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e is often depicted with the head of an ibis although he was worshipped as a baboon in hermopolis. appeal to him for all matters of magical wisdom, learning, intellectual pursuits, examinations and better time management. wise woman deities these goddesses are for transformation rituals, for endings that become beginnings and for accepting what cannot be changed. cailleach cailleach, meaning' the veiled one, is the celtic name for a number of hag goddesses. these are powerful crone goddesses, who have retained their early associations with the winter. for example, the scottish cailleac bhuer, the blue hag, manifested herself as an old woman wearing black or dark blue rags with a crow on her left shoulder and a holly staff that could kill a mortal with a touch. she roamed the highlands by n

any names in countless ages, but is and always will be one and the same. as the maiden, she is the celtic brighid who in early spring softens the earth with her white wand of fire and so awakens the spring and restores fertility to land and people. as mother, she is cerridwen whose magical cauldron of wisdom and inspiration overflows to all who seek and call in need; finally she is cailleach, the veiled one, wise woman, healer and bringer of dreams, who in the winter of life transforms the old and outworn into new life to be born with the maiden in the spring 'when the moon is full, you can call on me, goddess, mother, sister, friend, daughter and grandmother of all ages and all places, in joy, for i bring love and plenty. you may also bring me your hopes with the waxing moon and your sorr

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

aw upon the journey was like unto the end thereof. for in a desolate place was the well, with but a small temple beside it, where the servants- they too most holy! of that holy ancient man might dwell. and my father brought me to the mouth of the well and called thrice upon the name of nuit. then came a voice climbing and coiling up the walls like a serpent "let this child become priestess of the veiled one" now my father was wise enough to know that the old man never made a mistake; it was only a question of a right interpretation of the oracle. yet he was sorely puzzled and distressed, for that i was a boy child. so at the risk of his life- for the old man was brusque- he called again and said "behold my son" but as he spoke a shaft of sunlight smote him on the nape of the neck as he pag

risk of his life- for the old man was brusque- he called again and said "behold my son" but as he spoke a shaft of sunlight smote him on the nape of the neck as he page 4 gulf.txt bend over the well; and his face blackened, and his blood gushed forth from his mouth. and the old man lapped up the blood of my father with his tongue, and cried gleefully to his servants to carry me to a house of the veiled one, there to be trained in my new life. so there came forth from the little house an eunuch and a young woman exceeding fair; and the eunuch saddled two horses, and we rode into the desert alone. now though i could ride like a man, they suffered me not; but the young priestess bore me in her arms. and though i ate meat like a warrior, they suffered me not, but the young priestess fed me at

s not given me of the gods at this time to tell; but i will sleep; and in the morning by their favour the memory thereof shall arise in me, even in me across these thousands of years of the whirling of the earth in her course. chapter ii so for many years i grew sleek and subtle in my womans attire. and the old eunuch (who was very wise) instructed me in the art of magic and in the worship of the veiled one, whose priestess was i destined. i remember now many things concerning those strange rituals, things too sacred to write. but i will tell of an adventure that i had when i was nine years of age. in one of the sacred books it is written that the secret of that subtle draught which giveth vision of the star-abodes of duant, whose sight is life eternal in freedom and pleasure among the liv

is and hathor. nor did any dare to take from me the little bone that i had won so dearly; and with it i made the spell of the elixir, and beheld the starry abodes ofduant, even as it was written in the old wise book. but my guardians were ashamed and perplexed; for though i was so sleek and subtle, yet my manhood already glowed in such deeds as this- how should i truly become the priestess of the veiled one? therefore they kept me closer and nursed me with luxury and flattery. i had two negro slave-boys that fanned me and that fed me; i had an harp-player from the great city of memphis, that played languorous tunes. but in my mischief i would constantly excite him to thoughts of war and of love; and his music would grow violent and loud, so that the old eunuch, rushing in, would belabour h

be taken" now i thought this old man most foolish-obstinate; for i myself was obstinate and foolish. not yet did i at all understand his wisdom or his purpose. it often happens thus. of old, men sent their priests to rebuke nile for rising- until it was known that his rising was the cause of the fertility of their fields. now of the vows which i took upon me and of my service as priestess of the veiled one it shall next be related. chapter iii page 8 gulf.txt it was the equinox of spring, and all my life stirred in me. they led me down cool colonnades of mighty stone clad in robes of white broidered with silver, and veiled with a veil of fine gold web fastened with rubies. they gave me not the uraeus crown, nor any nemyss, nor the ateph crown, but bound my forehead with a simple fillet of

me. they led me down cool colonnades of mighty stone clad in robes of white broidered with silver, and veiled with a veil of fine gold web fastened with rubies. they gave me not the uraeus crown, nor any nemyss, nor the ateph crown, but bound my forehead with a simple fillet of green leaves- vervain and mandrake and certain deadly herbs of which it is not fitting to speak. now the priests of the veiled one were sore perplexed, for that never before had any boy been chosen priestess. for before the vows may be administered, the proofs of virginity are sought; and, as it seemed, this part of the ritual must be suppressed or glossed over. then said the high priest "let it be that we examine the first woman that he shall touch with his hand, and she shall suffice" now when i heard this, i tho

his, i thought to test the god; and, spying in the crowd, i beheld in loose robes with flushed face and wanton eyes, a certain courtesan well-known in the city, and i touched her. then those of the priests that hated me were glad, for they wished to reject me; and taking aside into the hall of trial that woman, made the enquiry. then with robes rent they came running forth, crying out against the veiled one; for they found her perfect in virginity, and so was she even unto her death, as latter appeared. but the veiled one was wroth with them because of this, and appeared in her glittering veil upon the steps of her temple. there she stood, and called them one by one; and she lifted but the eye-piece of her veil and looked into their eyes; and dead they fell before her as if smitten of the

irst woman that was thus honoured since the days of the evil queen in the eighteenth dynasty, of her that wearied of men at an age when other women have not known them, that gave herself to gods and beasts. but now they took me to the pool of liquid silver- or so they called it; i suppose it was quicksilver; for i remember that it was very difficult to immerse me- which is beneath the feet of the veiled one. for this is the page 9 gulf.txt secret of the oracle. standing afar off the priest beholds the reflection of her in the mirror, seeing her lips that move under the veil; and this he interprets to the seeker after truth. thus the priest reads wrongly the silence of the goddess, and the seeker understands ill the speech of the priest. then come forth fools, saying "the goddess hath lied

r even as asi when hoor and hoor-pa-kraat, cleaving her womb, sprang armed to life. then they stripped me of my robes, and lashed me with fine twigs of virgin hazel, until my blood ran from me into the pool. but the surface of the silver swallowed up the blood by some mysterious energy; and they took this to be a sign of acceptance. so then they clothed me in the right robes of a priestess of the veiled one; and they put a silver sistron in my hand, and bade me perform the ceremony of adoration. this i page 10 gulf.txt did, and the veil of the goddess glittered in the darkness- for night had fallen by this- with a strange starry light. thereby it was known that i was indeed chosen aright. so last of all they took me to the banqueting-house and set me on the high throne. one by one the prie

that a whole skin of common wine. yet this intoxication was a pure delight, an enthusiasm wholly divine; and it gave strength, and did away with sleep, and left no sorrow. last, as the first gray glow of hormakhu paled the deep indigo of the night, they crowned and clothed me with white lotus flowers, and took me joyously back into the temple, there to celebrate the matin ritual of awakening the veiled one. thus, and not otherwise, i became priestess of that holy goddess, and for a little while my life passed calm as the unruffled mirror itself. it was from the veiled one herself that came the breath of change. on this wise. in the seventh equinox after my initiation into her mystery the high priestess was found to fail; at her invocation the veil no longer glittered as was its wont. for

ot. but the old high priest determined to solve the mystery, though he paid forfeit with his life. so concealing himself in the temple, he watched in the pool for the reflection of the glittering of the veil, while one by one we performed the adorations. and behind him and without stood the priests, watching for him to make a sing. this we knew not; but when it fell to me (the last) to adore that veiled one, behold! the veil glittered, and the old priest threw up his arms to signal that which had occurred. and the flash of the eye pierced the veil, and he fell from his place dead upon the priests without. they buried him with much honour, for that he had given his life for the people and for the temple, to bring back the favour of the veiled one. then came they all very humbly unto me the

ns and writhes and shrieks on the cold marble floor; and there he shall burn till his time expire, and he sink to that more dreadful hell below the west. but i drank thereof, and the celestial dew stood shining on my skin, and a coolness ineffable thrilled through me; whereat they all rejoiced, and obeyed the voice of the goddess that i had declared unto them. now then was i alway alone with that veiled one, and i must enter most fully into that secret period of my life. for, despite its ending, which hath put many wise men to shame, it was to me even as an eternity of rapture, of striving and of attainment beyond that which most mortals- and they initiates even- call divine. now first let it be understood what is the ritual of adoration of our lady the veiled one. first, the priestess per

ed to identify herself with her. thus an impurity in the thought of the priestess must cause her to fail; for the goddess is utterly pure. yet the task is alway difficult; for with the other gods one knoweth the appearance of their images; and steadily contemplating these one can easily attain to their imitation, and so to their comprehension, and to unity of consciousness with them. but with our veiled one, none who hath seen her face hath lived long enough to say one word, or call one cry. so then it was of vital urgency to me to keep in perfect sympathy with that pure soul, so calm, so strong. with what terror then did i regard myself when, looking into my own soul, i saw no longer that perfect stillness. strange was it, even as if one should see a lake stirred by a wind that one page 1

pointing upward to the sky and then downward to the earth. and i read this oracle as if ti were spoken "as above, so beneath" this came to me as i had flung myself in despair at the feet of my lady, covering them with my tears; for by a certain manifest token i now knew that i had done a thing that was so dreadful that even now- these many thousand years hence- i dare hardly write it. i loved the veiled one. page 14 gulf.txt yea, wit the fierce passion of a beast, of a man, of a god, with my whole soul i loved her. even as i knew this by the manifest token the veil burst into a devouring flame; it ate up the robes of my office, lapping them with its tongues of fire like a tigress lapping blood; yet withal it burnt me not, nor singed one hair. thus naked i fled away in fear, and in my madne

ith the ring and the message; and thinking that she brought bad news, i slit her lamb s-throat with the magic sickle, and her asp s-tongue i tore out with my hands, and threw it to the dogs and jackals. herein i erred sorely, for her news was good. having reflected thereon, i perceived its import. for since the veil flamed always at my assumption, it was sure that i was in sympathy with that holy veiled one. if i were troubled, and knew not why; if my long peace were stirred- why then, so she "as above, so beneath" for even as i, being man, sought to grasp godhead and crush it in my arms, so she, the pure essence, sought to manifest in form by love. yet i dared not repeat the ceremony at midnight. instead i lay prone, my arms outstretched in shame and pain, on the steps at her feet. and lo

. but in the streets people gathered apples of gold that dropped from invisible boughs, and invisible porters poured out wine for all, strange wine that healed disease and old age, wine that, poured between the teeth of the dead (so long as the embalmer had not begun his work, brought them back from the dark kingdom to perfect health and youth. as for me, i lay as one dead in the arms of the holy veiled one- veiled no more- while she took her pleasure of me ten times, a thousand times. in that whirlwind of passion all my strength was as a straw in the simoom. yet i grew not weaker but stronger. though my ribs cracked, i held firm. presently indeed i stirred; it seemed as if her strength had come to me. thus i forced back her head and thrust myself upon and into her even as a comet that imp

ground; then i crossed them on her breast, so that she was powerless. and i became like a mighty serpent of flame, and wrapt her, crushed her in my coils. i was the master. then grew a vast sound about me as of shouting: i grew conscious of the petty universe, the thing that seems apart from oneself, so long as one is oneself apart from it. men cried "the temple is on fire! the temple of asi the veiled one is burning! the mighty temple that gave its glory to thebai is aflame! then i loosed my coils and gathered myself together into the form of a mighty hawk of gold and spake on last word to her, a word to raise her from the dead! but lo! not asi, but asar! white was his garment, starred with red and blue and yellow. green was his countenance, and in his hands he bore the crook and scourge

i am purified: i stand upon the universe: i am its reconciler with the eternal gods: i am the perfector of matter; and without me the universe is not" all this he said, and displayed the sacraments of osiris before them all; and in a certain mystical manner did we all symbolically partake of them. but for me! in the scent of the dying rose i beheld rather the perfection of the love of my lady the veiled one, whom i had won, and slain in the winning! now, however, the old magus clad me (for i was yet naked) in the dress of a priest of osiris. he gave me the robes of white linen, and the leopard s skin, and the wand and ankh. also he gave me the crook and scourge, and girt me with the royal girdle. on my head he set the holy uraeus serpent for a crown; and then, turning to the people, cried

ns they guarded; there i spoke with the seven, and with the nine, and with the thirty-three; and at the end i came out into the abode of the holy hathor, unto her mystical mountain, and being there crowned and garlanded i rejoiced exceedingly, coming out through the gate of the east, the beautiful gate, unto the land of khemi, and the city of thebai, and the temple that had been the temple of the veiled one. there i rejoined my body, making the magical links in the prescribed manner, and rose up and did adoration to the osiris by the fourfold sign. therefore the light of osiris began to dawn; it went about the city whirling forth, abounding, crying aloud; whereat the people worshipped, being abased with exceeding fear. moreover, they hearkened unto their wise men and brought gifts of gold

army. then i withdrew myself; and taking counsel with the wisest of the priests and of the architects and of the sculptors, i gave out my orders so that the temple might duly be builded. by the favour of the god all things went smoothly enough; yet was i conscious of some error in the working; or if you will, some weakness in myself and my desire. look you, i could not forget the page 20 gulf.txt veiled one, my days of silence and solitude with her, the slow dawn of our splendid passion, the climax of all that wonder in her ruin! so as the day approached 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

his young stupid man had guessed how his predecessor was dead, and he touched not the sacraments; but feigned. then she called for me- and i was now ordained priest- to take counsel of me; for she was minded to put me in his place. thus she made a great banquet for me; and when we were well drunken she laid her head upon my breast and said marvellous things to me of love, to me, who had loved the veiled one! but i feigned all the madness of passion and made her drunk thereon, so that she talked great words, frothing forth like dead fishes swollen in the sun, of how we should rule thebai and (it might be) displace pharaoh and take his throne and sceptre. yet, foolish woman! she could not think now she might remove this stupid high priest, her own nominee! so i answered her "assume the form

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

am also the angel of the eighth key. and from the love of these two have i come, who am the warden of pop and the servant of them that dwell therein. though all crowns fall, mine shall 49 not fall; for my plumes reach up unto the knees of him that sitteth upon the holy throne, and liveth and reigneth for ever and ever as the balance of righteousness and truth. i am the angel of the moon. i am the veiled one that sitteth between the pillars veiled with a shining veil, and on my lap is the open book of the mysteries of the ineffable light. i am the aspiration unto the higher; i am the love of the unknown. i am the blind ache within the heart of man. i am the minister of the sacrament of pain. i swing the censer of worship, and i sprinkle the waters of purification. i am the daughter of the h

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3 2

, the angry crocodiles; the dragons of death; the eaters of the wicked. but i repress their wrath: for i am hoor-po-krat-ist, the lotus-throned lord of silence. if i said: come up upon the mountains, the celestial waters would flow at my word and the celestial fires flame forth. for i am r enshrouded: khephra unmanifest to men; i am my father hoor, the might of the avenger: and my mother asi, the veiled one: eternal wisdom in eternal beauty. therefore i say unto thee: bring me unto thine abode in the silence unutterable, wisdom: all-light, all power! hoor-po-krat-ist! thou nameless child of the eternities! bring me to thee, that i may be defended in this work of art. 274 thou, the centre and the silence! light shrouded in darkness is thy name! the celestial fire is thy father! thy mother t

BLUE EQUINOX

! 65. so it was.ever the same! i have aimed at the peeled wand of my god, and i have hit; yea, i have hit. liber lxv 71 ii 1. i passed into the mountain of lapis lazuli, even as a green hawk between the pillars of turquoise that is seated upon the throne of the east. 2. so came i to duant, the starry abode, and i heard voices crying aloud. 3. o thou that sittest upon the earth (so spake a certain veiled one to me) thou art not greater than thy mother! thou speck of dust infinitesimal! thou art the lord of glory, and the unclean dog. 4. stooping down, dipping my wings, i came unto the darkly-splendid abodes. there in that formless abyss was i made a partaker of the mysteries averse. 5. i suffered the deadly embrace of the snake and of the goat; i paid the infernal homage to the shame of khe

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

e was worshipped as a baboon in hermopolis. appeal to him for all matters of magical wisdom, learning, intellectual pursuits, examinations and better time management [insert pic p081- wise woman deities these goddesses are for transformation rituals, for endings that become beginnings and for accepting what cannot be changed [insert pic p082- cailleach seite 45 wicca01.txt cailleach, meaning' the veiled one, is the celtic name for a number of hag goddesses. these are powerful crone goddesses, who have retained their early associations with the winter. for example, the scottish cailleac bhuer, the blue hag, manifested herself as an old woman wearing black or dark blue rags with a crow on her left shoulder and a holly staff that could kill a mortal with a touch. she roamed the highlands by n

any names in countless ages, but is and always will be one and the same. as the maiden, she is the celtic brighid who in early spring softens the earth with her white wand of fire and so awakens the spring and restores fertility to land and people. as mother, she is cerridwen whose magical cauldron of wisdom and inspiration overflows to all who seek and call in need; finally she is cailleach, the veiled one, wise woman, healer and bringer of dreams, who in the winter of life transforms the old and outworn into new life to be born with the maiden in the spring 'when the moon is full, you can call on me, goddess, mother, sister, friend, daughter and grandmother of all ages and all places, in joy, for i bring love and plenty. you may also bring me your hopes with the waxing moon and your sorr

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