note the hindu trinity of brahma, who consists of brahma, vishnu, and siva; creator, preserver, and changer. in india, each has still a special sect of worshippers, who mark themselves with particular emblems; the vaishnavas are much the most numerous. the living were of old called the 3 times blessed (the dead 4 times blessed. there were three cities of refuge on the east side of the jordan. bezer, ramoth gilea

as for example see virgil, eclogue 8, the pharmaceutria; the priests used a cord of 3 colored strands and an image was carried 3 times round an altar. terna tibi haec primum triplici diversa colore. the druids also paid a constant respect to this number and even their poems are noted as being composed in triads. it is not necessary here to enlarge upon the transcendent importance of the christian trinity. in old paintings we often see a trinity of jesus with john and mary. in the timaeus of plato, the divine triad is called theos--god, logos--the word and psyche, the soul. indeed it is impossible to study any single system of worship throughout the world, without being struck by the peculiar persistence of the triple number in regard to divinity. whether as a group of deities, a triformed

i.e. al, of the hebrews. 54. the gnostics said that all their edifice rested on a 4- pillared basis; truth, intelligence, silence, bathos. note the earth was formed on the 4th day, according to the allegory found in the jewish genesis, and is the 4th world in a chain of spheres, say the hindus. the figure of 4, as ragon remarks, is the upright man, carrying the triangle or divinity, a type of the trinity of godhead. on the hebrew magical word agla, see the chapter on the kabalah, page 27. note 4 elements, 4 sides of a square and 4 angles; 4 qualities, cold, hot, dry, damp and 4 humors. 4 seasons of the year; 4 quarters of the horizon. 4 rivers of eden; euphrates, gihon, hiddekel and pison; 4 rivers of the infernal regions according to the greeks, phlegethon, cocytus, styx and acheron; 4 el

s; it causes long life and health, and by it plato so ordered events that he died at the age of nine times 9. there are nine orders of angels, says gregory, a.d. 381, in homily 34. seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, virtues, powers, principalities, archangels and angels. from a christian point of view, the number nine represents: 1. unity of the godhead. 2. the hypostatic union of christ. 3. trinity. 4. evangelists. 5. wounds of jesus. 6. is the number of sin. 7. gifts of the spirit, rev. i. 12; and jesus 7 times spoke on the cross. 8. beatitudes. 9. orders of angels. 10. commandments. 11. apostles besides judas. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 12. original apostolic college. 13. college completed by st. paul. the nine muses of ancient greece

sixth sephirah is the notable tpart, tiphareth, beauty, the central sun, the logos, the manifested son. this completes a second triangle, the reflection of the former. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott number seven is ntzch, netzach, victory, active and the eight is hvd, hod, splendor, passive; the ninth is ysvd, yesod, the foundation, completing the third trinity or triangle. mlkt, malkuth, the tenth sephirah, completes the emanations. she is the bride of microprosopus the son, the sun, logos; she is the inferior mother, queen and the manifested universe. the whole ten are viewed as reigning over four worlds or planes of existence. these are the worlds of atziluth, briah, yetzirah and assiah. malkuth on the plane of assiah alone is the visible tang

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are all traceable by analogy with universal principles. this latter fact is, 5 of 13 indeed, not the least remarkable feature of the chald an system. like several of the ancient cosmogonies, the principal characteristic of which seems to have been a certain adaptability to introversion, chald an metaphysics synthesize most clearly in the human constitution. in each of the chald an divine worlds a trinity of divine powers operated, which synthetically constituted a fourth term "in every world" says the oracle "a triad shineth, of which; the monad is the ruling principle" these "monads" are the divine vice-gerents by which the universe was conceived to be administered. each of the four worlds, viz, the empyr an, ethereal, elementary and material, was presided over by a supreme power, itself

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nations renders visible an aspect of ein sof inasmuch as it conveys the paradoxical compresence of the three tenses comprised in the name; that is, the ineffable name, whether declaimed as ehyeh or as yhwh, alludes symbolically to the fact that, in the infinite, was, is, and will be, hayah howeh we-yihyeh, past, present, and future, are unified the mystery of the threefold unity that is a unified trinity, a mystery apprehended as mystery by the spirit carried on the wings of the upward breath, the breath-of-the-heart, that ascends to and vanishes in the impenetrable infinite.215 the conception of temporality proffered in the aforecited passage is enhanced by considering the interpretation of this passage found in the commentary on tiqqunei zohar that purports to transmit the teachings of t

be elicited from a statement attributed to r. isaac (briefly discussed in chapter 2) explaining the threefold repetition of the name ehyeh in exodus 3:14: the holy one, blessed be he, said to moses: say to them i am he [ani hu, i am the one who was, i am the one now, and i am the one in the future. 45 it has been suggested that this dictum may be a tacit reaction to the christian doctrine of the trinity.46 the polemical aspect seems plausible enough, but what is important to emphasize for our purposes is the con- after tau/ where endings begin 165 ceptual link, implicit in the rabbinic text, between the manifestation of god in time and the name, which is etymologically derived from hwh, the semitic root that discloses being in its multiple veils. this nexus is fundamental to the kabbalist

between seeking and attainment. the position embraced by augustine is predicated on the interplay of knowledge and faith, which occasions the paradoxical identification of opposites such that seeking is itself attainment and attainment seeking. when translated into temporal terms, the end of the quest can never be separated from the beginning nor the beginning from the end. see augustine, on the trinity: books 8 15, p. 24: for the safest purpose for him who seeks is to continue seeking until he has laid hold of that towards which we tend and for which we are striving. let us, therefore, so seek as if we were about to find, and so find as if we were about to notes to pages 4 6 181 seek. see schuld, foucault and augustine, p. 80; severson, time, death, and eternity, pp. 48 54. 32. the words

p. 53 72. 50. consider augustine s account in confessions, 7.10.16, pp. 123 124, of his inner vision of god, an ascent by introspection, inspired, as the author himself acknowledges, by platonic books, platonicorum libri (chadwick, p. 123 n. 18, refers the reader to plotinus, enneads v.1.1; for a more detailed discussion, see augustine, confessions, ed. o donnell, 2:434 437. 51. augustine, on the trinity: books 8 15, p. 7. 52. augustine, confessions, 11.7.9, p. 226. 53. plato, parmenides 140e 141e. see plato and parmenides, trans. cornford, pp. 127 129; plato s parmenides, trans. allen, pp. 23 25, 241 243; turnbull, par- 182 notes to pages 7 10 menides and plato s late philosophy, pp. 57 58; plato s parmenides, trans. socolnicov, pp. 34 35, 89 91. the conclusion of the first hypothesis is

of three heads, the sefirotic edifice from hokhmah to yesod, and malkhut. see scholem, major trends, p. 270; tishby, wisdom, pp. 245 246; liebes, studies in the zohar, pp. 170 171 n. 65; wolfson, constructions, pp. 46 53. on the correlation of these configurations and the three obligatory meals of sabbath, see zohar 2:88b. the link between this zoharic pas- notes to pages 118 119 233 sage and the trinity in sabbatian theology was noted by tishby, studies in kabbalah, p. 955. on the triadic representation of the godhead, see the account of the arrayment (tiqqun) of the letter alef in zohar hadash, 60d, into a yod above (implied and not mentioned explicitly, waw in the middle, and dalet below: the image and mystery of adam in two forms, the head above is the primordial point that ruled over

or in medieval hispano-jewish society. in jewish history: essays in honour of chimen abramsky, edited by ada rapoport albert and steven zipperstein, 25 59. london: p. halban, 1988. augustine. confessions. translated with an introduction and notes by henry chadwick. oxford: oxford university press, 1991. confessions. edited and annotated by james j. o donnell. oxford: clarendon press, 1992. on the trinity: books 8 15. edited by gareth b. matthews, translated by stephen mckenna. cambridge: cambridge university press, 2002. tractates on the gospel of john 28 54. translated by john w. rettig. washington, d.c: catholic university of america press, 1993. aviram, amittai f. telling rhythm: body and meaning in poetry. ann arbor: university of michigan press, 1994. ayres, lewis. the discipline of s

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all one light infusing star and star. the many, each of them, are the one; each individual, no twain alike, yet all identical; this he knows and is, for now the word hath lightened his soul's girders (the logic of the ruach- the normal intellect- is transcended in spiritual experience. it is, evidently, impossible to "explain" how this can be) in the number 6 he saw god interlocked with man, two trinities made one; but here he knows that there was never but one. thus now this book is 'stones of precious water; its light is not the borrowed light of gold, but is shed through the book itself, clearsparkling, flashed from its facets. each phrase is a diamond; each is diverse, yet all identical. in each the one light laughs! now to this sphere came he by the path called the high priestess; sh

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ers so large a following, is also under sixth ray influence, but it is not a great root religion, being a hybrid offshoot of christianity with the tinge of judaism. the rays are sometimes considered as divided into three classes; the first ray by itself, the second ray by itself, and the other five in a group. when regarded in this way, they are spoken of as the three rays, and typify the various trinities. another suggestive fragment of symbology describes the three rays as using respectively three kinds of fire to light the sacrifice of the altar, the electric, the solar, and the artificial, or fire by friction. before proceeding to consider the virtues, the vices and the special human characteristics which differentiate the individual belonging to one ray from the individual on another

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een hands; and men and things are thus but the reflections, on the white field, of the realities behind the snares of mahamaya, or the great illusion. this was taught in every philosophy, in every religion, ante as well as post diluvian, in india and chaldea, by the chinese as by the grecian sages. in the former countries these three universes were allegorized, in exoteric teachings, by the three trinities emanating from the central eternal germ and forming with it a supreme unity: the initial, the manifested, and the creative triad, or the three in one. the last is but the symbol, in its concrete expression, of the first ideal two. hence esoteric philosophy passes over the necessarianism of this purely metaphysical conception, and calls the first one, only, the ever existing. this is the

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transmission, fixation and manifestation or as archetypal, creative, formative and materials. they are also attributed to the four elements. atziluth. fire. yod. initiation. briah. water. he. transmission. yetzirah. air. vau. fixation. assiah. earth. he (final. manifestation. there a number of ways in which they can be related to the tree of life. the way we favour is to relate each world to the trinities of sephira, and assiah to malkuth. this can be extended so that there is a further tree of life in each world, thus formulating forty centres. in this second attribution the whole tree of life in atziluth is the treasury of light, while the lower trees in briah, yetzirah and assiah are mixed. the supernals in the lower mixed trees are the more refined phases of the mixed worlds. atziluth

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lly with the body of a lion and the head of a human (see deities, themes, and concepts. stela an inscribed slab, used to display royal decrees or commemorative or pious texts. syncretism an attempt to combine the characteristics of two or more deities. triad a group of three deities, often taking the form of father, mother, and child. triads that were treated as a single entity can also be called trinities. udjat see wedjat eye. underworld books illustrated funerary texts describing the voyages of the sun god. upper egypt the south of egypt, from below memphis to the nubian border. uraeus (pl. uraei) an image of the cobra goddess who guarded the king; often found on royal headdresses. ushabti a figurine that magically performed tasks on behalf of its owner in the afterlife. vignette a pict

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gnostics were destroyed, the gnosis, based on the secret science of sciences, still lives. it is the earth which helps the woman, and which is destined to open her mouth to swallow up medieval chris- tianity, the usurper and assassin of the great master's doctrine. the ancient kabala, the gnosis, or traditional aecrh knowledge, has never been without its representatives in any age or country. the trinities of initiates, whether passed into history or concealed under the impene- trable veil of mystny, are preserved throughout, and impressed upon the ages. they are known as moses, aholiab, and besaleel, the son of uri, the son of hur, as plato, philo, and pythagoras, etc. at the transfigura- tion we see them as jesus, moses, and elias, the three trismegisti; and three kabahsts, peter, james

obling and subume beliefs of those epochs "the holy primitive pliable, composed of the three letters [a u m, in which is contained the vedic trimhrh [trinity, must be kept secret, like another triple veda" says manu, in book xi, fhka 266. svayambha is the unievealed deity; it is the being existent through and of itself; it is the central and immortal germ of all that exists in the universe. three trinities emanate and are blended in it, forming a supreme unity. these trinities, or the triple trim&rti, are: the tfara, ndrl, and virdj the initial triad; the ami, vdyu, and surya the manifested triad; brahmft, vishnu, and siva, the ereaiice triad. each of these triads becomes less metaphysical and more adapted to the vulgar intelligence as it descends, llius the last becomes but the symbol in

d it floundering among the tenets of manu, and the earliest hindfl ante-sacerdotal genesis. many of our eminent antiquarians trace the gnostic philosophies right back to buddhism, which does not impair 377. tertulliu: adt. more iii, viii, iq. 378. 8ttp. rd, part u, vii; iren: agmtut htnaua. ill, ii, 2; cf. iii. sii. 12. 379. sup. rel, loe. eil. digitizecoy google the indian, chaldaean. and ophite trinities 169 in the least either their or our arguments. we repeat, bwldkitm i nttiply the primitwe source of brdhmaniem. it is not against the primitive vedaa that gautama protests. it is against the sacerdotal and ofiscial state religion of his country; aod the brfihmanas, who in order to make room for and give authority to the castes, at a later period crammed the ancient manuscripts with inte

the garment (shekhinah) is higher than the first air, since it is joined more closely to the ain-soph, the boundless" thus sophia is shekhinah, and sophia- achamoth the anima mundi, the astral light of the kabalists, which con- tains the spiritual and material germs of all uiot is. for the sophia- acbamoth, like eve, of whom she is the prototype, is 'the mother of all that live' iliere are three trinities in the nazarene system as well as in the hiadfl philosophy of the ante- and early- vedic period. while we see the few translators of the kabala, the nasarene codex, and other abstruse works, hopelessly floundering amid the interminable pantheon of names, unable to agree as to a ^stem in which to classify them, for the one hypothesis contradicts and overturns the other, we can but wonder

. after they had become the dominant party they (the christians) tran^erred this charge to their own dissenters" the real crime of heterodoxy is plainly stated by john in his epittles digitizecoy google 334 isis unveiled and gospel "he that confessetb not that jesus christ is come in the flesh. is a deceiver and an anttckrim" john, 7. in his previous epuue, he teaches his flock that there are two trinities (v, 7, 8) in ahori, the nazarene system. the inference to be drawn from all this is that the made-up and dog- matic christianity of the constantinian period is simply an offspring of the numerous conflicting sects, half-castes themselves, bom of pagan parents. each of these could claim ropresentatives converted to the so- called orthodox body of christians. and as every newly-bom dogma h

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ar three heads each with three faces--h. p. blavatsky writes "this [kether] was the first sephiroth, containing in herself the other nine sephiroth, or intelligences. in their totality and unity they represent the archetypal man, adam kadmon, the prwt gonov, who in his individuality or unity is yet dual, or bisexual, the greek didumos, for he is the prototype of all humanity. thus we obtain three trinities, each contained in a 'head' in the first head, or face (the three-faced hindu trimurti, click to enlarge the four sephirothic trees. the forty concentric circles shown in the large circular cut in the preceding chapter are here arranged as four trees, each consisting of ten circles. these trees disclose the organization of the hierarchies controlling the destinies of all creation. the tr

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ut all one light infusing star and star. the many, each of them, are the one; each individual, no twain alike, yet all identical; this he knows and is, for now the word hath lightened his soul's girders (the logic of the ruach the normal intellect is transcended in spiritual experience. it is, evidently, impossible to "explain" how this can be) in the number 6 he saw god interlocked with man, two trinities made one; but here he knows that there was never but one. thus now this book is "stones of precious water; its light is not the borrowed light of gold, but is shed through the book itself, clear- sparkling, flashed from its facets. each phrase is a diamond; each is diverse, yet all identical. in each the one light laughs! now to this sphere came he by the path called the high priestess;

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tivated, taught or adopted earlier or before middle age set in, how much more efficient could we not be, and what could we not acheve? the techque under consideration consists primarily in the conscious reconciliation of opposing forces. it is this which has been called the development of the golden flower.10 before proceeding further, it is a very interesting piece of speculation to consider the trinities of various religions. most of them resolve themselves when all theological argument and intellectual quibbling are eliminated, into some such relationship as father, mother, and son. osiris, isis, and horus are an excellent example. this is true also of the christian system where, upon careful consideration we find the holy ghost defined as a feminine aspect of godhead.11 and in the hebr

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sibility of choice. god might look at the pyramid from the out- side or the inside, which are very different points of view, and must choose one or the other alternative. a necessary evolution of the basic concept of choice was the varieties of possi- bility inherent in any decision. every question can yield three possible answers: yes; no; and yesino. this triplicity is expressed in all the holy trinities of gods the world has known. in christianity it is father, holy ghost, and son. in hinduism it is brahma, shiva, and vishnu. tn the faith of the ancient egyptians it was osiris, isis, and horus. symbolically it is embodied in the triskelion, a design of three appendages radiating from a center point, which occurs in such diverse cultures as the celtic, greek, and native american. 7: affi

t as any point of the triangle gains its identity by virtue of its relationship with the other two points. when the child matures, it becomes either a man or a woman and in turn gives rise to its own androgynous offspring. sexuality should not be seen solely as material in nature, but as the lowest aspect of a cosmic principle that acts on all levels of manifestation. when the ancients made their trinities of gods male, female, and child (or hermaphrodite) they were not low- ering the dignity of the au, but were elevating human understanding of sexuality. it is no more narrow-minded to think of god as female than as male, or for that matter as neuter. the unmanifest embodies all three in its primary emana- tion, the light of spirit. since human understanding can never hope to grasp the unm

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