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and between members only. however, the grip, step, and grand word may be exchanged between members of various golden dawn orders the four elements of the ancients are duplicated conditions of the following: heat and dryness fire heat and moisture air cold and dryness earth cold and moisture water there are twelve zodiacal signs, and they are: 1 aries, the ram a 2 taurus, the bull _b 3 gemini, the twins c 4 cancer, the crab d 5 leo, the lion e 6 virgo, the virgin f 7 libra, the scales g 8 scorpio, the scorpion h 9 sagittarius, the archer i 10 capricorn, the goat j 11 aquarius, the water-bearer k 12 pisces, the fishes l these twelve signs are distributed among the four triplicities, or sets of three signs, each attributed to one of the four elements. they represent the operation of the eleme

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from the same root as xaobrothers hadu and phol= baldr (see suppl. these gemini, however, are the very hardest to interpret; the passage about them was given on p. 66, and an attempt was made to show that alx referred to the place where the godlike twins were worshipped: i confess it does not satisfy me. our antiquity has plenty of hero brothers to show, but no twins with a name like alci, if this plural of alcus is the true form. it occurs to me, that one of osin's names is idlkr (srem. 46' 47, and jolk in tlie vermland dialect means a boy^ this comes more home to us than the samogitic aujir (angelus est summorum deorum, lasicz, p. 47, towa

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

il. colour: red. a cardinal fire sign, for all matters of the self and of identity, for rituals of innovation, courage assertiveness and action. ruled by mars. taurus, the bull: 21 april to 21 may. colour: pink. a fixed earth sign, for rituals concerning all kinds of material matters and security, also for patience and caution if the way ahead seems hazardous. ruled by venus. gemini, the heavenly twins: 22 may to 21 june. colour: yellow or pale grey. a mutable air sign, for spells concerning communication, learning, choices, adaptability and short-distance travel. ruled by mercury. cancer, the crab: 22 june to 22 july. colour: silver. a cardinal water sign, for spells concerning the home and family, especially for protection and for gentle love and friendship. ruled by the moon. leo, the l

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

proached for the consecration of the temple i began to dread some great catastrophe. yet all went well- perhaps too well. the priests and the people knew nothing of this, however. for the god manifested exceptional favour; as a new god must do, or how shall he establish his position? the harvest were fourfold, the cattle eightfold; the women were all fertile- yea! barren women of sixty years bore twins- there was no disease or sorrow in the city. mighty was the concourse of the citizens on the great day of the consecration. splendid rose the temple, a fortress of black granite. the columns were carved with wonderful images of all the gods adoring osiris; marvels of painting glittered on the walls; they told the story of osiris, of his birth, his life, his death at the hands of typhon, the

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

n its exoteric sense, as a naked woman, playing by a stream, surrounded by birds and butterflies. the pole-axe is recommended instead of the usual razor, as a more vigorous weapon. one cannot be too severe in checking any faltering in the work, any digression from the path. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 117 [121] 56 kappa-epsilon-phi-alpha-lambda-eta nu-digamma trouble with twins holy, holy, holy, unto five hundred and fifty five times holy be our lady of the stars! holy, holy, holy, unto one hundred and fifty six times holy be our lady that rideth upon the beast! holy, holy, holy, unto the number of times necessary and appropriate be our lady isis in her millions-of-names, all-mother, genetrix-meretrix! yet holier than all these to me is laylah, night and death; for

years; or at least let him do pranayama all the way home-home? nay! but to the house of the harlot whom he loveth not. for it is laylah that he loveth. and yet who knoweth which is crowley, and which is frater perdurabo? book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 118 [122] commentary( nu-digamma) the number of the chapter refers to liber legis i, 24, for paragraph 1 refers to nuit. the "twins" in the title are those mentioned in paragraph 5. 555 is hadit, had spelt in full. 156 is babalon. in paragraph 4 is the gist of the chapter, laylah being again introduced, as in chapters 28, 29, 49 and 55. the exoteric blasphemy, it is hinted i the last paragraph, may be an esoteric arcanum, for the master of the temple is interested in malkuth, as malkuth is in binah; also "malkuth is in k

ALEISTER CROWLEY CONCERNING DEATH

ed in light and liberty and love, thou hast become a freeman of the city of stars .pa listen again to thine own voice within thee. is not hadit the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star? is not he life, and the giver of life? and is not therefore the knowledge of him the knowledge of death? for it hath been shown unto thee in many other places how death and love be twins. now art thou the hunter, and death rideth beside thee with his horse and spear as thou chasest thy will through the forests of eternity, whose trees are the hair of nuit thy mistress! thrill with the joy of life and death! know, hunter mighty and swift, the quarry turns to bay! thou has but to make one sharp thrust, and thou hast won. the virgin of eternity lies supine at thy mercy, and tho

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

physical life "line 6" the adept realises every breath, every word of his angel as charged with creative fire. tiphereth is the sun, and the angel is the spiritual sun of the soul of the adept "line 7" here is summed the entire process of bringing the conditioned universe to knowledge of itself through the formula of generation<yod he, realizing themselves, will and understanding in the twins vau he, mind and body; a soul implants itself in sense-hoodwinked body and reasonfettered mind, makes them aware of their inmate, and thus to partake of its own consciousness of the light "line 8 "grace" has here its proper sense of "pleasantness. 288 the existence of the angel is the justification of the device of creation<existence in the

holy spirit as a "tongue of fire" manifest in triplicity, 337 and is the child of set-isis as their logos or word uttered by their "angel. the card is xx, and 20 is the value of yod (the angel or herald) expressed in full as ivd "sh" is the spiritual congress of heaven and earth. but "t" is the holy spirit in action as a "roaring lion" or as the "old serpent" instead of as an "angel of light. the twins of set-isis, harlot and beast, are busy with that sodomitic and incestuous lust which is the traditional formula for producing demi-gods, as in the cases of mary and the dove; leda and the swan, etc. the card is xi, the number of magick avd: aleph the fool impregnating the woman according to the word of yod, the angel of the lord! his sister has seduced her brother beast, shaming the sun wit

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

spirit h(r xwr 490 the giving (see 1106) ntm fine flour, meal tls the thummim: perfections (see 257) mymt 491 a nurse, wet-nurse (cf. 497) tnm) 493 the name (given in deut. 28:58 without t= 92, q.v) kyhl) hwhy t) 494 helmet of victory (is. 59:17) h(w#yh (bwk an apple xwpt 495 the likeness of man md) twmd gift hntm 496 malkuth: the kingdom twklm leviathan ntywl a small bundle rwrc 497 gemini: the twins mymw)t nurse, wet nurse (cf. 491) tnmw) 498 the house of god (cf. 443) myhl) tyb palace of merit (referred to geburah) twkz lkyh 499 a loving hind (prov. 5:19) mybh) tly) busy, arduous; an army; ghosts h tw)bc 500 the humerus ptk treasured gold, cimelia (perh. inf. from mtk, ggold h and arabic kthm, gto cover, conceal h) mtkm master, prince, head, chief; navel r# to give ntn be fruitful and

s (is. 10:30, gdaughter of gallim h *mylg tb mockeries (job 17:2; cf. 435 *mylth 1046 a handful *cmwq 1047 the lobe of the liver dbkh trtwy 1049 repayment, restoration; a weighing out of repayment *lwmg ml#m 1050 the thummim: perfections (see 257 *mymt 1052 paths *nylyb# 1053 sapphire stone *ryps nb) 1055 the likeness of man *md) twmd 1056 the lily tn#w# 1057 the precious oil *bw+ nm# gemini: the twins *mymw)t 1058 the sapphire stone *rypsh nb) the house of god (cf. 443 *myhl) tyb 1059 a loving hind (prov. 5:19 *mybh) tly) 1060 the tabernacle *nk#m treasured gold, cimelia (perh. inf. from mh+k, ggold h and arabic^^kthm, gto cover, conceal h *mtkm dragon; jackals, wild beasts (pl. of 450 *mynt 1061 and breathed into his nostrils the neschamah of [their] lives (i.r.q. 939) myyx tm#n wyp)b xp

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

t heru-ra-ha combines the ideas of horus (cf. also 'the great angel hru' who is set over the book of tahuti; see liber lxxviii) with those of ra and spirit. for he-aleph is the atziluthic or archetypal spelling of he, the holy ghost. and ha=6, the number of the sun. he is also nuith, h being her letter. the language suggests that heru-ra-ha is the 'true name' of the unity who is symbolized by the twins harpocrates and horus. note that the twin sign- and the child sign- is gemini, whose letter is zain, a sword. the doctrine of the dual character of the god is very important to a proper understanding of him "the sign of the enterer is always to be followed immediately by the sign of silence: such is the imperative injunction to the neophyte. in book 4 the necessity for this is explained full

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

pells 10 2= 20. in general, the tens are solidifications of the ideas of the units which they multiply. thus 50 is death, the force of change in its final and most earthy aspect. samekh is temperance in the tarot: the 6 has little evil possible to it; the worst name one can call 60 is restriction. 61. ya, the negative. yna, the ego. a number rather like 31, q.v. 64. yd and ynd, intelligences (the twins) of mercury. see also 32. 65. ynda. in roman characters lxv= lvx, the redeeming light. see the 5 =6 ritual and konx om pax. note 65= 13 5, the most spiritual form of force, just as 10 5 was its most material form. note sh, keep silence! and lkyh, the palace; as if it were said silence is the house of adonai. 67. hnyb the great mother. note 6+ 7= 13, uniting the ideas of binah and kether. a n

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

ut force he ran to her: he freed the lion one buffet of his hand dashed her back six paces! and with another blow smote its head from its body. and he ran to her and by force embraced her. struggled she and fought him: savagely she bit, but it was of no avail: she lay ravished and exhausted on the lybian plain. across the mouth he smote her for a kiss, while she cried: o! thou hast begotten on me twins. and mine also is the serpent, and thou shalt conquer it and it shall serve thee: and they, they also for a guide! she ceased; and he, having come to the world s end, prepared his chariot. foresquare he builded it, and that double: he harnessed the two sphinxes that he had made from one, and sailed, crabfashion, backwards, through the amber skies of even. wherefore he attained to see his chi

hou shalt conquer it and it shall serve thee: and they, they also for a guide! she ceased; and he, having come to the world s end, prepared his chariot. foresquare he builded it, and that double: he harnessed the two sphinxes that he had made from one, and sailed, crabfashion, backwards, through the amber skies of even. wherefore he attained to see his children. lovers they were and lovely, those twins of rape. one was above them, joining their hands. that is well, said our father, and for seven nights he slept in seven starry palaces, and a sword to guard him. note well also that these children, and those others, are two, being four. and on the sixth day (for the seven days were past) he rose and came into his ancient temple, a temple of our holy order, o my brethren, wherein sat that hie

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 1

may sniff up the wandering steam of the dishes, they fill their swollen bellies with things perishable, and drink up the gluttonies of life. yet he who would partake of the banquet of light must pass this way and sojourn a while amongst these animals, who are so filled with swinish itchings and unbridled fornications that they perceive not that their manger and their dunghill lie side by side as twins in one bed. for a space he must listen to the hiccuping of those who are loaded with wine, and the snorting of those who are stuffed with food, and must 219 watch these lecherous beasts who insult the name of man rolling in their offal, gambolling, and itching with a filthy prurience after the mischievous delights of lewdness, drunkenly groping amongst the herds of long-haired boys and short

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

10 x 2= 20. in general, the tens are "solidifications" of the ideas of the units which they multiply. thus 50 is death, the force of change in its final and most earthy aspect. samekh is "temperance" in the tarot: the 6 has little evil possible to it; the worst name one can call 60 is "restriction" 61. ain, the negative. ani, ego. a number rather like 31, q.v. 64. din and dni, intelligences (the twins) of mercury. see also 32. 65. adni. in roman characters lxv= lvx, the redeeming light. see the 5= 6 ritual and "konx om pax" note 65= 13 x 5, the most spiritual form of force, just as 10 x 5 was its most material form. note hs "keep silence" and hikl, the palace; as if it were said "silence is the house of adonai" 67. binh the great mother. note 6+ 7= 13, uniting the ideas of binah and kethe

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 1 2

nt measures. if one were to slack off now and hope for the morning, like a shipwrecked paul, one would probably wake up a mere man of the world. the question then arises: what shall i do to be saved? the only answer and one which is quite unconnected with the question is that a ritual of adeptus major should display the birth of horus and slaying of typhon. here again horus and harpocrates the twins of the twin signs of 0 0 ritual are the slayers of typhon. so all the rituals get mixed: the symbols recur, though in a different aspect. anyway, one wants something a deal better than the path of p in 4 7 ritual. i think the postulant should be actually scourged, tortured, branded by fire for his equilibrations at the various "stations of the cross" or points upon his mystic journey. he

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 2

d it has certainly grown on him until he can no longer slay either himself or another. a dweller in the glass houses of fad, he has thrown stones at the fishy god. a society shimei, he has spat against the wind, and his beard is befouled. true, every thought of shaw is a great thought; and so equable and far- seeing is the artist, that its contradictory appears with it. his births are all siamese twins; his god is janus; his sign is gemini. but his end is (i fear) not to rise above the equilibrium of contraries by a praeter-hegelian dialectic, but to sink wearily between his two stools, a lamentable loon. this nulli secundus, inflated with fermenting grape-nuts! for in all that mass of analysis lucid and terrible i cannot recall a single line of beauty, rarely a note of ecstasy; with one e

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4

y queen's beatitude? here is the tent- but where is the pole? here is the body- but where is the soul? nepti, sister, the work is undone for lack of the needed one! lo! i lament. there is no god so far as mine asar! there is no hope, none, in the corpse, in the tomb. but these- what are these that war in my womb? there is vengeance and triumph at last of maat in ra-hoor-khut and in hoor-pa-kraat! twins they shall rise; being twins they are one, the lord of the sword and the son of the sun! silence, coeval colleague of the voice, the plumes of amoun- rejoice! lo! i rejoice. i heal the sanguine scar of slain asar. i was the past, nature the mother. he was the present, man my brother. look to the future, the child- oh paean the child that is crowned in the lion-aeon! the sea-dawns surge an bi

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 6 2

e? taurus. want you will [luna "plays a moto perpetuo<mercury] libra. brother, what is the hour? pisces. dawn. libra. let us depart unto the work of the day. all. amen. 91 the rite of mercury officers mercury "violet robe" fr "and" sor. gemini "white dancing robe and black robe" virgo "green robe" four probationers "mercury is throned between the twins. at the west of the altar is virgo, and his four attendants" 95 the rite of mercury i mercury. 22-333-333["full light" the speech in the silence. the words against the son of night. the voice of mercury in the universe in the presence of the eternal gods. the formulas of knowledge. the wisdom of breath. the radix of vibration. the shaking of the invisible. the rolling asunder of the darkness

? virgo. indeed, son of maia, the greatest of all gods that tread upon the milky way. fr. gemini. it is so. sor. gemini. yet, brother, there is the sun-god! virgo. is not mercury the sun-god, when hidden during the night, among the souls of the dead? hail unto thee, trismegistus, hail unto thee! sor. gemini. hail, o sender of dreams! br. gemini. hail, o supporter of bacchus infant! mercury. hail, twins! first probationer. thou art indeed the greatest of all gods, o mercury! chorus. hail, mercury. mercury. yet, ye will betray me! bury me in a nameless grave! i came from god the world to save, i brought it wisdom from above, 104 worship, and liberty, and love. so be my grave without a name that earth may swallow up my shame [sor. gemini "plays her saddest yet swiftest melody<
ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

reen, pink, yellow, red, white. taurus the bull. 22 april to 21 may. lucky stonesr sapphire, emerald, turquoise, lapis lazuli, moss agate. lucky numbers: six for both taurus and venus. lucky day: friday. flowers: lily-of-the-valley, violet, rose, myrtle. trees: almond, apple, walnut, ash, sycamore. animal: bull. bird: dove. metal: copper. colours: all shades of blue, indigo, soft rose. gemini the twins. 22 may to 21 june. lucky stones: agate, chrysoprase, diamond, jade. lucky number: five. lucky day: wednesday. flower: snapdragon. trees: elder and filbert. animals: dog and squirrel. birds: parrot and linnet. metal: quicksilver. colours: white, silver, yellow, light green. cancer the crab. 22 june to 21 july. lucky stones: emerald, moonstone, eat's eye, pearl. lucky numbers: cancer, two; mo

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

magnetic power. this condition is governed by a cosmic law of rhythm so obscure as to be incomprehensible at this time. an illustration of this waxing and waning of influence and of radiance (synonymous terms in occultism) on a large scale can be seen today in the constellation gemini, wherein one of the- 97- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust twins is increasing in brilliance and power, and the other is decreasing. but this is a somewhat unique example, esoterically. the relation of the constellations to the solar system, which is the basis of astrological research, will be considered later. i seek to point out here only the dual fact that the seven rays are themselves 1. expressions of energies emanating from the seven solar systems

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

stages is the immediate and normal result. it was to this that john the baptist referred when he said "he shall increase but i must decrease" when he spoke these words, he spoke as a disciple, prior to the second initiation of the threshold. this occult waxing and waning is portrayed for us in the phases of the moon and, for the planet as a whole, in the sign gemini, where the light of one of the twins is slowly dimming and the light of the other is gaining in intensity. when this "occult obliteration" has taken place, what then is the destiny of the disciple? it is complete control by the soul and this, in practice, connotes group realisation, group work, group service and eventually group initiation. with these developments, it is not my intent to deal, for i have covered much of these m

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

old, expressing and utilising fire by friction, know each other "with intimate occult knowledge" the door then stands open wide through which the life and light of the three major constellations can after the third initiation be occultly available to the initiate, be he a liberated human being or a planetary logos. when astrologers understand the true significance of the constellation gemini, the twins, and the dual forces which pour through this sign (the "forces in conflict" as they are sometimes called or "the quarrelling brothers) and beat upon our planetary life, then the true method of resolving the dualities will be known. it is interesting to note also that seven of the symbols which express the twelve signs of the zodiac are dual in their nature, and duality can be inferred from t

alled or "the quarrelling brothers) and beat upon our planetary life, then the true method of resolving the dualities will be known. it is interesting to note also that seven of the symbols which express the twelve signs of the zodiac are dual in their nature, and duality can be inferred from them. 1. the two horns of the ram in aries. 2. the two horns of the bull in taurus. 3. the figures of the twins in gemini (two lines. 4. the two claws of the crab in cancer. 5. the two scales of the balance in libra. 6. the two parallel lines of force in aquarius. 7. the two fishes in pisces- 34- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust these seven constellations are, therefore, closely related to six of the seven sacred planets and to one non-sacred plan

e medium of three constellations and their ruling planets. the following tabulation makes this clear but must be interpreted only in terms of this present turn of the great zodiacal wheel (25,000 years: tabulation viii ray constellations planets p lanets (orthodox( esoteric) aries, the ram. mars. mercury. i. will or power. leo, the lion. sun. sun. capricorn, the goat .s aturn. saturn. gemini, the twins .m ercury .v enus. ii. love-wisdom .v irgo, the virgin .m ercury .m oon (veiling a planet. pisces, the fishes. jupiter. pluto. cancer, the crab. moon .n eptune- 52- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust iii. active-intelligence. libra, the scales. venus. uranus. capricorn, the goat .s aturn. saturn. taurus, the bull .v enus. vulcan. iv. harmo

ing more active, the effect of the fixed cross will be seen working out in the four signs along with the effects of forces of the mutable cross for "that which is dominated and relinquished is held firmly and transformed" gemini the man upon the reversing wheel in gemini becomes increasingly aware of the intuition and increasingly under the influence of "the brothers who live in the light" as the twins are sometimes called. the light of the personality dims and the light of the soul waxes. the fluidity of pisces and the undeveloped gemini gives place to the responsiveness of the personality to soul impression and consequent stabilising of the life on the physical plane. virgo the mind, under the influence of virgo, which has been analytical and critical, changes to that quality of mind whi

he esoteric ruler, and also in relation to the fact that venus is the earth's alter ego and is closely related to the human kingdom. this subject is too vast and complicated to be elaborated here, but the point should be remembered. the fishes in pisces are bound together, as we have seen, and this is a symbol of the captivity of the soul in form, prior to the experience upon the fixed cross. the twins in gemini are symbols of the same basic duality, but the experience of the many changing incarnations has done its work, and the band (uniting the two fishes) is in process of dissolution, for part of the work of pluto is to "cut the thread which binds the two opposing lives together" it is the task of venus to "reunite the severed lives but with no binding thread" therefore, venus is exalte

he longing for liberation. transmutation of desire into love. 3. gemini the fusion of the opposites; the intelligent work of at-one-ment; synthesis- 91- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust upon the ordinary wheel, these signs bring about: 1. gemini experience of the pairs of opposites. pronounced and separative duality. the interplay between the twins: soul and form natures. 2. taurus the refocussing of the lower desires prior to another circling of the great wheel in search of personality satisfaction. the prodigal son journeys into a far country. 3. aries again the beginning as well as the end. it should be remembered that aries is definitely that divine manifestation to which christ referred when he said "i am alpha and omega, the begi

is trust orientation. unevolved man virgo material life. the cherishing of an idea. pisces sensation. mediumship. fluidity. gemini recognition of soul and form. soul interplay. sagittarius one-pointed spiritual aspiration. disciples. evolved man virgo the mother of the christ child. gestation. pisces the world saviour. mediatorship. in connection with the above, it is interesting to note that the twins set apart and unattached in gemini become the centaur, the man-beast, in sagittarius, whilst virgo, the virgin, becomes the fish goddess in the polar opposite, pisces. a treatise could be written on the subject of the relation of the opposites in the zodiacal circle for they express spirit and matter and their inter-relation, plus the play of qualitative energies; they bear witness at the sa

ve said. libra is an air sign; there are three air signs in the zodiac and their inter-relation makes a most interesting study and well worth the close investigation of the student as are all these major- 143- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust triplicities. each of these signs is to he found in one or other of the three crosses: 1. gemini, the twins .m utable cross .d uality. 2. libra, the balances. cardinal cross .e quilibrium. 3. aquarius, the water-carrier. fixed cross. initiation. these three, therefore, stand for duality sensed, overcome and resolved into the synthesis of the great world server, identified with the heavenly man and bringing his contribution, wrested in his experience upon the wheel of life from the sum total of ene

ree, therefore, stand for duality sensed, overcome and resolved into the synthesis of the great world server, identified with the heavenly man and bringing his contribution, wrested in his experience upon the wheel of life from the sum total of energy, to the service of the whole. forget not that initiation is but another name for synthesis and fusion. from another angle, you have: 1. gemini, the twins .m ind. cause of duality. 2. libra, the balances .s upermind. cause of synthesis. 3. aquarius, the water-carrier. universal mind. soul. these three signs are pre-eminently signs of the mind of god as it expresses itself through man; the lower mind dominates at first, causing the recognition of the self and the not-self, or the essential dualism which underlies all manifestation; the higher m

energy) are expressive of the whole goal of man in four definite stages. this mutable cross is sometimes called "the cross of rebirth" emphasising the constant mutation of which it is the symbol and also the "cross of changing lives" it pictorially represents the four critical points or movements in the span of existence of the soul in manifestation: i. gemini. 1. essential unrelated duality. the twins. 2. sensed and recognised duality through a. mass fusion in cancer. b. individual consciousness in leo. the stage of humanity. ii. virgo. 1. the period of the hidden germ of spiritual life- 153- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. the period of the active germ of spiritual life. a. gestation in the early stages. b. the stage of quickened

now precipitated in preparation for unity, freedom and release. some are lost in the illusion and know not what is reality and truth. others walk free in the world of illusion for the purposes of saving and lifting their brothers, and if you cannot do this, you will- 203- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust have to learn so to walk. gemini, the twins in the consideration of the remaining signs there will be relatively less to say than before, because i have already pointed out many facts and points when dealing with their polar opposites. much, therefore, that can be said about the sign gemini has been dealt with under sagittarius; virgo and pisces have also been considered in relation to this sign, because all these four signs form toge

e world pick up the thought, it serves as a seed thought which eventually comes to fruition with the presentation and the unfolding of a revelation which serves to lead the race of men nearer to their goal. tabulation x ray planets constellations orthodox esoteric a ries. the ram..mars..mercury i. will or power. l eo. the lion..the sun..t. he sun c apricorn. t he goat..saturn..saturn g emini. the twins..m. ercury..v. enus ii. love-wisdom. v irgo. t he virgin..m. ercury..t. he moon p isces. the fishes..j.upiter..pluto c ancer. t he crab..the moon..neptune iii. active intelligence. l ibra. the scales..v. enus..uranus c apricorn. t he goat..saturn..saturn iv. harmony through t aurus. t he bull..venus..vulcan conflict. s corpio. the scorpion..m. ars. mars s agittarius. t he archer..jupiter..th

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

at is the soul, o teacher? tell me truth "that soul of yours, you shall discover as you do your task, and find and use the nature which is yours. who are your parents? tell me this, my son "my father is divine. i know him not, except that, in myself, i know i am his son. my mother is an earthly one. i know her well and she has made me what you see. likewise, o teacher of my life, i am also one of twins. there is another one, like unto me. i also know him well, yet know him not. one is of earth, thus earthly; the other is a son of god "what of your training, hercules, my son? what can you do and how have you been taught "in all accomplishments i am proficient; i am well taught, well trained, well guided and well known. all books i know, all arts and sciences as well; the labors of the open

it and matter. this duality is the glory of humanity and also constitutes the problem which every human being has to solve. father-spirit and mother-matter meet together in man, and the work of the- 14- the labours of hercules disciple is to withdraw himself from the bonds of the mother and thus respond to the love of the father [18] this duality is also brought out in the fact that he was one of twins. we read that one twin was born of an earthly father, and that the other was the son of zeus. this is the great realization that comes to every developed and self-aware human being. he finds himself conscious of two aspects which meet in his nature. there is the well developed and highly organized personality through which he habitually expresses himself (mental, emotional and physical, with

t the opposite, or consummating sign, of gemini is that of sagittarius, the archer, who shoots straight and rides unhindered to the goal. no deviations, no failure! there is only a steady going forward [64] labor iii gathering the golden apples of the hesperides- part 2 (gemini, may 21st- june 20th) the field of the labor gemini has in it two stars, called by the greeks, castor and pollux, or the twins. these personify two major groups of stars, the seven pleiades, and the seven stars of the great bear, which are the two constellations, in the north, around which our universe seems to revolve. one star represents each constellation. from the standpoint of esotericism, the great mystery of god incarnate in matter, and the crucifixion of the cosmic christ upon the cross of matter, is tied up

- the labours of hercules quality: desire, for the mass of men; will or directed purpose for the disciple. polar opposite: scorpio, water sign (conflict of duality; desire overcome; triumphant discipleship. rulers: exoteric, venus; esoteric, vulcan. keywords: from the angle of form "let struggle be undismayed; from the angle of soul "i see and when the eye is opened, all is illumined. gemini, the twins element: air sign (as are also libra and aquarius. quality: duality. love-wisdom. fluidity. control of every pair of opposites. the underlying love of deity reaches our solar system through gemini. polar opposite: sagittarius. a fire sign (one-pointedness; preparation for initiation. rulers: exoteric, mercury; esoteric, venus. keywords: from the angle of form "let instability do its work; fr

ve signs. the sign son of jacob remarks aries, the ram, lamb naphtali naphtali is a play upon the he brew word "talceh, the ram. it means the twisting and struggling ram. note the story of abraham and the ram caught in the thicket. taurus, the bull. issachar "he bowed his shoulders to bear" this refers to the yoke and the work of the ox in producing crops- 129- the labours of hercules gemini, the twins. simeon and levi "simeon and levi are brothers. cancer, the crab zebulon he "wished for habitation, dwelling at the haven of the sea. the crab carries its habitation on its back, and dwells on the sea shore. leo, the lion judah judah is a lion's whelp "he couched as a lion" virgo, the virgin asher this name is from ishtar. ashera is the goddess of plenty. she is depicted as a virgin, carryin

rus (april 21- may 20, the bull, he has to learn the nature of desire, to transmute it into aspiration, to dominate sex, and use it rightly, and thus capture the cretan bull. this strong urge, and the potency of attraction, is that, as we shall see, which produces the great illusion, but which can, eventually, become the cause of illumination. passing on into the sign gemini (may 21- june 20, the twins, the progress of the disciple, hitherto subjective and characterized by thought and desire, works out into expression on the physical plane. in- 130- the labours of hercules this sign he arrives at knowledge of himself as a personality and gathers the golden apples of knowledge, subordinating to his enterprise the three aspects of the personal lower self, the physical body, the desire-feelin

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ghest place to the most excellent and the most deserving. for the present state of things is passing away, and a new world is about to be created, and one planet is devouring another spiritually, until only the strongest survive. let me tell you allegorically that you must put into the heavenly balance the ram, bull, cancer, scorpion, and goat. in the other scale of the balance you must place the twins, the archer, the water vbearer, and the virgin. then let the lion jump into the virgin s lap, which will cause the other scale to kick the beam. thereupon, let the signs of the zodiac enter into opposition to the pleiads, and when all the colours of the world have shewn themselves, let there be a conjunction and union between the greatest and the smallest, and the smallest and the greatest

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as reasonable and intelligent creatures, that they will not allow man to become "as one of us" this is plain, even from the dead-letter meaning of the bible. the gnostics, then, were right in regarding the jewish god as belonging to a class of lower, material and not very holy denizens of the invisible world[[vol. 2, page] 96 the secret doctrine. darkness in the realms of truth. good and evil are twins, the progeny of space and time, under the sway of maya. separate them, by cutting off one from the other, and they will both die. neither exists per se, since each has to be generated and created out of the other, in order to come into being; both must be known and appreciated before becoming objects of perception, hence, in mortal mind, they must be divided. nevertheless, as the illusionary

personality, and having nothing within itself to survive; and the latter half of which becomes immortal in its individuality, by reason of its fifth principle being called to life by the informing gods, and thus connecting the monad with this earth. this is pollux; while castor represents the personal, mortal man, an animal of not even a superior kind, when unlinked from the divine individuality "twins" truly; yet divorced by death forever, unless pollux, moved by the voice of twinship, bestows on his less favoured mortal brother a share of his own divine nature, thus associating him with his own immortality. such is the occult meaning of the metaphysical aspect of the allegory. the widely spread modern interpretation of it- so celebrated in antiquity, plutarch tells us* as symbolical of b

arnating on earth, and forced to taste of the bitter fruit of personal experience of pain and suffering, generated under the shade of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil- a secret first known only to the elohim, the self-initiated "higher gods- on earth only* in the book of enoch we have adam* the first divine androgyne[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] moon, conceived as twins. the sun, the immortal and powerful being that disappears every evening from the horizon and descends under the earth, as though he would make room for the fraternal orb which comes to life with night, is pollux, who sacrifices himself for castor; castor, who, inferior to his brother, owes to him his immortality: for the moon, says theophrastus, is only another, but feebler sun (de ventis 17

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ppearing with the solar boat" i.e, for the cycle of necessity. this "soul" emerges from the tiaou (the realm of the cause of life) and joins the living on earth by day, to return to tiaou every night. this expresses the periodical existences of the ego (book of the dead, cvxliii) the shadow, the astral form, is annihilated "devoured by the uraeus (cxlix, 51, the manes will be annihilated; the two twins (the 4th and 5th principles) will be scattered; but the soul-bird "the divine swallow- and the uraeus of flame (manas and atma-buddhi) will live in the eternity, for they are their mother's husbands* like alone produces like. the earth gives man his body, the gods (dhyanis) his five inner principles, the psychic shadow, of which those gods are often the animating principle. spirit (atman) is

hat this sentence, literally translated, is the summary of what is sung in the church on the day of the immaculate conception (archaeology of the virgin mother" p. 117) surely nothing could be more sincere than this! it justifies entirely what mr. gerald massey has said in his lecture on "luniolatry, ancient and modern "the man in the moon (osiris-sut, jehovah-satan, christ-judas, and other lunar twins) is often charged with bad conduct. in the lunar phenomena the moon was one as the moon, which was two-fold in sex, and three-fold in character- as mother, child, and adult male. thus the child of the moon became the consort of his own mother! it could not be helped if there was to be any reproduction. he was compelled to be his own father! these relationships were repudiated by later sociol

ders, and but too-evident injustice, perpetrated by him for whom absolute perfection, mercy, and goodness were claimed. this was the first karmic effect of abandoning a philosophical and logical pantheism, to build, as a prop for lazy man "a merciful father in heaven" whose daily and hourly actions as natura naturans, the "comely mother but stone cold" belie the assumption. this led to the primal twins, osiris-typhon, ormazd-ahriman, and finally cain-abel and the tutti-quanti of contraries. having commenced by being synonymous with nature "god" the creator, ended by being made its author. pascal settles the difficulty very cunningly "nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of god: and defects, in order to show that she is only his image" he says. the further back one

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t the internal image or reality of the object must be destroyed as well as the outer image and the ideal image. 77. thou art now in dharana, the sixth stage. dharana has been explained thoroughly in book 4, q.v. the equinox 32 78. when thou hast passed into the seventh, o happy one, thou shall perceive no more the sacred three, for thou shalt have become that three thyself. thyself and mind, like twins upon a line, the star which is thy goal, burns overhead. the three that dwell in glory and in bliss ineffable, now in the world of maya have host their names. they have become one star, the fire that burns but scorches not, that fire which is the upadhi of the flame. it would be a mistake to attach more than a poetic meaning to these remarks upon the sacred three; but ego, non-ego, and that

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nymphs or undines throne of the ace of cups. xiii. the lord of the winds and the breezes; he king of the spirits of air knight of swords a winged warrior with crowned winged helmet, mounted upon a brown steed. his general equipment is as that of the knight of wands, but he wears as a crest a winged six-pointed star, similar to those represented on the heads of castor and pollux the dioscuri, the twins gemini (a part of which constellation is included in his rule. he holds a drawn sword with the sigil of his scale upon its pommel. beneath his horse's feet are dark-driving stratus clouds. he is active, clever, subtle, fierce, delicate, courageous, skilful, but inclined to domineer. also to overvalue small things, unless well dignified. if ill dignified, deceitful, tyrannical and crafty. rul

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ises higher than any surface mode of transport. roller skates are more effective (faster) than walking, but require a smoother surface and more effort; etc. traveling: the act of spiritual advancement. tree: the life principle; psychic growth and development; success. tunnel: hiding; being afraid. turning: changing or developing. see left or right. turning in a circle represents lack of progress. twins: ego and alter ego. umbrella: shelter. veil: insecurity. volcano: sexual energy; emotions. wall: frustration; inability. watch: see clock. water: spirituality; emotion. wedding: culmination of plans; happiness; success. witch: supernatural ability; wisdom. woman: the anima. her age represents maturity or lack of it. wreath: self-pity. remembering dreams the obvious first step in dream interp

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ng through the path of the sword a fiery power, for the sea is the sphere of shabbathai, which is the secret abode of fire. the fire of the father is shut up in the water of the mother, and from this fire and water proceedeth the airy spirit of the path of the sword. and this airy spirit is the breath of my angel, raphael, he who rightly apportioneth my word, and ruleth as lord in the sign of the twins [78] comment on zain* y z a i n, pronounced zahyin. transcribed as" z. the number 7. meaning: sword. the disposing intelligence. 1 "the sword which is understanding. the letter-name, zain, means "sword. the numeral value of z i n is 67, the same as that of b i n h, binah, understanding. 2 "the beginning of all things is division. the english bible says" in the beginning god created, but a li

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re sign, for all matters of the self and of identity, for rituals of innovation, courage assertiveness and action. ruled by mars [symbol- sym02] taurus, the bull: 21 april to 21 may. colour: pink. a fixed earth sign, for rituals concerning all kinds of material matters and security, also for patience and caution if the way ahead seems hazardous. ruled by venus [symbol- sym03] gemini, the heavenly twins: 22 may to 21 june. colour: yellow or pale grey. a mutable air sign, for spells concerning communication, learning, choices, adaptability and short-distance travel. ruled by mercury [symbol- sym04] cancer, the crab: 22 june to 22 july. colour: silver. a cardinal water sign, for spells concerning the home and family, especially for protection and for gentle love and friendship. ruled by the m

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rld and steal the lands of the poor while trumpeting its success in reducing debt and 'saving the environment. he said..the banker baron edmond de rothschild was at the meeting for six days. edmond de rothschild was personally conducting the monetary matters and creation of this world conservation bank, in the company of i. michael sweatman of the royal bank of canada. those two were like siamese twins, and that's why i say that it appears they were running at least the money side of this conference and i would say the conference was primarily to get money. also, david rockefeller (of chase manhattan bank) was there and gave a speech on sunday."23 the debt scam 241 the scam was to transfer the debts from the third world countries to the world conservation bank and, in return, those countri

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iscovered 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 throughout the ancient world. the dogon call sirius b, digitaria, and sirius c, sorghun, or the "female star".17 they also call it the "sun of women" or "star of women".18 to them, the most important star is sirius b, which, they rightly said, was invisible t

rt of the symbolism surrounding the ritual murder of princess diana, as explained in the biggest secret. indeed, diana could well have been a sacrifice to hecate, the triple-headed goddess with the symbolism of sirius, sirius b, and sirius c. the name, hecate, literally means "one hundred" both sirius b and c take 50 years to orbit sirius a and the symbolism of one hundred, the duel orbit of "the twins, was often used as code for the sirius system, according to robert temple in 148 children of the matrix the sirius mystery. it is also important to note that, as temple points out, the ancient egyptian word and hieroglyph for goddess also means serpent, and their hieroglyph for sirius also means tooth. thus the stories of the "serpent's tooth" can be read as the "goddess sirius. the egyptian

aviour-god with the jesus credentials. the christian church dedicates the winter solstice, the day the sun "dies, to st thomas. the hebrews still have a month they call tammuz. thomas the "twin" is also symbolism. thomas means "twin" in the aramaic and syriac languages and the name didymus, also associated with thomas, comes from the greek "didymos, which was their name for the roman "gemini, the twins of the zodiac. acharya writes in her superb work, the christ conspiracy "it is said that thomas preached to the parthians and persians, but what is being conveyed is that these groups were followers of tammuz or dumuzi, as was his sumerian name. although it was alleged that thomas's tomb was in edessa, tradition also claims that he died near madras, india, where two of his tombs are still sh

er name to arizona wilder and dyed her hair to cover the blond in an effort to break some of the programming related to that. illuminati mind control understanding the mind control network and its techniques is vital to appreciate the ways that the reptilians manipulate human society. josef mengele was the "angel of death" in the nazi concentration camps, who performed the horrific experiments on twins and others. there he developed a technique called traumaserving the dragon: the present (i) 235 based mind control in which they manipulated a mechanism of the mind that shuts out memories of extreme trauma. this kicks in when people have a serious road accident and can never remember the impact or the immediate aftermath because their mind puts an amnesic barrier around that memory. this me

ormula for our feelings and thoughts to be transmitted to them" she said that she would see the greys and tall beings with black robes. her children and daughter in law would also see them, she said"[what] was so weird is that we could feel them around, but not always see them. they seemed to delight in showing themselves to me separately when i was alone" her daughter-in-law became pregnant with twins who disappeared before birth and she became an alcoholic, and committed suicide because of her experiences. jane became pregnant again and, in may 1992, shortly after hearing strange, but familiar "whooshing" noises in the house, she started to haemorrhage. she was rushed to hospital where only the placenta was found "the baby had gone and the cord was sheared off like somebody cut off a pie

it is empty. the magician then moves to an identical box on the other side of the stage. when he opens it the woman miraculously reappears to wild applause. the minds of the audience have been convinced that somehow the woman has been transported from one box to the other. this, therefore, becomes their reality, part of their universe. but you know what really happens? the magician uses identical twins wearing identical clothes. it's that simple to delude the mind. i sat next to a guy on a television programme who ripped up the front page of the morning paper, crumpled the pieces together in his hands, and then opened it out in its original state. i was no more than two feet away. he ripped that paper to pieces. i saw him. but of course he didn't. he just convinced everyone that he did and

exander was taught by the greek philosopher, aristotle, who had been taught by plato, who had been taught by socrates. the bloodline and the hidden advanced knowledge have always gone together. this key bloodline comes down through the most famous egyptian queen, cleopatra (60-30bc, who married the most famous roman emperor, julius caesar, and bore him a son, who became ptolemy xiv. she also bore twins with mark anthony, who has his own connections to this line and its many offshoots; the bloodline also connects to herod the great, the "herod" of the jesus stories, and continues to the roman piso family who, some claim, wrote the gospel stories and invented the mythical figure called jesus; the same bloodline includes constantine the great, the roman emperor who, in ad325, turned christian

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used in the mind control projects i will discuss in the next chapter. lowincome parents, and those addicted to drugs, are at the mercy of the freemasons andsatanists operating among the social services hierarchy and judges. their children areoften taken away from them for satanic ritual or mind control projects. so called crackbabies are apparently sought after for mind control operations, as are twins. i know oftwins who were crack babies in denver, colorado, a major satanic centre. they were firsttaken from their parents and given to foster parents. later they were taken from the fosterparents by denver social services after the husband was murdered in very strangecircumstances and they were given to a single woman who had turned up out of nowhereafter the murder and offered to be a nann

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

crowley (q.v) of whom he was a student of ceremonial magick. in hebrew "strength. pronounced "gih-boor-ah" it is the fifth sephirah (q.v) on the tree of life (q.v. gematria: a method of the literal kabalah (q.v) which assigns numbers to each of the hebrew letters. words of equal value are believed to have an important relationship with each other. a specific field of numerology (q.v. gemini "the twins" in astrology (q.v, the third sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of mutable (q.v) and air (q.v) and is ruled by the planet mercury (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color orange. keywords include: versatility, duality, with communication, intellectually, alertly, rationally, nervously. ghost(s: 1) when not caused by psycho kinetic ac

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lem we must consider the whole subject of rapport. we have already considered in some detail the question of telepathic suggestion. rapport might be considered as the passive aspect of that of which telepathic suggestion is the active aspect. it forms, in fact, the basic condition necessary for telepathic suggestion to take place. two people who are in rapport might be described as astral siamese twins. although the physical bodies are independent units, the astral bodies are linked in such a manner that there is free circulation of astral force between them, just as the circulatory system of the mother is connected through the umbilical cord with the unborn child, and the same blood circulating freely through both. this fact explains many important occult phenomena. it is the real key to

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curling hair, and melancholy, slow to anger, but when once enraged, violent, furious, and difficult to appease. places ruled by taurus are stables, cowhouses, cellars and low rooms, and all places used for or by cattle. the key phrase for taurus is i have. gemini, the third sign of the zodiac, is a mutable air sign. it is a positive, masculine sign, ruled by the planet mercury. its symbol is the twins, and its glyph is said to represent a set of twins. it takes its name from the latin word for twins. gemini is associated with the shoulders, arms, hands, and lungs. the native is tall and straight with long arms and well-formed hands astrological registration and communication encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 106 and feet, rather dark complexion, brown hair, and hazel eyes

weidenfeld& nicolson, 1970. the seeing eye, the seeing i: perception, sensory and extra-sensory. new york: st. martin s press, 1976. the society for psychical research: a history 1882.1982. london: mcdonald, 1982. omez, reginald. psychical phenomena. translated by renee haynes. new york: hawthorn, 1958. hazelrigg, john (1860.1941) american astrologer, born on june 20, 1860. he was the younger of twins, his brother being one hour older. hazelrigg hayden, maria b. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 708 moved to new york as an actor but later abandoned the stage to become an astrologer. his first book, metaphysical astrology, was published in 1900, and in 1901 he launched a magazine, astro-herald. in 1916 he led in the formation of the american academy of astrologians, an eli

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is even rarer than that relating to mexico, and there is little but local legend to guide research in these areas. the great storehouse of central american legend is the popol vuh, an early study published by lewis spence (1908, with some having appeared in more recent years. this fascinating work of mythological history states that some of the elder gods were regarded as magicians, and the hero-twins, xblanque and hun-ahpu, whom they sent to earth to rid it of the titan vukubcakix, were undoubtedly possessed of magical powers. as boys, the twins were equipped with magical tools that enabled them to get through an enormous amount of work in a single day. when they descended into xibalba (the kiche hades) for the purpose of avenging their father and uncle, they took full advantage of their

pen animals and humans, as well as creatures of great size. because of the awe and horror excited by monstrous births, they were traditionally regarded as an omen or a sign of god s wrath with a wicked world. many street ballads of the sixteenth century moralized about monstrous animals or malformed human beings. today, persons born with bodies outside the social norms.giants, dwarfs, and siamese twins.are studied under the scientific label of teratology. deformed and limbless children are now known to be caused by rare genetic factors or by the use of such drugs as thalidomide in pregnancy. in modern times, much of the superstitious awe surrounding legendary monsters has passed into the world of fiction, and talented novelists have created images of scientific or technological doom like g

ject. a fresh pregnancy was the more unlikely in that mme. samona had undergone a serious ovarian operation a year previously. on april 10, however, she became aware that she was pregnant. on may 4th it was predicted by alexandrina, communicating by means of the table, that mme. samona would be delivered of twin girls, one of whom would entirely resemble alexandrina. this came to pass. one of the twins had a mark on the left eye and another mark on the right ear with a symmetry of the face, precisely like the deceased child. among various automatic writing scripts, frederick bligh bond, whose famous discovery of edgar chapel, glastonbury abbey, is described in his book the gate of remembrance (1918, noticed reincarnation claims in the communications he received through miss x. the old monk

treets and highways; cloacina served as goddess of the sewers, while the lowly mephitis was the spirit of bad smells. spirits of evil, such as robigo, the spirit of mildew, also had to be propitiated by pacificatory rites. in rome there was an altar to fever and bad fortune. from the country came silvanus, god of farms and woods, and his fauns and nymphs with picus, the woodpecker god who fed the twins romulus and remus with berries. each deity or spirit possessed some influence, and had to be approached with proper rites. the names of these spirits were inscribed on tablets, indigitamenta, which were in the charge of the pontiffs (priests, who thus knew which spirit to evoke according to need. most of these spirits were animistic in origin. rites and worship worship in ancient rome consis

irit visitors assured her that she would be restored to health; when she was eventually healed she made a decision to devote her life to helping other people. she became a member of the marylebone spiritualist association and in due course opened her own healing clinic. sources: twigg, ena, with ruth hagy brod. ena twigg: medium. new york: hawthorn books, 1972. reprint, london: w. h. allen, 1973. twins it has long been believed that there is a special relationship between identical twins, a belief that has become the subject of contemporary research from a variety of approaches. research has suggested that there are startling correspondences between twins temperaments, personalities, lifestyles, and even sensitivity to names. in 1979, the university of minnesota began a study of identical

ng been believed that there is a special relationship between identical twins, a belief that has become the subject of contemporary research from a variety of approaches. research has suggested that there are startling correspondences between twins temperaments, personalities, lifestyles, and even sensitivity to names. in 1979, the university of minnesota began a study of identical twins in which twins separated for years were investigated and subjected to medical and psychological tests. the results of nine identical twin studies, involving over 15,000 questions, demonstrated affinities between the subjects. for example, unknown to each other, jim spring and jim lewis were raised in different ohio towns. both married and divorced women named linda and chose women named betty as second wiv

ts. the results of nine identical twin studies, involving over 15,000 questions, demonstrated affinities between the subjects. for example, unknown to each other, jim spring and jim lewis were raised in different ohio towns. both married and divorced women named linda and chose women named betty as second wives. each of the two jims named his son james allan and had a favorite dog named toy. both twins had remarkable similarities in medical profiles, including identical blood pressures and sleep and heartbeat patterns. both also suddenly put on 10 pounds at the same time in their lives. at the age of 18, both jim twins suffered similar syndromes of intermittent migraine headaches. their drinking and smoking habits were also identical, and both chewed their fingernails. another pair of iden

had remarkable similarities in medical profiles, including identical blood pressures and sleep and heartbeat patterns. both also suddenly put on 10 pounds at the same time in their lives. at the age of 18, both jim twins suffered similar syndromes of intermittent migraine headaches. their drinking and smoking habits were also identical, and both chewed their fingernails. another pair of identical twins, jack and oscar, were raised apart with completely different backgrounds. jack was brought up as an american jew by his father after his parents separated; the mother took oscar back to germany (where she had been born) where he was raised as a catholic, later joining the nazi youth party. in adult life, jack ran a store in san diego, while oscar became a factory supervisor in germany. but b

raised as a catholic, later joining the nazi youth party. in adult life, jack ran a store in san diego, while oscar became a factory supervisor in germany. but both men wore wire-rimmed eyeglasses and mustaches and two-pocket shirts with epaulets. both were absentminded and had other matching idiosyncracies, such as storing rubber bands on their wrists. bridget and dorothy were identical british twins who were raised apart after being separated soon after birth, yet when they met in 1941, each wore two bracelets on one wrist, and a watch and bracelet on the other. each sister also wore seven rings. each twin had married and had a family of a boy and a girl. the sons had been christened richard andrew and andrew richard, while the daughters were karen louise and catherine louise. many such

ere raised apart after being separated soon after birth, yet when they met in 1941, each wore two bracelets on one wrist, and a watch and bracelet on the other. each sister also wore seven rings. each twin had married and had a family of a boy and a girl. the sons had been christened richard andrew and andrew richard, while the daughters were karen louise and catherine louise. many such identical twins share iq and psychological profiles, as well as eeg tracings. it is not yet clear whether the coincidences derive from some kind of psychic bonding or simply indicate some manifestation of inheritance. it should be noted that astrologers have investigated twins, with ambiguous results to date, with the idea of verifying and informing astrology. sources: watson, peter. twins: an investigation

tracings. it is not yet clear whether the coincidences derive from some kind of psychic bonding or simply indicate some manifestation of inheritance. it should be noted that astrologers have investigated twins, with ambiguous results to date, with the idea of verifying and informing astrology. sources: watson, peter. twins: an investigation into the strange coincidences in the lives of separated twins. london: hutchinson, 1981. twitchell (john) paul (ca. 1918.1971) founder of the eckankar, a spiritual movement teaching the ancient science of soul travel. eckankar is derived from the radhasoami religion of the punjab area of india. twitchell was born in paducah, kentucky, around 1918. he joined the navy during world war ii and then pursued a career as a journalist and the life of spiritual

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, the crooked straight, the straight awrythat, only, makes me feel aglow, and on this earth i ll have it so. herald. then take thou that, a master-blow from my good staff, thou wretched hound, then straightway writhe and twist around!how swift the two-fold dwarfish clump balls up into a loathsome lump!but see! lump turns to egg- a wonder! puffs itself up and bursts asunder. thence comes a pair of twins to earth, adder and bat- a wondrous birth! on in the dust one crawls and creeps, the black one round the ceiling sweeps, and where they haste to join again, to be the third i am not fain. murmuring. come! they re dancing now back there!no! i want to flee from herefeel ye not the ghost-like breed creeping, wheeling, round us speed?something whizzes past my hairmy foot felt a something therest

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

god-hood. 76=7+6=13 and we have a ton of links here, but check out the relations to gargophias and the 13'th tunnel of set, in the outer spaces (this comes later) side note on the second sigil: inverse libra) absolute chaos. 7 is also a symbol of set as an ax. sept is seven the sixth and central cosmic power zone: beauty--tiphareth--sun/son. the number 6(sex):vau- sexual union zain: the number 7--twins set/ horus (gemini, 6'th and 7'th months gemini- cancer. sexual polarity. lovers of the tarot. the letter zain spelled in full equal's 67 (reverse 76) which symbolizes the womb of the mother (binah=67. in reversal, the dark) mother, inverse birth (destruction--the phoenix again. there is also some relation to sekmet. on the gateway sigil (i do not know why i name it like this [2: unity in ch

f mathematics, concerning the way. i/2a: a metaphor for life. i/2b: a brief interchange of the selves. a subconscious parlay with the readers masks. a calling to the readers self. amazing grace. i/3a: the tragedy of each maze is that it is unique. as the reader is drawn out of a state of passivity, the ego must be brought into play, and play this surely is. our sex consumes. gemini, refers to the twins of horus-set, the letter zain. it grows tired of the endless sibling rivalry. another master, this one the lady of understanding (more of a way. we has drank deeply of her cup. this is sure folly. i/3b: 10 being the number of sephira. the face depicted has three blackened lines and one shaded line. a reference to chrnzn and our lady. i/4a: the represents the first excursion. dreamscape, the

. ii/6a: a representation of the word projected which is so orderly and divine that the quaklephant cannot stand it s laser focus. a sarcastic representation of brother elijah in his angelic form, in a interplay hoping for more real friends to play with. ii/6b: we have the lamp. a sigil of harakhan, god of knowledge, and lucifer-christ as unity and love in shadow light. lucifer and christ are the twins of the same being, being divided once and now rejoined for the fun of pandaemonaeon. a perspective of knowledge is given. words (as well as numbers) trap ideas. numbers obviously being more effectual and universal in application. thus we can see that all communication is a binding. a bringing down into form of the fluid flux of reality into a phantasmal form of words. if it s not fun my frie

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

hese especially(c$)thebull (j )the lion (111) the scorpion (but in good symbolism the eagle) and=)the man are to be noted as forming the kerubic figures of ezekiel and john. to these signs are allotted the tribes of ephraim. judah,danand reuben, who, as we shall presently see, encamped towards the cardinal points around the tabernacleofthecongregation, and as leadersoftheothers.thesigns of(ii)the twins) the fishes, and in a certain sense as a compounded figure (t )the centaur armed with the bow, are called bi-corporate, or double- bodied signs. to these refer manasseh (ii),simeon, and benjamin (t).manasseh was divided into two half-tribes with separate possessions (being the only tribe thus divided, and thus answers to the equal division of the sign of the twins, castor and pollux, the gre

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

agery to degenerate into nature worship or the idolisation of family is a great aberration. it must always be remembered that the sun being the gateway to the lower world also transmits the forces of the demiurge. the solar sphere can destroy as well as heal, corrupt as well as make whole. this tradition is embodied in many early myths and legends. for example, horus and set of ancient egypt, the twins of the sun, where horus is the power and glory of the solar sphere, and yet hidden within his breast is set, the fallen and dark one. in nature this can also be readily discerned, the sun can create deserts, as well as sustain the beauty of the forest- the sun burns just as quick as its causes growth. fig 34 setting sun (sophia) sun at midday: mithra/christ rising sun (logos) gnostic theurgy

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

4 ibid. 5 the encyclopaedia of ancient egypt, p. 85. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 144 believed in an all-powerful system of nine deities.6 the popol vuh, the sacred book of the ancient quiche maya of mexico and guatemala, contains several passages which clearly indicate a belief in stellar rebirth the reincarnation of the dead as stars. after they had been killed, for example, the hero twins named hunahpu and xbalanque rose up in the midst of the light, and instantly they were lifted into the sky. then the arch of heaven and the face of the earth were lighted. and they dwelt in heaven. 7 at the same time ascended the twins 400 companions who had also been killed, and so they again became the companions of hunahpu and xbalanque and were changed into stars in the sky. 8 the majori

was a mysterious ceremony known as the opening of the mouth, always conducted after the death of the pharaoh 13 pre-hispanic gods of mexico, p. 37. 14 the gods and symbols of ancient mexico and the maya, pp. 128-9. 15 reproduced in national geographic magazine, volume 176, number 4, washington dc, october 1989, p. 468: double comb is being taken to the underworld in a canoe guided by the paddler twins, gods who appear prominently in maya mythology. other figures an iguana, a monkey, a parrot, and a dog accompany the dead ruler. we learn more of the mythological significance of dogs in part v of this book. 16 details are reproduced in john romer, valley of the kings, michael o mara books limited, london, 1988, p. 167, and in j. a. west, the traveller s key to ancient egypt, harrap columbus

ong the maoris 18 ibid, p. 204. 19 odyssey (rouse translation, 20:103-19. 20 trimalcho in petronius, cited in hamlet s mill, p. 137. 21 john milton, samson agonistes, 1:41. 22 judges, 16:25-30. 23 in japanese myth the samson character is named susanowo. see post wheeler, the sacred scriptures of the japanese, new york, 1952, p. 44ff. 24 in slightly distorted form in the popol vuh s account of the twins and their 400 companions (see chapter nineteen. zipcana, son of vucub-caquix sees the 400 youths dragging a huge log they want as a ridgepole for their house. zipcana carries the tree without effort to the spot where a hole has been dug for the post to support the ridgepole. the youths try to kill zipcana by crushing him in the hole, but he escapes and brings down the house on their heads, k

ortal being contrived to create two divine offspring, shu, god of the air and dryness, and tefnut the goddess of moisture: i thrust my phallus into my closed hand. i made my seed to enter my hand. i poured it into my own mouth. i evacuated under the form of shu, i passed water under the form of tefnut. 7 despite such apparently inauspicious beginnings, shu and tefnut (who were always described as twins and frequently depicted as lions) grew to maturity, copulated and produced offspring of their own: geb the god of the earth and nut, the goddess of the sky. these two also mated, creating osiris and isis, set and nepthys, and so completed the ennead, the full company of the nine gods of heliopolis. of the nine, ra, shu, geb and osiris were said to have ruled in egypt as kings, followed by ho

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

se; cette pierre informe placee au milieu d'un champ est respectee par les laboureurs^ et la charrue laisse un espace libre a fentour' mem. des antiq. 8, 455; similar traditions ib. 1, 429. 430. this creeping thi'ough a gap in oak, earth or stone seemingly transferred the sickness or sorcery to the genius of the tree or soil" from magdeburg country i have heard the following: let two brothers (if twins, the better) split a cherrtj-tree in the middle, and pull any sick child through, then bind the tree up again; as the tree heals up, so will the child. near wittstock in the altmark stood a stout gnarled oah, whose boughs had grown into and made lioles in each other: the afflicted who crept through these holes recovered; all round the tree lay numbers of crutches that convalescent cripples h

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

o atone for it to his daughter skaisi. 0$inn took thiassi s eyes and threw them against the sky, where they formed two stars, sn. 82-3. these augu thiassa are most likely two stars that stand near 1 in an old church-hymn lucifer is provided with a chariot: currus jam poscit phosphorus (reita giu fergot tagastern, hymn. 2, 3. 724 sky and staes. each other, of equal size and brightness, perhaps the twins? this is another instance of the connexion we found between stars and eyes; and the toe translated to heaven is quite of a piece with the tongues and the correspondence of the parts of the body to the macrocosm, p. 568 (see suppl. the milky-way and its relation to irmin i have dealt with, pp. 356-8. amongst all the constellations in our sky, three stand pro minent to the popular eye: ursa ma

thiefa thumb, p. 140: fabula de polucari auriga, dumeke, fulirman that the same fancy of the waggoner to this constellation prevails in the east, appears from niebuhr s arabia, and the hungarian oontzol seems closely related to him; in greek legend likewise zeus places the waggon s driver (yvlo%o) or inventor erichthonius among the stars, though not in the great bear, but between perseus and the twins in the galaxy. the bohemian formdnek, wozatag (auriga) or boivozny signify arcturus, bootes and erichthonius (jungm. 1, 550. 3, 401, and palecky u ivozu thumblings on waggon. but in slovenic, it seems, hervor (murko 85. jarnik 229b) and burovzh mean the waggoner and the polar star. the cluster of brilliant stars in which the greeks recognised the figure of orion l had various teutonic names

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

th or through the nose and mouth. the combination of biological and intellectual methods of creation is stressed in the memphite theology, which states that the ennead of atum (the first nine deities created) came into existence through his seed and his fingers, but the ennead is the teeth and lips in this mouth that spoke the name of every thing and from which shu and tefnut came forth. once the twins had been born, the sexual identity of atum becomes fixed as a father. a further development was the personification of the hand of atum as a goddess, thus giving him a sexual partner. since the hand goddess came directly from the creator, she was his daughter as well as his consort. this god- mythical time lines 63 dess was often identified with hathor, who came to be regarded as the female

sexual identity of atum becomes fixed as a father. a further development was the personification of the hand of atum as a goddess, thus giving him a sexual partner. since the hand goddess came directly from the creator, she was his daughter as well as his consort. this god- mythical time lines 63 dess was often identified with hathor, who came to be regarded as the female creative principle. the twins sometimes appear to be the male and female aspects of atum. he embraces them to transfer his ka (vital essence) to them. in coffin texts spell 80, shu and tefnut are described as living with their father in the primeval waters. the three deities cling tightly to each other as if they were still one entity. for creation to continue, shu and tefnut had to become fully differentiated from the c

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

es that during the siege of limerick three portents appeared. the first was a luminous globe, brighter than the moon and little inferior to the sun, which for two leagues and a half shed a vertical light on the city, and then faded into darkness over the enemy's camp; the second was the apparition of the virgin, accompanied by several of the saints; and the third was a lusus natur, of the siamese-twins type: all three of which o'daly interprets to his own satisfaction. the first of these was some form of the northern lights, and is also recorded in the diary of certain puritan officers. that learned, but somewhat p. 101 too credulous english antiquary, john aubrey, relates in his miscellanies that before the last battle between the contending parties "a woman of uncommon statue all in whit

ISIS UNVEILED

e between the esoteric philosophies of all the ancient peoples, however geographical- ly remote from each other, it will be useful to explain briesy the real ideas which underlie all those symbols and allegorical representations that have hitherto so puzzled the uninitiated commentators. better than anything, it may show that religion and science were closer knit than ;c by google 4 isis unveiled twins in days of old; that they were one in two and two in one from the very moment id their conception. with mutually convertible attiibutes, science was spiritual and religion was scientific. like the androgyne man of the first chapter of genxsis 'male and female' passive and active; created in the image of the elohim. omniscience developed onmipo- tency, the latter called for the exercise of th

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

ields of creation, in which the stars are scattered as fig. 256. fig. 257. estoiles, or waved serpentining flames, the mystic brood of the great dragon. the reverse of this amulet (b) presents the crescent and decrescent moons, placed back to back, with a trace or line, implying that the microcosmos or man, is made as between fig. 258. the moons. this figure suggests a likeness to the sign of the twins, and to that of the february fishes. fig. 257 is the mythological medusa s head, terrible in her beauty, which transforms the beholder to stone. this direful head is twined around with snakes for hair, and the radii which dart from it are lightning. it is, nevertheless, note. 279 esteemed one of the most powerful talismans in the gnostic preservative group, though it expresses nothing (in a

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

to as mr. a, mr. b, and jemi. it is assumed that the third person was jemi because of the direct use of "jemi" in salutations and references to that name by mr. a (green) and mr. b (blue) throughout the book. there are many, some of which appear on pages 2, 81, 122, 126, and 162 in the original book. it is possible of course that it is merely a salutation. it is possible that two of these men are twins. there are two references to this word. they appear on page 6 and page 81 of the original book. the assumption that mr. a is one of the twins may be correct. on page 81, mr. a has written and marked through" and i do not know how this came to pass, jemi" then he has written "i remember, my twin. on page 6 he writes in an apparent answer to mr. b "no, my twin" we cannot be sure of the other t

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

of the rope, one understands what to do and how best to do it. kabbalists can also see the forces operating on them at any given moment in time, such as why one should marry a specific individual, or why one s children are the way they are. all these details are predetermined. today, in fact, even science acknowledges that this information is determined in the genes. there is a famous story about twins who were separated at a very young age and lost contact with each other. thirty years later they reunited and discovered that both had the same occupation, their wives had the same name, they had given their children the same names, and they even lived in houses with the same street number. matters unfold this way because our internal informas t r i v i n g f o r b a l a n c e 89 tion define

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

tan. mainstream judaism, christianity, and islam all view satan as a fallen angel who was cast out of heaven, either for disobeying god or for rebelling against god. by way of contrast, ahriman is believed to be very much on par with ahura mazda. they even created the world together, which explains why the world is such a mixture of good and bad. later thinkers speculated that the two beings were twins, both fathered by boundless time (zurvan. ahriman is, however, not very creative in the sense that his evil creations are always responses to his brother s good creations. thus, for example, when ahura mazda created life, ahriman responded by creating death. ahriman also formed an infernal host as an inverted mirror image of the celestial host. for instance, in opposition to asha, the archan

LIBER ALEPH

now this influx is fivefold. first, from the crown descendeth the high priestess in the path of the moon, for inspiration, and imagination, and idea: see to it that this virgin be pure, for herein error is illusion. next, from the father floweth the power of the emperor in the path of the ram, for initiative, and energy, and determination. third, from the mother are the lovers in the path of the twins, for intellectual wholeness, and for adjustment to environment. these three are from this superna and complete the theorick of thy work. after this, in the praxis and executive thereof thou hast the hermit as an influence from the sphere of jupiter in the path of the virgin, for secrecy, and for concentration, and for prudence. lastly, from the sphere of mars, travelleth justice in the path

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

olent measures. if one were to slack off now and hope for the morning, like a shipwrecked paul, one would probably wake up a mere man of the world. the question then arises: what shall i do to be saved? the only answer.and one which is quite unconnected with the question.is that a ritual of adeptus major should display the birth of horus and slaying of typhon. here again horus and harpocrates.the twins of the twin signs of 0= 0 ritual.are the slayers of typhon. so all the rituals get mixed: the symbols recur, though in a different aspect. anyway, one wants something a deal better than the path of pe in 4= 7 ritual. i think the postulant should be actually scourged, tortured, branded by fire for his equilibrations at the various .stations of the cross. or points upon his mystic journey. he

LIBER LVII

10 2= 20. in general, the tens are .solidifications. of the ideas of the units which they multiply. thus 50 is death, the force of change in its final and most earthy aspect. samekh is .temperance. in the tarot: the 6 has little evil possible to it; the worst name one can call 60 is .restriction. 61. ya, the negative. yna, the ego. a number rather like 31, q.v. 64. yd and ynd, intelligences (the twins) of mercury. see also 32. 65. ynda. in roman characters lxv= lvx, the redeeming light. see the 5 =6 ritual and .konx om pax. note 65= 13 5, the most spiritual form of force, just as 10 5 was its most material form. note sh .keep silence. and lkyh, the palace; as if it were said .silence is the house of adonai. 34 liber lviii 67. hnyb the great mother. note 6+ 7= 13, uniting the ideas of bina

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

ut force he ran to her: he freed the lion.one buffet of his hand dashed her back six paces .and with another blow smote its head from its body. and he ran to her and by force embraced her. struggled she and fought him: savagely she bit, but it was of no avail: she lay ravished and exhausted on the lybian plain. across the mouth he smote her for a kiss, while she cried .o! thou hast begotten on me twins. and mine also is the serpent, and thou shalt conquer it and it shall serve thee: and they, they also for a guide. she ceased; and he, having come to the world.s end, prepared his chariot. foresquare he builded it, and that double: he harnessed the two sphinxes that he had made from one, and sailed, crabfashion, backwards, through the amber skies of even. wherefore he attained to see his chi

hou shalt conquer it and it shall serve thee: and they, they also for a guide. she ceased; and he, having come to the world.s end, prepared his chariot. foresquare he builded it, and that double: he harnessed the two sphinxes that he had made from one, and sailed, crabfashion, backwards, through the amber skies of even. wherefore he attained to see his children. lovers they were and lovely, those twins of rape. one was above them, joining their hands .that is well. said our father, and for seven nights he slept in seven starry palaces, and a sword to guard him. note well also that these children, and those others, are two, being four. and on the sixth day (for the seven days were past) he rose and came into his ancient temple, a temple of our holy order, o my brethren, wherein sat that hie

LIBER LXXVIII

s throne of the ace of cups. xiii the lord of the winds and the breezes: the king of the spirits of air knight of swords a winged warrior with crowned winged helmet, mounted upon a brown steed. his general equipment is as that of the knight of wands, but he wears as a crest a winged six-pointed 18 liber lxxviii star, similar to those represented on the heads of castor and pollux the dioscuri, the twins gemini (a part of which constellation is included in his rule. he holds a drawn sword with the sigil of his scale upon its pommel. beneath his horse's feet are dark-driving stratus clouds. he is active, clever, subtle, fierce, delicate, courageous, skilful, but inclined to domineer. also to overvalue small things, unless well dignified. if ill dignified, deceitful, tyrannical and crafty. rul

LIBER SAMEKH

on-fettered mind, makes them aware of their inmate, and thus to partake of its own consciousness of the light. line 8 ggrace h has here its proper sense of gpleasantness. h the existence of the angel is the justification of the device of creation. line 9. this line must be studied in the light of liber lxv (equinox iii (1, p. 65* this is, yod he, realizing themselves will and understanding in the twins vau he, mind and body [greek carij] but see also the general solution of the riddle of existence in the book of the law and its comment.part iv of book 4 [see works cited] point ii 25 section h this recapitulation demands the going forth together of the adept and his angel gto do their pleasure on the earth among the living. section j the beast 666 having devised the present method of using

LIBER V VEL REGULI

f set-isis as their logos or word uttered by their .angel. the card is xx, and 20 is the value of yod (the secret seed of all things, the virgin .the 12 liber v vel reguli hermit. mercury, the angel or herald) expressed in full as ivd. sh is the spiritual congress of heaven and earth. but t is the holy spirit in action as a .roaring lion. or as .the old serpent. instead of an .angel of light. the twins of set-isis, harlot and beast, are busy with that sodomitic and incestuous lust which is the traditional formula for producing demi-gods, as in the cases of mary and the dove, leda and the swan, etc. the card is xi, the number of magick avd: aleph .the fool. impregnating the woman according to the word of yod, the angel of the lord! his sister has seduced her brother beast, shaming the sun w

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

on. and on each one i put .no thoroughfare from here to the first house. the only way is out of doors. by order. this was frightfully annoying, because in the old days we could walk about inside everywhere, and not get wet if it rained, but nowadays there isn.t any way from the fourth to the third house. you could go of course by chariot from the fifth to the third, or through the house where the twins live from the sixth to the third, but that isn.t allowed unless you have been to the fourth house too, and go from there at the same time. it was here they told me what t.a.r.o. on the ring meant. first it means gate, and that is the name of my fairy prince, when you spell it in full letter by letter. there are seventy-eight parts to it, which makes a perfect plan of the whole palace, so you

n just drive! his name in the mysterious name i told you about with eleven letters in it, but be call him jehu for short, because he.s only nineteen years old. it.s important to know though because this journey is the most difficult of all, and without the chariot one couldn.t ever do it, because it is so far.much further than the heaven is from the earth in the dream world. the passage where the twins live is very difficult too. they are two sisters; and one is very pure and good, and they other is a horrid fast woman. but that just shows you how silly dream language is. really there is another way to put it: you can say they are two sisters, and one is very silly and ignorant, and the other has learnt to know and enjoy. now when one is a princess it is very important to have good manners

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

e and that of an animal show odin healing baldr fs horse, as he does in the second merseburg charm. he interprets another characteristic image, that of three figures together (the so-called three-god bracteates) as presenting odin, baldr, and loki, or perhaps odin, baldr, and hel, either of which would correspond to the baldr myth as we have it in the scandinavian sources. in addition, the divine twins have been identified in images with two figures. although hauck fs work is enormously learned and thorough, the mythological interpretations remain speculative and would seem to invite fresh investigations. see also baldr; hel; loki; merseburg charms; odin references and further reading: karl hauck provided a relatively short summary of his analyses in the encyclopedia article gbrakteateniko

s: odin of the asir, sleipnir of horses, and so forth. although snorri sturluson quotes this stanza in gylfaginning, he has nothing more to say of habrok, and the other sources are silent as well, except for the thulur, which list the name under ghawk h and grooster. h ghigh-pants h could refer to long legs. haddingjar royal family in heroic literature; when doubled, possible reflex of the divine twins. the prose colophon to helgakvida hundingsbana ii says the ancients believed in rebirth, and that helgi hundingsbani was thought to have been reborn as helgi haddingja skati, that is, prince of the haddingjar. the so-called kalfsvisa, a fragmentary list of horses and riders, says that haddingja skati rode skavad, a horse name known from other sources. haddingjar is the plural of haddingi (re

as a doublet. hyndluljod, stanza 23, mentions gtwo haddingjar, h as does a verse spoken by hjalmar in orvar-odds saga before the battle of samsey. another of the fornaldarsogur, hervarar saga ok heidreks konungs, also names gtwo haddingjar, h brothers of the hero anganty lr. there thus appears to have been a tradition of a doubled haddingi, and some observers have associated them with the divine twins, especially since according to tradition each was powerless on his own but together they made up a strong warrior. see also hadingus references and further reading: georges dumezil, from myth to fiction: the saga of hadingus, trans. derek coltman (chicago: university of chicago press, 1973. hadingus danish king in book 1 of saxo fs gesta danorum; shows remarkable similarities to both odin an

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

s tail to be held by a woman. immediately after the lion comes the virgin holding an ear of corn, further on, we perceive two scales of a balance, above which, in a medal lion, is the figure of harpocrates. then follows the scorpion and sagittarius, to whom the egyptians gave wings, and two faces. after sagittarius are successively placed, capricornus, aquarius, pisces, the ram, the bull, and the twins. this zodiacal procession is, as we have already observed, terminated by cancer, the crab" p. 56 the antiquity of the zodiac is much in dispute. to contend that it originated but a mere few thousand years before the christian era is a colossal mistake on the part of those who have sought to compile data, concerning its origin. the zodiac necessarily must be ancient enough to go backward to t

o represent israel. the only two signs not already mentioned are gemini and sagittarius. the constellation of gemini is generally represented as two small children, who, according to the ancients, were born out of eggs, possibly the ones that the bull broke with his horns. the stories concerning castor and pollux, and romulus and remus, may be the result of amplifying the myths of these celestial twins. the symbols of gemini have passed through many modifications. the one used by the arabians was the peacock. two of the important stars in the constellation of gemini still bear the names of castor and pollux. the sign of gemini is supposed to have been the patron of phallic worship, and the two obelisks, or pillars, in front of temples and churches convey the same symbolism as the twins. th

hat signified the potency that established the higher, or celestial, sphere. without doubt the mosaic tablets have their prototype in the stone pillars or obelisks placed on either side of the entrance to pagan temples. these columns may pertain to that remote time when men worshiped the creator through his zodiacal sign of gemini, the symbol of which is still the phallic pillars of the celestial twins "the ten commandments, writes hargrave jennings "are inscribed in two groups of five each, in columnar form. the five to the right (looking from the altar) mean the 'law; the five to the left mean the 'prophets' the right stone is masculine, the left stone is feminine. they correspond to the two disjoined pillars of stone (or towers) in the front of every cathedral, and of every temple in th

man body (male and female. 2nd. he caused the letter (v) to predominate in thought, crowned it, combined it with the others, and fashioned by them taurus (the bull) in the universe, the month liar in the year, and the right kidney of the human body (male and female. 3rd. he caused the letter (z) to predominate in movement, crowned it, combined it with the others, and fashioned by them gemini (the twins) in the universe, the month sivan in the year, and the left foot of the human body (male and female. 4th. he caused the letter (ch) to predominate in sight, crowned it, combined it with the others, and fashioned by them cancer (the crab) in the universe, the month tammuz in the year, and the right hand of the human body (male and female. 5th. he caused the letter (t) to predominate in hearin

eflection of divine wisdom. in the pseudo-egyptian tarot the towers are pyramids, the dogs are black and white respectively, and the moon is partly obscured by clouds. the entire scene suggests the dreary and desolate place in which the mystery dramas of the lesser rites were enacted. the nineteenth numbered major trump is called le soleil, the sun, and portrays two children--probably gemini, the twins--standing together in a garden surrounded by a magic ring of flowers. one of these children should be shown as male and the other female. behind them is a brick wall apparently enclosing the garden. above the wall the sun is rising, its rays alternately straight and curved. thirteen teardrops are falling from the solar face levi, seeing in the two children faith and reason, which must coexis

MARS COCIDIUS AND THE REDCAPS IN LANCASHIRE

ehold (paterfamilias) to the next for centuries. the loss of this would have been a disaster to both the individual and his whole family. that the only etruscan votive of laran to be found in britain that i have heard of came into my hands is in itself surprising; but this coincidence was just the first of many. the etruscan deity laran (also called maris later mars) was one of a pair of deities, twins. laran s twin was tages. according to legend laran had the head& neck of a swan in childhood before assuming human shape at maturity, and tages the wings of a swan. laran was a deity of protection, the protector of the flocks and the community, a god of divination and of agriculture and fertility. he was above all a god of the countryside in this form he was often named and represented as pi

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE GREATER KEY OF SOLOMON VOL 2

those of invisibility after everything is properly prepared, the moon should be in the sign of the fishes, in the hours proper and fitting, and she should be increasing in light. for experiments of seeking love and favor, in whatever way it may be desired, they will succeed, provided that they have been prepared at the proper hours, and that the moon be increasing in light and in the sign of the twins. so exact a preparation of days and hours is not necessary for those who are adepts in the art, but it is extremely necessary for apprentices and beginners, seeing that those who have been little or not at all instructed herein, and who only begin to apply themselves to this art, do not have as much faith in the experiments as those who are adepts therein, and who have practiced them. but as

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

. upon the coffin was painted a silver image of the lord of the crossroads, being in voudoo tradition baron carrefour which is associated with choronzon in it's masculine aspect. such symbols as the eye and the hand representing the zos and kia were painted as well. the coffin was consecrated and upon it was placed a skull with both the sigil of black eagle and the symbol of the crossroads or the twins within the voudoo tradition. a circle was inscribed in black with the names of power laylah, lilith, hecate, choronzon and thanatos in red. candles of both colors were placed outside each name inscribed on the outer rim of the circle. a triangle with an eye representing kia was painted in indigo at the center, to hold the spirit which was to be evoked. we had at hand a vial containing aged b

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

d white dragons, which is the dream of uther pendragon, father ofking arthur. the very name pendragon means head of the dragons, that is, the raceof good serpents, from which the celts and gaels descended. other cultures havesimilar leitmotifs expressing the same story. the saxon tale of st. george and thedragon is a perfect fictional rendition of it. in the old testament, passages relating tothe twins, jacob and esau, may well refer obliquely to the pre-diluvian bipartisanismand their ongoing antagonism.in your limbs lie nations twain,rival races from their birth;one the mastery shall gain,the younger oer the elder reign.the meaning behind the euphemisms of the combating serpents or dragons has todo with the antagonism within the biology of the homo atlantis. the reference is tothe coils

time and through many different cultures refer to a valiant group ofseven) these two legends remind of the story of kashyapa muni and his two wives, kadru, the mother of ser-pents, and vinata, the mother of garuda, the divine eagle, mentioned later. western africa the legend of da- the world was created by nana-buluku, the one god, who is neither male norfemale. in time, nana-buluku gave birth to twins, mawu and lisa, and it is they who shaped the worldand control it still, with their fourteen children, the v odou, or lesser gods. in the beginning, beforemawu had any children, the rainbow serpent, da, already existed- created to serve nana-buluku. thecreator was carried everywhere in da's mouth. rivers, mountains, and valleys twine and curve becausethat is how the rainbow serpent da moves

as in governments. 1946 u.s. imports german ss intelligence officers into oss. gehlen flies to europe formerly estab-lishes the postwar gehlen organization. 1946 u.s. government pertussis vaccine expert margaret pittman and fda's charles kendrick decideto test pertussis vaccine by injecting it into the brains of mice and see how many survive. 1946 werne and garrow describe the deaths of identical twins within 24 hours of their second pertussisshot. 1946 interpol reorganization meeting held in brussels. first public use of the term interpol. 1946* rockefeller's standard oil corporation and the rockefeller foundation spend $139,000 in 1946to present an official history of world war ii which covers up the whole story of u.s. bankers buildingup the nazi regime, as well as the occult and mystic

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

me equally, but later it was discovered that time was just a direction of motion. which meant that tomorrow and yesterday are no different than left, right, up, and down. with time being just another direction to move in, and with every object in the universe moving in different speeds and directions, naturally every object in the universe was experiencing time differently. for example, imagine 2 twins born on the same day. one twin is launched off the planet in a spaceship and the other twin is kept here on earth. lets say that after accelerating for one month, the spaceship is moving away from earth at 99.9% the speed of light (670,000,000 mph. it then slows down, turns around, and begins the trip back to earth eventually accelerating to the same speed. upon returning to earth two months

o the same speed. upon returning to earth two months after leaving, the twin exits the spaceship to find that everything on the planet has aged 5 years. the twin who stayed on earth is indeed 5 years older, and to him his brother was in space for 5 years; there s 5 years of new celebrities, 5 years of new geo-political developments, and 5 years of new inventions and technologies. not only can the twins debate over how long the trip lasted( 2 months or 5 years, but they can also debate over the total distance traveled. the twin who went on a trip to the stars (actually, he never made it to one) will claim to have traveled a distance that is considerably less than the people on earth said he traveled. the effect, that becomes quite measurable when considering things that are moving at high s

MORALS AND DOGMA

the capitalist buys profit with the lives of the laborers, speculations that coin a nation's agonies into wealth, and all the other devilish enginery of mammon. this, and greed for office, are the two columns at the entrance to the temple of moloch. it is doubtful whether the latter, blossoming in falsehood, trickery, and fraud, is not even more pernicious than the former. at all events they are twins, and fitly mated; and as either gains control of the unfortunate subject, his soul withers away and decays, and at last dies out. the souls of half the human race leave them long before they die. the two greeds are twin plagues of the leprosy, and make the man unclean; and whenever they break out they spread until "they cover all the skin of him that hath the plague, from his head even to hi

production, and which, as such, appeared in the mysteries. the indian lingam was the union of both, as were the boat and mast and the point within a circle: all of which expressed the same philosophical idea as to the union of the two great causes of nature, which concur, one actively and the other passively, in the generation of all beings: which were symbolized by what we now term _gemini, the twins, at that remote period when the sun was in that sign at the vernal equinox, and when they were male and female; and of which the phallus was perhaps taken from the generative organ of the bull, when about twenty-five hundred years before our era he opened that equinox, and became to the ancient world the symbol of the creative and generative power. the initiates at eleusis commenced, proclus

in greece. the gods adored in the mysteries of this island were termed cabiri, an oriental word, from _cabar, great. varro calls the gods of samothrace _potent gods. in arabic, venus is called _cabar. varro says that the great deities whose mysteries were practised there, were heaven and earth. these were but symbols of the active and passive powers or principles of universal generation. the two twins, castor and pollux, or the dioscuri, were also called the gods of samothrace; and the scholiast of apollonius, citing mnaseas, gives the names of ceres, proserpine, pluto, and mercury, as the four cabiric divinities worshipped at samothrace, as axieros, axiocersa, axiocersus, and casmillus. mercury was, there as everywhere, the minister and messenger of the gods; and the young servitors of t

ses at noon about the 9th of march. his rising was accompanied with great rains and storms, and it became very terrible to mariners. in bo tes, called by the ancient greeks _lycaon, from _lukos_ a wolf, and by the hebrews, caleb anubach, the barking dog, is the great star arcturus, which, when taurus opened the year, corresponded with a season remarkable for its great heat. next comes gemini, the twins, two human figures, in the heads of which are the bright stars castor and pollux, the dioscuri, and the cabiri of samothrace, patrons of navigation; while south of pollux are the brilliant stars sirius and procyon, the greater and lesser dog: and still further south, canopus, in the ship argo. sirius is apparently the largest and brightest star in the heavens. when the vernal equinox was in

library at paris, is a picture of the twelve signs. that of virgo is a young girl with an infant by her side. virgo was isis; and her representation, carrying a child (horus) in her arms, exhibited in her temple, was accompanied by this inscription "i am all that is, that was, and that shall be; and the fruit which i brought forth is the sun" nine months after the sun enters virgo, he reaches the twins. when scorpio begins to rise, orion sets: when scorpio comes to the meridian, leo begins to set, typhon reigns, osiris is slain, and isis (the virgin) his sister and wife, follows him to the tomb, weeping. the virgin and bo tes, setting heliacally at the autumnal equinox, delivered the world to the wintry constellations, and introduced into it the genius of evil, represented by ophiucus, the

utumn: and in the stars that correspond with the autumnal equinox we find those malevolent genii that ever war against the principle of good, and that take from the sun and the heavens the fruit-producing power that they communicate to the earth. with the vernal equinox, dear to the sailor as to the husbandman, came the stars that, with the sun, open navigation, and rule the stormy seas. then the twins plunge into the solar fires, or disappear at setting, going down with the sun into the bosom of the waters. and these tutelary divinities of mariners, the dioscuri or chief cabiri of samothrace, sailed with jason to possess themselves of the golden-fleeced ram, or aries, whose rising in the morning announced the sun's entry into taurus, when the serpent-bearer jason rose in the evening, and

opposition of these principles, ever pursuing one the other, and one dethroning the other in every annual revolution, and at a particular period, one in the spring under the bull, and the other in autumn under the scorpion, by the legendary history of osiris and typhon, detailed to us by diodorus and synesius; in which history were also personified the stars and constellations orion, capella, the twins, the wolf, sirius, and hercules, whose risings and settings noted the advent of one or the other equinox. plutarch gives us the positions in the heavens of the sun and moon, at the moment when osiris was murdered by typhon. the sun, he says, was in the sign of the scorpion, which he then entered at the autumnal equinox. the moon was full, he adds; and consequently, as it rose at sunset, it o

ial river, most properly called the nile, and below, perseus, the god of chemmis, and auriga, leading a she-goat, himself identical with pan, whose wife aiga the she-goat was styled. then isis went in search of the body. she first met certain children who had seen it, received from them their information, and gave them in return the gift of divination. the second full moon occurred in gemini, the twins, who presided over the oracles of didymus, and one of whom was apollo, the god of divination. she learned that osiris had, through mistake, had connection with her sister nephte, which she discovered by a crown of leaves of the melilot, which he had left behind him. of this connection a child was born, whom isis, aided by her dogs, sought for, found, reared, and attached to herself, by the n

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

r-khut. heru-ra-ha combines the ideas of horus (cf. also 'the great angel hru' who is set over the book of tahuti; see liber lxxviii) with those of ra and spirit. for ha is the atziluthic or archetypal spelling of he, the holy ghost. and ha =6, the number of the sun. he is also nuit, h being her letter. the language suggests that heru-ra-ha is the 'true name' of the unity who is symbolized by the twins harpocrates and horus. note that the twin sign and the child sign is gemini, whose letter is zain, a sword. the doctrine of the dual character of the god is very important to a proper understanding of him "the sign of the enterer is always to be followed immediately by the sign of silence: such is the imperative injunction to the neophyte. in book 4 the necessity for this is explained fully

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

st expert charioteer of his day, and pollux the first of pugilists. their names appear both among the hunters of the calydonian boar-hunt and the heroes of the argonautic expedition. the brothers became attached to the daughters of leucippus, prince of the messenians, who had been betrothed by their father to idas and lynceus, sons of aphareus. having persuaded leucippus to break his promise, the twins carried off the maidens as their brides. idas and lynceus, naturally furious at this proceeding, challenged the dioscuri to mortal combat, in which castor perished by the hand of idas, and lynceus by that of pollux. zeus wished to confer the gift of immortality upon pollux, but he refused to accept it unless allowed to share it with castor. zeus gave the desired permission, and the faithful

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

s tell not only of what happens after death, but of how death arrived in the world according to the zulus, it was all a mistake. the great one sent the chameleon, unwabu, to tell people they would live forever, but he lingered, and was passed by intulo the lizard, with the message that all people must die. there are also stories of heroes who tried to conquer death maui, gilgamesh, the mayan hero twins (see pp. 100 1. in his search for the secret of everlasting life, the sumerian hero gilgamesh crosses the ocean of death in search of utnapishtim, the sole survivor of the great flood. but utnapishtim tells him: there is no permanence. do we build a house to stand for ever, do we seal a contract to hold for all time? do brothers divide an inheritance to keep for ever, does the flood-time of

x months of each year, tammuz must live in the land of the dead. while he is there, ishtar laments his loss; when he rises in the spring, all rejoice. ahura mazda and ahriman 20 ahura mazda and ahrima n in the dualistic mythology of zoroastrianism, twin brothers ahura mazda, who lived in the light, and ahriman, who lurked in the dark, are in opposition. between them there was nothing but air. the twins were born from the god zurvan, time, the ultimate being who existed in the primal void. ahura mazda, the wise and all-knowing, created the sun, moon, and stars. he brought into being the good mind that works within man and all creation. ahriman (also known as angra mainya, meaning the destructive spirit) created demons and attacked ahura mazda. but ahura mazda sent him back into the darkness

g. at the end of time (see box opposite, those who die as children will be reborn at the age of 15. ahura mazda and ahriman 21 sacrifice of a thousand years the god zurvan, a unified, androgynous, undifferentiated god, longed for a son. he offered a sacrifice of 1,000 years to create one. but as the 1,000 years drew to an end, he began to doubt his power to produce a son. when it was time for the twins to be born, zurvan promised that his first-born should rule the world. ahura mazda, who was gifted with foresight, told his brother this, and evil-hearted ahriman forced his way out first, and lied to his parent, saying, i am your son, ahura mazda. but zurvan was not deceived, and answered, my son is light and fragrant, but you are dark and stinking. and zurvan wept. ahriman ahriman the pers

d age these elderly people are approaching the day when they must cross the cinvat bridge, the bridge of judgment, to reach either the joy of heaven or the horrors of hell, according to their acts and consciences. the bridge is wide for the faithful, but narrow as a needle for the sinner. the birth of ahura mazda and ahriman this silver plaque from luristan, from the eighth century bce, shows the twins, ahura mazda and ahriman, emerging from the body of zurvan, the supreme god and personification of time. on either side stand figures representing the three stages of man youth, maturity, and old age. mithra mithra was a persian god who became widely venerated in the west, especially in the roman empire, as mithras. he was said to be the son of ahura mazda one of the seven divinities created

isguised as a swan, pretends to be in danger, takes refuge in the bosom of nemesis and then ravishes her. hermes (mercury) then throws the egg between leda s thighs so that she gives birth to it. leda and the swan by francesco melzi or melzo (1493 1570) this painting combines leda s rape by zeus in the form of a swan, with the hatching of the two eggs that she laid as a result giving birth to the twins helen and polydeuces, and castor and clytemnestra. helen was to become the cause of a famous tenyear war between the trojans and the greeks (see pp. 62 63. deceived by a swan leda, approached on the banks of a river by a gentle swan, realized too late that the bird was merely zeus in disguise. the god overpowered and raped her. sparta in the background the city of sparta can be seen, where l

olympus and the next in hades, realm of the dead. born from an egg leda laid two eggs as a result of her encounter with zeus, and the four children born from them all achieved renown. sources differ as to the fatherhood of the individual children, but generally helen and polydeuces are regarded as zeus children, and clytemnestra and castor as the children of leda s husband tyndareus. inseparable twins castor and polydeuces were inseparable from birth, even though one was of human parentage, the other, divine. castor was a mighty warrior and tamer of horses, while polydeuces was a great boxer; the only way to tell them apart was by the boxing scars on his face. helen helen grew up to be excessively beautiful and had many suitors. after she was carried off, at the age of 12, by theseus (aft

ere created before the earth and before the sky or you are both in the earth and in the sky. aido-hwedo in the sea supports the earth and everything on it; aido- hwedo, the rainbow serpent in the sky, sends thunderbolts to earth. the second crack of thunder, the recoil, is the sound of aido- hwedo s tail whipping back after flinging the bolt to earth. the two aido-hwedos are sometimes regarded as twins. painted wooden bowl this painted wooden bowl from west africa shows the world and a man, woman, and snake. the fon believe that the first man and woman came to earth in the company of aido-hwedo, the cosmic serpent. aido-hwedo is also said to have helped the creator to shape the world like a great calabash gourd. in the mythology of the fon sky-cult, the creator parent, nana- buluku, is rev

brought up by first man and first woman. she is crucially involved in the creation, and is identified with the essence of life, growing old and becoming young again in an endless cycle of regeneration. her sister is white shell woman. changing woman married (but did not live with) sun god, who carries the sun on his back and hangs it on the west wall of his lodge each night. their sons, the hero twins, monster slayer and born-for- water, aided by spider woman (see opposite, located their father, who helped them to make the earth safe by destroying the monsters that ruled it. but despite killing many evil creatures, they could never slay old age, cold, and hunger. mountainway 93 the bears in the story lay around a fire that was burning without any wood the flames were issuing from four col

brother, you will never see me again but when the showers pass and the thunder peals, you will say, there is the voice of my elder brother. navajo woven blanket rattle basket charm spider woman spider woman is an important figure in the mythologies of the american southwest and plays various roles, including assisting at the creation. in navajo myth, she is a helpful old woman. she helps the hero twins, monster slayer and born-for-water, and it is she who taught the navajo how to weave. this is why navajos must never kill spiders, which also help humans by catching insects, flies, and mosquitos. any child who kills a spider is expected to have crooked second teeth, because spider woman is said to have needle-sharp teeth that slant backward to stop her prey from escaping. to encourage navaj

icted as a were-jaguar. some scholars believe that the basic olmec creation myth told of the copulation of a woman and a jaguar, making the olmecs the people of the jaguar. tlaloc was known as the provider, for the rain that made the corn grow was his gift. he was the ruler of the weather and mountain spirits. in this stone carving, tlaloc is shown upturning one of his nine rain buckets. the hero twins 100 the hero twins the hero twins, hunahpu and xbalanque, were central american mayan gods venerated for ridding the world of the earth giants and other monsters. in the story below, they rescue their father and uncle from xibalba, the gloomy underworld. years before they were born, their father hun hunahpu and uncle vucub hunahpu were challenged by one death and seven death, the lords of xi

e earth giants and other monsters. in the story below, they rescue their father and uncle from xibalba, the gloomy underworld. years before they were born, their father hun hunahpu and uncle vucub hunahpu were challenged by one death and seven death, the lords of xibalba, to a game of tlachtli, the mayan ritual ball game. but they were tricked, sacrificed, and buried under the ballcourt. when the twins grew up and learned of their father s fate, they traveled into the depths of xibalba past many dangers to wreak vengeance. when they arrived, they defeated the lords of xibalba at tlachtli and were thrown into the house of lances where they were stabbed at by demons. they escaped, but were then shut up in the houses of cold, jaguars, fire, and bats. surviving all these, the twins boasted tha

se of lances where they were stabbed at by demons. they escaped, but were then shut up in the houses of cold, jaguars, fire, and bats. surviving all these, the twins boasted that they were immortal and, to prove it, were sacrificed and had their bones ground like flour. when they came back to life, their enemies were so impressed that they wished to experience death and rebirth themselves. so the twins killed them but, as planned, did not revive them. instead they brought their father and uncle back to life and went home. water-lily jaguar water-lily jaguars drooling blood form two corners of the temple; the other two (one is hidden) show xocfish monsters. the water-lily jaguar is a form of the underworld jaguar god, who represents the sun in the underworld. ax hunahpu is shown in act of s

his identity is made clear by the jaguar paw on the nose of his mask. xbalanque often had jaguar markings on his face, arms, and legs. hunahpu hunahpu is wearing a jaguar-pelt skirt, and the headband of the jester god. mayan kings wore jade head ornaments of the jester god; a court jester is a suitable disguise for hunapu here, since he performs magic tricks to amuse the gods of xibalba. the hero twins first sacrificed a dog and revived it; then a man; then xbalanque sacrificed hunahpu and revived him. one death and seven death pleaded, do it to us! but after killing them, the twins refused to revive them and then humilated the other lords of xibalba, curbing their power. the hero twins this image is taken from a vase and shows the hero twins in disguise, in the presence of one death, the

RABBI AMIRAM MARKEL MARKEL THE KNOWLEDGE OF G D VOL 1

re binah of binah, da at of binah, chessed of binah, gevurah of binah, tiferet of binah, netzach/hod of binah, yesod of binah and malchut of binah. these sefirot of binah are known as the eight kings of tohu. they are called the eight kings of tohu because the torah states "and he reigned and he died etc" in reference to the kings of the edom, the descendents of esav, yaakov s twin brother. these twins represent the twin worlds of tohu (chaos) and tikun (rectification. esav, was a wild and impulsive man, while yaakov was "a wholesome man who dwelt in tents" while esav was off stealing, killing and raping, thus embodying the world of tohu (chaos, yaakov was busy acquiring wisdom and perfecting his character, thus embodying the world of tikun. the eight kings of edom are therefore referred t

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

ans gwith. h therefore, when it is used to identify the direct object, it is often taken to allude to some additional entity implied together with the direct object. in this case, it implies that a twin sister was born with each of the two brothers, and since it appears twice in the verse describing the birth of abel, we infer that two twin sisters were born together with him (the fact that these twins were sisters may be indicated by the fact that the word et can also be read at, the feminine form of the pronoun gyou. h) these girls became the wives of cain and abel. the mystical meaning of these twins is as follows: the yesod of ima within z feir anpin shines into malchut of ima [malchut of ima] emerges behind yesod of ima, and is called leah. this is the twin-sister of cain, who, as we

f abba similarly issues from the light of malchut of abba [and is situated] behind the yesod of abba. a second twin is formed when the light of malchut of abba strikes the yesod of ima [but it is situated] behind the yesod of ima. these are the two twin-sisters of abel, who is derived from the yesod of abba. thus, whereas ima fs malchut produces one twin of its yesod, abba fs malchut produces two twins of its yesod. but since the second twin produced by malchut of abba is produced when its light hits that of yesod of ima, this second twin takes its place not behind yesod of abba where it gbelongs, h but behind yesod of ima, where was created. psychologically, this (presumably) means that chochmah realizes that it must actualize itself as itself and also as the presence-of-chochmah within b

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

rfect day, when the glory of this world passes and a great light shines over the splendid sea" book one <99> book one first knowledge lecture 1. the four elements of the ancients are duplicated conditions of: heat and dryness fire a heat and moisture air a cold and d yness earth b cold and moisture water v 2. the signs of the zodiac are twelve: 1. aries, the ram 2. taurus, the bull 3. gemini, the twins 4. cancer, the crab 5 .leo, the lion 6. virgo, the virgin 7. libra, the scales 8. scorpio, the scorpion 9. sagittarius, the archer 10. capricorn, the goat 11. aquarius, the water-bearer 12. pisces, the fishes these twelve signs are distributedamong the four triplicities or sets of three signs, each being attributed to one of the four elements, and they represent the operation of the el

of cups. the golden dawn: volume iv book eight swords xi1. lord of the winds and breezes. king of the spirit of air. knight of swords a winged warrior with crowned and winged helmet, mounted upon a brown steed, his general equipment is as that of the knight of wands, but he wears as a crest awinged six-pointed star, similar to those represented on the heads of castor and pollux, the dioscuri, the twins-gemini (a part of which constellation is included in his rule. he holds a drawn sword with the sigil of his scale upon its pommel. beneath his horse's feet are dark, driving, stratus clouds. he is active, clever, subtle, fierce, delicate, courageous, skillful, but inclined to domineer. also to over-value small things, unless well-dginified. ill-digrufied: deceitful, tyrannical and crafty. ru

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

nderful in all his structure. he was made last because he was theworthiest, the soul was inspired last because yet more noble, for it is the breath of the holy spirit.the soul is liken unto god, for it is one, immaterial, immortal, distinguished into three cowers whichall make up one spirit. yet observe how closely the spirit and the man are united, symbolised, bythe zodiacal sign, gemini, or the twins; and of which the stars of the second magnitude, castor andpollux are typical as they are termed "corposant, or body and spirit.conductor and companions proceed to 1st ancient, whose six lights have just been lit. the tapers ofmedallist and 2nd herald are extinguished.1st ancient,6th sign: now, all created things move in harmony toward the fulfilment of their destiny; theheavens are studded

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

acal constellations by ancient astrologers: each of them represents the name of a genius, be he good or evil. it is known that the signs of the zodiac correspond to various celestial influences and consequently signify an annual alternative of good or evil. the names of the genii designated by the above characters are: for the ram, sataaran and sarahiel; for the bull, bagdal, and araziel; for the twins, sagras and saraiel; for the crab, rahdar and. phakiel; for the lion, sagham and seratiel; for the virgin, iadara and schaltiel; for the balance, grasgarben and hadakiel; for the scorpion, riehol and saissaiel; for the archer, vhnori and saritaiel; for the goat, sagdalon and semakiel; for the water- bearer, ssakmakile; for the fishes, rasamasa and vacabiel. the wise man, seeking to read the

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

a- note due to this that the lone witch in norse lore was called volva and was considered a seer or a sybill, the oracle made manifest in the flesh of the crone, which suggest the oracular nature within this aat, reflected through the use of the portals of the moon. cell 6 being the aat of the 7th and 18th letter of the sacred alphabet this cell is a discourse upon the double will and the divided twins as found in the mystery of the androgyne also known in the occult communities as baphomet. i am her as i am he (p. 241. this cell connects with the supposed mysteries of the templars and the vapours of demolay can be sensed in its discourses of the twin vessels and the construction of the stone-god. the physical representation of the god or famulus are integrated as an important and crucial

are turned into rehctaw. the cell explains how these distortion bring forth wonders done in accuracy and with the perfected intent. further one can use the techniques of constructing squares, lattices and matrices for occult purposes. the ecos of spare are strong in this cell. also the magical utterance of spare are found here. thanateros. the coffin and the marriage-bed are set forth as the true twins of inward initiation. these workings and their procedures are with eloquence set forth, but should remain only mentioned in this essay. the secret is hidden in-between the words and reflects the pagan influence of the masonic traditions where the coffin carries many symbols of the rose and the cross of the great lord of the dawning light. this is the eroticism of thanathos. the secrets of th

SEVEN SCROLLS CHILDREN OF THE BLACK ROSE

ing at a time. to some, stilling the mind is a foreign concept, and they will dismiss it as a crackpot idea. before doing this, ask yourself: was thomas edison a crackpot? he did it many times each day, and look how successful he was. with a little practice, you will be successful too. stilling the mind is most useful during your rest of light, and with just a little practice the two will soon be twins, one helping the other. this is how we open the closed doors to our spiritual self or higher nature, the one that can exist in the presence of the force and the whisperings of those who have gone on before. in the beginning, should you have trouble stilling your mind enough so that you can readily evaluate your innermost and private thoughts, remember this bit of wisdom: a song will soothe e

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

apartment in the castle. what foul or malignant apparition could harm him in the light of that blessed sun! it was the peculiar, and on the whole most unhappy, contradiction in glyndon's nature, that while his reasonings led him to doubt, and doubt rendered him in moral conduct irresolute and unsteady; he was physically brave to rashness. nor is this uncommon: scepticism and presumption are often twins. when a man of this character determines upon any action, personal fear never deters him; and for the moral fear, any sophistry suffices to self-will. almost without analysing himself the mental process by which his nerves hardened themselves and his limbs moved, he traversed the corridor, gained mejnour's apartment, and opened the forbidden door. all was as he had been accustomed to see it

SORCERIES OF ZOS

sel dissolves in the tranquillity of total negation. the identity of these concepts is explicit in the ancient chinese equation 0=2, where naught symbolizes the negative, unmanifest potential of creation, and the two the two polaritites involved in its realization. the goddess represents the negative phase: the atmospheric 'i' symbolized by that -asleleing eye with all its ayin symbolism; and the twins- set-horus- represent the phase of 2, or duality. the lightning-swift alternations of these terminals, active-passive, are positive emanations of the void, i.e. the manifestation of the unmanifest, and the hand is the symbol of this creative, power-manifesting duality. the supreme symbol of zos kia cultus therefore resumes that of the scarlet woman, and is reminiscent of crowley's cult of lo

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n personality in a unique way. since thoughts and emotions are believed to create reality, then dreams, too, have a separate reality. when individuals dream of themselves, they are seeing a fragment of their own personality, such as the probable self identified by seth. according to the spirit entity, each individual has a counterpart in other systems of reality. these are not identical selves or twins, but other selves who are part of the whole person, developing ideas in a different way. each of these probable selves represents a portion of the whole self existing in a different dimension, yet all are a part of the whole self. according to seth, these various realities merge in the overall perceptions of the whole self and ultimately the inner ego must bring about comprehension on the pa

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d. parapsychologists have long contended that telepathy (and esp in general) functions best between individuals who have a strong emotional link. this particular level of the human mind seems to operate best spontaneously, especially when a crisis situation makes it necessary to communicate through other than the standard sensory channels. for quite some time, psi researchers have been aware that twins show unusually high telepathic rapport. a series of tests conducted by psychologists at the university of alberta, canada, confirmed this theory by establishing statistical evidence that identical twins, and to a lesser extent, fraternal twins, have remarkable ability to communicate with one another through esp. at the behest of dr. j. b. rhine of duke university, olivia rivers, a psychologi

ducted by psychologists at the university of alberta, canada, confirmed this theory by establishing statistical evidence that identical twins, and to a lesser extent, fraternal twins, have remarkable ability to communicate with one another through esp. at the behest of dr. j. b. rhine of duke university, olivia rivers, a psychologist at mississippi state university, conducted tests with identical twins, terry and sherry young. the jackson, mississippi, twins were able to pass entire sentences to each other via telepathy. the girls seemed to be in constant rapport; and even when separated, each knew if the other had turned an ankle, gotten a toothache, or developed a cold. sherry was better as the receiver; terry as the sender. their schoolteachers despaired of ever receiving an accurate te

n. mrs. sinclair was always the percipient, the receiver, and when irwin was the agent, the sender, he transmitted from more than 40 miles away. the agent would make a set of drawings of such simple items as a nest with eggs, a flower, or a tree, and enclose each sketch in an opaque 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 mysteries of the mind 181 twins being tested for telepathy capabilities (fortean picture library) envelope. at the agreed-upon time, or later, mrs. sinclair would lie down on a couch and allow her mind and body to enter a state of complete relaxation. experience soon taught her that other levels of mind would attempt to guess the sketch and thereby often confuse the true information that would come from a deeper level of a

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way, but they are not quite as aggressive and as dominant as those under the aries sign. they are passionate in nature, and love means much to them. they also make splendid mothers or fathers. taureans are generally not bookish types; they prefer life itself to fiction. although taureans are inclined to be generous, they will fly into a rage if they learn that they have been deceived. gemini, the twins, may 22 to june 21, is an air sign. according to the ancient romans, the sign of gemini represents the twin sons, castor and pollux, who were born to leda, the queen of sparta, after jupiter seduced her, the king of the gods. the twins were highspirited, strong, and inseparable. geminis are among the most intelligent citizens of the zodiac; but they have a dual nature, and they frequently ha

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

e by chance, but in order that you elevate them to their root" this is an important part of kabbalah in that nothing is seen as intrinsically evil, all being part of the one tree. the only evil is separation, and even this can be redeemed through the process of unification. names of the klippoth by sephiroth according to: crowley et al. barrett et al. demonic gray et al. 1 dual contending forces (twins of god) false gods satan/moloch the finishers 2 hinderers lying spirits beelzebub the life-cutter of god 3 concealers (hiding) vessels of iniquity luciferge one who hides 4 breakers in pieces (smiters) revengers of wickedness astaroth those that are crooked 5 burners (flaming ones) jugglers asmodeus the barber 6 disputers (the litigation) airy powers belphegor the flayer 7 dispersing ravens

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

record the tragedy had quickly learned what everyone in the ohio valley already knew. if you wanted to find out anything about the area and its people, the quickest way to do it was to "ask mary hyre" for seven days now her office had been filled with strangers, relatives of the missing, and weary rescue workers. so she hardly looked up that afternoon when two men entered. they seemed almost like twins, she recalled later. both were short and wore black overcoats. their complexions were dark, somewhat oriental, she thought "we hear there's been a lot of flying saucer activity around here" one of them remarked. she was taken aback. the bridge disaster had dominated everyone's thoughts for the last week. flying saucers were the furthest thing from her mind at that moment "we have had quite a

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

within her; and she said, if [it be] so, why [am] i thus? and she went to enquire of the lord. 25:23 and the lord said unto her, two nations [are] in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and [the one] people shall be stronger than [the other] people; and the elder shall serve the younger. 25:24 and when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold [there were] twins in her womb. 25:25 and the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name esau. 25:26 and after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on esau s heel; and his name was called jacob: and isaac [was] threescore years old when she bare them. 25:27 and the boys grew: and esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and jacob [was] a plain man, dwelling

to her father in law, saying, by the man, whose these [are, am] i with child: and she said, discern, i pray thee, whose [are] these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff. 38:26 and judah acknowledged [them] and said, she hath been more righteous than i; because that i gave her not to shelah my son. and he knew her again no more. 38:27 and it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins [were] in her womb. 38:28 and it came to pass, when she travailed, that [the one] put out [his] hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, this came out first, 38:29 and it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, how hast thou broken forth [this] breach [be] upon thee: therefore his name was called pharez. 38

wn wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart. 4:1 behold, thou [art] fair, my love; behold, thou [art] fair; thou [hast] doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair [is] as a flock of goats, that appear from mount gilead. 4:2 thy teeth [are] like a flock [of sheep that are even] shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none [is] barren among them. 4:3 thy lips [are] like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech [is] comely: thy temples [are] like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. 4:4 thy neck [is] like the tower of david builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men. 4:5 thy two breasts [are] like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilie

:3 i [am] my beloved s, and my beloved [is] mine: he feedeth among the lilies. 6:4 thou [art] beautiful, o my love, as tirzah, comely as jerusalem, terrible as [an army] with banners. 6:5 turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair [is] as a flock of goats that appear from gilead. 6:6 thy teeth [are] as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and [there is] not one barren among them. 6:7 as a piece of a pomegranate [are] thy temples within thy locks. 6:8 there are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. 6:9 my dove, my undefiled is [but] one; she [is] the [only] one of her mother, she [is] the choice [one] of her that bare her. the daughters saw her, and blessed her [yea] the queens and the concu

ye see in the shulamite? as it were the company of two armies. 7:1 how beautiful are thy feet with shoes, o prince s daughter! the joints of thy thighs [are] like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. 7:2 thy navel [is like] a round goblet [which] wanteth not liquor: thy belly [is like] an heap of wheat set about with lilies. 7:3 thy two breasts [are] like two young roes [that are] twins. 7:4 thy neck [is] as a tower of ivory; thine eyes [like] the fishpools in heshbon, by the gate of bath-rabbim: thy nose [is] as the tower of lebanon which looketh toward damascus. 7:5 thine head upon thee [is] like carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king [is] held in the galleries. 7:6 how fair and how pleasant art thou, o love, for delights! 7:7 this thy stature is like to

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er, merely because the signs are not defined by the stars does not lessen their importance as archetypes. the zodiac of the chaldeans is at least 4,000 years old, and has scarcely changed. here are the signs, names, and representations of the zodiac given in tradi- tional order, proceeding counterclockwise around the heavens: aries ram ll libra scales itj taurus bull ?tl scorpio scorpion n gemini twins 2 sagittarius archer cancer crab 25 capricorn sea-goat q leo lion zz aquarius water-bearer iijj virgo virgin x pisces fishes the tree of the sephiroth may be viewed as a terrestrial and human symbol based on the division of fives (the number of man, while the zodiac may be con- sidered a heavenly and divine symbol based on the division of sixes (the number of god. this distinction is simplis

wholly a land dweller. the middle level is given as a quaternary-two domesticated beasts, the goat and the bull (earth; and two wild beasts, the lion and the ram (fire. the highest level presents the five kinds of human occupation. the water- bearer is a laborer. the virgin is a priestess of the mysteries. the lady of the scales represents law and social order. the archer stands for warfare. the twins are still in their becoming and suggest the higher evolution of the human race as expressed through art. these occupations may also be symbolized by the five magical instru- ments-coin, cup, rod, sword, and lamp. for the magus using this breakdown as a guide, it is not hard to construct a model that suggests the three levels of animal life found in the signs of the zodiac. it will consist of

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sts between the choice of stones, the tribes associated with them, the signs of the zodiac and their related months of the year, and the permutations of tetragrammaton. each tribe probably had its own complex occult associations, which were reinforced by the ancient accepted meanings of the zodiac signs, and these associations were linked with the twelve overt banners of the name and their shadow twins, the twelve secret banners. for some reason biblical scholars have nothing to say about the connection between the banners of tetragrammaton and the breastplate of aaron-probably because the banners are not explicitly named in exodus. nonetheless, if we accept that the arrangement of the stones on the breastplate is not an accident, we can speculate that the three columns are 80 tetragrammat

e, because it provides a key to the nature of each son and therefore to the tribe he represents. there seems to be a veiled reference in this blessing to the twelve signs of the zodiac. for example, judah is said to be a lion, perhaps a reference to leo; simeon and levi are said to be fire water air earth earth moon sun the breastplate of aaron brethren, which may refer to gemini, the sign of the twins; dan is said to be a judge (libra; joseph is linked to the bow (sagittarius; and two of the brothers, reuben and zebulun, are linked with water. i am not the only person to notice the allusions to the zodiac in the blessing of jacob. alfred j. pearce in his classic work the text-book of astrology gives the assignment of the blessings to the signs arrived at by one dr. hales, based upon the r

ac, it is possible to give them distinguishing human characteristics that aid in understanding their natures. twofold division the first distinction to be made lies between the twelve occult angels under the moon, who may be regarded as female, and the twelve overt angels under the sun, who may be looked upon as male. paired angels under a single banner are related and are like brother and sister twins. the brother is the right wing, and the sister is the left wing. this polarity is expressed in the banner sigils by the invoking and banishing forms in each pair of sigils, which are mirror opposites. the female wings are under the influence of the supernal sephirah binah, understanding, which stands at the head of the left pillar of severity on the tree of the kabbalah. binah is the seat of

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

th encarta world atlas and littleton is only 16 km from denver "low income parents, and those addicted to drugs, are at the mercy of the freemasons and satanists operating among the social services hierarchy and judges. their children are often taken away from them for satanic ritual or mind control projects. so called 'crack' babies are apparently sought after for mind control operations, as are twins. i know of twins who were crack babies in denver, colorado, a major satanic centre. they were first taken from their parents and given to foster parents. later they were taken from the foster parents by denver social services after the husband was murdered in very strange circumstances and they were given to a single woman who had turned up out of nowhere after the murder and offered to be a

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

mals by magic. this, however, is simply my theory; i cannot give any proof of it. as the country opened up, the races may have intermarried and the men of the heaths would tend to grow larger. a mixed breed is always better physically, but by intermarrying they would tend to lose those queer hypernormal powers which seem to occur when there is much inbreeding. these are most common with identical twins and less common with ordinary twins, but undoubtedly other people possess them also. they are apt to be hereditary, but the witches have formulae for producing this form of autointoxication, of escape into the world of faery. it cannot be induced, however, if people are unsympathetic, as many saxons were, to these powers, which they thought devilish. the little people were vivid, emotional

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 1

d hand, vau, the fertility of the testes and uterus as well as the nail of the mentula, being taurus the cow isis and the bull apis or shiva, the son in tetragrammaton, the redeemer by rep roduction, the mithraic bull of resurrection and initiation in the strength of the body. and lastly zain is the sword of the phallus, and gemini the double se xual nature, the murder-lust between the incestuous twins cain and abel, horus and set or harpocrates, osiris and typhon, etc. and gemini is the airy pulse th at gives a basis for the voice of the messenger, the menstruum of the holy ghos t, the swing of the motion of love, the house of the sun in may, when he impreg nates maia with mercurius whose mouth uttereth his father. and zain spelt fully is 67, the number of binah the all-mother. ayin is mo

nder the god set or sat urn for hadith, the begetter, and mars exalted therein for force and fire, the virgin under thoth or mercury, his word creating in her the eidolon of his natu re, and the bull under isis or venus, the mighty redemption and nourish ment of love, for nuith the womb of space wherein her lord worketh his work. by this cometh forth the sign of the child, the star-cluster of the twins, un der hermes the word, airy, elastic, bisexual, eternally young, the lovers born of one womb, made two that by love they may make themselves one. so then in this name aiwaz is every rite of the magick of the aeon of horus d eclared in detail, and in his number 93 is shewn forth not only the word of the law, but the ways of the word and the mysteries of truth. this name then and this number

WORKING CEPHALOEDIUM VERSION 2

and hand, vau, the fertility of the testes and uterus as well as the nail of the mentula, being taurus the cow isis and the bull apis or shiva, the son in tetragrammaton, the redeemer by reproduction, the mithraic bull of resurrection and initiation in the strength of the body. and lastly zain is the sword of the phallus, and gemini the double sexual nature, the murder-lust between the incestuous twins cain and abel, horus and set or harpocrates, osiris and typhon, etc. and gemini is the airy pulse that gives a basis for the voice of the messenger, the menstruum of the holy ghost, the swing of the motion of love, the house of the sun in may, when he impregnates maia with mercurius whose mouth uttereth his father. and zain spelt fully is 67, the number of binah the all-mother. ayin is moreo

under the god set or saturn for hadith, the begetter, and mars exalted therein for force and fire, the virgin under thoth or mercury, his word creating in her the eidolon of his nature, and the bull under isis or venus, the mighty redemption and nourish ment of love, for nuith the womb of space wherein her lord worketh his work. by this cometh forth the sign of the child, the star-cluster of the twins, under hermes the word, airy, elastic, bisexual, eternally young, the lovers born of one womb, made two that by love they may make themselves one. so then in this name aiwaz is every rite of the magick of the aeon of horus declared in detail, and in his number 93 is shewn forth not only the word of the law, but the ways of the word and the mysteries of truth. this name then and this number s

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om pax- which was uttered at the eleusinian mysteries. a literal translation would be 'light rushing out in one ray, and they signify the same form of light as that symbolized by the staff of the kerux. east of the double cubical altar of created things are the pillars of hermes and solomon. they are the door posts of the gateways of hidden wisdom. like yin and yang, they are symbols of opposite twin powers. on these are painted certain hieroglyphics from the 17th and the 125th chapters of the book of the dead. they are the symbols of the two powers of day and night, love and hate, work and rest, the subtle force of the lodestone and the eternal out-pouring and in-pouring of the heart of god. the lamps that burn, though with a veiled light upon their summits, show the pathway to hidden kn

malkuth. the columns are respectively in black and white to represent the manifestation of the eternal balance of the scales of justice. upon them should be represented in counter-charged color any appropriate egyptian designs and emblematic of the soul "the scarlet tetrahedronal capitals represent the fire of test and trial, and between the pillars is the doorway of the region immeasurable. the twin lights which burn upon their summits are 'the declarers of the eternal truth' the base of the tetrahedra, being triangular, on the white pillar points east, while that on the black pillar points west, thus they complete the hexagram of tiphareth though seperate as it is fitting in the hall of dual manifestation of truth" there are two banners that hang in the hall of the neophyte; these banne

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

ant one. deities of love and passion aphrodite aphrodite is the cretan and greek goddess of love and beauty. her name means 'born from the foam. she can be invoked for the gentle attraction of new love as well as for sexuality and passion (hence the term 'aphrodisiac. aphrodite is especially potent in candle and mirror spells, romance and for love rituals involving the sea. artemis artemis is the twin sister of apollo, the young greek sun god, and is goddess of chastity, virginity, the hunt, the moon and nature. although a virgin goddess, she also presides over childbirth. because of her connection with the hunt, she is altogether a more active goddess than aphrodite if you are seeking love or, perhaps, trying to encourage a reluctant lover of either sex or win love under difficult circums

love and especially love in the springtime. her planetary associations mean she is the focus in all kinds of love rituals. as the evening star, venus takes on a warrior aspect and so can be invoked in fighting for one's lover or tough love in relationships. deities for power these deities may be invoked for strength, success, energy, inspiration and increase. apollo apollo, the greek sun god, was twin brother of artemis, the moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this sense predated all other gods and was l

would pray to him to take away their children's illnesses and family sorrows. other sources have a female version, myesytsa, a lovely moon maiden who was the consort of dazhbog the sun god, and became mother of the stars. myesyats brings healing and family harmony. selene selene is the greek goddess specially associated with the full moon, sometimes forming a triplicity with diana and hecate, the twin sister of helios the sun god. selene rises from the sea in her chariot drawn by white horses at night and rides high in the sky in her full moon. at the time of the full moon, she is invoked by women for fertility and by all who seek the power of intuition and inspiration. mother goddesses mother goddesses are for fertility, abundance of all kinds, female power and all rituals for women. asta

and conception, the winds of change. at the spring equinox, the sun rises precisely in the east and sets precisely in the west, giving exactly 12 hours of daylight and so heralds the longer days and shorter nights. as is so often the case, myth and religion are intertwined in the sources of their festivals that share the same dates. in the old celtic tradition, lugh, the god of light overcame his twin, the god of darkness, and at easter, the christian spring festival most closely associated with the spring equinox, the resurrection of christ is associated with the restoration of light to the world. the first eggs of spring were painted and offered on the shrine of eostre, the anglo-saxon goddess of the spring. her norse counterpart was ostara, the maiden aspect of frigg, the mother goddess

he earth, creatures, crops, people and animals; the instinctive energies that can be manifest as passion whether in sexual terms or for any cause; the interconnectedness of all existence and the mutual dependency of one life form on another. beltain, which has survived as our modern may day festival, marked the beginning of the celtic summer when cattle were released from barns and driven between twin fires to cleanse them and to invoke fertility as they were released into the fields. sundown on may eve heralded the signal for druids to kindle the great beltain fires from nine different kinds of wood by turning an oaken spindle in an oaken sockets. this was carried out on top of the nearest beacon hill, for example tara hill, county meath, in ireland, home of the tuatha de danaan, the hero

for letting go and if necessary grieving for what is not fulfilled the autumn equinox, or time of gathering, was traditionally celebrated as the wild or green harvest, a time of celebration for the fruits and vegetables of the earth and the earth mother. this equinox is the second time of the balance between day and night in the wheel of the year, and sees lugh, the god of light, defeated by his twin and alter-ego, goronwy, the god of darkness. goronwy was associated with the horned god as lugh was with the green man, god of vegetation. mabon, or maponus, was another form of lugh, and was regarded as the son of the earth mother and known as the liberator-prisoner. the corn god lies fallow in the womb of the mother. but because his sacrifice was willing, death has no dominion over him and

ic countries, such as france and spain, and in france, all saints' day, 1 november, is a public holiday. in earlier times people in many lands would put garlic on west-facing windows and open the shutters to allow the good family dead to enter it was also the time when the cattle were brought from the hills for the winter and either put in byres or slaughtered for meat, having been driven between twin fires to purify them. these fires also served to drive away bad spirits who were believed to lurk at the transition of the year. food was stored for the winter and so it is a time of housekeeping, spiritually as well as physically and mentally. fears of the unknown and evil have become focused around this festival: our ancestors projected their anxieties on to bad witches and malevolent faeri

the forces or energies that in nature and magick give shape to living things and bring thoughts and desires into actuality. equinox: the two times of the year when day and night are equal -namely, the spring equinox around 21 march (21 september in the southern hemisphere) and the autumn equinox around 22 september (22 march in the southern hemisphere. in celtic myth these were the times when the twin gods of light and darkness fought each other for control. esbat: a monthly coven meeting traditionally held 13 times a year during each full moon. evil eye: a way of transmitting negativity to another person, not as a deliberate curse, but through feelings of envy, jealousy or resentment. evocation: the summoning-up of angels (and sometimes demons) in order to bind them to perform tasks. fixe

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"mighty adeptus major, thy wand and its meaning" second "a wand terminating in the symbol of the binary and surmounted by the tau cross of life, or the head of the phoenix, sacred to osiris. the seven colors of the rainbow between light and darkness are attributed to the planets. it symbolizes rebirth and resurrection from death" chief "my wand is surmounted by the winged globe, around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolizes the equilibrated force of m and the four elements beneath the everlasting wings of the holy one "associate adeptus minor, what are the words inscribed upon the door of the tomb, and how is it guarded (wands of the 3 chiefs) 7 third "post centum viginti annos patebo. after 120 years i shall open. the door is guarded by the elemental tablets and by the ker

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ists. the differences in the terminology, when examined, appear as not much more than the differences of local convenience in thinking. but all these go back to the still older cosmogony of the ancient egyptians, where we have nuit, space, hadit, the point of view; these experience congress, and so produce heru-ra-ha, who combines the ideas of ra-hoor-khuit and hoorpaar- kraat. these are the same twin vau and he' final which we know. here is evidently the origin of the system of the tree of life. 18. we have arrived at this system by purely intellectual examination, and it is open to criticism; but the point i wish to bring to your notice tonight is that it corresponds closely to one of the great states of mind which reflect the experience of samadhi. there is a vision of peculiar characte

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. imagine to yourself the mental state of him who inherits or attains the full consciousness of the artist, that is to say, the divine consciousness. he finds himself unutterably lonely, and he must steel himself to endure it. all his peers are dead long since! even if he find an equal upon earth, there can scarcely be companionship, hardly more than the far courtesy of king to king. there are no twin souls in genius. good--he can reconcile himself to the scorn of the world. but yet he feels with anguish his duty towards it. it is therefore essential to him to be human. now the divine consciousness is not full flowered in youth. the newness of the objective world preoccupies the soul for many years. it is only as each illusion vanishes before the magic of the master that he gains more and

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to him as silver. iii,65: through the second, gold. iii,66: through the third, stones of precious water. iii,67: through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire. iii,68: yet to all it shall seem beautiful. its enemies who say not so, are mere liars. iii,69: there is success. iii,70: i am the hawk-headed lord of silence& of strength; my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky. iii,71: hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand. iii,72: i am the lord of the double wand of power; the wand of the force of coph nia-but my left hand is empty, for i have crushed an universe& nought remains. iii,73: paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then behold! iii,74: there is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnigh

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ative force, of that father who is called "self-begotten, and unto whom it is said "thou has formulated thy father, and made fertile thy mother. the adding of the "he" to the "yod" is the marriage of that father to the great co-equal mother, who is a reflection of nuit as he is of hadit. their union brings forth the son "vau" who is the heir. finally the daughter "he" is produced. she is both the twin sister and the daughter of "vau<mystery herein, far deeper, for initiates> his mission is to redeem her by making her his bride; the result of this is to set her upon the throne of her mother, and it is only she whose youthful embrace can reawaken the eld of the 22 all-father. in this complex family relationship<tetragrammaton, as ordinarily understood, end

a degradation> is symbolised the whole course of the universe. it will be seen that (after all) the climax is at the end. it is the second half of the formula which symbolises the great work which we are pledged to accomplish. the first step of this is the attainment of the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel, which constitutes the adept of the inner order. the re-entry of these twin spouses into the womb of the mother is that initiation described in liber 418, which gives admission to the inmost order of the a. a. of the last step we cannot speak. it will now be recognised that to devise a practical magical ceremony to correspond to tetragrammaton in this exalted sense might be difficult if not impossible. in such a ceremony the rituals of purification alone might occupy

t have been started before the time of the work. e.g. i work to-night to make x in paris write to me. i get the letter the next morning, so that it must have been written before the work. does this deny that the work caused the effect "if i strike a billiard-ball and it moves, both my will and its motion are due to causes long antecedent to the act. i may consider both my work and its reaction as twin effects of the eternal universe. the moved arm and ball are parts of a state of the cosmos which resulted necessarily from its momentarily previous state, and so, back for ever "thus, my magical work is only one of the cause-effects necessarily concomitant with the case-effects which set the ball in motion. i may therefore regard the act of striking as a cause-effect of my original will to mo

ve's hope died and lover's faith rotted. life no least dim star descried. thy cringing carrion cowered and crawled to find itself a chance-cast clod whose pain was purposeless; appalled that aimless accident thus trod its agony, that void skies sprawled on the vain sod! all souls eternally exist, each individual, ultimate, perfect- each makes itself a mist of mind and flesh to celebrate with some twin mask their tender tryst insatiate. 229 some drunkards, doting on the dream, despair that it should die, mistake themselves for their own shadow-scheme. one star can summon them to wake to self; star-souls serene that gleam on life's calm lake. that shall end never that began. all things endure because they are. do what thou wilt, for every man and every woman is a star. pan is not dead; he li

heel, thou the womb, that containeth the father iaf" mriodom "thou the sea, the abode" babalon-bal-bin-abaft "babalon! thou woman of whoredom" 268 "thou, gate of the great god on! thou lady of the understanding of the ways" asal-on-ai "hail thou, the unstirred! hail, sister and bride of on, of the god that is all and is none, by the power of eleven" aphen-iaf "thou treasure of iao" i "thou virgin twin-sexed! thou secret seed! thou inviolate wisdom" photeth "abode of the light. abrasax..of the father, the sun, of hadith, of the spell of the aeon of horus" aeoou "our lady of the western gate of heaven" ischure "mighty art thou" mighty and bornless one (vide supra (the conception is of water, glowing, inhabited by a solar-phallic dragon-serpent, of a neptunian nature) hear me: and make all sp

ness, withdrawn to the physical body; the adept must deliberately abandon his attainment, because it is not yet his whole being which burns up before the beloved- section g. the adept, though withdrawn, shall have maintained the extension of his symbol. he now repeats the signs as before, save that he makes the passive invoking pentagram of spirit. he concentrates 284 his consciousness within his twin-symbol of self, and endeavours to send it to sleep. but if the operation be performed properly, his angel shall have accepted the offering of dew, and seized with fervour upon the extended symbol of will towards himself. this then shall he shake vehemently with vibrations of love reverberating with the words of the section. even in the physical ears of the adept there shall resound an echo th

sakti: prana (as force, yoni: 8 :anubis :hanuman: 9 :shu :ganesha vishnu (kurm avatar: 10 :seb. lower (i.e. unwedded :lakshmi, etc (kundalini: isis and nephthys :11 :nu :the maruts (vayu: 12 :thoth and cynocephalus :hanuman, vishnu (as parasa: rama: 13 :chomse :chandra (as moon: 14 :hathoor :lalita(sexual aspect of sakti: 15 :men thu :shiva: 16 :asar ameshet apis :shiva (sacred bull: 17 :various twin dieties, rehkt :various twin and hybrid: merti, etc: deities: 18 :kephra: 19 :ra-hoor-khuit, pasht, sekhet,:vishnu (nara-singh avatar: mau, sekhmet: 20 :isis (as virgin :the gopi girls, the lord of: yoga: 21 :amoun-ra :brahma, indra: 22 :ma :yama :23 :tum athph auramoth (as water):soma (apas: asar (as hanged man: hekar, isis: 24 :merti goddesses, typhon :kundalini: apep, khephra: 25.:vishnu (

na :saturn :32 "bis:(demeter :ceres :31 "bis :iacchus:(liber: 312 table i: xxxviii: xxxix :key scale: animals, real and: plants, real and: imaginary: imaginary: 0: 1 :god :almond in flower: 2 :man :amaranth: 3 :woman :cypress, opium poppy: 4 :unicorn :olive, shamrock: 5 :basilisk :oak, nux vomica, nettle: 6 :phoenix, lion, child :acacia, bay, laurel, vine: 7 :lynx :rose: 8 :hermaphrodite, jackal, twin :moly, anhalonium lewinii: serpents: 9 :elephant:(banyan) mandrake, damiana: yohimba: 10 :sphinx :willow, lily, ivy :11 :eagle or man (cherub of air.:aspen: 12 :swallow, ibis, ape, twin :vervain, herb mercury: serpents: marjolane, palm: 13 :dog :almond, mugwort, hazel (as moon. moonworth: ranunculus: 14 :sparrow, dove, swan :myrtle, rose, clover: 15 :ram, owl :tiger lily, geranium: 16 :bull (

ually changes its direction. the initiate who is aware who he is can always check his conduct by reference to the determinants of his curve, and calculate his past, his future, his bearings and his proper course at any assigned moment; he can even comprehend himself as a simple idea. he may attain to measure fellow-parabolas, ellipses that cross his path, hyperbolas that span all space with their twin wings. perhaps he may come at long last, leaping beyond the limits of his own law, to conceive that sublimely stupendous outrage to reason, the cone! utterly inscrutable to him, he is yet well aware that he exists in the nature thereof, that he is necessary thereto, that he is ordered thereby, and that therefrom he is sprung, from the loins of so fearful a father! his own infinity becomes zer

e grip of the storm for an aeon and an aeon and an aeon. but thou givest not thy sap; thou fallest not. 6. only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great god f.i.a.t. is enthroned on the day of be-with-us. 7. for two things are done and a third thing is begun. isis and osiris are given over to incest and adultery. horus leaps up thrice armed from the womb of his mother. harpocrates his twin is hidden within him. set is his holy covenant, that he shall display in the great day of m.a.a.t, that is being interpreted the master of the temple of a. a, whose name is truth. 8. now in this is the magical power known. 9. it is like the oak that hardens itself and bears up against the storm. it is weather-beaten and scarred and confident like a sea-captain. 10. also it straineth like a ho

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a crimson cap of maintenance, which falls to the shoulders. instead of this, the ateph crown of thoth is sometimes worn; for thoth is the god of truth, of wisdom, and the teacher of magick. the ateph crown has two ram's horns, showing energy, dominion, the force that breaks down obstacles, the sign of the spring. between these horns is the disk of the sun; from this springs a lotus upheld by the twin plumes of truth, and three other sun-disks are upheld, one by the cup of the lotus, the others beneath the curving feathers. there is still another crown, the crown of amoun, the concealed one, from whom the hebrews borrowed their holy word "amen" this crown consists simply of the plumes of truth. but into the symbolism of these it is not necessary to go, for all this and more is in the crown

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souls (i.r.q. 1052 et seq) nwhtm#n he was angry *pn) torrents of water (lit. gchannels of water h *mym yqyp) 852 gconcealed gold h: plaited with gold: netzach and hod receiving influence from geburah (ex. 28:11, gouches of gold h, for the two gems on the ephod) bhz twcb#m 853 an orchard myxwpt hd# plague *pgn 854 the angel of destruction tyx#mh k)lm 856 the central leaf of the palm branch (lulav; twin sister tmwyt 857 my twin-sister( gis h read. see i.z.q. 713& no. 850) ytmw)t almighty god: the divine name of geburah *rwbg myhl) 858 to thee be power unto the ages, my lord (see )lg, 35) ynd) mlw(l rwbg ht) in the image of the myhl) created they them (gn. 1:27) wt )rb myhl) mlcb to pollute *pnx pathetic appeals; commiserations; compassion: a title of tiphareth *mymxr 859 a binding or amulet

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e individual self, that thy truth may spring free from the ruins! xvii use all thine energy to rule thy thought: burn up thy thought as the phoenix! xviii let the illusion of the world pass over thee, unheeded, as thou goest from the midnight to the morning! xix give forth thy light to all without doubt: the clouds and shadows are no matter for thee. make speech and silence, energy and stillness, twin forms of thy play! xx be every act an act of love and worship! be every act the fiat of a god! be every act a source of radiant glory! xxi treat time and all conditions of event as servants of thy will, appointed to present the universe to thee in the form of thy plan. and: blessing and worship to the prophet of the lovely star! the shadows suddenly faded as the clouds vanished from the sky;

erfect. love burns in the heart of the master: he, seeing only god in every thing, with the white flame of worship purges it of all its fancied imperfection. his boundless adoration kindles space itself, leaving no void that is not compassed by his passion. by virtue of his law he floods each thought with love, and marries it in turn to every other thought; and of each bridal night the fruits are twin, the rapture of silence, and some new world unguessed of phantasy; of these behold one grim and one grotesque, this lyric and that lordly, the grievous and the gracious equal in his sight, for they know neither limit nor let in the infinite variety of their beauty, making new harmonies with every hour, beyond belief for joy. syrinx and pan now comes the sound as of the fall of snow-flakes and

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sert that a dagger-thrust is caused by a wound as vice versa. lewis carroll has an amusing parable to this effect in "through the looking-glass, which work, by the way, with its predecessor, is packed with examples of philosophical paradox<twin effects of the eternal universe. the moved arm and ball are part of a state of the cosmos which resulted necessarily from its momentarily previous state, and so, back for ever. thus, my magical work is only on of the cause-effects necessarily concomitant with the cause-effects which set the ball in motion. i may therefore regard the act of striking as a cause-effect of my original will to mov

of the saviour of the world in the larger sense, and of mine own "silent self" in the lesser. a "minister" is one who performs a service, in this case evidently that of revealing; he was the intelligible medium between the babe god- the new aeon about to be born- and myself. this book of the law is the voice of his mother, his father, and himself. but on his appearing, he assumes the active form twin to harpocrates, that of ra-hoor-khuit. the concealed child becomes the conquering child, the armed horus avenging his father osiris. so also our own silent self, helpless and witless, hidden within us, will spring forth, if we have craft to loose him to the light, spring lustily forward with his cry of battle, the word of our true wills. this is the task of the adept, to have the knowledge an

he has freed hadit, in the core of his star, from the illusion-veils of the khu, so that the two infinities become one, and none; and create, in the manner shortly to be described, a new finite. this finite will evidently be an expression of the particular mood of its father and mother at the moment of its conception. obviously, this "child" cannot add to the universe; it is therefore inevitably twin (horus and harpocrates, osiris and typhon, jesus and barabbas) in nature, formed of equal and opposite elements. when the operation is mystical in character, the "child" does not appear at all in this manifested form as two, but as naught. in the consciousness of the adept, this is called samadhi. he has united himself with, and lost himself in, nuit. when the "child" appears as two, it is ma

ot tell the man who would heal disease that he must not know his subject, from anatomy to pathology; or bid him undertake to remove an appendix from a valued archbishop the first time he takes scalpel in hand. but love is an art no less than rembrandt's, a science no less than lister's. the mind must make the heart articulate, and the body the temple of the soul. the animal instinct in man is the twin of the ape's or the bull's. yet this is the one thing lawful in the code of the bourgeois. he is right to consider the act, as he knows it, degrading. it is, indeed for him, an act ridiculous, obscene, gross, beastly; a wallowing unworthy either of the dignity of man or of the majesty of the god within him. so is the guzzling and the swilling of the savage as he crams his enemy's raw liver in

learn now that impressions of sense have opposites readily conceived, as long to short, or light to dark; and so with emotions and perceptions, as love to hate, or false to true; but the more violent is the antagonism, the more is it bound in illusion, determined by relation. thus, the word "long" hath no meaning save it be referred to a standard; but love is not thus obscure, because hate is its twin, partaking bountifully of a common nature therewith. now, hear this: it was given unto me in my visions of the aethyrs, when i was in the desert of sahara, by tolga, that above the abyss, contradiction is unity, and that nothing could be true save by virtue of the contradiction that is contained in itself. behold therefore, in this method thou shalt come presently to ideas of this order, that

or, force and fire, are of us" the new comment as soon as one realizes one's self as hadit, one obtains all his qualities. it is all a question of doing one's will. a flaming harlot, with red cap and sparkling eyes, her foot on the neck of a dead king, is just as much a star as her predecessor, simpering in his arms. but one must be a flaming harlot- one must let oneself go, whether one's star be twin with that of shelly, or of blake, or of titian, or of beethoven. beauty and strength come from doing one's will; you have only to look at any one who is doing it to recognize the glory of it. al ii,21 "we have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. for they feel not. compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched& the weak: this is the law of the stron

e 'pagan' period is that of isis; a pastoral, natural period of simple magic. next with buddha, christ, and others there came in the equinox of osiris; when sorrow and death ware the principal objects of man's thought, and his magical formula is that of sacrifice. now, with mohammed perhaps as its forerunner, comes in the equinox of horus, the young child who rises strong and conquering (with his twin harpocrates) to avenge osiris, and bring on the age of strength and splendour. his formula is not yet fully understood. following him will arise the equinox of ma, the goddess of justice, it may be a hundred or ten thousand years from now; for the computation of time is not here as there. the new comment note the close connexion between leo and libra in the tarot, the numbers viii and xi of t

nt of the shoulders. it is gathered at the nape of the neck into a cylindrical 'pigtail. i think the shape is meant to suggest the royal uraeus serpent. it "shrouds the night-blue sky" because the actual light shed by the god when he is invoked is of this colour. it may also mean that he conceals nuith. the hawk's head symbolizes keen sight, swift action, courage and mobility. al iii,71 "hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand" the old comment 71. a final pronouncement of his attributes. i do not know the exact meaning of v.71 (later, autumn 1911. yes: i do) this is a clear statement as to the war which was to come, and did come, in 1914 e.v. i now (an xix sol in libra) no longer agree with the above paragraph. i think "the pillars of the world"

know the exact meaning of v.71 (later, autumn 1911. yes: i do) this is a clear statement as to the war which was to come, and did come, in 1914 e.v. i now (an xix sol in libra) no longer agree with the above paragraph. i think "the pillars of the world" mean "the pillars of hercules- about the straits of gibraltar. and i think the really big war will start "there. p.s. an (sept. 8 '37, e.v) can "twin warriors" imply a "civil" war? the spanish troubles started in s. spain and morocco. al iii,72 "i am the lord of the double wand of power; the wand of the force of coph nia-but my left hand is empty, for i have crushed an universe& nought remains" the old comment 72. coph nia. i cannot trace this anywhere; but kophnia adds to 231, nia is ain backwards; coph suggests qoph. all very unsatisfact

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fly to the extreme idealistic position; there is no question that, to our normal consciousness, things as they present themselves apart from obvious illusion, if even we dare to except this are undisprovable to the immediate apprehension. whatever our reason may tell us, we act precisely as through berkeley had never lived, and the herculean kant had been strangled while yet in his cradle by the twin serpents of his own perversity and terminology. what criterion shall we apply to the relative realities of normal and dream consciousness? why do i confidently assert that the dream state is transitory and unreal? in that state i am equally confident that my normal consciousness is invalid. but as my dreams occupy a relatively small portion of my time, and as the law of causation seems suspen

o the fool. then the discourse of that fool, my brethren; it shall repay your pains. they think they are a triangle,3 he said, they think as the picture-folk. base they are, and little infinitely. ain elohim. they think, being many, they are one.4 they think as the rhine-folk think. many and none. ain elohim. they think the erect5 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. crow

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ve wearied an angel. again and again, gabrielle bought me furniture and made me tidy and comfortable, as she said, and again and again, like a spendthrift boy, i threw it all away. how could i think of tables and chairs, when i was giving my life to my work? besides, i always felt that the more i was plagued and punished, the more certain i was to get out the best in me: solitude and want are the twin nurses of the soul "but didn't you wish to get any recognition, any praise" i broke in "i knew by this time" he answered "that, in proportion as my work was excellent, i should find fewer to understand it. how many had i seen come to praise and honour while rossetti fell to nerve-disease and madness; and yet his work endures and will endure, while theirs is already forgotten. the tree that gr

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ne-third of men; it is by that force that so many have followed him on the way which he declared- the nirv na marga, the way to the unutterable peace. the name of that power is mental concentration, and there is nothing in this world, whether for good or for evil, but is wrought by its application. it weaves upon the loom of time the fabric of men's characters and destinies. name and form are the twin threads with which it blends the quick-flying shuttles of that loom, men's good and evil thoughts and deeds; and the pattern of that fabric is the outcome of innumerable lives. it is by the power of this samadhi that the baby learns to walk, it is by its power that newton weighed these suns 34 and worlds. it is the steam power of this human organism, and what it does to make us great or littl

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lue light; he hath golden hair, a mass of curls, and deep blue eyes. yea, he is all 132 golden, with a living, vivid gold. and in each hand he hath a snake; in the right hand a red, in the left a blue. and he hath red sandals, but no other garment. and he sayeth: is not life a long initiation unto sorrow? and is not isis the lady of sorrow? and she is my mother. nature is her name, and she hath a twin sister nephthys, whose name is perfection. and isis must be known of all, but of how few is nephthys known! because she is dark, therefore is she feared. but thou who hast adored her without fear, who hast made thy life an initiation into her mystery, thou that hast neither mother nor father, nor sister nor brother, nor wife nor child, who hast made thyself lonely as the hermit crab that is i

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nd ever! 11.37. i return to he place of the evil triad, of ommo satan, that is before the altar. there to expiate my folly in 88 attaching myself to all this great concourse of ideas that i have here recorded, instead of remaining fixed in the single stronghold of unity with myself. 11.54. and so this great day draws to its end. these are indeed the qliphoth, the qliphoth of kether, the thaumiel, twin giant heads that hate and tear each other. for the horror and darkness have been unbelievable; yet again, the light and brilliance have been almost insupportable. i was never so far, and never so near but the hour approaches. let me collect myself, and begin the new day in affirmation of my unity with my lord adonai!"the eighth day" 12.3. thus the eighth day, the second week, begins. i am in

ving. the dead man ankh-af-na-khonsu hath made his passage into night, his pleasure on the earth to do among the living. amen amen without lie amen, and amen of amen. 12.40. i shall lie down to sleep in my robes, still wearing the ring of the masters, and bearing my wand in my hand. for to me now sleep is the same as waking, and life the same as death. in thy l.v.x. are not light and darkness but twin children that chase each other in their play? 7.55. awoke from long sweet dreamless sleep, like a young eagle that soars to greet the dawn. 9.20. after breakfast, have strolled, on my way to the studio, through the garden of the luxembourg to my favourite fountain. it is useless to attempt to write of the dew and the flowers in the clear october sunlight. yet the light which i behold is still

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z. hb:qof. hb:taw\ double_ altar. x /hiereus. horus kerux anubis of e+ w_ sentinel diagram 3. arrangement of the temple in the 0= 0 ritual. upon them should be represented in counterchanged colours any appropriate egyptian design emblematic of the soul. the scarlet tetrahedronal capitals represent the fire of test and trial, and between the balance is the porch way of the immeasurable region. the twin lights which flare on the summits are the "declarers of eternal truth" the pillars are really obelisks with tetrahedronal capitals slightly flattened at the apices so as to bear each a lamp. at the eastern part of malkuth, at its junction-point with the path of hb:taw, is placed the altar in the form of a double cube. its colour is black to represent to the neophyte the colour of malkuth; but

underwear of 290 olympus and sinai, the result being that unless his understanding is as clear as these rituals are obscure, all he obtains is a theatrical impression of "make-up" and "make- believe" and a general detachment from the realities of consciousness. the words obsess him; he cannot see that typhon is as necessary in the egyptian scheme as osiris; in the christian, that satan is but the twin of christ. they fetter the freedom which they are supposed to unbind, producing not only a duality but a multiplicity of illusions; so that, in the end, the chances are, instead of conversing face to face with adonai, he becomes a prig addressing a mass meeting in the albert hall, rationalising about irrational qualities. fortunately in the case of p. the result was somewhat different; alread

world, or an angel as a spirit in the spiritual world "the fact is" interrupts the sceptic "i doubt all three of you; for from the above you all three infer a chain of events- whether material, sensual, or spiritual, thus postulating the existence of causality as a common property of these three worlds. let us strike out matter, sense and spirit, and what is left? surely not time and space, that twin inference conceived by that matter, sense and spirit we have just put to bed "don't you think" says the scientific illuminist "that instead of dreaming all your lives it would be a good thing to wake up and do a little work? there are four of you, and the 299 kerubim of ezekiel might perhaps engage your individual attention" the truth is, it does not matter one rap by what name you christen t

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owers of the two. light and darkness, flux and reflux, ebb and flow- these are her manifested powers in nature- where also she binds the "great waters" to her will. now in the yetziratic attribution is the second number, beth("i.e" a house, an abode, the dwelling of the holy one, shown to be equivalent to the sphere of kokab and his lords. and the symbolic weapon of mercury is the caduceus, whose twin serpents show again the dualistic power("note- woden, the scandinavian mercury, was the all-father, as it is written in the ritual of the path of the spirit of the primal 169 fire hb:shin "for all things did the father of all things perfect, and delivered them over unto the "second mind; whom all races of men call 'first) behold, then, in these two great numbers 1 and 2 the father and the mot

the perfection of the sephiroth> 170 we cast the triple fire of the holy letter hb:shin= 300, we get the name of the godhead incarnate upon earth, yod-heh-shin-vau-heh. but 1+ 2+ 3= 6, which is the number of hb:vau, the third letter of the venerable name: microprosopus and the son of god. we are now, therefore, arrived at 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! 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. o

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minating in the symbol of the binary, and surmounted by the tau cross of life, or the head of the phoenix, sacred to osiris" on it are marked the seven colours of the rainbow between light and darkness, which are attributed to the planets. it symbolises rebirth and resurrection from death. lastly, the chief adept explains his as follows "my wand is surmounted by the winged globe, around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolises the equilibrated force of the spirit and the four elements beneath the everlasting wings of the holy one. illustration on page 210 described "diagram 61. the egyptian key of life. the crux ansata" this is a standard shape ankh, but the figure is divided and marked as follows: the loop is divided into six sections, with the bottom extending in a wedge to

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nal river of chaotic law, in whose depths lie locked the secrets of creation; i swear to thee by the primal waters of the deep, to suck up the firmament of thy chaos, and as a volcano to belch forth a cosmos of coruscating suns. 10. o thou dragon-regent of the blue seas of air, as a chain of emeralds round the neck of space; i swear to thee by the hexagram of night and day, to be unto thee as the twin fish of time, which being set apart never divulge the secret of their unity. 11. o thou flame of the horn d storm-clouds, that 17 sunderest their desolation, that outroarest the winds; i swear to thee by the gleaming sandals of the stars, to climb beyond the summits of the mountains, and rend thy robe of purple thunders with a sword of silvery light. 12. o thou fat of an hundred fortresses of

nstone of pearly loveliness, from out whose many eyes flash the fire-clouds of life, and whose breath enkindleth the byss and the abyss. i know thee! o thou fountain-head of fierce aethyr, in the pupil of whose brightness all things lie crouched and wrapped like a babe in the womb of its mother. 12. o thou sovran mother of the breath of being, the milk of whose breasts is as the fountain of love, twin-jets of fire upon the blue bosom of night. i know thee! o thou virgin of the moonlit glades, who fondleth us as a drop of dew in thy lap, ever watchful over the cradle of our fate. 13. o thou sovran all-beholding eternal sun, who lappest up the constellations of heaven, as a thirsty thief a jar of ancient wine. i know thee! o thou dawn-wing'd courtesan of light, who makest me to reel with one

isdom, and plunge into the whiteness of thine effulgence: o thou god my god! 9. o thou mighty god, make me as a thunder-smitten bull that is drunk upon the vintage of thy blood; i beseech thee, o thou great god! that i may bellow through the universe thy power, and trample the nectar-sweet grapes of thine essence: o thou god my god! 10. o thou mighty god, make me as a black eunuch of song that is twin- voiced, yet dumb in either tongue; i beseech thee, o thou great god! that i may hush my melody in thy silence, and swell into the sweet ecstasy of thy song. o thou god my god! 11. o thou mighty god, make me as an emerald crab that 26 crawleth over the wet sands of the sea-shore; i beseech thee, o thou great god! that i may write thy name across the shores of time, and sink amongst the white

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owers of the sphinx, will, courage, knowledge, silence. son, even the adepts scarce win to one! thy thoughts_ they fall like rotten fruits. but to destroy the power that makes these thoughts_ thy self? a man it takes to tear his soul up by the roots! this is the mandrake fable, boy! olympas. you told me that the path was joy. marsyas. a lie to lure thee! olympas. master! marsyas. pain and joy are twin toys of the brain. even early visions pass beyond! olympas. not all the crabbed runes i have conned 31 told me so plain a truth. i see, inscrutable simplicity! crushed like a blind-worm by the heel of all i am, perceive, and feel, my truth was but the partial pang that chanced to strike me as i sang. marsyas. in the beginning, violence marks the extinction of the sense. anguish and rapture ra

two completed by the third! the lord of war, of vengeance that slayeth with a single glance! this light is in me of my lord. his name is this far-whirling sword. i push his order. keen and swift my hawk's eye flames; these arms uplift the banner of silence and of strength_ hail! hail! thou art here, my lord, at length! lo, the hawk-headed lord am i: my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky. hail! ye twin warriors that guard the pillars of the world! your time is nigh at hand. the snake that marred heaven with his inexhaustible slime is slain; i bear the wand of power, the wand that waxes and that wanes; i crush the universe this hour in my left hand; and naught remains! ho! for the splendour in my name hidden and glorious, a flame 50 secretly shooting from the sun. aum! ha_ my destiny is done

"thinking despite "himself" shocked him severely. they offered him "dawamesk" he examined it, sniffed at it, and returned it without touching it. the struggle between his almost childish curiosity and his repugnance to submit himself showed strikingly on his expressive face. the love of dignity won the day. now it is difficult to imagine to oneself the maker of the theory of will, this spiritual twin of 108 louis lambert, consenting to lose a grain of this precious substance. despite the admirable services which ether and chloroform have rendered to humanity, it seems to me that from the point of view of the idealist philosophy the same moral stigma is branded on all modern inventions which tend to diminish human free will and necessary pain. it was not without a certain admiration that i

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iron, white-hot and dazzling with the glory of the nether penetralia. a face that was theferreous incarnation of all imaginations of malice and irony looked on me with a glare withering from its intense heat, but still more from the unconceived degree of inner wickedness which it symbolised. i realised whose laughter i had heard, and instantly i heard it again. beside him another demon, his very twin, was rocking a tremendous cradle framed of bars of iron like all things else, and candescent with as fierce a heat as the fiend's. and now, in a chant of the most terrific blasphemy which it is possible to imagine, or rather of blasphemy so fearful that no human thought has ever conceived of it, both the 256 demons broke forth, until i grew intensely wicked merely by hearing it. i still remem

t broods on me, and is i, in the gondola. they twist, they twine, these white and black canals, now stark with lamplight, now a reach of styx. even as out love- raging wild animals suddenly hoisted on the crucifix to radiate seraphic coronals, flowers, flowers- o let our light and darkness mix, adela, goddess and beast with me in the gondola! come! though your hair be a cascade of fire, your lips twin snakes, your tongue the lightning flash, your teeth god's grip on life, your face his lyre, 315 your eyes his stars- come, let our venus lash our bodies with the whips of her desire. your bed's the world, your body the world-ash, adela! shall i give the word to the man of the gondola? aleister crowley.1 316 1 weh note: this is a hyperbole of sexual intercourse "viz "the old man in the boat, e

udelaire's "old mountebank- surely no more pitiful- tumbling for no kindlier laugh than that of contempt (and he might have been so fine) this is why success must in the nature of things spoil everybody. make a hit with one arrow; you must never dare to do more than change the colour of the feathers- till your quiver is empty. and how empty is mr. blackwood's! when it comes to a father hating his twin sons because (why) he wanted one son very badly, going mad, and after his death turning the two into one in spite of a clergyman's reading aloud of job- well, hang it, mr. blackwood, the woman has the best of it yet. it is a very foolish girl who cannot hold her own for ten years. but you who have been writing hardly half the time are only fit for the literary lock hospital. jonathan hutchins

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saw himself the centre of a stage where men and women crowded above, around, and beneath him. they reminded him of the terrible prediction of the french poet, who showed the two sexes dying away, irrevocably parted, la femme ayant gomorrhe et l'homme ayant sodome.2 all the messalines and circes of an impure sex were 33 balancing before him their tempting, repulsive, holy and foul, loose or firm, twin breasts. himself, cloven-hoffed and curl-horned, had to flagellate his own flesh with iron chains, which failed to overcome the moral urtication, as had the repeated physical purgings of his early years. narcissus, in a corner, pale and smiling, urged him to renewed efforts; spirits, both incubi and succubae, thrusting themselves upon him, ate him away. but all these dreams gradually faded ou

descended upon him, and just as the dew of the moon within the sahas ra chakkra falling upon the two-petaled ajna-lotus causes the leaves to open out, so now does this celestial light lift him out and beyond the world, as wings lift a bird from the fields of earth, encompassing him, extending to his right hand and to his left like the wings of the solar globe which shut out from the ruby ball the twin serpents which twine beneath it.231 231 the two serpents and central rod of the caduceus are in yoga represented by the ida, pingala and sushumn. the wings closed, to the ajna-lotus; open and displaying the solar disk, to the sahas ra chakkra. having purified himself, he understands the perfect life; being a doer of holiness, he is a knower of holiness; having practised truth, he has become a

as of a dying world. covered with black decayed wet peaty wood, a few pines stood stricken, unutterably alone.272] but behind the glory of its coruscations seemed to shape, an idea less solid than a shadow! an idea of some human-seeming form! now grew doubt and thought in p.'s miserable mind; and the one wave grew many waves and all was lost! alas! alas! for p! and glory eternal unto her, she the twin-breasted that hath encroached even upon the other half of the destroyer "om namo bh vaniya om" filled with the glory of the great light that had arisen in him, for many days p. communed in silence with the vision that days upon days of labour had revealed to him, and then leaving his place of retirement near kandy he journeyed to anhuradhapura, and thence to many sacred shrines and temples th

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en standing in shrine. he slowly enters temple" mater coeli "returns to throne, having been blessed and raised by him] magister templi. mother of heaven, beloved of the stars, wherefore hast thou awakened the poison of eld, the dweller in eternity? mater coeli. shabbathai [magister templi "comes down to hell-broth and recites "the eyes of pharaoh] dead pharaoh's eyes from out the tomb burned like twin planets ruby-red. enswathed, enthroned, the halls of gloom echo the agony of the dead. silent and stark the pharaoh sate: no breath went whispering, hushed or scared. only that red incarnate hate through pylon after pylon flared. 7 as in the blood of murdered things the affrighted augur shaking skries earthquake and ruinous fate of kings, famine and desperate destinies, so in the eyes of phar

cohorts armed, are shred like husks: the ensanguine brand leaps like a flame, a flame encharmed to fire the pyramid heaven-spanned wherein dead pharaoh sits and stares, swathed in the wrappings of the tomb, with eyes whose horror flits and flares like corpse-lights glimmering in the gloom till all's a blaze, one roar of flame, death universal, locked and linked- aha! one names the awful name- the twin red planets are extinct["a pause["the lamp burns out, and darkness covers all [leader of the chorus "secretly removes hell-broth vase" 9 part ii "the temple in darkness" magister templi. 1< brother aquarius, what is the time? aquarius. midnight. magister templi. 1. brother capricornus, what is the place?

of flame! i adore the insuperable might: i bow before the unspoken name["he bows, then turns toward altar" for i am yesterday, and i to-day, and i to-morrow, born now and again, on high, on high travelling on dian's naked horn! i am the soul that doth create the gods, and all the kin of breath. i come from the sequestered state; my birth is from the house of death["he advances to altar" hail! ye twin hawks high pinnacled that watch upon the universe! ye that the beir of god beheld! that bore it onwards, ministers of peace within the house of wrath, servants of him that cometh forth at dawn with many-coloured lights, mounting from underneath the north, the shrine of the celestial heights["at altar" 58 he is in me, and i in him! mine is the crystal radiance that filleth aether to the brim w

z. dancing. scorpio-apophis. music. satan-typhon. silence and stillness["he prostrates himself and remains motionless [scorpio-apophis "bows to "sol" and plays an adoration<besz "dances in adoration in three-time [satan-typhon "rises and bows" aries. whence come ye, brethren? satan-typhon. from the dwelling-place of the sun. aries. who are ye, brethren? satan-typhon. i am the twin brother of the sun. scorpio-apophis. i am the beloved of the sun. 71 aries["to" besz] but who art thou, brother [besz "begins to stammer" leo. who art thou["they threaten him with their spears" besz "crouches in terror and lurks toward west] satan-typhon. i would have speech with my brother the sun. aries. it is well. leo. it is not well. there is danger herein to my lord["he bars the way" ar

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rip of the storm for an aeon and an aeon and an aeon. but thou givest not thy sap; thou fallest not. 6. only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great god f. i. a. t. is enthroned on the day of be-with-us. 7. for two things are done and a third thing is begun. isis and osiris are given over to incest and adultery. horus leaps up thrice armed from the womb of his mother. harpocrates his twin is hidden within him. set is his holy covenant, that he shall display in the great day of m. a. a. t, that is being interpreted the master of the temple of a. a, whose name is truth. 35 8. now in this is the magical power known. 9. it is like the oak that hardens itself and bears up against the storm. it is weather-beaten and scarred and confident like a sea-captain. 10. also it straineth lik

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r and fruit, do we invoke thee, o queen of space, o dew of light, continuous one of the heavens [kiss] let it be ever thus, that men speak not of thee as one, but as none; and let them not speak of thee at all, since thou art continuous. for thou art the point within the circle [kiss] which we adore [kiss] the fount of life without which we would not be [kiss] and in this way are erected the holy twin pillars [kiss breasts, left then right] in beauty and in strength were they erected, to the wonder and glory of all men [if the great rite is to be actual, non-participants leave, sealing gate behind] hp: o secret of secrets, that art hidden in the being of all lives, not thee do we adore, for that which adoreth is also thou. thou art that, and that am i [kiss] i am the flame that burns in th

image be of love [kiss] by moon-ray's silver shaft of power, by green leaf breaking from the bud, by seed that springeth into flower, by life that courseth in the blood [kiss] by rushing wind and leaping fire, by flowing water and green earth, pour us the wine of our desire from out thy cauldron of rebirth [kiss] here may we see in vision clear thy secret strange unveiled at length, thy wondrous twin pillars rear erect in beauty and in strength [kisses on the breasts] altar of mysteries manifold, the sacred circle's central point thus do i sign thee as of old; with kisses of my lips anoint [kisses of the third degree sigil] open for me the secret way, the pathway of intelligence beyond the gates of night and day, beyond the bounds of time and sense. behold the mystery aright; the five tru

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the ages, here and there, we find the true homo-sexual emerging as a guarantee of a distant racial and evolutionary achievement, when the world cycle will have been run and the two separated halves- 175- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust will again be merged in their essential unity. in the above phraseology i do not refer to any doctrine of twin souls, or to any perversion of reality, as ordinarily understood today. i refer to the divine hermaphrodite, to the true androgynous man, and to the perfected human being. but the word has been distorted from its true significance and applies in nine cases out of ten (nay, in ninety-nine cases out of one hundred) to a type of mental perversion, to a distorted attitude of mind which results of

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t capable at times, like st. paul, of being "caught up to the third heaven" and having intercourse with divine beings. in this condition, he visioned the plan, knew what he had to do and perceived the reality of the spiritual life. there is also one interesting little fact in the story of his life which has a bearing on this same truth. whilst still an infant, we are told that hercules killed his twin. he was no longer a divided entity, no longer a duality, but soul and body formed one unity. this indicates always the stage of the disciple. he has made the at-one-ment and knows himself to be soul in body and not soul and body, and this realization has now to color all his actions. whilst in the cradle, history relates, the lusty infant killed two serpents, again emphasizing duality. in thi

labours of hercules only in connection with the work that he has to do in the field of world service. aspirants need to remember that they become masters only by mastering, and that we are taught to be masters and are brought to the position of membership in the band of world servers through the efforts of our own soul. that soul is a divine son of god, omniscient and omnipotent. as the immortal twin increases in power and brilliance, that of the mortal brother decreases. second, the physical bodies of the aspirants are in no condition to stand the greatly heightened vibration of one who has achieved. the body would be shattered and the brain overstrained if one of the masters made constant contact with a disciple before he had even learned to know nereus as the symbol of his own higher s

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it are preservedmany relics of lore which, as may be verified from records, have come down from days of yore.aradiais evidently enough herodias, who was regarded in the beginning as associated with dianaas chief of the witches. this was not, as i opine, derived from the herodiasof the new t estament,but from an earlier replica of lilith, bearing the same name. it is, in fact, an identification or twin-ingof the aryan and shemitic queens of heaven, or of night and of sorcery, and it may be that this wasknown to the earliest myth-makers. so far back as the sixth century the worship of herodiasanddianaby witches was condemned by a church council at ancyra. pipernus and other writers havenoted the evident identity of herodiaswith lilith. isispreceded both.dianais very vigorously, even dramatic

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e which religious ceremonies may be enacted. 10. daemoness of hatred 11. we to the demonic plane by way of a meditation practice. 12. the philistine god of the ocean (serpent) 13. a ritual implement used to invoke. 14. one that performs the duties of a servant to another; an attendant. 15. a song of praise or thanksgiving to god or a deity down 9. demon of lust 16. in the dukante hierarchy he is twin to lucifer and a militant, controlling daemon. 17. the nine divinities represent the natural in the universe. 18. priestess of battle. 19. daemoness of herbal knowledge. 20. depictions representing a daemonic entity. a signature.(plural) 21. a latin name for satan 22. an offering to lucifer 23. reversed satan 24. bringer of light and enlightenment 25. to invest with ministerial or priestly a

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ecific quality from its primary (the planetary spirit, therefore every man is a septenate (or a combination of principles, each having its origin in a quality of that special dhyani. every active power or force of the earth comes to her from one of the seven lords. light comes through sukra (venus, who receives a triple supply, and gives one-third of it to the earth. therefore the two are called 'twin-sisters' but the spirit of the earth is subservient to the 'lord' of sukra. our wise men represent the two globes, one over, the other under the double sign (the primeval svastica bereft of its four arms, or the cross[[diagram* the "double sign" is, as every student of occultism knows, the symbol of the male and the female principles in nature, of the positive and the negative, for the svasti

ve each a special meaning. thus in book xi. of the odyssey, leda is spoken of as the spouse of tyndarus, who gave birth by her husband "to two sons of valiant heart- castor[[vol. 2, page] 122 the secret doctrine. and pollux. jupiter endows them with a marvellous gift and privilege. they are semi-immortal; they live and die, each in turn, and every alternate day[[eteremeroi. as the tyndaridae, the twin brothers are an astronomical symbol, and stand for day and night; their two wives, phoebe and hilasira, the daughters of apollo or the sun, personifying the dawn and the twilight* again, in the allegory where zeus is shown as the father of the two heroes- born from the egg to which leda gives birth- the myth is entirely theogonical. it relates to that group of cosmic allegories in which the w

nswers the master of the gods "thou art of a divine race" but he gives him the choice: pollux will either remain immortal, living eternally in olympus; or, if he would share his brother's fate in all things, he must pass half his existence underground, and the other half in the golden heavenly abodes. this semi-immortality, which is also to be shared by castor, is accepted by pollux* and thus the twin brothers live alternately, one during the day, and the other during the night* is this a poetical fiction only? an allegory, one of those "solar myth" interpretations, higher than which no modern orientalist seems able to soar? indeed, it is much more. here we have an allusion to the "egg-born" third race; the first half of which is mortal, i.e, unconscious in its personality, and having noth

maid" the egyptian ammon was the goddess neith, in his other half. jupiter has female breasts, venus is bearded in some of her statues, and ila, the goddess, is also su-dyumna, the god, as vaivasvata's progeny "the name adam" says professor a. wilder "or man, itself implies this double form of existence. it is identical with athamas, or thomas (tamil tam, which is rendered by the greek didumos, a twin; if, therefore, the first woman was formed subsequently to the first man, she must, as a logical necessity, be 'taken out of man. and the side which the elohim had taken from man 'made he a woman (gen. ii. the hebrew word here used is tzala, which bears the translation we have given. it is easy to trace the legend in berosus, who says that thalatth (the omoroca, or lady of urka) was the begin

rst man, she must, as a logical necessity, be 'taken out of man. and the side which the elohim had taken from man 'made he a woman (gen. ii. the hebrew word here used is tzala, which bears the translation we have given. it is easy to trace the legend in berosus, who says that thalatth (the omoroca, or lady of urka) was the beginning of creation. she was also melita, the queen of the moon. the two twin births of genesis, that of cain and abel, and of esau and jacob, shadow the same idea. the name 'hebel' is the same as eve, and its characteristic seems to be feminine" continues the author "unto thee shall be his desire" said the lord god to cain "and thou shalt rule over him" the same language had been uttered to eve "thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. thus the

ierophants, moreover, of egypt, as of babylon, generally styled them[[vol. 2, page] 380 the secret doctrine. selves the "sons of the serpent-god" or "sons of the dragon" during the mysteries "the assyrian priest bore always the name of his god" says movers. the druids of the celto-britannic regions also called themselves snakes "i am a serpent, i am a druid" they exclaimed. the egyptian karnak is twin brother to the carnac of bretagne, the latter carnac meaning the serpent's mount. the dracontia once covered the surface of the globe, and these temples were sacred to the dragon, only because it was the symbol of the sun, which, in its turn, was the symbol of the highest god- the phoenician elon or elion, whom abraham recognised as el elion* besides the surname of serpents, they were called

ithout sin. then will brahma, the hindu deity; ahura-mazda (ormazd, the zoroastrian; zeus, the greco-olympian don juan; jehovah, the jealous, repenting, cruel, tribal god of the israelites, and all their likes in the universal pantheon of human fancy- vanish and disappear in thin air. and along with these will vanish their shadows, the dark aspects of all those deities, ever represented as their "twin brothers" and creatures, in exoteric legend, their own reflection on earth- in esoteric philosophy. the ahrimans and typhons, the samaels and satans, must be all dethroned on that day, when every dark evil passion will be subdued. there is one eternal law in nature, one that always tends to adjust contraries and to produce final harmony. it is owing to this law of spiritual development supers

tely just retributive sense, so evil was the servant of the good (hibbert lect. 1887, pp. 101-115. the reading of the chaldeo-assyrian tiles has now demonstrated it beyond a shadow of doubt. we find the same idea in the zohar. satan was a son, and an angel of god. with all the semitic nations, the spirit of the earth was as much the creator in his own realm as the spirit of the heavens. they were twin brothers and interchangeable in their functions, when not two in one. nothing of that which we find in genesis is absent from the chaldeo-assyrian religious beliefs, even in the little that has hitherto been deciphered. the great "face of the deep" of genesis is traced in the tohu-bohu "deep "primeval space" or chaos of the babylonians. wisdom (the great unseen god- called in genesis chap. i

how many thousands of years ago the disturbed waters of the indian ocean reached the highest plateaux of central asia, when the caspian sea and the persian gulf made one with it, then only will they know the age of the aryan brahminical nation, and the time of its descent into the plains of hindostan, which it did millenniums later. yima, the so-called "first man" in the vendidad, as much as his twin-brother yama, the son of vaivasvata manu, belongs to two epochs of the universal history. he is the "progenitor" of the second human race, hence the personification of the shadows of the pitris, and the father of the postdiluvian humanity. the magi said "yima" as we say "man" when speaking of mankind. the "fair yima" the first mortal who converses with ahura mazda, is the first "man" who dies

ether- are strewn over asia, europe, america, and africa, in groups or rows. stones of enormous size are found placed horizontally and variously upon two, three, four, and as in poitou, upon six and seven blocks. people name them "devil's altars" druidic stones, and giant tombs. the stones of carnac in the morbihan, brittany- nearly a mile in length and numbering 11,000 ranged in eleven rows- are twin sisters of those at stonehenge. the conical menhir of loch-maria-ker in morbihan, measures twenty yards in length and nearly two yards across. the menhir of champ dolent (near st. malo) rises thirty feet above the ground, and is fifteen feet in depth below. such dolmens and prehistoric monuments are met with in almost every latitude. they are found in the mediterranean basin; in denmark (amon

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he divine idea- the generator of light and life, to use an expression of philo judaeus. he is called the "blazing dragon of wisdom[[footnote(s* lanoo is a student, a chela who studies practical esotericism "tri-dasa" or three times ten (30, alludes to the vedic deities, in round numbers, or more accurately 33- a sacred number. they are the 12 adityas, the 8 vasus, the 11 rudras, and 2 aswins- the twin sons of the sun and the sky. this is the root-number of the hindu pantheon, which enumerates 33 crores or over three hundred millions of gods and goddesses[[vol. 1, page] 72 the secret doctrine. because, firstly, he is that which the greek philosophers called the logos, the verbum of the thought divine; and secondly, because in esoteric philosophy this first manifestation, being the synthesis

globe- down to our fourth sphere (the actual earth- is a grosser and more material copy of the more shadowy sphere which precedes it in their successive order, on the three higher planes (see diagram in stanza vi. comm. 6. on its way upwards on the ascending arc, evolution spiritualises and etherealises, so to speak, the general nature of all, bringing it on to a level with the plane on which the twin globe on the opposite side is placed; the result being, that when the seventh globe is reached (in whatever round) the nature of everything that is evolving returns to the condition it was in at its starting point- plus, every time, a new and superior degree in the states of consciousness. thus it becomes clear that the "origin of man" so-called, on this our present[[footnote(s[[footnote cont

offshoots from the same trunk of the tree of being, or to resign ourselves to the absurdity of believing in two eternal absolutes! having to trace the origin of the idea to the very beginnings of human mind, it is but just, meanwhile, to give his due even to the proverbial devil. antiquity knew of no isolated, thoroughly and absolutely bad "god of evil" pagan thought represented good and evil as twin brothers, born from the same mother- nature; so soon as that thought ceased to be archaic, wisdom too became philosophy. in the beginning the symbols of good and evil were mere abstractions, light and darkness; then their types became chosen among the most natural and ever-recurrent periodical cosmic phenomena- the day and the night, or the sun and moon. then the hosts of the solar and lunar

ions or rays of the logos[[vol. 1, page] 573 the crest-jewel of wisdom. the individuality. the "angel" of that star, or the dhyani-buddha will be either the guiding or simply the presiding "angel" so to say, in every new rebirth of the monad, which is part of his own essence, though his vehicle, man, may remain for ever ignorant of this fact. the adepts have each their dhyani-buddha, their elder "twin soul" and they know it, calling it "father-soul" and "father-fire" it is only at the last and supreme initiation, however, that they learn it when placed face to face with the bright "image" how much has bulwer lytton known of this mystic fact when describing, in one of his highest inspirational moods, zanoni face to face with his augoeides? the logos, or both the unmanifested and the manifes

nder one of the seven planets and one of the said countless planetary combinations. see theosophist, for august, 1886[[vol. 1, page] 574 the secret doctrine 'atma' round whose pavilion is the darkness of eternal maya* the "triads" born under the same parent-planet, or rather the radiations of one and the same planetary spirit (dhyani buddha) are, in all their after lives and rebirths, sister, or "twin-souls" on this earth* this was known to every high initiate in every age and in every country "i and my father are one" said jesus (john x. 30* when he is made to say, elsewhere (xx. 17 "i ascend to my father and your father" it meant that which has just been stated. it was simply to show that the group of his disciples and followers attracted to him belonged to the same dhyani buddha "star"

ties. the application of the mechanical laws only can never carry the speculator beyond the objective world; nor will it unveil to men the origin and final destiny of kosmos. this is[[footnote(s "five years of theosophy" pp. 249-50. art "do the adepts deny the nebular theory[[vol. 1, page] 595 what are the nebulae? whither the nebular theory has led science. in sober fact and truth this theory is twin sister to that of ether, and both are the offsprings of necessity; one as indispensable to account for the transmission of light, as the other to explain the problem of the origin of the solar systems. the question with them is, how the same homogeneous matter* could, obeying the laws of newton, give birth to bodies- sun, planets, and their satellites- subject to conditions of identity of mot

BLUE EQUINOX

hese two following are of much value in breaking up the ice of your mortal error in the vision of your being. and of these the first is the constant contemplation of the identity of love and death, and the understanding of the dissolution of the body as an act of love done upon the body of the universe, as also it is written at length in our holy books. and with this goeth, as it were sister with twin brother, the practice of mortal love as a sacrament symbolical of that great death: as it is written .kill thyself: and again .die daily. and the second of these lesser modes is the practice of the mental apprehension and analysis of ideas, mainly as i have already taught you, but with especial empahsis in choice of the equinox 118 things naturally repulsive, in particular death itself, and i

e god-made illusion of nature must in the end prevail over the manmade illusions of mythology and metaphysics. i am perfectly in accord with the political conclusion of this book. he was doubtless paid to write it in this interest. however, i had no idea that mr. william archer was such an unpleasant thing. the publisher says that he was born at perth, scotland. perhaps, he was one of the famous .twin brothers of perth, who were.ready to exhibit a positive wassermann.to the eyes from their birth. said bill to his brother .well, thanks to our mother, we re the rottenest beggars on earth. true ghost stories. by hereward carrington. j. s. ogilvie publishing co. mr. hereward carrington was a very clever young man, and that was his trouble. he is still a very clever young man, and as he is olde

BOOK OF JASHAR

every family became a separate nation, each with its own patriarch, any father could have been called "abram" however, this particular patriarch has an ability to challenge and question god that is so like the biblical abraham on the road to sodom that we can recognize them as the same person. there are two other biblical characters who are present although unnamed in the story: isaac's new-born twin sons, esau and jacob. notice that, if isaac was sacrificed at the tower and abram was not his father, then these children would have a special status. because they were not fathers when the tower fell, they would not have been ordained as patriarchs. on the other hand, with no living male ancestor, they would also not be members of any other patriarch's nation. yet as children of the man whos

fell, they would not have been ordained as patriarchs. on the other hand, with no living male ancestor, they would also not be members of any other patriarch's nation. yet as children of the man whose sacrifice led to the great revolution, and as grandchildren of the woman whose courage made the revolution possible, they should have a claim to special treatment. thus, the story puts jacob and his twin in a position to found tribes whose claim to nationhood might be disputed, but whose special status in god's plan cannot. abram fears the terrors and tragedies of a world order that is based on unrestrained international rivalry and warfare, and so he asks god whether conflict must be so wasteful of human values and potential. god answers abram's concerns by commanding that we must not fight

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

f love and passion [insert pic p060- aphrodite aphrodite is the cretan and greek goddess of love and beauty. her name means 'born from the foam. she can be invoked for the gentle attraction of new love as well as for sexuality and passion (hence the term 'aphrodisiac. aphrodite is especially potent in candle and mirror spells, romance and for love rituals involving the sea. artemis artemis is the twin sister of apollo, the young greek sun god, and is goddess of chastity, virginity, the hunt, the moon and nature. although a virgin goddess, she also presides over childbirth. because of her connection with the hunt, she is altogether a more active goddess than aphrodite if you are seeking love or, perhaps, trying to encourage a reluctant lover of either sex or win love under difficult circums

time. her planetary associations mean she is the focus in all kinds of love rituals. as the evening star, venus takes on a warrior aspect and so can be invoked in fighting for one's lover or tough love in relationships. deities for power these deities may be invoked for strength, success, energy, inspiration and increase [insert pic p061- seite 33 wicca01.txt apollo apollo, the greek sun god, was twin brother of artemis, the moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this sense predated all other gods and was l

would pray to him to take away their children's illnesses and family sorrows. other sources have a female version, myesytsa, a lovely moon maiden who was the consort of dazhbog the sun god, and became mother of the stars. myesyats brings healing and family harmony. selene selene is the greek goddess specially associated with the full moon, sometimes forming a triplicity with diana and hecate, the twin sister of helios the sun god. selene rises from the sea in her chariot drawn by white horses at night and rides high in the sky in her full moon. at the time of the full moon, she is invoked by women for fertility and by all who seek the power of intuition and inspiration. mother goddesses mother goddesses are for fertility, abundance of all kinds, female power and all rituals for women [inse

and conception, the winds of change. at the spring equinox, the sun rises precisely in the east and sets precisely in the west, giving exactly 12 hours of daylight and so heralds the longer days and shorter nights. as is so often the case, myth and religion are intertwined in the sources of their festivals that share the same dates. in the old celtic tradition, lugh, the god of light overcame his twin, the god of darkness, and at easter, the christian spring festival most closely associated with the spring equinox, the resurrection of christ is associated with the restoration of light to the world. the first eggs of spring were painted and offered on the shrine of eostre, the anglo-saxon goddess of the spring. her norse counterpart was ostara, the maiden aspect of frigg, the mother goddess

he earth, creatures, crops, people and animals; the instinctive energies that can be manifest as passion whether in sexual terms or for any cause; the interconnectedness of all existence and the mutual dependency of one life form on another. beltain, which has survived as our modern may day festival, marked the beginning of the celtic summer when cattle were released from barns and driven between twin fires to cleanse them and to invoke fertility as they were released into the fields [insert pic p257- sundown on may eve heralded the signal for druids to kindle the great beltain fires from nine different kinds of wood by turning an oaken spindle in an oaken sockets. this was carried out on top of the nearest beacon hill, for example tara hill, seite 156 wicca01.txt county meath, in ireland

for letting go and if necessary grieving for what is not fulfilled the autumn equinox, or time of gathering, was traditionally celebrated as the wild or green harvest, a time of celebration for the fruits and vegetables of the earth and the earth mother. this equinox is the second time of the balance between day and night in the wheel of the year, and sees lugh, the god of light, defeated by his twin and alter-ego, goronwy, the god of darkness. goronwy was associated with the horned god as lugh was with the green man, god of vegetation [insert pic p268- mabon, or maponus, was another form of lugh, and was regarded as the son of the earth mother and known as the liberator-prisoner. the corn god lies fallow in the womb of the mother. but because his sacrifice was willing, death has no domin

ic countries, such as france and spain, and in france, all saints' day, 1 november, is a public holiday. in earlier times people in many lands would put garlic on west-facing windows and open the shutters to allow the good family dead to enter it was also the time when the cattle were brought from the hills for the winter and either put in byres or slaughtered for meat, having been driven between twin fires to purify them. these fires also served to drive away bad spirits who were believed to lurk at the transition of the year. food was stored for the winter and so it is a time of housekeeping, spiritually as well as physically and mentally [insert pic p271- fears of the unknown and evil have become focused around this festival: our ancestors projected their anxieties on to bad witches and

the forces or energies that in nature and magick give shape to living things and bring thoughts and desires into actuality. equinox: the two times of the year when day and night are equal -namely, the spring equinox around 21 march (21 september in the southern hemisphere) and the autumn equinox around 22 september (22 march in the southern hemisphere. in celtic myth these were the times when the twin gods of light and darkness fought each other for control. esbat: a monthly coven meeting traditionally held 13 times a year during each full moon. evil eye: a way of transmitting negativity to another person, not as a deliberate curse, but through feelings of envy, jealousy or resentment. evocation: the summoning-up of angels (and sometimes demons) in order to bind them to perform tasks. fixe

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

ut on the premises" white writers reflected on these traditions in their published reminiscences of their youth. edward pollard, a novelist and civil war historian, stated that he was deeply affected by the "superstitions" that he had imbibed, growing up among black household servants. in many cases, children of both races were inculcated with images from a rich folklore tradition that served the twin objectives of admonition and instruction. conjuring tales no doubt made a great impact on impressionable children. the reconstruction legislator william councill wrote that as a child he had been sent to live on a small plantation where he met "aunt phillis" a "noted conjure woman" who took him into her care "she exercised complete control over me.soul and body" he stated "i believed in her

by supernatural agency, the secretive nature of poisoning, and its tendency to inflict sudden, inexplicable illness and death, led many persons to connect them.[23] legal records illuminate a network of incidents of poisoning involving both africans and anglo-americans, slaves and freedpersons, that reach back to the eighteenth century. in many instances poisoning and supernaturalism were seen as twin evils. within trial accounts, depositions, and court reports spanning the chesapeake region and the lower south, conjurers were regularly identified as responsible for creating and administering poisons. in fact, the roles of poisoners and that of supernatural practitioners appear in some cases to be identical. poisoning was an aggressive response by enslaved blacks to the pervasive power tha

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

e often performed the operation on girls than with boys. of course, you have to cut open the abdomen, but again, it is relatively minor (p59) oh, that's ok then. what were the media doing while all this was going on? not a lot, it turns out. dr herndon talked of their "good relationship" with the press. this is less surprising when you realise that gordon gray owned the winston-salem journal, the twin city sentinel and the radio station wsjs. eugenics was being promoted on a wide scale after the war in the guise of population control, just as it is today. in the early 50s, when john foster dulles was chairman of the tax-exempt new world order front, the rockefeller foundation, he travelled with john d. rockefeller iii on a number of world tours campaigning for policies to stem the expansio

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

ion. the symbolis known as the caduceus (see figure 5. this information comes from the sumeriantablets as translated by zecharia sitchin and described in his books. therefore i found itstaggering that sitchin personally told me there was no evidence of a serpent race and figure 5: the ancient caduceus,symbol of the modern medicalprofession and symbolic of manythings, tncluding, quite possibly,the twin spirals of dna or perhapsrepresenting a particularwavelength or frequency.42advised me to cease my research into such matters. the idea that there is no evidence issimply ludicrous, so why would sitchin say that to me? he was adamant that i shouldend this line of research. i have absolutely no doubt that the anunnaki and the watchersare the same reptilian race- the serpents with the shining e

atives of the ireland-scottishmactier, macdougal and macghill. the term mac means children or child of and thearabs use the term bini, as in bini mtir, which means the same. missionaries whofirst explored the lands of the berbers found that they used bagpipes, as do the irish andscots. early invaders of ireland were known as the men with the leather bags. an irishgoatskin drum found in kerry is a twin of the moroccan drum, the bindir. the violinand the guitar also originate in north africa. the viking wing of the aryans invadedireland and founded many towns, including the present capital city of dublin. but, notsurprisingly in the light of the evidence you have been reading, the famous vikinggalley with the high front and stern was a phoenician design used by the egyptians.rock carvings at

called elizabeth (el-lizard-birth)and was known to her family circle as lilibet. she is a major reptilian gene carrier whoproduced a major reptilian full-blood called prince charles. both are shape-shiftingreptilians, a fact that will be supported by later evidence. so is the queen mother,formerly elizabeth (el-lizard-birth) bowes-lyon. the fleur-de-lis is an ancient symboland also represents the twin phallic pillars of jachin and boaz in the symbolicsolomons temple, which were carved with lilywork, as described in kings 7:22.today you will see the fleur-de-lis used profusely on the regalia of british royalty, onofficial buildings and the fencing around them, and in churches. it is, appropriately, on apublic gate to the white house in washington, another home of the bloodlines. thethree-le

f freemasons around frederick, prince of wales, amember of the hellfire club. charles younger brother, george, became colonel of the20th foot regiment (later the lancashire fusiliers) and master of their freemasonicfield lodge. one of the wardens in this lodge was lieutenant colonel edwardcornwallis, another of the top british army commanders in the war with the americancolonies. cornwallis, whos twin brother was archbishop of canterbury, was madegovernor of nova scotia in 1750 and formed a freemasons lodge there. serving undercornwallis was captain james wolf, yet another figure who would play a vital role forthe british in the war of independence. in 1751, george sackville became grandmaster of the irish grand lodge, the very body to which the field lodges of the britisharmy in the colon

, male. these symbols attract and generate the energy theyrepresent: they are a physical thought form. the obelisk also symbolises the penis of theegyptian sun god, osiris. according to legend, after osiris had been sliced into piecesby his rival, set, the queen isis found all the pieces except his willy. an obelisk claimedto come from alexandria in egypt stands in central park, new york, and its twin waserected in the 19th century, during the reign of queen victoria, on the former templarlands alongside the river thames not far from the houses of parliament. it is known ascleopatras needle and originally stood in on (heliopolis, the egyptian city of thesun, from at least 1500 bc, before it was moved to alexandria (see picture section. asphinx has been placed on either side at its london l

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y court, american canyon, california, 94589, may 2, 1993. 2 "the cause of gravity, paul stowe and barry mingst, 243 bentley court, american canyon, california, 94589, april 28, 1991. 3 "spinning charged ring model of electron yielding anomalous magnetic moment, david l. bergman and j. paul wesley, ph.d, galilean electrodynamics, sept/oct 1990. 4 "the stable elementary particles, david l. bergman, twin-cities creation conference, july 29-august 1,1992. 5. dashed against the rock. william j. colville, boston: colby and rich, 1894. colville was a close friend of john keely and this book is a publication of keely's secrets embedded in a metaphysical novel. 6 "mass resonance: another secret of anti-gravity, dan a. davidson and jerry decker, extraordinary science, april-may-june, 1995. 7. haisch

vol 2, no. 1,1990. 6 "a definition of electric charge, paul stowe, 243 bentley court, american canyon, california, 94589, may 2,1993. 7 "the cause of gravity, paul stowe and barry mingst, 243 bentley court, american canyon, california, 94589, april 28, 1991. 8. haisch, rueda, and puthoff, physical review, 1994, pages 678- 694. 9 "new spinning charged ring model of the electron, david l. bergman, twin-cities creation conference, july 29-august 1,1992. 10 "spinning charged ring model of elementary particles, david l. bergman, galilean electrodynamics, march/april 1991. 11 "a physical model for atoms and nuclei, joseph lucas, galilean electrodynamics, january/february 1996. 12 "physical models for elementary particles, atoms and nuclei, david l. bergman and charles wm. lucas, jr, iv internat

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n the north from which hell is commonly located. 6 which devoured various shades of the dead who were sent there. it is written in the book of the dead that seker s throne is pyramidal in form, filled with darkness. he appears commonly in the tuat as a mummified man but has a hawk s head and a pair of wings, which come forth from the back of a two headed serpent. the symbolism of the hawk and the twin serpents are later presented in the persian descriptions of the adversary, firstly a symbol of ahriman was a hawk attacking a sparrow and the twin serpents appearing from an ahrimanic kiss on the shoulders of the king zohak, who later became azi dahaka, the storm demon. while these similarities cannot be assumed to be directly related, they are by all instances interesting. the constellation

s considered a lower pre form of cain, thus the sacrifice was not literal. 30 later paths of witchcraft as a lord of magick, but rather the darker aspects. here cain takes a similar path with anubis by name and process. robert cochrane, a practitioner of witchcraft in the 60 s wrote- in the north lies the castle of weeping, the ruler thereof is named tettens, our hermes or woden. he is the second twin, the waning sun, lord over mysticism, magic, power and death, the baleful destroyer. the god of war, of justice, king of kings, since all pay their homage to him. ruler of the winds, the windyat. cain imprisioned in the moon, ever desiring earth. he is visualized as a tall dark man, shadowy, cold and deadly. letters from robert cochrane here we see that cain, the son of samael and lilith, is

itions is also the son of adam and lilith, or the traditional myth of samael (the devil) and eve. a further interesting connection that lilith holds with samael/satan is the star algol which was originally called arabic the ri'b al ohill and later the hebrew rosh ha sitan meaning the head of satan and also lilith. algol can be viewed as a star which represents the essence of satan and lilith, the twin fire of becoming through the left hand path. in luciferian sorcery, algol is presented as an 8 pointed chaos sigil with the inverted pentagram in the center. this is made reference to the number 8, being of baphomet and chaos, and the pentagram representing the five points of the adversary, details are found in the grade workings of the black order of the dragon38, which is a non-public initi

that the circle itself is timeless and represents the eternal spirit. leviathan in this instance is the guardian of the abyss and timeless in essence. isaiah 27:1 calls leviathan that crooked serpent. 39 from the legends of the jews, ginzberg. 36 the fallen angel rahab itself means violence and refers to his name or title as sar shel yam, in hebrew prince of the primordial sea. the source of the twin fallen angels leviathan and behemoth, presents both as beasts and dragons which hold much power when they fell. and that day will two monsters be parted, one monster, a female named leviathan in order to dwell in the abyss of the ocean over the fountains of water, and a male called behemoth which holds his chest in an invisible desert whose name is dendayen, east of the garden of eden. enoch

gels leviathan and behemoth, presents both as beasts and dragons which hold much power when they fell. and that day will two monsters be parted, one monster, a female named leviathan in order to dwell in the abyss of the ocean over the fountains of water, and a male called behemoth which holds his chest in an invisible desert whose name is dendayen, east of the garden of eden. enoch 60: 7-8 these twin dragons in the beginning were said to be angels, but took monstrous form and fell to earth, leviathan, represented as often female and male, and behemoth being a male, to respectively, the abyss of oceans and the earth. in this lore, lucifer fell yet retained something of his former self a role which each angel played differently depending on their individual personality and nature. eliphas l

DONALDTYSON EVILEYE

s of years in an unbroken tradition. it is said to be especially common among the working classes in italy, greece and sicily. even in modern africa, tribal witch hunts are conducted against those unfortunate citizens accused by their neighbors of having the evil eye, and of causing bad luck or sickness by their mere glance. countless innocent individuals, men and woman, have been murdered on the twin charges of witchcraft and the evil eye. it would be difficult to maintain that there is no such thing as the evil eye, when the belief is so widespread across both time and cultural boundaries. at the same time it is obvious that the traditional explanation as to how the evil eye works must be incorrect. how then does it work? when a malicious glance is sent from the eye of a spiteful person

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

cted in human form, sometimes with the head of a hawk, and sometimes without[3, as early as the time of the pyramid texts we find ra united with tmu to form the chief god of annu, and at the same period a female counterpart rat was assigned to him.[4] shu, the second member of the company of the gods of annu, was the firstborn son of ra, ra-tmu, or tum, by the goddess hathor, the sky, and was the twin brother of tefnut. he typified the light, he lifted up the sky, nut, from the earth, seb, and placed it upon the steps which were in khemennu [1. see lanzone, op. cit, tav. 398. 2. ibid, p. 1255- 3. ibid, tav. 78. 4. pyramid of unas, l. 253] p. cxii he is usually depicted in the form of a man, who wears upon his head a feather or feathers and holds in his hand the sceptre. at other times he a

ave reference to shu: the little models of steps typify the steps upon which shu rested the sky in khemennu; and the crouching figure of a god supporting the sun's disk symbolizes his act of raising the sun's disk into the space between sky and earth at the time when he separated nut from seb. tefnut, the third member of the company of the gods of annu, was the daughter of ra, ra-tmu, or tmu, and twin-sister of shu; she represented in one form moisture, and in another aspect she seems to personify the power of sunlight. she is depicted in the form of a woman, usually with the head of a lioness surmounted by a disk or ur us, or both;[2] in fa ence, however, the twin brother and sister have each a lion's head. in the pyramid texts they play a curious part, shu being supposed to carry away hu

. maat "daughter of the sun, and queen of the gods" is the personification of righteousness and truth and justice. in many papyri she is represented as leading the deceased into the hall of double maat, where his heart is to be weighed against her emblem. she usually wears the feather, emblematic of truth, and is called the "lady of heaven: see lanzone, dizionario, p. 276 (and tav. 109, where the twin-goddesses maat are shown; pierret, panth on, p. 2011. she is sometimes represented blind-fold: see wiedemann, religion der alten aegypter, p. 78. for figures of the goddess in bronze and stone, see nos. 380, 383, 386, ii, 109, and ii, 114 in the british museum. 6 heru-khuti, i.e "horus of the two horizons" the harmachis of the greeks, is the day-sun from his rising in the eastern horizon to h

eth loving kindness unto thee every day. ra liveth and the fiend nak is dead; thou dost endure for ever, and the (22) fiend hath fallen. plate i. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod13.htm (4 of 6 [8/10/2001 11:24:37 am "thou sailest over the sky with life and strength. the goddess nehebka is in (23) the atet boat; the sacred boat rejoiceth. thy heart is glad and thy brow is wreathed with the twin serpents" ii (i) a hymn of praise to ra when he riseth in the eastern part of heaven. behold osiris, qenna the merchant, triumphant, who saith (2 "homage to thee, o thou who risest in nu, and who at thy birth dost make the world bright with light; all the company of the gods (3) sing hymns of praise unto thee. the beings who minister unto osiris cherish him as king of the north and of the sou

nu. thou dost become young again and art the same as thou wert yesterday, o mighty youth who hast created thyself. not. my hand (13) thou hast come with thy splendours, and thou hast made heaven and earth bright with thy rays of pure emerald light. the land of punt is (14) established for the perfumes which thou smellest with thy nostrils (15) thou risest, o thou marvellous being, in heaven, the twin serpents are placed upon thy brow, and thou art lord of the world and the inhabitants (16) thereof [the company] of the gods and qenna the merchant, triumphant, adore thee" iii (1, 2) a hymn of praise to ra when he riseth in the eastern part of heaven (3) behold osiris hunefer, triumphant, who saith "homage to thee, o thou who art ra when thou (4) risest and tmu when thou settest. thou risest

ed with the prenomen of necho ii. 2, i.e, the sun-god when he sets and rises. 3. supplied from the papyrus of nebseni. see british museum papyrus no. 9900; naville, todtenbuch, bd. ii, pl. xxxi. 4 see supra, p. 273, note 3. 5. adding# or# from the variant readings given by naville. 6. some papyri read unnu; on this town, see brugsch, dict. g og, p. 146. 7. shu was the son of ra and hathor and the twin-brother of tefnut. he typified the sunlight, and separated the earth from the sky, which he established and supported. for a drawing of shu and his four supports, see lanzone, dizionario, tav. 385. 8. see brugsch, dict. g og, p. 749. 9. i.e" substance of the gods] p. 282 (13) who then is this? it is tmu in his disk, or (as others say, it is ra in (14) his rising in the eastern horizon of heav

risest up in triumph" 4. the vignette represents the deceased on his knees embracing his soul. 5. vignette: a man kneeling and holding a lotus. 6. vignettes: the deceased scooping water with his hands out of a tank] and he hath gotten power over it as hapi. i, even i, open the (3) two doors of heaven: and the two doors of the watery abyss have been opened unto me by thoth and by hapi, the divine twin sons of heaven (4) who are mighty in splendours. o grant ye that i may gain power over the water, even as set overcame his foes on the day (5) when he terrified the world. i have passed by the great ones shoulder against shoulder, even as they have passed by that great and splendid god who is (6) provided [with all things] and whose name is unknown. i have passed by the mighty one of the shou

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ter morya, sanat kumara, and djual khul (all prominent figures in theosophy and the i am movement. also included among the masters were the angel moroni (the angel who gave the book of mormon to joseph smith jr, mahatma ghandi, and flying saucer entities clarion and ashtar. the foundation s last known address was 315 15th ave. e, seattle, wa 98112. sources: rhinehart, keith milton. soul mates and twin rays. seattle, wash: aquarian foundation, 1972. aquarian tabernacle church founded in 1979, the aquarian tabernacle originated as a small group of pagans in greater seattle, washington. it was incorporated four years later and has since grown into an international body with affiliated groups across the united states and in canada and australia. founder pete pathfinder and his wife wende (nee

it has a website at http//www.attunement.org. sources: jorgensen, chris. attunement, love made visible. kansas city, mo: the author, 1996. layne, laurence. attunement: the sacred landscape. st augustine, fla: the florida school of attunement and natural healing, 1998. atwater, phyllis m. h (1937) phyllis m. h. atwater, a researcher on the near-death experience, was born on september 19, 1937, in twin falls, idaho. after high school she went to work as a secretary. in 1956 she married john bernard huffman, with whom she had three children. during her adult years she became interested in the occult and in 1966 she became a professional numerologist. four years later she founded inner forum, inc, in boise, through which she offered her services as a counselor. she soon added astrology and hy

number was two, from their identification with the dioscuri and tyndaridae, and from the number of the pataeci on phoenician vessels. the addition of vulcan as their father or brother made them three, and a fourth may have been their mother cabira. 5. the samothracian divinities continued to be held in high veneration in late times, but are commonly spoken of in connection with navigation, as the twin dioscuri or tyndaridae; on the other hand the dioscuri are spoken of as the curetes or corybantes. the coins of tripolis exhibit the spears and star of the dioscuri, with the legend cabiri. 6. the roman penates have been identified with the dioscuri, and dionysius states that he had seen two figures of ancient workmanship, representing youths armed with spears, which, from an antique inscript

s and international relations, aircraft and ship disasters, and prominent personalities.injury or death. all these predictions are monitored and checked. the registry has already verified many remarkably accurate predictions, mostly from ordinary individuals, rather than professional psychics. robert nelson first became interested in the paranormal through the telekinetic ability of his identical twin brother, william, to move small objects by mental concentration. the central premonitions registry is the first private agency in the united states dedicated to the scientific evaluation of precognitive perceptions and their use as an early warning system for assassinations, plane crashes, floods, fires, and other catastrophes. psychically gifted individuals are encouraged to participate in d

in their analysis of dream interpretation with many concentrating on awareness of hidden messages and awakening the unconscious mind. sources: artemidorus. the interpretation of dreams: oneirocritica. translated by robert white. park ridge, n.j: noyes press, 1975. cartwright, rosalind d. night life: explorations in dreaming. englewood, n.j: prentice-hall, 1977. christmas, henry. the cradle of the twin giants, science and history. 2 vols. london, 1849. colquohoun, john c. an history of magic, witchcraft& animal magnetism. 2 vols. n.p, 1851. de becker, r. the meaning of dreams. london, 1968. diamond, e. the science of dreams. london, 1962.dunne, j. w. an experiment with time. london, 1927. ellis, havelock. the world of dreams. boston: houghton mifflin company, 1922. reprint, detroit: gale re

f the leidenfrost effect and points out discrepancies in the theory based on his own experience. for a valuable collection of papers on fire walking, see psi research (vol. 4, no. 2, 1985. for a bibliography of articles on fire walking, see bulletin ii of the university of london, council for psychical investigation (london, 1936. sources: burkan, tolly. guiding yourself into a spiritual reality. twin harte, calif: reunion press, 1983. danforth, loring m. firewalking and religious healing: the anastenaria of greece and the american firewalking movement. princeton, n.j: princeton university press, 1989. michell, john, and robert j. m. rickard. phenomena: a book of wonders. london: thames and hudson, 1977. reprint, new york: pantheon books, 1977. rickard, robert, and richard kelly. photograp

good. the last reflection or imperfect mirage of light in shadow. everything exists in light or darkness, good or evil, and exists through the tetrad. the triad or trinity, then, is explained by the duad and resolved by the tetrad. such occult interpretations of god echo the ancient mysticism such as the eastern religion of hinduism, where the pairs of opposites like good and evil are regarded as twin poles of a larger reality, where anthropomorphic concepts of god the creator are considered legal fictions for a divine infinity, beyond time, space, and causality. sources: achad, frater. the anatomy of the body of god. chicago: collegium ad spiritum sanctum, 1925. akiba ben joseph rabbi. the book of formation (sepher yetzirah. london: william rider, 1923. angeles, peter a. the problem of go

nion moved on to new zealand, and hatfield moved to lake tahoe, nevada. five years later, hatfield met mark crocker, who confided the ability he possessed to consciously leave his body in astral travel. on one of his astral flights he attempted to locate hades base. crocker claimed that while following a spacecraft to mars, he met two female entities known as tia and kiri, later learned to be his twin souls. hatfield also said that he perfected the ability to travel astrally and also met his twin, an entity named karra. the two, crocker and hatfield finally established contact with omal, who agreed to begin channeling through crocker. they began weekly channeling sessions that soon included a variety of beings from hades base, an underground location on mars. the channeling described not o

ground, so orpheus would not have had a long journey from the subterranean sphere to reach earth once more. hell was generally regarded as a sovereignty, a place ruled in an ordinary manner by a monarch set there for that purpose by the celestial powers. thus the greek hades ruled the sad sphere of the dead, osiris was lord and governor of the egyptian amenti, while in central america there were twin rulers in the kiche hades, xibalba, whose names were given as hun-came and vukubcame. the latter were malignant, unlike the mictlan of mexico, whose empire was for the generality of the people. these could only exist for four years, after which they became extinct. the mexicans represented mictlan as a huge monster with open mouth ready to devour his victims; this was paralleled in the babylo

d, an anglican clergyman, she edited a ladies journal and conducted a feminist campaign with special emphasis on womanly attributes. she considered masculinity in women degrading. in 1870 she became a roman catholic, and ten years later took her medical degree in paris. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. kingsford, anna bonus 863 about this time she discovered in edward maitland a twin soul for her mystical mission. although platonic, their association resulted in some mischievous gossip. in fact the maitland and kingsford families were related by marriage. in 1883, kingsford became president of the theosopical society, and in 1884 kingsford and maitland founded the hermetic society in britain for the study of mystical christianity. while they were innovators in the field o

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to the spot, and one of them, anita rio, saw the young woman and the infant with a rosary in his hands. the woman spoke to rio and said that she would see the woman in the evenings. rio entered a state of shock and was taken to the town s small hospital. one of the boys who had seen the woman asked her who she was, and she replied, i am our lady of graces. the next evening, gino acquaviva and his twin brother, carmine, saw the virgin again, and asked her name. this time she replied, i am our lady of consolation. the lady appeared frequently over the next months. rio saw her regularly and was told that she wished a small chapel built at the castle gate. that chapel was dedicated in 1987. as word spread of the sightings, the castle gate became a place of pilgrimage and by the end of the 1980

va dharma shastra (ordinances of manu, a code of religious and civil duties, prohibited intoxication on the part of brahmin priests and made it clear that the soma drink was from a plant, not a mushroom. this plant is sometimes called the moon plant, and soma was traditionally associated with the moon. yoga treatises on meditation suggest that the true soma, or elixir of life, is the union of the twin currents of kundalini energy in the human body, culminating in higher consciousness. some hindus believe in kundalini as a latent energy situated at the base of the spine that is activated in normal life in sexual activity, but which may also be drawn upward in subtle channels of the spine to a center in the head, illuminating the consciousness with mystical awareness. the goal of some forms

yashi, a retired naval officer. he in turn taught ms. hawayo takata, a japanese-american who had traveled to japan in the mid-1930s to seek help for her failing health. hayashi named her his successor. toward the end of her life, she initiated the first non-japanese into reiki and through the reiki masters she initiated, reiki became a global phenomenon. sources: petter, frank arjava. reiki fire. twin lakes, wis: lotus light publications, 1997. reiki: the legacy of dr. usui. twin lakes, wis: lotus light publications, 1998. usui, mikao encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1616 v valentine, basil this german adept in alchemical philosophy is commonly supposed to have been born at mayence toward the close of the fourteenth century. as a young man he became a roman catholic pries

or, the question of lucifer: a record of things seen and heard in the secret societies according to the evidence of initiates. london, george redway, 1896. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. vaughan, diana 1629 vaughan, thomas (1622.1666) british alchemist and poet, who wrote under the pseudonym eugenius philalethes. he was born april 17, 1622, at newton, breconshire, the younger twin brother of poet henry vaughan. he matriculated at oxford and entered jesus college, oxford university, becoming a fellow of his college. in 1640, at the age of eighteen, he received the living [i.e, the income as parish priest] of st. bridget s [church of england, breconshire, and on february 18, 1642, the b.a. degree. he was a royalist during the civil war and in 1658 was accused of drunkenn

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rrounded the whole of the evil sephiroth; who are eleven instead of ten \ynprdcjahw eleven were the curses of ebal and the dukes of edom. in the evil palaces, the first contains rtk, hmkj and hnyb. unto rtk is attributed laytrk (kerthiel, which meaneth "cut off from god (see ps. xxxvii.34" and the symbolic form is that of black, evil giants. also to rtk belong the laymwat or laymwt the thamiel or twin-headed ones, and their forms are as dual giant heads with bat-like wings attached thereto. they have no bodies, for they are those who seek continually to unite themselves to the bodies of other beings and forms. unto hmkj are referred the dukes of esau and the laygwu (also with laybkuk kokbiel and layku) and these attach themselves unto lying and material appearances, and their form is like

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

tremendous strength. her name, coincidentally or otherwise, is the same as that of the greek goddess of wisdom, the arts, and warf a re. athena was also the name of a space commander in the television series battlestar ga l a c- t i c a, which aired on abc in 1978 and 1979. according to the late thelma b. turrell (who was also known as tuella, a name given her by the ashtar command, athena is the twin flame of ashtar. he has said to me that he could turn over the whole command to her and no one would even miss him (beckley, 1989. see also: ashtar; contactees; korton; monka further reading beckley, timothy green, 1989. psychic and ufo revelations in the last days. new brunswick, nj: inner light publications. tuieta, 1986. project alert. fort wayne, in: portals of light. 30 athena maren jens

meier, semjase is around 350 years old, though she looks to be in her twenties. she is blond, blue-eyed, and fair-skinned. her only extraterrestrial characteristic is her extended earlobes. because she possesses knowledge remarkable even by pleiadian standards, she is considered an jshrjsh (ish-rish, a sort of demigoddess. before meeting meier in 1975, she spent eight years in the dal universe (a twin parallel universe to the earth s, known as the dern universe) in the company of asket, a dal native woman who had assisted meier through his early child and young-adult interactions with extraterrestrials. she then left the dal universe and returned briefly to erra before arriving in europe. meier insists that her orders were to work exclusively on that continent. while visiting the headquart

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for her sweet body summon again before my half-distracted sense! mephistopheles what would you then? she thinks that you have flown, and half and half you are, as you must own. faust i m near to her, however far i were, i never can forget nor yet lose her; i envy even the body of the lord whenever her sweet lips touch the adored. mephistopheles well said, my friend! oft have envied you indeed the twin-pair that among the roses feed. faust off, pander! mephistopheles fine! you rail and it s a joke to me. the god who fashioned youth and maid at once perceived the noblest trade was that he make them opportunity. be off! that is a cause of woe! it s to your darling s chamber you re to go, not to your death, indeed! faust how am i, in her arms, by heaven blessed? though i grow warm upon her bre

e it such! astrologer. but one word more! from all we ve seen today, i call the piece the rape of helena. faust what! rape? fellow, am i for naught here? this key do i not hold it in my hand, i whom through stormy solitudes it brought here, through waves of horror to this solid land? here do i plant my foot! realities are here, here strife with spirits may the spirit dare and for itself the great twin-realm prepare. though she was far, how can she nearer be? i ll save her and then doubly mine is she. i dare! ye mothers, mothers! grant this favour! who once has known her can renounce her never! astrologer what are you doing, faustus, faustus! with what might he seizes her! the form is fading from our sight. toward the youth he turns the key, and lo! he s touching him- now! it is done! ah, w

ns stand above there in clear and splendid ether-blue, if them i had not worked to shove there? a picturesque, entrancing view! whenas (the primal sires surveying, chaos and night) i saw my honour lost, i, with the titans joined in playing, hurled ossa, pelion too, as balls are tossed. thus we raged on in youthful passion till vexed and weary at the last both mountains we, in wanton fashion, like twin peaks on parnassus cast. apollo gladly lingers yonder there in the muses blest retreat. for jove himself and for his bolts of thunder i heaved on high his lofty seat. thus i, by strainings superhuman, pushed from the depths to upper air, and dwellers glad i loudly summon new life henceforth with me to share. sphinxes surely one would call primeval what so burg-like looms today, but we saw the

ill refrain. winding among the chorus and drawing them forth to dance. round this gay company hover i light; now is the melody, now is the movement right? helena. yes, that is neatly done! lead all the beauties on, artfully dance! faust oh, that an end might be! ne er can this roguery my joy enhance. euphorion and the chorus, dancing and singing, move about in interlocking dance. chorus. when thy twin arms so fair charming thou raisest, radiant thy curly hair shaking displacest, when thou with foot so light skimmest the earth in flight, hither and off again, dancing a linked chain, thou hast thy goal attained, thou lovely child; all of our hearts beguiled, all hast thou gained. pause. euphorion. o all ye lithesome roes never staying, quickly and blithesome, on, to new playing! i am the hun

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odroffe s book the garland of letters, we find the translated inscription: she [small face as divine mother] stands upon the white, corpse-like shiva. he is white because he is the illuminating, transcendental aspect of consciousness. he is inert because he is the changeless aspect of the supreme, and she the apparently changing aspect of the same. in truth, she and he are one and the same, being twin aspects of the one. 21 in the torah, there are a variety of images alluding to the station of vast face, such as darkness al (li lit. upon) the face of the deep 22 we also find a prominent image of the ancient of days in the revelation of john, described as having fiery eyes and a two-edged sword coming from his mouth (figure 6.2. then, there is the reference to darkness upon thick darkness i

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tues are those unfamiliar with names. his absurd i is ever supralapsarian. man has exhausted his courage by imaginations engendered from the damned: never can he satisfy what follows these repressions. thou who tremblest all over! thy soul shudders! thou dost perish from the poison of yesterday's armour and righteousness! o incomprehensible synonymy! o thou who art neither the vigorous kiss of my twin sexes nor its writhings of hatred and black shame. nothing is discovered of thee until i invented it: from the ceaseless resurrection of earlier deliberations. o thou syzygy of my i and self! thou becomest volatile to whatsoever is sensed. art thou the hidden wish for madness and hysteric love? o thou "untamed" within, thou shall not lose virtue-for thee i will not domesticate while generatin

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ns) the fishes, and in a certain sense as a compounded figure (t )the centaur armed with the bow, are called bi-corporate, or double- bodied signs. to these refer manasseh (ii),simeon, and benjamin (t).manasseh was divided into two half-tribes with separate possessions (being the only tribe thus divided, and thus answers to the equal division of the sign of the twins, castor and pollux, the great twin brethren. simeon and levi aretwelve signs and twelve tribes 41classed together, like the two fishes in the sign, but levi is withdrawn later, to form asitwere the binding and connecting link of the tribes, as the priestly caste. benjamin is the younger brother of joseph, for rachel had only thesetwosons, and is the only one of the sons of jacob who at his birth was called by two names, for ra

(pagad. lapapessa .frenchenglishgimel dalethhe vauzainchethtethyodkaphlamed memnunsamechayinpe tzaddi qoph resh shintaua bgd hvzcht i kl mnsoptzqrshthv\0>-l::cttl/)ttlt:igj:>gthetarot57leaves, for eight is the first cubical number.theace of cups is of egyptian origin, which can be more easily seen in the spanish tarot.thefigure, like an inverted m on its front, is all that remains of the egyptian twin serpents which originally decorated it.itrepresents the waters of creation in the first chapter of genesis.itis the symbol of the power which receives and modifies.theace of swords isasword surmounted by a crown, from which depend on either side an olive and a palm branch, symbolic of mercy and severity; around it are six hebrew yods, recalling the six days of the mosaic creation.itis the sym

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on; they are an expression of those corrupt insinuations against solomon. the origins of these columns again go back to ancient egypt. in the article entitled "allegory and symbols in our rituals" mimar sinan magazine states: various masonic symbols: the double column, the eye, and the compass and the square. global freemasonry lg materialism revisited lh for example, in egypt, horus and set were twin architects and supports of the heavens. even bacchus in thebes was one too. the two columns in our lodges have their origin in ancient egypt. one of these columns was in the south of egypt in the city of thebes; the other was in the north in heliopolis. in the entrance to the amenta temple dedicated to ptah, the chief god of egypt, there were two columns as in the temple of solomon. in the ol

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and y factors (fig 32) to explain this point further, the treasury of light, which exists beyond and behind the sun, uses the solar logos as a gateway through which higher forces can re-awaken man. these forces are, in gnostic terms, the logos and sophia. when they are manifested within the life of a gnostic the true self is awakened and the student becomes christed. the logos and sophia are the twin poles of the x factor. at the same time however, the sun also transmits the destructive currents of the demiurge, these must be resisted and controlled if liberation is to be achieved. fig 32: veils on the tree of life gnostic theurgy page 117 this destructive current is known as the y factor, and also has twin poles, the x and y factors create a solar cross of four energy forces (fig 33) the

e manifestations of the sun, and accordingly, we can appreciate how the incarnation motif became accepted, while not accepting its more anthropomorphic interpretation. solar mythologies the solar tradition has many forms. the most common adaptation is that found in the language of myth and legend where the x and y factors take on anthropomorphic forms. for the gnostic the logos and sophia are the twin poles of the x factor. one traditional adaptation, for example, was for the logos to be related to the sun and sophia to the moon, and this led to a wide range of sexual duality traditions using god and goddess images. while these are fine in their place, it is gnostic theurgy page 120 important to see them as mythological forms only, to worship the sun or the moon is to fall into the greates

become what you are truly meant to be. while morals, ethics, social values have always played a part in the outercourt of the gnosis, it is time to go beyond good and evil and venture within. there are maps available for your inner journey, but you must chart your own course. the very things that would drive the average man to hell for thousand years may save your very soul. good and evil are the twin sides of one coin, the coin of obedience and rebellion, repetition and denial, all of which keep us safe and sound within cycles of the wave of re-occurrence. the gnosis is an experience, a thunderbolt- which leads us beyond the yeses and noes of mortal life. gnostic theurgy page 224 the will to power within the soul herself is the message of immortality, it is the forbidden fruit and woe to

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ept "mighty adeptus major, thy wand and its meaning" second adept "a wand terminating in the symbol of the binary and surmounted by the tav cross of life, or the head of the phoenix, sacred to osiris. the seven colors between light and darkness are attributed to the planets. it symbolizes rebirth and resurrection from death" chief adept "my wand is surmounted by the winged globe, around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolizes the equilibrated forces of the spirit and the four elements beneath the everlasting wings of the holy one. associate adeptus minor, what are the words inscribed upon the door of the vault, and how is it guarded" third adept "post centum viginti annos patebo. after one hundred and twenty years i shall open, and the door is guarded by the elemental tablets

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lement in twklm. the columns are respectively black and white to represent the manifestation of the eternal balance of the scales of justice. upon them should be represented in counterchanged color any appropriate egyptian designs, emblematic of the soul. 5 the scarlet tetrahedronal capitals represent the o of test and trial, and between the pillars is the porchway of the region immeasurable. the twin lights which burn on their summits are "the declarers of the eternal truth" the bases of the tetrahedra, being triangular, points east on the white pillar, while that on the black pillar points west. thus, they complete the hexagram of trapt, though separate, as is fitting in "the hall of the dual manifestation of truth" the altar, whose form is that of a double cube, is placed in the eastern

the lamen of the kerux is thus explained in the grade of theoricus "the tree of life and the three mother letters are the keys wherewith to unlock the caduceus of hermes. the upper point of the wand rests on rtk and the wings stretch out to hmkj and hnyb, thus, comprehending the three supernal sephiroth. the lower seven are embraced by the serpents whose heads fall on dsj and hrwbg. they are the twin serpents of egypt and the currents of astral light. furthermore, the wings and the top of the wand form the letter c, the symbol of o; the heads and upper halves of the serpents form a, the symbol of m; while their tails enclose m, the symbol of n. the fire of life above, the waters of creation below, and the m symbol vibrating between them" 12 in addition to this, the caduceus of kerux repre

light born before the hoodwinked candidate at his initiation is symbolic of the light which guides him in the darkness of the world though he sees it not nor knows it. this caduceus is the rod of hermes, containing invisible and unsuspected forces, the rules of whose administration may be revealed through meditation. it is the outer form of the wand surmounted by the winged globe below which the twin serpents are shown, the wand of the chief adept in the 5=6 grade. the lamen of the stolistes is thus explained in the grade of practicus "the cup of the stolistes partakes in part of the symbolism of the laver of moses and the sea of solomon. on the tree of life, it embraces nine of the sephiroth, exclusive of rtk. dwsy and twklm form the triangle below, with the former as the apex, and the l

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. yehashuah. such are the words" chief adept "mighty adeptus exemptus, what is the key of this vault" 4 second adept "the rose and cross which are hidden in the power of the word i.n.r.i" chief adept "associate adeptus minor, what is the emblem which i bear on my breast" third adept "the complete symbol of the rose and cross" chief adept "i also carry the wand of the winged globe around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolizes the balanced force of the spirit in the elements behind the wings of the holy one. associate adeptus minor, what are the words inscribed above the vault" third adept "post centum viginti annos patebo. after one hundred and twenty years i shall open. the door is guarded by the elemental tablets and the kerubic emblems" chief adept "all kneel" second adept

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triking central american tradition, this wise instructor. came from across the sea in a boat that moved by itself without paddles. he was a tall, bearded white man who taught people to use fire for cooking. he also built houses and showed couples that they could live together as husband and wife; and since people often quarreled in those days, he taught them to live in peace.3 viracocha s mexican twin the reader will recall that viracocha, in his journeys through the andes, went by several different aliases. quetzalcoatl did this too. in some parts of central america (notably among the quiche maya) he was called gucumatz. elsewhere, at chichen itza for example, he was known as kukulkan. when both these words were translated into english, they turned out to mean exactly the same thing: plum

st tradition concerning the imposing strangers who had entered mexico with quetzalcoatl: they were men of good carriage, well-dressed, in long robes of black linen, open in front, and without capes, cut low at the neck, with short sleeves that did not come to the elbow. these followers of quetzalcoatl were men of great knowledge and cunning artists in all kinds of fine work.15 like some long-lost twin of viracocha, the white and bearded andean deity, quetzalcoatl was depicted as having brought to mexico all the skills and sciences necessary to create a civilized life, thus ushering in a golden age.16 he was believed, for example, to have introduced the knowledge of writing to central america, to have invented the calendar, and to have been a master builder who taught the people the secrets

y to ensure his resurrection in the heavens. surviving reliefs and vignettes showing this ceremony leave no doubt that the mummified corpse was struck a hard physical blow with the peshenkhef.21 in addition, evidence has recently emerged which indicates that one of the chambers within the great pyramid at giza may have served as the location for the ceremony.22 all this finds a strange, distorted twin in mexico. we have seen the prevalence of human sacrifice there in pre-conquest times. is it coincidental that the sacrificial venue was a pyramid, that the ceremony was conducted by a high priest and four assistants, that a cutting instrument, the sacrificial knife, was used to strike a hard physical blow to the body of the victim, and that the victim s soul was believed to ascend directly t

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gards as real research, real scholarship, and so forth: anything that further divorces us from our roots in the authentic tradition is considered a good thing. this is all just silly make-believe. sure. but before settling in your new plot of new jersey swamp-land, you might be glad you had the method(s) described in this book, should you need to summon the jersey devil! fall to! jonathan sellers twin cedars lodge 12 august 2005 c. e. 1 preface: ufonauts, ciphers, and the cosmic war and there was war in heaven: michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought book of revelation 12:7 as the secret ceremony of the masonic royal arch nears its climax, the candidates are directed to bring before the king and high priest a strange box with inexplicable writing on all four

of the inside of a tomb. two of the explorers are in there or are they locals? one is smoking (dope, probably, while the other stands in contemplation. we placed hathor s head above the entry to the alcove. inside the alcove we placed father_acme conceived as a seated buddha image, a halo of light surrounds his head. is this not a secret ritual of the illuminati? search and see! jonathan sellers twin cedars lodge fall equinox 2005, c.e. 93 about the author allen h. greenfield, d.d, is in a unique position to interpret the lore of ufology for occultists, and to explain the elusive mythos of occultism to ufologists. a thirty-five year veteran of ufo investigative work, greenfield has twice been honored with the coveted ufologist of the year award by nufoc (1972 and 1992, and is co-founder o

GRIMM TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 2 1883 COMPLETE

h other round the field, and bringing summer, they are the cause of flying summer, i.e. gossamer. l until we know the whole tradition more exactly, we cannot assign it its right place. lei and polel are usually likened to castor and pollux (linde i. 2, 1250b, to whom they bear at least this resemblance, that their names, even in old folk songs, make a simple interjection, 2 as the romans used the twin 1 hall. allg. iz. 1807. no. 256, p. 807. 2 pol. lelum, polelum; serv. lele, leljo,lelja (vuksub v; walach. lerum (conf. lirumlarum, verba effutitia. it seems to me hazardous to suppose them sons of lada as c. and p. were of leda. couf. supra p. 306. 784 summer and winter. demigods to swear by. fliegendersommer,flugsommer,sommcrflug, graswebe, are our names for the white threads that cover the

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

, africa, and asia) a.m.o.r.c. introductory remarks: our new supreme treasurer, frater burnam schaa, is quite unconcerned about his personal life, feeling it to be rather unimportant. however, because there may be those who would find it of interest, the following has been gleaned from record, family and friends. he was born under rather unusual circumstances to parents in their middle years. his twin aborted mid-term, but william burnam was quietly delivered at 7:37 a.m. t.l.t.(true local time) in corpus christi, texas on february 17, 1943. corpus christi was the temporary residence of burnam's parents, stella m. and george e. schaa. his father, a watchmaker by trade, was conscripted by the navy to work on delicate instruments during world war ii, and the family was "stationed" there for

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

irst century bce summarizes the rituals to be performed, including mythological dramas. the conflict between horus and seth and the victory of ra over apophis were acted out on boats on the lake of the temple of ptah. this is typical of the way in which egyptian rituals lifted events out of ordinary time and made them part of the whole sequence of mythological history. two young women, preferably twin sisters, played the roles of isis and nephthys to mourn the apis bull as if he had been osiris himself. versions of the types of laments that they sang have survived in the bremner-rhind papyrus and other sources.82 the laments are notable for their emotional intensity. osiris is mourned not just as a king but as a beloved husband and brother. anthropologist claude l vi-strauss has pointed ou

het the horizon, a place of transition for gods and the dead, was known as akhet. the double horizon consisted of the western horizon where the sun god died at sunset and the eastern horizon where he was reborn at sunrise. the standard image of the horizon was a sun disk between two mountain peaks. two shining trees grew on these mountains, and the double horizon was guarded by a double sphinx or twin lions. see under feline deities; ra; shu and tefnut ammut ammut was a monstrous goddess who devoured the hearts of the evil dead. see also hippopotamus goddesses amun (amon, ammon, amen) amun was the mysterious creator god whose name meant hidden one. he was most commonly shown as a bearded man in the prime of life wearing a headdress surmounted by a double plume. his origins are obscure, but

rt mirrors the way the egyptians had transformed wild cats into pets. it was in cat form that the daughter of ra assisted her father in an epic battle against the chaos monster apophis. one terrible night ra himself took the form of the great tom cat and fought the apophis serpent under the ished tree at heliopolis. he sliced up apophis with his knife and split the ished tree in two, creating the twin trees of the horizon (see figure 22. in her pacified form, the feline daughter of ra united with the creator sun god to produce a divine child. at bubastis, the lion god mahes (mihos, myusis) was the cub of bastet and atum-ra. in the first millennium bce, bastet was increasingly represented as a fertile mother, suckling or surrounded by many kit- 134 handbook of egyptian mythology tens. her d

actually composed about 2,500 years after his reign. it tells how egypt suffered seven terrible years of famine, because the nile did not rise high enough to flood the agricultural land. djoser summoned the wisest of the priests who could read the sacred books and ordered him to discover the source of the inundation. the priest consulted ancient books and discovered that the inundation came from twin caverns under the island of elephantine. he told the king that only the god khnum had the power to unbolt the doors and release the flood from these caverns. djoser hastily made offerings to the deities of elephantine. then khnum the maker of every body appeared to the king in a dream and promised to let the flood gush again so that the years of hunger would be ended. it was probably the fert

, charging their ranks like a swooping falcon. rameses also compared himself to an eager bull in battle, which was another of montu s forms. montu was probably associated with the fights between bulls staged at some religious festivals. from the fourth century bce onward, a black and white bull was always kept in the montu temple at armant. these buchis bulls were revered as manifestations of the twin souls of ra and osiris. each buchis bull had a staff of twenty. he wore crowns and necklaces and a face net to keep off flies. see also cattle; ra; satet and anuket references and further reading: e. k. werner. the god montu: from the earliest attestations to the end of the old kingdom. ann arbor, mi: 1986. e. k. werner. montu and the falcon ships of the eighteenth dynasty. journal of the ame

er daughters of the creator sun god: maat, the personification of the divine order, and the eye of ra. in some versions of the story of the eye goddess, hathor-tefnut, the fiery solar eye, quarrels with her father and goes to live in the desert in the form of a savage lioness. her brother, shu, is sometimes named as the god who persuades her to return. shu and tefnut were also identified with the twin lions of the horizon. they are shown as two lions or spotted great cats, facing away from each other with the sun on the horizon between them. these lions had various temporal meanings. they could represent yesterday and tomorrow or two forms of time: nh.h (eternal recurrence) and d- t (eternal sameness. see also aten; atum; eye of ra; feline deities; geb; maat; onuris references and further

s of the earth. see also primeval mound; ptah taweret (tweret, taurt, thoeris) taweret was an apotropaic goddess often shown with the head and body of a hippopotamus, the breasts of a fecundity figure, the paws of a lion, and the tail of a crocodile. see also hippopotamus goddesses tayet tayet was the goddess of weaving and mummy wrappings. tefnut (tefenet) tefnut was the daughter of atum and the twin sister of shu. see also shu and tefnut thoth thoth was the god of wisdom and secret knowledge who invented writing and the different languages of humanity. as a lunar deity, thoth was the deputy of the sun god, ra. he mediated between the two fighters, horus and seth, and returned the estranged eye of ra to her father. as the divine physician, thoth used his magical powers to heal the wounded

125, 182; ad; boe; h&s; magical statue texts; pj; metternich stela; setna cycle; eofs; asclepius two ladies the two ladies were nekhbet (nechbet, the vulture goddess of upper egypt (the south, and wadjyt (wadjet, ouadjet, uto, the cobra goddess of lower egypt (the north. from the early dynastic period onward, the two ladies were the chief divine protectors of the king. as vulture and cobra, or as twin cobras, they were often featured on royal headdresses, jewelry, and furniture. nekhbet was identified with the white crown of upper egypt and wadjyt with the red (sometimes green) crown of lower egypt. nekhbet s name means she of nekheb, an ancient town in the south of egypt now known as el-kab. wadjyt may mean the green or fresh one or she of the papyrus. the first papyrus plant was said to

elry, and furniture. nekhbet was identified with the white crown of upper egypt and wadjyt with the red (sometimes green) crown of lower egypt. nekhbet s name means she of nekheb, an ancient town in the south of egypt now known as el-kab. wadjyt may mean the green or fresh one or she of the papyrus. the first papyrus plant was said to have come from the body of wadjyt. her chief cult area was the twin towns of pe and dep, home of legendary early kings of egypt. these towns were later known as the house of wadjyt, a name rendered by the greeks as buto. at his accession, each king was given the title he of the two ladies. in coronation scenes, the goddesses were often shown in human form on either side of the king. wadjyt often appeared as the uraeus cobra on the king s forehead, and nekhbet

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

ection it spreads wherever it goes. for it is a noble form, andits heart is full of benevolence. never has the form startled its soul-ego with a too-violent shock, orotherwise disturbed the calm placidity of its tenant. two score of years glide by like one short pilgrimage; a long walk through the sun-lit paths of life, hedgedby ever-blooming roses with no thorns. the rare sorrows that befall the twin pair, form and soul, appear to nightmare talesii12 them rather like the pale light of the cold northern moon, whose beams throw into a deeper shadow all aroundthe moon-lit objects, than as the blackness of the night, the night of hopeless sorrow and despair. son of a prince, born to rule himself one day his father's kingdom; surrounded from his cradle by reverenceand honours; deserving of the

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

this particular thought-form can add another level of representational identity to the entity. a common practice though, is to visualize the servitor as a featureless sphere, pulsing with energy, glowing with appropriately chosen colours, into which has been impressed, it.s sigilised instructions. 19 gohu servitor this short essay is an account of one of my most successful servitors to date. the twin spirits of gossip and rumour have followed me about ever since i started .doing things. on the uk magical scene. rumours ranging from allegations of affiliation to .dark. satanic groups to upheavals in my sex-life have whirled around and in some instances, ended up in the pages of pagan .zines. back in the late 80.s, pagan at the heart magazine announced to their readers that i had become .ce

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

some nameless place for some nameless purpose 'but as to this thing we've just sent back- the whateleys raised it for a terrible part in the doings that were to come. it grew fast and big from the same reason that wilbur grew fast and big- but it beat him because it had a greater share of the outsideness in it. you needn't ask how wilbur called it out of the air. he didn't call it out. it was his twin brother, but it looked more like the father than he did' the haunter of the dark by h. p. lovecraft written nov 1935 published december 1936 in weird tales, vol. 28, no. 5, p. 538-53. i have seen the dark universe yawning where the black planets roll without aim, where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge or lustre or name. cautious investigators will hesitate to challenge th

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head, high beyond the usual dimensions; his cheeks, deep-sunken and heavily lined with wrinkles; and his hands, long, claw-like, and gnarled, were of such a deadly marble-like whiteness as i have never elsewhere seen in man. his figure, lean to the proportions of a skeleton, was strangely bent and almost lost within the voluminous folds of his peculiar garment. but strangest of all were his eyes, twin caves of abysmal blackness, profound in expression of understanding, yet inhuman in degree of wickedness. these were now fixed upon me, piercing my soul with their hatred, and rooting me to the spot whereon i stood. at last the figure spoke in a rumbling voice that chilled me through with its dull hollowness and latent malevolence. the language in which the discourse was clothed was that deba

HP LOVECRAFT THE WHITE SHIP

the white ship followed the bird of heaven, over warm blessed seas fanned by caressing, aromatic breezes. day after day and night after night did we sail, and when the moon was full we would listen to soft songs of the oarsmen, sweet as on that distant night when we sailed away from my far native land. and it was by moonlight that we anchored at last in the harbor of sona-nyl, which is guarded by twin headlands of crystal that rise from the sea and meet in a resplendent arch. this is the land of fancy, and we walked to the verdant shore upon a golden bridge of moonbeams. in the land of sona-nyl there is neither time nor space, neither suffering nor death; and there i dwelt for many aeons. green are the groves and pastures, bright and fragrant the flowers, blue and musical the streams, clea

INFERNAL UNION

mpires, which is entirely in keeping with all the above references to 3 her. she was in this aspect in the tale of the egyptian sekmet, the blood-drinking goddess of the south (and may be related to seker in this aspect. lilith is the female serpent who latched onto eves brain centre in her union with samael who possessed adam. their union produced the first born (or in some mythologies, the dark twin) male, cain who through adversity was taught knowledge and wisdom by his true spiritual parents who he came into communion with. he became the eternal father of and the first in the circle of witchblood. throughout history he has guided those who truly seek the flame of luciferian becoming. because he is the perfect union of both the sun and moon, he is therefore baphomet. it is the sexual-ma

ISIS UNVEILED

mena in our modem times. though an ardent, uncompromising enthusiast, des mousseaux un- wittingly transforms himself into the tempting demon, or as he is fond of calling the devil the "serpent of genetu" in his desire to demon- strate in every manifestation the presence of the evu one, he only suc- ceeds in demonstrating that spiritualism and magic are no new things in the world, but very ancient twin-brothers, whose origin must be sought for in the earliest infancy of ancient india, chaldaea, babylonia, egypt. persia, and greece. he proves the existence of 'spirits' whether these be angels or devils, with such a clearness of argument and logic, and aucfa an amount digitizecoy google 16 isis unveiled of evidence, historical, iir^utable, and strictly autheaticated. that little is left for s

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

and and solemn enough. the general diffusion of these notions regarding the phalli and the ioni, and of the sacred mystic suggestions implied in both, as well as the inflections in design of these unlikely, repulsive figures for serious worship, prove that there was something very extraordinary, and quite beyond belief to the moderns, in the origin of them. the religion of the phallos (and of its twin emblem) is to be traced all over the east. it prevailed not only amongst the hindoos, assyrians, babylonians, mexicans, etruscans, greeks, and romans, in ancient times, but it still forms an integral part of the worship of india, thibet, china, siam, japan, and africa. we cannot, therefore, afford to ignore this grand scheme of ritual, when we discover it to be a religion so widely spread, an

bundant proofs of the secret fire-tradition. schweigger shows, in his introduction into mythology (pp. 132, 228, that the phoenician cabiri and the greek dioscuri, the curetes, corybantes, telchini, were originally of the same nature, and are only different in trifling particulars. all these symbols represent electric and magnetic pheno92 the rosicrucians. mena, and that under the ancient name of twin-fires, hermaphrodite fire. the dioscuri is a phrase equivalent to the sons of heaven: if, as herodotus asserts, zeus originally represented the whole circle of heaven. according to the ancient opinion of heraclitus, the contest of opposing forces is the origin of new bodies, and the reconcilement of these contending principles is called combustion. this is, according to montfaugon, sketched i

crescent of minerva, the horns of the egyptian ammon, the deifying of the ox, all have the same meaning. we trace, among the hebrews, the token of the identical mystery in the horns of moses, distinct in the sublime statue by michael angelo in the vatican; as also in the horns of the levitical altar: indeed, the use of the double hieroglyph in continual ways. the volutes of the ionic column, the twin-stars of castor and pollux, nay, generally, the employment of the double emblem all the world over, in ancient or in modern times, whether displayed as points, or radii) or wings on the helmets of those barbarian chiefs who made war upon rome, attila or genseric, or broadly shown upon the head-piece of the frankish clovis; whether emblemed in the rude and, as it were, savagely mystic horns of

lled) christian, doctrine harmonise in the general faith founded in magic. that magic is indeed possible is the moral of our book. we have seen that hercules was the myth of the electric principle. his pillars (calpe and abyla) are the dual upon which may be supposed to rest a world. they stood in the days when giants might really be imagined, indeed, they almost look as impressive of it now, the twin prodigious monoliths, similar in purpose to the artificial pyramids. they must have struck the astonished and awed discoverers gaze, navigating that silent mediterranean (when men seemed as almost to find themselves alone in the world, as the veritable, colossal, natural pillars on which should burn the double lights of the forbidden baal: witness of the ever-perpetuated, ever-perpetuating le

irit-seeing crystal, in which things impossible to ordinary ideas are disclosed. know, says synesius, that the quintessence (five-essence) and hidden thing of our stone is nothing less than our celestial and glorious soul, drawn by our magistery out of its mine, which engenders itself and brings itself forth. the term for chrystal, or crystal, in greek, is the following; which may be divided into twin- or half-words in the way subjoined: crust allos. crystal is a hard, transparent, colourless stone, composed of simple plates, giving fire with steel, not fermenting with acid menstrua, calcining in a strong fire, of a regular angular figure, supposed by some to be formed of dew coagulated with nitre. amber is a solidified resinous gum, and is commonly full of electricity. it was supposed, in

ended to carry an important meaning. they are found in the pointed or christian architecture in continual close connection with the triplicated zigzag, the vandykes, or aquarii, as we designate them, because all these architectural forms, which are hieroglyphs, mean the feminine or second prinfigures of the centuari. 241 ciple, and express the sign of aquarius, with its watery or lunar hints, its twin-fishes, and its jonah-like anagrams of the redeemer. hence the boat-like, elongated, peculiar form called the vesica piscis, which is the oblong shuttleshaped frame continually set over doors and windows and elsewhere in gothic churches, to contain effigies of the saviour, or virgin mary, or groups from the new testament in connection with these two sacred persons. a doorway in barfreston chu

termediate office of reconciling and con306 the rosicrucians. astro-theosophic chart (no. 1) a, alpha. western or roman rite. w, omega (north celestial pole. south meridian (south celestial pole. mysterium. mysterium. dominion of themoon in man s body, as she passes through the twelve zodiacal signs. regulating the seasons, and the hours of the day and night) man s side (sun) dexter. wine. bread. twin westerntowers, or spires. galilee, west porch for the people. west. sun sets. night. northtransept (chief nail) right hand. male: sacred pillar jachin. female: sacred pillar boaz. southtransept (second nail) left hand. nave, from navel, body ship, or ark. place of fons. twonails, in the fountain, or font. latin rite, in the feet; one nail in the greekrite. woman s side (moon) sinister. axis i

and turned inside-outwards. see pages 337, 338, 339. this is the holy grail, or sangreal, or sang-reale, or fire, or mighty redeeming magic, sought by the champions, or the knights, of king arthur s round table. see supplementary note (no. 2, p. 368. the round table of king arthur from the original, preserved in the court house of the castle of winchester. sangreale or holy grail. lunations. 12 (twin) knights (1 place, each knight; for mystic lunations) 1 each, 24 1 knight, 2 places total, 26 these are the mystic guards of the holy the sangreale or holy graal or grael. natural supernatural mysterious! tau* tradition, that judas iscariot left the table at the words of the saviour what thou doest, do quickly! and had no portion in the last rite (refer below) a. i. saint matthew. g. vii. sai

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

s not really science. it comes close to a kind of intellectual dictatorship, and imperialism of the intellect. thus, by relating the previously unrelated, we can build a wall unscalable by such conformists. such contempt for those badly frightened or strictly orthodox namby-pamby scientists, the shade of galileo walks again in the name of better science.will he arouse& enlighten as before? no, my twin, he walks throo cloudsl but let us not be over ambitious. we can as easily overstep the bounds of our capabilities as we can shirk our responsibilities. some of the unexplained phenomena do seem to lie in what, for lack of a better terminology, we must still call the paranormal or psychic fields. one must be on guard not to commit the prime fallacy of all analysis, that of evolving a theory a

that this is a misnomer, and the result of a misconception of the formation of the little system. there are a number of traditions, among ancient tribes and races, to the effect that their forefathers were thriving before there was a moon. this would hint that the moon was picked up by acquisition and not formed in the original coagulation of earth-material. at any rate, neither the earth nor its twin venus formed satellite systems such as accompany the outer major planets. nevertheless, the 57 laws, such as bode's imply physical conditions in which either satellites or belts of debris could exist. if this is true, then we see no reason for not suspecting that there may be gravitational nodes around the earth, as around the sun, and major planets; and these nodes may very well be the abode

s, notable avoca, in victoria; tasmania was flooded, its fields gutted with floating rabbits. the melbourne argus "explained: a waterspout had burst in victoria. victoria, tasmania, new south wales a whole continent and more and hong kong. that is not local, and bulks of water are not normal. we look for outside help. also, new zealand,and i do not know how this came to pass, jemi. i remember, my twin, this was the cleaning and the regeneration of the great ark& all its "great rooms" all arks too, needs cleaning same as any other ship. let us now follow the startling cases of the floods of 1913 which seriously damaged our middle western states but which were practically world-wide and, for some reason, failed to attract much attention from science or to be recognized as a single, complex d

it was being sculptured, in a depression from which great power manipulation would be required to move it. in both cases work stopped suddenly, and apparently the "force-lift" for the 1,200 ton stones was lost, somehow. the bombardment, of which the east coast shows good signs, even yet. the grand bank, circular swamps& etc. largest would have been cut into regular building sizes or else it had a twin to be marched to. it seems necessary to conclude that while massive stone work was in progress all over the world (for we have to include india, tibet, polynesia, etc, sources of power were limited in number, and available only to a few important projects. it seems that such levitators disappeared suddenly and unexpectedly. where to? 108 they went home. it is further possible that maybe there

KETAB E SIYAH

ming to three cusps, the central highest. and from the base fell a tear of blood, representative of that blood spilt that the nephilim race might then be born, shaped of my liver-flesh cut from my frame. flanked by two horned beasts was the sigil, guarded. upon its right a she-manticore, carved of red stone, standing for ishtar and upon the left flank sat a weir-wolf of sable rock, for baalzebub, twin demiurges in the first crafting of the race. each sat upon its haunches looking outward down the steps that led up to the gates. throwing open the gates i passed inward where utanapishtim stood within, having entered from the northern portal, before the altar with a bowl of wine, pouring out in sacrifice to ishtar that the year's harvest might be most copious. for a moment i remained hidden f

s not once more cast down by monstrous waves? there are none but you that i can turn to in this most desperate hour" 264 a darkness came upon the visage of the king and his soul knew the darkness that i had known. three times he beat his great hand against the oblatory table of marble, webbing it hair-thin fissures. then with terrible eyes he gazed at me and it seemed to me those orbs burned like twin suns and seared my very soul. his beard seemed possessed with lightning and his flesh glowed red with rage as iron tempered in the forge. now the monarch raged with lion's voice that shook the very stone of the temple and made tremble the hearts of men and beasts. even i, brave satan, who denied the voice of god, flinched from that ire that, there being none other, was turned upon me though i

the first ordeal& it will be to him as silver. 65. through the second, gold. 66. through the third, stones of precious water. 67. through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire. 68. yet to all it shall seem beautiful. its enemies who say not so, are mere liars. 69. there is success. 70. i am the hawk-headed lord of silence& of strength; my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky. 71. hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand. 72. i am the lord of the double wand of power; the wand of the force of coph nia--but my left hand is empty, for i have crushed an universe& nought remains. 73. paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then behold! 74. there is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever t

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE THREE

juxtaposition. the caduceus this form of the caduceus of hermes is that of the three mother letters, shin, aleph. and mem. it represents air, as the mediator between fire above and water below. this symbol has another meaning on the tree of life. the upper part and wings touch chokmah and binah. the knob touches kether. these are the three supernals. the seven lower sephiroth are embraced by the twin serpents whose heads rest upon chesed and geburah the moon on the tree of life in the moon s increase the pillar of mercy is embraced. in its decrease the pillar of severity is embraced. at the full moon it reflects the sun of tiphare tii- second knowledge lecture (zelator) the names and alchemical symbols of the three principles of nature are: sulphur f mercury h salt g the metals attributed

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

.w, representing the soul, that he has benefited by the lessons of life and acquired intellectual knowledge. then comes the third journey, when he is once more challenged by the soul, who demands the p.w. c let us combine these meanings. he comes laden with worldly possessions, which in themselves carry the seeds of death, unconsciously representing in his person the worker in metals who made the twin columns and is about to be entombed. therefore the soul presents him to the spirit as one properly prepared to carry out the part of his great predecessor(*the m.m. fs. book, by j. s. m. ward, pp. 28, 29) 668. the seven s c 669. in all the degrees the candidate advances towards the east, the place of light, but in each degree more than in the previous one. in the first he takes three s c s- t

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

us about a possible connection between ufos and mutilations. seeking the services of a trained investigator, he approached donald e. flickinger, an agent with the alcohol, tobacco, and firearms division of the u.s. treasury department. flickinger, then mutilated cattle carcass found in northern new mexico in the 1970s (peter jordan/fortean picture library) 40 cattle mutilations working out of the twin cities, had a private interest in ufos and had looked into sightings on his own time. flickinger consented to hynek s suggestion that he look into a possible ufo-mutilation link.when he learned of flickinger s involvement, clark was less interested in the agent s personal ufo interests than in his position as a federal lawenforcement officer potentially able to act on bankston s information

LIBER 777

sati the spine 1010 seb. lower (i.e. unwedded) isis and nephthys[[sphinx as synthesis of elements] osiris the eye of hoor the buttocks and anus 11 nu[[hoor-pa-kraat as atu 0] mout as 6 12 thoth and cynocephalus thoth anpu the lips 13 chomse chomse hathor the left eye 14 hathor hathoor khenti-khas the left nostril 15 men thu isis 16 asar, ameshet, apis osiris ba-neb-tattu the shoulders 17 various twin deities, rekht, merti &c[[heru-ra-ha] the twin merti. 18 khephra hormakhu. 19 ra-hoor-khuit, pasht, sekhet, mau horus as 6. 20 isis [as virgin] heru-pa-kraath. 21 amoun-ra amoun-ra apu-t the left ear 22 ma maat. 23 tum, ptah, auramoth (as c, asar (as hanged man, hekar, isis[[hathor] i#qhourey as 24 24 merti goddesses, typhon, apep, khephra hammemit sekhet the belly and back 25 nephthys arwuer

bhavani, etc] the gods r 8 hanuman analysis into 4 elements a 9 ganesha, vishnu (kurm avatar) dhamma r 1010 lakshmi &c [kundalini] sangha r the body r 11 the maruts [vayu] wind k 12 hanuman, vishnu (as parasa-rama) yellow k 13 chandra (as) loathsomeness of food p 14 lalita (sexual aspect of sakti) dark blue k 15 shiva bloody corpse i 16 shiva (sacred bull) beaten and scattered corpse i 17 various twin and hybrid deities white k 18[[krishna] worm-eaten corpse i 19 vishnu (nara-singh avatar) gnawed by wild beasts corpse i 20 the gopi girls, the lord of yoga bloated corpse i 21 brahma, indra liberality r 22 yama hacked in pieces corpse i 23 soma [apas] water k 24 kundalini[[yama] skeleton corpse i 25 vishnu (horse-avatar) limited aperture k 26 lingam, yoni putrid corpse i 27[[krishna] blood-r

LIBER AASH

the grip of the storm for an aon and an aon and an aon. but thou givest not thy sap; thou fallest not. 6. only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great god f.i.a.t. is enthroned on the day of be-with-us. 7. for two things are done and a third thing is begun. isis and osiris are given over to incest and adultery. horus leaps up thrice armed from the womb of his mother. harpocrates his twin is hidden within him. set is his holy covenant,that he shall display in the great day of m.a.a.t, that is being interpreted the master of the temple of a a, whose name is truth. 8. now in this is the magical power known. 9. it is like the oak that hardens itself and bears up against the storm. it is weather-beaten and scarred and confident like a seacaptain. 10. also it straineth like a hound

LIBER ALEPH

s formula) ehold moreover, my son, the .conomy of this way, how it is according to the tao, fulfilling itself wholly within thine own sphere. and it is utterly in tune with thine own will on every plane, so that every part of thy nature rejoiceth with every other part, communicating praise. now then learn also how this formula is that of the word abrahadabra. first, had is the triangle erect upon twin squares. of hadit need i not to write, for he hath hidden himself in the book of the law. this substance is the father, the instrument is the son, and 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 eidol

fire of the higher by seduction or bewitchment. and the latter is a work opposite thereunto, whose effect forumlateth itself by direct creation in the sphere of its purpose and intent. but there remain yet two of the eight works, namely, the straight aspiration of the chiah or creator in thee to the crown, and the surrender of the nephesh or animal soul to the possession thereof; and these be he twin principal formulae of the final attainment, being archetypes of the paths of magick (the one) and mysticism (the other) unto the end. from each of these eight works is derived a separate mode of practical use, each after his kind; and it should be well for thine instruction if thou study upon hese my words, and found upon them a system. o my son, forget not therein the arcanum of their balanc

e fulfilment and exchange, constancy is a point of thy concentration and adultery a division in thy will. but when thou hast the summit and perfection of any work, of what worth is it to continue herein? hast thou two stomachs, as has a cow, to chew the cud of a digested love? yet, o my son, this constancy is not of necessity a stagnation. nay, behold the body of our lady nuith, therein are found twin suns, that revolve constantly about each other. so also it may be in love, that two souls, meeting, discover each in the other such wealth and richness of light and love, and in one phase of life (or incarnation) or even in many, they exhaust not that treasure. or will i say that such are not in their degree and quality thrice fortunate. but to persist in dulness, in satiety, and in mutual ir

s) earn now that impression of sense have opposites readily conceived, as long to short, or light to dark; and so with emotions and perceptions, as love to hate, or false to true; but the more violent is the antagonism, the more is it bound in illusion, determined by relation. thus the word .long. hath no meaning save it be referred to a standard; but love is not thus obscure, because hate is its twin, partaking bountifully of a common nature therewith. now, hear this; it was given unto me in my visions of the thyrs, when i was in he wilderness of sahara, by tolga, that above the abyss, contradiction is unity, and that nothing could be true save by virtue of the contradiction that is contained in itself. behold, therefore, in this method thou shalt come presently to ideas of this order, th

LIBER ARARITA

ng: begone! so that all these faded from my vision. 11. also i welded together the flaming star and the sixfold star in the forge of my soul, and behold! a new star 418 that is above all these. 12. yet even so was i not deceived; for the crown hath twelve rays. 13. and these twelve rays are one. 3 ii r 0. now then i saw things averse and evil; and they were not, even as thou art not. 1. i saw the twin heads that even battle against one another, so that all their thought is a confusion. i saw thee in these. 2. i saw the darkeners of wisdom, like black apes chattering vile nonsense. i saw thee in these. 3. i saw the devouring mothers of hell, that eat up their children.o ye that are without understanding! i saw thee in these. 4. i saw the merciless and unmajestic like harpies, tearing their

LIBER CCXLII AHA

powers of the sphinx, will, courage, knowledge, silence. son, even the adepts scarce win to one! thy thoughts.they fall like rotten fruits. but to destroy the power that makes these thoughts.thy self? a man it takes to tear his soul up by the roots! this is the mandrake fable, boy! olympas. you told me that the path was joy. marsyas. a lie to lure thee! olympas. master! marsyas. pain and joy are twin toys of the brain. even early visions pass beyond! olympas. not all the crabbed runes i have conned told me so plain a truth. i see, inscrutable simplicity! crushed like a blind-worm by the heel of all i am, perceive, and feel, my truth was but the partial pang that chanced to strike me as i sang. marsyas. in the beginning, violence marks the extinction of the sense. anguish and rapture rack

two completed by the third! the lord of war, of vengeance that slayeth with a single glance! this light is in me of my lord. his name is this far-whirling sword. i push his order. keen and swift my hawk fs eye flames; these arms uplift the banner of silence and of strength. hail! hail! thou art here, my lord, at length! lo, the hawk-headed lord am i: my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky. hail! ye twin warriors that guard the pillars of the world! your time is nigh at hand. the snake that marred heaven with his inexhaustible slime is slain; i bear the wand of power, the wand that waxes and that wanes; i crush the universe this hour in my left hand; and naught remains! ho! for the splendour in my name hidden and glorious, a flame secretly shooting from the sun. aum! ha!.my destiny is done. t

LIBER CXX

hou shalt not carry me away, o thou serpent rerek, and advance not hither unto me! stand thou still and thou shall eat the vat of the abomination unto ra! thou shalt crunch the bones of the cat of slime (circle "depart from me, aphast, for thou hast lips that gnaw! for i am khnemu, the lord of. peshemu. i bring the words of the gods to ra (circle "homage to you, ye two rekht goddesses, ye sisters twin (circle "hail ye two mert goddesses, i bring a message to you concerning my magical words. i shine from the sektet boat. i am ra-hoor-kaa, the sun of strength and light (circle "get thee back, depart, get thee back from me, o apep! depart from the divine place of ra s birth, where in is the house of thy terror! i am ra, terrible and triumphant. ra setteth, ra setteth; ra is strong at his sett

i will declare the things that i have seen! horus hath become the divine prince of the boat of the sun; unto him hath been given the name of his father osiris. i have stretched out my arms at the word of osiris; i am entered in, i am justified, i come forth worthy at the gate. i am pure at the palace of the passage of souls; i have destroyed the evil that clung to my members upon earth. hail, ye twin hawks upon your pinnacles, ye that guard the gate of the abyss, for i am made as ye! i am he that cometh forth by day. i have passed the hidden ways; yea, i am he, the bornless spirit, having sight in the feet; strong and the immortal fire! i am he, the truth! i am he, that hate that evil should be wrought in the world! i am he, that lighteneth and thundereth! i am he, from whom is the shower

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and ever! 11.37. i return to the place of the evil triad, of ommo satan, that is before the altar. there to expiate my folly in attaching myself to all this great concourse of ideas that i have here recorded, instead of remaining fixed in the single stronghold of unity with myself. 11.54. and so this great day draws to its end. these are indeed the qliphoth, the qliphoth of kether, the thaumiel, twin giant heads that hate and tear each other. for the horror and darkness have been unbelievable; yet again, the light and brilliance have been almost insupportable. i was never so far, and never so near. but the hour approaches. let me collect myself, and begin the new day in affirmation of my unity with my lord adonai! john st. john 75 the eighth day 12.03. thus the eighth day, the second week

ing. the dead man ankh-af-na-khonsu hath made his passage into night, his pleasure on the earth to do among the living.1 amen amen without lie amen, and amen of amen. 12.40. i shall lie down to sleep in my robes, still wearing the ring of the masters, and bearing my wand in my hand. for to me now sleep is the same as waking, and life the same as death. in thy l.v.x. are not light and darkness but twin children that chase each other in their play? 7.55. awoke from long sweet dreamless sleep, like a young eagle that soars to greet the dawn. 9.20. after breakfast, have strolled, on my way to the studio, through the garden of the luxembourg to my favourite fountain. it is useless to attempt to write of the dew and the flowers in the clear october sunlight. yet the light which i behold is still

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

on the cross. the girl immediately took the bowl and put it to his lips. then she raised him, and, with the assistance of the guardian of the sanctuary, led him out of the chapel. the bell again tinkled in the architrave. the herald blew a fanfare. the high priest and high priestess moved stately to each other and embraced, in the act unloosing the heavy golden robes which they wore. these fell, twin lakes of gold. i now saw her dressed in a garment of white watered silk, lined through-out (as it appeared later) with ermine. the high priest's vestment was an elaborate embroidery of 20 liber dcccxi every colour, harmonized by exquisite yet robust art. he wore also a breastplate corresponding to the canopy; a sculptured gbeast h at each corner in gold, while the twelve signs of the zodiac w

LIBER DCLXXI VEL PYRAMIDOS

publication in class d 1 000. the building of the pyramid. the magus with wand. on the altar are incense, fire, bread, wine, the chain, the scourge, the dagger and the oil. in his left hand the bell he taketh: hail! asi! hail, hoor-apep! let the silence speech beget! two strokes on bell. banishing spiral dance: the words against the son of night tahuti speaketh in the light. knowledge and power, twin warriors, shake the invisible; they roll asunder the darkness; matter shines, a snake. sebek is smitten by the thunder. the light breaks forth from under. he goes to the west, in the centre of the base of the triangle of (m, asi (a, and hoor (c: o thou, the apex of the plane, with ibis head and phoenix wand and wings of night! whose serpents strain their bodies, bounding the beyond. thou in t

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

o the fool. then the discourse of that fool, my brethren; it shall repay your pains. they think they are a triangle,3 he said, they think as the picture-folk. base they are, and little infinitely. ain elohim. they think, being many, they are one.4 they think as the rhine-folk think. many and none. ain elohim. they think the erect5 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. crow

fly to the extreme idealistic position; there is no question that, to our normal consciousness, things as they present themselves.apart from obvious illusion, if even we dare to except this.are undisprovable to the immediate apprehension. whatever our reason may tell us, we act precisely as through berkeley had never lived, and the herculean kant had been strangled while yet in his cradle by the twin serpents of his own perversity and terminology. what criterion shall we apply to the relative realities of normal and dream consciousness? why do i confidently assert that the dream state is transitory and unreal? in that state i am equally confident that my normal consciousness is invalid. but as my dreams occupy a relatively small portion of my time, and as the law of causation seems suspen

LIBER MMCMXI NOTE ON GENESIS

e of the powers of the two. light and darkness, flux and reflux, ebb and flow.these are her manifested powers in nature.where also she binds the great waters to her will. now in the yetziratic attribution, is the second number, beth (i.e. a house, an abode, the dwelling of the holy one, shown to be equivalent to the sphere of kokab and his lords. and the symbolic weapon of# is the caduceus, whose twin serpents show again the dualistic power (note..woden, the scandinavian mercury, was the all-father, as it is written in the ritual of the path of the spirit of the primal fire c .for all things did the father of all things perfect, and delivered them over unto the second mind; whom all races of men call first) behold, then, in these two great numbers 1 and 2 the father and the mother of the w

ded into hw and hy* now if into the midst of this divided name we cast the triple fire of the holy letter c= 300, we get the name of the godhead incarnate upon earth, hwchy. but 1+ 2+ 3= 6, which is the number of w, the third letter of the venerable name: microprosopus and the son of god. we are now, therefore, arrived at 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

LIBER SAMEKH

form fiaof will be found preferable in practice. liber samekh svb figvra dccc 6 babalon-bal-bin-abaft g babalon! thou woman of whoredom! thou, gate of the great god on! thou, lady of the understanding of the ways! h asal-on-ai g hail thou, the unstirred! hail, sister and bride of on, of the god that is all and is none, by the power of eleven! h aphen-iaf g thou treasure of iaf! h i g thou virgin twin-sexed! thou secret seed! thou inviolate wisdom! h photheth g abode of the light c h abrasax g c of the father, the sun, of hadit, of the spell of the aon of horus! h aeoou g our lady of the western gate of heaven! h ischure g mighty art thou! h8 mighty and bornless one (vide supra (the conception is of water, glowing, inhabited by a solar- phallic dragon-serpent, of a neptunian nature) hear m

ithdrawn to the physical body: the adept must deliberately abandon his attainment, because it is not yet his whole being which burns up before the beloved. point ii 21 section g the adept, though withdrawn, shall have maintained the extension of his symbol. he now repeats the signs as before, save that he makes the passive invoking pentagram of spirit. he concentrates his consciousness within his twin-symbol of self, and endeavours to send it to sleep. but if the operation be performed properly, his angel shall have accepted the offering of dew, and seized with fervour upon the extended symbol of will towards himself. this then shall he shake vehemently with vibrations of love reveraberating with the words of the section. even in the physical ears of the adept there shall resound an echo t

LIBER STELLAE RUBEAE

too subtle for the sons of men. 5. if the ruby star have shed its blood upon thee; if in the season of the moon thou hast invoked by the iod and the pe, then mayest thou partake of this most secret sacrament. 6. one shall instruct another, with no care for the matters of men.s thought. 7. there shall be a fair altar in the midst, extended upon a black stone. 8. at the head of the altar gold, and twin images in green of the master. 9. in the midst a cup of green wine. 10. at the foot the star of ruby. 11. the altar shall be entirely bare. 12. first, the ritual of the flaming star. 13. next, the ritual of the seal. 14. next, the infernal adorations of oai. mu pa telai tu wa melai. tu fu tulu! tu fu tulu! pa, sa, ga. liber stella rubea 2 qwi mu telai ya pu melai .se gu malai; pe fu telai, fu

LIBER V VEL REGULI

ually changes its direction. the initiate who is aware who he is can always check is conduct by reference to the determinants of his curve, and calculate his past, his future, his bearings, and his proper course at any assigned moment; he can even comprehend himself as a simple idea. he may attain to measure fellow-parabolas, ellipses that cross his path, hyperbolas that span all space with their twin wings. perhaps he may come at long last, leaping beyond the limits of his own law, to conceive that sublimely stupendous outrage to reason, the cone! utterly inscrutable to him, he is yet well aware that he exists in the nature thereof, that he is necessary thereto, that he is ordered thereby, and that therefrom he is sprung, from the loins of so fearful a father! his own infinity becomes zer

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

st among the east danes seen by people, until he afterwards eastward went over the wave; a cart ran after him. thus the heardingas named this hero. the cart was associated with the vanir from the time of nerthus and endured even into the jocular account of the worship of frey in ogmundar thattr dytts. scholars have associated the heardingas, who must be a people or a dynasty, with the haddingjar, twin or multiple warriors in their turn associated with the danish king hadingus in book 1 of saxo fs gesta danorum; hadingus is said to have established an annual sacrifice to frey which the swedes call froblot. in chapter 2 of his germania, composed around the end of the first century c.e, tacitus writes this about the germanic peoples: they celebrate in ancient songs. a god tuisto, born from th

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

during its early history, virgin maidens were consecrated to the service of the oracle. they were called the phoebades, or pythi, and constituted that famous order now known as the pythian priesthood. it is probable that women were chosen to receive the oracles because their sensitive and emotional nature responded click to enlarge the pythian apollo. from historia deorum fatidicorum. apollo, the twin brother of diana, was the son of jupiter and latona. apollo was fully adult at the time of his birth. he was considered to be the first physician and the inventor of music and song. the greeks also acclaimed him to be father of the bow and arrow. the famous temple of apollo at delphi was rebuilt five times. the first temple was formed only of laurel branches; the second was somewhat similar;

r life, which they agreed to do, substituting for her heart the fruit of a certain tree (rubber) whose sap was red and of the consistency of blood. when the princes of xibalba placed the supposed heart upon the coals of the altar to be consumed, they were all amazed by the perfume which rose therefrom, for they did not know that they were burning the fruit of a fragrant plant. xquiq gave birth to twin sons, who were named hunahpu and xbalanque and whose lives were dedicated to avenging the deaths of hunhun-ahpu and vukub-hunhun-ahpu. the years passed, and the two boys grew up to manhood and great were their deeds. especially did they excel in a certain game called tennis but somewhat resembling hockey. hearing of the prowess of the youths, the princes of xibalba asked "who, then, are those

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

satyr-like mischievous spirit said to be a reformation folklore version of the horned god. he was also known as robin artisson and robin goodfellow. hu. channel island version of the horned one, possibly derived from the welsh-celtic deity, hu gadarn. barabbas. hebrew bar abba meaning son of the father or divine son- reference to the incarnate god. mamilion. derivation unknown. dianus or janus. a twin-faced god of the romans, who guarded the threshold of the house and supervised all beginnings and endings. he is referred to by some witches as alpha and omega, the first and the last. another version of the horned one. janicot. a southern french diminutive of janus or dianus. the devil. literally "little god" derived from early aryan stem div or dev, meaning "holy" or "shining" lucifer "the

our lady of the moon. the gesture of the magister, arms crossed upon the breast, is of course none other than the sign of death and rebirth used in your necromancy ritual. it signifies many things. primarily it is the sign of osiris, seen as synonymous with hades, dis, and the horned one as god of death. it also represents the skull and crossbones itself, and finally the erect phallus flanked by twin testes below. the gesture of the high priestess is the mirror image of the magister's. it represents both the lunar crescent, the womb of space, and the horns of hathor, all of which are symbols pertaining to isis, the great egyptian mother goddess and consort of osiris. as such, the magister and high priestess are the human representatives of the two great archetypal poles of life, whether y

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

lucifer or the morning star is the god of the sun, being of solar energy. lucifer's goddess counter part is the arabian al-uzza, a warrior of the morning star. a combination of both lunar and solar energy, strength and vision. the zos kia cultus presents the 'all- prevailing woman' as a combination of both hag and young woman. the combination equals experience and focus with beauty and grace. the twin aspects of the hidden 'i' as aos termed it was a combative instance of innate sexuality, in which all must be transgressed and explored in order to reach a higher level of will and focus. the divine woman is both beautiful and ugly, capable of transformation from a decrepit old woman to a lithe young woman. beauty is in the eye of the holder, yet possible through all forms of vision. the godd

rward and let nothing stand in your way is realized through experience and the will for a good fight. baphomet holds higher initiation within luciferian magick, from which shall not be revealed here. baphomet may also be considered the god of knowledge, bringing the balance between the aspects of satan (earth mastery, lord shaitan) and lucifer (air, astral projection/mastery) and the unity of the twin aspects of lilith (earth, night and witchcraft) and babalon (fire, high magick art. the invocation to baphomet is a lunar/solar opening to the mysteries of the night side and the fleshing day side. 71 71 invocation of baphomet "o fire of the black one, illuminate by thy dark presence, let my strength come forth. i am stripped and defaced, to reveal the true self, and its ever changing essence

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

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

me. from robin hood to swan lake, fromhercules and the hydra to jason and the golden fleece, from the odin hanging on thewinding tree to conan the barbarian, from alice through the looking glass todungeons and dragons, the themes are one. what is the tree of the east and the treeof the west? what are the two seraphim who guard the ark of the covenant? what arethe gates of v alhalla? why are there twin columns at the portals of illustrious edifices?what do the swastika, the double-headed eagle, the masonic double cube, the double-barred cross of lorraine, the two knights templars riding one horse, really signify?what are the real pillars of hercules that guarded the way to atlantis?atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation49 chapter 7records of blood and stoneof central importanc

netic manipulation221 appendix b: book abstracts his sonsy uyas elder son was anen who rose to power in the reign of amenhotep iii.the younger son aye became pharaoh in 1352 b.c.his daughter tiyehis daughter was tiye, who later became the older and second wife of amenhotep iii.tutankhamun was also a descendant (see p. 183).the amarna kingsisaacs son esaumay have sold his birthright to his younger twin brother jacob-israel (whosedescendants became kings of judah, but now through tuya and y uya, descendants of esau did indeedbecome pharaohs of egypt. these particular pharaohs became known as the amarna kings theywere akhenaten, smenkhare, tutankhamun and aye, who ruled consecutively c. 1367-1348 b.c (p.184)palestine remained under egyptian rule at this time. if the covenant was to be taken l

new force of nature.dr. philip laing, a member of the research team tracking the craft, said: we have examined everymechanism and theory we can think of and so far nothing works.if the effect is real, it will have a big impact on cosmology and spacecraft navigation, said dr. laing,of the aerospace corporation of california.pioneer 10 was launched by nasa on march 2 1972, and with pioneer 11, its twin, revolutionizedastronomy with detailed images of jupiter and saturn. in june 1983, pioneer 10 passed pluto, the mostdistant planet in our solar system.appendix c: suggested areas of research286atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation both probes are now travelling at 27,000 m.p.h. towards stars that they will encounter several millionyears from now. scientists are continuing to mo

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

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

rimanic yoga as described in liber hvhi. the chakras are important in channeling and focusing chi and the associations of the archdaevas therein. to start with taromati, moving upward through the spine will certainly activate a sense of calm and empowerment in the sorcerer. this will give a feeling of rising and elevation as you move up to each additional chakra. the luciferian who visualizes the twin serpents coil upward around the spine, out of the shoulders and the connection to akoman in the ajna chakra and shortly after the ahriman aspect above will no doubt hold some results driven workings. control of nervous movements is also important in the storing and strength foundation of the chi energy from not only the chakras but the astral body as well. when performing ahrimanic yoga, focu

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

those who believed him. it s important to note that this tale of a chosen one who travels with 12 guys predates the arrival of europeans to north america. in the african myth from the mande people of mali, an evil god named pemba fell from heaven, and was barred from returning because he stole male seeds from god. pemba spread tainted seeds, borne from incest upon the ground. faro, his righteous twin brother that dwelled in heaven and took the form of a fish, was forced to sacrifice himself for pemba s sin. his body was cut into 60 pieces, and the pieces formed trees when spread across the earth. trees are, according the mande people, symbols of resurrection. the most high god brought faro back to life, and sent him to earth in human form aboard an ark. the ark, which landed on mount kour

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ed flame of my being- i enter these gates unto the kingdom of shadow and sorcerous knowledge. in the name of ahriman, i do encircle my being- against the sun, against the moon do i walk. in opposition to order- by this ecstasy do i bask in chaos- mummu- algol- to create order i reside in the eye of darkness i summon and bind thee- shades of ahriman..encircle me! azi-dahaka- storm demon, king with twin serpents unto your shoulders- whom ahriman hath kissed and wisdom emerges- serpent of three heads, eyes ofhekate, come forth. those who summon against me will only strengthen me! andar- guardian of the black flame, i summon thee! wraith of the void ofarezura to me- to me! taromat- spirit of rebellion come forth unto me! to me! to me! astwihad- vampyre and night shade, whom i rest beside in da

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rs have imagined that the parallel lines represent the tropics of cancer and capricorn, which the sun alternately touches upon at the summer and winter solstices. but the tropics are not perpendicular lines, and the idea is merely fanciful. if the parallel lines ever belonged to the ancient symbol, they had some more recondite and more _fruitful_ meaning. they probably had the same meaning as the twin columns jachin and boaz. that meaning is not for the apprentice. the adept may find it in the kabalah. the justice and mercy of god are in equilibrium, and the result is harmony, because a single and perfect wisdom presides over both. the holy scriptures are an entirely modern addition to the symbol, like the terrestrial and celestial globes on the columns of the portico. thus the ancient sym

nd selfishness. masonry represents the good principle and constantly wars against the evil one. it is the hercules, the osiris, the apollo, the mithras, and the ormuzd, at everlasting and deadly feud with the demons of ignorance, brutality, baseness, falsehood, slavishness of soul, intolerance, superstition, tyranny, meanness, the insolence of wealth, and bigotry. when despotism and superstition, twin-powers of evil and darkness, reigned everywhere and seemed invincible and immortal, it invented, to avoid persecution, the mysteries, that is to say, the allegory, the symbol, and the emblem, and transmitted its doctrines by the secret mode of initiation. now, retaining its ancient symbols, and in part its ancient ceremonies, it displays in every civilized country its banner, on which in lett

ical personage with osiris. this was effected by confining him in a close cell, that he might seriously reflect, in solitude and darkness, on the business he was engaged in: and his mind be prepared for the reception of the sublime and mysterious truths of primitive revelation and philosophy. this was a symbolic death; the deliverance from it, regeneration; after which he was called [greek: d] or twin-born. while confined in the cell, the pursuit of typhon after the mangled body of osiris, and the search of rhea or isis for the same, were enacted in his hearing; the initiated crying aloud the names of that deity derived from the sanscrit. then it was announced that the body was found; and the aspirant was liberated amid shouts of joy and exultation. then he passed through a representation

ere so named from a greek word signifying _to sail_ in all ages they have been observed for signs and seasons. virgil says that the sailors gave names to "the pleiades, hyades, and the northern car _pleiadas, hyadas, claramque lycaonis arcton_ and palinurus, he says _arcturum, pluviasque hyadas, geminosque triones, armatumque auro circumspicit oriona_ studied arcturus and the rainy hyades and the twin triones, and orion cinctured with gold. taurus was the prince and leader of the celestial host for more than two thousand years; and when his head set with the sun about the last of may, the scorpion was seen to rise in the southeast. the pleiades were sometimes called _vergili_ or the virgins of spring; because the sun entered this cluster of stars in the season of blossoms. their syrian nam

s an empty obligation to assume, that they will not recede before the enemy; but the same high duty and obligation still rest upon all men. truth, in act, profession, and opinion, is rarer now than in the days of chivalry. falsehood has become a current coin, and circulates with a certain degree of respectability; because it has an actual value. it is indeed the great vice of the age--it, and its twin-sister, dishonesty. men, for political preferment, profess whatever principles are expedient and profitable. at the bar, in the pulpit, and in the halls of legislation, men argue against their own convictions, and, with what they term _logic, prove to the satisfaction of others that which they do not themselves believe. insincerity and duplicity are valuable to their possessors, like estates

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

aviour of the world in the larger sense, and of mine own "silent self' in the lesser. a "minister" is one who performs a service, in this case evidently that of revealing: aiwass was the intelligible medium between the babe god the new aeon about to be born and myself. this book of the law is the voice of the god's mother, his father, and himself. but on appearing, the god assumes the active form twin to harpocrates, that of ra-hoor-khuit. the concealed child becomes the conquering child, the armed horus avenging his father osiris. so, also, our own silent self, helpless and witless, hidden within us, will spring forth, if we have craft to loose him to the light, spring lustily forward with his cry of battle, the word of our true wills. this is the task of the adept, to have the knowledge

ell the man who would heal disease that he must not know his subject, from anatomy to pathology; or bid him undertake to remove an appendix from a valued archbishop the first time he takes his scalpel in hand. but love is an art no less than rembrandt's, a science no less than lister's. the mind must make the heart articulate, and the body the temple of the soul. the animal instinct in man is the twin of the ape's or the bull's. yet this is the one thing lawful in the code of the bourgeois. he is right to consider the act, as he knows it, degrading. it is, indeed for him, an act ridiculous, obscene, gross, beastly; a wallowing unworthy either of the dignity of man or of the majesty of the god within him. so is the guzzling and the swilling of the savage as he crams his enemy's raw liver in

ill. a flaming harlot, with red cap and sparkling eyes, her foot on the neck of a dead king, is just as much a star as her predecessor, simpering in his arms (needless to say, in either case, he was not much of a king. i would like to have seen a woman trying either maneuver with crowley, for one! more on kings later) but one must be a flaming harlot one must let oneself go, whether one's star be twin with that of shelley, or of blake, or of titian, or of beethoven. beauty and strength come from doing one's will; you have only to look at any one who is doing it to recognize the glory of it. there is also, of course, a technical meaning. beauty is tiphereth, strength is jesod, leaping laughter is hod, delicious languor is netzach, force is xi, fire is xvl the "highest" must have conquered t

l in front of the shoulders. it is gathered at the nape of the neck into a cylindrical 'pigtail. i think the shape is meant to suggest the royal uraeus serpent. it "shrouds the night-blue sky" because the actual light shed by the god when he is invoked is of this colour. it may also mean that he conceals nuit. the hawk's head symbolizes keen sight, swift action, courage and mobility. 71. hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand. this is a clear statement as to the war which was to come, and did come, in 1914 e.v. i now (an xix) no longer agree with the above paragraph. i think "the pillars of the world" mean "the pillars of hercules" about the straits of gibraltar. and i think the really big war will start there. p.s. an xxxiii (september 8, 1937

rs about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand. this is a clear statement as to the war which was to come, and did come, in 1914 e.v. i now (an xix) no longer agree with the above paragraph. i think "the pillars of the world" mean "the pillars of hercules" about the straits of gibraltar. and i think the really big war will start there. p.s. an xxxiii (september 8, 1937 e.v. can "twin warriors" imply a civil war? the spanish troubles started in spain and morocco. the verse may refer to a great seismic catastrophe, similar to that which destroyed atlantis, to occur in the eighties. 72. i am the lord of the double wand of power; the wand of the force of coph nia but my left hand is empty, for i have crushed an universe& nought remains "the double wand of power" is a curious

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

d with the deepest compassion her weary wanderings and agonized fears, resolved to create for her some place of refuge, however humble, where she might feel herself safe from the venomous attacks of the serpent. he therefore brought her to delos, a floating island in the agean sea, which he made stationary by attaching it with chains of adamant to the bottom of the sea. here she gave birth to her twin-children, apollo and artemis (diana, two of the most beautiful of the immortals. according to some versions of the story of leto, zeus transformed her into a quail, in order that she might thus elude the vigilance of hera, and she is said to have [32]resumed her true form when she arrived at the island of delos. hera, being the principal wife of zeus and queen of heaven, a detailed account wi

r against epopeus, in order to compel him to restore antiope. at his death, which took place before he could succeed in his purpose, nicteus left his kingdom to his brother lycus, commanding him, at the same time, to carry on the war, and execute his vengeance. lycus invaded sicyon, defeated and killed epopeus, and brought back [33]antiope as a prisoner. on the way to thebes she gave birth to her twin-sons, amphion and zethus, who, by the orders of lycus, were at once exposed on mount cithaeron, and would have perished but for the kindness of a shepherd, who took pity on them and preserved their lives. antiope was, for many years, held captive by her uncle lycus, and compelled to suffer the utmost cruelty at the hands of his wife dirce. but one day her bonds were miraculously loosened, and

obediently fitted themselves together. the punishment of dirce at the hands of amphion and zethus forms the subject of the world-renowned marble group in the museum at naples, known by the name of the farnese bull. in sculpture amphion is always represented with a lyre; zethus with a club. leda, whose affections zeus won under the form of a swan, was the daughter of thestius, king of atolia. her twin-sons, castor and (polydeuces or) pollux,[15] were [34]renowned for their tender attachment to each other. they were also famous for their physical accomplishments, castor being the most expert charioteer of his day, and pollux the first of pugilists. their names appear both among the hunters of the calydonian boar-hunt and the heroes of the argonautic expedition. the brothers became attached

as god of the sun, he is a life-giving and life-preserving power, who, by his genial influence, dispels the cold of winter, he is, at the same time, the god who, by means of his fiercely darting rays, could spread disease and send sudden death page 77 to men and animals; and it is to this phase of his character that we must look for the explanation of his being considered, in conjunction with his twin-sister, artemis (as moon-goddess, a divinity of death. the brother and sister share this function between them, he taking man and she woman as her aim, and those especially who died in the bloom of youth, or at an advanced age, were believed to have been killed by their gentle arrows. but apollo did not always send an easy death. we see in the iliad how, when angry with the greeks, the "god o

the greeks under various appellations, to each of which belonged special characteristics. thus she is known as the arcadian, ephesian and brauronian artemis, and also as selene-artemis, and in order fully to comprehend the worship of this divinity, we must consider her under each aspect. arcadian artemis. the arcadian artemis (the real artemis of the greeks) was the daughter of zeus and leto, and twin-sister of apollo. she was the page 95 goddess of hunting and chastity, and having obtained from her father permission to lead a life of celibacy, she ever remained a maiden-divinity. artemis is the feminine counterpart of her brother, the glorious god of light, and, like him, though she deals out destruction and sudden death to men and animals, she is also able to alleviate suffering and cure

es is represented as a man of youthful appearance; his tall muscular form combines great strength with wonderful agility. in his right hand he bears a sword or a mighty lance, while on the left arm he carries his round shield (see next page. his demoniacal surroundings are terror and fear;[44] enyo, the goddess of the war-cry; keidomos, the demon of the noise of battles; and eris (contention, his twin-sister and companion, who always [114]precedes his chariot when he rushes to the fight, the latter being evidently a simile of the poets to express the fact that war follows contention. eris is represented as a woman of florid complexion, with dishevelled hair, and her whole appearance angry and menacing. in one hand she brandishes a poniard and a hissing adder, whilst in the other she carrie

ently a simile of the poets, to indicate that darkness always precedes light. nyx inhabited a palace in the dark regions of the lower world, and is represented as a beautiful woman, seated in a chariot, drawn by two black horses. she is clothed in dark robes, wears a long veil, and is accompanied by the stars, which follow in her train. thanatos (mors) and hypnus (somnus. thanatos (death) and his twin-brother hypnus (sleep) were the children of nyx. their dwelling was in the realm of shades, and when they appear among mortals, thanatos is feared and hated as the enemy of mankind, whose hard heart knows no pity, whilst his brother hypnus is universally loved and welcomed as their kindest and most beneficent friend. but though the ancients regarded thanatos as a gloomy and mournful divinity

the argonauts now returned to their ship, when the prophetic board from the dodonean oak thus addressed them "the cruel murder of absyrtus was witnessed by the erinyes, and you will not escape the wrath of zeus until the goddess circe has purified you from your crime. let castor and pollux pray to the gods that you may be enabled to find the abode of the sorceress" in obedience to the voice, the twin-brothers invoked divine assistance, and the heroes set out in search of the isle of circe. they arrive at the island of circe..the good ship argo sped on her way, and, after passing safely through the foaming waters of the river eridanus, at length arrived in the harbour of the island of circe, where she cast anchor. commanding his companions to remain on board, jason landed with medea, and c

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

ces were especially attributable to the initiatory movements that maintained the best and most long-lasting relations with the crusaders: those of the karmates, ismailians, fatimids, assassins, and brothers of purity. it was perfectly natural that spiritual and social interpenetration would be the outcome of the extensive relationship between the two cultures. it is this extensive arab influence, twin to that of the byzantine world, that prompted the first cultural and philosophical renaissance that took place in the west during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, especially in france. along with the rebirth of the studies of roman law, the royal role enjoyed by theology, which had ruled as sovereign over the world of ideas and provided society with it principal leaders, was strongly und

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

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 when the god of eternal time, zurvan, gave birth to the twin gods. introduction it is in the nature of humankind to tell stories, and at the root of every human culture are the stories we call myths stories of the creation of the world and of humankind, of the deeds of gods and heroes, and of the end of time. such stories explain and justify the world, and define our role within creation. once a civilization has become established, the myths that forme

osses the waters of death gilgamesh acts as a human mast in the ferryboat of urshanabi, the ferryman of the gods. distraught at enkidu s death, he was advised by siduri, the goddess of wine and wisdom, to seek out the ferryman and cross the bitter waters of death in his search for utnapishtim. after the death of enkidu, gilgamesh set out to solve the mystery of death. he marched to the top of the twin peaks of mashu, guardians of the rising and setting sun, and demanded entry to the underworld from the dreadful scorpion guardians at the gate, who were half-man and half-dragon. inside he journeyed for 12 leagues (30 miles) in utter darkness, before coming to the garden of the gods where he met the goddess siduri, who advised him to seek out the ferryman urshanabi (see below. when gilgamesh

e was married to hera but had many other sexual liaisons. zeus brandishes thunderbolts, his chief weapons, made for him by the cyclopes the gods of olympus by giulio romano (c. 1499 1546) this 16th-century ceiling painting shows the gods and some of the immortals of mount olympus. it would have been painted to suggest the power and glory of the patron. artemis artemis (see pp. 36 37) was apollo s twin sister and the goddess of hunting and archery. all wild animals were in her care. demeter demeter, zeus sister, was the greek earth-goddess. her brother zeus fathered her daughter, persephone. her search for persephone formed the basis of the mysteries of eleusis (see p. 29. dionysus dionysus (see pp. 58 59, god of ecstasy and wine, was the child of zeus by a mortal, semele. he is shown with

presence of ares under the bed but he remains oblivious. ares and aphrodite, although they were caught on this occasion, managed to have several children together: deimos (fear, phobos (panic, harmonia (concord, and, according to some sources, eros (desire. bed of love aphrodite had many lovers including dionysus (bacchus, who fathered her son the phallic god priapus, and hermes who fathered the twin-sexed hermaphroditus. mortal lovers included adonis (see pp. 32 33) and anchises, who was the father of her son, the hero aeneas (see pp. 66 67. the story of aphrodite s affair with ares, and the revenge of her husband hephaestus, is sung by the blind bard demodocus at the phaeacian games in the odyssey, to the delight of odysseus (see pp. 64 65. jealous husband hephaestus was enthralled by a

e of power the eagle, zeus attendant bird, is symbolic of power and victory. in matters of love and war, zeus never accepted defeat. clouds gathering god of the sky and ruler of weather, zeus is often called the cloud-gatherer. he is often shown with his weapon, the thunderbolt. zeus and dana dana was the beautiful daughter of acrisius, king of argos, who was supposed to rule in rotation with his twin brother proetus. but acrisius refused to yield the throne, and proetus, in anger, tried to seduce his daughter. terrified by a prophecy that if dana ever bore a son the child would kill him, acrisius shut her up in a bronze tower away from mortal men. unfortunately, he could not guard against the gods and zeus (roman jupiter, fulfilling the pattern of many of his conquests, came to her in dis

griffin part-eagle, part-lion is one of many fantastic monsters and beasts in greek mythology. the griffin on dana s bed represents the strong guard under which her father had placed her; outside the doors was a pack of savage dogs. dana, princess of argos dana was the daughter of acrisius of argos by eurydice, the daughter of lacedemon (not to be confused with eurydice, wife of orpheus. acrisius twin brother proetus, king of tyryns, had quarreled with his brother even in the womb, so it was no surprise that he should covet his brother s daughter, nor that acrisius should try to prevent him. zeus complicated love life is the source of many stories. his overmastering sexual energy was, in fact, his primary characteristic proof, perhaps, of his restless creative drive. although married to he

urn they killed agamemnon in his bath with an ax, also murdering cassandra, the trojan princess he had brought back as his lover. a prophetess, cassandra had warned agamemnon, but it was her fate never to be believed. several years later, orestes, to avenge his father s death, killed his mother and aegisthus, a crime of matricide, which led him to be driven mad by the furies. 61 leda and the swan twin destinies the twin brothers were known as the dioscuri( sons of zeus) and, as castor and pollux, became important roman deities. when castor was fatally wounded in a quarrel with their twin cousins lynceus and idas, polydeuces begged his father zeus not to let him outlive his brother. taken to olympus, polydeuces refused to accept his immortality while castor remained in the underworld. so th

fe, phaedra, had died, see pp. 56 57) and had been rescued by her brothers, her suitors all swore revenge if anyone tried to steal her away from her chosen husband. helen married king menelaus, and when she was abducted by the trojan prince paris (see pp. 62 63, her suitors kept their promise and laid siege to troy. after their death, the dioscuri acquired a semidivinity and were venerated as the twin or gemini constellation. they were especially important to the spartans, and later, in the fifth century bce, to the romans. heroic divinities, who in life had been involved in many battles and adventures, the romans believed that they helped them on the battlefield. columbines underfoot grow purple columbines representing resolution, or a desire to win. they may refer to zeus determination t

reference to zeus, who is often accompanied by an eagle (see p. 44. polydeuces mother of fated girls three of leda s daughters helen, timandra, and clytemnestra became victims of aphrodite s (venus) anger when tyndareus overlooked her when making sacrifices to the gods. she doomed them to be twice-married and thrice-married and bring shame upon the marriage bed. clytemnestra clytemnestra, helen s twin sister, was first married to tantalus of pisa, and then forcibly married to menelaus brother agamemnon (see above. castor a myth in tapestry t he story of leda and the swan was woven in tapestry by arachne, who challenged athena (minerva) herself to a weaving competition. while the goddess wove stories of the fates of presumptuous mortals, arachne wove those of divine scandals, including zeus

uffered for many hours before iris, juno s messenger, cut a lock of her hair to release her soul from her body. wrecked ships aeneas and his men were driven ashore at carthage because juno had heard that if they founded a new city it would destroy her own city of carthage. by wrecking them there and bringing dido and aeneas together, she hoped to prevent this. the founding of rome romulus and his twin brother remus were the sons of aeneas descendant rhea silvia, a vestal virgin, and mars (ares, the god of war. at their birth, their mother s evil uncle amulius (who had deposed her father) killed her and threw the boys into the river tiber. luckily, they were carried ashore and cared for by a female wolf until they were found by faustulus, one of the old king s shepherds. when the boys grew

c. 1200 by wolfram von eschenbach the holy grail this holy object of quest and legend (see pp. 80 81) hovers like a blessing as lohengrin defends elsa s honor. the legend of the swan knight was first incorporated into arthurian legend in the parzival of wolfram von eschenbach (c. 1200. there loherangrin is said to the the son of the lord of the grail, parzival, and his wife condwiramurs. he has a twin brother, kardeiz, who inherits parzival s earthly thrones, while lohengrin inherits his spiritual ones. act ii of the opera siegfried by aubrey beardsley (1872-98) lohengrin s prohibition against being questioned about his name and background recalls cupid s warning to psyche not to attempt to look on his face (see pp. 34. such a taboo is common in european folktales, and can be found in stor

to them. ghede wears dark glasses because he spends so much time underground that his eyes are sensitive to the sun. with his left eye, he surveys the entire universe; with his right eye, he keeps an eye on his food. altars to baron samedi, such as this one, always show a cross, at least one skull, a hat, sunglasses, and rum. child the child in erzulie freda s arms almost certainly represents the twin children of voodoo mythology, the marassa. they are of great importance to voodoo belief and ritual and their feast, once held at harvest time, has been assimilated with christmas, in association with the christ child. jar of spirits the jar probably contains fierce alcohol perhaps ghede s special drink of crude rum steeped in hot spices, which only he can bear to swallow. cockerel the black

piction of the two opposed gods shows them almost as two aspects of the same person. a sense of the duality of opposites (life and death, day and night) is central to mesoamerican religious thought. the highest heavens were ruled by ometeotl, the god of duality, who was both male and female. quetzalcoatl was accompanied on his descent into mictlan by his double, the coyote god xolotl, which means twin. deer the deer is the third period of 13 days in the aztec calendar. starting at alligator (below, the calendar is read alligator, jaguar (opposite, deer, flower, reed, death, rain, grass, serpent, flint, monkey, lizard, movement, dog, house, vulture, water, wind, eagle, rabbit. sacrificial victim this hieroglyph, chalc huitl, was used to mark a sacrificial victim, or a place of sacrifice. qu

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only to smear it on his body, after propitiating the only-begotten maiden [hekate] with a midnight offering, to become invulnerable by sword or fire and for that day to surpass himself in strength and daring. it first appeared in a plant that sprang from the blood-like ichor of prometheus in his torment, which the flesh-eating eagle had dropped on the spurs of kaukasos. the flowers, which grew on twin stalks a cubit high, were of the colour of korykian saffron, while the root looked like flesh that has just been cut, and the juice like the dark sap of a mountain oak. to make the ointment, medea, clothed in black, in the gloom of night, had drawn off this juice in a caspian shell after bathing in seven perennial streams and calling seven times on brimo [hekate, nurse of youth, brimo, night

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

ed in the da fat of z feir anpin. yesod of ima is the drive of binah for self-actualization. this drive contains an element of chesed, or love, as part of its motivation, as well as an element of gevurah, or power. yesod of ima becomes enclothed in the da fat of z feir anpin, meaning that z feir anpin fs ability to empathize (da fat) is taken from his gmother h (ima. da fat contains within it the twin faces of empathy, chesed and gevurah, which later emerge as the primary emotions. jacob personified the yesod of abba, which is enclothed within the yesod of ima. when yesod of ima becomes enclothed in the da fat of z feir anpin, it already has within it the yesod of abba. in other words, the drive for self-actualization within ima carries with it the drive for self-actualization within abba

o this [evil] da fat, which expresses strict judgment and is synonymous with bela ben be for [thus, the zohar continues] git makes decrees of the strictest judgment, and together with it join a million masters of moaning and groaning. h9 the gmasters of groaning and moaning h are the gkings h of chesed and gevurah (which we will discuss further on. they join with da fat since da fat comprises the twin modes of relation, chesed (attraction) and gevurah (repulsion) and regulates them. since the holy da fat enters and permeates the torso, gfilling the rooms and halls, h this [evil] da fat is called bela, for it is swallowed up inside the torso and the two upper cavities. bela means gswallowing. h it is further called gben [the son of] be for h [since be for means gburning, h] because the arou

0+ 6+ 4 20 hei hei-yud 5+ 10 15 161 the letter yud is associated with chochmah, so this spelling out of this name represents the will within chochmah to be manifest in creation. now, moses is [the reincarnation of] abel, and jethro is [the reincarnation of] cain [jethro] came [to moses] in order to rectify his having killed abel. our sages teach us that cain killed abel in order to take the extra twin-sister that was born with him. this extra twin is alluded to by the fact that in the verse describing the birth of abel, gand she gave birth as well to his brother [et achiv, 1 exodus 18:2-5. the arizal on parashat yitro 300 abel [et havel, h2 the direct object [et] appears twice, while in the verse describing the birth of cain, gand she gave birth to cain [et kayin] h3 it appears only once

extra twin is alluded to by the fact that in the verse describing the birth of abel, gand she gave birth as well to his brother [et achiv, 1 exodus 18:2-5. the arizal on parashat yitro 300 abel [et havel, h2 the direct object [et] appears twice, while in the verse describing the birth of cain, gand she gave birth to cain [et kayin] h3 it appears only once, implying that he was born with only one twin-sister. although hebrew grammar technically requires that a direct object be preceded by the word et (which has no equivalent in english, this rule is often disregarded. furthermore, the word et also occasionally means gwith. h therefore, when it is used to identify the direct object, it is often taken to allude to some additional entity implied together with the direct object. in this case

lso as the presence-of-chochmah within binah. as we have explained previously, binah must always carry something of the presence of chochmah within it, or else the intellectual development it carries out on the initial insight of chochmah is apt to go too far afield from the meaning of the initial insight. in contrast to this, binah needs only one self-actualization. now cain felt that the second twin, who was produced when the light of abba struck the light of ima, should be his, for the yesod of abba produced her by means of the yesod of ima, even if she was in essence derived from the light of abba. cain therefore rose up against abel and killed him. jethro, the reincarnation of cain, came to rectify this [error. binah, whose task it is to develop the flash of insight that is chochmah i

hat happened with cain. his distorted logic convinced him that the proper thing to do was to eliminate abel, for the good of humanity. the g-dly message the world fs second generation was entrusted with.and to which cain thought he was being loyal.got lost in his unchecked reasoning. 2 genesis 4:2. 3 ibid. 4:1. the arizal on parashat yitro 301 now [moses f wife] zipporah personified this [second] twin, who was positioned behind the yesod of ima. she was therefore born to jethro, for she issued from the light of abba that struck the yesod of ima, and jethro.who was [the reincarnation of] cain.issued from the yesod of ima. he therefore brought her to moses, who was [the reincarnation of] abel, in order to demonstrate that she was rightfully moses f, and thereby rectify that which he ruined t

on the intellects previous world-view. every detail of the previous world-view is evaluated in light of the new insight, and modified, accepted, or rejected, depending on how it measures up to the new truth that has been attained. this is the process of judgment (presumably, the two upper roots that were lacking in eliezer were yesod and malchut of abba, which were gdisconnected h from the second twin of abel when cain appropriated her. by sending eliezer together with zipporah and gershom back to moses, jethro was gfilling in h these elements missing from the proper manifestation of ima .translated from likutei torah 303 parashat yitro [second installment] this portion of the torah opens with the story of how jethro, moses f father-in-law, came to meet the jewish people in the desert. gje

ections and lack of merit, which then focuses us on our obligation to g-d to marry and raise a family) if they were not selfless enough to marry, they certainly did not possess the spiritual wherewithal to effect the gmarriage h of the partzufim[ c] yitro, who, as we said, was an aspect of cain, now came to join [the forces of] holiness. cain damaged abel in three ways: he killed him, he took his twin, and shed the blood of his descendants. twin sisters were born with cain and abel and were intended to be their wives. when cain killed abel, he took abel fs twin sister and married her. by killing abel, cain also gkilled h all his future possible descendants. he therefore now sought to rectify all three. this is alluded to in the initials of the words for gi, your father-in-law jethro, h whi

e descendants. he therefore now sought to rectify all three. this is alluded to in the initials of the words for gi, your father-in-law jethro, h which spell the word for gmy brother, h as mentioned above [jethro] meant to hint [to moses: gyou should have mercy on me like a brother, even though i sinned against you, because i am coming to you and wish to repent. as for how i sinned by taking your twin sister, here i am now bringing you your wife. h this is why he called [zipporah] gyour wife h and not gmy daughter, h as if to say, gthis is your original, intended wife. h when he said, gand her two sons, h he meant: ghere are the descendants i deprived you of, returned to you. please accept them. h .translated from sefer halikutim 309 parashat yitro [third installment] in this parashah, g-d

for mankind to be aware and conscious of g-d fs unity much more directly than it is now. since the sin of the golden calf, in which the jewish people insisted on an intermediary between them and g-d (which they originally conceived of as moses, but in his absence demanded a substitute, the human mind functions on the principle of duality and balance, contrast and juxtaposition represented by the twin tablets of the covenant. this most likely ties in with the teaching of the sages that had the first tablets not been shattered, there would have been no need for the oral torah. this obviously is not referring to the part of the oral torah that explicates the written torah, for would had to have been in any case. rather, it is referring to the dialectic process of talmudic logic and exegesis

1. 3 numbers 2:2. 4 3:106a. 5 2 kings 12:10. the arizal on parashat emor (3) 516 in the course of explaining to him why he was not allowed to encamp together with the tribe of dan, told him the circumstances of his birth. the first son then blasphemed g-d fs name in order to defend his mother shelomit fs honor, as we shall see. now, you must know that when abel was killed [by cain] over the extra twin [sister born with him, the evil of cain was transferred into the egyptian [taskmaster] that moses killed, since [moses] was a reincarnation of abel, who was killed by cain. as we have mentioned previously, a twin sister was born with both cain and abel, but with abel were born two twin sisters. the brothers were meant to marry their twin sisters and thus populate the world. cain was jealous o

good [aspects. in the semi-parallel passage in sha far hepesukim, the arizal points out that the son of the egyptian inherited the evil of cain from his father. this is why the torah specifically calls him gthe son of an egyptian man. h because moses killed his father using the divine name, he blasphemed that same divine name. his mother, shelomit the daughter of dibri, was a spark of that second twin of abel fs, over which cain killed him. therefore, this egyptian was killed over this shelomit. since cain killed abel over abel fs sister-wife, the reincarnation of cain.the egyptian taskmaster.was killed over the reincarnation of the sister-wife.shelomit. in the semi-parallel passage in sha far hapesukim, the arizal states that just as cain desired abel fs sisterwife, his reincarnation.the

cation of z feir anpin) had two wives with these names. and just as the main wife of jacob was rachel, the main iteration of the partzuf of nukva is that of rachel. when the partzuf of rachel is initially emanated (or gbuilt h, it is positioned back to back with z feir anpin. this corresponds to the midrashic account of the creation of adam and eve, in which they were created as a sort of siamese twin, joined back to back, and had to be gsawed h apart in order to later turn toward each other and mate. similarly, the partzuf of rachel, once emanated, must be further developed in order to mate with z feir anpin. this is the process of kindling the lamps of the menorah, as will be explained now. its seven lamps are [the physical manifestation of] the seven lower sefirot [of the partzuf of rac

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

the 17 squares out of a square of lesser squares, refer to the sun in the twelve signs of the zodiac and the four elements: this form of the caduceus of hermes is that of the three mother letters placed on one another thus: the caduceus has another meaning on the tree of life. the upper part wings touch chokmah and binah: these are the three supernal. the seven lower sephiroth are embraced by the twin serpents whose heads rest upon chesed and p geburah <132> the meaning of luna on the tree of life is thus: in its increase it embraces the side of mercy; in its decrease the side of severity, and at the full, it reflects the sun of tiphareth <133> meditation let the theoricus practise the moon breath, while saying mentally the word aum (moon breath is through the left nostril only) let him me

e? kerux in the letter aleph. in the banner of light, and the symbol of the equated forces. hierophant stands back and signs aquarius =s: before zelator with fan. hiero in the sign of the man, child of air, thou art purified. pass thou on. gives banner of the west to kenuc who leads zelator on, and hands the banner to hegemon in passing, while hiereus again reads: hiereus i am osiris, the soul in twin aspect, united to the higher by purification, perfected by suffering, glorified through trial. i have come where the great gods are, through the power of the mighty name. 158 the golden dawn: volume iz book two kerux and zelator have now reached hegemon who bars their way, lamp in <76> right hand- banner of west in left hand. heg the priest with the mask of the lion, spake and said "thou cans

nds it to hiereus, who turns it towards zelator, and reads: hiereus the tree of life and the three mother letters are the keys wherewith to unlock the caduceus of hermes. the upper point of the wand rests on kether, and the wings stretch out to chokmah and <84> binah, the three supernal sephiroth. the lower seven are embraced by the serpents, whose heads fall upon chesed and geburah. they are the twin serpents of egypt- the currents of the astral light. furthermore, the wings and top of the wand form the letter shin, the symbol of fire; the heads and upper halves of the serpents form aleph, the symbol of air; while their tails enclose mem, the symbol of water. the fire of life above, the waters of creation below, and the air symbol vibrating between them. hierophant comes to the east of al

t symbolises the development of creation. second mine is a wand terminating in the symbol of the binary, and surmounted by the tau cross of life, or the head of the phoenix, sacred to osiris. the seven colours of the rainbow between light and darkness are attributed to the planets. it symbolises rebirth and resurrection from death. chief my wand is surmounted by the winged globe, around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolises the equilibriated force of the spirit and the four elements beneath the everlasting wings of the holy one* associate adeptus minor, what are the words inscribed upon the door of the tomb? and how is it guarded? third post centum viginti annos patebo. after one hundred and twenty years i shall open. the door is guarded by the elemental tablets and the ker

s the development of creation. mighty adeptus major, thy wand and its meaning? a wand terminating in the symbol of the binary and surmounted by the tau cross of life, or the head of the phoenix, sacred to osiris. the seven colours between light and darkness are attributed to the planets. it symbolises rebirth and resurrection from death. my wand is surmounted by the winged globe, around which the twin serpents of egypt twine. it symbolises the equilibriated force of the spirit and the four elements beneath the everlasting wings of the holy one. associate adeptus minor, what are the words inscribed upon the door of the vault, and how is it guarded'%st centum viginti annos patebon-after one hundred and twenty years i shall open- and the door is guarded by the elemental tablets and by the ker

nt in malkuth. the columns are respectively black and white to represent the manifestation of the eternal balance of the scales of justice. upon them should be represented in counterchanged colour any appropriate egyptian designs, emblematic of the soul. the scarlet tetra-hedonal capitals represent the fire of test and trial: and between the pillars is the porchway of the region immeasurable. the twin lights which burn on their summits are "the declarers of the eternal truth" the bases of the tetrahedra, being triangular, that on the white pillar points east, while that on the black points west. they thus complete the hexagram of tiphareth- though separate, as is fitting in "the hali of the dual manifestation of truth" the altar, whose form is that of a double cube, is placed in the easter

n of kerux, is thus explained in the grade of theoricus "the tree of life and the three mother letters are the keys wherewith to unlock the caduceus of hermes. the upper point of the wand rests on kether and the wings stretch out to chokrnah and binah, thus comprehending the three supernal sephiroth. the lower seven are embraced by the serpents whose heads fall on chesed and geburah. they are the twin serpents of egypt and the currents of astral light. furthermore, the wings and the top of the wand form the letter shin, the symbol of fire; the heads and upper halves of the serpents form aleph the symbol of air; while their tails enclose mem, the symbol of water- the fire of life above, the waters of creation below, and the air symbol vibrating between them" in addition to this, the caduceu

ght borne before the hood-winked candidate at his initiation, is symbolic of the light which guides him in the darkness of the world though he sees it not nor knows it. this caduceus is the rod of hermes, containing invisible and unsuspected forces, the rules of whose administration may be revealed through meditation. it is the outer form of the wand surmounted by the winged globe below which the twin serpents are shown- the wand of the chief adept in the= grade. the lamen of stolistes is thus explained in the grade of practicus "the cup of stolistes partakes in part of the symbolism of the laver of moses and the sea of solomon. on the tree of life it embraces nine of the sephiroth exclusive of kether. yesod and malkuth form the triangle below, the former apex, the latter the base. like th

of egypt above, the eternal riddle which can only be solved when we attain liberation. the basic colours of this trump are blue, violet, deep purple, and blue irradiated by yellow. but the zodiacal spokes of the wheel should be in the colours of the spectrum, while the ape is in those of malkuth, and the sphinx in the primary colours and black. xi. justice. nephthys, the third aspect of luna, the twin sister of isis. justice as distinguished from love. her emblems are the sword and the scales. like her sister, she is clothed in green, but in a sharper colder green than the pure emerald of isis. her subsidiary colours are blue, blue-green, pale green. it is only by utilising the flashing colours that we can find the hidden warmth and steadfastness. xi1. the hanged man. an elusive, because a

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

[a result of this resemblance] the roman [catholic] invention of good and bad daemones and guardian angels [is] particularly assigned [and] is called by them [that is, the seers] an ignorant mistake sprung only from the secret commonwealth 24 this original [resemblance or reflection of species through the elements. they call this reflex-man a coimimeadh or co-walker, every way like the man, as a twin-brother and companion, haunting him as his shadow and is oft seen and known among men, resembling the original both before and after the original is dead. and [this co-walker] was also often seen, of old, to enter a house; by which the people knew that the person of that likeness was to visit them within a few days. this copy, echo, or living picture, goes at last to his own herd. it accompan

for this same concept is taught in esoteric traditions, in which the crude notion of opposites is transcended through the understanding of harmonics, reflections, and relative modes of being. one simple approach to this relationship between beings and worlds in traditional meta-physics is shown in figure 1. page 24 they call this reflex-man a coimimeadh or co-walker, every way like the man, as a twin-brother and companion. both before and after the original [man] is dead. and [this co-walker] was. often seen. to enter a house; by which the people knew that the person [himself. was to visit them within a few days. this copy, echo, or living picture, goes at last to his own herd. it accompanied that [living] person. for ends best known to itself, whether to guard him from the secret assault

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articular, while intriguing, is simply not an accurate reflection of those degrees- 9/xx symbolism the first session of the year-xxiv order of shuti workshop discussed symbolism. while the study of symbolism itself is not a primary concern of the order of shuti, several of the order's activities do involve working with forms of symbolism, or are discussed using various symbols. the symbols of the twin lion gods, shu and tefnut, who together are shuti, are obviously of importance in understanding the activities of the order. the topic of symbolism was therefore chosen for the introductory session of the workshop. application in discussing this session and what would be discussed, the grand master stressed that symbolism wasn't to be discussed simply as an intellectual exercise, but that all

ne must have to cope with the changing circumstances of life; integration is the process of unification with other people, which is also necessary for a satisfactory life. development is differentiation and growth in the face of new challenges, and the integration of the growth with the total life structure. we are motivated to develop our yearning for inclusion and our yearning for distinctness, twin yearnings that are in constant tension. each swing represents a swing toward integration or differentiation. another way to look at stages is that differentiation represents the transition from one stage to another, and the establishment of a new stage represents integration at a new and more complex level of development. development toward complexity gives one greater internal control over b

are viewed as quarters of wholes or as quartets of complete wholes. at the same time the "4-principle" is rigid in itself and is thus a fixed component of the natural universe. 5. help me, o warrior lord of thebes, in my unveiling before the children of men! the "warrior lord of thebes" is amon (amun/amen, the patron warrior-god of thebes (uast, generally portrayed as a ram or as a man wearing a twin-plumed headdress. this statement suggests the forthcoming catalyst of the age of satan [or set/harwer, symbolized by the ram of mendes (ba-neb-tettu, as a transitional phase between the aons of horus and set. note the emphasis given to the term "children, implying an elect body of initiates rather than the human species as a whole. 6. be thou hadit, my secret centre, my heart& my tongue "hadi

law exudes an aura of both beauty and authenticity that is not simply a function of its included statements. it too is a form which cannot be defined by purely logical methods. it must be apprehended through noesis. 69. there is success. and thus is the book of the law understood and revealed. 70. i am the hawk-headed lord of silence& of strength; my nemyss shrouds the nightblue sky. 71. hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand. see the book of coming forth by night concerning the primal bound of samtaui between set and the original horus. 72. i am the lord of the double wand of power: the wand of the force of coph. but my left hand is empty, for i have crushed an universe& nought remains. again the crowley manuscript's value is demonstrated. cro

ister crowley did severe damage, the aeon managed to progress to the time of set-harwer, the age of satan, and still little attention was paid to the real god of the previous aeon. let us now take a look back and see harwer, set's opposite self, through the eyes of perspective. a very ancient god, harwer, or haroeris, known also as heru-ur and horus the elder, was seen as a 'face of heaven' and a twin god of set. set was seen as the night face and harwer the day one. our ancestors in magic, those old inhabitants of khem, delighted in and dedicated themselves to providing names and assigning values to everything: on moonless nights harwer was known as mekhenti-en-irty "he on whose brow there are no eyes" and on moonlit nights he was hailed as mekhenti-irty "he on whose brow there are the tw

as the night face and harwer the day one. our ancestors in magic, those old inhabitants of khem, delighted in and dedicated themselves to providing names and assigning values to everything: on moonless nights harwer was known as mekhenti-en-irty "he on whose brow there are no eyes" and on moonlit nights he was hailed as mekhenti-irty "he on whose brow there are the two eyes" representative of his twin aspects, it is of interest to note that the two eyes symbolized certain celestial objects, and were in strict order. the right eye of harwer was the sun, the bringer of light (and paid a good deal of attention when things went badly, and the left was classification: v2- a45- 1 author: james lewis iv date: september 15, xix html revision: dec 08, 1997 ce subject: harwer reading list: 2a, 2e, 2

written there. i, astaroth, shall give you the key and the formula- but that ancient text you must decipher for yourselves. in the full light of day at the threshold of the gate of the south solstice, i, astaroth who announced myself with a brief illumination in the night of the aeon as i made my descent upon this earth like unto those distant waters, now stand before you with my seal bearing the twin serpents of my life and wisdom and the sword that joins them. in the name of set, the prince of darkness, i give you my own word to assist you on the path of xeper. that word is mach- the fire in the darkness xepera xeper xeperu astaroth it is done 11:10 am 12-21-93 xxviii consecrated by set x x x the book of astaroth- analysis and commentary i. introduction this is a preliminary analysis, in

ext" to mean the word of set, and understand this to mean that the tools now exist to use it in the fullness of its power. gin the full light of day at the threshold of the gate of the south solstice, i, astaroth who announced myself with a brief illumination in the night of the aeon as i made my descent upon this earth like unto those distant waters, now stand before you with my seal bearing the twin serpents of my life and wisdom and the sword that joins them. h compare this passage with: and before our sight satan lost shape and became again the essence of lucifer, and we beheld a brilliance that infused all of hell and sent great bolts of prismic light into the surrounding void. and the brilliance said, i am lucifer revealed, who am the eternal flame. i go now to earth, for no longer s

; personality- no. the next line "for all that was" seems self-explanatory. i believe the last stansa tells us to protect both the set witbin us, and the temple of set. re: how the poem came into being. i remember only pain during the actual scripting. earlier in tbe evening i was instructed to assemble a new machine at my job. during tbe course of this assembly, i received an electric shock from twin 440 volt lines- an 880 volt shock. i was, and still am, unharmed. for about two and a half minutes i was a real "live wire. after getting a clean bill of health from tbe hospital, i was told i could go home if i chose. i did. later in the evening i was "reflecting" on the day's events and i felt compelled to pick up pen and paper. as i started to write, my brain began to feel warm and "bubbly

e then validates the messenger. shu and tefnut are the neters of opposition. by working closely with these neters for a number of years, i have developed an understanding of and empathy for opposites and opposition, of extremes and continuums, and of balances between extremes and opposites. i expect it was this study of opposites and balance, and my work to incorporate these aspects of shuti (the twin lion gods) into my own being, that increased my receptivity to harwer and this message. disparaged am i, in set's book of coming forth by night, and therefore throughout set's temple. irrational, inconsistent, confusing and unpredictable, i am one of the two gods not created by men. only set could create harwer, necessary to set's existence. the bocfbn uses only words that seem to express dis

s step, the forces summoned above, and the spirits and powers welcomed into the chambre, are infused into the liquid within the grail. this may be done silently or not as chosen by the celebrant.(1 [formal recognitions, initiations, etc. may be performed here [celebrant] as priest of set, i have charged this chalice with set's spirit, set's essence and will. through my manifestation of shuti, the twin lion gods of creation and of life, i add the essence and spirit of these neters, shu and tefnut. as you contemplate and explore the essence of your own self, your own life, accept this essence, and take it as your own. through this elixir, strengthen that which is you. classification: v2- b6r.2- 4 author: robert menschel iv date: october 28, xxv- set-xi order of shuti working html revision: d

ers from whose guard there is no escape" says the book of coming forth by night, the hierophant guides, but he also guards since the armed woman before him is not static. the hierophant is the manifestor of mystery. we can do no less than examine and manifest that figure within ourselves with the greatest possible clarity and dedication to our eternal quest. trump vi the lovers "this card and its twin, xiv, art" wrote aleister crowley "are the most obscure and difficult of the atu" the card, like its fellows, is alive with movement; such action should be, and probably was, meant to help open doors rather than intentionally confuse the observer. and like the others, trump vi does that very thing- it can lead to a merry jaunt down the road to bewilderment. the trump is alchemical in nature

oning which seeks to escape that which is. such an interpretation of course does not cover all that the scorpion is for the magician, but it is worthwhile looking at in atu xiii "the middle interpretation of this sign" the book of thoth continues "is given by the serpent, who is, moreover, the main theme of the sign" the passage continues by pointing out that its manner of propulsion are like the twin phases of life which are called life and death and then repeats that the serpent is the principal symbol of male energy. it is definetely a phallic symbol and as such stands for the creative effect of active energy on the passive, sperm and egg being one of the best representations of such energy's impact and results. the serpent has had a place of long standing in occult tradition and it is

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

f of the sacred alphabet and the aats themselves represents double houses and through this all 22 letters are marked in its own right and reflecting its adversary. the significance of the number 11 should be well enough debated by adepts of the ancient arte and this number which reflects the vortex of deaths rainbow-gnosis will be left alone in this treatise. as stated, the 11 cells are formed by twin letters of the sacred alphabet, forming a double-current. within the houses the powers reflected should be associated with sah, the right-hand palace of the great double house and the left hand palace which name will remain secret and hidden these cells or sources of power are called aats. a secret key is revealed in the following quotation" over each cell there is a unifying glyph, a sigil w

right-hand palace of the great double house and the left hand palace which name will remain secret and hidden these cells or sources of power are called aats. a secret key is revealed in the following quotation" over each cell there is a unifying glyph, a sigil whereby that aat is opened and closed at a point of ingress..each aath hath especial souvereignity over a specific pair of letters, these twin aatic glyphs being the polarities of such powers as are emanated and drawn in by that particular cell. thus they define the nature and characteristics of the aat as a geminus. an aatic current may thus be called upon as the twin continua of zoa (life) and azoa (death- as goddess and god (p. 94-95. on the pages following a fivefold routine as a ritualistic formulae is revealed so it s clear th

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

d feet out of the sky because of terrorists, and now because of those same terrorists i have to be insulted by pen-pushers like you" his visa application, placed firmly at the bottom of a large pile by his adversary, was not granted until three days later. the first available flight was thirty--six hours after that: and it was an air india 747, and its name was _gulistan. gulistan and bostan, the twin gardens of paradise- one blew apart, and then there was one. chamcha, moving down one of the drains through which terminal three dripped passengers into aircraft, saw the name painted next to the 747's open door, and turned a couple of shades paler. then he heard the sari-clad indian stewardess greeting him in an unmistakably canadian accent, and lost his nerve, spinning away from the plane i

SATANGEL

rtues, teaches arithmatic, astronomy, geometry, handicrafts. answers demands fully and truthfully, makes one invincible, finds and guards hidden treasures. originally an old iranian spirit inherited by the post exile jews (tobias 3: 8, 17. in some ways reminiscent of the assyrian demon pazuzu. astaroth, ashtaroth (persian ashtoreth, the biblical place name ashtoreth-karnaim means ashtoreth of the twin horns. goetia, 29th spirit) in the goetia, a duke commanding 40 legions. who manifests as a beautiful or foul angel carrying a viper in his hand whilst riding backwards on a dragon. tells fortunes, teaches liberal sciences. inspires sloth and idleness. the grimorium verum and grand grimoire make him the great duke of hell. also understood to be the treasurer of hell. also serves as a mentor w

SATANIC RITUALS

of human perfection 4. year 1900 c.e. a great teacher 5. year 1950 c.e. a revolutionary 6. year 1970 c.e. a fallible, representative man 7. year 1975 c.e. a symbolic image, representative of a human type. 8. year 1985 c.e. a descriptive word with an interesting origin. 9. year 2000 ce. a well-known folk myth. l'air epais the ceremony of the stifling air along the shore the cloud waves break, the twin suns sink behind the lake, the shadows lengthen in carcosa. strange is the night where blade stars rise, and strange moons circle through the skies, but stranger still is lost carcosa. songs that the hyades shall sing, where flap the tatters of the king, must die unheard in dim carcosa. song of my soul, my voice is dead, die thou, unsung, as tears unshed shall dry and die in lost carcosa -rob

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

nge is similar to the buddhist concept of impermanence. the logos is often equated with the dao, or the way, in daoist belief. world religions: almanac 221 greco-roman religion and philosophy directly from zeus s forehead. because she was the protector and defender of athens, she is often depicted as armed. artemis, the goddess of hunting and wild places, was also a moon goddess. she was apollo s twin sister, and young men and girls held her sacred because she was a virgin. hermes was the messenger of the gods. apollo was the sun god and the god of music and prophesy, or predictions on the future. he also represented law and order, appearing in court in aeschylus s plays. hephaestus was the god of fire and crafts requiring fire, such as metalworking. he was also the god of volcanoes. posei

li, ed. the origin of life and death: african creation myths. london: heinemann, 1966. adapted versions available at exploring africa, http/ exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu (accessed on february 27, 2006. bellegarde-smith, patrick. fragments of bone: neo-african religions in a new world. urbana: university of illinois press, 2005. campbell, susan schuster. called to heal: african shamanic healers. twin lakes, wi: lotus press, 2000. de la torre, miguel a. santer a: the beliefs and rituals of a growing religion in america. grand rapids, mi: eerdmans, 2004. glazier, stephen d. encyclopedia of african and african-american religions. new york, ny: routledge, 2001. hirschfelder, arlene, and paulette molin. encyclopedia of native american religions: an introduction. 2nd ed. new york, ny: facts on

the primary center of theravada buddhism in the world. world religions: biographies 111 anagarika dharmapala dharmapala was able to celebrate the first wesak festival in the united states. the wesak festival is held in honor of the buddha s birthday and enlightenment. in 1906 he founded a weekly publication, the sinhala bauddhaya, with financial support from foster. in this paper he discussed his twin passions of buddhism and sinhalese nationalism and criticized the british administration in ceylon. his also continued to travel around the world. he opened new branches of the maha bodhi society in cities such as london, england; new delhi, india; and new york in the united states. on a trip to england in 1926, he founded a publication called the british buddhist, and the following year he l

anna was described as cruel, vengeful, warlike, and destructive, but also as peaceful, tender, comforting, and mystical. she was seen as the protector of both sargon and his daughter, enheduanna. it was partly due to enheduanna s focus on the goddess that inanna became the most important deity in mesopotamia for more than five hundred years. inanna was the daughter of nanna, the moon god, and the twin sister of utu, the sun god. she was represented in the heavens by the planet venus. in fact, astronomers (scientists who study the planets and the stars) named a continent on that planet after her. in sumerian the name inanna means great lady of an, with an being the god of heaven. when she first began to be worshipped by the sumerians, inanna symbolized the life force and was the goddess of

f-examination, which he said led to an avoidance of doing evil and an emphasis on doing good. most importantly, hasan believed that humans were responsible for their own actions and could not, therefore, blame such actions on the will of allah. hasan appeared in many of the legends dealing with ra bi ah. her belief in the importance of love was the opposite of hasan s emphasis on fear and hope as twin motivators for the faithful muslim. according to one legend, hasan asks ra bi ah to marry him. when he is unable to answer a series of questions she puts to him, she declines the offer. another legend tells of how hasan, seeing ra bi ah near a lake, decides to display his miraculous powers. he throws a prayer rug onto the water and invites her to pray with him on it. unimpressed, she responds

y our own hands. wiccans acknowledge a depth of power far greater than that apparent to the average person, as stated at the 1974 meeting. they find power and divine awe in seemingly ordinary aspects of nature, such as flowers and trees. the creative power of the universe is both masculine and feminine and contained within each person: wicca, writes cunningham, reveres [respects and honors] these twin deities [called the god and goddess] because of its links with nature. wiccans seek the interaction of the outer and inner (psychological) worlds and, as cunningham writes, can contact and communicate with [the god and goddess] because a part of us is in them and they are within us. wiccans do not have an organized structure of authority to oversee their religious beliefs. throughout his book

s of nature, the supreme power was personified into two basic beings: the goddess and the god. every deity that has received worship upon this planet exists with the archetypal god and goddess. the complex pantheons of deities which arose in many parts of the world are simply aspects of the two. every goddess is resident within the concept of the goddess; every god in the god. wicca reveres these twin deities because of its links with nature. since most (but certainly not all) nature is divided into gender, the deities embodying it are similarly conceived. in the past, when the goddess and god were as real as the moon and sun, rites of worship and adoration were unstructured spontaneous, joyous union with the divine. later, rituals followed the course of the sun through its astronomical ye

ich, among other accomplishments, provided care for indians during an outbreak of the plague and was credited with saving many lives. during the twentieth century, the work of the mission continued worldwide. under the name vivekananda vedanta society, it maintains 135 missions throughout the world, 12 of them in the united states. in chicago, a branch of the society was founded in 1930, with the twin goals of helping people find the god within and of serving others. hinduism in the early twenty-first century is the third largest religion in the world. people in the west, the nations of the americas and catholicity: universality, the quality of including everyone. grovelling, or groveling: crawling or lying on the ground as a mark of meekness or obedience. savage: an uncivilized person. br

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ars the merely quiet and dark byways of the soul s unaccompanied wandering, does he not make himself the evoker of his own demons? if we are too plagued by the ghosts of our own making, how may we seek the good counsel of the spirits and gods which partake, in equal measure to ourselves, in the all-oneliness of existence? like a child, first gazing into a looking-glass, perplexed at the mimicking twin who dances and gestures- and lives- on the other side, we often mistake the reflections of our own spiritual condition for a truthful understanding of an external world around us, misunderstanding the lessons which the masquerade of solitude brings before us. how often we make masks and costumes for our gods in our own likenesses; how often we paint the hosts of heaven with our own shadow-pla

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

down on the lagunes of venice. the hum of the rialto was hushed, the last loiterers had deserted the place of st. mark's, and only at distant intervals might be heard the oars of the rapid gondolas, bearing reveller or lover to his home. but lights still flitted to and fro across the windows of one of the palladian palaces, whose shadow slept in the great canal; and within the palace watched the twin eumenides that never sleep for man, fear and pain "i will make thee the richest man in all venice, if thou savest her "signor" said the leech "your gold cannot control death, and the will of heaven, signor, unless within the next hour there is some blessed change, prepare your courage" ho ho, zanoni! man of mystery and might, who hast walked amidst the passions of the world, with no changes o

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e voice, said [1 "we are the thirty-six elements, the world-rulers [2] of this darkness. but, o king solomon, thou wilt not wrong us nor imprison us, nor lay command on us; but since the lord god has given thee authority over every spirit, in the air, and on the earth, and under the earth, therefore do we also present ourselves before thee like the other spirits, from ram and bull, from [35] both twin and crab, lion and virgin, scales and scorpion, archer, goat-horned, waterpourer, and fish [1. acts ii. 1. 2. kosmokratores. cp. paul, eph. vi. 12; origen, c. celsum, viii, 58] 73. then i solomon invoked the name of the lord sabaoth, and questioned each in turn as to what was its character. and i bade each one come forward and tell of its actions. then the first one came forward, and said "i

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e mystery of this essentially egyptian formula of the mummified osiris. spare was acquainted with this version of the mystery. he became a member of crowley's a^.a, for a brief period, in 1910, and the golden dawn rituals- published shortly afterwards in the equinox- may have been available to him. the concepts of death and sexuality are inextricably connected. saturn, death, and venus, life, are twin aspects of the goddess. that they are, in a mystical sense, one idea is evidenced by the nature of the sexual act. the dynamic activity connected with the drive to know, to penetrate, to illumine, culminates in a stillness, a silence, a cessation of all effort which itsel dissolves in the tranquillity of total negation. the identity of these concepts is explicit in the ancient chinese equatio

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

us of hermes (mercury, which mythologically is represented as two serpents twined around the winged wand of mercury. nine arcs are formed by the intersections of the spiral line with the diagonal; the ninth hebrew letter, teth, with the value of nine, has the signification of "serpent."22 the number of the beast of revelation is 666, which cabalis- tically is nine, the number of generation.23 the twin serpents of the caduceus are negative and positive (representing polarity) and twine around the spinal column. they are the kundalini or sex force. in the encircled serpent (howey, op. cit, the chapter on the caduceus contains references (page 72) to the ancient use of the symbol without wings, as seen in the mural. the caduceus is also the symbol of peace, the propaganda term associated with

SYMBOLISM

s i.3 (the section on "neters" was published in issue i.4) subject: symbolism reading list: 2l, 2v the first session of the year-xxiv order of shuti workshop discussed symbolism. while the study of symbolism itself is not a primary concern of the order of shuti, several of the order's activities do involve working with forms of symbolism, or are discussed using various symbols. the symbols of the twin lion gods, shu and tefnut, who together are shuti, are obviously of importance in understanding the activities of the order. the topic of symbolism was therefore chosen for the introductory session of the workshop. application in discussing this session and what would be discussed, the grand master stressed that symbolism wasn't to be discussed simply as an intellectual exercise, but that all

THAGIRION

for a draconian magician. tiphereth corresponds with the sun in the form of light, while thagirion represents the black sun. the black sun represents the sun in its inner form where it shines inside man and reveals the hidden qliphotic worlds. the ordinary sun is the outer sun that shines on the ordinary world. the black sun is the god set in the typhonian alchemy, while the ordinary sun is sets twin horus. in old norse mythology balder corresponds with the ordinary sun and his blind brother h der or loke with the black sun. h der is similar with odin and also odin corresponds with the black sun. thagirion is the sun of the shadow side, which can be interpretated as the sun in the underworld balder in hel, ra in amenti etc. the sun is the symbol of the unity of the whole self that can be

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the manas were highly regarded, they cannot really be considered as comprising the essential self, the soul. the facet of the person that survives the physical is yet something else, a kind of miniature of the living man or woman that resides within the center of the body near the heart. during the period from about 600 b.c.e. to 480 b.c.e, the series of writings known as upanishads set forth the twin doctrines of samsara (rebirth) and karma (the cause and effect actions of an individual during his or her life. an individual has a direct influence on his or her karma process in the material world and the manner in which the person deals with the difficulties inherent in an existence bound by time and space; the individual determines the form of his or her next earthly incarnation. the subj

r tongue. the well-educated child, born to a persian family that lived near babylon and who worshipped with the elkesaites, fell under the influence of gnostic teaching and began to devise a philosophy that saw life on earth as a constant struggle between good and evil. when he was only 12, mani experienced his first religious vision and perceived an angelic being who declared itself his heavenly twin and who promised always to be mani s helper and protector. when he was 24, the twin appeared again, and he instructed the young visionary that it was now time to leave the elkesaite community and to begin his public ministry. mani believed that his visions qualified him to preach a new gospel that combined the words and works of jesus with other great messianic teachers. he sought to pattern

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

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nated between rings of water and land. the water rings served as canals for trade and helped form a series of natural defenses that made an invasion of atlantis extremely difficult. the city of atlantis, in the innermost circle, had palaces and temples where wise and powerful rulers lived. the ruling coalition descended from poseidon, the greek god of the sea. poseidon and clieto had five sets of twin sons, according to greek mythology, each of which was given a region of atlantis. atlas, the firstborn son, was given the largest province, which became the city of atlantis, a name that derives from atlas. the finest structure on the island, the temple of poseidon, honored the god and served as the home of the primary ruler. atlantis had a powerful army of professional soldiers, as did each

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

ans do not reproach the christians; they insult them. they call them infidels and "giaours" that is to say, dogs. we have nothing to reply to them. one must not refute the turks and the arabs; one must instruct and civilize them. remain dissident christians, that is to say, those who, having broken the bond of unity, declare themselves strangers to the charity of the church. greek orthodoxy, that twin of the roman church which has not grown greater since its separation, which counts no longer in religion, which, since photius, has not inspired a single eloquence, is a church become entirely temporal, whose priesthood is no more than a function regulated by the imperial policy of the tsar of all the russias; a curious mummy of the primitive church, still coloured and gilded with all its leg

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

tree of crowns in ritual, the kether of each sephiroth can be represented by the headdress worn by the participant. i offer here a list of those i have allocated, but it is by no means exhaustive, and would obviously also be dependent on the symbology adopted by the ritual participant: kether: a circlet of gold, or ritual crown. the parsley crown of the nemean games, sacred to zeus. chockmah: the twin feathers, or crown of thoth. binah: the crimson cap of concealment. chesed: the cardinals hat, or emperors crown. the pine crown of the isthmian games, sacred to poseidon. geburah: the war helm, or martial crown. the judges wig. tiphareth: the solar crown, cowl, or the wimple. the crown of thorns. the roman crown of roses. netzach: the laurel wreath of victory. hod: the caduceus crown or the

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

ar, bear some resemblance to the chakra system of yoga, the hindu mystical tradition. many people, including authors, make the common mistake of calling tiphareth "the heart chakra" or referring to yesod as "the moon chakra" in fact the cover of llewellyn's second edition of regardie's the middle pillar (see figure 1, p. xi) shows the chakras superimposed over the qabalistic tree of life with the twin serpents of the caduceus of hermes. as easy as it is for some to transpose the terms "sephrah" and "chakra" ths habit should be avoided, since it only adds to confusion between the two systems. it would be better to refer to the sephiroth of the middle pillar exercise as galgalim,l whch is hebrew for "whlings" there are five sephiroth on the middle pillar in contrast to seven chakras in the e

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

shall presently see, his philosophy as well, namely. ecstasy. in ggargoyles h we find several truly wonderful picture poems. thus in gthe white cat h: hail, sweet my sister! hail, adulterous spouse, gilded with passionate pomp, and gay with guilt: rioting, rioting in the dreary house with blood and wine and roses splashed and spilt about thy dabbling feet, and aching jaws whose tongue licks mine, twin asps like moons that curl, red moons of blood! whose catlike body claws, like a white swan raping a jet-black girl, mine, with hysteric laughter c *gargoyles, vol. iii, p. 86. and the following four verses in gsaida h are superb: the spears of the night at her onset are lords of the day for a while, the magical green of the sunset, the magical blue of the nile. afloat are the gales in our slu

breast and thigh to thigh, we look, and strain, and laugh, and die. i see the head hovering above to swoop for cruelty or love; i feel the swollen veins below the knotted throat, the ebb and flow of blood, not milk, in breasts of fire; of deaths, not fluctuants, of desire; of molten lava that abides deep in the vast volcanic sides; deep scars where kisses once bit in below young mountains that be twin, stigmata cruciform of sin, the diary of messaline *1. in the second edition, the first edition began with white poppy *2. alice, an adultery, vol. ii, p. 63. a little further on. before the sonnets commence. another poem greets our gaze and charms our senses, it is called gmargaret h: the moon spans heaven fs architrave; stars in the deep are set; written in gold on the day fs grave, gto lov

ain. a spirit shape kisses my spirit as no woman can. i love her. yes; and i have no escape *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 188. on the quest he goes, ever tormented by the cry of the inner self, ever striving to overcome it. again the cursed cry: gwhat quest is this? h is it worth heaven in thy lover fs kiss? a queen, a queen, to kiss and never tire! thy queen, quick-breathing for your twin desire! h i shudder, for the mystery of bliss; i go, heart crying and a soul on fire!*1. still, i stepped onward. credit me so far! the harlot had my soul: my will, the star! thus i went onward, as a man goes blind, into a torrent crowd of mine own kind; jostlers and hurried folk, and mad they are, a million actions and a single mind.*2 *1. the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 188 *2. ibi

and in this, the purple-seeded fruit of yon youth fs fair and pitiable life *the jilt, vol. iii, pp. 99, 100. so we see before us a curious form, at times cold as the marble statue of pygmalion, and then, when the kiss of venus had incarnadined those chill lips, all life and passion, transforming those ivory breasts into sharp points of liquid fire, and those still thighs into all the subtlety of twin snakes. yet that mouth, breathing the purple fire of love, or cold as the dusty lips of the age-worn sphinx, is one. rosa inferni, rosa coeli, for that which is below is as that which is above. the latter has still to be published, but the petals of its bursting bud have already in many a fair verse made bright the pages of this essay. etwixt these twain we find rosa mundi, gthe keystone of t

nd again that the only substantial existence is the hypothetical substratum of mind, i.e, spirit* and this, as huxley himself states, if pushed to its logical extreme, passes into pantheism pure and simple; and thus through objecting to locke fs primary qualities as things in themselves, berkeley returns, through the objection, back to the causa sui, or better, ratio sui of spinoza, the spiritual twin of locke *all these philosophers end in the same quandary as the old gentleman who with only one tooth in his mouth tried to spike a pickled onion. i have taken some little trouble to arrive at this one isolated conclusion, that the realism of the scholastic philosophers, the materialism of the classical and modern sages, and also, if we choose to extend our scheme, nominalism, conceptualism

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curbite, their names in the language of the greeks. yet of all these powers i name but seven, the glories of eulis; the stars upon the foreheads of the brothers of hermetic light. luna and of these the first is the building up of one that is not born; verily, a child of wonder shall he be. venus and the second is the harmony and the mastery of one co-eval and co-operative with thee from eternity, twin with thee, and thy mate. mars by the third cometh youth and beauty and energy, be thou never so old. saturn by the fourth is life prolonged at will. mercury the fifth is the attainment of the supreme, the magick of light. jupiter the sixth guardeth and aideth thee in the world wherein thou workest: to high rank and honour shall it lead thee, and from thy hands shall pour forth rivers of bless

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

system is also often shown in alchemical illus- trations, but this only proves that alchemy is as traditional as any other magical art. the great john dee was aware of the possibility of a mercury-central system of magic and makes mention of it in his hieroglyphic monad. in theorem xi11 he writes concerning mercury: in the progression we will notice this other mercury will appear who is truly the twin brother of the first: for by the complete lunar and solar magic of the ele- ments, the hieroglyph of this messenger speaks to us very distinctly, and we should examine it carefully and listen to what it says. and (by the will of god) it is the mercury of the philosophers, the greatly celebrated microcosm and adam. therefore, some of the most expert were inclined to place him in a posi- tion o

ent of each overt banner follows a clockwise direction when it is invoked similarly, to invoke any of the occult banners, trace its glyph on the tetra- gram in the order of its letters. notice that the first diagonal segment of each occult banner follows a counterclockwise direction when it is invoked. to banish any of the overt banners, simply trace the glyph to invoke its mirror opposite occult twin. for example, to banish the overt banner of cancer (hm) trace on the tetragram the invoking glyph of the occult banner of cancer(*hi. similarly, to banish any of the occult banners, it is only necessary to invoke its overt twin. for example, to banish the occult banner of taurus (h i, invoke the overt banner of taurus (i ivi. this technique may appear confusing at first sight, but once graspe

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

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 identity "dies" or passes from existence. the renewed and fertile male-female pair in turn produce the next generation. it is interesting tq note that in

heir binary coding is passed into each of their offspring, just as a human child receives half of its genetic code in the sperm of its father and the other half in the egg of its mother. the binary symbols for v and the second h both contain a solid line and a broken line, the solid line from the father and the broken line from the mother. this is the reason crowley describes the second h as the "twin sister" of v-they are made up of the same parts, but in an inverted order. in the case of 28 tetragrammaton v, the masculine solid line is dominant, whereas in the second h it is the broken feminine line that determines gender. when in turn the v and second h combine to generate offspring, the seed of the v is purely masculine, composed only of the solid line in the binary code, and the egg o

f the banner. to banish this occult form, we would have to inscribe the invoking sigil, which would summon the power of the overt form of the banner, neutralizing or cancelling out its opposite, occult form. so, in actuality, all twenty-four sigils invoke the banners they represent. but once a banner has been invoked, whether it is an overt or an occult form, the invocation of its mirror opposite twin neutralizes it and dissolves its power to nothingness, in effect sending it away. the overt and occult forms of each banner are like matter and antimatter-they cannot coexist. however, for the sake of convenience, the invoking sigils of the overt banners are called invoking, and the invoking sigils of the occult banners are called banishing-because they banish the overt forms of the name. whe

al, the place where the stones are said to be piled, is hebrew meaning "circle" it is clear that the real mount gerizim and mount ebal play no part in this passage ritual, since these hills are nowhere near jericho, and in fact stand some forty miles north of jerusalem on opposite sides of a pass through which runs a road. it may be that the stones from jordan were eventually transported to these twin peaks and erected there as a permanent embodiment of the cursing, and blessing, of god. there is some suggestion that they may have been erected as a single altar on mount ebal that represented both hills (deut. 27:4. these piles of unhewn stones act as symbolic pillars and form a gateway into the promised land. the six stones of mount gerizim bless the people who come over the jordan and uph

rror opposites of the wings of mercy of the overt banners. therefore, the invoking sigils of the wings of mercy are the banishing sigils of the wings of severity; the banishing sigds of the wings of mercy are the invoking sigils of the wings of severity. you can readily see this by comparing the sigils for pairs of wings. for example, compare the sigils for kethahel (opposite page) and his mirror twin hatakiah (page 1241, and you will observe that the invoking sigil for one wing banishes the opposite wing, and vice versa *new millennium magic, an updated and expanded version of the new magus, will be available in may 1996 from llewellyn worldwide, ltd. form and function of the wings i angel: kethahel (qthh+al) pronounced: keth'-a-he1 hebrew ?kr;illp enochian: clc32c3/113 banner: ihvh polar

adam became aware of his own divine spark and began to think for himself, turned against his creation like a petulant child. little wonder they saw the serpent in eden as an emissary of the true god, who is much higher and more detached than yaldabaoth (as they called the god of moses. that is why the gnostics worshipped the serpent. the serpent was the symbol of freedom and transcendent wisdom, twin birthrights of all human beings, withheld from adam by jealous yaldabaoth. in gnostic myth, the soul of the world voluntarily allows herself to be degraded and abused by the vindictive malice of the inferior yaldabaoth in order to bring about the restoration of human souls to their rightful place in the heavens. this voluntary degradation, or descent into forgetfulness("and the dwelling place

t creative force, of that father who is called "self-begotten" and unto whom it is said "thou hast formulated thy father, and made fertile thy mother" the adding of the he' to the yod is the marriage of that father to the great co-equal mother, who is a reflection of nuit as he is of hadit. their union brings forth the son vau who is the heir. finally the daughter he' is produced. she is both the twin sister and the daughter of vau. his mission is to redeem her by making her his bride; the result of this is to set her upon the throne of her mother, and 250 tetragrammaton it is only she whose youthful embrace can reawaken the eld of the all-father. in this complex family relationship is symbolised the whole course of the universe (magick in theory and practice [i9291 [new york: dover, 19761

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elligence because rarely have i seen it correctly drawn. the number 2080 is the extension of sixty-four, which is in turn the self-multiplication of number eight. the number sixty-four has many alchemical references by gematria, especially in latin. it is the number of ve-ha-eben (and this stone. din (justice, the highest attribution of the fifth sephira, has a value of sixty-four, as well as its twin intelligence in mercury, whose name is doni. sixty-four also equals may zahab (water of gold, as well as mezahah (mother of gold. in latin, it equals sal aqua (salt-water or the matrix corpus; solve, which refers to the process known as dissolution; sperma, or the seed of the metal; and virgo, or the virgin matter. the number 260 represents the multiplication of the power of the sacred tetrag

: az, auz: there; in that place root: a fixed point in space or duration 8: bah, bah: entrance, threshold 8: dbb, dabab: to go softly, to creep along; to slander 8: dd, dahd: breast of love; beloved (deut 33: 12) root: that which is divided in order to be propagated; effusion, affinity, sympathy 8: hba, heba: bring 64: divisions of kamea 64: adm-chvh: adam-eve 64: din, din: justice and dni, doni, twin intelligence with din 64: gbvah, gebuah: prophecy *64: hua-bn (hu-kether and ben, the son) he is the son (mark 1: 11) 64: hgvim, he-goyim: the nations (the hosts) 64: vhabn, ve-ha-eben: and this stone (gen. 28: 22) 64: ydim, yadim: hands 64: idid ihvh, yediyd ihvh: beloved of god (deut. 33: 12; john 13: 23) 64: mizhb, mezahab: mother of gold 64: mi-zhb, may zahab: golden waters 64: midi, midi

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

a species, they are well suited for space travel due to their ability to hibernate. these reptoids have scales which protect them from moisture loss. they have no sweat glands. the scales [scutes] are much larger on their backs, making the skin waterproof. the scales elsewhere on the body are more flexible. they have three fingers with an opposing thumb. the eyes are catlike and large. they have twin nostrils at the end of a short stubby muzzle. they are mostly meateaters. the mouth is more like a slit [lipless, but they have teeth which are differentiated into incisors, canines, and molars. they average from 6 to 7 feet in height. the reptilian [amphibian] humanoids have been interacting with earth for ages. many contactees and abductees repeatedly describe an insignia of a flying serpen

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

ace clavicle moundshroud climbing out under the pile of leaves under the halloween tree 'you don't really know--ray bradbury from 'the halloween tree* samhain. all hallows. all hallow's eve. hallow e'en. halloween. the most magical night of the year. exactly opposite eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 3 beltane on the wheel of the year, halloween is beltane's dark twin. a night of glowing jack-o-lanterns, bobbing for apples, tricks or treats, and dressing in costume. a night of ghost stories and seances, tarot card readings and scrying with mirrors. a night of power, when the veil that separates our world from the otherworld is at its thinnest. a 'spirit night, as they say in wales. all hallow's eve is the eve of all hallow's day (november 1st. and for once

e year. eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 13 l a d y d a y: the vernal equinox= by mike nichols now comes the vernal equinox, and the season of spring reaches it's apex, halfway through its journey from candlemas to beltane. once again, night and day stand in perfect balance, with the powers of light on the ascendancy. the god of light now wins a victory over his twin, the god of darkness. in the mabinogion myth reconstruction which i have proposed, this is the day on which the restored llew takes his vengeance on goronwy by piercing him with the sunlight spear. for llew was restored/reborn at the winter solstice and is now well/old enough to vanquish his rival/twin and mate with his lover/mother. and the great mother goddess, who has returned to her virgi

www.abika.com 28 september 24th. although our pagan ancestors probably celebrated harvest home on september 25th, modern witches and pagans, with their desk-top computers for making finer calculations, seem to prefer the actual equinox point, beginning the celebration on its eve (this year, sunset on september 21st. mythically, this is the day of the year when the god of light is defeated by his twin and alter-ego, the god of darkness. it is the time of the year when night conquers day. and as i have recently shown in my seasonal reconstruction of the welsh myth of blodeuwedd, the autumnal equinox is the only day of the whole year when llew (light) is vulnerable and it is possible to defeat him. llew now stands on the balance (libra/autumnal equinox, with one foot on the cauldron (cancer/

etation= by mike nichols* not of father, nor of mother was my blood, was my body. i was spellbound by gwydion, prime enchanter of the britons, when he formed me from nine blossoms-'hanes blodeuwedd' r. graves, trans. eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 31* in most pagan cultures, the sun god is seen as split between two rival personalities: the god of light and his twin, his 'weird, his 'other self, the god of darkness. they are gawain and the green knight, gwyn and gwythyr, llew and goronwy, lugh and balor, balan and balin, the holly king and the oak king, etc. often they are depicted as fighting seasonal battles for the favor of their goddess/lover, such as creiddylad or blodeuwedd, who represents nature. the god of light is always born at the winter solst

so the cycle closes at last, resembling nothing so much as an intricately woven, never-ending bit of celtic knotwork. so midsummer (to me, at least) is a celebration of the sun god at his zenith, a crowned king on his throne. he is at the height of his power and still 1/4 of a year away from his ritual death at the hands of his rival. however, at the very moment of his greatest strength, his dark twin, the seed of his destruction, is born- just as the days begin to shorten. the spear and the cauldron have often been used as symbols for this holiday and it should now be easy to see why. sun gods are virtually always associated with spears (even jesus is pierced by one, and the midsummer cauldron of cancer is a symbol of the goddess in her fullness. if we have learned anything from this stor

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

that the 12 labors of hercunumbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott les are said to be emblems of the sun in its passage through the 12 signs, and this is repeated by the mystagogus poeticus, 1653, and they have been allotted as follows- to aries, the quest of the golden apples of the hesperides; to taurus, the slaying of the cretan bull; gemini, hercules and his twin brother strangle the serpents; cancer, the taking of the herds of geryon; leo, the slaying of the nemaean lion; virgo, the victory over the amazon queen; libra, the death of the erymanthean boar; scorpio, the death of the lernaean hydra; sagittarius, the shooting of the five stymphalian birds; capricornus, taking of the hind alive to mycenae; aquarius, cleaning the stables of augeas; pisces

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