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EVIL AND UNCLEAN SPIRITS

e elder tylyl, the wife of lams, a woman with an ever changing and distorted countenance. at the northeast angle is trga (aggerath) the daughter of twlwjam, a fiendish wretch with serpent hair, enthroned in a chariot drawn by an ox and an ass. at the northwest angle is a gigantic scorpion with a fearful countenance but standing upright, as it were, and formed of putrefying n. after him cometh the unnamable one, wmysa (asimon) and his appearance and symbol is that of a cloudy, veiled, black, gigantic figure covered with whirling wheels and in his hand is a vast wheel which issues, as it whirls, multitudes of cat-like demons. behind him cometh hmun, nahimah, like a crouching woman with an animal's body, crawling along the ground and eating l. lmcj twklm jxn dwh d wsy hlwd g hrwb g trapt rtk

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es, its long, unnatural annals, and the murder which had cursed it. the terror which brought me to the scene was a sudden and portentous confirmation of the mountaineers' wildest legends. one summer night, after a thunderstorm of unprecedented violence, the countryside was aroused by a squatter stampede which no mere delusion could create. the pitiful throngs of natives shrieked and whined of the unnamable horror which had descended upon them, and they were not doubted. they had not seen it, but had heard such cries from one of their hamlets that they knew a creeping death had come. in the morning citizens and state troopers followed the shuddering mountaineers to the place where they said the death had come. death was indeed there. the ground under one of the squatter's villages had caved

ld of unknown nightmare, i drew my automatic pistol and shot it under cover of the thunder. shrieking, slithering, torrential shadows of red viscous madness chasing one another through endless, ensanguined condors of purple fulgurous sky. formless phantasms and kaleidoscopic mutations of a ghoulish, remembered scene; forests of monstrous over-nourished oaks with serpent roots twisting and sucking unnamable juices from an earth verminous with millions of cannibal devils; mound-like tentacles groping from underground nuclei of polypous perversion. insane lightning over malignant ivied walls and demon arcades choked with fungous vegetation. heaven be thanked for the instinct which led me unconscious to places where men dwell; to the peaceful village that slept under the calm stars of clearing

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

wind-tortured mountain pass after that real and tangible shock which i shared. this will form my last word. if the plain signs of surviving elder horrors in what i disclose be not enough to keep others from meddling with the inner antarctic-or at least from prying too deeply beneath the surface of that ultimate waste of forbidden secrets and inhuman, aeon-cursed desolation- the responsibility for unnamable and perhaps immeasurable evils will not be mine. danforth and i, studying the notes made by pabodie in his afternoon flight and checking up with a sextant, had calculated that the lowest available pass in the range lay somewhat to the right of us, within sight of camp, and about twenty-three thousand or twenty-four thousand feet above sea level. for this point, then, we first headed in t

HP LOVECRAFT THE CRAWLING CHAOS

where the sea was blue and the bank rather whitish. down this path i felt impelled to flee, as if pursued by some malignant spirit from the pounding ocean. at first it was slightly uphill, then i reached a gentle crest. behind me i saw the scene i had left; the entire point with the cottage and the black water, with the green sea on one side and the blue sea on the other, and a curse unnamed and unnamable lowering over all. i never saw it again, and often wonder. after this last look i strode ahead and surveyed the inland panorama before me. the path, as i have intimated, ran along the right-hand shore as one went inland. ahead and to the left i now viewed a magnificent valley comprising thousands of acres, and covered with a swaying growth of tropical grass higher than my head. almost at

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ing in the agora a marble temple commemorating the gifts, virtues, and brotherly piety of musides. but the olive grove still stands, as does the tree growing out of the tomb of kalos, and the old bee-keeper told me that sometimes the boughs whisper to one another in the night wind, saying over and over again "oida! oida -i know! i know" 1998-1999 william johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:45:4the unnamable by; howard phillips lovecraft 1923- first published in the vagrant not dated. we were sitting on a dilapidated seventeenth- century tomb in the late afternoon of an autumn day at the old burying ground in arkham, and speculating about the unnamable. looking toward the giant willow in the cemetery, whose trunk had nearly engulfed an ancient, illegible slab, i had made a fantastic remark a

b, i had made a fantastic remark about the spectral and unmentionable nourishment which the colossal roots must be sucking from that hoary, charnel earth; when my friend chided me for such nonsense and told me that since no interments had occurred there for over a century, nothing could possibly exist to nourish the tree in other than an ordinary manner, besides, he added, my constant talk about "unnamable" and "unmentionable" things was a very puerile device, quite in keeping with my lowly standing as an author. i was too fond of ending my stories with, sights or sounds which paralyzed my heroes' faculties and left them without courage, words, or associations to tell what they had experienced. we know things, he said, only through our five senses or our intuitions; wherefore it is quite i

xed dimensions, properties, causes, and effects; and although he vaguely knew that the mind sometimes holds visions and sensations of far less geometrical, classifiable, and workable nature, he believed himself justified in drawing an arbitrary line and ruling out of court all that cannot be experienced and understood by the average citizen. besides, he was almost sure that nothing can be really "unnamable" it didn't sound sensible to him. though i well realized the futility of imaginative and metaphysical arguments against the complacency of an orthodox sun-dweller, something in the scene of this afternoon colloquy moved me to more than usual contentiousness. the crumbling slate slabs, the patriarchal trees, and the centuries gambrel roofs of the witch-haunted old town that stretched arou

full of queer sentient things, or that old graveyards teem with the terrible, unbodied intelligence of generations? and since spirit, in order to cause all the manifestations attributed to it, cannot be limited by any of the laws of matter; why is it extravagant to imagine psychically living dead things in shapes- or absences of shapes- which must for human spectators be utterly and appallingly "unnamable "common sense" in reflecting on these subjects, i assured my friend with some warmth, is merely a stupid absence of imagination and mental flexibility. twilight had now approached, but neither of us felt any wish to cease speaking. manton seemed unimpressed by my arguments, and eager to refute them, having that confidence in his own opinions which had doubtless caused his success as a te

the tomb was very comfortable, and i knew that my prosaic friend would not mind the cavernous rift in the ancient, rootdisturbed brickwork close behind us, or the utter blackness of the spot brought by the intervention of a tottering, deserted seventeenth- century house between us and the nearest lighted road. there in the dark, upon that riven tomb by the deserted house, we talked on about the "unnamable" and after my friend had finished his scoffing i told him of the awful evidence behind the story at which he had scoffed the most. my tale had been called the attic window, and appeared in the january, 1922, issue of whispers. in a good many places, especially the south and the pacific coast, they took the magazines off the stands at the complaints of silly milk-sops; but new england did

witchcraft terror is a horrible ray of light on what was stewing in men's crushed brains, but even that is a trifle. there was no beauty: no freedom- we can see that from the architectural and household remains, and the poisonous sermons of the cramped divines. and in side that rusted iron straitjacket lurked gibbering hideousness, perversion, and diabolism. here, truly, was the apotheosis of the unnamable. cotton mather, in that demoniac sixth book which no one should read after dark, minced no words as he flung forth his anathema. stern as a jewish prophit, and laconically unamazed as none since his day could be, he told of the beast that had brought forth what was more than beast but less than man- the thing with the blemished eye- and of the screaming drunken wretch that hanged for hav

. the boy had gone to look at the windows of that horrible attic, because of tales of things seen behind them, and had come back screaming maniacally. manton remained thoughtful as i said this, but gradually reverted to his analytical mood. he granted for the sake of argument that some unnatural monster had really existed, but reminded me that even the most morbid perversion of nature need not be unnamable or scientifically indescribable. i admired his clearness and persistence, and added some further revelations i had collected among the old people. those later spectral legends, i made plain, related to monstrous apparitions more frightful than anything organic could be; apparitions of gigantic bestial forms sometimes visible and sometimes only tangible, which floated about on moonless ni

f the psychic emanations of human creatures be grotesque distortions, what coherent representation could express or portray so gibbous and infamous a nebulosity as the specter of a malign, chaotic perversion, itself a morbid blasphemy against nature? molded by the dead brain of a hybrid night-mare, would not such a vaporous terror constitute in all loathsome truth the exquisitely, the shriekingly unnamable? the hour must now have grown very late. a singularly noiseless bat brushed by me, and i believe it touched manton also, for although i could not see him i felt him raise his ann. presently he spoke "but is that house with the attic window still standing and deserted "yes" i answered "i have seen it "and did you find anything there- in the attic or anywhere else "there were some bones up

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apes of darkness that seize and bind. the affair that shambleth about in the night, the evil that defieth the elder sign, the herd that stand watch at the secret portal each tomb is known to have and that thrive on that which groweth out of the tenants thereof- all these blacknesses are lesser than he who guardeth the gateway: he who will guide the rash one beyond all the worlds into the abyss of unnamable devourers. for he is 'umr at-tawil, the most ancient one, which the scribe rendereth as the pro-longed of life" memory and imagination shaped dim half-pictures with uncertain outlines amidst the seething chaos, but carter knew that they were of memory and imagination only. yet he felt that it was not chance which built these things in his consciousness, but rather some vast reality, inef

LIBER 777

t somewhat hellenized. notes to crowley s notes 1 because jk= koch, power, and hm is the secret name of yetzirah (vide col. lxiv. 2 i.e, the hebrew word for ten. 3 the g.d. qliphoth lecture as published by zalewski, etc) has wdba, abaddon; crowley s reading matches that in kabbala denudata (tom. i. pars. iv. fig. xvi (y; although this entity is there described as innominatus, nameless or unnamed; unnamable would be innomindandus (cf. the magnum innominandum mentioned by h. p. lovecraft in the whisperer in darkness) 4 possibly an error for hmun, naamah or nahemah. the g.d. qliphoth lecture as printed by zalewski (1994) has maamah which itself may be a misprint. von rosenroth (loc. cit) which is the source for this as for so much else in 777 has hmun. 5 rosicrucian chess is also known as eno

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

ing, speaking lightly, but even this lightness is laced with menace, because of the extent of his power. the boy is unabashed. matching abu simbel stride for stride, he replies "for every one you pull out, a stronger one will grow, biting deeper, drawing hotter spurts of blood" the grandee, vaguely, nods "you like the taste of blood" he says. the boy shrugs "a poet's work" he answers "to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep" and if rivers of blood flow from the cuts his verses inflict, then they will nourish him. he is the satirist, baal. a curtained litter passes by; some fine lady of the city, out to see the fair, borne on the shoulders of eight anatolian slaves. abu simbel takes the young baal by the elbo

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

veral people. the dao de jing is divided into two parts. chapters one through thirty-seven deal with the dao, while chapters thirty-eight through eightyone deal with de, or virtue. the work is difficult to understand partly because of the dual meanings of many of its key concepts and terms. for example, the title itself is one problem. dao means path, or way, but the dao is also the essential and unnamable process of the universe. de can mean virtue or righteousness, but it can also refer to power. jing, at least simply means doctrine, book, scripture, or classic. there are more than one hundred translations of the work in english alone. the book is short. each chapter is about eight to twenty lines that are written like prose but are closer to poetry. beyond the dao, the text deals with t

linity was associated with action, purpose, drive, aggressiveness, and the like. femininity, in contrast, was associated with feelings, emotion, thought, and especially being passive and nonaggressive. daoism valued feminine principles over masculine ones. excerpts from the dao de jing 1 the tao [dao] that can be told is not the eternal tao. the name that can be named is not the eternal name. the unnamable is the eternally real. naming is the origin of all particular things. free from desire, you realize the mystery. caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. this source is called darkness. darkness within darkness. the gateway to all understanding. manifestations: outward examples or appearances. 154 world religions: prima

ed. 12 colors blind the eye. sounds deafen the ear. flavors numb the taste. thoughts weaken the mind. desires wither the heart. the master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. he allows things to come and go. his heart is open as the sky. 14 look, and it can t be seen. listen, and it can t be heard. reach, and it can t be grasped. above, it isn t bright. below, it isn t dark. seamless, unnamable, it returns to the realm of nothing. form that includes all forms, image without an image, subtle, beyond all conception. approach it and there is no beginning; follow it and there is no end. you can t know it, but you can be it, at ease in your own life. just realize where you come from: this is the essence of wisdom. 16 empty your mind of all thoughts. let your heart be at peace. watch

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

god in arabic] col. vi, line 31bis. essence, cf. a and w. col. viii. lines 1-10. beth elohim gives a quite different ten qliphoth. line 15. in the midst of the zodiacal qliphoth are lams [samael] and yadmsa [asmodai. at se corner, man, serpent, and the elder lilith the wife of samael. at ne corner, the ox and ass, and aggereth the daughter of machalath. at nw corner, the scorpion, and wmisa,3 the unnameable and hmuk.4 at sw angle, the lion and horse, and the younger lilith the wife of asmodai. col. ix. the cup of the stolistes has its rim and 2 and 3 and its foot in 10. the cadueceus is (easily) placed on the tree and divided into a, m, and c. the waxing moon in 4; waning in 5; full in 6. col. xi. the elements, of whose nature the signs of the zodiac partake, are shown by the symbol agains

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

350) son of the right hand nymynb colour (bc 163 he, the lord god ynd) myhl )wh woman, wife hbqwn 164 the pillars (see 79) mydm( ye shall cleave myqbdx outer; civil (as opposed to sacred) nwcyx 165 strength (ez.3:8) myqzx to make them know (ps. 25:4) m(ydwhl nemo (name of magister templi) hymm( an assembly hc( curse hllq 166 under penalty of law (esp. a fine) nwmm byyx the most high nwyl( 167 the unnameable one (a demon) nwmys) fetters (job 36:8) myqyz 168 the supernal parents h)ly )m)w )b) to cover; protect ppx 169 the accentuator mym+ 170 wand [david fs] staff lqm cup lps cloud nn( seasons myd(wm fools; the constellation orion mylysk 171 the original seed (lit. gfrom the chief h; scil. groot h) lyc)m emanating from lc)n the face of god: the name of an angel l)ynp 172 cut, divided (qb he

upright triangle, yod in the centre and tau lowermost )tyr)r) and the myhl) said: let there be light, and there was light (gn. 1:3) rw) yhy myhl) rm)yw rw) yhyw proselytes *myrg 814 a shore *pwx outer; civil (as opposed to sacred *nwcyx merciful, compassionate *mwxr 815 silence hqyt# 816 under penalty of law (esp. a fine *nwmm byyx the most high *nwyl( words *myrbd 817 to seize suddenly *p+x the unnameable one (a demon *nwmys) magician *m+rx lights: the urim (see 490 *myrw) 818 the red light *mwd) rw) 820 kaph: the palm [of the hand (fig. notariqon of kteis-phallus *pk cloud *nn( will be exalted *myry a vineyard *mrk the inept and the profane (lit. gto idols h, as likenesses of men or animals *mylyspl to gather, draw together *mcmc 822 chambers, rooms *myrdx 823 an image of stone, a shape

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

- but the enemy confused them. they pretended to conceal that light, that they might betray it, and profane it. z an irritated or excited form of s, emphasizing elements of anger and alarm- yet certain holy nuns concealed the secret in songs upon the lyre. b bursting forth. phallus and vulva. kissing* now did the horror of time pervert all things, hiding the purity with a loathsome thing, a thing unnameable. f compound of p& h* yea, and there arose sensualists upon the firmament, as a foul stain of storm upon the sky. s devence, warning, etc* and the black brothers raised their heads; yea, they unveiled themselves without shame or fear. m the will to die* also there rose up a soul of filth and of weakness, and it corrupted all the rule of the tao. n the vibration which includes life and de

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 2

moon of her that is god's thought and minister! snow-pure, sky-blue, immaculate hecate, in thy book of fate read thou my name, the soaring soul that seeks the supreme, sunless goal! and thou, great sekhet, roar! arise confront the lion in the way! thy calm indomitable eyes lift once, and look, and pierce, and slay! i am past. hail, hecate! untrod thy steep ascent to god, to god! lo! what unnamed, unnameable sphere hangs above inscrutable? there is no virtue in thy kiss to affront that soulless swart abyss. i match &c. 328 da th i am insane. my reason tumbles; the tower of my being crumbles. here all is doubt, distress, despair: there is no force in strength or prayer. if pass i may, it is by might of the momentum of my flight. i match &c. gimel (and the crossing of daleth) free from that c

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3 2

wash me and i shall be whiter than snow! o send forth thy light and thy truth, let them lead me, let them guide me unto thy holy hill; even to thy tabernacles. i stand before the gate of the west; and the pillars of the universe arise in majesty before me. at my right hand is the pillar of fire: and on my left the pillar of cloud: below they are lost in clouds of darkness: and above in heaven in unnameable glory. let me enter, o gate of the west [pass to south-west and project astral. then saith the guardian of the gate of the west] thou canst not pass by me, saith the guardian of the west: except thou canst tell me my name [saith the aspirant] darkness is thy name: thou art the great one of the paths of the shades [saith the great one of the night of time] child of earth! remember that f

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

able, since there exists no one prior to him to examine him. he the apocryphon of john http//www.pseudepigrapha.com/apocrypha_nt/apocjn.html 2 of 12 8/16/2006 5:17 pm is immeasurable, since there was no one prior to him to measure him. he is invisible, since no one saw him. he is eternal, since he exists eternally. he is ineffable, since no one was able to comprehend him to speak about him. he is unnameable, since there is no one prior to him to give him a name "he is immeasurable light, which is pure, holy (and) immaculate. he is ineffable, being perfect in incorruptibility (he is) not in perfection, nor in blessedness, nor in divinity, but he is far superior. he is not corporeal nor is he incorporeal. he is neither large nor is he small. there is no way to say 'what is his quantity' or '

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

, on the lines traced by exoteric judaism and christianity, the monotheism of both is nothing more exalted than ancient astrolatry, now vindicated by modern astronomy. the kabalists never cease to repeat that primal intelligence can never be understood. it cannot be comprehended, nor can it be located, therefore it has to remain nameless and negative. hence the ain-soph- the "unknowable" and the "unnameable- which, as it could not be made manifest, was conceived to emanate manifesting powers. it is then with its emanations alone that human intellect has to, and can deal. christian theology, having rejected the doctrine of emanations and replaced them with direct, conscious creations of angels and the rest out of nothing, now finds itself hopelessly stranded between supernaturalism, or mira

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

ade up by the energizing light shed by the logos. the hebrew kabalists give it in a shape which esoterically is[[vol. 1, page] 429 the one is known by the many. identical with the vedantic. ain-soph, they taught, could not be comprehended, could not be located, nor named, though the causeless cause of all. hence its name- ain-soph- is a term of negation "the inscrutable, the incognizable, and the unnameable" they made of it, therefore, a boundless circle, a sphere, of which human intellect, with the utmost stretch, could only perceive the vault. in the words of one who has unriddled much in the kabalistical system, in one of its meanings thoroughly, in its numerical and geometrical esotericism "close your eyes, and from your own consciousness of perception try and think outward to the extr

the "elementary" fades out and disappears in the "son of the earth" limited time. the soul quits the fields of aanroo and goes on earth under any shape it likes to assume (see chapter xcix, book of the dead[[vol. 1, page] 675 the gods of egypt. work written by egyptians (vide "book of the dead) would speak of the one universal god of the monotheistic systems- the one absolute cause of all, was as unnameable and unpronounceable in the mind of the ancient philosopher of egypt, as it is for ever unknowable in the conception of mr. herbert spencer. as for the egyptian in general, as m. maspero well remarks, whenever he "arrived at the notion of divine unity, the god one was never 'god' simply" and lepage renouf very justly observed that the word nouter, nouti "god" had never ceased being a gen

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

sts in all things is issued from the divinity.3 the hermetic writer is certainly here very close in spirit to the syrian monk, and it is no wonder that ficino was impressed by the way hermes trismegistus confirms saint dionysius on no name yet all names. there is a negative theology also in the hebrew cabalistic mysticism, for the ensoph, out of which the ten sephiroth emerge, is the nothing, the unnameable, unknown deus absconditus, and the highest and most remote of the sephiroth, keter or the crown, disappears into the nothing.4 so that here, too, though there are as it were ten names in the sephiroth, the highest is the nothing or the no name. i cannot find that pico anywhere relates the ensoph to the dionysian negative theology, though the fifteenth orphic conclusion is significant: 1

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re now repellently decadent, having gone far along that path of retrogression so common in many new england backwaters. they have come to form a race by themselves, with the well-defined mental and physical stigmata of degeneracy and inbreeding. the average of their intelligence is woefully low, whilst their annals reek of overt viciousness and of half-hidden murders, incests, and deeds of almost unnameable violence and perversity. the old gentry, representing the two or three armigerous families which came from salem in 1692, have kept somewhat above the general level of decay; though many branches are sunk into the sordid populace so deeply that only their names remain as a key to the origin they disgrace. some of the whateleys and bishops still send their eldest sons to harvard and misk

dour seemed strongest above the oddly pierced slabs, as if they might be crude trap-doors leading down to some still deeper region of horror. kneeling by one, he worked at it with his hands, and found that with extreme difficulty he could budge it. at his touch the moaning beneath ascended to a louder key, and only with vast trepidation did he persevere in the lifting of the heavy stone. a stench unnameable now rose up from below, and the doctor's head reeled dizzily as he laid back the slab and turned his torch upon the exposed square yard of gaping blackness. if he had expected a flight of steps to some wide gulf of ultimate abomination, willett was destined to be disappointed; for amidst that foetor and cracked whining he discerned only the brick-faced top of a cylindrical well perhaps

gh he was, he has not been the same since. it is hard to explain just how a single sight of a tangible object with measurable dimensions could so shake and change a man; and we may only say that there is about certain outlines and entities a power of symbolism and suggestion which acts frightfully on a sensitive thinker's perspective and whispers terrible hints of obscure cosmic relationships and unnameable realities behind the protective illusions of common vision. in that second look willett saw such an outline or entity, for during the next few instants he was undoubtedly as stark raving mad as any inmate of dr. waite's private hospital. he dropped the electric torch from a hand drained of muscular power or nervous co rdination, nor heeded the sound of crunching teeth which told of its

LIBER 777

that language] col. vi, line 31bis. essence, cf. a and w. col. viii. lines 1-10. beth elohim gives a quite different ten qliphoth. line 15. in the midst of the zodiacal qliphoth are lams [samael] and yadmsa [asmodai. at se corner, man, serpent, and the elder lilith the wife of samael. at ne corner, the ox and ass, and aggereth the daughter of machalath. at nw corner, the scorpion, and wmisa,3 the unnameable and hmuk.4 at sw angle, the lion and horse, and the younger lilith the wife of asmodai. col. ix. the cup of the stolistes has its rim and 2 and 3 and its foot in 10. the cadueceus is (easily) placed on the tree and divided into a, m, and c. the waxing moon in 4; waning in 5; full in 6. col. xi. the elements, of whose nature the signs of the zodiac partake, are shown by the symbol agains

LIBER TRIGRAMMATON

om the persecutions. likewise also did certain sons and daughters of hermes and of aphrodite, more openly. but the enemy confused them. they pretended to conceal that light, that they might betray it, and profane it. svb figvra xxvii 3 yet certain holy nuns concealed the secret in songs upon the lyre. now did the horror of time pervert all things, hiding the purity with a loathsome thing, a thing unnameable. yea, and there arose sensualists upon the firmament, as a foul stain of storm upon the sky. and the black brothers raised their heads; yea, they unveiled themselves without shame or fear. also there rose up a soul of filth and of weakness, and it corrupted all the rule of the tao. then only was heaven established to bear sway; for only in the lowest corruption is form manifest. also di

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

beaten whore, vampire woman, beast, bird, owl, etc. the northeast angle is aggereth, the daughter of machaloth, a fiendish witch with serpent hair, standing in a chariot drawn by an ox and an ass. she is featured in the luciferian tarot. the northwest angle is a large scorpion with a fearful countenance, but standing upright as it were and formed of putrefying water, dripping. with him comes the unnameable one, abbadon or apollyon the destroyer, and his appearance and symbol are of a closely-veiled, black, gigantic shape covered with whirling and cutting wheels which are razor sharp, and in his hand is a vast wheel whence come as it whirls, multitudes of cat-like demons, behind him comes maamah, a crouching woman with an bestial 61 body crawling along the ground like an insect and eating

MORALS AND DOGMA

or valiant thing therein. genuine work alone, done faithfully, is eternal, even as the almighty founder and world-builder himself. all work is noble: a life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god. the almighty maker is not like one who, in old immemorial ages, having made his machine of a universe, sits ever since, and sees it _go. out of that belief comes atheism. the faith in an invisible, unnameable, directing deity, present everywhere in all that we see, and work, and suffer, is the essence of all faith whatsoever. the life of all gods figures itself to us as a sublime earnestness--of infinite battle against infinite labor our highest religion is named the worship of sorrow. for the son of man there is no noble crown, well-worn, or even ill-worn, but is a crown of thorns. man's hi

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

cting it from the persecutions. g likewise also did certain sons and daughters of hermes and of aphrodite, more openly. z but the enemy confused them. they pretended to conceal that light, that they might betray it, and profane it. b yet certain holy nuns concealed the secret in songs upon the lyre. f now did the horror of time pervert all things, hiding the purity with a loathsome thing, a thing unnameable. s yes, and there arose sensualists upon the firmament, as a foul stain of storm upon the sky. m and the black brothers raised their heads; yea, they unveiled themselves without shame or fear. n also there rose up a soul of filth and of weakness, and it corrupted all the rule of the tao. e then only was heaven established to bear sway; for only in the lowest corruption is form manifest

RUBY TABLET OF SET

. i am not divided. speaking and silent i maintain an exact balance. i have come forth by night: i have become a setian. behold, i am the heir of eternity! open therefore ye the way. call to the jackal he who knows the gate and is guardian thereof, who is ap-uat, he who knows the great daimons and the magicians who have worked and walked with those great ones, he who knows the unspeakable and the unnameable, which hold the secrets of time and space and the mysteries of man: i do call him forth! he who is the escort in the night, he who is the howler in the dark, he who lurks in unspeakable dimensions beyond the barriers, he who is anubis: i do call him forth! classification: v2- c21.13- 1 author: ronald k. barrett iii date: ca. xi publication: cry of the jackal, i.1, march xiii subject: an

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

void of orcus, where kisses are flung in vain, and where around us pale women fleet: whose empty fruitlessness assails the night with hollow repercussion, like dim tombs wherein some vampire glooms *the temple of the holy ghost, vol. i, p. 185. this last line is one of the most expressive ever written by crowley, and in the last word gglooms h is concentrated more than terror or fear, a brooding unnameable horror, comparable to the word gcrowd h that blake makes use of in his gmad song h: like a fiend in a cloud. with howling woe after night i do crowd and with night will go. both poets have chosen here not the only word that could be chosen, but the only word that would in the above poems express the maximum amount, of horror in the one case; and of desire in the other. very different fr

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3 2

n. the hierophant is the augoeides. the officers are the divine sephiroth invoked. the enterer is the natural man [first let the symbols in the sphere of sensation be equilibrated. this is the opening of the hall of truth] 198 "the first invocation" come forth unto me, thou that art my true self: my light: my soul! come forth unto me: thou that art crowned with glory: that art the changeless: the un-nameable: the immortal godhead, whose place is in the unknown: and whose dwelling is the abode of the undying gods. heart of my soul; self- shining flame, glory of light, thee i invoke. come forth unto me, my lord: to me, who am thy vain reflection in the mighty sea of matter! hear thou, angel and lord! hear thou in the habitations of eternity; come forth; and purify to thy glory my mind and wi

BOOK OF BLACK SERPENT

like giant; and a thousand- headed hydra serpent; everchanging and distorted countenance. at the north-east angle is aggerath, the daughter of machalath, a fiendish witch with serpent hair enthroned in a chariot drawn by an ox and an ass. at the north-west angle is a gigantic scorpion with a fearful countenance, but standing upright as it were, and formed of putrefying water. after him cometh the un-nameable one (abaddon) and his appearance and symbol is that of a closelyveiled black gigantic figure, covered with whirling wheels and in his hand is a vast wheel whence issue as it whirls, multitudes of cat-like demons. behind cometh maamah like a crouching woman with an animal s body, crawling along the ground and eating the earth. and at the south-east angle are the winged lion and a winged

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