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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 elements in the zodiac. thus, to fire are attributed: aries a leo

66 binah: the third emanation on the tree of life. occultists identify binah with the great mother in all her forms. she is the womb of forthcoming, the source of all the great images and forms that manifest in the universe as archetypes. she is also the supreme female principal in the process of creation and, via the process of mythological correspondences, is associated with such deities as the virgin mary, rhea, isis, and demeter. chesed: the fourth emanation on the tree of life. occultists identify chesed as the ruler, but not creator, of the manifested universe. he is characterized as stable, wise, and merciful by contrast with his more dynamic opposite, geburah. chesed is associated with the gods zeus and jupiter. geburah: the fifth emanation on the tree of life. geburah is often ass

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el, we may suppose, resembled that of the priests. while in tac. germ. 40 it is a 'priest that attends the goddess, and guides the team of kine in her car; in the north conversely, we have handmaids waiting upon gods. from a remarkable story in the olaf tryggv. saga (fornm. sog. 2, 73 seq, which the christian composer evidently presents in an odious light, we at all events gather that in sweden a virgin attended the car of freyr on its travels among the people: frey var fengin til j?ionosto hona ung ok fris (into frey's service was taken a woman young and fair, and she is called hona freys. otherwise a priestess is called gyffja, iwfgycfja, corresponding to gosi, hofgosi^ see turisr hofgysja, islend. sog. 1, 205. jjorlaug gysja, landn. 1, 21. steinvor and fridgersr, sagabibl. 1, 99. 3, 268

a gift to those who prayed before it. a figure of christ gave its shoes to a poor man (nicolai abbatis peregrinatio, ed. werhiuft" p. 20, and a saint's image its gold slippers (mones anz. 7, 584. archiv. des henneb. vereins, pp. 7, 71. a figure of mary accepts a ring that is presented to it, and bends her finger as a sign that she will keep it (meon nouv. recueil 2, 296-7. maerl. 2, 214. the two virgin-stories in meon and maerlant, though one at bottom, have very different turns given them. in the latter, a young man at a game of ball pulls the ring off his finger, and puts it on the hand of a madonna; in the former, the youth is boxing in the colosseum at rome, and puts his ring on the finger of a heathen statue, which bends the finger. both figmes now hold the man to his c-ngagement. bu

(see suppl. they implore elias to make their fields fruitful, and keep the liail away from them^ olearius already had put it upon record, that the circassians on the caspian sacrificed a goat on ellas s clay, and stretched the skin on a pole with prayers* even the muhammadans, in praying that a thunderstorm may be averted, name the name of ilya^ now, the servian songs put by the side of elias the virgin mary; and it was she especially that in the mid. ages was invoked for rain. the chroniclers mention a rain-procession in the liege 1 gotman, a divine, a priest] conf. supra, pp. 88-9. 2 the eabbinical legend likewise assumes that elias will retiu-n and sluy the malignant sammael; eisenmenger 2, 696. 851. 3 klaproth's travels in the caucasus 2, 606. 601* erman's archiv flir russland 1841, 42

loki; and the ixoddesses akin to these sliall be the last mentioned here. to correspond to the on. gcfjon the old saxons had, as far as we know, not a female but a male being, gchan, gcofon (sea, p. 239. with four giant oxen, according to sn. 1, gefjon ploughs zealand out of the swedish soil, and a lake arises, whose inward bend exactly fits the projecting coast of zealand. she is described as a virgin, and all maidens who die virgins wait upon her, sn. 36. her name is called upon when oaths are taken: sver ek vis gcfjon, f. magn. lex. 386 (see suppl. gefn, a name of freyja (sn. 37 and vigaglumss. cap. 27) reminds one of gefjon. ran was the wife of the seagod oegir, they liad nine daughters who are cited by name in the edda, and called rdnar (or oegis) dcctr men who are drowned fall to th

. p. 509 the black demeter at phigalia, and sometimes even her daughter persephone, the fair maid doomed to the underworld^ furva proserpina' hor. od. 2, 13 (censorin. de die nat. c. 17. blade aphrodite (melanis) is spoken of by pausanias 2, 2. 8, g. 9, 27 and by athenanis bk. 13; we know the black diana of ephesus, and that in the i\lid. ages black madonnas were both painted and carved, the holy virgin appearing tlien as a sorrowing goddess of earth or niglit; such at loretto, naples, einsiedeln, wurzburg (altd. w. 2, 209. 28g 'at oettingen (goethe's corresp. with a child 2, 184, at puy (biisching's nachr. 2, 312-333, marseilles and elsewhere. i think it specially signilicant, that the erinnys or furia dwelling in tartarus is also represented botli as black and as half ivhite half black

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ribution of the alphabet, whence result some curious hieroglyphic symbolism. thus, tetragrammaton will be written by virgo, aries, taurus, aries. eheieh by air, aries, virgo, aries; from yeheshuah, the qabalistic mode of spelling jesus. which is simply the tetragrammaton, with the letter shin placed therein, we obtain a very peculiar combination; virgo, aries, fire, taurus, aries; virgo born of a virgin, aries the sacrificial lamb; fire the fire of the holy spirit; taurus the ox of earth, in whose manger he was laid; and lastly aries, the flocks of sheep whose herdsmen came to worship him. elohim yields air, libra, aries; virgo, water; the firmament, the balanced force, the fire of the spirit (for aries is a fiery sign operating in the zodiac) the virgin goddess and the waters of creation

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early decades of the nineteenth century and were said to offer protection against drowning. for this reason, hot cross buns were hung from the roofs of coastal churches where their remains can still be seen. the old ways did not die quickly, however, and so for centuries the two religions co-existed as people gradually transferred their allegiance from the earth mother, or mother goddess, to the virgin mary and the female saints. the persecution of witches but in medieval times, two largely political issues brought about the persecution of witches, especially women. the religious emphasis on the sin of eve and the belief in the inferiority of women had existed since the time of st paul, but with the rise of an organised male medical profession, women healers who had acted as herbalists an

dark and light, night and day, positive and negative, destruction and creation are two sides of the same coin, a principle that finds expression in eastern taoism and underpins the ancient chinese/ ching (the book of changes, often used for divination. negativity can be transformed into healing energies through positive ritual. the goddess is the source of all creation, from whom, in the original virgin birth, her son-consort, the horned god, came. the horned god and the goddess are the creative male and female principles that act and react, not in opposition to each other, but as complementary and necessary parts of a whole. there are variations on this idea within the teachings of wicca. some traditions consider the goddess to be of greater significance than her male counterpart. others

motherhood. but in witchcraft, though the sky fathers and their wives are used for the focus of specific rites, the goddess retains the earlier form as the creative principle. as the triple goddess- maiden, mother and wise woman or crone- she is frequently central to coven work. generally in magick the goddess is recognised as the prime mover of existence, bringing forth from herself in the first virgin birth the animus, or male, principle. for this reason, it is often the high priestess who casts the circle, though in some covens the goddess rules over the spring and summer and the horned god over the autumn and winter. other gods and goddesses there is a vast selection of gods and goddesses from many different cultures that you may choose to form a focus for particular energies in ritual

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 circumstances. she is perfect for outdoor love spells and for casting your love net wide to attract an as yet unknown lover. freyja frey

d youth for those who chose to spend their immortality in the otherworld. she brings inspiration, renewal, health and rejuvenation, and is a focus for all magick, as she is a witch goddess. diana diana is the roman counterpart of artemis, and because of her strong association with the moon in all its phases, is a goddess of fertility as well as love. like artemis, she is goddess of the hunt and a virgin goddess, but can be invoked in her role as an earth goddess and as protector of women in childbirth. her beauty and hunting skills make her a perfect focus for the pursuit of love, especially from afar. myesyats like the lunar goddesses, myesyats, the slavic moon god, represented the three stages of the life cycle. he was first worshipped as a young man until he reached maturity at the full

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dicapped as they have been for introduction viii so many centuries, the former would speedily prove their superiority, as the amazons of old did; which latter (as the writings even of their especial enemies, the greeks, unwillingly admit) when overcome, were conquered by superior numbers, not by superior valour. however, abraham the jew grudgingly admits that the sacred magic may be attained by a virgin, while at the same time dissuading any one from teaching it to her! the numerous advanced female occult students of the present day are the best answer to this. but notwithstanding the forementioned shortcomings, his advice on the manner of using magical power, when acquired, to the honour of god, the welfare and relief of our neighbour, and for the benefit of the whole animate creation, is

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res taken from a square of c f. dodim means" loves pleasures. no. c consists of b h squares arranged like a capital letter e taken from a square of c f squares. raiah means a female companion. no. d consists of b d squares taken from a square of c f squares. modah= adorned as for a bridal. no. e consists of c f squares from a square of e j. no. f consists of c j squares taken from e j. almanah= a virgin; hence evidently this should be numbered e and not f, while probably no. e should be here placed. no. g consists of c g squares taken from a square of d g squares. callah means a married woman, but especially a bride. no. h. a gnomon of h from a square of b g. elem means a widow. no. i. a square of c f squares. naqid= remote offspring. no. j. this has a strong likeness to the well-known sat

ions. rotas= as vortices. no. b a is a square of c f squares. debam signifies influential persons. no. b b. a square of i squares from a square of b g. ahhb signifies to love. bear signifies in hebrew to waste or consume. no. b c. a square of d g squares. ialdah signifies a girl. no. b d consists of b j squares arranged like the capital letter f, and taken from a square of e j squares. betulah= a virgin. of abramelin the mage 178 no. b e consists of c f squares from a square of e j. iedidah is from a hebrew root, signifying objects of love. diloqah means to eagerly pursue, or to burn as with a fever. doqarca= pierced. no. b f. b c squares from a square of c f. saqal means a wise person. no. b g. a square of d g squares. qebhir= a protector. no. b h. b e squares from a square of c f. efeha

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impersonal. what i am saying is, archetypes are also a natural conduit to the daemonic resonance we spoke of. and so, when a religious person tells me they prayed to mother mary and received an inspirational message in a dream which helped change the course of their life, i simply smile and nod. when daemons walk among us, they choose the time and the place, unlike younger souls, but there are no virgin births or "immaculate conceptions" it must be stressed that, as a race, the ancient ones come infrequently and they are not fighting a turf war in heaven as our primitive mythologies suggest. joan of arc was an incarnated daemon, as were christ and buddha, but then, so was charles manson. a juvenile nursery rhyme goes "there was a little girl, who had a little curl, right in the middle of h

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female part of us, the passive principle which is yet very different to that of venus, for the moon corresponds to the sun much as venus does to mars. she is more purely passive than venus, and although venus is so universal the moon is also universal in another sense. the moon is the highest and the lowest; the moon is the aspiration, the link of man and god; she is the supreme purity: isis the virgin, isis the virgin mother; but she comes right down at the other end of the scale, to be a symbol of the senses themselves, the mere instrument of the registration of phenomena, incapable of discrimination, incapable of choice. the niyama corresponding to her influence, the first of all, is that quality of aspiration, the positive purity which refuses union with anything less than the all. in

wn at the other end of the scale, to be a symbol of the senses themselves, the mere instrument of the registration of phenomena, incapable of discrimination, incapable of choice. the niyama corresponding to her influence, the first of all, is that quality of aspiration, the positive purity which refuses union with anything less than the all. in greek mythology artemis, the goddess of the moon, is virgin; she yielded only to pan. here is one particular lesson: as the yogi advances, magic powers (siddhi the teachers call them) are offered to the aspirant; if he accepts the least of these- or the greatest- he is lost. 15. at the other end of the scale of the niyama of the moon are the fantastic developments of sensibility which harass the yogi. these are all help and encouragement; these are

nifest in positive terms, we have thereby killed for ever all its possibilities of mischief. our task being thus perfectly simple, we shall not require the assistance of a lot of lousy rishis and sanyasis. we shall not apply to a crowd of moth-eaten arahats, of betel-chewing bodhisattvas, for instruction. as we said in the first volume of 'the equinox, in the first number 'we place no reliance on virgin or pigeon; our method is science, our aim is religion' our common sense, guided by experience based on observation, will be sufficient. 2. we have seen that the yogic process is implicit in every phenomenon of existence. all that we have to do is to extend it consciously to the process of thought. we have seen that thought cannot exist without continual change; all that we have to do is to

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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 lightning. but those priests who were friendly to me and loyal to the goddess took that virgin courtesan, and led her in triumph through the city, veiled and crowned as is befitting. now after some days he that guarded the sacred goat of khem died, and they appointed her in his place. and she was the first 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 hersel

come forth fools, saying "the goddess hath lied- and in their folly they die. while, therefore, they held me beneath the surface of the pool, the high priestess took the vows on my behalf saying: i swear by the orb of the moon; i swear by the circuit of the stars; i swear but the veil, and by the face behind the veil; i swear by the light invisible, and by the visible darkness; on behalf of this virgin that is buried in thy water; to live in purity and service; to love in beauty and truth; to guard the veil from the profane; to die before the veil- and then came the awful penalty of failure. i dare not recall half of it; yet in it were these words: let her be torn by the phallus of set, and let her bowels be devoured by apep; let her be prostituted to the lust of besz, and let her face be

hen they loosed me, and i lay smiling in the pool. they lifted me up and brought me to the feet of the goddess, so that i might kiss them. and as i kissed them such a thrill ran through me that i thought myself rapt away into the heaven of amoun, or 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 go

arry 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 priests came by and kissed my lips: one by one the priestesses came by, and gave me the secret clasp of hands that hath hidden virtue. and the banquet waxed merry; for all the food was magically prepared. every beast that they slew was virgin; every plant that they plucked had been grown and tended by virgins in the gardens of the temple. also the wine was spring water only, but so consecrated by the holy priestesses that one glass was more intoxicating 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

ful of the famine and the disease, and being minded to have no more of such, if it could by any means be avoided. they were therefore exceeding punctual with their gifts. but i was daily more afraid, being in a great sweat of passion, of which i dared to speak to no man. nor did i dare to speak even privily in mine own heart thereof, lest i should discover its nature. but i sent my favourite, the virgin istarah (slim, pallid, and trembling as a young lotus in the west wind, with my ring of office, to enquire of the old magus of the well. and he answered her by 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 b

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the goddess is no more known. and she maketh the infants restless, and to cry, so the reason for the pouring of honey over the sacred bread, for it is written: bread of the cult of the dead in its place i eat in the court prepared water of the cult of the dead in its place i drink a queen am i, who has become estranged to the cities she that comes from the lowlands in a sunken boat am i. i am the virgin goddess hostile to my city a stranger in my streets. musigamenna uruma bur me yensulamu girme en! oh, spirit, who understand thee? who comprehend thee? now, there are two incantation to the ancient ones set down here, which are well known to the sorcerers of the night, they who make images and burn them by the moon and by other things. and they burn them by the moon and by other things. and

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

te is white" is the lash of the overseer "white is black" is the watchword of the slave. the master takes no heed. the chinese cannot help thinking that the octave has 5 notes. the more necessary anything appears to my mind, the more certain it is that i only assert a limitation. i slept with faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking; i drank and danced all night with doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning [100] commentary( mu-epsilon) the title of this chapter is drawn from paragraph 7. we now, for the first time, attack the question of book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 97 doubt "th soldier and the hunchback" should be carefully studied in this connection. the attitude recommended is scepticism, but a scepticism under control. doubt inhibits action, as much

ALEISTER CROWLEY CONCERNING DEATH

nto 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 thou art pan! thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our age-long love. hast thou not striven to the inmost in thee? death is the crown of all. harden! hold up thyself! lift thine head! breath not so deep- die! or art thou still entangled with the thorny plaits of wild briar rose that thou hast woven in thy magick dance on earth? are not thin

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agle-headed man, with a bow and arrow. wears crowned steel helmet. 18 a man with distorted face and hards, a horse s body, white feet, and a girdle of leaves a beautiful woman wreathed with myrtle. she holds a lyre and sings of love and gladness. 19 a man in sordid raiment, with him a nobleman on horseback, accompanied by bears and dogs a man crowned with a white myrtle wreath, holding a bow 20 a virgin clad in linen, with an apple or pomegranate tall, fair, large man, with him a woman holding a large black oil jar 22 a dark man, in his right hand a spear and laurel branch and in his left a book a man, dark, yet delicious of countenance 24 a man with a lance in his right hand, in his left a human head a man riding a camel, with a scorpion in his hand 25 a man with 3 bodies 1 black, 1 red

dx the righteous is the foundation of the world. line 10. malkuth has these titles (among others: ruc the gate (by temurah, rcu= 10).2 y the gate (chaldee. which has the same number (671) as ynda in full dwy wn tld [la also gates of death. shadow of death. tears. justice. prayer. gate of daughter of mighty ones. garden of eden. also inferior mother the daughter. the queen. hklm the bride. hlk the virgin. hlwtb col iv. this column may be equally well symbolized by any single entry, preferably in 0. the monistic and nihilistic conceptions are convertible. hua may be equally named tao, iao, noumenon, and the like. all language on this subject is necessarily feeble and hieroglyphic. it is to name that which by definition has no name. col. v. these god-names are the grand words of the correspon

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yod" is the creative energy- the procreative power: and yet "yod" is the solitude and silence of the hermitage into which the magician has shut himself "mem" is the letter of water, and it is the mem final, whose long flat lines suggest the sea at peace hb:mem-final; not the ordinary (initial and medial) mem whose hieroglyph is a wave hb:mem<symbolism above outlined, yod is the mercurial "virgin word, the spermatozoon concealing its light under a cloke; and mem is the amniotic fluid, the flood wherein is the life-bearing ark. see a. crowley "the ship, equinox i, x> and then, in the centre of all, broods spirit, which combines the mildness of the lamb with the horns of the ram, and is the letter of bacchus or "christ<nuith, which makes possible the p

h allusion to the well-known poem of catullus. lamed may imply the exaltation of saturn, and suggest the three of swords in a particular manner. yod will then recall hermes, and mem the hanged man. we have thus a tetragrammaton which contains no feminine component. the initial force is here the holy spirit and its vehicle or weapon the "sword and balances. justice is then done upon the mercurial "virgin, with the result that the man is "hanged" or extended, and is slain in this manner. such an operation makes creation impossible- as in the former case; but here there is no question of re-arrangement; the creative force is employed deliberately for destruction, and is entirely absorbed in its own sphere (or cylinder, on einstein's equations) of action. this work is to be regarded as "holine

in egypt, and on: light, i.e: the mount tempted by: of wisdom: the devil. the uncon: the inmost: scious will, or word. 32: atu :no: hebrew :no.:correspondence: other :of: of (tarot trump :atu: letters :let: in nature: correspondences :ter: the fool: o :aleph (an ox: 1 :air (the con :the free breath. the (the babe: english a: dition of: svastika. the holy in the egg: more or: all life: ghost. the virgin's on the lo: less: the impar: womb. parzial as "der tus, bacchus: tial vehicle: reine thor" who knows diphues: sexually: nothing. horus. etc: undevelop: christ-bacchus as the: ed. life: innocent babe, pursued: i.e. the: by herod-here: organ of: hercules strangling: possible: the serpents. the: expression: unconscious self not: yet determined in any: direction: the devil :xv :ayin (an: 70:ca

ally: cross kithairon- levi's de: male: thyrsus. sign: love: i.e: the instinct: to satisfy: godhead by: uniting it: with the: universe: iota-alpha-digamma varies in significance with successive aeons. 33 "aeon of isis" matriarchal age. the great work conceived as a straightforward simple affair. we find the theory reflected in the customs of matriarchy. parthenogenesis is supposed to be true. the virgin (yod-virgo) contains in herself the principle of growth- the epicene hermetic seed. it becomes the babe in the egg (a- harpocrates) by virtue of the spirit (a= air, impregnating the mother--vulture) and this becomes the sun or son( digamma= the letter of tiphareth, 6, even when spelt as omega, in coptic. see 777 "aeon of osiris" patriarchal age. two sexes. i conceived as the father-wand (yo

a delta+ alpha lambda pi+ omicron iota nu+ digamma iota= 309= sh t= xx+ xi= 31 the secret key of the law. digamma is the manifested star. iota is the secret life. serpent- light. lamp- love. wand- liberty. wings- silence. cloak these symbols are all shewn in the atu "the hermit. they are the powers of the yod, whose extension is the vau. yod is the hand wherewith man does his will. it is also the virgin; his essence is inviolate. alpha is the babe "who has formulated his father, and made fertile his mother- harpocrates, etc, as before; but he develops to omicron the exalted "devil (also the "other" secret eye) by the formula of the initiation of horus elsewhere described in detail. this "devil" is called satan or shaitan, and regarded with horror by people who are ignorant of his formula

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ithout tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 201 then there is that chapter in the book of lies (again "the chinese cannot help thinking that the octave has five notes "the more necessary anything appears to my mind, the more certain it is that i only assert a limitation "i slept with faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking "i drank and danced all night with doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning" i wouldn't start to argue with the chinese, if i were you; they might remind you that you exude the stench peculiar to corpses. again, that other "hymn to st. thomas, as i ought perhaps to have called it "doubt. doubt thyself doubt even if thou doubtest thyself. doubt all doubt even if thou doubtest all "it seems sometimes as if beneath all conscious doubt there lay some dee

n night's tale of antiquity; it is the same today: there are very few englishmen who have spent any time in india who have not been approached with proposals of this character. similar conditions, curiously enough, existed in france; the "fils papa" was usually a hopeless rotter, and his wife often resorted to a famous monastery on the riviera, where was an exceptionally holy image of the blessed virgin mary, prayers unto whom removed sterility. but when m. combes turned out the monks, the image somehow lost it virtue. now get your bible and turn up luke viii, 2! when the sal volatile has worked, turn to john xiii 2,3 and ask a scholar what any greek of the period would have understood by the technical expressions there unambiguously employed. 1^ weh note: this is a reference to the school

ster tortured by so foul a denizen of the abyss. cannot you see in this the root of all your toadstool spawn of miseries, of doubts, of fears, of indecisions? 2* how do you know they are "invisible" i foresee that sooner or later you will be asking for more information about them, so i am planning a separate letter to supply this (see letters ix, l and lxxvii) 7 as an artist you are a consecrated virgin priestess, the oracle of the magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 246 most high. none has the right to approach you save with the most blessed awe, with arms outstretched as to invoke your benediction. by "spiritually" you mean no more than "according to the lower and middle-middle-class morality of the anglo-saxon of the period when longfellow and tennyson were suppo

feel that to identify them completely would be to remagic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 290 duce their stature to that of personifications of various cosmic energies. history lends its weight to my view. when the philosophic schools, unable to refute the charge of absurdity leveled at the orthodox devotee who believed that mars actually begot romulus and remus on a vestal virgin, explained that mars was no more than the martial instinct, and the virgin a type of purity, their faith declined, and with it roman virtue "educate" colonel blimp's children and we have the "intelligentsia" of bloomsbury. i am very sorry about all this; but life must always be brutal and stupid so long as it depends upon 31 animals and vegetables for nourishment. how restore faith in the g

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ls mylk an effort, exertion nwdm mitigation of the one by the other (i.r.q. 995; cf. 97) l)b+yxm yoke; upper part; on, upon, above, over; to, towards; after; because l( throat (l a suffering, discouraged one; tax sm species, kind nym flask, bottle kp spice; drug; poison ms dryness; ship yc 101 swallowed, destroyed (l) a storehouse ms) michael: archangel of fire (lit. glike god h) l)kym kingdom; a virgin princess (esp. the virgin princess, i.e. the church) hkwlm gut; gut-string )myn vomit )q and it was so nk yhyw 102 a white goose nbl zww) trust; truth; faith hnwm) desirable, worthy of desire dmxn grace; pride; fame, glory; a wild goat ybc lord, owner; to possess; lands, government l(b unit of measure bq vilon, veil: the veil between yesod and malkuth nwlyw 103 dust qb) to guard, protect nn

the whole [perfect] stone (deut. 27:6) hmyl# nb) 439 exile, banishment twlg judges my+p# 440 praise; psalm hlht the great dragon (the constellation draco; serpent (lit. gcurls h; see i.r.q. 834; cf. 450& 510) ylt whole; irreproachable; perfect; wholeness; sincerity; perfection mt dead tm 441 a hind tly) truth tm) a live coal tlxg you (masc. pl) mt) 442 the ends of the earth cr) ysp) 443 virgo: a virgin (title of malkuth; a city hlwtb the house of god (cf. 498; also a place name) l) tyb 444 the sanctuary #dqm frogs (drpc 445 the twelve single letters q c( s n l y+ x z w h sorcerer hp#km 446 destruction; death twm the ankles mylwsrq 447 initials of the three above and the three beneath (cf. 203& 248 )br rmd 448 lofty twmb 449 most dazzling light xcxwcm rw) cloak tyl+ 450 tablets (e.g. of mo

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but history is somewhat curious. i am still inclined to think that "there aint no sich animile" in the time of shakespeare, joan of arc was accepted in england as a symbol for everything vile. he makes her out not only as a sorceress, but a charlatan and hypocrite; and on tope of that a coward, a liar, and a common slut. i suspect that they began to whitwash here when they decided that she was a virgin, that is a sexually deranged, or at least incomplete, animal, but the idea has always got people going, as any student of religion knows. anyway, her stock went up to the point of canonisation. gilles de rais, on the other hand, is equally a household work for monstrous vices and crimes. so much so, that his is even confused with the fabulous figure of bluebeard, of whom, even were he real

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

there is nothing too small, or too great, or too low, or too high; but all things are joined into joy by the love of the master. the voice of the ibis. abrahadabra: all ways are alike, being endless, eternally coiling in curves of ineffable wonder; each star has its course, by the manifold musings that move in the mind of the master. the voice of the vulture. mu: unmated, immaculate, consecrate, virgin, all things are begotten of the breath of the master, and born of the infinite space wherein doth he give them their form- and abideth in silence. now all is as it were a passion of great peace; and in the stillness i lift up my soul like an offering and cry in mine heart: let me dwell at the feet of the master! but the silence swallows up those vain words; and they are smitten through with

meaning of the true will: know thyself through thy way! calculate well the formula of thy way! create freely; absorb joyously; divide intently; consolidate completely. work thou, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, in and for eternity. ii. purity is to live only to the highest; and the highest is all: be thou as artemis to pan! read thou in the "book of the law, and break through the veil of the virgin! iii. this is the harmony of the universe, that love unites the will to create with the understanding of that creation: understand thou thine own will! love and let love! rejoice in every shape of love, and get thy rapture and thy nourishment thereof! iv. pour water on thyself: thus shalt thou be a fountain to the universe. find thou thyself in every star! achieve thou every possibility! v

is is the harmony of the universe, that love unites the will to create with the understanding of that creation: understand thou thine own will! love and let love! rejoice in every shape of love, and get thy rapture and thy nourishment thereof! iv. pour water on thyself: thus shalt thou be a fountain to the universe. find thou thyself in every star! achieve thou every possibility! v. offer thyself virgin to the knowledge and conversation of thine holy guardian angel! all else is a snare. be thou athlete with the eight limbs of yoga; for without these thou are not disciplined for any fight. vi. the oracle of the gods is the child-voice of love in thine own soul! hear thou it! heed not the siren-voice of sense, or the phantom-voice of reason: rest in simplicity, and listen to the silence! the

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actice encouraged. a magician makes the future, and does not seek to divine it. all true prediction was therefore necessarily catastrophe. the greatest good fortune seemed worthless to an atlantean, since it was accident, and if accidents are to happen, one of them may be fatal. they believed themselves to be equal to the whole tendency of things, and proudly gazed on nature as a man might upon a virgin captive to his spear. everything that was being was zro; everything that was energy was 'working for zro. outside this was but by-product and waste-heap. the arrangement of the houses was in accordance with the magical theory. there was first the high house, then four (later six, last ten 'houses of houses; and to each of these was attached a varying number of ordinary houses. the high hous

ng like the modern sense of the word, or merely a title of one of the principal magicians of the planet, it is evident that the high house ardentl desired his presence. that this might be manifested by the birth of a child 'without the stain of atla' was clearly an ultimate desideratum, an outward and visible sign of redemption, an obvious guarantee of the reality of the occurrence. it was then a virgin high priestess who achieved so notable a renown; whether or not this is a mere poetic parable of the abiogenesis--if it is indeed fair so to describe it--of the eleventh stage of zro is another and an open question. in any case, such is the tradition, and numerous parodies of it are still extant in the stories of the births of romulus and remus, bacchus, buddha and many other legendary hero

is that of a strong woman('m) closing the mouth of a serpent (s) or dragon, and from this we have the xith card of the bohemian tarot, and the legend in the apocalypse. in the mystic greek used by the gnostics we find similar traces, sophia being from s ph, giving the idea of 'serpent breath' i.e. wisdom. iao is phallos, kteis, proktos. the word logos means the boy (g) naturally engendered of the virgin (l) and the serpent (s. theos (root o, first written 0) means the sun in his strength and also the lingam-yoni conjoined. christos is 'the love of passion of the rising sun (r) and the serpent (s. the i and t indicate certain details which are foreign to the present discussion. neuma (atlantean n m) is the 'arch of the woman, maria, the woman of the sun* the words meithras and abraxas are a

man entered, lingam being conjoined with yoni, bears the sun from her serpent womb" and "from the womb's mouth the sun (cometh seeking) a womb for his desire, even the womb of a serpent, the course of the year being signified in this manner, as usual with the ancients. this plan of an idea corresponding to each letter was carried out very strictly: thus tla, black, means the stigma or mark of the virgin's womb, ia (hail! greeting 'face to face, from the other peculiarity described above. these few examples will suffice to indicate the singular character of the language* and the way in which its essential dogmatic symbols have been incorporated by the heirs of atlas in the inmost sanctuaries of races which they deemed worthy of such assistance. i must not pass over in silence the question o

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was not content with identifying himself with thelema, agape, etc. by the number 93, but wished to express his nature by six letters (six being the number of the sun, the god-man, etc) whose value in greek should be a=1, i=10, f=6, a=1, s=200, s=200: total 418, the number of abrahadabra, the magical formula of the new aeon! note that i and v are the letters of the father and the son, also of the virgin and the bull (see "liber 418) protected on either side by the letter of air, and followed by the letter of fire twice over. al i,8 "the khabs is in the khu, not the khu in the khabs" the old comment 8. here beings the text. khabs is the secret light or l.v.x; the khu is the magical entity of a man. i find later (sun in virgo, an vii) that khabs means star. in which chase cf. v.5. the doctri

tar and two obelisks in the temple; a lamp above the altar; and other furniture. kiblah- any point to which one turns to pray, as mecca is the kiblah of the mohometan "it shall not fade" etc. it has not hitherto been practicable to carry out this command" the new comment the language is here so obvious and so inane that one is bound to suspect a deeper sense. it sounds as bad as "the last winking virgin" or st. januarius. al iii,11 "this shall be your only proof. i forbid argument. conquer! that is enough. i will make easy to you the abstruction from the ill-ordered house in the victorious city. thou shalt thyself convey it with worship, o prophet, though thou likest it not. thou shalt have danger& trouble. ra-hoor-khu is with thee. worship me with fire& blood; worship me with swords& with

the cosmos, to 'die' and rise again. thus we celebrated rites of 'crucifixion' and so on, which have now become meaningless. ra-hoor-khuit is the crowned and conquering child. this is also a reference to the 'crowned' and conquering 'child' in ourselves, our own personal god. except ye become as little children, said 'christ, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of god. the kingdom of malkuth, the virgin bride, and the child is the dwarf-self, the phallic consciousness, which is the true life of man, beyond his 'veils' of incarnation. we have to thank freud- and especially jung- for stating this part of the magical doctrine so plainly, as also for their development of the connexion of the will of this 'child' with the true or unconscious will, and so for clarifying our doctrine of the 'sile

ainst babalon, for she hath shut herself up; and therefore is she the queen of all those wicked devils that walk upon the earth, those that thou savest even as little black specks that stained the heaven of urania. and all these are the excrement of choronzon" it is this 'shutting up' that is hideous, the image of death. it is the opposite of going, which is god. women under christianity are kept virgin for the market as strasbourg geese are nailed to boards till their livers putrefy. the nature of woman has been corrupted, her hope of a soul thwarted, her proper pleasure balked, and her mind poisoned, to titillate the jaded palates of senile bankers and ambassadors. why do men insist on 'innocence' in women? 1. to flatter their vanity. 2. to give themselves the best chance of (a) escaping

ess shields" perfumes, cosmetics, anti-sweat preparations, and "beauty treatments" reveal woman's nature as seen by the clear eyes of those who would lose money if they misjudged her; and they are loathsomely revolting to read. her mental and moral characteristics are those of the parrot and the monkey. her physiology and pathology are hideously disgusting, a sickening slime of uncleanliness. her virgin life is a sick ape's, her sexual life a druken sow's, her mother life all bulging filmy eyes and sagging udders. these are the facts about "innocence" to this has man's christian endeavour dragged her when he should rather have made her his comrade, frank, trusty, and gay, the tenderer self of himself, his consubstantial complement even as earth is to the sun. we of thelema say that "every

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on of saints. and, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, i believe in the miracle of the mass. and i confess one baptism of wisdom whereby we accomplish the miracle of incarnation. and i confess my life one, individual, and eternal that was, and is, and is to come. aumgn. aumgn. aumgn. music is now played. the child enters with the ewer and the salt. the virgin enters with the sword and the paten. the child enters with the censer and the perfume. they face the deacon, deploying into line, from the space between the two altars. the virgin: greeting of earth and heaven! all give the hailing sign of a magician, the deacon leading. the priestess, the negative child on her left, the positive child on her right, ascends the steps of the high altar. they

t among us! all give the hailing sign. the people: so mote it be. iv of the ceremony of the opening of the veil the priest: thee therefore whom we adore we also invoke. by the power of the lifted lance! he raises the lance. all repeat hailing sign. a phrase of triumphant music. the priest takes the priestess by her right hand with his left, keeping the lance raised. i, priest and king, take thee, virgin pure without spot; i upraise thee; i lead thee to the east; i set thee upon the summit of the earth. he thrones the priestess upon the altar. the deacon and the children follow, they in rank, behind him. the priestess takes the book of the law, resumes her seat, and holds it open on her breast with her two hands, making a descending triangle with thumbs and forefingers. the priest gives the

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

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

wcy wmc rca ywncar yrwkb, bekori rashuni asher shamo yeshuah thaubodo: ye shall worship my first-born, my first, whose name is jesus. the fourth is wdwbut uwcy wmc rca br awbb, beboa rabban ashar shamo yeshuah thaubado: when the master is come whose name is jesus ye shall worship. the fifth is, hwrcat uwcy dltc rjba hywar hlwtb, betulah raviah abachar shethaled yeshuah thrashroah, i will choose a virgin worthy to bring forth jesus, and ye shall call her blessed. the sixth is, wlksy uwcy ypwgc rttsa \ypxr tgwub, beaugoth ratzephim assattar shegopi yeshuah thakelo, i will hide mayself in cake (baked with) coals, for ye shall eat jesus, my body. the qabalistical importance of these sentences as bearing upon the doctrines of christianity can hardly be overrated. the second form of notariqon is

ally signifies the lesser countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistic sephirothic greatest trinity, and the son in his human incarnation in the christian acceptation of the trinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does hwhy reveal hyha. and ynda is the queen by whom alone tetragrammaton can be grasped, whose exaltation into binah is found in the christian assumption of the virgin. the tetragrammaton hwhy is referred to the sephiroth thus: the uppermost point of the letter yod, y, is said to refer to kether; the letter y itself to chokmah, the father of microprosopus; the letter h, or the supernal he to binah, the supernal mother; the letter w to the next six sephiroth, which are called the six members of microprosopus (and six is the numerical value of w; lastly, th

ziratic, tarot, and signifactory methods of investigating any word. but though frater p. was expert enough in these methods they are hardly pertinent to the pure numerical qabalah, and we therefore deal gently with them. the attributions are given in 777. thus a in the yetziratic world is air, by tarot the fool, and by signification an ox. thus we have the famous i.n.r.i= y. n. r. i= f, h, f; the virgin, the evil serpent, the sun, suggesting the story of genesis ii. and of the gospel. the initials of the egyptian names isis, apophis, osiris, which correspond, give in their turn the ineffable name iao; thus we say that the ineffable is concealed in and revealed by the birth, death and resurrection of christ; and further the signs of the mourning of the mother, triumph of the destroyer, and

ular manifestation of deity, who declared himself under this special name. 358. see 32. jycm, messiah, and cjn, the serpent of genesis. the dogma is that the head of the serpent (n) is bruised, being replaced by the letter of sacrifice, and yod, the letter alike of virginity (y= c) and of original deity (y= the foundation or type of all the letters. thus the word may be read: the sacrifice of the virgin-born divine one triumphant (j, the chariot) through the spirit, while cjn reads death entering the (realm of the) spirit. but the conception of the serpent as the redeemer is truer. see my explanation of the 5=6 ritual (equinox, no. iii. 361. rah ynda, the lord of the earth. note 361 denotes the 3 supernals, the 6 members of ruach, and malkuth. this name of god therefore embraces all the 10

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two hundred thousand trees,8 fit alike to shelter man and mouse, and shall i say god? be patient, your reverence,9 i warrant you ll journey a wiser man ever hence! let s tap (like the negro who gets a good juice of it, 15 cares nought if that be, or be not, god s right use of it),10 in all that forest of verses one tree11 yclept red cotton nightcap country: how a goldsmith, between the ravishing virgin and a leman to rotten to put a purge in, 20 day by day and hour by hour, in a browningesque forest of thoughts having lost himself, expecting a miracle, solemnly tossed himself off from the top of tower. moral: don t spoil such an excellent sport as an 25 ample estate with a church and a courtesan! truth, that s the gold 12 but don t worry about it! i, you, or simpkin13 can get on without i

s to me imputed by calling me materialist. at least this thought is better suited to western minds than is embalmed among the doctrines of mohammed, 735 the dogma parthenogenetic* as told me by a fat ascetic. he said: your worthy friends may lack you late, but learn how mary was immaculate! i sat in vague expectant bliss. 740 the story as it runs is thus (i quote my eastern friend60 verbatim) the virgin, going to the bath, found a young fellow in her path, and turned, prepared to scold and rate him! 745 how dare you be on me encroaching? the beautiful young gentleman, with perfect courtesy approaching, bowed deeply, and at once began: fear nothing, mary! all is well! 750 i am the angel gabriel. she bared her right breast (query why) the angel gabriel let fly* concerning conception of a vir

cond messiah! he took the utmost pains to conceal the birth of the child, treated everybody who came to the house as an emissary of herod, and finally made up his mind to flee into egypt! like most religious maniacs, he never had an idea of his own, but distorted the beautiful and edifying events of the bible into insane and ridiculous ones, which he proceeded to plagiarise. on the voyage out the virgin mother became enamoured, as was her wont, of the nearest male, in this case a fellow-traveller. he, being well able to support her in the luxury which she desired, easily persuaded her to leave the boat with him by stealth. a small sailing vessel conveyed them to malta, where they disappeared. the only trace left in the books of earth records that this fascinating character was accused, fou

f, black-muzzled; the twenty-first day, a sorrow; the twenty-second day, a bundle of herbs; the twenty-third day, a piece of camphor; the twenty-fourth day, a moonstone; the twenty-fifth day, a sigh; the twenty-sixth day, a refusal; the twenty-seventh day, a consent; and the last night she gave him all herself, so that the moon was eclipsed and earth was utterly darkened. and the marriage of that virgin was on this wise: she had three arrows, yet but two flanks, and the wise men said that who knew two was three,1 should know three was eight,2 if the circle were but squared; and this also one day shall ye know, my brethren! and she gave him the great and perfect gift of magic, so that he fared forth right comely and well-provided. now at that great wedding was a suggler,3 a riddler: for he

her on the one side or the other, and who shall tell their ways? so our father, having won the serpent crown, the ur us of antient khem, did bind it upon his head, and rejoiced in that kingdom for the space of two hundred and thirty and one days2 and nights, and turned him toward the flaming sword.3 now the sword governeth ten mighty kingdoms, and evil, and above them is the ninefold lotus, and a virgin came forth unto him in the hour of his rejoicing and propounded her riddle. the first riddle :4 the maiden is blind. our father: she shall be what she doth not. and a second virgin came forth to him and said: the second riddle: detegitur yod. quoth our father: the moon is full. so also a third virgin the third riddle: man and woman: o fountain of the balance! to whom our father answered wit

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the giant gods of hell with the four ingredients of the evil elements; 38 ambergris from golden spar, musk of ox from mongol jar, civet from a box of jade, mixed with fat of many a maid slain by the inchauntments cold of the witches wild and old. he had crucified a toad in the basilisk abode, muttering the runes averse mad with many a mocking curse. he had traced the serpent sigil in his ghastly virgin vigil "sursum cor" the elfin hill, where the wind blows deadly chill from the world that wails beneath death's black throat and lipless teeth. there he had stood- his bosom bare- tracing life upon the air with the crook and with the flail lashing forward on the gale, till its blade that wavereth like the flickering of death sank before his subtle fence to the starless sea of sense. now at l

elvet soft the sigils stepped by the silver-starred adept. back and front, and to and fro, soul and body sway and flow in vertiginous caresses to imponderable recesses, 40 till at last the spell is woven, and the faery veil is cloven that was sequence, space, and stress of the soul-sick consciousness "give thy body to the beasts! give thy spirit to the priests! break in twain the hazel rod on the virgin lips of god! tear the rosy cross asunder! shatter the black bolt of thunder! such the swart ensanguine kiss of the resolute abyss" wonder-weft the wizard heard this intolerable word. smote the blasting hazel rod on the scarlet lips of god; trampled cross and rosy core; brake the thunder-tool of thor; meek and holy acolyte of the priestly hells of spite, sleek and shameless catamite of the b

hunder! such the swart ensanguine kiss of the resolute abyss" wonder-weft the wizard heard this intolerable word. smote the blasting hazel rod on the scarlet lips of god; trampled cross and rosy core; brake the thunder-tool of thor; meek and holy acolyte of the priestly hells of spite, sleek and shameless catamite of the beasts that prowl by night! like a star that streams from heaven through the virgin airs light-riven, from the lift there shot and fell an admirable miracle. 41 carved minute and clean, a key of purest lapis-lazuli more blue than the blind sky that aches (wreathed with the stars, her torturing snakes, for the dead god's kiss that never wakes; shot with golden specks of fire like a virgin with desire. look, the levers! fern-frail fronds of fantastic diamonds, glimmering wit

d an sniffed "i smell evil" he said "i smell the dark brothers of iniquity. have you duly performed the ritual of the flaming star "thrice daily, according to your word "then evil has entered in a body of flesh. who has been here" the young poet told him. his eyes flashed "aha" he said "now let us work" the neophyte brought writing materials to his master: the quill of a young gander, snow-white; virgin vellum of a young male lamb; ink of the gall of a certain rare fish; and a mysterious book. the master drew a number of incomprehensible signs and letters upon the vellum "sleep with this beneath the pillow" he said "you will awake if you are attacked; and whatever it is that attacks you, kill it! kill it! kill it! then instantly go into your temple and assume the shape and dignity of the g

im at riches without forfeiting his poverty; should he be rich he must aim at possessing poverty as well, without taking one farthing from the coffers of his treasury. the man of much estate must aim at possessing all the land, until there is no kingdom left for him to conquer. the unobtainable must be obtained, and in the obtaining of it is to be found the golden key of the kingdom of light. the virgin must become as the wanton, yet though filled with all the itchings of lust, she must in no wise forfeit the purity of her virginity; for the foundations of the temple are indeed set between day and night, and the scaffolding thereof is as an arch flung between heaven and hell. for if she who is a virgin become but as a common strumpet, then she indeed falls and rises not, becoming in her 21

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e musicians" kill! kill! life is shrill! still! still! word and will! flame! flame! speak the name! trill! trill! thrill! thrill! i acclaim the shame! i have heard the word! fulfil the will "the prophet" bid the virgins veil the bride! lead her forth, a shower of spray, 17 a flower of foam upon the tide, a fleece of cloud upon the day! so my sightless eyes may see in the transcendental trance the virgin of eternity lead the demi-gods to dance. has the tree of life its root in the soul or in the skin? is it god, or is it brute, that comes mystically in for the doves within the flute, the eagles on the violin? ah! the perfume's coiling tresses curl like veils upon the limbs of the dancer that caresses with her flying feet the hymns that flow and ripple in the air, bathing all the doves of pr

miles on me the heart of a million sins, each keener than death! her serpent eyes hold ineffable sorceries "the musicians" hush! hush! the young feet flush, the marble's ablush. the music moves trilling, like wolves at the killing, moaning and shrilling, and clear as the throb in the throat of a thrush! rustling they sway like a forest of rush in the storm, and away! 20 away! blow the blossoms of virgin bosoms on the sob of the wind of the violins, that bind and unbind their scarlet sins on the brows of the world. hush! they are curled in the rapture of reaping the flowers that unfurled when the gardeners were sleeping in the breeze-swayed bowers of the lord of the flowers! hush! hush! the young feet flush the marble! the temple's ablaze and ablush. hush! hush! softer crush the grape on th

curl! curl! peach and pearl! mine! mine! maid divine! whirl! whirl! boy and girl! twine! twine! rose and vine "the musicians" hush! hush! the young feet flush, the marble's ablush, the music moves trilling- like wolves at the killing, moaning and shrilling, and clear as the throb in the throat of a thrush! rustling they sway like a forest of rush in the storm, and away! away! blow the blossoms of virgin bosoms on the sob of the wind of the violins 26 that bind and unbind their scarlet sins on the brows of the world. hush! they are curled in the rapture of reaping the flowers that unfurled when the gardeners were sleeping in the breeze-swayed bowers of the lord of the flowers! hush! hush! the young feet flush the marble. the temple's ablaze and ablush. hush! hush! softer crush the grape on

thobvdv, bekori rashuni asher shamo yeshuah thaubodo "ye shall worship my first-born, my first, whose name is jesus" the fourth is, bbva rbn ashr shmv ishvo thobvdv, beboa rabban asher shamo yeshuah thaubodo "when the master shall come whose name is jesus ye shall worship" the fifth is, bthvlh ravih abchr shthld ish vo thashrvh, bethulh raviah abachar shethaled yeshuah thashroah "i will choose a virgin worthy to bring forth jesus, and ye shall call her belssed" the sixth is, bovgth rtzpim asththr shgvpi ishvo thaklv, beaugoth ratzephim asattar shgopi yeshuah thakelo "i will hid myself in cake (baked with) coals, for ye shall eat jesus, my body" the qabalistical importance of these sentences as bearing upon the doctrines of christianity can hardly be overrated. the second form of the notar

er countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistical sephirotic greatest trinity,and the son in his human incarnation, in the christian acceptation of the trinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does ihvh, jehovah, reveal ahih, eheieh. and adni is the queen, by whom alone tetragrammaton 82 can be grasped, whose exaltation into binah is found in the christian assumption of the virgin. the tetragrammaton ihvh is referred to the sephiroth, thus: the upper-most point of the letter yod, i, is said to refer to kether; the letter i itself to chokmah, the father of microprosopus; the letter h, or "the supernal he" to binah, the supernal mother; the letter v to the next six sephiroth, which are called the six members of microprosopus (and six is the numerical value of v, the he

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s. it is not possible that one should come to zaa. give me thy face. let me kiss it with my cold kisses. ah! ah! ah! fall back from me. the word, the word of the aeon is makhashanah. and these words shalt thou say backwards: 17 ararnay obolo maharna tutulu nom lahara en nediezo lo sad fonusa sobana arana binuf la la la arpazna uohulu when thou wilt call my burden unto appearance, for i who am the virgin goddess am the pregnant goddess, and i have cast down my burden even unto the borders of the universe. they that blaspheme me are stoned, and my veil is fallen about me even unto the end of time. now there arises a great raging of thousands and thousands of mighty warriors flashing through the aethyr so thickly that nothing is to be seen but their swords, which are like blue-gray plumes. an

d drinking sweet wines, and wines that foam; and he shall banish the elements and the planets and the signs and the sephiroth; and then shall he take the holy table that he hath made for his altar, and he shall take the call of the aethyr of which he will partake, which he hath written in the angelic character, or in the character of the holy alphabet that is revealed in pop, upon a fair sheet of virgin vellum; and therewith shall he conjure the aethyr, chanting the call. and in the lamp that is hung above the altar shall he burn the call that he hath written. 54 then shall he kneel before the holy table, and it shall be given him to partake of the mystery of the aethyr. and concerning the ink with which he shall write; for the first aethyr let it be gold, for the second scarlet, for the t

then three times a note is struck upon a bell, which sounds like my holy tibetan bell, that is made of electrum magicum. i am happily returned unto the earth. bou-saada "december" 2, 1909. 12.15- 2 a.m. the cry of the 16th aethyr, which is called lea there are faint and flickering images in a misty landscape, all very transient. but the general impression is of moonrise at midnight, and a crowned virgin riding upon a bull. 60 and they come up into the surface of the stone. and she is singing a chant of praise: glory unto him that hath taken upon himself the image of toil. for by his labour is my labour accomplished. for i, being a woman, lust ever to mate myself with some beast. and this is the salvation of the world, that always i am deceived by some god, and that my child is the guardian

in his left a book. yet is he silent; and that which is understood between him and me shall not be revealed in this place. and the mystery shall be revealed to whosoever shall say, with ecstasy of worship in his heart, with a clear mind, and a passionate body: it is the voice of a god, and not of a man. and now all that glory hath withdrawn itself; and the old king lies prostate, abject. and the virgin that rode upon the bull cometh forth, led by all those angels of the holy sevenfold table, and they are dancing round her with garlands and sheaves of flowers, loose robes and hair dancing in the wind. and she smiles upon me 64 with infinite brilliance, so that the whole aethyr flushes warm, and she says with a subtle sub-meaning, pointing downwards: by this, that. and i took her hand and k

at is the child and the father of their love. glory unto the star, and glory unto the snake, and glory unto the swordsman of the sun. and worship and blessing throughout the aeon unto the name of the beast, four-square, mystic, wonderful (v. ii) who is this that travelleth between the hosts, that is poised upon the edge of the aethyr by the wings of maut? who is this that seeketh the house of the virgin"(refrain (v. iii) this is he that hath given up his name. this is he whose blood hath been gathered into the cup of babalon.this is he that sitteth, a little pile of dry dust, in the city of the pyramids"(refrain (v. iv) until the light of the father of all kindle that death. until the breath touch that dry dust. until the ibis be revealed unto the crab, and the sixfold star become the radi

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o his opinion that the excellence of miss nichols' work effected a saving on press corrections almost or quite equal to the cost of her work."the photographs in this number of""the equinox" are by the" dover street studios 38 dover street, mayfair. amphora "blue cloth, gold design, 80 pp. price "2s. 6d. published by burns oates, 28 orchard st. w. this wonderful collection of hymns to the blessed virgin mary is the work (so it is said) of a leading london actress. father kent writes in "the tablet""among the many books which benevolent publishers are preparing as appropriate christmas presents we notice many new editions of favourite poetic classics. but few, we fancy, can be more appropriate for the purpose than a little volume of original verses, entitled 'amphora, which messrs. burns an

stmas presents we notice many new editions of favourite poetic classics. but few, we fancy, can be more appropriate for the purpose than a little volume of original verses, entitled 'amphora, which messrs. burns and oates are on the point of publishing. the following stanzas from a poem on the nativity will surely be a better recommendation of the book than any words of critical appreciation."the virgin lies at bethlehem.(bring gold and frankincense and myrrh! the root of david shoots a stem.(o holy spirit, shadow her! she lies alone amid the kine.(bring gold and frankincense and myrrh! the straw is fragrant as with wine.(o holy spirit shadow her! lieut.-col. gormley writes:"the hymns ordinarily used in churches for devotional purposes are 'no doubt excellent in their way, but it can scarc

! lieut.-col. gormley writes:"the hymns ordinarily used in churches for devotional purposes are 'no doubt excellent in their way, but it can scarcely be said, in the case of many of them, that they are of much literary merit, and some of them indeed are little above the familiar nursery rhymes of our childhood; it is therefore somewhat of a relief and a pleasure to read the volume of hymns to the virgin mary which has just been published by messrs. burns and oats. these hymns to the virgin mary are in the best style, they are devotional in the highest degree, and to roman catholics, for whom devotion to the virgin mary forms so important part of their religious belief, these poems should indeed be welcome; personally i have found them just what i desired, and i have no doubt other catholic

ur singers fervent religious hymns."there is one of london's favourites almost unrivalled to express by her art the delights of the body with a pagan simplicity and directness. now she sends us a book,'amphora, a volume of religious verse: it contains song after song in praise of mary, etc. etc. etc. the "scotsman" says:"outside the latin church conflicting views are held about the worship of the virgin, but there can be no doubt that this motive of religion has given birth to many beautiful pieces of literature, and the poets have never tired of singing variations on the theme of 'hail, mary. this little book is best described here as a collection of such variations. they are written with an engaging simplicity and fervour of feeling, and with a graceful, refined literary art that cannot

tten with an engaging simplicity and fervour of feeling, and with a graceful, refined literary art that cannot but interest and attract many readers beyond the circles of such as must feel it religiously impossible not to admire them. the "daily telegraph" says:"in this slight volume we have the utterances of a devout anonymous roman catholic singer, in a number of songs or hymns addressed to the virgin mary. the author, who has evidently a decided gift for sacred verse and has mastered varied metres suitable to her high themes, divides her poems into four series of thirteen each thus providing a song for each week of the year. the songs are all of praise or prayer addressed to the virgin, and, through many have a touch of mysticism, most have a simplicity of expression and earnestness of

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aft, and infernal necromancy. the bats flit by us as we listen to his frenzied cries for light and knowledge "the spiritual guide" and "the cherubic wanderer" are set aside for "the arbatel" and "the seven mysterious orisons" a hurried turning of many pages, the burning of many candles, and then- the key of solomon for a time is put away, with the grimoires and the rituals, the talismans, and the virgin parchments; the ancient books of the qabalah lie open before him; a flash of brilliant fire, like a silver fish leaping from out the black waters of the sea into 236 the starlight, bewilders him and is gone; for he has opened "the book of concealed mystery" and has read "before there was equilibrium countenance beheld not countenance" the words "yehi aour" trembled on his lips; the very cha

hou radiance brilliant and bold! thou ruby rose, thou cross of gold! hail, centre of the cosmic plan! 327 hail, mystic image of the man! i give the sign of slain asar. i give the sign of asi towering. i give the sign of apep, star of black destruction all-devouring. i give thy sign, asar re-risen- break, o my spirit, from thy prison! i match &c. gimel (with the crossing of the path of teth) hail, virgin moon, bright 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

ffront 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 curse, loosed from that prison; from all that ruin am i risen! pure still, the virgin moon beguiles my azure passage with her smiles. now! o what love divine redeems my death, and bathes it in her beams! what sacring transubstantiates my flesh and blood, and incarnates the quintessential pan? what shore stretches beyond this secret door? hail! o thou sevenfold star of green, thou fourfold glory- all this teen caught up in ecstasy- a boon to pass me singing through the moon!

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that they were fish and not flesh! annual raids were made on the seals after dark, usually in the autumn, and large numbers were captured. all, however, did not belong to the captors, for other persons of prominence were entitled to a share. the parish minister, according to martin "hath his choice of all the young seals, and that which he takes is called by the natives cullen-rory, that is, the virgin mary's seal. the steward of the island hath one paid to him, his officer hath another; and this by virtue of their offices" in the hebrides, as in orkney, the seal is regarded not as an animal of the ordinary brute creation, but as one endowed with great wisdom, and closely allied to man. one of the old beliefs is that seals are human beings under magic spells. the seal was credited with be

o his opinion that the excellence of miss nichols' work effected a saving on press corrections almost or quite equal to the cost of her work "the photographs in this number of "the equinox" are by the" dover street studios 38 dover street, mayfair. amphora "blue cloth, gold design, 80 pp. price "2s. 6d" published by burns& oates, 28 orchard st, w. this wonderful collection of hymns to the blessed virgin mary is the work (so it is said) of a leading london actress. father kent writes in "the tablet "among the many books which benevolent publishers are preparing as appropriate christmas presents we notice many new editions of favourite poetic classics. but few, we fancy, can be more appropriate for the purpose than a little volume of original verses, entitled 'amphora' which messrs. burns an

stmas presents we notice many new editions of favourite poetic classics. but few, we fancy, can be more appropriate for the purpose than a little volume of original verses, entitled 'amphora' which messrs. burns and oates are on the point of publishing. the following stanzas from a poem on the nativity will surely be a better recommendation of the book than any words of critical appreciation "the virgin lies at bethlehem (bring gold and frankincense and myrrh) the root of david shoots a stem (o holy spirit, shadow her) she lies alone amid the kine (bring gold and frankincense and myrrh) the straw is fragrant as with wine (o holy spirit shadow her" lieut.-col. gormley writes "the hymns ordinarily used in churches for devotional purposes are no doubt excellent in their way, but it can scarce

r" lieut.-col. gormley writes "the hymns ordinarily used in churches for devotional purposes are no doubt excellent in their way, but it can scarcely be said, in the case of many of them, that they are of much literary merit, and some of them indeed are little above the familiar nursery rhymes of our childhood; it is therefore somewhat of a relief and a pleasure to read the volume of hymns to the virgin mary which has just been published by messrs. burns and oats. these hymns to the virgin mary are in the best style, they are devotional in the highest degree, and to roman catholics, for whom devotion to the virgin mary forms so important a part of their religious belief, these poems should indeed be welcome; personally i have found them just what i desired, and i have no doubt other cathol

ur singers fervent religious hymns "there is one of london's favourites almost unrivalled to express by her art the delights of the body with a pagan simplicity and directness. now she sends us a book 'amphora' a volume of religious verse: it contains song after song in praise of mary" etc. etc. etc. the "scotsman" says "outside the latin church conflicting views are held about the worship of the virgin, but there can be no doubt that this motive of religion has given birth to many beautiful pieces of literature, and the poets have never tired of singing variations on the theme of 'hail, mary' this little book is best described here as a collection of such variations. they are written with an engaging simplicity and fervour of feeling, and with a graceful, refined literary art that cannot

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f is in particular to be dreaded. of mystic phenomena we may notice the immense class of devotional apparitions. vishnu, christ, jehovah and other deities appear in response to long-continued and passionate love. see "bhagavad gita" chap. xi, the visions of many catholic saints, teresa, gertrude, francis and others, anna kingsford("clothed with the sun" part iii, idra rabba qadisha and so on. the virgin mary is a favourite with many; it is all one phenomenon. observe, though, that many such apparitions are not of the dhyana type at all; they are mostly mere hallucinations of the "astral plane" in section xiii. we have indicated the diagnostics. 69 methods of obtaining these states are to be found in any book on bhakta yoga- swami vivekananda's is the best i know of- and in loyola's "exerci

eath itself in some strange way operated to- to what? even conjecture paled "but magic somewhere there must be, and eliphaz levi was the most famous adept in paris at the time "i told my story, just as i have told it to you, but with strong passion "there is an illusion, master' i ended 'put forth the power and destroy it"'were i to destroy the illusion' returned the magus 'thinkest thou to see a virgin with gold hair? nay, but the eternal virgin, and a gold that is not gold"'is nothing to be done"'nothing' he replied, with a strange light in his eyes 'yet, in order to be able to do nothing, thou must first accomplish everything"'one day' he smiled, seeing my bewilderment 'thou wilt be angry with the fool who proffers such a platitude "i asked him to accept me as a pupil"'i require pay' he

onciler- part of fortune think fixedly of the demand; with a pencil mark 16 lines of points or dashes. find whether number of points in each line is odd or even. for odd; for even. lines 1-4 give the first mother; lines 5-8 the second; and so on. example 4 3 2 1* 10* 12* 15* 15* 11* 6* 16* 15* 10* 9* 15* 16* 10* 7* 14* 14 [the small arabic numerals refer to the chance number of dashes] use clean (virgin) paper; place appropriate pentagram (either with or without a circumscribed circle) invoking. if a circle, draw this first. sigil of ruler to which nature of question most refers should be placed in the pentagram thus: 142 saturn agriculture, sorrow, death. jupiter good fortune, feasting, church preferment. mars war, victory fighting. sun power, magistracy. venus love, music, pleasure. merc

ation: producing by their joint action the number of manifestation- 4. in the worlds- assiah: in the taro, the princess- the throne of the spirit: in the tetragram, the he final, and in symbolic language- the daughter: in the cycle of life (birth, life, death, resurrection, the forth; in the keys of the book universal, the empress, kappa-omicron-rho-eta kappa-omicron-sigma-mu-omicron-upsilon, the virgin of the world, venus, aphrodite: centrum in trigonis centri- by whatsoever of a myriad names we call her, still the same in spirit, the same in number and in form! and this number is herein formulated by the concentration of the three in one. 3+ 1= 4. now in this figure ii. we behold six certain paths; and in six days did 172 god create the heavens and the earth. and the total numeration of

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lant is at once called to the roof; his lower will looketh upwards, and he sees at last the "invisible lignt" the altar shows (1) the great work as the compendium of unity (2) ihsvh symbol accomplishing this and expanded within into five circles. this shows that the five principles of man must be united perfectly.25 the lion and hb:yod with the rose cross represents the first cause, the dawn, the virgin mother, and the great work "nequaquam vaccum"26 shows that "before abraham was, i am" the eagle and hb:heh with the cup represent the blood shed for the remission of sins, and the chalice of the stoistes "libertas evangelii" shows free-will. the man with hb:vau and the dagger shows the "last result" hb:vau is taurus, the redemption. the dagger is the means. for "dei gloria intacta" is the e

ame to him clear as crystal, in which he could read his own thoughts mirrored in the wavelets of the ever-dancing waters of life. here again existence, as the world mystery, became to him the supreme riddle of the human sphinx; and in his strivings to read it, in his doubts, which minerva -like sprang from his former certainties, he informed within himself the first letter of the name of god, the virgin impregnated by the one idea_ the vision of adonai incarnated in her son. illumined by this one supreme longing which had burnt up his coarser desires, he passed through the next ritual to 234 the illusive foundation of yesod, which in its apparent equilibrium contains a falsified reflection of the supreme path of the fool. for, though its element is air, it is not the aethyr of zero, the br

ing to consider oneself successful. it is here that man leaves, if he strive, the bow of worldly desires, and cleaves the firmament of thought like an arrow, which, eventually speeding out of the world's attraction, becomes as an universe to itself. this cleaving of the veil of the vault of the adepts is in truth the precipitation of the jechidah from the elemental flux that goes to make man. the virgin mother of malkuth, the earth fecundated by air, water and fire, is delivered of her son the spirit, who is the adept reborn in the vault as christian rosencreutz; not yet adonai the christ, the son of god, but adonai, jehesuah, the son of man, jesus the carpenter who one day will fashion the tree of life into the image of the supernal christ. no longer is the vision of adonai a mere glimpse

: prosecuted, alas! with what weakness, fatuity, and folly! and, lastly, the following, which is of considerable interest: i. in the afternoon shut myself up, and went on a journey. i went with a very personal guide: and beheld (after some lesser things) our master as he sate by the well with the woman of samaria. now the five husbands were five great religions which had defiled the purity of the virgin of the world: and "he whom thou now hast" was materialism (or modern thought) other scenes also i saw in his life: and behold i also was crucified! now did i go backwards in time even unto berashith, the beginning, and was permitted to see marvellous things. first the abyss of the water: on which i, even i, brooded amid other dusky flames as s upon m held by my genius. and i beheld the vict

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help it! outside sudden jars on the ears like "my eyes" and "a euthanasia" and platitudes like "now pontifex is caesar, but no more is caesar pontifex; and esoteric jabs presumably at poor faustina, such as "that biting thing is only precious in the tart" we find some masterly twaddle, regular phillpotts "two thousand years of fooled humanity, christ, they have prostituted thee and raped 317 thy virgin message till at last it stands no more than handmaid to their infamy (phillpotts really means harlot, but he is afraid of shocking the inhabitants of torquay "some flight of years and the inevitable, tireless hand gropes and grips fast, and draws it gently down. to sublimation" what in the name of narcissus is this all about? and yet mr. ford madox hueffer takes for one of his recent texts

ne phallus, with thy phallus adamantine, with thy phallus of gold and ivory! thus am i cleft in twain as two halves of a child that is split asunder by the sword of the eunuchs, and mine adorations are divided, and one contendeth against his brother. unite thou me even as a split tree that closeth itself again upon the axe, that my song of praise unto thee may be one song! 10. for i am thy chosen virgin, o my god! exalt thou me unto the throne of the mother, unto the garden of supernal dew, unto the unutterable sea! amen, and amen of amen, and amen of amen of amen, and amen of amen of amen of amen. 9 the chapter known as aries the twelvefold affirmation of god and the unity thereof i adore thee by the twelve affirmations and by the unity thereof. 1. o thou show-clad volcan of scarlet fire

life, in the palm of whose hand 20 all the arts lie bounden as a smoke-cloud betwixt the lips of the mountain. 10. o thou sovran lord of primaeval baresarkers, who huntest with dawn the dappled deer of twilight, and whose engines of war are blood-crested comets. i know thee! o thou flame-crowned self-luminous one, the lash of whose whip gathered the ancient worlds, and looseth the blood from the virgin clouds of heaven. 11. o thou sovran moonstone 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

-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 kiss of thy mouth, as a leaf cast into the flames of a furnace. o g

et with the lion- standard, so that i may blare forth the glory of thy name. o glory be unto thee through all time and through all space: glory, and glory upon glory, everlastingly. amen, and amen, and amen. 24 the chapter known as virgo the twelvefold beseechment of god and the unity thereof i adore thee by the twelve beseechments and by the unity thereof. 1. o thou mighty god, make me as a fair virgin that is clad in the blue-bells of the fragrant hillside; i beseech thee, o thou great god! that i may ring out the melody of thy voice, and be clothed in the pure light of thy loveliness: o thou god my god! 2. o thou mighty god, make me as a balance of rubies and jet that is cast in the lap of the sun; i beseech thee, o thou great god! that i may flash forth the wonder of thy brightness, an

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s, the veil that only rips apart when the spear strikes to jesus' heart! a mighty guard of fire are they with sabres turning every way! their eyes are millstones greater than the earth; their mouths run seas of blood. woe be to that accurs d man of whom they are the iniquities! swept in their wrath's avenging flood to black immitigable seas! 24 woe to the seeker who shall fail to rend that vexful virgin veil! fashion thyself by austere craft into a single azure shaft loosed from the string of will; behold the rainbow! thou art shot, pure flame, past the reverberated name into the hall of death. therein the rosy cross is subtly seen. olympas. is that a vision, then? marsyas. it is. olympas. tell me thereof! marsyas. o not of this! of all the flowers in god's field we name not this. our lips

ious brilliance! olympas. the desert calls. marsyas. then let us go! or seek the sacramental snow, where like a high-priest i may stand with acolytes on every hand, the lesser peaks_ my will withdrawn to invoke the dayspring from the dawn, changing that rosy smoke of light to a pure crystalline white; though the mist of mind, as draws a dancer round her limbs the gauze, clothe light, and show the virgin sun a lemon-pale medallion! thence leap we leashless to the goal, stainless star-rapture of the soul. 53 so the altar-fires fade as the godhead is displayed. nay, we stir not. everywhere is our temple right appointed. all the earth is faery fair for us. am i not anointed? the sigil burns upon the brow at the adjuration_ here and now. olympas. the air is laden with perfumes. marsyas. behold!

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ly, without even so much as grating against his bones. 196 297 possibly the restraint of brahmach rya produced the siddhis, and that further restraint in its turn produced an accumulation of these occult powers, the benefit accruing from which is again placed to the credit of the bodily powers. pan to artemis uncharmable charmer of bacchus and mars in the sounding rebounding abyss of the stars! o virgin in armour, thine arrows unsling in the brilliant resilient first rays of the spring! by the force of the fashion of love, when i broke through the shroud, through the cloud, through the storm, through the smoke, to the mountain of passion volcanic that woke- by the rage of the mage i invoke, i invoke! by the midnight of madness- the lone-lying sea, the swoon of the moon, your swoon into me

mine, you were mine! 197 you were mine, o my saint, my maiden, my mate, by the might of the right of the night of our fate. though i fall, though i faint, though i char, though i choke, by the hour of our power i invoke, i invoke! by the mystical union of fairy and faun, unspoken, unbroken- the dust to the dawn- a secret communion unmeasured, unsung, the listless, resistless, tumultuous tongue- o virgin in armour, thine arrows unsling, in the brilliant resilient first rays of the spring! no godhead could charm her, but manhood awoke- o fiery valkyrie, i invoke, i invoke! aleister crowley. 198 illustration opposite page 199 described "the interpreter (script lettering at base, credited at lower right "carl hentschel ph. lc) this is a monochrome color tinted photo of a female violinist. she

hair. 320 "much have i looked upon- i, the now crawling, damp and sightless evidence of her sight "i am her eyes "empires shone in me: suns set, moons arose, and were drowned like lovely naiads in the waters of the sky. i knew wild flowers so beautiful, that one dared not touch them lest their beauty start to mere ugly life "i am that quiver of fragile and delicious expectation that shone in the virgin eyes of here when. o happy hour "i am that greediness, that terrible woman's greediness, fierce as drought, relentless as death, which devours its own portion in the feast of life "and i too, like her mouth, witness to it that she was evil. the senses are the person in so much as they are the sweet janitors to all that come and go. through our five portals life only flows, and the flavour o

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if thou hear me, thou who art the darling of the night and of the silence; yellow art thou as the sunlight through the corn-fields, bright as the sun-dawn on the snow-clad mountains, slow as the voice of the great green gliding river. calmly in thy silence am i come to rest me, now from the world the light hath slowly faded; i have left the groves of pan that i might gaze upon thee, gaze upon the virgin that before time was begotten, mother of chronos, and the old gods before him, child of the womb of the silence, whose father is the unknown breath of the most secret goddess, whose name whoso hath heard is smitten to madness "now do i come before thee in thy temple, with offerings from the oak-woods and the breath of the water that girds the earth with a girdle of green starlight; and all

ieved in" and that which can never be names without begetting a duality (an untruth, and consequently a whole world of illusions. it is the crucifixion of every world-be saviour, this teaching of a truth under the symbol of a lie, this would-be explanation to the multitude of the unexplainable, this passing off on the "canaille" the strumpet of language (the consciously known) in the place of the virgin of the world (the consciously unknown).13 no philosophy has ever grasped this terrible limitation so firmly as the ved nta "all experimental knowledge, the four vedas and the whole series of empirical science, as they are enumerated in ch ndogya, 7. 1. 2-3, are 'n ma eva 'mere name'"14 as the rig veda says "they call him indra, mitra, varuna, agni, and he is heavenly nobly-winged garutm n

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scourge, driving the officers down the stage, where they crouch] pan["goes to altar] brother satyr, i command you to perform the dance of syrinx and pan, in honour of our lady artemis. 122 satyr. and in thine honour["he dances the dance and falls prostrate in the midst" pan["advancing to the throne of luna] uncharmable charmer of bacchus and mars, in the sounding rebounding abyss of the stars! o virgin in armour, thine arrows unsling in the brilliant resilient first rays of the spring! by the force of the fashion of love, when i broke through the shroud, through the cloud, through the storm, through the smoke, to the mountain of passion volcanic that woke- by the rage of the mage i invoke, i invoke! by the midnight of madness, the lone-lying sea, the swoon of the moon, your swoon into me;

ne, you were mine! your were mine, o my saint, my maiden, my mate, by the might of the right of the night of our fate. though i fall, though i faint, though i char, though i choke, by the hour of our power i invoke, i invoke! 123 by the mystical union of fairy and faun, unspoken, unbroken- the dusk to the dawn- a secret communion, unmeasured, unsung, the listless, resistless, tumultuous tongue- o virgin in armour thine arrows unsling, in the brilliant resilient first rays of the sprint! no godhead could charm her, but manhood awoke- o fiery valkyrie, i invoke, i invoke["he tears down the veil [luna "plays accordingly<cancer. 333-333-333. taurus. 1. brother warden of the graal, our task is ended. cancer. let us depart, it is accomplished. 124 konx om pax the

icrucians, founded on their own manifestoes, and on facts and documents collected from the writings of initiated brethren, by arthur e. waite "illustrated" 8vo "cloth, uncut" 1887 (pub. 7"s" 6"d) 5"s" written from the historical standpoint, giving the chief documents "in extenso" together with an elaborate summary and analysis of the various views which have prevailed from time to time about "the virgin fraternity of the rose" mysteries of magic: a digest of the writings of eliphas levi, with biographical and critical essay by arthur e. waite, second edition, revised and enlarged, 8vo "cloth" 1897 (pub. 10"s" 6"d. 6"s" this work fulfils a purpose quite distinct from that of "transcendental magic" inasmuch as it is not simply translation, but presents in an abridged and digested form the en

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hat these things should be thus. 19. wherefore i charge you that ye come unto me in the beginning; for if ye take but one step in this path, ye must arrive inevitably at the end thereof. 20. this path is beyond life and death; it is also beyond love; but that ye know not, for ye know not love. 21. and the end thereof is known not even unto our lady or to the beast whereon she rideth; nor unto the virgin her daughter nor unto chaos her lawful lord; but unto the crowned child is it known? it is not known if it be known. 22. therefore unto hadit and unto nuit be the glory in the end and the beginning; yea, in the end and the beginning. 27 liber resh vel helios svb figvra cc 29 a. a. publication in class d. imprimatur: n. fra a. a. liber resh vel helios. svb figvra cc 0. these are the adoratio

ssed! lie there, love- if i love you indeed who adore and wonder and faint for drouth of the passion-flower fallen from the other side of time and space the tedious tide. lie there, lie there, and let me bleed to death in the breath of the murderous mouth! 45 ii the snow maiden "to margaret callaghan" my love is like the lucent globes that drip from lips of cool crevasses, to clothe them with the virgin robes of mosses, flowers, and grasses. o spheres compact of fire and dew, lamps of the hollows of the mountain, what dream angelic fathered you on what celestial fountain? nay! but i lay on lower earth stagnant in sunless meres! the prison of monstrous spawn, detested birth- behold me rearisen! it was yon fierce diurnal star that licked me up with his huge kisses, and dropped me in his rain

rore abysses! yea! as i press to the cool moss my mouth, and drink at its delirious delight- acclaim the sun across the menaces of sirius! 46 doth not the world's great alchemist rule earth's alembic with the sun? is not the mind a foolish mist, and is not water one? the slim white body that you gave, wild jaja, with exotic nautches wanton and wonderful, a wave of debonair debauches, is worth the virgin limbs and lips of her the virtuous, the viceless, with life who never came to grips, who gave me nothing priceless. give me the purity distilled from dervish sweat and satyr bruises. the holy graal with wine is filled from no unbroken cruses. doth not the world's great alchemist corrupt his oysters to make pearls? shall not these lips praise him? they kissed no cold reluctant girl's. jaja'

c] rinaldo. love["enthusiastic] laylah. i had rather a scorpion stung me. rinaldo. my crest is a scorpion["he points to the golden bejewelled crest upon his light helmet] i am thirsty. give me water. laylah. i would give water to a thirsty dog["she pours water into his hands] 77 rinaldo. for water i will give you fire. twelve hundred years ago came peace on earth and goodwill toward men through a virgin sacrifice. history repeats itself. laylah. i am on the edge of the well; but i shall not fall in. you are a renegade, i see; and, i think, a monster. you are mad with pride and conceit of your own wisdom. so i know you for a fool. rinaldo. the wisdom of this world is foolishness with god. laylah. prate on! even the dust mocks at you. rinaldo. there are snakes in the dust. laylah. what do yo

nners were swept far down the fighting line. there was a mess of varlets between us; before i could sweep them away the knights had rolled over sidi omar and my brothers- the whole wing was destroyed. i rallied the right on the centre, and- why, mother, you are not listening! laylah["taking his sword. this sword killed your father. listen! sidi omar was not your father. your father ravished me, a virgin and a princess, and left me only this for token["she takes the jewelled scorpion from her breast] i took it for hate and revenge; wherein i lied, for i loved him, and i love him. god has punished my lie, making you- the token of love- the minister of revenge. so then- be he avenged["she strikes the neck of" sliman "and he falls dead. she stands stupefied" the child["coming forward and picki

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

until he woke up to fmd the white-haired man of his vision bending over him. he was a. doctor and he was stitching the cut. alex's 'growing belief in witchcraft, reinforced by 'each experience of clairvoyance, did not conflict with his regular attendance at sunday school. his gran had explained .that there was only one god but that he was known by many names. it was easy, too, to accept that the virgin mary was the moon goddess in disguise. alex's childhood heroes took on new aspects when gran re-told their stories. there was robin hood, previously just the leader of the merry men, but now revealed in his real role as a witch who used his powers to direct money where it was most needed, and to escape his pursuers. and joan of are, who was really the witch queen of france and unashamedly d

magic. an.gels, inth language. ofmagic, ate not the winged creatures o(thechristians; noraretheythe sows of the dead. they are. spirits drawn froul.thegodhead, or centralpower of the universe,which magiciabsand witdhes alike believe can be petitioned to help and advise those mortals who follow the correct rituals. bill and eunice agreed to let theirtwelve-year..oldson be used to draw the power; a virgin child representing purity i believedto find favour with the spirits. fora week beforehand they .had been .makiilgptepara#ons, the most arduous.ofwhich wasthe gatherin offourpolinos of rose petals to be dried and made into incense. they could.be picked only betwe,en the early tnorninghours oft\vo and three, according to the magic ritual, and as they had.noroses oftheir own,the coven madefora

a wife would want. his flat in chorlton was m.erely a pt'ed-a-terre for his. witch activities. perhaps his crystal had lied? he conjured up a familiar and sent it in search of the future. maxine' it reported. was to be his wife but not until after her mother had died later in the year, and not before she had been initiated into the third grade. now alex was really alarmed; how could he initiate a virgin-and a minot at .that? the only way. he decided, was to initiate herand paul together. as brother and sister, in the way they had undergone their first-grade initiation, and thus sex would play no part. when the day came alex followed the exact ritual but. instead of telling the rest of the coven to leave the room. he commanded paul to lay his body on maxine's without passion or lust, so tha

.that? the only way. he decided, was to initiate herand paul together. as brother and sister, in the way they had undergone their first-grade initiation, and thus sex would play no part. when the day came alex followed the exact ritual but. instead of telling the rest of the coven to leave the room. he commanded paul to lay his body on maxine's without passion or lust, so that she would remain a virgin but would be initiated symbolically. after the ceremony, when they sat down to the feast-known as the mass long before the advent of christianity-alex told her that he would be marrying her later in the year. ibut why not now' she asked. she loved him and could see no reason for postponing the wedding, alex then told her of her mother's impending death which, of course. she had seen so ofte

imals: otter, seal. birds: seagull, owl. metal: silver. colours: emerald green, white. leo the lion. 22 july to 21 august. lucky stones: amber, topaz, sardonyx, ruby. 153 lucky numbers: leo, four. sun, one. lucky day: sunday. flowers: marigold, sunflower,.cowslip, heliotrope. trees: palm laurel. animal: lion. birds: cock, eagle. metal: gold. colours: gold, orange. yellow, green, white. vrsco, the virgin. 22 august to 21 september. lucky.stoncs: cornelian, jade, diamond, jasper. lucky numbers: virgo, ten; mercury, five. lucky day: wednesday. flowers: madonna lily, cornflower, valerian. tree: hazel. animal: squirrel. birds; parrot, magpie. metals: virgo, platinum; mercury,quicksilver. colours: pale blue, pale gold, yellow, jade green. lm.ra the scales. 22 september to 21 october. lucky stone

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

obtain another witch's tools, power will flow from them. notes l published in janet and stewart farrar's the witches' way, from gbg's text b/c bos. making tools it is an old belief that the best substances for making tools are those that once had life in them, as opposed to artificial substances. thus, wood or ivory is better for a wand than metal, which is more appropriate for swords or knives. virgin parchment is better than manufactured paper for talismans, etc. and things which have been made by hand are good, because there is life in them. notes l published in janet and stewart farrar's the witches' way, from gbg's text b/c bos. to make anointing ointment take a glazed pan half full of grease or olive oil. put in sweet mint leaves bruised. place pan in hot water bath. stir occasional

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

e, viewing them in their totality as cosmic force; it is their action upon the negative or mother aspect which, on cosmic levels, produces that self-conscious unity, a solar logos, functioning through his physical vehicle. from the christian standpoint, the greater builders are the holy spirit, or force overshadowing and fecundating matter, whilst the negative or lesser builders correspond to the virgin mary. the lunar pitris, and lesser builders from the systemic point of view find their fullest expression in the animal kingdom. when they, as the initiatory impulse, had produced animal man they had performed their prime function, and just as (on a smaller scale and in connection with only one of- 366- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust the heavenly men) the moon is a dyi

s life which form the dense physical vehicle of a heavenly man, and of the grand man of the heavens. by a close scrutiny of these conditions in the macrocosm and in the microcosm will come a comprehension of the reason why the physical vehicle is never considered a principle at all by occultists. the holy spirit, the one who overshadows and who implants the germ of life in the waiting acquiescent virgin mother or matter (causing her to awaken and to commence her great work of producing the divine incarnation) is a primary factor from the standpoint of the second solar system. in a way incomprehensible to modern thinkers, the mother, or the divine aspirant to the mysteries of the cosmic marriage, was (in a previous system) the dominant factor. in this system in connection with substance it

more veiled as it descends into matter, until at the lowest point we might almost fail to recognise it as divine life at all; but as it rises again when it has passed its nadir it shows itself somewhat more clearly. the third outpouring which descends from the highest aspect of the logos differs from the others in that it is in no way clouded by the matter through which it passes, but retains its virgin purity and splendour untarnished. it will be noted that this outpouring descends only to the level of the buddhic plane (the fourth plane) and that the link between the two is formed by a triangle in a circle, representing the individual soul of man the reincarnating ego. here the triangle is contributed by the third outpouring and the circle by the second" the christian creed, by c. w. lea

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

latent and quiescent. nevertheless, it remains a fact that when the energies, latent at- 113- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the base of the spine, are carried to the head and are brought (via the solar plexus, that clearing house of energy, and the medulla oblongata) to the centre between the eyebrows, then the personality, the matter aspect, reaches its apotheosis and the virgin mary in the individual sense, which is a finite parallel of an infinite reality is "carried up into heaven" there to sit by the side of her son, the christ, the soul. when the energies of the sacral centre, focussed hitherto on the work of physical creation and generation and therefore the source of physical sex life and interest, are sublimated, re-oriented and carried up to the throat cen

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

ange history. because of this third ray influence, you have the tendency of the jew to manipulate forces and energies, and to "pull strings" in order to bring about desired ends. as a race, they are natural law makers, and hence their tendency to dominate and govern, because their egoic ray is the first. hence also the constant appearance of the goat in their history, and their teaching about the virgin mother who should give birth to the messiah. in every grouping, whether in heaven or on earth there is always evidenced a tendency by some units in the group to revolt, to rebel and to show some form of initiative different to that of the other units in the same grouping. when our solar universe came into being, we are told in the- 244- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psych

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

sed to have uttered, whilst that which he expressed in his life, and the relationships which he emphasised and regarded as implicit in his revelation have been totally ignored. we have fought over the historical christ, and thus fighting, have lost sight of his message of love to all beings. fanatics quarrel over his words, and fail to remember that he was "the word made flesh" we argue about the virgin birth of the christ, and forget the truth which the incarnation is intended to teach. evelyn underhill points out in her most valuable book, mysticism, that "the incarnation, which is for popular christianity synonymous with the historical birth and earthly life of christ, is for the mystic not only this but also a perpetual cosmic and personal process" scholars spend their lives in proving

hich is the basis of our faith in the love of god) there have been, as we have seen, many words sent forth from the centre. many sons of god, down the ages, have given to humanity a progressively revealing vision of the "heights of possibility" interpreting god's plan to the race in terms suited to each age and temperament. the uniformity of their life story, the appearance again and again of the virgin mother (whose name is frequently a variation of the name mary, the similarity in detail of the birth story, all indicate to us the constant re-enactment of a truth, so that from its dramatic quality and its repeated happening, god impresses upon the hearts of men certain great truths which are vital to their salvation. one of these truths is that the love of god is eternal, and that his lov

if the race as a whole has developed and unfolded its consciousness, the message he gave and the life he lived must necessarily sum up all the best in the past, completing and fulfilling it, and proclaim a possible future spiritual culture which will greatly transcend all that the past may have given. the majority of these great sons of god were, curiously enough, born in a cave and usually of a virgin mother "in regard to the virgin birth it is significant that there is no reference to it in the epistles which form the earliest christian documents; but, on the contrary, st. paul speaks of jesus as `made of the seed of david according to the flesh'35 that is to say, of the seed of joseph, david's descendant. the earliest gospel, that of st. mark, dating between a.d. 70 and 100, does not m

he flesh'35 that is to say, of the seed of joseph, david's descendant. the earliest gospel, that of st. mark, dating between a.d. 70 and 100, does not mention it; nor does the gospel of st. john, dating from some time not earlier than a.d. 100. the book of revelation, written between a.d. 69 and 93, is silent on the subject, though had the- 38- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust virgin birth then been an important tenet of the faith it would undoubtedly have figured in the mystical symbolism of that composition."36 isis was often represented standing on the crescent moon, with twelve stars surrounding her head. in almost every roman catholic church on the continent of europe may be seen pictures and statues of mary, the "queen of heaven" standing on the crescent moon, her

in the mystical symbolism of that composition."36 isis was often represented standing on the crescent moon, with twelve stars surrounding her head. in almost every roman catholic church on the continent of europe may be seen pictures and statues of mary, the "queen of heaven" standing on the crescent moon, her head surrounded with twelve stars "it would seem more than a chance that so many of the virgin mothers and goddesses of antiquity should have the same name. the mother of bacchus was myrrha; the mother of mercury or hermes was myrrha or maia; the mother of the siamese saviour sommona cadom was called maya maria, i.e `the great mary; the mother of adonis was myrrha; the mother of buddha was maya; now, all these names whether myrrha, maia or maria, are the same as mary, the name of the

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

; the italian state is historically of very recent date. the accusation of youth (if it is an accusation) is also true of the united states. a great future lies ahead of that nation but not because of material power or commercial efficiency, as many materially-minded people think. the reason lies in a deeply spiritual, innate idealism, enormous humanitarian potentiality and above all else because virgin and non-effete stock of largely peasant and middle class origin is determining the race. steadily in all nations, the power in government and in determining practical ideologies is rapidly passing into the hands of the "people" and out of the hands of the so-called ruling classes and the aristocracy. countries such as great britain and france, which have accepted the determining evolutionar

ind of god. the more ancient the scripture, the greater, necessarily, the distortion. the doctrine of a vengeful god, the doctrine of retribution in some mythical hell, the teaching that god only loves those who interpret him in terms of some particular school of theological thought, the symbolism of the blood sacrifice, the appropriation of the cross as a christian symbol, the teaching about the virgin birth and the picture of an angry deity only appeased by death are the unhappy results of man's own thinking, of his own lower nature, of his sectarian isolationism (fostered by the jewish old testament, but not generally found in the oriental faiths) and of his sense of fear, inherited from the animal side of his nature all these are fostered and inculcated by theology but not by christ, o

innate christ consciousness which makes us one with each other and with christ) should flower forth in all its glory; he taught that service was the keynote of the spiritual life and that the will of god would be revealed. these are not the points about which the mass of commentators have written. they have discussed ad nauseam how far christ was divine and how far he was human, the nature of the virgin birth, the function of st. paul as a teacher of christian truth, the nature of hell, salvation through blood, and the authenticity and historicity of the bible. today men's minds are recognizing the dawn of freedom; they are realizing that every man should be free to worship god in his own way. this will not mean (in the coming new age) that every man will pick a theological school to which

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he cries of all- 77- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust those who have faith or have no faith must be met. the demands of humanity are rising to their ears and the christ and his disciples have no sectarian scruples, of that we may be sure. it is impossible to believe that they are interested in the views of the fundamentalists or in the theories of the theologians upon the virgin birth, the vicarious atonement or the infallibility of the pope. humanity is in desperate need and that need must be met; only great and fundamental principles of living, covering the past and the present and providing a platform for the future, will really meet that human invocation. the christ and the spiritual hierarchy will not come to destroy all that humanity has hitherto found "neces

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

eir interest in human good and human welfare, the perseverance they show in their search for light and their longing and desire for a true peace, based on right human relations, implemented by goodwill. this "mind as it is in christ" can be seen in their revolt against materialistic religion and in the widespread effort to be seen in europe and elsewhere to return the land (mother-earth, the true virgin mary) to the people. it can be seen in the constant movement of people throughout the world from place to place, symbolised in the gospel story by the journey of mary with the infant jesus into egypt. then followed, as we are told in the new testament, a cycle of thirty years wherein all we know is that the infant jesus grew to manhood and could then take the second initiation, the baptism

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

astral plane are not pure emotion and feeling, clothed in pure astral matter, for there is no such thing. they are the instinctual desires, evoked by the evolving substance of the physical plane and this, in its entirety and through the activity of the human family, is being redeemed and drawn upwards until some day we shall see the transfiguration of that substance and the "glorification of the virgin mary" the mother aspect in relation to divinity. they are also the descending thoughtforms which the developing human being is always creating and drawing downwards into manifestation, clothing them with the substance of desire. when the descending forms of thought (a reflection in the three worlds of that vast "cloud of knowable things" in process of perception, as patanjali calls it, and

hey meet, and then the lesser light (a true light in its own right) of the personality is absorbed into the greater light of the angel or soul. the angel, therefore "occultly obliterates" the dweller who becomes lost to sight in the radiant aura of the angel. this has been symbolically portrayed for us in the picture book of the heavens when, according to catholic festivals, the assumption of the virgin takes place and the constellation virgo is lost to sight in the radiance of the sun. there you have the three factors: 1. the virgin .m aterial form .p ersonality .d weller. 2. the sun. spiritual nature. soul. angel. 3. the earth .a spiring man. the disciple. the personality remains; it still exists but it is seen no more as of old. the light of the angel envelops it; the burning ground has

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

ets. 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. harmony through. scorpio, the scorpion. mars. mars. conflic

t 1998 lucis trust iii. active-intelligence. libra, the scales. venus. uranus. capricorn, the goat .s aturn. saturn. taurus, the bull .v enus. vulcan. iv. harmony through. scorpio, the scorpion. mars. mars. conflict sagittarius, the archer. jupiter. earth. leo, the lion. sun. sun. v. concrete science. sagittarius, the archer. jupiter. earth. aquarius, the watercarrier. uranus. jupiter. virgo, the virgin .m ercury .m oon. vi. idealism. devotion .s agittarius, the archer. jupiter. earth. pisces, the fishes. jupiter. pluto. aries, the ram. mars. mercury. vii. ceremonial order. cancer, the crab. moon .n eptune. capricorn, the goat .s aturn. saturn. it will be obvious to you how much correlating work and how much readjustment of ideas will be needed as the new astrology is worked out into pract

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 which is best described by the words, illumination and revelation. the christ to whom the virgin must eventually give birth is recognised as present in the womb, though not yet born. life is recognised. the process of the revelation of the christ consciousness is carried intelligently forward and the selfish aspirations and experiments of the undeveloped man give place to the selflessness of the illumined and intuitive disciple. sagittarius this is now the sign of the one-pointed disci

o is eventually fused and blended (symbolically the cross must always become the line and then the point. sagittarius, which is governed esoterically by mother earth, produces those conditions whereby the path itself achieves glorification. consequently, you have at the end of the age (i refer here to a greater round of the zodiac and to no shorter cycle, the glorification of venus, of virgo, the virgin, and of mother earth two planets and one constellation and all these are potencies which produce definite changes in the solar system. they represent the three divine potencies of matter and of substance, plus the force of sagittarius driving them on to a still greater consummation. there is a wide and interesting field of research to be found in the relation of 1. the planet venus ruler of

they represent the three divine potencies of matter and of substance, plus the force of sagittarius driving them on to a still greater consummation. there is a wide and interesting field of research to be found in the relation of 1. the planet venus ruler of the constellation gemini. 2. the earth on which we live, called often "mother earth" 3. the fish-goddesses of the sign pisces. 4. virgo, the virgin. gemini and sagittarius are connected through their ruling planets (because the earth is more closely related to venus than to any other planet) and thus again you have the six potencies which produce release from the bondage of form, entered into in cancer as far as the mass of humanity is concerned (by this i mean the birth of the human kingdom) and in pisces as far as the individual is c

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we are saved by his life. the death that he died, we can die too and triumphantly, the bible says so. the churches will have to begin with their theological seminaries. i have taken a theological training and i know what i am talking about. intelligent young men will no longer enter them when confronted with ancient meanings to what they recognise as living truths. they are not interested in the virgin birth they are interested in the fact of christ. they know too much to accept the verbal inspiration of the scriptures; but they are prepared to believe in the word of god. life is so full of movement today, of heroes, of beauty, of tragedy and cataclysm and of reality and glorious opportunity that this generation has no time for the puerilities of theology. fortunately, there are within th

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

n the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust treated from the angle of karma and be definite and conclusive in its value had there been right teaching on this abstruse subject from the time that it was given out in the west. but the truth as it has come to us from the east has been as much distorted by the eastern theologian as the doctrines of the atonement and of the virgin birth have been misinterpreted and taught by the western theologian. the real truth bears little resemblance to our modern formulations. i am, therefore, seriously handicapped when dealing with the subject of disease from the angle of karma. it is difficult for me to convey to you anything of the truth as it really exists, owing to the pre-conceived ideas as to the ancient law of cause and

g of the average human being of today. its purpose is to guard health, to balance the bodily equilibrium in certain important aspects of the physical nature, and it symbolises the third aspect of intelligence and of substance impregnated with mind. it is in reality connected with the holy ghost, or the third divine aspect in manifestation "overshadowing (as the bible expresses it, the mother, the virgin mary. the parathyroids are symbolic of mary and joseph and the relation they hold to the overshadowing holy ghost. it will eventually be determined that there is a close physiological relation existing between the thyroid gland and the pineal gland, and between the parathyroids and the two lobes of the pituitary body, thus bringing into one related system the entire area of the throat and o

the second aspect and the basic centre expresses the energy of the first aspect. here again you have the lower centres reflecting the throat, heart and head centres and thus completing the higher and the lower manifestation of the divine trinity in man. this centre was brought into full functioning activity in old lemuria, the first human race; its energy is that of the holy spirit, overshadowing virgin substance. here again we find also another divine reflection in the following- 108- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust eventually, in the divine hermaphrodite (later to appear) you will have another combination: again you will note, my brother, how the science of triangles governs the human frame in all its aspects, as well as the frame of a

d or finally determined. this is a point of extreme importance. be not therefore misled by apparent moments of achievement. they are but prefaces to change, for such is the law of being. 7. the centre at the base of the spine. this centre is, above everything else, controlled and governed by the law of being, above referred to, and is established where spirit and matter meet and where matter, the virgin mary under the influence of the holy spirit, time energy of the etheric vehicle is translated "into heaven" there (as the christian phraseology puts it "to be seated beside her son in the house of the father" this centre is found at the very base of the spine, and supports all the other centres. it is relatively quiescent at this time, for it is only roused into full activity by an act of t

or the server if he becomes aware of these deva forces and their activities, via the christ and through their responsiveness to his work and imminent appearance. on the phrase "mother of the world" the various ways in which the phrase can be used can mean quite a number of differing things. it can mean: 1. the feminine aspect in manifestation, symbolised for us in many of the world religions as a virgin mother and in the christian religion as the virgin mary. it is that substance which enables deity to manifest. 2. nature itself, the mother of all forms. 3. the moon also, who is the symbol of the generative, creative life which gives birth to forms and is therefore the symbol of the form nature. 4. the concentration of the feminine force in nature in some individual in female form who is t

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

her up our bodies within us' raising each into the light of the next one above, and is not this the meaning of culture, education, refinement, purification? is not that the personal work we should constantly be at, and is it not what is symbolised, in roman- 434- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust catholic doctrine, by the assumption by the christ of the body of the virgin mary, his mother, into heaven" my reply to him is: in the above enquiry, my brother, you have asked nine questions, all bearing on the same subject. some of them would not have needed a reply had you had the time to study a treatise on cosmic fire, for in that book much of your question is answered. the difficulty in distinguishing between thought and emotion is due entirely to two things:

one. but we find also that "one star differeth from another star in glory" because there is one flame but many sparks of differing brightness within that flame. such is the glory of the great eternal one. this realisation is the soul's aspiration and the goal of its great enlightenment. it is, as you rightly point out when viewing the subject from the angle of mother-matter, the assumption of the virgin into heaven, there to be glorified. much of the mystery connected with "the three vestures of the buddha" is related to this glorification of the three bodies. much can be learnt by a careful study of the connection between the three bodies of a human being and the vestures or vehicles of the lord buddha. the whole story of sublimation, of purification, and of transfiguration is hidden in t

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

ee constellations connected with aries. first, there is cassiopeia, the enthroned queen, the symbol always of matter. it is most interesting to note how in the circle of the zodiac we come across three women. in connection with aries, the sign of commencement, we find cassiopeia, the dominant woman. woman and child and as we shall later see, mother-matter is the nurturer of the infant christ, the virgin mary gives birth to jesus. in pisces, at the close of the great round, we find andromeda, the chained woman. first the woman enthroned and dominant, then the woman caring for the infant, christ, and then the woman, representing matter that has been dominated and controlled. cassiopeia will be found seated on the arctic circle, close to [36] cepheus the king,or lawgiver, whom we shall meet l

in what way does taurus, the bull, become the bringer of illumination? we are told that in this sign the moon is exalted and venus is the ruler. the moon has always, from the standpoint of the esotericist, and among primitive agricultural peoples, been regarded as the form-building aspect. the moon is the symbol, therefore, of matter and is seen in many of our churches, closely connected with the virgin mary. the consummation of the work that is undertaken in taurus, and the result of the taurian influence, is the glorification of matter and subsequent illumination through its medium. all that at present prevents the glory, which is the soul, and the radiance which emanates from the god within the form, from shining forth in its full power, is the matter or form aspect. when that has been

cred to the sons of light (e. valentia straiton, the celestial ship of the north, vol. ii, p. 205- 53- the labours of hercules symbols the astrological symbol for the sign cancer has no relation at all to the crab. it is composed of two "asses" tails, and these again link up the gospel story with the story of the manger. in connection with the birth of jesus two asses appear, the one on which the virgin rode down to bethlehem, prior to the birth, and the other on which she rode to egypt, after the birth. close to the sign cancer are two bright stars, one called asellus borealis, or the northern ass, and the other, asellus australis, or the southern ass (there is also the third time, when christ rode into jerusalem during his brief moment of triumph on palm sunday [90] seated on the back of

nknown and all unrecognized gave unto you the needed love and power. you rescued that which needed you, and thus again the two are one. ponder anew upon the ways of life, reflecting on the ways of death. go rest, my son [115] the tibetan (djwhal khul) introduction it is said that, from some aspects, virgo is the oldest of the zodiacal signs. down through the ages, be it lilith or isis, eve or the virgin mary, all portray the mother of the world, but it is mary who at length bears the child in her arms. and it is in this sign that the christ consciousness is conceived and nurtured through the period of gestation until at last in pisces, the opposite sign, the world savior is born. as in leo, this is a cave experience "in the womb of time, and should be characterized by warmth, quietness, de

6 at all. it is to be remembered that the lion is the king of beasts. the native attains finally in that sign the rounded-out personality. but in virgo, the first of the steps towards spirituality is taken, the soul is called the son of mind, and virgo is ruled by mercury, carrying the energy of the mind. in this virgo lecture a.a.b. gave a most interesting sequence of prophetic references to the virgin as follows- 69- the labours of hercules "behold, i will bring forth my servant, the branch (zechariah 3:8. one symbol of virgo is the woman with the ear of corn, or the sheaf of wheat, or the branch of fruit in her arms. remember also the prophecy in isaiah upon which our new testament is based "and a virgin shall conceive and bring forth a son, and link up with that verse in ephesians when

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at work" it is a compendium of achad. the center c helps to compose the name hcwhy. this fire of life expands outward within the four elemental circles. in this, it is an example of the five principles of man that must be united into perfection and for this the adept does work continuously. the lion and red rose are a symbol of first cause, the beginning, the dawn. it is further symbolized by the virgin mother and the great work. nequaquam vacuum means "nowhere a void" this is the motto written about the lion. it can be summed up in saying that "before abraham was "i am" the eagle and the chalice stand for the blood that must be shed for the remission of sins. it is the purifying waters from the cup of the stolistices. libertas evangelii, the "liberty of the gospel" is the free will that o

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hdrew from him, he cursed his earth. he found the woman as she was preparing herself for her husband. he was lord over her, though he did not know the mystery which had come to pass through the holy decree. and they were afraid to blame him. and he showed his angels his ignorance which is in him. and he cast them out of paradise and he clothed them in gloomy darkness. and the chief archon saw the virgin who stood by adam, and that the luminous epinoia of life had appeared in her. and yaltabaoth was full of ignorance. and when the foreknowledge of the all noticed (it, she sent some and they snatched life out of eve "and the chief archon seduced her and he begot in her two sons; the first and the second (are) eloim and yave. eloim has a bear-face and yave has a cat-face. the one is righteous

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

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. twelve keys of basil valentine 63 of 95 if the

th its uses, might as well not have it at all. therefore this twelve keys of basil valentine 71 of 95 twelfth and last key must serve to open up to you the uses of this stone. in dealing with this part of the subject i will drop my parabolic and figurative style, and plainly set forth all that is to be known. when the medicine and stone of all the sages has been perfectly prepared out of the true virgin s milk, take one part of it to three parts of the best gold purged and refined with antimony, the gold being previously beaten into plates of the greatest possible thinness. put the whole into a smelting pot and subject it to the action of a gentle fire for twelve hours, then let it be melted for three days and three nights more. for without the ferment of gold no one can compose the stone

BLACK SERPENT1

pleasures or anger or many of the other so-called "imperfections" that plague mankind. what these demons do provide is knowledge, the constant reminder of the power within ourselves, and the power of the elements and unseen forces around us. many misconceptions of the "black arts" have been conceived over the passage of time. numerous are the allegations that covens murder unborn children and use virgin blood in sacrifice to their infernal legions. these myths, often perpetuated and fed into by our own hysteria, create the basis for what society holds as their own truth regarding these religions. to dispel these myths it is essential that people understand a basic rule that holds true for all traditional left hand path religions (including satanism, demonolatry, etc- the dark lords expect

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ight and the left-hand magic. in the epic poem of finland, the kalewala* the origin of the serpent of evil is given: it is born from the "spittle of suoyatar. and endowed with a living soul by the principle of evil" hisi. a strife is described between the two, the "thing of evil (the serpent or sorcerer, and ahti, the dragon "magic lemminkainen" the latter is one of the seven sons of ilmatar, the virgin "daughter of the air" she "who fell from heaven into the sea" before creation, i.e, spirit transformed into the matter of sensuous life. there is a world of meaning and occult thought in these few lines, admirably rendered by dr. j. m. crawford, of cincinnati. the hero lemminkainen, the good magician "hews the wall with might of magic, breaks the palisade in pieces, hews to atoms seven pick

l, in its allness and general fulness, but the light of jehovah is that pertaining to the chiefest production, man, whom this light penetrated and made" the author of the "source of measures" pertinently refers the reader to inman's "ancient faiths embodied in ancient names" vol. ii, p. 648. there, an engraving of "the vesica piscis, mary and the female emblem, copied from a rosary of the blessed virgin. printed at venice, 1542" and therefore, as inman remarks "with a license from the inquisition, consequently orthodox" will show the reader what the latin church understood by this "penetrating power of light and its effects" how sadly disfigured- applied as they were to the grossest anthropomorphic conceptions- have become, under christian interpretation, the noblest and grandest, as the m

ns, the descendants and pupils of the divine instructors: for both the attributes and the genealogies were inseparably linked with cosmogonical symbols, the "gods" being the life and animating "soul-principle" of the various regions of the universe. nowhere and by no people was speculation allowed to range beyond those manifested gods. the boundless and infinite unity remained with every nation a virgin forbidden soil, untrodden by man's thought[[footnote(s* the appellation ak-ad (or akkadians) is of the same class as ad-m, ha-va (eve, aed-en (eden; ak-ad meaning "son of ad (like the sons of ad in ancient arabia. ad-ad, the "only one" and the first, was the ad-on or "lord" of syria and consort of ad-ar-gat or aster't, the syrian goddess. and gan-aeden (eden) or gandunia was babylonia and m

view with their bodies "the breath returning to the eternal bosom which exhales and inhales them" says our catechism "ideal nature" the abstract space in which everything in the universe is mysteriously and invisibly generated, is the same female side of procreative power in nature in the vedic as in every other cosmogony. aditi is sephira, and the sophia- achamoth of the gnostics, and isis, the virgin mother of horus. in every cosmogony, behind and higher than the creative deity, there is a superior deity, a planner, an architect, of whom the creator is but the executive agent. and still higher, over and around, within and without, there is the unknowable and the unknown, the source and cause of all these emanations. it thus becomes easy to account for the reason why "adam-adami" is foun

earth. varuna is dragged down from the infinite space, to reign as neptune over the finite seas. as always, the popular fancy is found to be based on a strictly scientific foundation. water is the symbol of the female element everywhere; mater, from which the letter m, is derived pictorially from[[diagram] a water hieroglyph. it is the universal matrix or the "great deep" venus, the great mother-virgin, issues forth from the sea-wave, and cupid or eros is her son. but venus is the later mythological variant of gaia (or gaea, the earth, which, in its higher aspect is nature (prakriti, and metaphysically aditi, and even mulaprakriti, the root of prakriti or its noumenon. hence cupid or love in his primitive sense is eros, the divine will, or desire of manifesting itself through visible crea

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ty thrills through infinitude. the mother swells, expanding from within without, like the bud of the lotus. 2. the vibration sweeps along, touching with its swift wing the whole universe and the germ that dwelleth in darkness: the darkness that breathes over the slumbering waters of life. 3. darkness radiates light, and light drops one solitary ray into the mother-deep. the ray shoots through the virgin egg, the ray causes the eternal egg to thrill, and drop the non-eternal germ, which condenses into the world-egg[[vol. 1, page] 29 the secret doctrine. 4. then the three fall into the four. the radiant essence becomes seven inside, seven outside. the luminous egg, which in itself is three, curdles and spreads in milk-white curds throughout the depths of mother, the root that grows in the de

n is jod, he, vau, he, or jehovah. the expansion of 565 into 56.5 x 10 is purposed to show the emanation of the male (jod) from the female (eva) principle; or, so to speak, the birth of a male element from an immaculate source, in other words, an immaculate conception" thus is repeated on earth the mystery enacted, according to the seers, on the divine plane. the "son" of the immaculate celestial virgin (or the undifferentiated cosmic protyle, matter in its infinitude) is born again on earth as the son of the terrestrial eve- our mother earth, and becomes humanity as a total- past, present, and future- for jehovah or jod-he-vau-he is androgyne, or both male and female. above, the son is the whole kosmos; below, he is mankind. the triad or triangle becomes tetraktis, the sacred pythagorean

ing a specific meaning to a term used by occultists in a generic sense, and which is used in cosmogony with a metaphysical and mystical meaning. ice is not water, neither is steam, although all three have precisely the same chemical composition- stanza iii- continued. 2[[3 "darkness" radiates light, and light drops one solitary ray into the waters, into the mother deep. the ray shoots through the virgin-egg; the ray causes the eternal egg to thrill, and drop the non-eternal (periodical) germ, which condenses into the world egg (a (a) the solitary ray dropping into the mother deep may be taken as meaning divine thought or intelligence, impregnating chaos. this, however, occurs on the plane of metaphysical abstraction, or rather the plane whereon that which we call a metaphysical abstraction

causes the eternal egg to thrill, and drop the non-eternal (periodical) germ, which condenses into the world egg (a (a) the solitary ray dropping into the mother deep may be taken as meaning divine thought or intelligence, impregnating chaos. this, however, occurs on the plane of metaphysical abstraction, or rather the plane whereon that which we call a metaphysical abstraction is a reality. the virgin-egg being in one sense abstract egg-ness, or the power of becoming developed through fecundation, is eternal and for ever the same. and just as the fecundation of an egg takes place before it is dropped; so the noneternal periodical germ which becomes later in[[vol. 1, page] 65 nature's symbols. symbolism the mundane egg, contains in itself, when it emerges from the said symbol "the promise

generation, and rejuvenation, as well as of wisdom (see part ii "tree and serpent and crocodile worship) the mystery of apparent self-generation and evolution through its own creative power repeating in miniature the process of cosmic evolution in the egg, both being due to heat and moisture under the efflux of the unseen creative spirit, justified fully the selection of this graphic symbol. the "virgin egg" is the microcosmic symbol of the macrocosmic prototype- the "virgin mother- chaos or the primeval deep. the male creator (under whatever name) springs forth from the virgin female, the immaculate root fructified by the ray. who, if versed in astronomy and natural sciences, can fail to see its suggestiveness? cosmos as receptive nature is an egg fructified- yet left immaculate; once reg

BLUE EQUINOX

ck thine hair; they have scourged the painted flesh of thee with their whips; thou hast suffered unspeakable things. 9. but i have burnt within thee as a pure flame without oil. in the midnight i was brighter than the moon; in the daytime i exceeded utterly the sun; in the byways of thy being i flamed, and dispelled the illusion. 10. therefore thou art wholly pure before me; therefore thou art my virgin unto eternity. 11. therefore i love thee with surpassing love; therefore they that despise thee shall adore thee. 12. thou shalt be lovely and pitiful toward them; thou shalt heal them of the unutterable evil. 13. they shall change in their destruction, even as two dark stars that crash together in the abyss, and blaze up in an infinite burning. 14. all this while did adonai pierce my being

d, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, i believe in the miracle of the mass. and i confess one baptism of wisdom whereby we accomplish the miracle of incarnation. the equinox 252 and i confess my life one, individual, and eternal that was, and is, and is to come. aumgn. aumgn. aumgn. music is now played. the child enters with the ewer and the salt. the virgin enters with the sword and the paten. the child enters with the censer and the perfume. they face the deacon, deploying into line, from the space between the two altars. the virgin: greeting of earth and heaven! all give the hailing sign of a magician, the deacon leading. the priestess, the negative child on her left, the positive child on her right, ascends the steps of the high altar. they

t among us! all give the hailing sign. the people: so mote it be. iv of the ceremony of the opening of the veil the priest: thee therefore whom we adore we also invoke. by the power of the lifted lance! he raises the lance. all repeat hailing sign. a phrase of triumphant music. the priest takes the priestess by her right hand with his left, keeping the lance raised. i, priest and king, take thee, virgin pure without spot; i upraise thee; i lead thee to the east; i set thee upon the summit of the earth. liber xv 255 he thrones the priestess upon the altar. the deacon and the children follow, they in rank, behind him. the priestess takes the book of the law, resumes her seat, and holds it open on her breast with her two hands, making a descending triangle with thumbs and forefingers. the pri

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

the disfigurements to which psychical researchers have acclimatized us, confound them. the mention of psychical researchers has ruined my temper again. i am going to be nasty even to my dear mrs. hutchings. it is very easy to spoil a case by claiming too much. jesus preferred would stand higher in the market to-day if some would-be clever press agent had not added ridiculous pagan stories of the virgin birth, and so on, to the earlier and more plausible legend. and the most serious criticism of patience worth is the existence of that ridiculous novel by .mark twain. patience worth is not impossible, or even improbable. she makes mistakes. she commits anachronisms. but any difficulties are fairly easy to explain away. when it comes to mark twain, the reviews 301 case is altogether differen

BOOK OF PLEASURE

-a volant "sight" that conveys somehow by the incidental, that truth is somewhere. the kia which can be vaguely expressed in words is the "neither-neither" the unmodified "i" in the sensation of omnipresence, the illumination symbolically transcribed in the sacred alphabet, and of which i am about to write. its emanation is its own intensity, but not necessariness, it has and ever will exist, the virgin quantum-by its exuberance we have gained existence. who dare say where, why and how it is related? by the labour of time the doubter inhabits his limit. not related to, but permitting all things, it eludes conception, yet is the quintessence of conception as permeating pleasure in meaning. anterior to heaven and earth, in its aspect that transcends these, but not intelligence, it may be reg

ision clear he directs or leads him as a child to the essential. having shown him the source of wisdom, he retires before gratitude or sentiment sets in, leaving him to fertilize as he wishes. is not this the way of heaven? he who trusts to his natural fund of genius, has no knowledge of its extent and accomplishes with ease, but directly he doubts, ignorance obsesses him. doubt fertilizes in the virgin soil. he is no longer fearless but a coward to difficulties, his very learning is fear. the difference between genius and ignorance is a degree of fear. the beginning of wisdom is fear of forethought the reception of knowledge in learning. children doubt, and abhor learning. why, even the affection of courage results in cleverness! the difference between good and evil is a matter of profund

w exactly what (you believe) your sigil must relate to. if you used any form stupidly, you might possibly "conjure up" exactly what you did not want- the mother of insanity, or what always happens then, nothing at all. this being the only system, any result other than by it is accidental. also you do not have to dress up as a traditional magician, wizard or priest, build expensive temples, obtain virgin parchment, black goat's blood, etc, etc, in fact no theatricals or humbug*(2) free belief or energy, i.e, a disappointed desire, not yet an obsession. sigils are made by combining the letters of the alphabet simplified. illustration*(3, the word "woman" in sigil form is (example) or (example) or (example) etc. the word tiger (example) or (example) etc, etc. the idea being to obtain a simple

f karma. how easy is the way, it would seem as though nothing should be said but all unsaid! may my words be few and pregnant! alas, the futility of the idea of god has not yet reached its limit, all men liars, appear striving for insanity as its climax: while i alone as one prematurely aged, reason tottering on its throne, remain sane, in positive chastity, confessing no conscience, no morals- a virgin in singleness of purpow introduction the field of black and white art has been generously extended since that golden period in the "eighties" when walker and pinwell and millais wrought their quiet designs, although their olden delicacy of interpretation (for us almost wholly in the hands of clemance housman) can still claim charms which our more facile method can never attain. for every s

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a coffee-table/catch-all, if you can! if it is not possible to have a regular altar specially made or adapted and kept for ritual use then you can get by using a coffee-table or similar. in this case keep your deity figures wherever convenient. on a table, shelf or sideboard. they should be respected by your roommate (s) in the same way that you would respect their, or anyone else's, crucifix or virgin mary figure, or whatever, should they have such. when you are able to do your rituals (presumably alone) all you need do is clear enough floor space anywhere convenient and set up your circle, altar, etc. afterwards you will have to clear everything away again. there are many full covens who meet regularly in one-room apartments. a little light furniture moving and a circle can be cast and

eral options available. some say that it must be of rowan wood, others say of ash, or willow, hazel. you can take your pick. the trouble here is that a lot of ceremonial magick has got mixed up with witchcraft (not just in the case of the wand, but with other tools and other aspects of the craft also. for example, some people swear that "the wand must be exactly twenty-one inches long, cut from a virgin hazel tree (one that has never borne fruit, in the hour of mercury on the day of mercury (wednesday, etc, etc, etc" others simply go out and buy a length of wood dowel from their local hardware store and paint it gold! the fact that both wands can work equally well should show that the real magick comes not from the tool but from within the magician or, in this case, the witch. the wand, th

n herbs vitamins are manufactured within plants and depend to some extent on the health and vigor of the plant. the controlling factors are the varieties and the conditions under which the plants are grown. cultivated plants depend almost entirely on chemical fertilizers. seaweeds are supplied with almost unlimited elements to feed on. botanicals growing in the wild state generally thrive only in virgin soils, or in soils that can supply their necessities. when a soil becomes depleted, these botanicals move on (via suckers, creepers, seeds, etc) or are eventually crowded out by neighboring plants. plant vitamins are far easier to digest than vitamins and minerals of fish or animal origin. vitamin a: needed for night vision and functioning of cells of skin and mucous membranes. vitamin a is

CASE PAUL F THE BOOK OF TOKENS

uty of my wisdom may shine from out their hearts, like unto a light burning in a lamp of alabaster. 6 i am the doer of all. nothing moveth but by my power. mine is the healing influence flowing down from consecrated hands, mine the venom of the adder's fang. nothing falleth but by me and in whatsoever riseth mine is the power that lifteth up. 7 my presence is the substance of all things. i am the virgin snow on mountain heights; i am the fruitful loam in valley depths. i am the gold and silver of the temple vessels; i am the mire on sandals left by the faithful at the temple gate. see me and regard me equally in all, o israel, and thou shalt see indeed. 8 for seeing thus, shalt thou see, too, that nothing is, or can be, my antagonist. all, and in all shall i fight myself? what hath power t

e, as woman to man, as eve to adam. yet to every light of emanation proceeding from it on the tree of life doth this same wisdom stand as root and source. hence in the scripture is wisdom spoken of as a woman, as when it is said "wisdom hath builded her a house; but elsewhere to this same wisdom the wise assign the title ab, the father. never is the heavenly wisdom known as mother, for she is the virgin substance of all things, whose purity naught can defile. 5 remember now that i myself am the pure knowing whence all manifestation ariseth. recall to mind that my superior nature is the primal will, the eternal watcher, under whose regard the stream of creation floweth. the substance of the stream is the inferior nature, wherein i see innumerable images of myself. these be all things and cr

ibed in the meditations. the doctrine here is so closely allied to that of the bhagavad-gita as to suggest that our author may have met one of the wandering hindu philosophers [36] c o m m e n t on g i m e l 4 compare the words of this paragraph with the symbols of key 2, the high priestess. the phrase" whose purity naught can defile, means that no matter how many the forms developed from it, the virgin substance is itself unchanged. like water, which holds matter in suspension or solution, this substance remains ever itself. here is one key to the alchemical mystery of the first matter. here, too, one may find a clue to the inner significance of the virgin-myths of all religions [37] the meditation on daleth* 1 i am the door of life, the passage from the world of ideas into the world of f

respect to its numbering as forty. here thou shalt see the figure of the four-fold elemental division of my nature, working through the ten sephiroth. all this is held in the primal water. that element of creative potency is the matrix of all things. 4 hear and forget not. i am both father and mother, and as mother, i am she who bringeth forth and nourisheth. yet this my maternal nature remaineth virgin and unsullied, though it be the womb of birth for countless thousands. 5 absorb thyself in this great sea of the waters of life. dive deep in it until thou hast lost thyself. and having lost thyself. then shalt thou find thyself again, and shalt be one with me, thy lord and king. thus shalt thou learn the secret of the restoration of the king unto his throne [122] m e m 6 and in this path o

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early decades of the nineteenth century and were said to offer protection against drowning. for this reason, hot cross buns were hung from the roofs of coastal churches where their remains can still be seen. the old ways did not die quickly, however, and so for centuries the two religions co-existed as people gradually transferred their allegiance from the earth mother, or mother goddess, to the virgin mary and the female saints. the persecution of witches but in medieval times, two largely political issues brought about the persecution of witches, especially women. the religious emphasis on the sin of eve and the belief in the inferiority of women had existed since the time of st paul, but with the rise of an organised male medical profession, women healers who had acted as herbalists an

dark and light, night and day, positive and negative, destruction and creation are two sides of the same coin, a principle that finds expression in eastern taoism and underpins the ancient chinese/ ching (the book of changes, often used for divination. negativity can be transformed into healing energies through positive ritual. the goddess is the source of all creation, from whom, in the original virgin birth, her son-consort, the horned god, came. the horned god and the goddess are the creative male and female principles that act and react, not in opposition to each other, but as complementary and necessary parts of a whole. there are variations on this idea within the teachings of wicca. some traditions consider the goddess to be of greater significance than her male counterpart. others

motherhood. but in witchcraft, though the sky fathers and their wives are used for the focus of specific rites, the goddess retains the earlier form as the creative principle. as the triple goddess- maiden, mother and wise woman or crone- she is frequently central to coven work. generally in magick the goddess is recognised as the prime mover of existence, bringing forth from herself in the first virgin birth the animus, or male, principle. for this reason, it is often the high priestess who casts the circle, though in some covens the goddess rules over the spring and summer and the horned god over the autumn and winter. other gods and goddesses there is a vast selection of gods and goddesses from many different cultures that you may choose to form a focus for particular energies in ritual

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 circumstances. she is perfect for outdoor love spells and for casting your love net wide to attract an as yet unknown lover. freyja frey

who chose to spend their immortality in the otherworld. she brings inspiration, renewal, health and rejuvenation, and is a focus for all magick, as she is a witch goddess [insert pic p063- diana diana is the roman counterpart of artemis, and because of her strong association with the moon in all its phases, is a goddess of fertility as well as love. like artemis, she is goddess of the hunt and a virgin goddess, but can be invoked in her role as an earth goddess and as protector of women in childbirth. her beauty and hunting skills make her a perfect focus for the pursuit of love, especially from afar. myesyats like the lunar goddesses, myesyats, the slavic moon god, represented the three stages of the life cycle. he was first worshipped as a young man until he reached maturity at the full

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iss physician and philosopher. he was tutored (by his account) by trithemius 1494 reuchlin's de verbo mirifico published. lefevre d'etaples ed. of ficino's pimander in france. 1495-1563 john bale. influenced by the twelfth-century monk joachim of fiore. bale envisioned three laws of nature, bondage and grace encompassing seven ages of world history. 1496 giovanna(zuana) veronese born aka venetian virgin had francesco giorgi as confessor at the convent of st. francesco della vigna; she explained passages of the zohar to guillaume postel 1549-1550 who believed her to be the holy spirit embodied. together working among the poor at the ospedaletto of venice, which was operated by a confraternity. 1499 (d. after) ibn abi jumhur..12th or, hidden imam, is the pole during the period of occultation

teacher to disciple and the their principle unifying form was the distinction of receiving "the initiation" which gave them the right to be known as "unknown superiors" or "superieurs inconnus" or s.i. as it is written"-mark stavish. there were printed editions of them in french, german and latin. james bonaventure hepburn published at rome his virga aurea "the heavenly golden rod of the blessed virgin mary in seventy-two praises" consists of a list of seventy two alphabets (actually seventy, plus latin and hebrew which are the two languages of the text of the plate. cabala, speculum artis et naturae, in alchymia- stephan michelspacher. 1617 first volume of fludd's utriusque cosmi historia 1618 theophilus schweighardt speculum sophicum rhodo-stauroticum. the 'mirror of wisdom' maier's ata

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upon a great beacon upon the gates was immediately fired, so that if any were still upon the way, he might make haste thither. but the way, where it finished at the castle, was enclosed on both sides with walls, and planted with all sorts of excellent fruit trees, and on every third tree on each side lanterns were hung up, in which all the candles were lighted with a glorious touch by a beautiful virgin, dressed in sky-colour, which was so noble and page 13 majestic a spectacle that i yet delayed somewhat longer than was requisite. but at length after sufficient information, and an advantageous instruction, i departed friendlily from the first porter. on the way, i would gladly have known what was written in my letter, yet since i had no reason to mistrust the porter, i forbare my purpose

urse with him, when it began to ring in the castle, whereupon the porter counseled me to run, or else all the pains and labour i had hitherto undergone would serve to no purpose, for the lights above were already beginning to be extinguished. whereupon i went with such haste that i did not heed the porter, i was in such anguish; and truly it was necessary, for i could not run so fast but that the virgin, after whom all the lights were put out, was at my heels, and i should never have found the way, had she not given me some light with her torch. i was moreover constrained to enter right next to her, and the gate was suddenly clapped to, so that a part of my coat was locked out, which i was verily forced to leave behind me. for neither i, nor they who stood ready without and called at the g

ve found the way, had she not given me some light with her torch. i was moreover constrained to enter right next to her, and the gate was suddenly clapped to, so that a part of my coat was locked out, which i was verily forced to leave behind me. for neither i, nor they who stood ready without and called at the gate, could prevail with the porter to open it again, but he delivered the keys to the virgin, who took them with her into the court. meanwhile i again surveyed the gate, which now appeared so rich that the whole world could not equal it. just by the door were two columns, on one of which stood a pleasant figure with this inscription, congratulor. the other, which had its countenance veiled, was sad, and beneath was written, condoleo. in brief, the inscriptions and figures were so d

g; whereupon the door opened by itself, and then the noise of the trumpets was so loud that we were hardly able to endure it. meanwhile (to my thinking) many thousand small tapers came into the hall, all of which themselves marched in so very exact an order as altogether amazed us, till at last the two aforementioned pages with bright torches entered the hall, lighting the way of a most beautiful virgin, all drawn on a gloriously gilded triumphant self-moving throne. it seemed to me that she was the very same who before on the way kindled and put out the lights, and that these attendants of hers were the very same whom she formerly placed at the trees. she was not now, as before, in sky-colour, but arrayed in a snow-white glittering robe, which sparkled with pure gold, and cast such a lust

dom by this disgrace, that they on the contrary had not yet altogether escaped; and perhaps their greatest danger was still to come. at length everyone being assembled again, the trumpets began again to sound and the kettle drums to beat as formerly, and we then imagined nothing other but that the bridegroom was ready to present himself; which nevertheless was a huge mistake. for it was again the virgin of yesterday, who had arrayed herself all in red velvet, and girded herself with a white scarf. on her head she had a green wreath of laurel, which greatly suited her. her train was now no more of small tapers, but consisted of two hundred men in armour, who were all (like her) clothed in red and white. now as soon as they were alighted from the throne, she came straight to us prisoners, an

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acles' recorded throughout religious legend have an extraterrestrial (fourth dimensional) origin. the sight witnessed by 70,000 catholics at fatima, portugal in 1917 sounds like many of the stories described in both the ancient texts and the modern world. the fatima 'miracle' followed a series of meetings between three children and some strange being, which, they said, sometimes manifested as the virgin mary. the being promised to produce a miracle to open the eyes of humanity, and those tens of thousands of people who turned up to witness it did, indeed, see a fantastic sight. but what was it? ufo researcher, jacque vallee, believed he knew when he wrote, in his 1976 book, the invisible college "not only was a flying disc or globe consistently involved, but its motion, its falling leaf tr

were giants on the earth who were descendants of human women and the heavenly beings. they were the great heroes and famous men of long ago. the reason this-world-is-all-there-is science has been unable to find the missing links in human genetic evolution is because there aren't any. the sudden changes in the human form were due to extraterrestrial intervention. this is possibly an origin of the virgin mother legends which are also found throughout the world. in what we call china, they had a 'sky god' called di who was said to have 'miraculously' impregnated a virgin, who then gave birth to zu, the first of the new genetic line. all over the ancient world, you find that the royal families were supposed to have originated with the sky gods- extraterrestrials. records left by the ancient c

ypt. the idea of a lamb dying to forgive the sins of humanity originates from the sumerian belief that if you literally sacrificed a lamb on the altar, it would remove the sins of the people involved. while i was writing this book, i saw a picture in a newspaper of an orthodox jew today, still waving a chicken around the head of a young girl, in the belief that the chicken would absorb her 'sins. virgin mothers of 'saviour' figures abound throughout the ancient world and, indeed, can be found in the beliefs of the native peoples of north, south, and central america. the bible story of the garden of eden is mirrored in the much earlier sumerian story of the garden of edinnu, and even the idea of the sabbath can be found in the sumerian day of rest, the sabattu. the jewish peoples were held

of what the mass of the people are allowed to know. the knowledge of the existence of america and its long term place in the plan was well known to these elizabethan adepts, as it was to those who guided columbus and the cabots, thanks to the fourth dimensional manipulators. the first permanent english settlement in north america was established at jamestown, virginia (named after elizabeth the 'virgin queen, in 1607. many members of the francis bacon family were among the early settlers. from that point on, the native culture of north america was doomed, as was that of south and central america once the spanish and portuguese arrived. the way the native peoples were slaughtered without mercy and their cultures destroyed without respect or compassion was one of the most appalling episodes

eral electric cartel were charged and tried at nuremberg, not the americans. to have done so would have exposed the whole story. international telephone and telegraph (i.t.t) another united states company that was important to hitler and his war machine was international telephone and telegraph, better known as i.t.t. it was the creation of its founder, sosthenes behn, an entrepreneur born in the virgin islands. by 1924, united fronts 95 i.t.t. was closely connected with j.p. morgan, and the board reflected morgan's control. it has been proved that i.t.t. made donations to hitler through german subsidiaries and was a significant supporter of the nazi regime.23 i.t.t. bought a large interest in german armament companies, most particularly the aircraft manufacturer, focke-wolfe. the profits

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ng a global dictatorship, you do not open your eyes to see the endless provable evidence that both "sides" were funded and controlled by the same people operating through wall street and the city of london. the story of "jesus" is another outstanding case, probably the best. the christian religion is based entirely on belief in the historical, literal, existence, of a jewish man who was born to a virgin mother, performed countless "miracles, died on a cross to save us all, disappeared from his tomb after three days, and then ascended to heaven to be with his dad. over the best part of 2,000 years, billions of lives on this planet have been controlled, limited, manipulated and directed by a belief that the jesus story actually happened. still today, vast swathes of humanity are obsessed wit

we shall see, the gospels are nonsense if taken literally, with no historical foundation whatsoever. they are merely the most exploited versions of a symbolic, not literal, story that you find all over the world in all its detail thousands of years before the name "jesus" was first mentioned. t 12 children of the matrix a little quiz. who am i talking about here? he was born on december 25th to a virgin mother; he was called a saviour, the only begotten son, and died to save humanity; he was crucified on a friday "black friday- and his blood was spilled to redeem the earth; he suffered death with nails and stakes; he was the father and son combined in an earthly body; he was put in a tomb, went down into the underworld, but three days later, on march 25th, his body was found to be gone fro

heir belief that these cultures on different sides of the world had never met before. but they had. they were part of the global atlantean/lemurian empire and later the near-global empire of sumer. the leaders of the european explorers like columbus knew the truth, however, because of their secret society background. the corresponding stories and customs on both sides of the atlantic included the virgin birth, crucifixion, circumcision, and the great flood. the similarities were so striking, the christian priests sought to keep this knowledge quiet for fear of undermining their "unique" religion. the key central american deity, quetzalcoatl, was "jesus" under another name long before the christian religion waded ashore with columbus and cortes. quetzalcoatl was born to a virgin mother, fas

is extremely important to the nordic-reptilian genealogy of the illuminati bloodlines (see appendix i. the legend goes that alexander's real father was the serpent god, ammon, who had mysteriously slid into his mother's bed and conceived him.15 the same story was told of the conception of merovee, the founder of the merovingians. this symbolism is supported by many ancient and modern accounts of "virgin birth" impregnations by reptilian beings. the stories of women being abducted by reptilians and then finding themselves pregnant are told today all around the world. often, as the zulu shaman credo mutwa reveals from the experience of african women, the baby "disappears" from the womb during the pregnancy. the anunnaki interbred with all genetic streams and those were the people who ruled b

e major deity of the merovingians. artemis was symbolised with bees, as is the merovingian bloodline. it is the same with other versions of the goddess like demeter, the "pure mother bee, and a symbol of aphrodite was a golden honeycomb. her priestess was given the name melissa, or "queen bee. the word honeymoon comes from this. it spanned a lunar month, normally in may, which was named after the virgin maya, another version of el. the honeymoon would include the menstrual period of the bride and the combination of menstrual blood and honey was once thought to be the elixir of life. el is also the inspiration for the children's stories of mother hubbard or "mother hubur, as she was to the babylonians. mother hubbard was distressed because she couldn't find a bone for her dog (a domesticate

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ymbol of peace, but of death and destruction because of the reverse symbolismthe brotherhood employs. if it is positive to the masses, it is negative to thebrotherhood, and this allows their negative symbols to be placed throughout the publicarena. no-one complains because they have no idea what these symbols, like the dove,really represent.semiramis was called the queen of heaven (also rhea, the virgin mother of the gods,and sometimes known as the great earth mother (ninkharsag. she was also worshippedunder the name astarte the woman who made towers and this could refer to the tower ofbabel (babylon) which nimrod is said to have built. the bloodlines of european royaltycame from the reptile-aryan bloodlines of babylon and the crown evolved from thehorned headgear worn by nimrod. the horns

t royalty. the classic depiction of the devil also52has draco-like horns. nimrod was given the title baal (thelord) and semiramis was baalti (my lady. the latinterm for my lady is mea domina which in its corrupteditalian form became madonna.8 nimrod was represented ina dual role of god the father and ninus, the son ofsemiramis, and her olive branch was symbolic of thisoffspring produced through a virgin birth. ninus was alsoknown as tammuz who was said to have been crucifiedwith a lamb at his feet and placed in a cave. when a rockwas rolled away from the caves entrance three days later,his body had disappeared. heard that somewhere before?this husband-wife-son theme of nimrod-semiramis-andninus/tammuz became the osiris-isis-horus mythologyof the egyptians with its equivalent in india, asia

ime is a version of this. they also symbolised the sun as having long goldenhair (sun rays) which got shorter as he lost his power in the months of autumn. now lookagain at the old testament story of samson -sam-sun. he was incredibly strong and hadlong hair, but he lost his power when his hair was cut. the problems started when heentered the house of delilah- the astrological house of virgo, the virgin, through whichthe sun passes as autumn approaches. summoning his last burst of power, sam-the-sun,pushes down the two pillars, which are classic brotherhood symbolism going back atleast to ancient egypt and are still used by the freemasons today. samson is sam sun- asymbolic story of the suns annual cycle. there wasnt any such person. in hebrew,samson means i understand, the god of the sun

stine and created the stateof israel with the justification that god promised them that land in the oldtestament. who wrote the old testament? their priests, the levites! and who wrote89the new testament which created christianity? people controlled by the same forcewhich controlled the levites, the babylonian brotherhood.the new testamentok, a little quiz. who am i talking about?he was born to a virgin by immaculate conception through the intervention of a holyspirit. this fulfilled an ancient prophecy. when he was born the ruling tyrant wanted to killhim. his parents had to flee to safety. all male children under the age of two were slain bythe ruler as he sought to kill the child. angels and shepherds were at his birth and he wasgiven gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. he was worshi

dad of assyria; deva tat and sammonocadam of siam; alcides of thebes;mikado of the sintoos; beddru of japan; hesus or eros, and bremrillahm, of the druids;thor, son of odin, of the gauls; cadmus of greece; hil and feta of mandaites; gentautand quetzalcoatl of mexico; universal monarch of the sibyls; ischy of formosa; divineteacher of plato; holy one of xaca; fohi and tien of china; adonis, son of virgin lo, ofgreece; ixion and quirinus of rome; prometheus of the caucasus; and mohammed ormahomet, of arabia.22all but a few of those sons of god or prophets, and the mind-prison religions foundedin their names, come from the very lands occupied or influenced by peoples emerging fromthe near east and the caucasus. the lands of the aryans and reptile-aryans. other sons ofgod included mithra or mi

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ward, he must prove his ability to properly apply this energy" page 48 'the secret doctrine' by helena petrovna blavatsky "lucifer represents..life..thought..progress..civilization. liberty..independence..lucifer is the logos..the serpent, the savior" on pages 171, 225, 255 (volume ii "it is satan who is the god of our planet and the only god" pages 215, 216, 220, 245, 255, 533 (vi "the celestial virgin which thus becomes the mother of gods and devils at one and the same time; for she is the ever-loving beneficent deity..but in antiquity and reality lucifer or luciferius is the name. lucifer is divine and terrestial light 'the holy ghost' and "satan' at one and the same time" page 539 (volume) albert pike 33 "that which we must say to a crowd is- we worship a god, but it is the god that on

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ael to his knees before me. after invoking the 30 ayres, i recited the following statement, repeating each line three times: i have risen up waging war on the heavens, by stealth i have conquered the heavens, i sit upon the throne of all creation, as lord of heaven, and earth, and hell. i force all the angels to kneel and supplicate themselves before me. i crucify jesus upon his cross. i rape the virgin mary and make her my concubine. i mock the cabala saying, i am the yod he vau he, i am the divine tetragrammaton, i am yahweh, i am allah, i am the elohim. i mock the cabala as i sit upon the throne of all creation. proclaiming a new aeon this ritual, like the one before it, was not included in the first edition of the demonic bible. it is not intended that the practitioner of the demonic b

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onies and used as a talisman (q.v) or device to attract the loas (q.v) or gods. vibratory formula: in ceremonial magick (q.v, certain words are meant to be vibrated. this means that when sounded (loudly or silently) they should cause not only the practitioner, but all of space around the practitioner and all of the very existence of space before one to vibrate or resonate to the sound. virgo "the virgin" in astrology (q.v, the sixth sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of mutable (q.v) and earth (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 yellow-green. keywords include: picky, overly critical, practicality, with detail, industriously, modestly, analytically, discriminatingly, critically. virtues

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mal kuth, the inferior mother, the bride of microprosopos, the isis of nature, the tenth sephirah, is two-aspected, and these aspects are distinguished as ama, the dark sterile mother, and aima, the bright fertile mother. we have already noted that she is called the great sea, marah, which not only means bitter, but also is the root of mary; and here we meet again the idea of the mother, at first virgin, and then with child by the holy spirit. 13. by the association of binah with the sea we are reminded that life had its primordial beginnings in the waters; from the sea arose venus, the archetypal woman. the association of saturn suggests the idea of primordial age "before the gods that made the gods had drunk at eve their fill" it suggests the most ancient rocks "within the shady stillnes

hetic observers would probably conclude that we worshipped a sheep, and the holy ghost would yield some spectacular interpretations. let us credit other people with using metaphors if we do not expect to be taken literally our-selves. the outer form of the ancient pagan faiths is no cruder than christianity in backward latin countries, where jesus christ is represented in topper and tails and the virgin mary in lace-edged pantaloons. the inner form of the ancient faiths can compare very favourably with the best of our modern metaphysicians. after all, they produced plato and plotinus. the human mind does not change, and what is true of ourselves is probably true of the pagans. the lamb of god which taketh away the sins of the world is only another version of the bull of mithra which does t

alternately prevail; the knowledge of the periodicity of these cycles is part of the secret, guarded, ancient wisdom of the initiates, and is worked out astrologically and qabalistically. 9. the magical image of chokmah and the symbols assigned toit bear out this idea. the magical image is that of a bearded male, bearded to indicate maturity; the father who has proved his manhood, not the untried virgin male. the symbolic language speaks plainly, and the lingam of the hindus and the phallus of the greeks are the male generative organ in their respective tongues. the standing-stone, the tower, and the uplifted rod all signify the same virile member at its most potent. 10. it must not be thought, however, that chokmah is a phallic or sexual symbol and nothing else. it is primarily a dynamic

a hard and fast attribution of the gods of other pantheons to the different sephiroth is impracticable. aspects of isis are to be found in binah, netzach, yesod, and malkuth. aspects of osiris are to be found in chokmah, chesed, and tiphareth. this comes out clearly in greek mythology, wherein the different gods and goddesses are given descnptive titles. for instance, diana, the moon-goddess, the virgin huntress, was worshipped at ephesus as the many-breasted; venus, the goddess of female beauty and of love, had a temple where she was worshipped as the bearded venus. these things teach us some important truths. they teach us to look for the principle behind the multiform manifestation, and to realise that it assumes different forms on different levels. life is not quite so simple as the un

mind that the use of the tree of life is not merely an intellectual exercise; it is a creative art in the literal meaning of the words, and faculties have to be developed in the mind even as manual skill is acquired by sculptor or musician. 21. the yetziratic text specifically refers to binah as the sanctifying intelligence. sanctification conveys the idea of that which is holy and set apart. the virgin mary is held to be intimately associated with binah, the great mother; and from this attribution the mind is led on to the idea of that which brings forth the all but retains its virginity; in other words, whose creativeness does not involve it in the life of its creation, but which remains apart and behind as the basis of manifestation, the root-substance whence matter arises. for although

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ng in front of slow fires, or the crucifying of christened toads, or the reciting of little jingles, such as "horse, hattock, to ride, to ride" but if we understand the use of mind-power we soon realise that these things were simply aids to concentration. there is no essential difference between sticking pins into a 7 of 103 wax image of an enemy and burning candles in front of a wax image of the virgin. you may think that both these practices are gross superstition, but you can hardly think that one is real and potent and deny reality and potency to the other "the weapons of our warfare are not carnal may as truly be said of the practitioners of black magic as of the church. my own case belongs more to the realm of psychology than to occultism, the method employed being an application of

nt of mars, the emotional, suggestible one into the sphere of luna. the influences of these spheres play upon them. now the occultist working under a proper system, knowing that he has got to meet these forces sooner or later, picks them up one by one voluntarily and by means of the appropriate rituals, and synthesises them within his own nature. he knows too that each aspect has its obverse. the virgin mary is reflected in lilith. the older faiths knew this, but popular christianity, which has no roots in tradition, has forgotten it. protestant christianity threw away its occult aspect at the reformation. all the pagan pantheons have gross aspects of divinities as well as etherial ones. we need to search the refuse-heap of history for the lost parts of our own tradition if our faith is to

hese matters. according to the qabalists, lilith was the first wife of adam, who used to visit him in his dreams while he was as yet alone in the garden of eden, and the lord god became so perturbed at these goings-on that he created eve as a counter- attraction. witches were the recipients of similar attentions from the devil. st. theresa of avila records that the godhead itself visited her. the virgin mary received the holy ghost. st. anthony was tempted by apparitions of beautiful female demons. there are many cases on record of whole nunneries being attacked by the devil, who visited their members. george moore, in his exceedingly interesting study of convent life, sister theresa, gives an account of an outbreak of "counterparts" among the younger nuns, in which they formed liaisons wi

sed for packing should also be free from magnetism. i knew of a case wherein the psychic said that a certain trinket belonged either to a nurse or to someone who had to do with hospitals. as a matter of fact, it belonged to neither, but had been packed in surgical cotton-wool. when packing up a psychometric specimen, do it as expeditiously and with as little handling as possible. take a piece of "virgin" black or white silk (not coloured, large enough to serve as a wrapper. throw it over the article and bundle it up rapidly, handling it through the silk. in the occult sense "virgin" means something that has never been used for any other purpose. for instance, you should not use part of an old dress or a cushion-cover. an article which does not lend itself to handling by this method can be

ever been used for any other purpose. for instance, you should not use part of an old dress or a cushion-cover. an article which does not lend itself to handling by this method can be picked up with sugar-tongs or the points of a pair of scissors and laid on the square of silk in which it is to be wrapped. pack the wrapped article in a wooden box, being sure that any padding which is used is also virgin. the report of a single psychometrist should not be relied upon. specimens should be sent to two at least. it is also well when sending specimens, and especially when sending a birth-hour for a horoscope, not to allow the name to be known lest gossip should be spread about. astrologers are much too fond of handing round charts and discussing them. i have known some very unfortunate things c

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iracles is overwhelming in it number and variety. only a few brief examples may be cited here. those interested in the subject should consult the 19th century text a dictionary of miracles by the reverend e. cobham brewer, an excellent compendium of christian wonders that runs to almost six hundred pages of double-column fine print. in 1380 a merchant was transporting a small wooden statue of the virgin mary to antwerp. when he reached the town of schiedam the image made itself too heavy to be moved. all the townspeople flocked to see this marvel, and the conclusion was reached that the virgin wished to remain in schiedam. they induced the merchant to sell the statue, then set it up in the church of st. john the baptist. st. hugh, the abbot of cluny (1024-1109) met a leper on the road and

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ord, which is the divine ocean of movement and of truth. amen! we exorcise water by the imposition of hands, by the breath, and by speech, while mingling in it the consecrated salt, with a little of the ashes which remain in the perfuming pan. the sprinkler is made with branches of vervain, of periwinkle, 3 of sage, of mint, of valerian, of ash and of basil, tied by a thread from the distaff of a virgin, with a handle from a walnut-tree which has not yet borne fruit, and upon which you will engrave with a magic dagger the characters of the seven spirits. you will bless and consecrate separately the salt, and the ashes of the perfume, in saying: upon the salt in isto sale sit sapientia, et ab omni corruptione servet mentes nostras et corpora nostra, per hochmael et in virfute rauch-hochmael

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nother part of his abbacy of the vaux de cernay. the evil spirit first opposed the progress of the abbe taking the form of a tree white with frost, which rushed toward him with inconceivable swiftness. the abbe s horse trembled with fear, as did the servant, but the abbe himself made the sign of the cross, and the tree disappeared. the abbe concluded that he had seen the devil and called upon the virgin to protect him. nevertheless, the fiend shortly reappeared in the shape of a furious black knight. begone, said the abbe. why do you attack me far from my brothers? the devil once more left him, but returned in the shape of a tall man with a long, thin neck. to get rid of him, adam struck him a blow with his fist. the evil spirit shrank and took the stature and countenance of a little cloak

version was printed in paris in 1552. rabbi akiba was a great teacher who developed a rabbinical school at jaffu, and his mishnah became the foundation of the religious code. he was involved in the revolt of bar-cochba against hadrian in 132 c.e. and suffered martyrdom by being flayed alive. akita in 1969, akita, japan, was the site of one of the more prominent modern series of apparitions of the virgin mary. while praying, sister agnes sasagawa, a young postulate of the order of the handmaids of the eucharist, a roman catholic order community, received a locution, a clairaudient message, concerning how she should pray. she ascribed this voice to an angel. the content of the prayer, she later discovered, was the same as that given to the three children who had seen the virgin mary at fatim

t of the prayer, she later discovered, was the same as that given to the three children who had seen the virgin mary at fatima. sister mary was deaf. four years later she received another locution, which happened to coincide with the development of the stigmata, a mysterious cross-shaped wound on her hand that refused to stop bleeding. the inner voice directed her to the chapel, where she saw the virgin for the first time. she also heard a series of accompanying messages from the virgin calling for prayer and sacrifice. the words seemed to come from a wooden statue of the virgin located in the chapel. she would see the virgin two more times. the last of the three messages complained of problems of discord and compromise within the church reaching to the highest levels. these apparitions wo

can order in 1223, taught in paris and cologne, and became the teacher of thomas aquinas. the term magnus, which is usually applied to him, is not the result of his reputation but is the latin equivalent of his family name, de groot. as with many other men destined to become famous, he was distinctly stupid as a boy, but from the outset he showed a predilection for religion. one night the blessed virgin appeared to him, which caused his intellect to metamorphose, acquiring extraordinary vitality. albertus therefore decided that he must show his gratitude to the madonna by entering the priesthood, and eventually he won eminence in the clerical profession. in 1260 he became bishop of ratisbon. his books include summa de creaturis and summa theologiae. albertus was repeatedly charged by some

o had lived there before the reformation of the monastery in 1513. it seems alis led a rather worldly life, following pleasure and enjoyment in a manner unbecoming to a nun, finally stealing the ornaments from the altar and selling them. she left the monastery and for a time continued her disgraceful career outside, but before she died she repented of her sins and, through the intercession of the virgin, received pardon. however, she was refused christian burial and was interred without the usual prayers and funeral rites. a number of years later, when the monastery was occupied by other nuns, one of their number, a girl of about eighteen years, was aroused from her sleep by the apparition of sister alis. for some time afterward the spirit haunted her wherever she went, continually rapping

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prosopus means creator of the great world. macumba african-derived brazilian religions that have spirit possession as a central feature. madonna ministry the madonna ministry is a new thought metaphysical ministry founded by bishop arnold michael, formerly a minister with the united church of religious science. as a young man, in 1947 he had written a book, blessed among women, on the life of the virgin mary published in 1948. the writing of the book became a life-altering event and michael left his job managing a restaurant and studied for the religious science ministry. he served religious science churches for the next 35 years. in 1980, he returned to his consideration of the virgin mary and began writing a series of newsletters under the title madonna ministry that explored mary s role

raphy, anna kingsford: her life, letters, diary (1896. he died in the following year on october 2, 1897. sources: kingsford, anna. clothed with the sun. london: john m. watkins, 1889. kingsford, anna, and edward maitland. the perfect way; or, the finding of christ. london, 1882. rev. ed. london, 1887. reprint, mokelumne hill, calif: health research, 1972. reprint, boston: esoteric book, 1988. the virgin of the world. 1885. reprint, minneapolis: wizard s bookshelf, 1977. maitland, edward. anna kingsford: her life, letters, diary. london, 1896. the story of anna kingsford and edward maitland and of the new gospel of interpretation. birmingham, england: ruskin press, 1905. mak, a(rie (1914) dutch school director and experimenter in the field of parapsychology. he was born november 23, 1914, a

without foundation. it transpired that these books were part of the diana vaughan conspiracy of gabriel jogand-pages( leo taxil, designed to embarrass the roman catholic church and freemasonry. sources: stein, gordon. encyclopedia of hoaxes. detroit: gale research, 1993. mariapovch povch was a village in northeastern hungary and the place of origin of one of the more notable weeping icons of the virgin mary revered among eastern rite roman catholic christians. the icon was prepared by stefan papp, the brother of the pastor of the local parish church. originally, the icon was intended for display in the local parish church. the picture of the virgin was shown holding the infant jesus, who in turn held a threepetaled lotus in his hand. the icon was seen to weep for the first time on novembe

ing icon of mariapovch. http//www.carpathorusyn. org. april 14, 2000. marie of agreda (or maria de jesus (1602.1665) a spanish nun, maria fernandez coronel, who founded and was abbess of the franciscan recollects at agreda. she published a work entitled la mystica ciudad de dios (the mystic city of god, a miracle of the all-powerful, the abyss of grace: divine history of the life of the most holy virgin mary, mother of god, our queen and mistress, manifested in these last times by the holy virgin to the sister marie of jesus, abbess of the convent of the immaculate conception of the town of agreda, and written by that same sister by order of her superiors and confessors. this work, which was condemned by the sorbonne, described many strange and miraculous happenings said to have befallen t

gin mary, mother of god, our queen and mistress, manifested in these last times by the holy virgin to the sister marie of jesus, abbess of the convent of the immaculate conception of the town of agreda, and written by that same sister by order of her superiors and confessors. this work, which was condemned by the sorbonne, described many strange and miraculous happenings said to have befallen the virgin mary from her birth on, including a visit to heaven in her early years, when she was given a guard of 900 angels. these revelations appear to have come out of her own spiritual raptures, but were full of inaccuracies. she was said to have lived a pious life in spite of the condemnation of her writings. marion, frederick (1892) stage name of josef kraus, famous european performer of stage te

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supposed to have supplanted in the imaginations of the superstitious and impressionable, according to any number of skeptical commentators were noted on occasion. at least one recent book from a reputable publisher janet bord s fairies: real encounters with little people (1997) argued that such things are a genuine aspect of a universe so complex that we cannot begin to understand it. the blessed virgin mary appeared, as usual, all over the world, as did other sorts of divine entities. the world, of course, goes on with its business as if none of this were true, taking serious (as opposed to tabloid) note only when belief in otherworldly beings goes horrendously wrong and thirty-nine cult members commit suicide while awaiting the arrival of a spaceship following a comet. the march 1997 mas

ed further reading brodu, jean-louis, 1995. magonia: a re-evaluation. in steve moore, ed. fortean studies: volume 2, 198 215. london: john brown publishing. drake, w. r, 1964. spacemen in the middle ages. flying saucer review10, 3 (may/june: 11 13. vallee, jacques, 1969. passport to magonia: from folklore to flying saucers. chicago: henry regnery company. marian apparitions visions of the blessed virgin mary (bvm) have been reported since at least the third century of the christian era. the first for which there is anything approximating detailed knowledge dates back to 1061 when the bvm provided a vision of christ s residence in nazareth and directed the witness, the lady of the manor in walsingham, norfolk, to see that a precise copy was constructed on the spot. a few visions are well kn

f an h o u r. when she and her friend ma ry mcloughlin we re on their way back to the p r i e s t s house, her friend re m a rked on the figu res. she ran off to notify re l a t i ves. me a nwhile, beirne watched the scene care f u l l y, later p roviding this description to inve s t i g a t o r s: i beheld. not only the three figures, but an altar further on the left of the figure of the blessed virgin mary, and to the left of the bishop and above the altar a lamb about the size of that which is five weeks old. behind the lamb appeared the cross; it was a bit away from the lamb, while the latter stood in front from it, and not resting on the wood of the cross. around the lamb a number of gold-like stars appeared in the form of a halo. this altar was placed right under the window of the ga

sted in a wide range of anomalous phenomena, treated bvm and comparable religious miracles as parapsychological phenomena. further reading dash, mike, 1997. b o rd e rl a n d s. london: he i n e m a n n. delaney, john j, ed, 1960. a woman clothed with the sun: eight great appearances of our lady in modern times. garden city, ny: hanover house. mcclure, kevin, 1983. the evidence for visions of the virgin mary. wellingborough, northamptonshire, england: aquarian press. nickell, joe, with john f. fischer, 1988. secrets of the supernatural: investigating the world s occult mys- teries. buffalo, ny: prometheus books. rogo, d. scott, 1982. miracles: a parascientific in- quiry into wondrous phenomena. new york: dial press. van meter, david, 1999. digest of marian apparitions and catholic apocalyp

s, she saw what she thought was a ufo in the clear sky. suddenly, she found herself in poza rica. though her wristwatch told her it was 11 a.m, the actual time was 2 p.m. she had no idea how she had traveled the 185 miles to the city. in the weeks to come, she experienced weakness and nausea. when a doctor examined her, he pronounced her pregnant. she protested that this was impossible; she was a virgin. nonetheless, seven months later, she gave birth to a hideous creature described as having double-membraned eyes, thick froglike lips, joined fingers and hard, shell-feature on its skin which [was] similar to a tortoise s shell. at first the doctors and nurses panicked. the clinic director finally managed to calm them. he ordered them to keep the matter strictly confidential. the creature w

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he has uncovered homunculus. proteus [astonished] a radiant dwarflet! such i never did see! thales he asks advice and fain would come to be. he has, he told me, come to earth but half-way formed, a quite peculiar birth. he has no lack of qualities ideal but lacks too much the tangible and real. till now the glass alone has given him weight; he d like forthwith to be incorporate. proteus you are a virgin s son, yea, verily: you are before you ought to be! thales [softly] and from another angle things seem critical; he is, methinks, hermaphroditical. proteus success must come the sooner in that case; as soon as he arrives, all will fit into place. but here there is not much to ponder: your start must be in that wide ocean yonder! there on a small scale one begins, the smallest things is glad

yet tender, heaven s own lofty queen! it is her splendour. enraptured. highest mistress of the world, let me, of thy pleasure, see thy mystery unfurled in the vaulted azure. look with grace on what doth move human hearts to greet thee and with holy bliss of love bears them up to meet thee. all invincible we feel when supreme thou willest, swiftly tempered is our zeal when its glow thou stillest. virgin, pure in fairest sense, mother sweet, supernal, chosen queen of our defence, peer of gods eternal! little clouds circle around her splendour: penitent women, of natures tender, ether respiring, at her knees pleading, her mercy needing. o thou of immaculate ray, from thee tis not taken that those lightly led astray come with trust unshaken. rapt away, to weakness prone, it is hard to save th

youthful strength, oh, grant that i may now instruct him, since blinds him still the new-born day. mater gloriosa. come, rise to higher spheres! conduct him! if he feels thee, he ll go thy way. doctor marianus [prostrate, adoring. penitents, look up, elate, where ye see salvation; grateful, to you blessed fate grow through re-creation. may each better sense be keen in thy service precious; o thou virgin, mother, queen, goddess, be thou gracious! chorus mysticus. all earth comprises is symbol alone; what there ne er suffices as fact here is known; all past the humanly wrought here in love; the eternal-womanly draws us above. fi wthis chart shows the correlations between the sinatic hebrew, ezra hebrew, and rashi aramaic alphabets. the numerical value assigned to each letter by the qabalah

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nutterably drunk striving thy depths. i am the great cypher of love and hate knotted. the sphinx surviving, never sufficiently imagined. i am the grotesque refractions of form and self. the bitter purgative, called death. a violence that out-lasts the morning. moon turbulent waters am i: the frightening black albatross of unashamed women-where men are. i am the over mature breasts of a child: the virgin womb, hidden by nightmares. constant in metamorphosis, permeating creation without compassion. the unexcelled impulse that has never failed. yea, i am all these-yet never known. my kiss is a sword thrust! for whom, am i, this insatiable fountain in the hot deserts? only for thee, o, l.c.o'cs" thus sang aaos, the blasphemer, throwing off his grave shroud. going again among men [for he pleasu

. then the evil voice died. for years aaos wandered restlessly seeking, but never finding his lost love: thinking they were both in hell. then in his utmost weariness and despair, he thought much more deeply; and at last realized that the dream was the time for magic. and then he willed. with the new moon his wish was materialized and again he met his first and only love. their hearts being still virgin, aaos spoke unto her "out of chaos have i awaked and found thee, o beloved. death itself shall not part us; for by thee alone will i have children" and they married and were ecstatic thereafter: for in their ecstasy he noticed death smile. aaos then awoke still living their ecstasy, and breathing heavily, spake to him self thus "when the thing desired is again incarnated at the time of ecst

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p. 359-62 ^d cf. j. seznec, the survival of the pagan gods, pp. 37 ff. 81 ficino's natural magic classical form of the group. they perhaps also regained their talismanic virtue through the renaissance of magic. and yet, just as a pagan renaissance work of art is not purely pagan but retains christian overtones or undertones (the classical example of this being botticelli's venus v/ho looks like a virgin, so it is also with ficino's magic. this cannot be regarded as a purely medical practice which he kept quite separate from his religion because, as d. p. walker has emphasised, it was in itself a kind of religion. walker has quoted a passage from ficino's close disciple and imitator, francesco da diacetto in which this comes out most clearly.1 diacceto describes how one who wishes to acquir

the prophetic figure with the zodiac (pi. 3) who ends the series of the planets, above the sibyls. in the next room are twelve prophets with the twelve apostles; the christianity foretold by hebrew and gentile prophets has arrived, represented by the apostles. in the following rooms come the seven liberal arts, with astrology the most prominent, seven saints, and seven scenes from the life of the virgin. it is, so far, a perfectly orthodox programme. but very strange are the egyptian scenes in the room of the saints. the emblem of the borgia family was the bull, and the borgia bull becomes identified in this series with apis, the bull worshipped by the egyptians as the image of osiris, the sun god it is by a series of allusive shifts in meaning as the frescoes tell their story that the egy

been suggested to bruno by a hermetic treatise, not one of the familiar ones in the corpus hermeticum but one of those preserved by stobaeus in his anthology. this is the treatise known as the kore kosmou* or 1 see above, p. 64. 2 see above, p. 131. 3 spaccio, dial. 3 (dial, ital, p. 780. 4 c.h, iv, pp. 1-22 (stobaeus excerpt xxiii. 215 giordano bruno in england: the hermetic reform "daughter (or virgin) of the world, or, in patrizi's latin translation as the minerva mundi. it is in the form of a dialogue between isis and her son horus in which momus is also one of the speakers. isis begins by describing the creation, an early stage of which was the arrangement of the celestial images on which all things below depend.1 the things of the lower world were then created, but this lower nature

iniquity, the cancer of slowness, the capricorn of deception. let not the scorpio of fraud come near us, nor the centaur of animal affection, the altar of superstition, the crown of pride, the fish of unworthy silence. may the twtns of indecent familiarity fall with them, and the bull of concern for mean things, the ram of inconsiderateness, the lion of tyranny, the aquarius of dissoluteness, the virgin of fruitless conversation, and the sagittarius of detraction' in the nova de universis phihsophia, ferrara, 1591, and venice, 1593. see above, p. 182. on patrizi's publication of the stobaeus fragments, see scott, i, p. 40. 2 the anthologium of stobaeus, compiled circa a.d. 500, is a collection of extracts from greek writers amongst which are several hermetica. some of these are the same as

immagini degli dei, the plates of which often show greek and egyptian forms together. the gods of the spaccio almost, as it were, tremble between the two forms as the egyptian power grows. the appartamento borgia frescoes, showing the greek cow, io, turning into isis in egypt, perhaps move within a similar frame of reference, though they are orthodox in showing the egyptian bulls worshipping the virgin and saints, like proper prisci theologi. bruno's views on the history of prisca theologia, or prisca magia, are made abundantly clear: do not suppose that the sufficiency of the chaldaic magic derived from the cabala of the jews; for the jews are without doubt the excrements of egypt, and no one could ever pretend with any degree of probability that the egyptians borrowed any principle, goo

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or perception. after charging the sigil, you place it in a prominent position until you are no longer consciously aware of it. as mentioned previously, you may also engrave the glyph on the outer side of a ring or into a metal plate as a talisman, etc. sigils and talismans/amulets basically, it is of no importance at all which material you use d. if you are a traditionalist-purist and want to use virgin parchment, you may do so, of course, but normal paper is quite good enough.7 after activation, sigils are usually burned or otherwise destroyed, but you can also make talismans and amulets out of them. in this case, you will want to use more durable materials. one way of doing this is by drawing the sigil on a piece of parchment or sturdy paper. if you charge it sex magically, you may put s

ntire system, and we do not have a single convincing indication why we should take this for granted. the following explanations should, therefore, be understood as my own, personal interpretations. the approach descri bed hereafter has proved to be effective enough in my practical work, and we can find similar methods in other systems as well,11 but we must admit that we are more or less breaking virgin soil here. the advantage of this approach is that it leaves enough room for personal exploration, which might especially appeal to the more experienced sigil magician. basically, i shall describe two main forms of approach and ways of dealing with the alphabet in this chapter: 1) the alphabet of desire as a principle of structure bedded in a framework; and 2) the alphabet of desire em the a

spirit only, without appreciating the vessel which enables its existence in the first place. to complete the picture, it must be mentioned that sigil magic is not the only magical way. thus, the gpath of carnal memory h may easily be combined with purely mental and mystical paths, if this is preferred. atavistic nostalgia offers us a variety of aspects which have yet to be explored. here we find virgin land which has been waiting for millions of years to be discovered and charted! finally, i would like to mention that present ex- working with atavistic nostalgia/ 93 ar to be so to us, but, of course for experi experience has shown that sigils created with the pic-torial method as well as the alphabet of desire do better in atavistic nostalgia than other glyphs. the reason for this might b

fno-ta gdie sprache des unbewusten, anleitung zur erarbeitung einer individuellen ritualesprache h in unicorn, iii/82, pp. 137-441 ic in seeing a giraffe with closed eyes, try very intensely not to see one. sometimes the spell is immediately broken by this simple trick. 6. ray sherwin, the book of results (leeds: the sorcerer fs apprentice press, p. 34. 7. i should perhaps briefly point out that virgin parch-ment is not, as many people still seem wont to believe, tanned from the hymens of desperately destitute virgins! instead, the skin of unborn calves is used for its manufacture. laughter the s abortion for obtaining it, only animals which have died in an accident, had to be put to sleep, or died a natural death can be exploited. this is why the most time-honored commodity of all wester

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ffairs and aiming to advance them by industry and statecraft, and a priest, head of the priestcraft, exercising a spiritual authority, in such a manner as they considered for the eternal good of their charges. the statecraft employed by the sons of cain holds up the male ideal, hiram abiff, the master craftsman, the son of fire, while the sons of seth as priestcraft uphold the female ideal in the virgin mary, the lady of the sea. thus fire and water, male and female, church and state, are opposed to each other, with the inevitable result that a great war has been waged ever since the separation, that sin, sorrow and death are rampant, and that humanity is praying for the day of redemption, when the two streams shall be united in the kingdom of heaven where there is neither marrying nor giv

nce there was enmity between cain, the son of fire, and abel, the son of water. so cain slew abel and abel was replaced by seth. in time and through generations, the sons of cain became the craftsmen of the world, skilled in the use of fire and metal. their ideal was male, hiram abiff, the master workman. the sons of seth, on the other hand, became the churchmen, upholding the feminine ideal, the virgin mary, and ruling their people by the magic water placed at their temple doors. various attempts have been made to unite the two streams of humanity and emancipate them from their progenitors, jehovah and the lucifer spirits. with this end in view the symbolical temple was built according to the instruction of solomon, the son of seth and the molten sea was cast by hiram abiff, the son of ca

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g the male ideal, which is diametrically opposite to that of the hierarchy which works in the plastic element water. in the present day temples of the latter order, magic water stands at the door, and all who enter are required to apply this lethal liquid to the point in the forehead where the spirit resides; their reason is drowned in dictums and dogmas, and the female ideal is worshipped in the virgin mary. faith is the prime factor in their salvation, the attitude of unquestioning childlike obedience being cultivated. it is different in the temple of the other order; when the candidate enters there "poor "naked" and "blind" he is asked at once what he is seeking, and when he answers "light" it is the duty of the master to give what he asks and make him a phree messen--a child of light

nd superhuman rulers- lemurian epoch atlantean& aryan epochs new galilee- humanity was double-sexed temporal powers abolition of sex malefemale\ finding the word each being a/ king initiates\ the word becomes complete phree messen [children of light] flesh creative unit initiation by fire [light- melchisedec: male ideal christ: king& priest hiram abiff king& priest just& holy- just& holy received virgin mary baptism of spirit sacrifice female ideal- divine ruler priests--brahmins--levites divine ruler over a over human initiation by water [baptism] purged humanity called brotherhood/ abraham's seed dwelling typified by/ in the new jer-u-salem abraham ecclesiastical powers which means melchisedec is there shall be peace called king of division into races--nations- salem [peace] sects and pe

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christ returns. more and more satanism is uncover as time continues. freemasonry shares the belief in the serpent symbolizing time, as the second ouroboros indicates. listen to pike explain this briefly but clearly "a serpent-ring was a well-known symbol of time" ibid, p. 497] as pike is explaining the mason's spiritual belief about the serpent, he mentions the zodiac, bees and honey. listen "the virgin of the zodiac is bitten in the heel by serpens, who, with scorpio, rises immediately behind her; and as honey, the emblem of purity and salvation, was thought to be an antidote to the serpent's bite, so the bees of aristaeus, the emblems of nature's abundance, are destroyed through the agency of the serpent, and regenerated within the entrails of the vernal bull. the sun-god is finally vict

newton, the builders: a story and study of masonry, cedar rapids, iowa, the torch press, 1914, p. 9] a different hidden meaning for the broken column is learned later on by the mason "in egyptian mythology, isis is sometimes pictured weeping over the broken column, which conceals the body of her husband, osiris, while behind her stands horus, or time, pouring ambrosia over her hair" isis was both virgin and mother, so the 'beautiful virgin is isis weeping. the broken column is the missing member of osiris, the phallus [short talk bulletin "the broken column" feb, 1956, p. 6-7; also edmond ronayne, the master's carpet (mah-hah-bone, 1879, p. 387-88, and several other masonic authors] horus is another name for satan. isis is the consort of lucifer. isis just lost her husband (osiris, that is

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can take form and propagates itself. binah is often called the heavenly mother or holy spirit. her letter is h (heh, the numerical value of which is 5. binah possesses 50 gates, which is symbolical of the heh multiplied by the od; her symbol is the dove; her dimension is depth, whilst kether's is length (compare the lingam and yoni in hindu mythology; and her colour is sky blue, the colour of the virgin mary. from the union between kether and binah emanates 'hokmah (3) hmkc 'hokmah, wisdom. the third sephirah is the son or logos and the firstborn. it represents abstract ideas, the fruit of the gi am h forming in the mind. in the qabalah it is often called gthe only begotten son h. gin the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and the word was god h 17 here we have presented to

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exes in reproduction, and at a time when a mother and her child represented the deity, the sun was worshiped as the female jove. everything in the universe was a part of this great god. at that time there had been no division in the god-idea. the creator constituted a dual but indivisible unity. dionysos formerly represented this god, as did also om, jove, mithras, and others. jove was the "great virgin" whence everything proceeds "jove first exists, whose thunders roll above, jove last, jove midmost, all proceeds from jove; female is jove, immortal jove is male; jove the broad earth, the heavens irradiate pale. jove is the boundless spirit, jove the fire, that warms the world with feeling and desire" in a former work the fact has been mentioned that the first clue obtained by herr bachofe

ling the bull. the divinity baal was both female and male. the god of the jews in an early stage of their career was called baal. the oriental ormuzd was also dual or androgynous. orpheus teaches that the divine nature is both female and male. according to proclus, jupiter was an immortal maid "the queen of heaven, and mother of the gods" all things were contained within the womb of jupiter. this virgin within whom was embodied the male principle "gave light and life to eve" she was the life-giving, energizing power in nature, and was identical with aleim, om, astarte, and others. the goddess esta, or vesta, or hestia, whom plato calls the "soul of the body of the universe" is believed by beverly and others to be the self-existent, the great "she that is" of the hindoos, whose significance

resolved themselves into the sun, and if light and life, or wisdom and the power to reproduce and sustain life, constituted the deity, then of course god or the sun would be female or male, or both, according to the prevailing belief in the comparative creative and sustaining forces of the sexes. from what appears in the foregoing pages the fact has doubtless been perceived that the worship of a virgin and child does not, as is usually supposed, belong exclusively to the romish christian church, but, on the contrary, that it constitutes the most remote idea of a creator extant. as has been hinted, there is little doubt that the earliest worship of the woman and child was much simpler than was that which came to prevail in later ages, at a time when every religious conception was closely v

extant. as has been hinted, there is little doubt that the earliest worship of the woman and child was much simpler than was that which came to prevail in later ages, at a time when every religious conception was closely veiled beneath a mixture of astrology and mythology. after the planets came to be regarded as active agencies in reproduction, and powerful in directing all mundane affairs, the virgin of the sphere while she represented nature was also the constellation which appeared above the horizon at the winter solstice, or at the time when the sun had reached its lowest point and had begun to return. at this time, the 25th of december, and just as the days began to lengthen, this virgin gave birth to the sun-god. it is said that he issued forth from her side, hence the legend that

gotama buddha was produced from the side of maya, and also the story believed by the gnostics and other christian sects that jesus was taken from the side of mary.[31 [31] the fact will doubtless be remembered that a similar belief was entertained concerning the birth of julius caesar. within the churches and in the streets of many cities of germany are to be observed figures of this traditional virgin. she is standing, one foot upon a crescent and the other on a serpent's head, in the mouth of which is the sprig of an apple tree on which is an apple. the tail of the serpent is wound about a globe which is partially enveloped in clouds. on one arm of the virgin is the child, and in the hand of the other arm she carries the sacred lotus. her head is encircled with a halo of light similar t

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

us to the summits of heroism and sacrifice. it has been revealed. to me in vision that by a voluntary act we may transfer the merits of a noble and virtuous existence to the most chaste and starbright soul of israfel,whowill shine in the eternal worldwiththeirnputedmeritofbothour lives(israfel,pp.11-12).israfel is described invariably in terms of sexual purity:'hestandswithface transfigured in a virgin's robe;'heis a white virgin whose spotless maidenhood isour faith,ourpioushope;ourbondofbrotherhood in the charityofthenewlife;'hischief emblem is the unicorn, in which inviolate chastity is typified (pp.13, 28,31).but if waite's soul was transformed, theoldadam was sleeping rather than dead, foritis repression, not sublimation, that is implied by the claim that'thesight of his passionless

he world. it will combine atthesame time all the conveniences of an institution, to which members may resort for the more ordinary purposes of life, and for harmonious communication within the bonds of a common sympathy.267 xiiitheprivate objects of prosecution on the part of associates and) members will be the attainment of the following exalted interior states:(a)'themanifestation of the divine virgin.(b)themanifestationofthe dual flower.(c)thevisionofdiana unveiled.(d)thenewbirth or interior regeneration.(e)therevelationofthe holy graal) theinterior translation.(g)themystic marriage.xivby the exercises which give entrance to these states, it is intended to qualify and prepare at all points an elect, esoteric circle for the regeneration of humanity, the propaganda of the new mysticism, t

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

raftsmen. history narrates to us the splendid mental achievementsofbasil valentine, artephius, nicholas flamel, pastellus, petrusofabano, cardan, gaffarelli, jacob behmen and robert fludd.thesociety in the same manner fails to recognize any worth for occult research in women.thisalso is an innovation upon the scheme of the ancient mysteries in many of which, notably those of isis, priestesses and virgin prophets were prominent ministers. i wish indeed to call special attention to the fact that in several instancesofthe ancientmsswritten in cipher, where reference is made to the fratres and sorores, the words'her'or 'him' occur, thus clearly showing that in older times as at the present day, women rose to high rank and attainments in the secret knowledge of the order. history is by no means

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m which there was an occasional escape of some noxious gas from a subterranean cavern. beside or over this chasm was placed a tripod; a sibyl or maiden priestess called the pythia was placed on occasion upon the tripod seat, and it is supposed that she became intoxicated with fumes and suffered a delirium, in which state she gave the inspired messages. in the earliest time, the pythia was a young virgin, but a pythia having been seduced by a man of thessaly, it was decreed that every future pythia should be fifty years old,but196themagical masonshe was always clad as a young girl. the oracles which have come down to us are all in greek and the oldest were in verse; the messages always tended to inculcate religious conduct and to encourage the worship of the. gods. the real control ofthis o

eam has been realised, is seldom heard. arithmomancy there are very few extant records of the modes used bytheancient greeks and romans in divination by numbers; it was associated with the pythagorean teachings.thepractical magical use of numbers taught by the hebrew kabalistic rabbis was a distinct science. crystallomancythiswas performed by filling a glass vase with water, when some pure boy or virgin, or a womanenceintewas, after gazing intothewater, made to describe the scenes which had appeared: this procedure seems a form of se1f-hypnotisation. this mode of divination was well known among the arabs, whose wonder-working sheiks are still saidtoget correct answers to questions from boys made to stare into a little pool ofinkheld in the palm of the hand.ofthis magic, instances may be fo

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

sofboyhood,i determined to try a black magicalform1.l1a,out(c)fanold book picked up; heaven only'but which certainly i oughtnotto have had access to .225 1'hedetails of that experimentanditsresult are fresh inlilymemory now, after thelapseof over fifty years. where the formula came from 1 kriownot, probablyitwasor.'faked'-but i, took it, literally. the key name wasszaihan.thiswas to be written on virgin parcbn1ent, with a new quill pen, with the bloodofa, andrnyname beneath with the blood ofpigeon. 1 knew not what virgin parchment might be;but1 gotanewand clean piece and bribed a keeper to procure a pigeon and a crow, and the parchnientwas duly inscribed. it was then to be placedinsome close and dark receptacle.,i chose a bottle and corked it tight.1was then to walk round it widdershinssev

us places. thus we have to trace out the hermetic philosophy. here and there we gathertracesofit,from all the philosophies of the west. we can find, it is true, what is said to be thefirstorigin of it: there are pretty reliable transcripts of what is called the emerald tablet of hermes, on which the first principles of the philosophy arewritten255unintelligible without a key. we have also in the 'virgin of the world' and 'divine pymander' scattered sentences containing great wisdom,butalmost. unintelligible. if we want to interpret them, we must look to egypt for a clue, which we find in thehieroglyphics-as, for example,inillustrating the passage of the soul after death; and in connection with that, one cannotbutbe struck with the similarity of the teachings of these hieroglyphics and the

GILBERT R A CHAOS OUT OF ORDER THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SWEDENBORGIAN RITE

grabianka followed (after a visit to the swedenborgians in london) and in 1786 they founded the societe des illumines d avignon. precisely what this band of visionaries believed and taught is unclear; their doctrines have been described as a blend of swedenborgianism and roman catholicism, salted with occultism. to the cold intellectualism of the swedish visionary was added the veneration of the virgin mary and recital of the athanasian creed; while individual members studied renaiss-ance alchemy, the theurgy of alexandria, hermetic authors, the philosopher s stone, the divine science of numbers, and the mystical interpretation of dreams4[4. even less is known of the rituals they practised, but when two english swedenborgians, william bryan and john wright, visited the society in 1789, th

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. in theosophy and related traditions, there is an original nothing or absence (1st c, a triune principle of will, the word and wisdom (2nd c) and a series of seven planes which bring together the other characteristics. the underworld is subsumed within the astral plane which is heindel s desire plane. the seven planes according to the rosicrucian cosmo-conception (heindel) divine plane. plane of virgin spirits. plane of divine spirit. plane of life spirit. plane of thought. desire plane. physical world. the gnostic handbook page 20 while this model may be useful, especially in the creation of resonances or correspondences between phenomena (for example, relating seven planes to the seven bodies of man, seven colours and rays etc. it can also be counter traditional and reductionist. the te

her of the living, shining mother and the holy spirit. sophia is seen as the counterpart of the logos and cannot work without. it is hence suggested in esoteric gnostic literature that it was the combined power of jesus and mary madgadene who transmitted the mysteries, not jesus alone. the sophia tradition has survived hidden under the veil of christian piety, it is still found in the cult of the virgin mary and is most powerful in the russian orthodox traditions. it is a tradition of great age and some beauty that personifies the power of the holy spirit as distinctly female. for example, in proverbs particularly we have sophia wandering the street begging men to love her. while in the following quotes we may even begin to think that sophia or wisdom is separate, yet in reality, sophia is

tradition to expound. together all models illustrate the multi-faceted nature of reality, the earth being only one plane within a larger picture. there can be many views of such a structure, ranging from alternative universes, dimensions or planes to other realities, each has its place in our understanding. the seven planes max heindel model theosophical model divine plane. divine plane. plane of virgin spirits monadic plane. plane of divine spirit spiritual plane plane of life spirit intuitional plane plane of thought mental plane desire plane astral plane physical plane physical plane the divine plane this is the point of origin, the matrix from which all universal systems evolve. it is the plane of the triune principle and on a more tangible level, the dimension from which the upper wor

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ine plane this is the point of origin, the matrix from which all universal systems evolve. it is the plane of kether in the kabbalah and on a more tangible level, the dimension from which the source of light originates. this is the goal for those on the celestial path. the seven planes. four worlds traditional lifeforms (rosicrucian (kabbalah. divine plane. atziluth. source of all light. plane of virgin spirits. atziluth. gods. plane of divine spirit. briah. arch angels. plane of life spirit. briah. arch angels. plane of thought. yetzirah. angels. desire plane. yetzirah. angels. physical world. assiah. human spirits. from briah through to assiah there are mixtures of light and darkness due to the alpha event. accordingly there are destructive as well as constructive arch angels, demons as

. arch angels. plane of thought. yetzirah. angels. desire plane. yetzirah. angels. physical world. assiah. human spirits. from briah through to assiah there are mixtures of light and darkness due to the alpha event. accordingly there are destructive as well as constructive arch angels, demons as well as angels and fallen spirits as well as human spirits. fig 5 gnostic theurgy page 28 the plane of virgin spirits this is also known as the monadic plane. from this plane the true self (yechidah) or the pneumatic light self operates in the present cycles, though in most of humanity it is in a embryonic form only. in the cycles of creation this is the plane from which polarisation and differentiation originates. it is on this level that the seven rays regulate the cycles of creation. the divine

wers of light, the static laws, the christed ones, the elohim. this world is known as the treasury of light or the pleroma. chasm the rulers of this world, the powers of darkness. this world is known as the world of the archons. fig 8 gnostic theurgy page 37 primary. the seven planes. four worlds. lifeforms. rosicrucian kabbalah traditional static. divine plane. atziluth. source. static. plane of virgin spirits. atziluth. gods. static. plane of divine spirit. briah. arch -angels. static. plane of life spirit. briah. arch -angels. dialectic. plane of infernal spirit. briah. arch-demons dialectic. plane of death spirit. briah. arch-demons static. plane of thought. yetzirah. aeons. dialectic. plane of thought. yetzirah. archons. static. desire plane. yetzirah. angels. dialectic. desire plane

hat we must create our own inner selves! the need to go beyond the lower forms of morality, to disdain reproduction and to refuse family may seem to some the most frightening aspect of the transfigurative process. however, as we go beyond all the limits of the lower kingdoms, a higher ethic is experienced. this higher ethic is that of the pleroma, it is a flash of lightning from the throne of the virgin spirit. it is a vision of the true orbit of the star self that has been awakened. transfiguration for the gnostic the reality of this world is brutal, it is eternal re-occurrence and death. man is caught in a cage, this cage is called the endura. the endura is self perpetuating and the more man surrounds himself with the illusions of his false self (his false persona) the stronger the illus

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. allow it to dry in the light of dawn until dusk. allow the sun s rays to purify the urn and prepare it to house the great familiars and djinn of the fallen angels, who still walk in spirit among and within us. the vessel will indeed become their binding place once they have been evoked and then bound into the pot. the most dangerous method of binding the spirits to the vessel is the earthenware virgin formula designed by austin osman spare. this involves a sexual technique of self-fascination in which the elixir is kept and buried in the vessel for some days and nights. this is an optional method which is very dangerous to the process which it is created. vessel preparation may continue once the pot has been cleaned. the magician will scribe the binding sigil of solomon upon it, as this

ated. vessel preparation may continue once the pot has been cleaned. the magician will scribe the binding sigil of solomon upon it, as this will exteriorize the force summoned to reside in this temple in the earth, which you may communicate with by dreams. it is optional for the sorcerer to add a drop of his or her own blood in the vessel to consecrate it as his own. the sigil will be prepared on virgin parchment or some high quality paper. it may have a strong reinforced backing such as a piece of leather or toadskin (if common amphibious frogs or such inhabit an area, watch for dead ones which you may use. the vessel itself may contain a layer of grave soil and images, perfumes or such which you associate with the spirit. once the magicians summons in the evocation circle the spirit, and

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as pali. panpir malpirg: pouring down the fires of life and increase. panpir: pour/ pouring down/ pour down. paoc: subservient angel of water angle of air tablet. paombd: member/ members/ her members. papnor (to) this remembrance/ remembrance/ memory. par: they/ them/ in them. parach: equal. paracleda (for) a wedding/ wedding. paradial: dwelling/ dwellings/ living dwellings. paradiz: of virgins/ virgin. paraoan: governor of the second division of the aethyr lin (65. parm: ran/ run. parziba: governor of the second division of the aethyr chr (59. pasb oiad: daughters of the just. pasbs/ pashs: daughter/ daughters/ children. pascomb: governor of the second division of the aethyr lil (2. pasmt: kerubic angel of fire angle of earth tablet. patralx: rock (n (cf. orri. paulacarp: name of an evil

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

times they may also have been designed to serve as openers of the way conduits to enable initiates to follow the trail of scientific information from one myth to another. thus, even though none of the familiar mills and whirlpools is in sight, we should perhaps sit up and pay attention when we learn that orion, the great hunter of greek myth, was the owner of a dog. when orion tried to ravish the virgin goddess artemis she produced a scorpion from the earth which killed him and the dog. orion was transported to the skies where he became the constellation that bears his name today; his dog was transformed into sirius, the dog star.38 precisely the same identification of sirius was made by the ancient egyptians,39 who linked the orion constellation specifically to their god osiris.40 it is i

r to break or to cut through the plugs. they therefore tunnelled into the slightly softer limestone surrounding them and, after several weeks of backbreaking toil, rejoined the ascending corridor higher up having bypassed a formidable obstacle never before breached. the implications were obvious. since no previous treasure-seekers had penetrated this far, the interior of the pyramid must still be virgin territory. the diggers must have licked their lips with anticipation at the 5 atlas of ancient egypt, p. 36. 6 the pyramids of egypt, pp. 94-5. 7 the pyramids of egypt by professor i. e. s. edwards is the standard text on the pyramids. 8 w. m. flinders petrie, the pyramids and temples of gizeh (new and revised edition, histories and mysteries of man ltd, london, 1990, p. 21. graham hancock

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

tion as you go through these steps. this will prevent your mind from ever becoming too tense or too relaxed. 172 the formulas of enochian magick help nature and work on with her; and nature will regard thee as one of her creatures and make obeisance. and she will open wide before thee the portals of her secret chambers, layy bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the very depths of her pure virgin bosom. h.p. blavatsky. the voice of the silence magical formulas are an expression of natural motion. they establish procedures for action; ways of doing something in the world. the best formulas, and among the most powerful, are those that dovetail with natural law. the fact that a natural law is not widely known, or perhaps even rejected as impossible by the logical thinking of the majori

r for "divine will" ror is the enochian word for "the sun" and odo means "to open" the name of the egyptian solar god, ptah, means "the opener" and this magick square expresses the same creative forces that are associated with ptah this square embodies the forces of the solar current. graa_ this square adds up to 618, the number for zin- dobix which means "a waterfall" and paradiz-knila which is "virgin blood" aiq bkr reduces 618 to 6, the number for imagination. graa is the moon and this square embodies the forces of the lunar current. note that the 252 word graa, meaning "moon" is an anagram of ag-ar whi ch means "not the sun" each of the four words of this square has or impl ies the words ror or ar which both mean "the sun" the s e c o n d wo r d, r a o r i s a n anagram of a-ror meanin

nowledge of structure. i, know you who sits in the north where all things are clothed. by the power of niakod you will obey me. 359 step 8. move to the east and stand with your back to the tablet there. thrust your sword into the darkness outside the circle and say, 0 mighty lexarph i, stand before you. i know you. i know your name. i know your catalytic nature. you stand between form and void; a virgin untouched by either. a harlot intimate with both. yours is the knowledge of means. i, know you who sits in the east where all things are commenced. by the power of niakod you will obey me. step 9. move to the south and stand with your back to the tablet there. thrust your sword into the darkness outside the circle and say, 0 mighty tabitom i_ stand before you. i know you. i know your name

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le now shunned with horror, as formerly they had thronged to those processions. veiled under the biblical names of cain, ehas, enoch, antichrist, herodias, there come into view the same old myths about moon-spots, giants' buildings, a god of thunder and of storm, the preface. xxxvll gracious (holde) night-dame and the buruing of the world. and what arrests our attention still more is, that to the virgin mary we apply a whole host of charming legends about holda and frouwa, uorns and valkyrs, as the romans did those about venus, juno and the parcae; nay, in the fairy-tale, dame holle and mary can usurp the place of gray-hatted wuotan. what a tender fragrance breathes in those tales of mary, and what has any other poetry to put by the side of them? to the kindly heathen traits is superadded

llo, pallas, aphrodite stood nearer, their life was brighter like their sky. yet fro and frouwa appear altogether as kind and loving deities, in wuotan i have produced the god of song, and as wish he may have been a god of longing and love. however many blossoms of our old mythology and poetry may lie undisclosed and withered, one thing will not escape the eye of a judge, that our poesy still has virgin forms and unlaboured adornment at her command, which, like certain plants, have disappeared from hotter climes. when the plastic and poetic arts have sprung out of a people's faith, they adorn and protect it by imperishable works; yet another fact must not be overlooked, that both poets and artists insensibly deviate from the sanctity of the old type, and adopt an independent treatment of s

sonal being wunsch or seelde. the diminutive form of it in wunscili-gerta leads me to see in this compound no reference to a person, but to a thing: it is the gerta (yard, rod) by possessing which a man becomes partaker of all earthly bliss. the bestowal of that bliss proceeds from wuotan the supreme (p. 419. the 13th century poets also use the term. conrad in bis schmiede 664 (614, comparing the virgin to the rod of moses' du bist diu wiinschel-gerte, dar mit (wherewith) liz einem steine wazzer wart gestagen' and 1306 (1261 ^du saelden (saelden) tviinscjielgerte' in his troj. 19888, of helena ^schoene als ein wunsch elgerte kam sie geslichen (gliding) lifreht' as danish folk-songs use lilje-vaand (lily-stalk) in a like sense; troj. 2215 'alles heiles ein ivunscltel-rts(-spray^ gotfried in

ia.res along (p. 632. percuna tete (p. 173) washes her son the thunder-god in a bath: this is the bavarian 'and with her ley (p. 641. in austria they tell (ziska pp. 14 16, of the devil's?-anez= ver anel, how she felt dull in hell, and came for a change to the highlands (up. austria, where she got her son to build her a castle near the danube, imagining the people would worship her as much as the virgin mary; but as no one wanted her and the people laughed at her, she was enraged, and threw a huge piece of rock with a part of her castle into the danube, at the spot now called wirhel and strudel, and the ruins of her house are still named the devil's tower; conf. p. 592 on whirlpools. i suppose no one can doubt that all these notions date from heathen times (see suppl. private sacrifices, i

y a low germ, poet (bruns p. 389. 1018 devil. sold himself to the devil (atiou. leobiens. in pez 1, 763. in the auuolied str. 46-7 is the story of one volprecht, who gives himself to the devil; another in ottocar cap. 335. in most legends of this kind the devil misses his prey after all^ and is made to give up the damning document. the man may have denied god, but has never renounced the heavenly virgin, so she lends a helping hand. in a swiss folktale the devil bargains that the contracting party shall never say the gospel of john any more (de hanseler uf der lalle ummedriillen, but he comes to grief nevertheless, for the poor shepherd lad tvhistles it from beginning to end. another time the evil one is promised payment of the sum advanced, at the falling of the leaf; but when at fall- ti

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all through een schortekleed (westendorp s mythol. p. 187. and these tales are not only spread through the teutonic race, but are in vogue with finns and celts and greeks. near pajilnde in hattulasocken of tawastoland there stand some rocks which are said to have been carried by giant s daughters in their aprons and then tossed up (ganander s finn. myth. pp. 29. 30. french traditions put the holy virgin or fays (p. 41 3) in the place of giantesses. notre dame de clery, being ill at ease in the church of mezieres, determined to change the seat of her adora tion, took earth in her apron and carried it to a neighbouring height, pursued by judas: then, to elude the enemy, she took a part of the earth up again, which she deposited at another place not far off: oratories were reared on both site

eat of her adora tion, took earth in her apron and carried it to a neighbouring height, pursued by judas: then, to elude the enemy, she took a part of the earth up again, which she deposited at another place not far off: oratories were reared on both sites (mem. de 1 acad. celt. 2, 218. in the charente country, arrond. cognac, cornm. saintfront, a huge stone lies by the ney rivulet; this the holy virgin is said to have carried on her head, beside four other pillars in her apron; but as she was crossing the ney, she let one pillar fall into saintfront marsh (mem. des antiquaires 7, 31. according to a greek legend, athena was fetching a mountain from pallene to fortify the acropolis, but, startled at the ill news 538 giants. brought by a crow, she dropt it on the way, and there it remains as

dips his foot crosswise in the fountain of bar enton; they are then sure of its raining before the procession arrives home again. 2 the mayor s foot alone is wetted instead of the child, or a little water only is poured out as a beginning of that which is to fall in masses from the sky. the scanty offering brings the great bounty to our door. in spain, when hot weather lasts long, an image of the virgin arrayed in mourning (imagen cubierta de luto) is solemnly escorted through the villages, to obtain the blessing of rain, 3 as in the liege procession (pp. 174- 5, with which again that described by petronius agrees (p. 175; only here the .symbolic libation is left out. but of those herbs that were tied round the child, some most likely were of magic power; such a use of henbane is otherwise

a little girl saw a copper pot standing on three legs, quite new and swarmingfull of horsebeetles (roskafer. she told her parents, who saw at once that the beetles were a treasure, and hastened with her to the hill, but found neither pot nor beetles any more (ibid. 8, 305. here beetles appear as holy animals guarding gold, and themselves golden. in sweden they call the small goldbeetle (skalkrak) virgin mary s key-maid (jungfru marie nyckelpiga, dybeck; s runa 1844, p. 10; in spring the girls let her creep about on their hands, and say, hon marker mig brudhandskar/ she marks (foreshews) me bride s gloves; if she flies away, they notice in which direction, for thence will come the bridegroom. thus the beetle seems a messenger of the goddess of love; but the number of the black spots on his

autumn aftersummer, autumn yarn, oldwives summer; but generally both kinds are covered by the one name or the other. nethl. slammetje (draggletail? brem. wtb. 4, 799; engl. gossamer (god s train, trailing garment, also samar, simar (train; swed. dvdrgsndt (dwarfs net, p. 471. boh. wlacka (harrow, because the threads rake the ground; pol. lato swieto marcinskie, mary s holy summer. here again the virgin s name seems to have been chosen as a substitute or antidote for heathen notions: the ancient slavs might easily believe the gauzy web to have been spread over the earth by one of their gods. but the autumn gossamer has another slavic name: pol. babie lato, old wives summer, boh. babslce veto, or simply babj, which puts us in mind once more of that antithesis between summer and the old wife

GRIMOIRE OF TURIEL

ratron lord of saturn. perfumes: saifron, with the wood of atoes, the elder and the pine. add to it a grain of musk, and consecrate the whole, pulverized and mixed together in a paste. the secret grimoire chabacter of praleg lord of mars. perfumes the head of a frog, the bovine blood, a grain of white poppy, fiowers of camomile, and camphor, pulverized into a paste by the mixing of the blood of a virgin kid. the secret grimoire character of phul lord of the moon. perfumes: leaves of the mandrake, sal ammonia, roots of gentian, valerian herbs finely cut, a little sulphur, made into a paste with the blood of a black cat. the secret grimoire character of j3ethor lord of jupiter. perfumes sandalwood of the east, leaves of agrimony, choves, powder of henbane. beat all into a powder. make thereo

H SPENCER LEWIS ROSICRUCIAN MANUAL AMORC 1990

osicrucian cosmogony the word "universe" signifies one cell, and, if the word is worthy of being used at all, it should indicate that all that exists is a universe. mystically, the idea of one universe as a cell, with the cosmic consciousness and intelligence within it, gives the foundation for the general idea of the unity of all existence and the brotherhood of all expressions of life. v vestal virgin.this is another term that has often been used in the place of the word colombe (see explanation regarding colombes in the forepart of the manual regarding officers of lodges) it was believed for many years that the vestal virgins were an institution of roman origin, but research has shown that in the arcane schools of egypt, and in the earlier rosicrucian temples, there were one or more ves

HAMIL THE ROSICRUCIAN SEER

kley received the crowned angel'smagnum()jjus,metaphysicaland spiritualphilos()jjhy;or theamneaionwith andinfluenceouermaterialbodies-byspirits.hockley approached crystal or mirror scrying with an almost religious awe. indeed his experiments were to have a profound effect on his own religious beliefs, turning him from a unitarian to a trinitarian christian with a firm belief in the mystery of the virgin birth. before use, the crystal or mirror had to be consecrated with prayers and dedicated to the serviceofgod. consecrated calls, again invoking the name of christ, were to be given three times to summon whichever spirit guide was required. once the spirit's message had been received, a special discharge was to be given three times, again invoking christ and his angels, followed by prayerso

ar, and placed himself upright beside the flame, desired them to seek aseer,and he was ready to gratify them in all their desires. there were in the olden days whole schools of magicians here in europe, who could do nothing in this line without the intervention of apureseer,to wit, amaiden'seye.this african belongs to the same fraternity. he made them understand that nothing could be done until a virgin's eye was placed at his disposal; he bade them go out in the streets of cairo, and fetch any child they fancied under ten years of ago. they did so; and after walking about for half an hour, selected an arab boy, not apparently above eight, whom they found playing at marbles; they bribed him with a few halfpence, and took him with them to the studio of the african roger bacon; the child was

inclined to abandon his object, but the thought of man's salvation and theexcerptsfromthecrystalmssi173. i believe a man is rewarded or punished according to his merits or demerits on earth.thatno punishment however great while it lasts is everlasting, but punishment for all sins is shortened and finally ended through the mediation of jesus christ, and for the roman catholics through the blessed virgin. christ's death upon the cross and his death only is the means by which mankind isfinallysaved from destruc255 tion. 4. i believe that it is wrong totryto reveal those secrets of futurity which are purposely hidden from man's know255ledge-allvisible spiritual communications areungodly255and that evil spirits only use the means to deceive man.thatspiritual knowledge which inducesmanto seek f

witness of which guilty person he commanding i have signed this present obligation with mine own seal to which ialwaysstick close."thename of the person who wishes to obtain the spirit in the crystal.ro6therosicrucianseertheoperator must have the seal and character of the spirit he would invoke. also the pentacle and character of the planet governing the day and hour of the operation, written on virgin parchment and duly consecrated in the aforesaid manner.consecration of the crystaleternal god who by thy wisdom has given and appointed great power in the characters and other holy writings of thy spirits and hast given unto them that useth them faithfully, power thereby to work many things. bless now 0 lord this crystal formed, framed, and written by the hand of thine unworthy servant, tha

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

gypt that christian monasticism first developed, and the great monasteries partially took the place of temples in egyptian society. christian chroniclers provide evidence that some egyptians clung to the old beliefs as late as the sixth century ce. a few magical texts of this period still mention the myths of isis and the horus introduction 45 child, but most replace them with anecdotes about the virgin mary and baby jesus. the last stories about the gods of egypt are those that tell of their defeat by coptic saints.109 in the seventh century ce, egypt was invaded first by the persians and then by the arabs. the arabs brought with them the muslim religion, but many of the native egyptians (the copts) remained christian. the coptic language fell out of general use around 1000 ce, but it has

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

eward for him. about as many vagabond maltese began a regular chase, andtowards evening we were invaded in our hotel by the whole troop, every man of them with a more or lessmangy cur in his arms, which he tried to persuade me was my lost dog. the more i denied, the more solemnlythey insisted, one of them actually going down on his knees, snatching from his bosom an old corroded metalimage of the virgin, and swearing a solemn oath that the queen of heaven herself had kindly appeared tohim to point out the right animal. the tumult had increased to such an extent that it looked as if ralph'sdisappearance was going to be the cause of a small riot, and finally our landlord had to send for a couple ofkavasses from the nearest police station, and have this regiment of bipeds and quadrupeds expel

tare at me in that wild manner,for what i say is in the mouth of millions of people. listen to what i now tell you, and try to understand. youhave heard the strange tale whispered about the famous tartini? he died one fine sabbath night, strangled byhis familiar demon, who had taught him how to endow his violin with a human voice, by shutting up in it, bymeans of incantations, the soul of a young virgin. paganini- did more. in order to endow his instrumentwith the faculty of emitting human sounds, such as sobs, desparing cries. supplications, moans of love andfury- in short, the most heart-rending notes of the human voice- paganini became, the murderer notonly of his wife and his mistress, but also of a friend, who was more tenderly attached to him than any otherbeing on this earth. he the

ld rival paganini" asked franz, after a moment's pause, and casting down his eyes. the old german unveiled his face, and, with a strange look of determination upon it, softly answered: nightmare talesiii68 "human intestines alone are not sufficient for our purpose; they must have belonged to some one who hadloved us well, with an unselfish, holy love. tartini endowed his violin with the life of a virgin; but that virginhad died of unrequited love for him. the fiendish artist, had prepared beforehand a tube, in which hemanaged to catch her last breath as she expired, pronouncing his beloved name, and he then transferred thisbreath to his violin. as to paganini, i have just told you his tale. it was with the consent of his victim, though,that he murdered him to get possession of his intestin

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

ans, artists, etc. but it became still more famous for its eclectic, or new platonic school, founded by ammonius saccas in 173 ad, whose disciples were origen, plotinus, and many other men now famous in history. the most celebrated schools of the gnostics had their origin in alexandria. philo-judaeus, josephus, iamblichus, porphyry, clement of alexandria, eratosthenes the astronomer, hypatia, the virgin philosopher, and numberless other stars of second magnitude, all belonged at various times to these great schools, and helped to make of alexandria one of the most justly renowned seats of learning that the world has ever produced. altruism from alter, other. a quality opposed to egoism. actions tending to do good to others, regardless of self. ammonius saccas a great and good philosopher w

onception, birth, and childhood are the exact prototype of the new testament story. the missionaries, of course, try to show that the hindus stole the story of the nativity from the early christians who came to india. kshetraj a or kshetraj esvara (sans) embodied spirit in occultism, the conscious ego in its highest manifestations; the reincarnating principle, or the "lord" in us. kumara (sans) a virgin boy or young celibate. the first kumaras are the page 157 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt seven sons of brahm, born out of the limbs of the god in the so-called ninth creation. it is stated that the name was given to them owing to their formal refusal to "procreate" their species, and thus they "remained yogis" according to the legend. labro, st. a roman saint solemnly beatified a fe

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

ablike beings had been seen floating after the floods. gradually the country around us grew wilder and more deserted. archaic covered bridges lingered fearsomely out of the past in pockets of the hills, and the half-abandoned railway track paralleling the river seemed to exhale a nebulously visible air of desolation. there were awesome sweeps of vivid valley where great cliffs rose, new england s virgin granite showing grey and austere through the verdure that scaled the crests. there were gorges where untamed streams leaped, bearing down toward the river the unimagined secrets of a thousand pathless peaks. branching away now and then were narrow, half- concealed roads that bored their way through solid, luxuriant masses of forest among whose primal trees whole armies of elemental spirits

HP LOVECRAFT HYPNOS

; perceptions of infinity which at the time convulsed us with joy, yet which are now partly lost to my memory and partly incapable of presentation to others. viscous obstacles were clawed through in rapid succession, and at length i felt that we had been borne to realms of greater remoteness than any we had previously known. my friend was vastly in advance as we plunged into this awesome ocean of virgin aether, and i could see the sinister exultation on his floating, luminous, too-youthful memory-face. suddenly that face became dim and quickly disappeared, and in a brief space i found myself projected against an obstacle which i could not penetrate. it was like the others, yet incalculably denser; a sticky clammy mass, if such terms can be applied to analogous qualities in a non-material s

HP LOVECRAFT THE NAMELESS CITY

nmistakable. i even recognized the passages. as i crept along the corridor toward the brighter light i saw later stages of the painted epic- the leave-taking of the race that had dwelt in the nameless city and the valley around for ten million years; the race whose souls shrank from quitting scenes their bodies had known so long where they had settled as nomads in the earth's youth, hewing in the virgin rock those primal shrines at which they had never ceased to worship. now that the light was better i studied the pictures more closely and, remembering that the strange reptiles must represent the unknown men, pondered upon the customs of the nameless city. many things were peculiar and inexplicable. the civilization, which included a written alphabet, had seemingly risen to a higher order

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

backed by the chancellor and treasurer, but the bishop finally succeeded in beating him, and compelled him to submit on his bended knees. by way of penance he was ordered to hear at least three masses every day for the space of a year, to feed a certain number of poor people, and to cover with lead the chancel of s. canice's cathedral from the belfry eastward, as well as the chapel of the blessed virgin. he thankfully agreed to do this, but subsequently refused to fulfil his obligations, and was thereupon cast into prison. p. 38 what was the fate of dame alice's accomplices, whose names we have given above, is not specifically recorded, except in one particular instance. one of them, petronilla of meath, was made the scapegoat for her mistress. the bishop had her flogged six times, and und

nonymous narrator, that it has reference rather to the following up of the dame's associates, a process that must have involved a good deal of time and trouble, and in which no doubt many unhappy creatures were implicated. again, in 1353, two men were tried at bunratty in co. clare by roger cradok, bishop of p. 50 waterford, for holding heretical opinions (or for offering contumely to the blessed virgin, and were sentenced to be burnt. 1 the above are almost the only (if not the only) instances known of the punishment of death by fire being inflicted in ireland for heresy. from a consideration of the facts here enumerated it would seem as if a considerable portion of ireland had been invaded by a wave of heresy in the first half of the fourteenth century, and that this manifested itself un

his particular period so full of the marvellous. o'daly in his history of the geraldines relates 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

as late as the summer of 1911 the word "witch" was heard in an irish law- court, when an unhappy poor woman was tried for killing another, an old-age pensioner, in a fit of insanity. 1 one of the witnesses deposed that he met the accused on the road on the morning of the murder. she had a statue in her hand, and repeated three times "i have the old witch killed i got power from p. 238 the blessed virgin to kill her. she came to me at 3 o'clock yesterday, and told me to kill her, or i would be plagued with rats and mice" she made much the same statement to another witness, and added "we will be all happy now. i have the devils hunted away. they went across the hill at 3 o'clock yesterday" the evidence having concluded, the accused made a statement which was reduced to writing "on the day of

ISIS UNVEILED

, magic, and sorcery are recalled; and dehonisu is confronted with rpiritwuitm for mutual recognition and identification. our modem demonolo^ta conveniently overlook a few insignificant details, among which is the undeniable presence of heathen phauicism in the christian symbols. a strong spiritual element of this worship may be easily demonstrated in the dogma of the immaculate conception of the virgin mother of god; and a physical element equally proved in the fetish-worship of the holy livju of sts. cosmo and damiano at laemia, near naj; a successful traffic in which er-votos in wax was carried on by the clergy annually, until bardy a century ago* we &id it rather unwise on the part of catholic writers to pour out their viob wrath in such sentences as these "in a multitude of pagodas

are of the many false teachings attributed by the roman church to the creator, we prefer disbelieving the latter assertion. the famous catholic theolo^an 'huemont, assures us in his work that "all the illus- trious pagans are condenmed to the eternal torments of hell, beeatue they lived before the time of jesus, and, therefore, could not be benefited by the redemption! he also assures us that the virgin mary person- ally testified to this truth over her own ugnature in a letter to a saint. therefore this is also a revelation "the spirit of god himself" teaching such charitable doctrines. we have also read with great advantage the topographical descrip- tions of hell arfd purgatory in the celebrated treatise of that name by a jesuit, the cardinal bellannine. a critic found that the aifthor

attempt had bees made to clothe the infant jesus; they had covered his legs with a pair of dirty, scouop-edged pantaloons. an english traveler having presented the 'mediatrix' with a green silk parasol, the grateful population of the amtadini, accompanied by the village-priest, went in procession to the spot. they managed to stick the sunshade, opened, between the infant's back and the arm of the virgin which embraced him. the scene and ceremony were both solemn and highly refreshing to our religious feelings. for there stood the image of the goddess in its niche, surrounded with a row of ever-burning lamps, the flames of which, flickering in the breeze, infect god's pure air with an offensive smell of olive oil. the mother and son truly represent the two most conspicuous idols of monoihei

o to the rich city of bio de janeiro. in the church of the domo da candelaria, in a long hall running along one side of the church, there might he seen a few years ago another madonna. along the walls of the hall there is a line of saints, each standing on a contribution-box, which thus forms a fit pedestal. in the center of this line, under a gorgeously rich canopy of blue silk, is exhilhted the virgin mary leaning on the arm of christ 'our lady' is arrayed in a very dicouets blue satin dress with short digitizecoy google 10 isis untbii^d sleeves, showing to gteat advantage the snow-white, exquisitely-molded neck, moulders, and anns. the skirt, of blue satin with an over-skirt of rich lace and gauze puffs, is as short as that of a ballet-dancer; hardly reaching the knee, it exhibits a pai

^ves, oeer one of v>kich sparkles a rich diamond ring, worth many thousands we must suppose a precious brazilian jewel. above this body of a modem portuguese dandy is a head with the hair parted in the middle; a sad and solemn face, and eyes whose patient look seems to reflect all the bitterness of this last insult flung at the majesty of the crucified" the egyptian isis was also represented as a virgin-mother by her devotees, and as holding her infant son, horus, in her arms. in some statues and biuso-rilievot, when she appears alone she b either complete- ly nude or veiled from head to foot. but in the mysteries, in common with nearly every other goddess, she is entirely veiled from head to foot, as a symbol of a mother's chastity. it would not do us any harm were we to borrow from the a

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

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

. white shell woman. turquoise woman. protects us from our enemies, created the navajo, teaches us how to see life s joy and beauty in all things. and of course, some of the greek goddesses. aphrodite. represents freshness, renewal and hope and the feminine being in all her glory. her realm is relationship and feeling and mature love. the goddess of both spiritual and passionate love. athena. the virgin goddess of war and wisdom and limitlessness, she encourages warriors to gentleness, the patron of useful and elegant arts. artemis. mistress of animals and all wild untamed things, symbolizes female independence, healing goddess, values solitude. demeter. ancient greek mother goddess of persephone. giver of fruitfulness and abundance. blesses us with coming joy, abundant life and hope. othe

yoruban goddess of weather and brazilian macumba deity of change, women call on her for protection when in hard to resolve situations. baba yaga. slavic birth-death goddess who inspires us to get in touch with our wild woman and free our vital, instinctual and primal energies by integrating our self destructive behavior. maya. hindu mother of creation, weaver of the web of life and illusion. the virgin aspect of kali s virgin, mother and crone. maya comes to show us the illusionary nature of the material world, she brings magic and creativity. maeve. intoxicating irish goddess of the magical land of tara. maeve challenges us to act responsibly and become the queen of our domain. maat. ancient egyptian goddess of law, order, truth and justice. maat comes to bring justice to our life, to ri

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

n holland. one of these lamps, in the papacy of paul the third, was found in the tomb of tullia, cicero s daughter, which had been shut up fifteen hundred and fifty years (second edition of n. bailey s fil logoj, 1731. notes. in the papacy of paul the third, in the appian way, where abundance of the chief heathens of old were laid, a sepulchre was opened, where was found the entire body of a fair virgin swimming in a wonderful juice, which kept it from putrefaction so well, that the face seemed no way impaired, but lively and very beautiful. her hair was yellow, tied up artifically, and kept together with a golden circlet or band. under her feet burnt lamps, the light of which was extinguished at the opening of the sepulchre. by some inscriptions found about the tomb it appeared that she m

lly (which, in the occult sense, is always obscurely, it is the sacred blue (or gray) womb, which is absurd. strange myths. 41 now, the reference and the meaning of this we will confidently commit to the penetration of those among our readers who can felicitously privately surmise it; and also the apparently circuitous deductions, which are yet to come, to be made by us. blue is the colour of the virgin maria. maria, mary, mare, mar, mam, means the bitterness, or the saltness, of the sea. blue is expressive of the hellenic, isidian, ionian, fonian (foni-indian) watery, female, and moonlike principle in the universal theogony. it runs through all the mythologies. the lady-bird, or lady-cow (there is no resemblance between a bird and a cow, it may be remarked en passant, except in this stran

england when a lady-bird is seen by the children. myths are inextricably embodied like specks and straws and flies in amber amidst the sayings and rhymes of the common people in all countries; and they are there preserved for very many generations, reappearing to recognition after. the lapse sometimes of centuries. now, how do we explain and re-render the above rude couplet? the lady-bird is the virgin maria, isis, the mother and producer of nature; the house is the ecliptic it is figuratively on fire, or of fire, in the path of the sun; and the children at home are the months produced in the house of the sun, or the solar year, or the signs of the zodiac which were originally ten, and not twelve* each sign answering* lady-cow, lady-cow, all but a little one fly away home! under a stone:

re, in the path of the sun; and the children at home are the months produced in the house of the sun, or the solar year, or the signs of the zodiac which were originally ten, and not twelve* each sign answering* lady-cow, lady-cow, all but a little one fly away home! under a stone: thy house is on fire, fly thee home, lady-cow, thy children are flown. ere it be gone. the lady-bird, or cow, is the virgin mary, the little one 42 the rosicrucians. to one of the letters of the primeval alphabet, which were in number ten. thus, re-read, the lines run: lady-bird, lady-bird (columba, or dove, fly away home! your house is of fire your children are ten! the name of the flying insect called in england lady- bird is b te -dieu in french, which means god-creature, or god's creature. the napoleonic gre

world, with its dome, or cope, of stars. it was in the atria of the temples, and in the presence of and before the above-mentioned lights, that the forms of ceremonial worship were always observed. it is certain that vesta was worshipped at troy; and neas brought her into italy: manibus vittas, vestamque potentem, ternumque adytis effert penetralibus ignem. neid, ii. 296. numa settled an order of virgin priestesses, whose business and care it was constantly to maintain the holy fire. and long before numa s days, we find it not only customary, but honourable, among the albans to appoint the best-born virgins to be priestesses of vesta, and to keep up the constant, unextinguished fire. when virgil speaks( neid, iv. 200) of iarbas, in africa, as building a hundred temples and a hundred altars

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

ts" is classic. it was told as follows, by frank w. lane, in fate, april-may, 1952 the material being largely the product of research by rupert gould as printed in stargazer folks and elsewhere: on the night of thursday, february 7, 1855, there was a fall of snow over south devon, in southwest england. the next morning, as men and women went about their business, they discovered, imprinted in the virgin snow, a series of tracks unlike any seen before. at first glance they looked like the impression made by a donkey's hoof, measuring four by two and three-quarter inches. but there, all resemblance between the imprints on the snow and the sort of tracks left by a workaday donkey, ends. and the real mystery begins. it was found that the hoof marks ran in a single line, and also that the dista

KNOWLEDGE LECTURE TWO

als, choosing especially a crystal of salt, and entering into it, actually feel himself of crystalline formation. looking out on the universe from this standpoint, let him identify himself with the earth spirits in love and sympathy, recalling as far as he can their prayer as said in the closing of the zelator grade. let him meditate upon the earth triplicity, visualizing the symbols of a bull--a virgin--a goat which stand for kerubic earth--mutable earth--cardinal earth. for the above ideas consult a simple astrology manual. make notes of the ideas and pictures which arise in your mind. the four worlds of the qabalah are: atziluth, archetypal pure diety twlyxa briah, creative archangelic hayrb yetzirah, formative angelic hryxy assiah, action matter, man, shells, demons hycu the ten houses

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

name. h(*w. marsham adams, the book of the master, p. 96) 22. in ancient egypt they recognized seven souls, or life-forces, coming forth from the most high. students of eastern philosophy call them the primordial seven, and they are mentioned in the book of dzyan(*see the secret doctrine, by h. p. blavatsky) six of these were prehuman; the seventh was our humanity, and was brought forth from the virgin neith. the symbol attached to that bringing forth was that of the pelican, who was fabled to draw blood from her own breast in order to feed her young; this later became a prominent symbol in the rosicrucian philosophy, which seems to have been derived largely from egyptian teaching. we read in egyptian hieroglyphics of gthe one and the four, h referring to horus and his four brothers. of t

is called, throughout the world(*op. cit, p. 31) 630. he goes on to explain that it is found in this association in egypt, in india and in mexico, and that it was so used by the roman collegia and the comacini. he also draws attention to the fact that the distinguishing badge of this degree has on it two blue rosettes, symbolizing the rose. blue was the colour of isis, and is that of the blessed virgin mary, whose emblem is the rose. the triangular flap, which in the first degree was worn with the point upward, to indicate that the spiritual had not yet entered into control of the material, is now turned down to show that the higher is supposed definitely to be taking charge of the lower. we shall see this same symbolism carried further still when we consider the sublime degree of the m.m

thought of devotion! the holy presence is never absent, but it certainly exhibits itself in greater activity in answer to an appeal. is the angel fs force-centre something like a faint reflection of that? 825. perhaps another analogy may be found in the twelve stars which, following the beautiful description in the apocalypse, are so often shown in medieval paintings round the head of the blessed virgin mary. all these represent powers; perhaps they correspond in some way to the points of light which the angels leave in our aura. the star always floating over the head of an initiate betokens the power of the king, upon which he can draw at any moment, while the star upon his forehead is the symbol of his own acquired power. 826. chapter x 827. two wonderful rituals 828. the workings in egy

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

irit, isis, the eternal mother, give life to horus, who is man, man born of both, yet one with osiris. horus is merged in osiris, and isis, who had been matter, becomes through him the queen of life and wisdom. and osiris, isis, and horus are all born of the light. 58. two are the births of horus. he is born of isis, the god born into humanity, taking flesh of the mother eternal, matter, the ever-virgin. he is born again into osiris, redeeming his mother from her long search for the fragments of her husband scattered over the earth. he is born into osiris when osiris in the heart sees osiris in the heavens, and knows that the twain are one. 59. so taught he, and the wise among the priests were glad. 60. to pharaoh, the monarch, he gave the motto: look for the light; he said that only as a

handed down from the initiates of atlantis, which was somewhat modified in later days, to suit the needs of the slowly-evolving humanity of the aryan race. 189. the first three initiations 190. the first of the true inner initiations was called the birth of horus, and corresponded in that great religion to the birth of christ in bethlehem in the christian presentation. horus was born of isis, the virgin-mother; at his birth the star shone forth, and the angelic hosts sang their song of triumph; he was adored by shepherds and wise men, and saved from danger which threatened him from without. in the book of the dead it is said: i know the power of the east, horus of the solar mount, the star of dawn. the story of the initiate is the story of the sun-god, the universal christ who is born into

ling rather the presiding angels of the various countries than the rulers of the nine orders of the angelic hosts. 328. pallas athene, the grey-eyed goddess of wisdom, was a magnificent and splendid being, who practically governed athens in the old days through her devotees. her influence was enormously stimulating, but she was not so much an embodiment of compassion or of love, as is the blessed virgin mary, but rather of efficiency and of that perfect accuracy of form that is the essence of all true art. much of the wonderful art of greece was inspired directly by her; and to satisfy her it had to be the very highest and truest and most accurate. she could not tolerate a single line misplaced, even in the smallest thing. there was something of polished steel about athene; she was cold an

. who, at her mystic birth, 337. came flushed from the full-flushed wave, and imperial, her 338. foot on the sea. 339. and the wonderful waters knew her, the winds and the 340. viewless ways, 341. and the roses grew rosier, and bluer the sea-blue stream of 342. the bays. 343. this beautiful symbolism of her name refers to the form side of the deity, the root of matter- called the deep sea, or the virgin sea- which is impregnated with the divine life and beauty, and so gives birth to the loveliest of forms. the title foam-born is particularly appropriate when we consider that all forms are built up of aggregations of bubbles blown in the deep sea, the aether of space. all this was explained to the initiates of the mysteries. the same mystical idea lies in the title of our lady mary, star of

l of that city(*quoted in waite s new encyclopaedia, art. culdees) as we shall presently see, it was at york that certain important masonic degrees emerged in the eighteenth century. 499. the monks of the celtic church were largely responsible for the introduction of christianity into germany. wherever they came they raised churches and dwellings for their priests, cleared the forests, tilled the virgin soil, and instructed the heathen in the first principles of civilization(*gould. hist. freem, vol. i, p. 107) some german authorities have held that the monks directing these operations owed much of their success to the remnants of the roman colleges of gaul and britain, and ultimately laid the foundations of the craft guild system in germany. gould rejects this view on the ground that at t

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

ion of a contemporary legend. chicago: open court, 1993. apparition the term apparition usually refers to immaterial appearances of people, also called ghosts, animals, objects, and spirits. despite much skepticism, reports of apparitions have always had a particular importance in folk belief and in the history of religion. even though there can be religious apparitions (e.g, an apparition of the virgin, they are traditionally associated with the diabolical, despite the fact that they often appear to be offering consolation and guidance. apparitions, which are not seen by everyone, usually involve noises, unusual smells, extreme cold, and the displacement of objects. also visual images, tactile sensations, voices, and the apparent psychokinetic movement of objects may be included. appariti

editerranean region during the middle ages and spread slowly westward. among its most important groups were the albigensians, who were militarily destroyed in the early 1200s by the only successful medieval crusade, which began in 1209. cathars were distinguished from other medieval heretic groups for rejecting such basic christian beliefs as the doctrine of incarnation, christ s two natures, the virgin birth, and bodily resurrection. they also repudiated the church hierarchy and sacraments, particularly baptism of water and matrimony, and followed an ascetic lifestyle that included celibacy, vegetarianism, and even ritual suicide.most cathars accepted only the new testament, which they read in its catholic version. the universe was seen by cathars as constituted of two coexisting spheres:

of the year, persephone was the ruling queen of hades, and for the other half, she was with her mother demeter. although this myth was originally interpreted as explaining the vegetation cycle, various elements indicate the characteristics of a process of female initiation: her descent to the underworld that ended with her marriage to hades (she became queen of hades) could symbolize her death as virgin and the achievement of a new status from daughter to wife. in the christian tradition, the underworld is a place of damnation for sinners. in early apocryphal literature, christ was described as descending into hell to rescue the damned and to demonstrate his victory over the reign of evil. in medieval culture, the first part of the divina commedia, the inferno, describes dante s descent to

e popular consciousness of the middle ages via the tale of theophilus, who according to legend had been the treasurer of a church in the sixth century. unfairly dismissed from his job, he sought revenge with the aid of a magician. this sorcerer invoked the devil, theophilus sold his soul, and he was subsequently restored to his position. however, he eventually regretted his actions, prayed to the virgin mary, and was saved. the legend of theophilus provided a model for the later narrative of faust easily the most famous man to sell his soul to satan though faust was motivated by pride rather than by the urge for revenge. also, unlike theophilus, faust did not escape his infernal fate in most versions of this story. the story of faust became the basis for a series of literary productions, i

s the apex of the development of this story, the legend continued to inspire nineteenth-century literature on the devil. following twenty-five years of devilish practice, goethe s faust repents having sold his soul to the devil and is saved. in marlowe s work, by contrast, faustus is lost. the devil, however, was no longer the enemy of the medieval dueling contest with christ or with a saint or a virgin. the contest of the devil in the eighteenth century was within people who left their individual struggles and sinned for the sake of gaining personal power. last but not least, the new devil was to a certain extent sympathetic to the human condition, and introspective. the devil s introspection and humanization began in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and was reflected even in some

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tributions of assyrian, syrian, mongolian, tibetan, mexican, zend, south sea, west african &c. iacchus table of correspondences 10 xxxv. some roman gods. xxxvi. selection of christian gods (10; apostles (12; evangelists (4) and churches of asia (7. xxxvii. hindu legendary demons. 0. 1 jupiter god the 3 in 1 2 janus[[mercury] god the father, god who guides parliament 3 juno, cybele, hecate &c. the virgin mary 4 jupiter[[libitina] god the rain-make (vide prayer-book, god the farmer s friend 5 mars christ coming to judge the world 6 apollo[[bacchus, aurora] god the son (and maker of fine weather) 7 venus messiah, lord of hosts (vide prayer-book, r. kipling &c) 8 mercury god the holy ghost (as comforter and inspirer of scripture, god the healer of plagues 9 diana (as[[terminus, jupiter] god th

prayer-book, god the farmer s friend 5 mars christ coming to judge the world 6 apollo[[bacchus, aurora] god the son (and maker of fine weather) 7 venus messiah, lord of hosts (vide prayer-book, r. kipling &c) 8 mercury god the holy ghost (as comforter and inspirer of scripture, god the healer of plagues 9 diana (as[[terminus, jupiter] god the holy ghost (as incubus) 1010 ceres ecclesia xsti, the virgin mary 11 jupiter[[juno, olus] matthew 12 mercury sardis 13 diana laodicea 14 venus thyatira 15 mars, minerva [the disciples are too indefinite] 16 venus[[hymen. 17 castor and pollux [janus[[hymen. 18 mercury[[lares and penates. 19 venus (repressing the fire of vulcan. 20 [attis, ceres, adonis[[vesta, flora. 21 jupiter [pluto] philadelphia 22 vulcan[[venus, nemesis. 23 neptune[[rhea] john, je

r, pomegranate] 14 sparrow, dove[[swan, sow, birds generally] myrtle, rose, clover[[fig, peach, apple] 15 ram, owl tiger lily, geranium[[olive] 16 bull (cherub of e[[all beasts of burden] mallow[[all giant trees] 17 magpie, hybrids[[parrot, zebra, penguin] hybrids, orchids 18 crab, turtle, sphinx[[whale, all beasts of transport] lotus 19 lion (cherub of b[[cat, tiger, serpent, woman] sunflower 20 virgin, anchorite, any solitary person or animal[[rhinoceros] snowdrop, lily, narcissus[[mistletoe] 21 eagle[[praying mantis] hyssop, oak, poplar, fig[[arnica, cedar] 22 elephant[[spider] aloe 23 eagle-snake-scorpion (cherub of c) lotus, all water plants 24 scorpio, beetle, crayfish or lobster, wolf[[all reptiles, shark, crablouse] cactus[[nettle, all poisonous plants] 25 centaur, horse, hippogrif

agle-headed man, with a bow and arrow. wears crowned steel helmet. 18 a man with distorted face and hards, a horse s body, white feet, and a girdle of leaves a beautiful woman wreathed with myrtle. she holds a lyre and sings of love and gladness. 19 a man in sordid raiment, with him a nobleman on horseback, accompanied by bears and dogs a man crowned with a white myrtle wreath, holding a bow 20 a virgin clad in linen, with an apple or pomegranate tall, fair, large man, with him a woman holding a large black oil jar 22 a dark man, in his right hand a spear and laurel branch and in his left a book a man, dark, yet delicious of countenance 24 a man with a lance in his right hand, in his left a human head a man riding a camel, with a scorpion in his hand 25 a man with 3 bodies 1 black, 1 red

the righteous is the foundation of the world. line 10. malkuth has these titles (among others: ruc the gate (by temurah, rcu= 10).2 aurt the gate (chaldee. which has the same number (671) as ynda in full dwy wn tld [la also gates of death. shadow of death. tears. justice. prayer. gate of daughter of mighty ones. garden of eden. also inferior mother the daughter. the queen. hklm the bride. hlk the virgin. hlwtb col iv. this column may be equally well symbolized by any single entry, preferably in 0. the monistic and nihilistic conceptions are convertible. hua may be equally named tao, iao, noumenon, and the like. all language on this subject is necessarily feeble and hieroglyphic. it is to name that which by definition has no name. col. v. these god-names are the grand words of the correspon

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ragrammaton. firstly, the effect of the operation of yod and h is not vau only, but with vau appeareth also a new h, as a by-product, and she is mysterious, being at once the flower of the three others, and their poison. now by the operation of vau upon that h is no new creation, but the daughter is set upon the throne of her mother, and by this is rekindled the fire of yod, which, consuming that virgin, doth not add a fifth person, but balanceth and perfecteth all. for his shin, that is the holy spirit, pervadeth these, and is immanent. thus in three operations is the pentagram formulated. but in the figure of that star these operations are not indicated, for the five lines of force connect not according to any of them; but five new operations are made possible; and these are the works pr

g the one sun of the true nature of the whole. verily, his is the truth, and unto it did also dionysus and tahuti and sri krishna set the seal of their witness. cleanse herefore thine heart, o my son, in the waters of the great sea, and enkindle it with the fire of the holy ghost. for his is his peculiar work of sanctification. n the book of wisdom or folly 121 dp de virgine beata (of the bless d virgin) nderstand then well this mystery of universal godliness; for it is the naked beauty of the virgin of the world. lo! since the end is perfection, as i have already shewn unto thee, and since also every event is inexorably and ineluctably interwoven in the web of that fate, as it is certain that every phenomenon is (as thou art sworn to understand .a particular dealing of god with thy soul

thou shalt be made perfect. behold, there is a pageant of triumph as each star, free from confusion, sweepeth free in his right orbit; all heaven acclaimeth thee as thou goest, transcendental in joy and in splendour; and thy light is as a beacon to them that wander afar, strayed in the night. amoun. t the book of wisdom or folly 143 em paranthesis de quadam virgine (interlude concerning a certain virgin) ow, o my son, i will declare unto thee the virtue of that part of love which receiveth and draweth, being the counterpart of thine own. for behold! i am moved in myself by the absence of the virgin that is appointed for me. and her eagerness of purity doth encompass me with its soft tenderness, and twineth about me with sweet scent so that my mind is enkindled with a gentle flame, luminous

hat have bestrewn my way with flowers, ay many flowers and herbs of magick and of holiness withal to match their beauty. nay, o my son, i will cease this epistle unto thee for awhile, that i may rest in the pleasure of this contemplation, for it is solace ineffable, and recreation like unto sleep among the mountains. yea, can i wish thee more than this, that, coming to mine age, thou mayst find a virgin like unto this to draw thee with her simplicity, and her embroidered silence? n liber aleph vel cxi 144 en de constantia amoris cordi candido (of constancy in love, for a pure heart) hink it not strange, my son, that i, praising adultery, should praise also constancy and delight therein. for this is to state ill thy question. herein is truth and wisdom concerning this matter, that so long a

y this is already in thy knowledge, if thou examine by our holy qabalah, what be the forces that are the influx upon tiphereth, which is the harmony and beauty, or sol, in every kingdom of the universe, so then also among metals. 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 an

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his book is true up to the grade of adeptus exemptus. v.v.v.v.v. 8, 38) 0. a, the heart of iao, dwelleth in ecstasy in the secret place of the thunders. between asar and asi he abideth in joy. 1. the lightnings increased and the lord tahuti stood forth. the voice came from the silence. then the one ran and returned. 2. now hath nuit veiled herself, that she may open the gate of her sister. 3. the virgin of god is enthroned upon an oyster-shell; she is like a pearl, and seeketh seventy to her four. in her heart is hadit the invisible glory. 4. now riseth ra-hoor-khuit, and dominion is established in the star of the flame. 5. also is the star of the flame exalted, bringing benediction to the universe. 6. here then beneath the winged eros is youth, delighting in the one and the other. he is a

vials of woe upon the flames, lighting the pure stream with her brand of cursing. and the iniquity was very great. 15. then the lord khem arose, he who is holy among the highest, and set up his crowned staff for to redeem the universe. 16. he smote the towers of wailing; he brake them in pieces in the fire of his anger, so that he alone did escape from the ruin thereof. 17. transformed, the holy virgin appeared as a fluidic fire, making her beauty into a thunderbolt. 18. by her spells she invoked the scarab, the lord kheph- ra, so that the waters were cloven and the illusion of the powers was destroyed. 19. then the sun did appear unclouded, and the mouth of asi was on the mouth of asar. 20. then also the pyramid was builded so that the initiation might be complete. 21. and in the heart o

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t only rips apart when the spear strikes to jesus f heart! a mighty guard of fire are they with sabres turning every way! their eyes are millstones greater than the earth; their mouths run seas of blood. liber ccxlii 10 woe be to that accursed man of whom they are the iniquities! swept in their wrath fs avenging flood to black immitigable seas! woe to the seeker who shall fail to rend that vexful virgin veil! fashion thyself by austere craft into a single azure shaft loosed from the string of will; behold the rainbow! thou art shot, pure flame, past the reverberated name into the hall of death. therein the rosy cross is subtly seen. olympas. is that a vision, then? marsyas. it is. olympas. tell me thereof! marsyas. o not of this! of all the flowers in god fs field we name not this. our lip

rious brilliance! olympas. the desert calls. marsyas. then let us go! or seek the sacramental snow, where like a high-priest i may stand with acolytes on every hand, the lesser peaks.my will withdrawn to invoke the dayspring from the dawn, changing that rosy smoke of light to a pure crystalline white; though the mist of mind, as draws a dancer round her limbs the gauze, clothe light, and show the virgin sun a lemon-pale medallion! thence leap we leashless to the goal, stainless star-rapture of the soul. so the altar-fires fade as the godhead is displayed. nay, we stir not. everywhere is our temple right appointed. all the earth is faery fair for us. am i not anointed? the sigil burns upon the brow at the adjuration.here and now. olympas. the air is laden with perfumes. marsyas. behold! it

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translation of this call appears in the vision and the voice, second thyr: this includes a few glosses by crowley as well as some reinterpretations of a couple of phrases (e.g, orsba od dodrmni zylna .drunken and vexed in itself. is rendered .ecstasy and irritation of orgasm. and moooah ol cordziz, glossed .it repenteth me that i made man. by kelly, is interpreted .it rejoiceth me concerning the virgin and man. 20: these names are presumably an innovation by either the golden dawn or crowley; turner (1989) states that no indication of any such thing is found in any of the dee material. they are generated by a process effectively reversing that used to derive the shem ha-mephorash or divided name of god; that is, the first name is created by taking the first letter from each of the names o

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ck thine hair; they have scourged the painted flesh of thee with their whips; thou hast suffered unspeakable things. 9. but i have burnt within thee as a pure flame without oil. in the midnight i was brighter than the moon; in the daytime i exceeded utterly the sun; in the byways of thy being i flamed, and dispelled the illusion. 10. therefore thou art wholly pure before me; therefore thou art my virgin unto eternity. 11. therefore i love thee with surpassing love; therefore they that despise thee shall adore thee. 12. thou shalt be lovely and pitiful toward them; thou shalt heal them of the unutterable evil. 13. they shall change in their destruction, even as two dark stars that crash together in the abyss, and blaze up in an infinite burning. 14. all this while did adonai pierce my being

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hallus with the light. i gild mine elbow with the light. i gild my navel with the light. i gild my heart wedge with the light. i gild my black throat with the light. i gild my forehead with the light. i gild my phallus with the light. the three-fold star cross-crowned, i rise partaker of the mysteries. rising in sign mulier asar un-nefer! i am thine waiting thy glory in the shrine, thy bride, thy virgin, ah my lord! smite through the spirit with thy sword asar un-nefer! rise in me the chosen catamite of thee come! o come now! i wait, i wait patient-impatient, slave of fate bought by thy glance. come now, come now vel pyramidos 11 touch and inform this burning brow. asar un-nefer! in the shrine make thou me wholly thine remove hoodwink. i am asar, worthy alone to sit upon the double throne

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beyond at thy feet, i have annointed thee and thy staff with oil and blood and kisses. 45. i have kindled thy marble into life.ay! into death. 46. i have been smitten with the reek of thy mouth, that drinketh never wine but life. 47. how the dew of the universe whitens the lips! svb figvra vii 5 48. ah! trickling flow of the stars of the mother supernal, begone! 49. i am she that should come, the virgin of all men. 50. i am a boy before thee, o thou satyr god. 51. thou wilt inflict the punishment of pleasure.now! now! now! 52. io pan! io pan! i love thee. i love thee. 53. o my god, spare me! 54. now! it is done! death. 55. i cried aloud the word.and it was a mighty spell to bind the invisible, an enchantment to unbind; yea, to unbind the bound. 6 ii 1. o my god! use thou me again, alway. f

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wcy wmc rca ywncar yrwkb, bekori rashuni asher shamo yeshuah thaubodo .ye shall worship my first-born, my first, whose name is jesus. the fourth is wdwbot owcy wmc rca br awbb, beboa rabban ashar shamo yeshuah thaubado .when the master is come whose name is jesus ye shall worship. the fifth is, hwrcat owcy dltc rjba hywar hlwtb, betulah raviah abachar shethaled yeshuah thrashroah .i will choose a virgin worthy to bring forth jesus, and ye shall call her blessed. the sixth is, wlksy owcy ypwgc rttsa \ypxr tgwob, beaugoth ratzephim assattar shegopi yeshuah thakelo .i will hide mayself in cake (baked with) coals, for ye shall eat jesus, my body. 4 [the quote from genesis, in jacob.s blessing to judah, is generally taken as the earliest reference to the messiah. other meanings of 358 are discu

lly signifies the lesser countenance, microprosopus, the king of the qabalistic sephirothic greatest trinity, and the son in his human incarnation in the christian acceptation of the trinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does hwhy reveal hyha. and ynda is the queen .by whom alone tetragrammaton can be grasped. whose exaltation into binah is found in the christian assumption of the virgin. the tetragrammaton hwhy is referred to the sephiroth thus: the uppermost point of the letter yod, y, is said to refer to kether; the letter y itself to chokmah, the father of microprosopus; the letter h, or .the supernal he. to 24 [samael is various glossed as .poison of god. or .blind god. in some of the gnostic texts found at nag hammadi, samael is identified with the demiurge. t.s] 25 [

atic, tarot, and signifactory methods of investigating any word. but though frater p. was expert enough in these methods they are hardly pertinent to the pure numerical qabalah, and we therefore deal gently with them. the attributions are given in 777. thus a in the yetziratic world is .air. by tarot .the fool. and by signification .an ox. thus we have the famous i.n.r.i= y. n. r. i= f, h, f; the virgin, the evil serpent, the sun, suggesting the story of genesis ii. and of the gospel. the initials of the egyptian names isis, apophis, osiris, which correspond, give in their turn the ineffable name iao; thus we say that the ineffable is concealed in and thus combining all the symbols into the form of a lion [note added by ac to a copy of equinox i (5, as transribed by yorke. in the copy i am

lar manifestation of deity, who declared himself under this special name. 358. see 32. jycm, messiah, and cjn, the serpent of genesis. the dogma is that the head of the serpent (n) is .bruised. being replaced by the letter of sacrifice, and yod, the letter alike of virginity (y= f) and of original deity (y= the foundation or type of all the letters. thus the word may be read .the sacrifice of the virgin-born divine one triumphant (j, the chariot) through the spirit. while cjn reads .death entering the (realm of the) spirit. but the conception of the serpent as the redeemer is truer. see my explanation of the 5=6 ritual (equinox, no. iii. 361. rah ynda, the lord of the earth. note 361 denotes the 3 supernals, the 6 members of ruach, and malkuth. this name of god therefore embraces all the 1

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f two hundred thousand trees,8 fit alike to shelter man and mouse, and. shall i say god? be patient, your reverence,9 i warrant you.ll journey a wiser man ever hence! let.s tap (like the negro who gets a good juice of it, cares nought if that be, or be not, god.s right use of it),10 in all that forest of verses one tree11 yclept .red cotton nightcap country: how a goldsmith, between the ravishing virgin and a leman too rotten to put a purge in, day by day and hour by hour, in a browningesque forest of thoughts having lost himself, expecting a miracle, solemnly tossed himself off from the top of tower. moral: don.t spoil such an excellent sport as an ample estate with a church and a courtesan .truth, that.s the gold.12 but don.t worry about it! i, you, or simpkin13 can get on without it! if

d things to me imputed by calling me .materialist. at least this thought is better suited to western minds than is embalmed among the doctrines of mohammed, the dogma parthenogenetic* as told me by a fat ascetic. he said .your worthy friends may lack you late, but learn how mary was immaculate. i sat in vague expectant bliss. the story as it runs is thus (i quote my eastern friend60 verbatim) the virgin, going to the bath, found a young fellow in her path, and turned, prepared to scold and rate him .how dare you be on me encroaching. the beautiful young gentleman, with perfect courtesy approaching, bowed deeply, and at once began .fear nothing, mary! all is well! i am the angel gabriel. she bared her right breast (query why) the angel gabriel let fly* concerning conception of a virgin. 715

cond messiah! he took the utmost pains to conceal the birth of the child, treated everybody who came to the house as an emissary of herod, and finally made up his mind to flee into egypt! like most religious maniacs, he never had an idea of his own, but distorted the beautiful and edifying events of the bible into insane and ridiculous ones, which he proceeded to plagiarise. on the voyage out the virgin mother became enamoured, as was her wont, of the nearest male, in this case a fellow-traveller. he, being well able to support her in the luxury which she desired, easily persuaded her to leave the boat with him by stealth. a small sailing vessel conveyed them to malta, where they disappeared. the only trace left in the books of earth records that this fascinating character was accused, fou

f, black-muzzled; the twenty-first day, a sorrow; the twenty-second day, a bundle of herbs; the twenty-third day, a piece of camphor; the twenty-fourth day, a moonstone; the twenty-fifth day, a sigh; the twenty-sixth day, a refusal; the twenty-seventh day, a consent; and the last night she gave him all herself, so that the moon was eclipsed and earth was utterly darkened. and the marriage of that virgin was on this wise: she had three arrows, yet but two flanks, and the wise men said that who knew two was three,1 should know three was eight,2 if the circle were but squared; and this also one day shall ye know, my brethren! and she gave him the great and perfect gift of magic, so that he fared forth right comely and well-provided. now at that great wedding was a suggler,3 a riddler: for he

her on the one side or the other, and who shall tell their ways? so our father, having won the serpent crown, the ur us of antient khem, did bind it upon his head, and rejoiced in that kingdom for the space of two hundred and thirty and one days2 and nights, and turned him toward the flaming sword.3 now the sword governeth ten mighty kingdoms, and evil, and above them is the ninefold lotus, and a virgin came forth unto him in the hour of his rejoicing and propounded her riddle. the first riddle :4 the maiden is blind. our father: she shall be what she doth not. and a second virgin came forth to him and said: the second riddle: detegitur yod. quoth our father: the moon is full. so also a third virgin the third riddle: man and woman: o fountain of the balance! to whom our father answered wit

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second figure we behold their concentration: focalisation: producing by their joint action the number of manifestation.4. in the worlds.assiah: in the taro, the princess.the throne of the spirit: in the tetragram, the he final, and in symbolic language.the daughter: in the cycle of life (birth, life, death, resurrection, the fourth; in the keys of the book universal, the empress, korh kosmou, the virgin of the world, venus, aphrodite: centrum in trigonis centri.by whatsoever of a myriad names we call her, still the same in spirit, the same in number and in form! and this number is herein formulated by the concentration of the three in one. 3+ 1= 4. now in this figure ii. we behold six certain paths; and in six days did god create the heavens and the earth. and the total numeration of its n

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v. the 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)

self, duplex as is its form, reluctant to acquiesce in its failure to coincide with the sphere of nuit. let him now imagine, at the last word, that the head of his will, where his consciousness is fixed, opens its fissure (the brahmarandhra cakkra, at the juncture of the cranial sutres) and exudes a drop of clear crystalline dew, and liber samekh svb figvra dccc 20 that this pearl is his soul, a virgin offering to his angel, pressed forth from his being by the intensity of his aspiration. section ff with these words the adept does not withdraw his will within him as in the previous sections. he thinks of them as a reflection of truth on the surface of the dew, where his soul hides trembling. he takes them to be the first formulation in his consciousness of the nature of his holy guardian

herein so that the worthy may win to his wisdom. let i and f face all* yet ward their a from attack. gthe hermit h to himself, gthe fool h to foes, gthe hierophant h to friends. nine by nature, naught by attainment, five by function, in speech swift, subtle and secret; in thought creative, unbiased, unbounded; in act gentle, patient, persistent. hermes to hear, dionysus to touch, pan to behold! a virgin, a babe, and a beast! a liar, an idiot, and a master of men* if we adopt the new orthography viaov (book 4, part iii, chap. v) we must read gthe sun.6.the son h etc, for gall h; and elaborate this interpretation here given in other ways, accordingly. thus o (or f) will not be gthe hierophant, h but gthe devil h.the eye.baphomet, etc, gfifteen by function h instead of gfive h, etc, and gin a

onversation of him by virtue of mind ardour towards him, and of this ritual that i bestow upon men my fellows, and most of of his great love that he beareth to me. yea, verily, he led me to the abyss; he bade me fling away all that i had and all that i was; and he forsook me in that hour. but when i came beyond the abyss, to be reborn within the womb of babalon, then came he unto me abiding in my virgin heart, its lord and lover! also he made me a magus, speaking through his law the word of the new aon, the aon of the crowned and conquering child. thus he fulfilled my will to bring full freedom to the race of men. yea, he wrought also in me a work of wonder beyond that, but in this matter i am sworn to hold my peace* see the maps gminutum mundum h in the equinox i (2, 3) and the general re

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and thou who hast won the first shalt enjoy the second. 54. i leap with joy within thee; my head is arisen to strike. 55. o the lust, the sheer rapture, of the life of the snake in the spine! 56. mightier than god or man, i am in them, and pervade them. 57. follow out these my words. 58. fear nothing. fear nothing. fear nothing. svb figvra lxvi 5 59. for i am nothing, and me thou shalt fear, o my virgin, my prophet within whose bowels i rejoice. 60. thou shalt fear with the fear of love: i will overcome thee. 61. thou shalt be very nigh to death. 62. but i will overcome thee; the new life shall illumine thee with the light that is beyond the stars. 63. thinkest thou? i, the force that have created all, am not to be despised. 64. and i will slay thee in my lust. 65. thou shalt scream with t

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arms of the moon.11 but sh and t are alike formula of force in action as opposed to entities; they are not states of existence, but modes of motion. they are verbs, not nouns. sh is the holy spirit as a .tongue of fire. manifest in triplicity, 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 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

ool. impregnating the woman according to the word of yod, the angel of the lord! his sister has seduced her brother beast, shaming the sun with her sin; she has mastered the lion, and enchanted the serpent. nature is outraged by magick; man is bestialized and woman defiled. the conjunction produces a monster; it affirms regression of types. instead of a man-god conceived of the spirit of god by a virgin in innocence, we are asked to adore the bastard of a whore and a brute, begotten in shamefullest sin and born in most blasphemous bliss. this is in fact the formula of our magick; we insist that all acts must be equal; that existence asserts the right to exist; that unless evil is a mere term expressing some relation of haphazard hostility between forces equally selfjustified, the universe

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ast cathedral, and the path of the mighty ruler, who governs everything with his orb and his crown and his sceptre. there is the path of the queen of love which is more beautiful than anything, and along it my own dear lover passes to my bridal chamber. then there are the three ways to the holy house of the old king, the way by which he is joined with the new fairy prince, where dwells a moonlike virgin with an open book, and always, always reads beautiful words therein, smiling mysteriously through her shining veil, woven of sweet thoughts and pure kisses. and there is the way by which i always go to the king, my father, and that passage is built of thunder and lightning; but there is a holy domus iii v. intellectio abest egoitas ego est non-ego puerperium partus vita adepti via w v. clav

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n gappolon emintheus and the teutonic mysing, h archiv fur religionswissenschaft 33 (1936: 40.56, alexander haggerty krappe argued an implausible connection between frodi fs killer my lsing in the norse tradition and the greek emintheus (mouse-god, perhaps the plague. fulla minor goddess. snorri lists fulla fifth in his catalog in gylfaginning of goddesses among the asir and says, gshe is still a virgin and goes about with her hair down and a gold band about her head; she carries frigg fs trunk and looks after her shoes and shares secret counsels with her. h the prose preceding grimnismal in the poetic edda says that frigg sent her gtrunk-maiden h fulla to geirrod to trick him into mistreating the disguised odin, and in skaldskaparmal snorri says that gruler of fulla h is a kenning for fri

n of one who destroys (e.g, fire is the ggarm of wood h. thus, snorri fs beast managarm (moon-dog) must be the destroyer of the moon, and that is precisely what snorri says he is in gylfaginning. see also bound monster; managarm gefjon minor goddess and/or female figure of legendary prehistory. snorri lists gefjon fourth in his catalog in gylfaginning of goddesses among the asir and says she is a virgin, served by those women who died unmarried. snorri also numbers her among the goddesses at agir fs party at the beginning of skaldskaparmal and again when he is discussing gold kennings. she also makes an appearance in lokasenna, where she follows idun in trying to discourage the verbal dueling. loki says to her: gshut up, gefjon/ that one will i now mention/ who seduced you/ the white lad/

ided. she went to jotunheimar, got four sons by a certain giant, changed them into oxen, and plowed up and transported the land that was to be seland, thereby creating logrinn, whose fjords match the headlands of seland. she settled in seland, and odin married her to his son skjold. these varying conceptions and stories are not easy to reconcile. we are faced with a prostitute who is said to be a virgin goddess, and a goddess.virgin or not.who is said to have had children with a giant, which should disqualify her as a goddess because the sexual traffic is all in the opposite direction. in other words, we have both physical and mythological impossibilities. some of the inconsistencies recede if we understand gefjon as a figure of prehistory, a member of the asir not in their roles as gods b

ride fs outfit, trousseau. h finally, in some translations of the lives of the saints into medieval icelandic, the translator substituted the name of gefjon for a pagan roman god or used it in a list of pagan scandinavian gods where there was a list of pagan roman gods in the original text. sometimes diana is the roman goddess in question, and that has led to the idea that gefjon fs split between virgin and whore may have originated in an analogy with diana. the lack of the gefjon/gylfi story in one branch of the manuscripts of snorri fs edda, and the fact that gylfi is reintroduced directly after it in the other manuscripts, suggests that it was not part of snorri fs original text but may have been added by a later scribe. if this passage is not from snorri fs pen, it is possible that who

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zation of unities beyond our prescribed sex. in the end, we reason that the objects of which we have no conscious experience are relative to those of which we have. the argument that every strong and peculiar expression is merely mental hyperbole does not explain our correct though instinctive apprehensions, inspirations. and certain dreams. all believe in the extraordinary proceeds from our once-virgin astonishment at existence itself which induces a propensity towards the marvelous that receives a check only by redirection and relearning. but our reasoning and our learning are both forged by presumptions. if experience gives authority to testimony, recognition by ideas does the same. we are never fully aware of things except by the influx of sexual will awakening us. pain and pleasure: n

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s the same as christian creationism: how could god possibly be equated with an incompetent designer? this new attitude is reminiscent of the story developed by the canada-based raelian cult. in it, human beings were created through cloning by extraterrestrials (called elohim) who manufactured human dna. the raelians call themselves scientific creationists and have an exquisite explanation for the virgin birth of jesus christ: mary was artificially inseminated by the elohim aboard one of their spacecraft! needless to say, the raelians support the idea of intelligent design. it would be interesting to know what id theorists think about the raelian interpretation of the world. can a mousetrap evolve? michael behe s most famous and iconic example of irreducible complexity is the familiar mouse

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uno hare, june 11, 2004. title page preface table of contents introduction the ancient mysteries and secret societies which have influenced modern masonic symbolism the ancient mysteries and secret societies, part two the ancient mysteries and secret societies, part three atlantis and the gods of antiquity the life and teachings of thoth hermes trismegistus the initiation of the pyramid isis, the virgin of the world the sun, a universal deity the zodiac and its signs the bembine table of isis wonders of antiquity the life and philosophy of pythagoras pythagorean mathematics the human body in symbolism the hiramic legend the pythagorean theory of music and color fishes, insects, animals, reptiles and birds (part one) fishes, insects, animals, reptiles and birds (part two) flowers, plants, f

fragments--the book of thoth--poimandres, the vision of hermes--the mystery of universal mind- the seven governors of the world. 37 the initiation of the pyramid the opening of the great pyramid by caliph at mamoun--the passageways and chambers of the great pyramid--the riddle of the sphinx--the pyramid mysteries--the secret of the pyramid coffer-the dwelling place of the hidden god. 41 isis, the virgin of the world the birthdays of the gods--the murder of osiris--the hermetic isis--the symbols peculiar to isis--the troubadours--the mummification of the dead. 45 the sun, a universal deity the solar trinity-christianity and the sun--the birthday of the sun--the three suns- the celestial inhabitants of the sun--the midnight sun. 49 the zodiac and its signs primitive astronomical instruments

a great number of feast days. the new and full moon and the sixth day of the moon were sacred periods. it is believed that initiations took place only at the two solstices and the two equinoxes. at dawn of the 25th day of december, the birth of the sun god was celebrated. the secret teachings of the druids are said by some to be tinctured with pythagorean philosophy. the druids had a madonna, or virgin mother, with a child in her arms, who was sacred to their mysteries; and their sun god was resurrected at the time of the year corresponding to that at which modern christians celebrate easter. both the cross and the serpent were sacred to the druids, who made the former by cutting off all the branches of an oak tree and fastening one of them to the main trunk in the form of the letter t. t

tians, who worshiped nous (christ) and the true spiritual light of the higher ons. after the death of basilides, valentinus became the leading inspiration of the gnostic movement. he still further complicated the system of gnostic philosophy by adding infinitely to the details. he increased the number of emanations from the great one (the abyss) to fifteen pairs and also laid much emphasis on the virgin sophia, or wisdom. in the books of the savior, parts of which are commonly known as the pistis sophia, may be found much material concerning this strange doctrine of ons and their strange inhabitants. james freeman clarke, in speaking of the doctrines of the gnostics, says "these doctrines, strange as they seem to us, had a wide influence in the christian church" many of the theories of the

e crowned with myrtle and ivy, plants which were sacred to bacchus. in the anacalypsis, godfrey higgins conclusively establishes bacchus (dionysos) as one of the early pagan forms of the christos myth "the birthplace of bacchus, called sabazius or sabaoth, was claimed by several places in greece; but on mount zelmisus, in thrace, his worship seems to have been chiefly celebrated. he was born of a virgin on the 25th of december; he performed great miracles for the good of mankind; particularly one in which he changed water into wine; he rode in a triumphal procession on an ass; he was put to death by the titans, and rose again from the dead on the 25th of march: he was always called the saviour. in his mysteries, he was shown to the people, as an infant is by the christians at this day, on

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about was magical in content. i am the rose of sharon, and the lily of the valleys, as the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. the rose has been preserved as the lady's emblem in the annals of courtly love and among the symbols of alchemy. the lily, however, passed directly into christian catholicism and became an attribute of the madonna, which is only right and proper, as the virgin mary is but a christian echo of an aspect of the lady herself. however, due to this association, it is more to be considered a symbol of cool chastity rather than love or passion. having seen to your initial preparations, illumine the lamps and kindle the appropriate incense, chanting as you do such words of consecration as "in thy name, habondia, and that of thy ministers of love, do i pro

nt, i would mention three considerably less sinister though traditional minor processes which cater to the jealous witch. three simple spells for the jilted witch rise before sunrise on a saturday or tuesday when the moon is waning select a branch (traditionally of hazel, but any tree will do) of one year's growth and lop it off with your athame, chanting these words as you do: i sever thee, thou virgin branch, in the name of [victim's name] for the purposes of his downfall! return home with this switch, and that night, when you feel sure your enemy is sleeping, cast a circle using an incense of wrath and chastisement. then visualizing the face of your victim in the altar triangle, and beginning at the east, begin circling the altar and rotating on your own axis counterclockwise. as you do

me to mind. there is the one involving the burning of the desiccated liver of a chameleon on the rooftop; another specifying the casting of flints behind one's back; the flinging of sand into the air; beating up a spray of water from a river with a besom. boiling hogs' bristles in a cauldron; vigorously stirring the water in a hole in the earth with your ringer; sprinkling cold water over a naked virgin; and, finally, sacrificing a coal-black cockerel. most all of these are what frazer would have categorized as "sympathetic" magical gestures, processes designed to effect their aim by reason of the magical axiom that if you perform an action symbolically, that which it represents may in fact occur, due to the oneness of the universe, the interaction of the microcosm with the macrocosm. this

aradia, the gospel of the witches. habondia or dame habonde. goddess seen as lady of love and plenty. holda or hulda. german version of the same. morgan or morrigan. celtic names for goddess seen a lady of death, variant of classical hecate. also king arthur's half-elven sister. brigid or bride. a celtic mother goddess. astarte or ishtar. mesopotamian goddess of love. bride of adonis-tammuz. the virgin or maiden. referring to perephone, the greek underworld goddess. should the lady or high priestess have a daughter present within the coven, the latter title of "maiden" is sometimes conferred on her. let me reiterate: the titles bestowed upon the leaders vary considerably from coven to coven, depending on the approach adopted, dianic or druidic, celtic or cabalistic, robed or sky clad. in

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r names agla, aglai, aglata, aglatai. the which names are to be placed in the front, behind, and on either side of the head. furthermore, the master ought to have with him in the circle, those pentacles or medals which are necessary to his purpose, which are described hereinafter, and which should be constructed according to the rules given in the chapter on pentacles. they should be described on virgin paper with a pen; and ink, blood, or colours, prepared according to the manner which we shall hereafter show in the chapters on these subjects. it will be sufficient to take only those pentacles which are actually required, they should be sewed to the front of the linen robe, on the chest, with the consecrated needle of the art, and with a thread which has been woven by a young girl. after

contained in this chapter. and if the spirits be disobedient and do not then make their appearance, he must arise and take the exorcised knife of art wherewith he hath constructed the circle, and raise it towards the sky as if he wished to beat or strike the air, and conjure the spirits. let him then lay his right hand and the knife upon the pentacles or medals, constructed of, and described upon virgin paper, which are fastened to or sewn upon his breast, and let him repeat the following conjuration upon his knees: conjuration. o lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come unto thee. o lord god almighty, who has reigned before the beginning of the ages, and who by thine infinite wisdom, hast created the heavens, the earth, and the sea, and all that in them is, all that is visible, and all t

e art, by the same conjuration; the master should add to his conjuration that they should at least send him some messengers, or some individual to declare unto him where they are, how employed, and the reason why they cannot come and obey him. but if (which is almost impossible) they be even yet self-opinionated and disobedient, and unwilling to obey; in this case their names should be written on virgin paper, which he should soil and fill with mud, dust, or clay. then he shall kindle a fire with dry rue, upon which he shall put powdered asafoetida, and other things of evil book one page 37 odour; after which let him put the aforesaid names, written on parchment or virgin parchment paper, upon the fire, saying: the conjuration of the fire i conjure thee, o creature of fire, by him who remo

nd afterwards depart ye unto your abodes and retreats; be there peace between us and you; be ye ever ready to come when ye shall be cited and called; and may the blessing of god, as far as ye are capable of receiving it, be upon you, provided ye be obedient and prompt to come unto us without solemn rites and observances on our part. the key of solomon page 38 thou shouldest further make a book of virgin parchment paper, and therein write the foregoing conjurations, and constrain the demons to swear upon the same book that they will come whenever they be called, and present themselves before thee, whenever thou shalt wish to consult them. afterwards thou canst cover this book with sacred sigils on a plate of silver, and therein write or engrave the holy pentacles. thou mayest open this book

ease, and in equal number of days with the sun. it is necessary to have a chamber or cabinet specially set apart and newly cleaned, wherein thou canst remain without interruption, the which having entered with thy companions, thou shalt incense and perfume it with the odours and perfumes of the art. the sky should be clear and serene. it is necessary that thou shouldest have one or more pieces of virgin paper prepared and arranged ready, as we shall tell you more fully later on, in its place. thou shalt commence the writing or construction of the pentacles in the hour aforesaid. among other things, thou shalt chiefly use these colours: gold, cinnabar or vermilion red, and celestial or brilliant azure blue. furthermore, thou shalt make these medals or pentacles with exorcised pen and colour

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ld be made of white leather, on the which should be marked the signs and characters of art. these shoes should be made during the days of fast and abstinence, namely, during the nine days set apart before the beginning of the operation, during which the necessary instruments also should be prepared, polished, brightened, and cleaned. besides this, the master of the art should have a crown made of virgin parchment paper, upon the which should be written these four names: yod, he, vau, he, in front; adonai behind; el on the right; and elohim on the left (see figure 57) these names should be written with the ink and pen of the art, whereof we shall speak in the proper chapter. the disciples should also each have a crown of virgin paper whereon these divine symbols should be marked in scarlet

troke from the tree, at the rising of the sun, with a new knife, or with any other convenient instrument. the characters shown should be traced thereoxn thou shalt perfume them according to the rules of art; and wrap them in silk cloth like the others. the staff (see figure 68) should be of elderwood, or cane, or rosewood; and the wand (figure 69) of hazel or nut tree, in all cases the wood being virgin, that is of one year s growth only. they should each be cut from the tree at a single stroke, on the day of mercury, at sunrise. the characters shown should be written or engraved thereon in the day and hour of mercury. this being done, thou shalt say: adonai, most holy, deign to bless and to consecrate this wand, and this staff, that they mav obtain the necessary virtue, through thee, o mo

y of solomon page 108 chapter xii. of the light, and of the fire. it hath been ever the custom among all nations to use fire and light in sacred things. for this reason the master of the art should also employ them in sacred rites, and besides those for reading the conjurations by, and for the incense, in all operations lights are necessary in the circle. for this reason he should make candles of virgin wax in the day and hour of mercury; the wicks should have been made by a young girl; and the candles should be made when the moon is in her increase, of the weight of half a pound each, and on them thou shalt engrave these characters with the dagger, or the burin of art. after this thou shalt repeat over the candles, psalms cli; ciii; cvii, and shalt say: o lord god, who governest all thing

ot now have seen me. but seeing that ye have powerfully called us, as i believe, by the rites derived from solomon, and which but few of your comrades, or exorcisers, possess, also they compel us against our will, and i therefore say unto thee that we wish to be obedient in all matters. then shall the magus place the petitions of himself and his companions, which should be written down clearly on virgin card, or paper, beyond the circle towards the king or prince of the spirits, and he will receive it and take counsel with his chiefs. after this he will return the card, saying: that which thou desirest is accomplished, be thy will performed, and all thy demands fulfilled. the key of solomon page 110 chapter xiv. of the pen, ink, and colours. all things employed for writing &c, in this art

elohim, elohi, elion, asher eheieh, shaddai, o god the lord, immaculate, immutable, emanuel, messiach, yod, he, vau, he, be my aid, so that this blood may have power and efficacy all wherein i shall wish, and in all that i shall demand. perfume it and keep it for use. the blood of other winged animals may be taken in the same manner, with the proper solemnities. book two page 113 chapter xvii. of virgin parchment, or virgin paper, and how it should be prepared. virgin parchment paper, made from the skin of dead-born lambs, which is new, pure, clean, and exorcised, never having served for any other purpose. genuine virgin parchment is necessary in many magical operations, and should be properly prepared and consecrated. there are two kinds, one called virgin, the other unborn. virgin parchm

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haracters of jupiter. around it are the names of the angels: netoniel, devachiah, tzedeqiah, and parasiel, written in hebrew. figure 19. the second pentacle of jupiter. this is proper for acquiring glory, honors, dignities, riches, and all kinds of good, together with great tranquillity of mind; also to discover treasures and chase away the spirits who preside over them. it should be written upon virgin parchment, with the pen of the swallow and the blood of the screech-owl. editor s note. in the center of the hexagram are the letters of the name ahih, eheieh; in the upper and lower angles of the same, those of the name ab, the father; in the remaining angles those of the name ihvh. i believe the letters outside the hexagram in the reentering angles to be intended for those of the first tw

efore without doubt it will give thee victory. figures 25 and 26. the key of solomon page 68 editor s note. in the center is the great name agla; right and left, the letters of the name ihvh; above and below, el. round it is the versicle from psalm cx. 5 "the lord at thy right hand shall wound even kings in the day of his wrath" figure 29. the fifth pentacle of mars. write thou this pentacle upon virgin parchment, because it is terrible unto the demons, and at its sight and aspect they will obey thee, for they cannot resist its presence. editor s note. around the figure of the scorpion is the word hvl. the versicle is from psalm xci. 13 "thou shalt go upon the lion and added, the young lion and the dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet" figure 30. the sixth pentacle of mars. it hath so gr

t him. editor s note. around the eight points of the radii of the pentacle are the words "elohim qeber, elohim hath covered (or protected" written in the secret alphabet of malachim, or the writing of the angels. the versicle is from psalm xxxvii. 15 "their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bow shall be broken" figure 31. the seventh and last pentacle of mars. write thou this upon virgin parchment paper with the blood of a bat, in the day and hour of mars; and uncover it within the circle, invoking the demons spirits of the nature of mars, especially those which are written in the whose names are therein written; and thou shalt immediately see hail and tempest. figures 27 and 28. the holy pentacles page 69 editor s note. in the center of the pentacle are the divine names, e

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the aforesaid spirits with their legions in the vessel of brass. this seal is to be made by one that is clean both inwardly and outwardly, and that hath not defiled himself by any woman in the space of a month, but hath in prayer and fasting desired of god to forgive him all his sins, etc. it is to be made on the day of mars or saturn (tuesday or saturday) at night at 12 o clock, and written upon virgin parchment with the blood of a black cock that never trode hen. note that on this night the moon must be increasing in light (i.e, going from new to full) and in the zodiacal sign of virgo. and when the seal is so made thou shalt perfume it with alum, raisins dried in the sun, dates, cedar and lignum aloes. also, by this seal king solomon did command all the aforesaid spirits in the vessel o

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th 40 servants apiece to attend them& the next 4 dukes have 20 servants, and the last 2 dukes hath 10 apiece& they are very obedient& do willingly appear when they are called, they have more power to hide or discover treasure than any other spirits saith solomon, that is contained in this book theurgia goetia& when you hide& would not have any thing taken away that is yours, make these 4 seals in virgin parchment& lay them with the treasure or where the treasure lyeth& it will never be found nor taken away, the names& seals of the spirits are as followeth: alimoris seal ameta seal amen seal herne seal sadfar seal potiel seal seafar seal mapui seal amandiel seal barfu seal garnafu seal hisiam seal lemegeton: clavicula salomonis 28 fabariel seal vsimel seal here followeth the 14 dukes that b

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, as civilizations developed in adjoining countries, a great irradiation of them took place by the diffusion of its knowledge and the institution of minor centres for the imparting of the divine science in chaldea, persia, greece and asia minor" out of egypt have i called my son" is, in one of its many senses, a biblical allusion to this passing on of the catholic m ysteries from egypt to new and virgin regions, for their enlightenment. of these various translations those that concern us chiefly are two; the one to greece, the other to palestine. we know from the bible that moses was an initiate of the egyptian mysteries and became learned in all its wisdom, while philo tells us that moses there became" skilled in music, geometry, arithmetic, hieroglyphics and the whole circle of arts and

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the circle from my being touching the initiate, or lilith who is strong in both shadow and flame. i then took forth to the great deserts, with the blessing of lilith and the dragon itself. i was the lord of the forge, the blacksmith of infernal and celestial fire, the rider of the dragon and bringer of sorcerous knowledge. i, cain, who learned the wisdom of the devouring goddess, the harlot made virgin and the virgin made goddess, and have faced the hungering shades of ahriman, who blessed me in the dreams and nightmares of the wise. i, cain, who sipped of the emerald grail and the skull cup of the dragon-goddess, did i taste the pleasures of the harlot, walk the earth forever. i am the wandered, and many forms i will take. that even that i have left flesh shall my spirit dwell on, that i

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ch dressed in black and deathly pale. the leader of the men, who called himself moyset, told pierre that his men would watch over his herd and give unto him a great fortune if he would obey his wishes. pierre agreed and in their next meeting moyset inquired upon pierre's religious beliefs. upon finding that pierre was one who accepted christianity he commanded him to reject jesus christ, the holy virgin and his baptism. burgot then accepted his suggestions and gave an oath by kissing moysets' hand, which was as cold as the hand of a corpse. it was years later when the rider returned and gave burgot an ointment to smear upon himself. this 14 14 act was done along with pierre's friend verdun, who smeared himself with this foul smelling ointment as well. the two became wolves and began to dev

can be worn as well, depending on the individuals interest and alignment. the color white represents purity, and humility or novice status. it is thus suited to those who have not 45 45 tasted the mysteries of light and dark. thus it precedes the gray of the magickal current that flows towards the toad s moon, to which the night pays homage. a dagger should be present, not an athame per se but a virgin dagger with which you could easily cut yourself. once the banishing rite is complete, focus on your environment and all of the beautiful and pleasant things around you, the forest, the wind, the animals and the great darkness that approaches, the night in its full and magnificent splendor- the great predators of night that fly about the shadowed skies. you are now in the bosom of the great

e in dreams. record the experience accordingly. day twopaint it the color of your desire, upon it on four sides a mark of an x, the sacred sign of the cross roads. the sigillic formula of the succubi or hecate should be inscribed on the pot/vessel. day three the night of the full moon. within the vessel place the sigil of hecate which should already be prepared, ashes and bone if possible. i) the virgin -hekas umpesha ur-rastu lil-ka zrazza encircle me by three, shadow wrap my being in the caul-shroud of your mark. triple mooned, blood drinking, beast like goddess, oh sorcerers of the flame of witch fire, i summon thy three fold shadow to attend me rise up, goddess of the dead! hecate, familiar and goddess of three shades, initiator and birth mother i summon thee! i cast now the circle in

. triple mooned, blood drinking, beast like goddess, oh sorcerers of the flame of witch fire, i summon thy three fold shadow to attend me rise up, goddess of the dead! hecate, familiar and goddess of three shades, initiator and birth mother i summon thee! i cast now the circle in flour i evoke the hounds of the barrier, wolves created in the darkness do i call forth! by the first moon envelope me virgin goddess, i come unto you in the evening light. embrace me in thy kingdom of the cunning craft, speak 66 66 unto me as the freshly dead, the virgin from the tomb. guide me and walk with me unto the luciferian sabbat. by the second moon maiden who rides upon the dragon s spine, i summon thee bring thy fiery essence into my circle, enflame me in the cunning fire and blood of your fornications

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

cmode of consciousness and possessed the physical endur-ance and strength, not to mention the guile, of the humbleearth reptile. from these beings, we inherit the term cold-blooded evil.zeus and typhonatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation61 reptilians, priestesses, and strange genes the euphemism that has come down to describe a female reserved for crossing withpart alien being was virgin. the offspring of these relations were referred to as beingof virgin birth. other terms which implied genetics are blood (as in blood of thelamb, seed (as in seed of david, and immaculate (as in the immaculateconception) this latter term connotes progeny who were created genetically, ratherthan sexually. properly, it was to designate that they were special children, the off-spring of the go

heir freedom. so, itwas decided by the royals of england, the tudor dynasty, that though their presentresearches and operations would not be halted, a new approach was needed. the manwith the idea for this new approach and the one who would undertake its executionwas sir john dee, the court astrologer and ambassador of queen elizabeth tudor. elizabeth (e-liza-beth) was known, suggestively, as the virgin queen (said to do with herbeing a virgo, but really because the term indicates bloodlink to the serpent masters andpossibly to the reptilians. the name elizabeth means beloved of the gods.sir john dee was court ambassador to the tudors (sic, tutors. he would dutifully visit for-eign courts, meeting with money men and master occultists of europe, and then when send-ing back intelligence in w

the base of a hillnobili (nobles) those favored to contact the illinob hill common name for the place of the high ones.gentilli the class that became the contactees. gen, means race, indicating those who weredescended from the illi.gentiles name for those in contact with or descended from the illi.appendix b: book abstracts236atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation sybilline (sybil) virgin oraclesidylls (of the kings -tennysonidyllic beautiousideal ones greatest imageelite term used by the class of those who were chosen. privilegedallies one that serves with the illes.illustriousilluminedexcellentillustra tefilialill as in ill omens or signs.heidelburg means burg of the high illihalla (halls) v alhalla hall of the gods in scandinavian myth, the halls of the v als.himel homepa

ylus)secrecy from the word root sacsacred, sacrament, sacrificial, sacrilege, sacked, sacrummanipulating the religionsno matter the clan, no matter the religion, the god could superimpose himself and use their beliefs to hisadvantage. the god who came from the land of the lead, the unknown land of happiness, or fromavalon the isle of fairyland, dwelt on high hill until rich enough to go home. the virgin oraclesthe ancients were so steeped in their ideology about the gods when a hypnotized virgin chanted in ill-constructed hexameter greek, they accepted the words for final authority from god and shaped theirconduct in things of major importance accordingly. by this important method of chicanery the oracleruled for a thousand years (p. 26)many rulers at the oracles were told to build cities

worship of augustus was not, as the ecclesiastical schools have insinuated, a mere lip-service, ameaningless mode of saluting the sovereign-pontiff, an elusive form of adulation or flattery to theemperor of rome; it was the worship of a personage who was believed to be a supernatural, omniscient,all-powerful and beneficent, the reincarnation of quirinus, the son of the god apollo and of the wife-virgin maia; the god whose coming was foretold by the cumaen sibyl; whose sway was to extend overthe whole earth; whose conception and birth were both miraculous; and whose advent was to usher inthe golden age of peace and plenty and to banish sin for ever. such was his character in rome (p. 38)the months of the year were not named after such people for nothing. ritual sacrificeswhen caesar was as

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

y, save a small number of men and women aboard a raft. the mandan s, a native american tribe, tell the story of lone man who, together with the creator, fashioned the earth and humanity. lone man, who was very much a savior figure, entered the world of man because he saw that humanity was plagued by evil spirits. in order to enter our world, however, lone man needed to be borne from the womb of a virgin mother. one day a virgin girl was eating corn, so lone man transformed himself into a kernel of corn which the virgin girl ate and became pregnant from. the virgin s parents considered the pregnancy holy, and the child, who was in fact lone man reincarnated, was perfect in all his ways. after growing into a young man, the day came for an annual trip by boat, where lone man insisted the boat

ike an imprint in the mind that was left by a dream- yet a pleasant dream this time. the wanderer, the civilizer, the magician, the chosen one, the incarnated god, the sacrificed. he was all of these things. typical of the west, the most famous savior figure is jesus christ. what christians have generally agreed on regarding this savior is: he is the only son of god or was god. he was born from a virgin. he was prophesied to come. he would, in the latter part of his life, travel around with 12 followers [apostles] teaching goodness and performing miracles. he would later die for our sins by being nailed to a wooden cross. his body was placed in a cave and, after 3 days, his--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 9 body disappeared and returned to heaven. in heaven he resides to this day, pro

ed oannes. this being was amphibious, but spoke human languages with ease. oannes would emerge out of the water, teaching and giving instruction to humans. he taught people writing, the sciences, the arts, architecture, and agriculture. he is often depicted as a man with the scales of a fish. and lets not forget lone man, the savior figure of the mandan people. lone man, like jesus, was born of a virgin, settled turbulent waters while aboard a boat, and was perfect in all his ways. and finally the god faro from the tales of the people of mali. faro, as stated before, transformed himself into a fish and eventually sacrificed himself to undo the sins of his terrible and evil brother pembe. and faro, like our osiris, was cut into pieces and scattered. i have often wondered what christians mea

d conversation of him by virtue of mine ardour towards him, and of this ritual that i bestow upon men my fellows, and most of his great love that he beareth to me, yea, verily, he led me to the abyss; he bade me fling away all that i had and all that i was; and he forsook me in that hour. but when i came beyond the abyss, to be reborn within the womb of babalon, then came he unto me abiding in my virgin heart, its lord and lover- aleister crowley magic in theory and practice the sabbat [4.3] the sabbat is a gathering of witches, warlocks, demons, and, in the earthly sabbat, even humans. there are generally 2 types of gatherings that are called sabbats; the celestial sabbat, and the infernal sabbat. even though sorcerers are always congregating in their astral bodies, there are 4 major meet

acter, or city, currently rules the world and uses sorcery to do so. hecate, also equated with lilith, is the greek triple goddess. she is the goddess of the crossroads, who is frequently depicted with three heads; one of a dog, one of a snake, and one of a horse. this goddess is often associated with witchcraft and childbirth, and was accompanied by an owl during her travels. she is known as the virgin goddess, and is also reported to have a following of ghosts and lives in the underworld with hades, lord of the underworld. another goddess related to lilith is the egyptian goddess isis. isis was the wife of osiris, and was responsible for osiris first resurrection. isis is skilled at magic, and especially intelligent. isis, like hecate, is a goddess of childbirth. it appears isis, the wid

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tates_ or _teuth, the same as the _thoth_ of the egyptians, the word, or the intelligence formulated; then force and beauty, whose names varied like their emblems. finally, they completed the sacred septenary by a mysterious image that represented the progress of the dogma and its future realizations. this was a young girl veiled, holding a child in her arms; and they dedicated this image to "the virgin who will become a mother-_virgini paritur" hertha or wertha, the young isis of gaul, queen of heaven, the virgin who was to bear a child, held the spindle of the fates, filled with wool half white and half black; because she presides over all forms and all symbols, and weaves the garment of the ideas. one of the most mysterious pantacles of the kabalah, contained in the enchiridion of leo i

s cranmer hold his arm, now no longer erring, in the flame until the hand drops off in the consuming heat. it sees the persecutions of peter and paul, the martyrdom of stephen, the trials of ignatius, polycarp, justin, and irenaeus; and then in turn the sufferings of the wretched pagans under the christian emperors, as of the papists in ireland and under elizabeth and the bloated henry. the roman virgin naked before the hungry lions; young margaret graham tied to a stake at low-water mark, and there left to drown, singing hymns to god until the savage waters broke over her head; and all that in all ages have suffered by hunger and nakedness, peril and prison, the rack, the stake, and the sword--it sees them all, and shudders at the long roll of human atrocities. and it sees also the oppres

for the work of her needle. fathers and mothers slay their children, to have the burial-fees, that with the price of one child's life they may continue life in those that survive. little girls with bare feet sweep the street crossings, when the winter wind pinches them, and beg piteously for pennies of those who wear warm furs. children grow up in squalid misery and brutal ignorance; want compels virgin and wife to prostitute themselves; women starve and freeze, and lean up against the walls of workhouses, like bundles of foul rags, all night long, and night after night, when the cold rain falls, and there chances to be no room for them within; and hundreds of families are crowded into a single building, rife with horrors and teeming with foul air and pestilence; where men, women and child

unged in misery and darkness, tempted man to his fall, and brought sin into the world. all believed in a future life, to be attained by purification and trials; in a state or successive states of reward and punishment; and in a mediator or redeemer, by whom the evil principle was to be overcome, and the supreme deity reconciled to his creatures. the belief was general, that he was to be born of a virgin, and suffer a painful death. the indians called him chrishna; the chinese, kioun-tse; the persians, sosiosch; the chaldeans, dhou-vanai; the egyptians, har-oeri; plato, love; and the scandinavians, balder. chrishna, the hindoo redeemer, was cradled and educated among shepherds. a tyrant, at the time of his birth, ordered all the male children to be slain. he performed miracles, say his lege

; the chaldeans, dhou-vanai; the egyptians, har-oeri; plato, love; and the scandinavians, balder. chrishna, the hindoo redeemer, was cradled and educated among shepherds. a tyrant, at the time of his birth, ordered all the male children to be slain. he performed miracles, say his legends, even raising the dead. he washed the feet of the brahmins, and was meek and lowly of spirit. he was born of a virgin; descended to hell, rose again, ascended to heaven, charged his disciples to teach his doctrines, and gave them the gift of miracles. the first masonic legislator whose memory is preserved to us by history, was buddha, who, about a thousand years before the christian era, reformed the religion of manous. he called to the priesthood all men, without distinction of caste, who felt themselves

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

ontent with identifying himself with thelema, agape, etc. through the number 93, but wished to express his nature by six letters (six being the number of the sun, the god- man, etc) whose value in greek should be a= 1, i= 10, f =6, a= 1, s =200,5=200: total 418, the number of abrahadabra, the magical formula of the new aeon! note that i and v are the letters of the father and the son, also of the virgin and the bull (see liber 418, protected on either side by the letter of air, and followed by the letter of fire twice over. he declares himself, in this verse 7, the "minister of hoor-paar kraat" hoor-paar-kraat, or harpocrates, the "babe in the egg of blue, is not merely the god of silence in the conventional sense. he represents the higher self, the holy guardian angel. the connection is w

s conceived as complementary, as two equivalent to naught "divided for love's sake, for the chance of union- had enjoyed them in the form of a beast, bird, or what not; while later mary attributed her condition to the agency of a spirit spiritus, breath, or air in the shape of a dove (simple-minded readers must not think for one moment that a. c. is here "admitting the historical existence of the virgin mary; on the contrary, he is obviously putting her on the same footing with europa, semele and others. the virgin birth, like the dying god, is a much older myth than christianity; and the virgin was usually seeded by a god under the form of a beast. far from being original, christian theology is a pot-pourri of stolen goods) but the "small person" of hindu mysticism, the dwarf insane, yet

stances in which choronzon manifests itself, and the attitude that forces choronzon to obey. babalon is the woman as therion is the man. we are all man and woman inside ourselves. the concept of woman as an entity that shuts itself is the product of the fear that the "black brothers" have of the universe. who bows to the tabu of incest, or who fears love, tends to visualize the "mother" as "pure "virgin "untouchable "untouched" this concept is partial and erroneous. there are two ways in which a substance may be kept in a "pure" condition. first, it may be enclosed, shut up, in such a manner that it will be unable to mix with others. second, it may be a substance so strong, so indestructible, that it cannot be contaminated by any other. a diamond may fall into mud; it will go on being a di

rselves- hadit. two points of view, you understand. one is partial, limited, and leads the "black brother" to shut himself up and interpret every extraneous influence as an attack against his integrity. the other leads the adept exempt to open himself to the world, and to swear to interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing between god and his soul. let it be understood that the immaculate virgin is a necessary concept; but it must be equilibrated by the opposite concept, since no idea that is not thus balanced by its opposite can exist above the abyss. see liber xxv, and liber v, and liber xxx vi. babalon in greek is mapie, maria. she is the immaculate virgin, the woman clothed with the sun maia with the solar "r" in her womb. but she is simultaneously the great whore, the shameles

e diana of the ephesians, frenetically copulating with, and giving suck to, all her creatures: isis unveiled, the heavenly and earthly venus. beyond them, uniting their aspects in a single female symbol, is isis urania nuit. the concept of "mary inviolate" is thus partial and unbalanced and for this motive is qliphotic, unless it be checked by its opposite. the greeks sensed this. artemis was the virgin goddess, patroness of maidens. she had never submitted to the embrace of any god but pan and one of the great riddles of eleusis was that artemis, having surrendered herself to pan that is, to all remained pure and virgin. this is also what was meant by that aphorism "who wishes to keep his life, shall lose it. who loses it, shall gain eternal life" every woman of false chastity is subject

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

g a goat that he takes to the side of the altar as the priest begins his litany. he calls out a list of demonic names and to them he addresses his earnest plea for them to bear witness to what is about to take place "astaroth, help us! he intones "demons, dagon, azazel, pan help us! asmodeus, we beseech thee! we are gathered here in thy honor, o great god, baal! we offer unto thee the body of the virgin, so that we may live eternally in the darkness of thy womb" then, with knife raised high, he walks slowly towards the goat and with quick, neat thrust slits its throat. an expectant hush falls as three hooded figures step forward to catch the blood in a golden chalice and pass it round the coven, each of whom takes a sip, then bows his head. finally it is the coven master s turn. he raises

uld call upon baron samedi, the voodoo god of the dead, to summon the zombies into their presence. zombies< were afraid of fire and were destroyed when their master died. the mediaeval vampires living in the remote regions of transylvania who, in order to sustain their monstrous existence, would leave their tombs at midnight to drink the blood of young virgins. a girl, once bitten, would become a virgin of the undead and, her eyes burning with a dark desire, was forever more drawn back to the vampire s embrace. the only way to kill a vampire was to drive a sharp, pointed stake through its heart. the werewolf, a man who was transformed into a gigantic wolf under the influence of the full moon; tearing out the throats of his victims, and feasting on their blood. another name for this was lyc

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

confusions, have no alternative but to make penitence. 54 the origins of freemasonry from ancient times to the middle ages some very valuable clues: it seems that any individual, regardless of personal status, could become a member of one of these brotherhoods. at this time, there was one in every diocese of normandy. an individual of proven virtue stood at the head of each one and the most holy virgin was selected as the patron saint of each. in order to be accepted it was necessary for an individual to meet three conditions: sacramental confession, the fulfillment of whatever penitence was imposed following this confession, and reconciliation with any personal enemies. when word went out about a new church to be built, the brotherhoods traveled in groups to the designated site. their fi

d or saint- aignan; andre de montbard, maternal uncle of saint bernard de clairvaux; godefroy; gondemar; roral or roland; and godefroy de bissot or bissor. in 1126 hugues, count of champagne and donor of clairvaux, joined this number. together they drew their authority from the patriarch theocletes, sixty-seventh successor of the apostle john, for whom the templars maintained, along with the holy virgin, a special worship. these men took the three vows of obedience, poverty, and chastity and swore an oath to do all in their power to safeguard the roads and protect pilgrims against the attacks of brigands and infidels. initially the order, which at first followed the rule of saint augustine, did not expand greatly. in the ninth year of the order's existence, however, as guillaume de tyr not

king gave them a large piece of land that was known as the temple's field. it extended from the current entry into the faubourg du temple* to the rue de la verrerie. the templars saw to it that within their walls the enclos, as it was known a church was [now the place de la republique and the rue faubourg du temple. trans] 102 the templars and the parisian builders 103 built dedicated to the holy virgin and to saint john the baptist. they also erected a refectory, a colombier, a large tower the famous tower of the temple and several houses. this was the origin of the first two templar establishments in paris, the building near saint gervais and the enclos of the temple. in 1147 the order had some fairly spacious buildings in paris near saint gervais, where a domain called des barres was lo

emorative monuments to the memory of the masters of the works that were erected in the cathedrals and other buildings they built. among these we can cite figures of masters of the works carved on the medallions of the cathedrals of amiens and reims, the inscription carved in 1257 on the portal of notre dame in paris in honor of jean de chelles, and that of pierre de montreuil in the chapel of the virgin in the parisian church of saint germain des pres. according to the livre des metiers, mortelliers and stonecutters were exempt from watch duties. these craftsmen claimed to have enjoyed this privilege since the time of charles martel "the mortar makers have been exempt from the watch and all stonecutting since the time of charles martel, as men of integrity have heard it passed from father

ritable goals with the same intensity that characterized their pursuits of a more professional nature. among the oldest statutes of italian builders' mastery associations are those of the venice stone carvers, dating from 1317 and renewed in 1396. these statutes open with a prayer to the very holy trinity and continue on to express a keen desire to contribute "to the glory of god and the glorious virgin mother mary, who is our constant advocate. there is also evidence of the worship of the four holy crowned martyrs, protectors of the mastery associations.5 this is quite possibly the earliest mention by builders of the individual worship of the four crowned martyrs, a patronage mentioned in england at the end of the fourteenth century or the beginning of the fifteenth century and in the sta

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

poseidon poseidon was the god of the sea. he is shown here astride a fish, carrying his three-pronged trident. poseidon is particularly noted for his persecution of the hero odysseus (see pp. 64 65. persephone persephone was the daughter of demeter and zeus. she was seized by hades to be his bride in the underworld (see pp. 28 29. hestia hestia, zeus sister, was goddess of the hearth and a sworn virgin. she was more important to the romans than the greeks and was venerated as vesta, and served by the vestal virgins. gods of olympus athena athena, zeus daughter by the nymph metis, was goddess of war and wisdom. her approach was very different from that of the brutal war-god ares. she was born from zeus head and is usually shown wearing armour. ares ares, the god of war (see p. 27) was the

of artemis. actaeon actaeon s father aristaeus was the son of apollo; his mother autono was the daughter of cadmus, founder of thebes (see p. 49, and brother of europa (see p. 45. artemis surprised by actaeon by titian, originally tiziano vecelli(o (c. 1488/90 1576) this picture shows the moment when actaeon, while hunting in the forest, accidentally comes upon artemis and her nymphs bathing. the virgin goddess is horrified, tries to cover herself, and will avenge herself by turning actaeon into a stag to be hunted down and killed by his own hounds. crescent moon artemis wears a crescent-moon diadem in her hair, showing her also to be a moon goddess. callisto, tricked by zeus callisto, artemis favorite nymph, caught the eye of zeus, who seduced her disguised as artemis. artemis was furious

d a bow made of horn and artemis one of gold. chaplet of fir pan wears a chaplet of fir on his head, a reference to pitys, a lover who was transformed into a fir tree. river goddess the river goddess heard syrinx s cries and came to her rescue. clasping her in her arms, she transformed her into a clump of reeds, thus disappointing pan in his amorous pursuit. chaste nymph syrinx was a nymph of the virgin goddess artemis (diana, see pp. 36 37, who demanded chastity from her attendants. pursued by pan, she was run to ground on the banks of the river ladon, where, unable to escape and terrified of artemis fury, she called upon the river goddess to help her. the river ladon the river ladon is shown here as a nymph with a water jar. in some versions of the story, the river ladon, who transforms

son hippolytus was the son of theseus by either the amazon queen, hippolyta, or her sister antiope. when theseus rejected her to marry phaedra, sister of his former love ariadne (see pp. 56 57, hippolyta appeared at the wedding fully armed and in the ensuing battle was killed. phaedra bore theseus two children but then she fell madly in love with her stepson hippolytus who, being a devotee of the virgin goddess artemis (diana, refused her. phaedra, afraid lest her secret would be revealed, broke down the door of her chamber, ripped her clothes, and accused him of rape. theseus, horrified, believed her and prayed to poseidon to avenge her. in response, poseidon sent a bull up from the waves to frighten hippolytus horses as he drove his chariot on the seashore. as planned, the horses panicke

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 up, faustulus told them their history and they killed amulius and restored t

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ame, the becoming in the emerald flame of azrael and scribe their own self-designed grimoire of necromantic practice. 4. the guardian of the threshold satanas and the initiatic familiar. rites of phosphorus the initiation of the bloodied caul the birth of the initiate unto the light of phosphorus the initiate will have a robe of white which is symbolic of the light of lucifer before the fall. the virgin initiate shall enter the light of phosphorus to be born in the darkness of the initiator of the path, azal ucel. let the altar be decorated in the manner of which the sorcerer chooses, but with the algol sigil of standing above it on the wall. the black mirror should be below a larger mirror, symbolizing the opposing 14 gnosis of the adversary. this is the waking initiation into the path of

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

rtrayed diagrammatically and symbolically as a woman clothed with the sun,stars above her head and the moon at her feet- the typical anima figure of modem psychology. she represents thus that first matter of the alchemists, the description of which given by thomas vaughan in his coelum terrae is interesting to quote as indicating further the nature and qualities of the supemals "a most pure sweet virgin, for nothing as yet hath been generated out of her. she yields to nothing but love, for her end is generation, and that was never yet performed by violence. he that knows how to wanton and toy with her, the same shall receive all her treasures. first, she sheds at her nipples a thick heavy water, but white as any snow; the philosophers call it virgin's milk. secondly, she gives him blood fr

with thy hands, for there is not upon earth such a violent, transcendent poison" but as the mystics teach, if this condition be patiently endured, it passes, a higher spiritual consciousness gradually dawning in the heart and mind. so also in the alchemical writings, we find that vaughan observes "as thou hast begun so proceed, and this dragon will turn to a swan, but more white than the hovering virgin snow when it is not yet sullied with the earth" the qabalistic sephirah of daath is the conjunction of chokmah and binah on 34 the golden dawn the tree of life, the child of wisdom and understanding -knowledge. it <61> refers to the symbolic sphere formed within or above the rmch by means of experience obtained, and this assimilated becomes transmuted into intuition and faculty of mind. but

t 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 elements in the zodiac. thus to fire belong aries, leo, sag

tals, choosing especially a crystal of salt, and entering into it, actually feel himself of crystalline formation. looking out on the universe from this standpoint, let him identify himself with the earth spirits in love and sympathy, recalling as far as he can their prayer as said in the closing of the zelator grade. let him meditate upon the earth triplicity, visualising the symbols of a bull-a virgin-a goat-which stand for kerubic earthmutable earth-cardinal earth. for the above terms consult a simple astrology manual. make notes of the ideas and pictures which arise in your mind. the four worlds of the qabalah are <125> atziluth, archetypal-pure deity. nl??ll briah, creative-archangelic. 7n'lx yetzirah, formative-angelic. 71'y' assiah, action-matter, man, shells, demons. 7'wy the ten h

attribution of the alphabet, whence results some curious hieroglyphic symbolism. thus tetragrammaton will be written by virgo, aries, taurus, aries. eheieh,by air, aries, virgo, aries. from yeheshua, the qabalistic mode of spelling jesus, which is simply the tetragrammaton with the letter shin placed therein, we obtain a very peculiar combination-virgo, aries, fire, taurus, aries. virgo born of a virgin, aries the sacrificial lamb, fire the fire of the holy spirit, taurus the ox of the earth in whose manger he was laid, and lastly aries the flocks of sheep whose herdsmen came to worship him. elohim yields air, libra, aries, virgo, water-the firmament, the balanced forces, the fire of the spirit (for aries is a fiery sign, operating in the zodiac, the fire god dess, and the waters of creati

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

rom the east to the west, and thereby completing in his travel the form of across. the 4th ancient has three tapers burning in front of him placed in position of a triangle and asmall cross in the centre thereof, representing the divine lux.4th ancient:to me is awarded the impressive duty of explaining the divine essence of fire: the holy andperpetual fire which was under the constant care of the virgin priestesses, whose services of puritywere preserved in the doctrines taught in persia, egypt, greece and italy, and were termed 'perpetualwatches' or 'watch lights, this observance is still maintained in the persian, roman and hebrewfaiths. it is their 'ignis aeternus, the holy ceremony of fire pervades all religious systems, being auniversal symbol in worship, a visible representation of t

precede you in your further search. incharge of your conductor, therefore, follow the bearer of the torch.the guard. of c. retires to his station, and the torch bearer precedes the conductor of n. andpracticus, as they make four circuits of the hall, during the hymn.wake the lute and quiv222ring stingsmystic truths urania brings,friendly visitant, to theewe owe the depths of rosary.fairest of the virgin choir,warbling to the golden lyre,welcome, here they art prevail,hail, divine urania, hail.here in friendship's sacred bower,the downy-winged and smiling hournirth invites, and social song,nameless mysteries amongcrown the bowl, and fill the glass,to every virtue, every grace,to the brotherhood resoundhealth, and let it thrice go round.we restore the times of old.,the blooming glorious age

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

ce, but magic, or rather magical power, comprehends two things, a science and a force: without the force the science is nothing, or rather it is a danger. to give knowledge to power alone, such is the supreme law of initiations. hence did the great revealer say `the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent only shall carry it away' the door of truth is closed, like the sanctuary of a virgin: he must be a man who would enter. all miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles? it is unnecessary to repeat here the history of ancient initiations: the more dangerous and terrible they were, the greater was their efficacy. henc

n the extreme tension of two forces. i would thou wert cold or hot, said the master. as a fact, a great sinner is more really alive than is a tepid, effeminate man, and the fullness of his return to virtue will be in proportion to the extent of his errors. she who is destined to crush the serpent's head is intelligence, which ever rises above the stream of blind forces. the kabalists call her the virgin of the sea, whose dripping feet the infernal dragon crawls forward to lick with his fiery tongues, and they fall asleep in delight. hereof are the hieratic mysteries of the duad. but there is one, and the last of all, which must not be made known, the reason, according to hermes trismegistus, being the malcomprehension of the vulgar, who would ascribe to the necessities of science the immor

the same reason, the christian trinity by no means permits the personification of the mother, who is shown forth implicitly in that of the son. for the same reason, also, it is contrary to the laws of hieratic and orthodox symbology to personify the holy ghost under the form of a woman. woman comes forth from man as nature comes forth from god; so christ himself ascends to heaven and assumes the virgin mother: we speak of the ascension of the saviour, and the assumption of the mother of god. god, considered as father, has nature for his daughter; as son, he has the virgin for his mother and the church for his bride; as holy spirit, he regenerates and fructifies humanity. hence, in the trigrams of fohi, the three inferior yin correspond to the three superior yang, for these trigrams consti

, and thus the original sin and redemption of the world can be explained in a natural and magical sense. the astral light, or soul of the world, was the instrument of adam's omnipotence; it became afterwards that of his punishment, being corrupted and troubled by his sin, which intermingled an impure reflection with those primitive images which composed the book of universal science for his still virgin imagination. the astral light, depicted in ancient symbols by the serpent devouring its tail, represents alternately malice and prudence, time and eternity, tempter and redeemer; for this light, being the vehicle of life, is an auxiliary alike of good and evil, and may be taken not only for the fiery form of satan but for the body of the holy ghost. it is the instrument of warfare in angeli

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

d in all theogonies by the serpent; to this agent the hebrews applied the name of od when it manifested its active force, of ob when it exhibited its passive force, and of aour when it revealed itself wholly in its equilibrated power, as producer of light in heaven and gold among metals. it is therefore that old serpent which encircles the world and places its devouring head beneath the foot of a virgin, the type of initiation .that virgin who presents a little new-born child to the adoration of three magi and 6 the ritual of transcendental magic receives from them, in exchange for this favour, gold, myrrh and frankincense. so does doctrine serve in all hieratic religions to veil the secret of natural forces which the initiate has at his disposal. religious formulae are the summaries of th

, whether male or female, holding a sword in one hand and a 20 the ritual of transcendental magic wand in the other, had one foot shod and the other bared. moreover, either one or three persons were required for magical works, because the duad would mean immobility or death in the absence of an equilibrating motor; and when a man and a woman participated in the ceremony, the operator was always a virgin, a hermaphrodite, or a child. i shall be asked whether the eccentricity of these rites is arbitrary, and whether its one end is the exercise of the will by the mere multiplication of difficulties in magical work? i answer that in magic there is nothing arbitrary, because everything is ruled and predetermined by the one and universal dogma of hermes, that of analogy in the three worlds. each

all beings; in the ebb and flow of thine eternal speech, which is; the divine ocean of movement and of truth! amen. water is exorcised by imposition of hands, breathing and speech; consecrated salt and a little of the ash which remains in the pan of incense are mingled also with it. the aspergillus is formed of twigs of vervain, periwinkle, sage, mint, ash and basil, tied by a thread taken from a virgin's distaff and provided with a handle of hazelwood from a tree which has not yet fruited. the characters of the seven spirits must be graven thereon with the magic bodkin. the salt and ash must be consecrated separately, saying: over the salt may wisdom abide in this salt, and may it preserve our minds and bodies from all corruption, by hochmael and in the virtue of ruach-hochmael! may the p

of the book zohar term the microprosopus. the complete comprehension of the pentagram is the key of the two worlds. it is absolute philosophy and natural science. the sign of the pentagram should be composed of the seven metals, or at least traced in pure gold upon white marble. it may be also drawn with vermilion on an unblemished lambskin the symbol of integrity and light. the marble should be virgin, that is, should never have been used for another purpose; the lambskin should be prepared under the auspices of the sun. the lamb must have been slain at paschal time with a new knife, and the skin must be salted with salt consecrated by magical operations. the omission of even one of these difficult and apparently arbitrary ceremonies makes void the entire success of the great works of sc

etic character resuming the entire magical doctrine in one of its special conceptions. it is therefore the full expression of a completed thought and will: it is the signature of a spirit. the ceremonial consecration of this sign attaches to it still more strongly the intention of the operator and establishes a veritable magnetic chain between himself and the pantacle. pantacles may be drawn upon virgin parchment, paper or metals. what is termed a talisman is a sheet of metal, bearing either pantacles or characters and having received a special consecration for a defined intention. in a learned work on magical antiquities, gaffarel has demonstrated scientifically the real power of talismans, and the confidence in their virtue is otherwise so strong in nature that we carry keepsakes of thos

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

, of the more terrestrial kind, having now so numerously planted all countries, do labour for that abstruse people, as well as for ourselves. albeit when several countries were uninhabited by us, they had their easy tillage, above ground as we [do] now, the print of whose furrows do yet remain to be seen on the shoulders of the very high hills, which was done when the champagne [that is, prime or virgin arable land] was still wood or forest. they remove to other lodgings at the beginning of each quarter of the year, so traversing until doomsday, being impatient of staying in one place, and finding some ease by sojourning and changing habitations, their chameleon-like [that is, changeable of colour] bodies swim in the air, near to the earth with bags and baggage. and at such revolutions of

yes from a tree 'if i'd have known of this tam lin, before we came from home, i'd have plucked out thine heart of flesh and put in a heart of stone' young tam lin: commentary this ballad, found only in scottish tradition is of major importance to a full realization of the underworld tradition. the following elements are particularly significant. 1. maidens with gold in their hair the heroine is a virgin within a collection of virgins. 2. green mantle wearing of green is associated with magic, witchcraft and fertility 'a green gown' is the traditional term for rustic defloration, and overall the wearing of green is associated http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_126.htm (4 of 13 [10/9/2001 12:36:58 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds with earth-magic thomas the rhymer is given clothing o

s the traditional term for rustic defloration, and overall the wearing of green is associated http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_126.htm (4 of 13 [10/9/2001 12:36:58 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds with earth-magic thomas the rhymer is given clothing of green by the queen of elfland. the significance within the tradition is that the wearing of green signifies unity with the land. janet's virgin state, therefore, is no mere human condition, but declares her to be a character such as the epiphanies of the goddess or spirit of the land that occur in appendix 3: the ballad of tam lin 130 early celtic poetical convention. it is her true love that later wins tam lin back to humanity. 3. pulling of flowers tam lin is summoned by the pulling of roses and the breaking of branches. he is th

between beings in different worlds. spiritual enlightenment flows along this way, as do many of the concerted group rituals that involve beings of more than one realm or world operating together. the third and most significant level of the middle way is the approach of the savior or messiah. it is along this way that a divine one is born into the outer world, hence the conceptual structure of the virgin birth. this process, however, is merely a human reflection by divine power, of the descent into hell which is also a death/birth on the part of the son of light the descent into hell is synonymous and simultaneous with the conception, birth, sacrifice, death and resurrection. they only appear to be separated to the awareness locked into the illusion of serial time. appendix 4: thomas rhymer

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ely the philosophers and gnostics could be kept busy. the pantheon of deities would not be complete without the legendary saints. these were not supposed to be worshipped, as they were not divine. it was claimed that they had all lived exemplary lives, and were worthy of veneration. there was a saint for every day of the year, and for almost any function you could think of except sex. the blessed virgin mary was not supposed to be divine either, but some of her feasts are holy days of "obligation" wherein the catholic was supposed to attend mass. if one didn't attend this mass without good cause it was a mortal sin, and one would go to hell if one died on the spot. that kind of requirement is known as mandatory worship, and in any other religion is reserved for divinity. further, much of t

either, but some of her feasts are holy days of "obligation" wherein the catholic was supposed to attend mass. if one didn't attend this mass without good cause it was a mortal sin, and one would go to hell if one died on the spot. that kind of requirement is known as mandatory worship, and in any other religion is reserved for divinity. further, much of the reasoning for mary's being blessed and virgin is due to divine intervention, and is therefore a matter of faith, meaning that a catholic can be excommunicated for heresy if he is not willing to accept these dogmas. commonly used to "honor" mary, the hail mary's are nothing but invocations to a mother goddess. mary has been an extremely touchy subject for catholicism. technically she is a saint, but just try calling her that in a conver

sound bell nine times while rotating counterclockwise [light flame, remove cowl [invocation] in the name of set, the majestic prince of darkness, i invoke the powers of the infernal light. hear this call, for i invoke these powers under the authority given the elect by his infinite majesty. rise eternal flame, and send forth thy whispering power to me, as does the dragon's hot breath envelop the virgin- but know that, albeit the heart is pure for maat- this is no virgin! for i shall suck the dragon's breath and it will be my oxygen! hear the voice of wonder, dark powers, and in his name come unto me [lift the graal in a saluting manner towards the pentagram above the altar, then turn to each cardinal point and call forth the powers of darkness, ending again facing the pentagram above the

earance as having no meaning. the correspondences above are listed in order to open the doors of thought to the thoth deck as they may have meaning for the setian looking not only for current nuances related through the cards, but also in the direction of historical relevance. now back to the second trump "this card" wrote ipsissimus crowley "represents the most spiritual form of isis the eternal virgin; the artemis of the greeks" beyond the fact that trump ii displays a perfect balance, one of the key points to observe is the cluster of forms about the base of the card. crowley relates that these are the beginnings of life. when coupled with the balanced lines of the priestess, the veiled figure becomes a goal to be attained, a xem, an aristos to be sought. on her own the priestess is not

ile mother. aima, the bright fertile mother. khorsia, the throne. marah, the great sea. 4 chesed mercy. love. majesty. 5 geburah strength. severity. justice. fear. 6 tiphareth beauty. melekh, the king. adam, the son. the man. 7 netzach victory. occult intelligence. firmness. 8 hod glory. splendour. 9 yesod the foundation. 10 malkuth the kingdom. the gate. malkah, the queen. kallah, the bride. the virgin. five of wands: geburah is strength and severity, the destroyer. geburah is the active daughter of binah, who destroys the old and worthless, to make room for new creation. emphasized by the activity of wands, this card is extremely, perhaps excessively active, preparing the way for later creation. seven of disks: netzach is victory, firmness, the "refulgent splendour of the intellectual vi

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

and "transvoke- outside- beyond- within" in other words this is the marriage or sacrificial sexual union of zoa and azoa. the crossroad of all things molding into the one in the centre of the abysmal void of all-beginnings. this is also the meeting-ground of the opposition in which there are a reification (p. 169-70) this thought is demonstrated in the ritual procedure called "going forth of the virgin. the adept enters a sphere where he is in solitude. he/she is the virgin going forth into manifestation. the adept is seeking union with self. the mature parts devour the virginal sections and allows the transgressor to mature, like the moon shows its different phases but is still one, such is the duality when it turns into singularity. this effect is purely magical in essence and must be s

epresentation of the orders egregoric spirit. the flavour in this cell is solar and phallic but it androgynity suggest otherwise- that this cell is a rehearsal ground for the phallic manifestation to come and through this it connects with the stellar influences hidden within this craft-tradition and presents a formation of mystery-teaching connected to the destruction of the mage in favour of the virgin-mage. the importance of sacrifice is in these manners stressed and becomes a continuation of the sigilic forms of the sacred letters in the previous cell. the adoration of the sun suggested in this cell is but a rehearsal to enter deeper into the source of the sun which is stellar in nature. the letters connected to this cell is zayin, the path of the double-edge and the occult fight betwee

uchifer. this fight being performed within the one christ. the one is further finding its reflection in the influence of gemini who in the tarot is symbolized by the lovers. importance must be stressed on the concept of love in this cell. the ultimate adoration a nd humbleness in fore the path of initiation and before the eyes of the gods are taken on as a necessity and a sheer want born from the virgin-will of the mage. the other construction in this cell is the solar fasette found in the letter tzaddi which means fish-hook, but is also connected to the star through its kabbalistic connotations. in lurias initatic system the rabbi of the mysteries was honoured with the title tzaddiquin. further this cell reflects the influence of aries, which in the tarot has been given the domain of the

nities call the devil. this mystery must be understood in this cell or the act of vaporisation and occult dehydration will occur. the aspiration in this house is total stellar and has through its high aspiration tight connections with the lunar mansions and the abysmal waters resting in the lunar realms. it is in these domains the congress with the devil is sought and where the destruction of the virgin will be accomplished to give rise to the importance of shakti-nature in the excellent call of ononshu, the black goddess who is both the begotten and the begotter of the realm of the sphere of the black goddesses, like hekate, lilith, kali, artemis and the like. in ononshu they are united into one and the distinction is the between. to accomplish the treading of the path of stellar waters t

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

s puritanical thought _my own sister putting me on display in the shop-window, thanks a lot. they went to a gaming club full of ecstatic lordlings, and allie had left fast when elena's attention was elsewhere. a week later, ashamed of herself for being such a coward, for rejecting her sister's attempt at intimacy, she sat on a beanbag at world's end and confessed to elena that she was no longer a virgin. whereupon her elder sister slapped her in the mouth and called her ancient names: tramp, slut, tart "elena cone never allows a man to lay a _finger" she yelled, revealing her ability to think of herself as a third person "not a goddamn fingernail. i know what i'm worth, darling, i know how the mystery dies the moment they put their willies in, i should have known you'd turn out to be a who

a third person "not a goddamn fingernail. i know what i'm worth, darling, i know how the mystery dies the moment they put their willies in, i should have known you'd turn out to be a whore. some fucking communist, i suppose" she wound down. she had inherited her father's prejudices in such matters. allie, as elena knew, had not. they hadn't met much after that, elena remaining until her death the virgin queen of the city- the post-mortem confirmed her as _virgo intacta- while allie gave up wearing underwear, took odd jobs on small, angry magazines, and because her sister was untouchable she became the other thing, every sexual act a slap in her sibling's glowering, whitelipped face. three abortions in two years and the belated knowledge that her days on the contraceptive pill had put her

SATANGEL

tradition that obscures the sexual elements of goetic sorceries. instructions to 'sacrifice children' may in fact be instruction to the magical use of non-procreative sex, classically either masturbatory, homosexual, or during the menstrual cycle of the sorceress. although these are perversions of catholic iconography, they are not inversions in the sense of satanism. the power of god, jesus, the virgin mary, the archangels, thrones, dominations, powers, patriarchs, prophets, apostles and evangelists are called upon to bully the demonic forces into submission to the will of the summoner. the danger of the heresy here is that it is not seen as at all incongruous that a holy man might also be conversing with the powers of darkness, even if it is to subordinate them. the book of abra-melin so

ful human with bird wings, has its origin in pagan imagery. in the 8th century, when the foundations of church doctrine were being laid, the visual artists were no less influenced by their heritage than the writers were. two of the common inspirational sources of their works include the hellenic greek god of sexuality, eros, and the winged victory, nike. similar reference is made in images of the virgin and child christ and venus with cupid upon her own lap. such continued to provide models for the renaissance artists of the 12th-15th century. a more eastern influence may also be recognised in the peacock angels of fra. fillipo lippi. although the power of the church extended its control of the arts, as the governments do with the media in modern times, painters such as leornado da vinci e

est and sufferest, may thou become, according to the word of the divine promise, the atoning genius of expiation (seventeenth-century mss. bibliotheque nationale, paris) the rite of summoning when the night of action has arrived, the warlock shall gather up his rod, goatskin, the stone called ematille, and shall further provide himself with two vervain crowns, two candlesticks, and two candles of virgin wax, made by a virgin girl and duly blessed. let him take also a new steel and two new flints, with sufficient tinder to kindle a fire, likewise half a bottle of brandy, some blessed incense and camphor, and four nails from the coffin of a dead child. all these must be carried to the place chosen for the great work, where everything hereinafter laid down must be described in an accurate man

devil (discoverie of witchcraft, 1584) the rites of sacrifice in many operations it is necessary to make some sort of sacrifice unto the demons, and in various ways. sometimes white animals are sacrificed to the good spirits and black to the evil. such sacrifices consist of the blood and sometimes of the flesh. they who sacrifice animals, of whatsoever kind they be, should select those which are virgin, as being more agreeable unto the spirits, and rendering them more obedient. when blood is to be sacrificed it should be drawn also from virgin quadrupeds or birds, but before offering the oblations say- camiach, eomiahe, emial, macbal, emoh, zazean, maiphiat, zacrath, tendac, vulamiahi; by these most holy names, i conjure thee [whatever animal it may be] that thou assist me in this operati

palm in height, being set upon the mound, while at each of the four corners the signs which follow must be drawn with the thumb; on this day the warlock may drink no wine, and will also abstain from eating meat. on tuesday, at the break of day, let him place the feather, taken from the bird, upon the altar together with a new knife. the signs hereafter represented must be inscribed on a sheet of virgin parchment or paper with wine which is the blood of jesus christ: they should be written upon the altar, and, at the end of the sacrifice, the paper should be folded in a new veil of violet silk, to be concealed on the morrow, together with the oblation of the sacrifice and a part of the consecrated host. on the evening of thursday the warlock must rise at midnight and, having sprinkled holy

SATANIC BIBLE

causes the literature devoted to the satanic views on the subject to overshadow all else written about satanism. the true satanist is not mastered by sex any more than he is mastered by any of his other desires. as with all other pleasurable things, the satanist is master of, rather than mastered by sex. he is not the perverted fiend who is just waiting for the opportunity to deflower every young virgin, nor is he the skulking degenerate who furtively hangs around in the "dirty" bookstores, slavering over the "nasty" pictures. if pornography fills his needs for the moment, he unashamedly buys some "choice items" and guiltlessly peruses them at his leisure "we have to accept the fact that man has become disgruntled at being constantly repressed, but we must do everything we can to at least

SATANIC RITUALS

t respecteront ton pouvoir. fais que s' croulent les portes du paradis, pour venger le meurtre de nos anc tres! thou, thou whom, in my capacity of priest, i force, whether thou wilt or no, to descend into this host, to incarnate thyself into this bread, jesus, artisan of hoaxes, bandit of homages, robber of affection-hear! since the day when thou didst issue from the complaisant bowels of a false virgin, thou hast failed all thy engagements, belied all thy promises. centuries have wept awaiting thee, fugitive god, mute god! thou wast to redeem man and thou hast not; thou wast to appear in thy glory, and thou steepest. go, lie, say to the wretch who appeals to thee "hope, be patient, suffer; the hospital of souls will receive thee; angels will succour thee; heaven opens to thee" imposter! t

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

his catholic faith. after this a feast was held and 'a large black cat appeared, emerging from a statue which was always present'(3) again the members present would kiss the cats behind and then the ritual was concluded with an orgy. some of the more sensationalist accounts of satanic initiations have added to the early satanic tradition mentioned above as also including the ritua lslaughter of a virgin, usually female, or of a baby or young child and the drinking of a concoction of urine, sperm and/or vaginal fluid and blood whilst the participants blasphemed against god and jesus christ. from a moral perspective there is little, or often, no attempt to apologise for such cases from any satanic quarter. here one comes across the satanic morality, or amorality where what is traditionally a

hurch of satans. both select victims that are naturally obvious as targets for satanic wrath. however, the chruch of satan, although adhering to this satanic tradition, do not actively carry out direct human and/or animal sacrifice as do both the order of nine angles and the friends of hekate. it can be seen from the above examples, stemming from modern satanic traditions, that the concept of the virgin or small-child as victim is obsolete in modern satanism and whilst the media often portrays the essential nature of satanism as one that advocates and indulges in virgin sacrifice, child abuse and the like, the actual fact of the matter is that traditional satanic groups, such as the order of nine angles and the church of satan, would be more inclined to sacrifice the child abuser than the

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

of hindu philosophy; collections of texts, originally part of the vedas, that explain such core hindu beliefs as karma, reincarnation, nirvana, the soul, and brahman. urvan: the soul. vaishnavaism: a major sect of hinduism, which sees vishnu( the preserver) as the central god. vedas: the chief sacred scriptures of hinduism; knowledge, wisdom, or vision. xxx world religions: almanac words to know virgin birth: the christian belief that jesus christ was the son of god and born of a virgin mother. vishnu: also called krishna; the preserver-god. vodou: an african-based religion practiced primarily in haiti and in other central and south american countries. vodouisant: an uninitiated practitioner of vodou. wakan: the incomprehensibility of life and death for the sioux. wakan tanka: the world s

cond half of the twentieth century. so negative has the term become that the news organization associated press decided in 1998 to stop using cult to talk about a small religious group that is an offshoot of a larger one. instead, they use the word sect. 10 world religions: almanac what is religion? christianity s favorite stories centers on the miraculous conception and birth of jesus to a young virgin. likewise, the buddha is said to have been conceived in a dream his mother had involving an elephant carrying a lotus. following his baptism, jesus spent forty days in the desert resisting temptation from demons. the buddha also struggled with demons and temptation before finally achieving enlightenment. the christian concept of salvation is is rooted in the redemption, or the forgiving of

tical calculations were a vital tool. the observation of the stars and planets likewise led to the modern science of astronomy. world religions: almanac 65 ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia ancient egyptian influences egyptian religion passed on many of its deities to other religions. for example, isis, in her aspect as the mother of horus, also influenced the later christian cult of the virgin mary. like the mesopotamians, the egyptians also passed on additional products of their religion in the form of mathematics and medicine. for example, their numbering system was based on the number ten, as in the modern decimal system. the egyptian calendar, based on the appearance of the star sirius, held 365 days and was divided into twelve months of thirty days each. the remaining five d

christ from the dead three days after his crucifixion, or death on a cross. sacrament: a sacred rite, or ceremony. saint: in christianity, someone who is judged to be particularly holy and worthy. salvation: the deliverance of human beings from sin through jesus christ s death on the cross. trinity: in christianity, the union of the father, son, and holy spirit as three divine persons in one god. virgin birth: the christian belief that jesus christ was the son of god and born of a virgin mother. 120 world religions: almanac christianity the historic jesus of nazareth jesus was a jewish teacher and healer from the first century ce. although jesus is accepted as an actual historical figure, there is little known about him outside the stories found in the bible. according to the bible, jesus

. this three-in-one concept of god stirred great debate in early christianity, just as the idea that jesus was wholly human and wholly divine at the same time did. added to these basic beliefs are others, not necessarily held by all denominations. some hold a firm belief in the historical crucifixion and resurrection of jesus. not all denominations believe in the virginity of mary and thus in the virgin birth of jesus. some believe that jesus was the messiah who was foretold by the jews or that jesus will return in the so-called second coming and will judge all humans and receive, or allow into salvation, those who are faithful. many believe that the bible was inspired by god but written by humans and is the first and last word of authority for christianity. christians believe more or less

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

itted, the ingenuity of the reader will be rarely at fault. zanoni book i the musician due fontane chi di diverso effeto hanno liquore "ariosto, orland. fur" canto 1.7 (two founts that hold a draught of different effects) chapter 1.i. vergina era d' alta belta, ma sua belta non cura. di natura, d' amor, de' cieli amici le negligenze sue sono artifici "gerusal. lib" canto ii. xiv.-xviii (she was a virgin of a glorious beauty, but regarded not her beauty..negligence itself is art in those favoured by nature, by love, and by the heavens) at naples, in the latter half of the last century, a worthy artist named gaetano pisani lived and flourished. he was a musician of great genius, but not of popular reputation; there was in all his compositions something capricious and fantastic which did not

s of the musician than the music, a being for whom you could imagine that some fate was reserved, less of actual life than the romance which, to eyes that can see, and hearts that can feel, glides ever along with the actual life, stream by stream, to the dark ocean. and therefore it seemed not strange that viola herself, even in childhood, and yet more as she bloomed into the sweet seriousness of virgin youth, should fancy her life ordained for a lot, whether of bliss or woe, that should accord with the romance and reverie which made the atmosphere she breathed. frequently she would climb through the thickets that clothed the neighbouring grotto of posilipo, the mighty work of the old cimmerians, and, seated by the haunted tomb of virgil, indulge those visions, the subtle vagueness of whic

w do you think he has managed himself to live at least these three hundred years? how do you think he fascinates every one to his bidding with a look, as the vampires do "ah, is this only witchcraft? it is like it, it must be" murmured viola, turning very pale. gionetta herself was scarcely more superstitious than the daughter of the musician. and her very innocence, chilled at the strangeness of virgin passion, might well ascribe to magic what hearts more experienced would have resolved to love "and then, why has this great prince di been so terrified by him? why has he ceased to persecute us? why has he been so quiet and still? is there no sorcery in all that "think you, then" said viola, with sweet inconsistency "that i owe that happiness and safety to his protection? oh, let me so beli

words the fragments of this history, it seems to me as if, in a solemn trance, i was led through the ruins of a city whose only remains were tombs. from the sarcophagus and the urn i awake the genius (the greek genius of death) of the extinguished torch, and so closely does its shape resemble eros, that at moments i scarcely know which of ye dictates to me, o love! o death! and it stirred in the virgin's heart, this new, unfathomable, and divine emotion! was it only the ordinary affection of the pulse and the fancy, of the eye to the beautiful, of the ear to the eloquent, or did it not justify the notion she herself conceived of it, that it was born not of the senses, that it was less of earthly and human love than the effect of some wondrous but not unholy charm? i said that, from that d

. the crown of my fathers has shrunk into a gewgaw and a toy, their ambition and their spirit are undecayed! my honour is now enlisted in this pursuit, viola must be mine "another ambuscade" said mascari, inquiringly "nay, why not enter the house itself? the situation is lonely, and the door is not made of iron "but what if, on her return home, she tell the tale of our violence? a house forced, a virgin stolen! reflect; though the feudal privileges are not destroyed, even a visconti is not now above the law "is he not, mascari? fool! in what age of the world, even if the madmen of france succeed in their chimeras, will the iron of law not bend itself, like an osier twig, to the strong hand of power and gold? but look not so pale, mascari; i have foreplanned all things. the day that she lea

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he heathen" they proved that they possessed this belief, for they always endeavoured to throw down the statues of the gods of p. 66 the greeks and romans, knowing that if they were once shattered the spirits which dwelt in them would have no place wherein to dwell, and would thereby be rendered homeless and powerless. it will be remembered that it is stated in the apocryphal gospels that when the virgin mary and her son arrived in egypt there "was a movement and quaking throughout all the land, and all the idols fell down from their pedestals and were broken in pieces" then all the priests and nobles went to a certain priest with whom "a devil used to speak from out of the idol" and they asked him the meaning of these things; and when he had explained to them that the footstep of the son o

he might be able to resist any attack which the pirates might make, and punish them for their robberies in times past. soon after he had sailed he fell in with a pirate vessel, and a fight at once took place between his crew and the robbers, in the course of which he was shot in the eye by an arrow; he stopped the combat and then sailed for a port which was situated near a monastery, wherein the virgin mary was reported to work miracles by means of a picture of herself which was hung up in it. when the merchant arrived in port he was so ill through the wound in his eye that he could not be moved, and it was found that a portion p. 103 of the arrow which had struck him remained embedded in it; and unless he could obtain the virgin's help speedily he felt that his death was nigh. in this di

ed in it; and unless he could obtain the virgin's help speedily he felt that his death was nigh. in this difficulty a certain christian came to the ship and made a wax figure of the merchant, and, having stuck in one eye a model of the arrow which had struck him, carried the figure to the monastery, which was some miles off, and caused the monks to allow him to bring it nigh to the picture of the virgin. when this had been done, and prayers had been made to her, the figure of the virgin stretched out its hand, and straightway pulled the model of the arrow out of the eye of the wax figure of the merchant in such a way that no broken fragment remained behind. when the wax figure had been taken back to the ship, it was found that the piece of broken arrow had been extracted from the merchant'

nd prayers had been made to her, the figure of the virgin stretched out its hand, and straightway pulled the model of the arrow out of the eye of the wax figure of the merchant in such a way that no broken fragment remained behind. when the wax figure had been taken back to the ship, it was found that the piece of broken arrow had been extracted from the merchant's eye at the very moment when the virgin had drawn out the arrow from the eye of the wax figure. the merchant's eye then healed, and he recovered his sight. footnotes 67:1 ed. erman, pp. 7 and 8. 69:1 i.e, the priestly official who performed the most important of the funeral ceremonies; he was always a man of great learning, and generally of high rank. 71:1 i.e, chapter v. of the book of the dead. 72:1 i.e, chapter v. of the book

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i solomon, on hearing this, bound him more carefully, and ordered him to be flogged with thongs of ox-hide, and to tell me humbly what was his name and what his business. and he answered me thus "i am called asmodeus among mortals, and my business is to plot against the newly wedded, so that they may not know one another. and i sever them utterly by many calamities, and i waste away the beauty of virgin women, and estrange their hearts" 23. and i said to him "is this thy only business" and he answered me "i transport men into fits of madness and desire, when they have wives of their own, so that they leave them, and go off by night and day to others that belong to other men; with the result that they commit sin, and fall into murderous deeds" 24. and i adjured him by the name of the lord s

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 am the first decans of t

aying "tell me, who art thou" and the spirit within said "i am the demon called ephippas, that is in arabia" and i said to him "is this thy name" and he answered "yes; wheresoever i will, i alight and set fire and do to death" 122. and i said to him "by what angel art thou frustrated" and he answered "by the only-ruling god, that hath authority over me even to be heard. he that is to be born of a virgin and crucified by the jews on a cross. whom the angels and archangels worship. he doth frustrate me, and enfeeble me of my great strength, which has been given me by my father the devil" and i said to him "what canst thou do' and he answered''i am able to remove [1] mountains, to overthrow the oaths of kings. i wither trees and make their leaves to fall off" and i said to him "canst thou rai

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yphonian traditions of predynastic egypt. see the magical revival, chapter 3 (31) the way of resurgent atavisms (32) hecate, the witch or transformer from dark to light, as the tadpole of the waters to the frog of dry land, as the dark and baleful moon of witchcraft to the full bright orb of magical radiance and enchantment exemplified for spare by 'witch' paterson who changed from the hag to the virgin before his eyes. see images and oracles of austin osman spare, 19ca introduction the cult of the all-seeing eye has existed under many names and guises for thousands of years. through the ages its high priests have worshipped before unhallowed altars dedicated to the adoration of a nameless deity. an unknown god. the identity of this deity has been concealed behind an elaborate system of ve

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l times and nations, is to us as a people most pregnant with significance. the motto, novus ordo seclorum, is a quotation from the 4th eclogue and was borrowed in turn by virgil from the mystic sybylline records "the entire quotation is as follows 'the last age of cumaen song now comes (novus ordo seclorum altered from magnus soeclorum ordo, a mighty order of ages is born anew. both the prophetic virgin and saturnian kingdoms now return. now a new progeny is let down from the lofty heavens. favor, chaste lucina, the boy soon io be born in whom the iron age shall come to an end, and the golden one shall arise again in the whole earth" virgil was a pagan philosopher of rome.16 the literalure on the mystic meaning of the seal is extensive and amazing. it appears that almost every secret frate

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ocess. it is the birth of a divine child a process just as real as any natural process. the great secret of the mystai was precisely this, that they creatively release the divine child in themselves. first of all, however, they must be prepared so as to recognize it. the uninitiated know nothing of the father of this divine child. the father slumbers under a spell. the child seems to be born of a virgin, the soul giving birth to him without impregnation. whereas all her other offspring are begotten by the world of the senses, and have a father who can be seen and touched in perceptible existence, the son of god is uniquely begotten of the eternal, hidden father himself. chapter 2 the mysteries and pre-socratic philosophy heraclitus of ephesus a whole range of considerations leads us to the

m to realize that any attempt at denial would be vain.91 there is an annunciation of buddha s birth to queen maya by a white elephant, which overshadows her and tells her that she is to bring forth a divine man. and he will attune all beings to love and friendship, and will unite them in a bond of religious fervor. compare with this the passage from the gospel of luke where an angel is sent: to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named joseph, a descendant of david. the virgin s name was mary. the angel went to her and said, greetings, you who are highly favored. you will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name jesus. he will be great and will be called the son of the most high. the brahmans (indian priests) understand the meaning of the birth of a buddh

or a day. then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. when they did not find him, they went back to jerusalem to look for him. after three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. the buddha withdrew into solitude, and when he returned a virgin greeted him with words of benediction: blessed are the mother, the father, and the wife to whom you belong. but he answered: only those are blessed who have reached nirvana. the reference is to those who have entered the world of the eternal order of things. compare in the gospel of luke: as jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out: blessed is the mother who gave you b

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ss. this is the primary cross of life of which the cross of golgotha is a lesser manifestation; a shadow cast by the great shadow. having taken a look at mary as a representation of the feminine principle of the shekinah in the christian belief, let's take a look at twklm, for twklm and hnyb have various manifestations of mary, isis in common. twklm, the inferior mother, the queen, the bride, the virgin, have the common denominator of femininity. this attribution is obvious when one considers that twklm is receptive to all the higher emanations of the tree. the queen and the bride are references to the relation of twklm to trapt, the king, and the lesser countenance, the harmony of which must become manifest in twklm, which is also the cross of dense matter upon which the is crucified: thu

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e" doesn't it (u.s. news& world report, march 22, 1999, p. 52) cover of espn magazine, published by espn sports channel. actress doris day has more of a message to communicate than merely her innocent usual clean-girl image. maybe the well-known hollywood producer was right who, when asked about day, quipped "oh yes, i've known her a long, long time. why, i even knew doris day before she became a virgin" triangles up, triangles down, triangles, triangles all around 347 348 codex magica according to "tradition" the next of kin at military funerals are given a flag folded into a triangle with exactly six stars showing. few families of victims know that the tradition appears to be of masonic origins (photo: newsweek, january 7, 2002, p. 29) triangles up, triangles down, triangles, triangles a

course. from the era of the roaring 20s to today, a number of the fad dances were based on masonic and jewish cabalistic rituals. 458 codex magica anne rice, writer of the popular "vampire" series, giving an occult, cabalistic sign with her left-hand, partially concealed yet in front of all. various occult symbols are on rice's shirt. the statues of mary give evidence of rice's veneration of the virgin in the form of the eternal pagan goddess (photo: associated press in austin american-statesman, january 31, 2004, p. a2) chaim potok, hasidic jewish writer and novelist, creates a headcovering of cabalistic magic. this sign is also reminiscent of the fourth sign in the initiation for the select master's degree (see richardson's monitor of freemasonry, p. 85 (photo: newsweek, august 5, 2002)

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sible, indefinable, inexpressible, but which yet- we feel- has more value than all that we abandon in order to conquer it. true initiation changes us internally in a permanent and radical way. we are no longer the same person we were..although what we become derives from the root of what we were. the symbol of true initiation is a woman giving suck to a child. this woman is the purified soul, the virgin who copulates with all. and the child she giveth suck to is the fruit of that union. it is the new stage in the soul s existence. it is the new aeon in the microcosm, as heru-ra-ha is the new aeon in the macrocosm" let these words of the master (frater 216 .8=3 a .a) be a sign and a beacon to all those who are of us. dearest sisters and brothers, understand that to be a complete man or a co

rs, understand that to be a complete man or a complete woman in this aeon means that you must combine your innate maleness with your innate femaleness, augmenting both such that they are in balance. when, dear brothers and sisters, these disparate elements are in balance, then must you annihilate them in combination, which is bliss; 0=2. thus only may you enter the stream of life to emerge as the virgin of al. blessings, peace and silence in the name of our lord to mega therion and in the name of our seven times holy lady babalon love is the law, love under will. the black lodge lesson 4 dear sisters and brothers in the name of the initiator augmn do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. let us sum up that which we learned in the third part of this document: we learned that the bla

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-a volant "sight" that conveys somehow by the incidental, that truth is somewhere. the kia which can be vaguely expressed in words is the "neither-neither" the unmodified "i" in the sensation of omnipresence, the illumination symbolically transcribed in the sacred alphabet, and of which i am about to write. its emanation is its own intensity, but not necessariness, it has and ever will exist, the virgin quantum-by its exuberance we have gained existence. who dare say where, why and how it is related? by the labour of time the doubter inhabits his limit. not related to, but permitting all things, it eludes conception, yet is the quintessence of conception as permeating pleasure in meaning. anterior to heaven and earth, in its aspect that transcends these, but not intelligence, it may be reg

volant "sight" that conveys somehow by the incidental, that truth is 15 somewhere. the kia which can be vaguely expressed in words is the "neither-neither" the unmodified "i" in the sensation of omnipresence, the illumination symbolically transcribed in the sacred alphabet, and of which i am about to write. its emanation is its own intensity, but not necessariness, it has and ever will exist, the virgin quantum-by its exuberance we have gained existence. who dare say where, why and how it is related? by the labour of time the doubter inhabits his limit. not related to, but permitting all things, it eludes conception, yet is the quintessence of conception as permeating pleasure in meaning. anterior to heaven and earth, in its aspect that transcends these, but not intelligence, it may be reg

ision clear he directs or leads him as a child to the essential. having shown him the source of wisdom, he retires before gratitude or sentiment sets in, leaving him to fertilize as he wishes. is not this the way of heaven? he who trusts to his natural fund of genius, has no knowledge of its extent and accomplishes with ease, but directly he doubts, ignorance obsesses him. doubt fertilizes in the virgin soil. he is no longer fearless but a coward to difficulties, his very learning is fear. the difference between genius and ignorance is a degree of fear. the beginning of wisdom is fear of forethought the reception of knowledge in learning. children doubt, and abhor learning. why, even the affection of courage results in cleverness! the difference between good and evil is a matter of profund

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the physical body to be simply one of a succession of receptacles for the housing of the soul. many of his followers became vegetarians, for he taught that the soul might live again in animals. because of his importance to early greek culture, pythagoras is among those individuals given the status of becoming a myth in his own lifetime. therefore, the philosopher was said to have been born of the virgin parthenis and fathered by the god apollo. pythagoras s human father, mnesarchus, a ring merchant from samos, and his mother consulted the delphic oracle and were told that he would be born in sidon in phoenicia and that he would produce works and wonders that would benefit all humankind. wishing to please the gods, mnesarchus demanded that his wife change her name from parthenis to pythasis

t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 150 mediums and mystics rudolf steiner (1861 1925 (fortean picture library) great spirit beings implanted within their human offspring. the physical seeds of male and female intermingled to produce the whole human being, but steiner believed there was also something within each human that did not arise from the blending of the two physical seeds: a virgin birth, something ineffable, which somehow flowed into the process of germination from a different source. steiner also claimed to be able to read the akashic records, from which he had been able to ascertain the true history of human evolution. he set forth the hypothesis that the people of prehistory, the atlanteans, had been largely guided and directed by a higher order of beings who inte

to the expectation of miracles, from the power of prayer to heal to the judgment of ecclesiastical tribunals to cause suffering. 177 antichrist apocalypse apparitions of holy figures armaggedon cosmic consciousness demons devil s mark ecstasy exorcism faith healing guardian angels illumination inquisition miracles possession power of prayer the rapture shroud of turin 666 snake handling stigmata virgin of guadalupe visions weeping statues and icons introduction in recent years there has been a tremendous surge of interest in both organized religion and expressions of individual spirituality. people speak freely of their guardian angels, their belief in life after death, their efforts to elevate their consciousness, and the power of prayer. others are concerned about being under psychic at

al phenomenon can be found on the internet. although thousands of people claimed miraculous cures as they looked upward at the glowing figure of the holy mother, no one announced receiving any special messages from her. no visionaries ever claimed to have received any warnings of impending disasters or relayed any admonitions from mother mary to repent or to cease sinning. sources: apparitions of virgin mary. http/ www.geocities.com/athens /7084 /stmaridx. htm, 11 october 2001. our lady of zeitoun. http//www.zeitoun.org, 11 october 2001. zeitoun apparition. http//www.science-frontiers.com, 11 october 2001. mother mary appears in egypt ninth century, but right now. matter stated that the interest in apparitions of the holy mother has been building for the past 150 years, with more and more

ary, st. joseph, st. john, and a lamb surrounded by golden stars. a short time after the villagers had reported their collective vision, many ill, diseased, or crippled people who visited the church began to claim miraculous cures as they knelt at the statue of mother mary. since that 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 188 religious phenomena virgin mary and jesus vision in hungary (karoly ligeti/fortean picture library) 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 religious phenomena 189 virgin mary appearing before bernadette soubirous (1844 1879) at lourdes (fortean picture library) time, the small village of knock has come to be called the irish lourdes. garabandal, spain: a series of ec

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hurwood, bernardt j. vampires, werewolves, and ghouls. new york: ace books, 1968. mack, carol k, and dinah mack. a field guide to demons, fairies, fallen angels, and other subversive spirits. new york: henry holt, 1998. masters, r. e. l, and eduard lea. perverse crimes in history. new york: julian press, 1963. golem the golem is the frankenstein monster of jewish tradition, but it is created from virgin soil and pure spring water, rather than the body parts of cadavers. it is also fashioned by those who purify themselves spiritually and physically, rather than heretical scientists in foreboding castle laboratories who bring down electricity from the sky to animate their patchwork human. once the golem has been formed, it is given life by the kabbalist placing under its t h e g a l e e n c

hristian europe in the middle ages, individuals who inadvertently walked under a ladder would cross their fingers on both hands, calling upon the sign of the cross to protect them from any evil entities lurking in the shadows existing between wall and ladder. others would employ the always-reliable method of spitting to banish the negative beings, for best results, three times one for the blessed virgin, one for the son, and one for the holy ghost. more optimistic folks altered the superstition to state that if a person was, through unusual circumstances, forced to walk under a ladder against his or her will, he or she might receive anything wished for. this is much preferable to the superstition that to tread under a ladder is to foreshadow one s being hanged. on the symbolical level, the

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n e d 12 secret societies by1897, the masons had about 750,000 members. who defended northern spain from the invading moors in the eleventh century, and the secret society continues to this day in a criminal organization akin to the mafia. according to tradition, around 710 a holy man named apollinario, who lived a hermitlike existence in the hills above cordova, had a vision in which the blessed virgin mary appointed him to be the savior of spain and drive the moors out of the land. at first the holy man was staggered by the very suggestion, regardless of the source from whence it had come. what remained of gothic spain had fallen into decay, deteriorating into a patchwork of petty princedoms, woefully ineffectual against the powerful moors who had conquered most of the land and establish

to gather an army from the simple countryfolk of spain, even from the bandits who lived in the mountains, and to avoid the corrupt nobles and landed aristocracy. the hermit from the hills above cordova was blessed with a charisma that caused the common people to flock to his leadership. he told them that those who followed him in the garduna, his sacred army, would be licensed by god and the holy virgin to destroy the invading heathens by any means. there would be open warfare, of course, but they would also be free to plot murders and practice any kind of secret treachery. those who joined the garduna would be absolved of all wrongdoing as long as their violence was committed only against non-christians. thousands joined the holy man in his crusade against the moors, and his army of peasa

rfare, of course, but they would also be free to plot murders and practice any kind of secret treachery. those who joined the garduna would be absolved of all wrongdoing as long as their violence was committed only against non-christians. thousands joined the holy man in his crusade against the moors, and his army of peasants, beggars, and bandits fought so fiercely under the standard of the holy virgin of cordova that no moorish force could repel them. while the garduna may have harassed the powerful muslim armies and conducted a guerilla-type warfare against them, they by no means drove the invaders from spain as legend told it. after about 714, the gothic monarchy of spain had been replaced by the institutions of the conquering arabs, and a short time after spain had fallen to the moors

rable contributions to spain fs rise to power and its recent acquisitions in the new world. ferdinand reasoned that the moors and the jews had grown too powerful and too rich, and that he could extend the 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 secret societies 13 those who followed apollinario in the garduna, would be licensed by god and the holy virgin to destroy the invading heathens. spanish empire farther if he were to acquire their wealth. he also considered them heretics because they were not christians. the slaughter of innocent people began in earnest with muslim and jewish shopkeepers and scholars condemned as heretics and witches. the terrible machinery of the inquisition was quite effective in and of itself, but ferdinand recall

various criminal activities from 1520 to that date. the grand master and 16 of his district chiefs were publicly hanged in the main square of the city. members of the other ranks of the garduna scattered and resumed a life of banditry in the mountains. the garduna gave evidence of their survival as a secret society throughout the spanish civil war (1936.39) when their battle cry of gremember the virgin of cordova! h was frequently heard. it has been said that the garduna have established their own church, blending their concept of unorthodox catholicism with a kind of gholy socialism. h with branches allegedly established in portu- 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 14 secret societies forover 100 years, the garduna murdered, raped, a

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e more dramatic than those for a boy or girl alreadybelonging to the religion. the accounts are fuller as the records were made when the cult of the horned godwas already waning and had to keep up its numbers by proselytising. as in all admissions to a new religionthe convert had to renounce his old faith, and this renunciation was made as explicit as possible "i renounceand deny god, the blessed virgin, the saints, baptism, father, mother, relations, heaven, earth, and all that isin the world,[19] was one of several formulae; which always had to be "an express renunciation of jesuschrist and of the faith. then came the baptism, the profession of faith and the vow of fidelity,[20 "i placemyself at every point in thy power and in thy hands, recognising no other god, for thou art my god. a v

that in the eyes of thepeople she was divine. article iii of the articles of accusation states this in plain terms "item, the said joanby her inventions has seduced the catholic people, many in her presence adored her as a saint and adored heralso in her absence, commanding in her honour masses and collects in the churches; even more, they declaredher the greatest of all the saints after the holy virgin; they set up images and representations of her in theshrines of the saints, and also carried on their persons her representation in lead or in other metal as they arewont to do for the memorials and representations of saints canonised by the church; they say everywhere thatshe is 'the envoy (nuntia) of god and that she is more angel than woman" according to the records she raisedthe dead, t

ion in lead or in other metal as they arewont to do for the memorials and representations of saints canonised by the church; they say everywhere thatshe is 'the envoy (nuntia) of god and that she is more angel than woman" according to the records she raisedthe dead, the sick were cured of all diseases by the touch of her garments; and as even professed christianscounted her as almost equal to the virgin it is more than likely that in the eyes of her pagan followers she wasgod indeed. an interesting little sidelight is thrown on the popular opinion of her by dame margareta latouroulde, widow of r351n351 de bouligny, councillor and receiver-general of the king, who stated at theenquiry for rehabilitation that joan had stayed with her at bourges and that they had often talked together;she had

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his life, more than his eternal happiness. happy outlaw, since she has been given to him as companion in his exile! but the children of cain have revolted against the mother of abel; they have enslaved their mother. the beauty of woman has become a prey for the brutality of such men as cannot love. thus woman closed her heart as if it were a secret sanctuary, and said to men unworthy of her "i am virgin, 19 but i will to become mother, and my son will teach you to love me" o eve! salutation and adoration in thy fall! o mary! blessings and adoration in thy sufferings and in thy glory! crucified and holy one who didst survive thy god that thou mightst bury thy son, be thou for us the final word of the divine revelation! moses called god "lord; jesus called him "my father" and we, thinking of

a lofty degree of courage to keep conjugal faith; it is a pact of heroism of which only great souls can understand the whole extent. marriages which break are not marriages: they are couplings. a woman who abandons her husband, what can she become? she is no more a wife, and she is not a widow; what is she then? she is an apostate from honour who is forced to be licentious because she is neither virgin nor free. a husband who abandons his wife prostitutes her, and deserves the infamous name that one applies to the lovers of lost women. marriage is then sacred and indissoluble when it really exists. but it cannot really exist, except for beings of a lofty intelligence and of a noble heart. the animals do not marry, and men who live like animals undergo the fatalities of the brute nature. t

nd you would be me; or, to put it better, i should no longer exist, and reason, in the presence of the infinite, would halt, blinded for evermore by your doubts, which are as infinite as space. science. at least, you should never usurp my authority, or give me the lie in my own domains. faith. i have never done so, and i could never do so. science. so! you have never believed, for example, that a virgin could become a mother, without ceasing to be a virgin, in the physical, natural, positive order of things, in spite of all the laws of nature; you do not affirm that a piece of bread is not only a god, but a real human body with its bones and its veins, its organs, its blood; such, in short, that you make of your children who eat this bread a little race of cannibals. faith. there is not a

locutor. had he before him a dangerous madman, capable of renewing the atrocities of the seigneur of retz? and yet the face of the man was gentle and honest. no, it was not possible "but then this victim. tell me clearly what it was. you suppose that i know already. perhaps i do know, but i have reasons for wishing you to tell me "it was, according to the magic ritual, a young goat of a year old, virgin, and without defect "a real young he-goat "doubtless. understand that it was neither a child's toy, nor a stuffed animal" eliphas breathed again "good" thought he "this man is not a sorcerer worthy of the stake. he does not know that the abominable authors 157 of the "grimoire" when they spoke of the 'virgin he-goat' meant a little child "well" said he to his consultant "give me some detail

s, whose heart was sad, and consequently disposed to prayer, followed that way and entered the church. it might have been at that time about four o'clock in the afternoon. the church was full of the faithful, and the office was performed with great concentration, and extraordinary solemnity. the banners of the parishes of the city, and of the suburbs, bore witness to the public veneration for the virgin who saved paris from famine and invasion. at the bottom of the church, the tomb of st. genevieve shone gloriously with light. they were chanting the litanies, and the procession was coming out of the choir. after the cross, accompanied by its acolytes, and followed by the choirboys, came the banner of st. genevieve; then, walking in double file, came the lady devotees of st. genevieve, clot

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

kalli, lilith other forms of the feminine associated with binah range from the shekinah, the "indwelling presence of god (also associated with malkuth as the unwedded soul, to babalon, the great whore or scarlet woman, deified by crowley in his elaborate symbology as the lady babalon, nursing the babe of the abyss in the city of pyramids under the night of pan. the catholic "litany of the blessed virgin" lists titles which could be transposed onto the tree of life with appropriate relevance, such as: mary i.e, exalted, also "bitterness of the sea "myrrh of the sea, or "lady/mistress of the sea" mother of christ binah connecting to tiphareth mother of divine grace binah connecting to chesed mother inviolate etc binah above the abyss of manifestation mirror of justice binah connecting to geb

THE MARTINIST OPERATIVE GENERAL RITUAL

ch the compiler knows is being substituted by certain brethren who practice the operation regularly (1) if the room being used for the operation has any unsuitable pictures on the walls, these must turned around (2) if the operator is not a martinist he/she will wear the alb, cordelier and sandals (3) if the metal jewel of the order is not available, the pantacle) may be drawn on a piece of white virgin paper (virgin paper is paper that has not been drawn on or written on before (4) a french onion soup bowl makes an excellent censer (5) if the frankincense cannot be obtained in its original "tear drop" form, regular frankincense may be used. the important point is that it be pure frankincense and not a mixture of incenses (6) any sword or poignard may be used as long as it has a straight h

THE NECRONOMICON SIMON VERSION

the goddess is no more known. and she maketh the infants restless, and to cry, so the reason for the pouring of honey over the sacred bread, for it is written: bread of the cult of the dead in its place i eat in the court prepared water of the cult of the dead in its place i drink a queen am i, who has become estranged to the cities she that comes from the lowlands in a sunken boat am i. i am the virgin goddess hostile to my city a stranger in my streets. musigamenna uruma bur me yensulamu girme en! oh, spirit, who understand thee? who comprehend thee? now, there are two incantation to the ancient ones set down here, which are well known to the sorcerers of the night, they who make images and burn them by the moon and by other things. and they burn them by the moon and by other things. and

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

al and dramatic, h gthe temple of the holy ghost, h gtannhauser, h grosa mundi, h and galice. h ecstasy is the keynote here, as it is of all poetry, all literature. aye! of all life. without it we cease to be even animals. a dog will bay the moon. mere lumps of sodden clay; with it a flaming crown of glory, angel-voiced, singing amidst the stars the anthem of eternity. ii the chapter known as the virgin in which chapter it is related how beauteous and fair she was to behold, and with what joyaunce and jollity she greeted her many lovers, and how she fed off their kisses and growing bold was cast forth to feed amongst the swine. the virgin gto be a singer of sweet songs, h is the great ideal crowley has enshrined before him; for varied as his powers are, entwined with satire, philosophy and

t god wandering through the green trees and the cool groves, as jahveh was wont once to do. amidst those shades of ida, where paris adjudged the prize of beauty, overlooking the blue hellespont, the greatest sacrifice, and thereby the purest that love can make, was to be demanded, and freely given. the sacrifice of a woman fs honour to save her lover; in fact to become a prostitute in body, and a virgin in spirit. he, zeus, is gweary of women fs old lascivious breed, h and of gthe large luxurious lips of ganymede. h no freshness, no restraint, no virgin breast, no lips gwithout a taint of lewd imagining, h all the nymphs of those green wooded slopes, all are as brazen and cold as the meretrices of a suburrian lupanar, the fire of love having burnt itself out to the ashen lassitude of satie

a god fs, molly fs society fs. poor molly! charicles f love was the love of the hurricane, which carries all before it, typhoonic; he knew no fears, no bonds, he cursed the god who had defrauded him of his loved one; and plunged undaunted into the ocean of adversity; to win back their former state he sacrificed himself. he was no sir percy, flatulent with wind, who could not tell a harlot from a virgin; falling at once a prey to a bedizened old prostitute of sixty-three. those who should think the passion displayed in this tale as unbecoming and lustful, must indeed have minds composed of dung and cantharides, disappointed sterile old maids, or sated old matrons, pornophobics of the worst description. we know well the class, half exeter hall, half empire music-hall; gdouee h (as a charmin

ve is the finding in others what others cannot find in them, and it is of two degrees. the love of a mother towards her child; and the love of man and woman towards woman and man. the first is generally considered to be purer and more ideal, but this idea has only grown out of man fs entire ignorance regarding the physical relationships. the mother is in no way purer than the wife, neither is the virgin purer than the mother. the truest definition of chastity is that as given by benjamin franklin, which defines chastity as gthe regulated and strictly temperate satisfaction without injury to others, of those desires which are natural to all healthy adult beings. h* the reason for this idea of uncleanliness though certainly obscure is traceable more particularly to the utter mystery man saw

nds and thousands of years since these primitive times, should we not shake off these trammels of infant thought, and, assuming our manhood, decry an ideal that is not only brutal but absurd; instead of reverencing it because of its great antiquity, or because of our conservative sympathies with the past days of our fathers. woman is as clean as man, and a wife married or unmarried as pure as any virgin. generation is no more filthy than alimentation; both are necessary, both are accompanied by natural appetites; the one maintains the individual, the other the race; both may be carried to extremes, both may become lusts *a disciple of pythagoras once asked him, when was it permitted him to cohabit with his wife? to which that philosopher replied: gwhen you are tired of resting. h theano, w

THE TAROT OF C C ZAIN

e tiara a veil falls over her face. she wears upon her bosom the symbol of the planet mercury, and carries upon her knees an open book which she half covers with her mantle. this symbolic ensemble personifies occult science, which awaits the initiate at the threshold of the sanctuary of isis in order to tell him the secrets of universal nature. the symbol of mercury (hermes) upon the bosom of the virgin, signifies that matter is fecundated by spirit in order to evolve mind, or soul. the cross below is matter, the circle is spirit. together they figure the lingam of the hindus, representing the union of the sexes; and the crescent above the union of spirit and matter represents the soul which is the evolved product of their union. the seal on the breast of nature also expresses the thought

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

ing the first 5. there are many other important considerations to be made concerning this word and this number, which may safely be left to the ardours of your research. this sun is in the midst of the 6 other letters of the word; and the general knowledge of correspondences which you have derived from the study of the books appointed for your instruction will at once show you that j is virgo the virgin moon a is the fool or antic, the antique or ancient one saturn h is the letter of aries the house of mars b is the letter of mercury v is the hierophant or pope, emblem of jupiter l is libra the house of venus such, my brother, are the letters taken singly. in combination we reach beyond the simple facts of nature to divine mysteries. iii first of all, consider the descending triangle. it r

trine and practises a secret rite. at the meetings of this body the lights being extinguished, the worshippers, led by the priest and a chosen and consecrated priestess, seek out each other by touch and by subtle attraction; then they consummate the pure charity of their hearts in holy zeal. if by the favour and indwelling of the holy ghost the priestess (that is unto this rite espoused, and else virgin) do conceive and bring forth, then is the child baptized by its father the priest for the purification by water, and for the consecration by fire is roast and divided among the worshippers for use as a sacrament, as a talisman and as a medicine against all diseases. this also is said of the knights of our own holy order of the temple, that the offspring of any one of them by a virgin was ro

summation of the rite of marriage. consider of this. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c2.html (4 of 12 [12/28/2001 2:05:25 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. vi of classical fables the ancients of every nation report their heroes to have been born of the marriage of gods with mortals. as, romulus and remus begotten of the god mars upon a vestal virgin, hercules of jove, buddha of vishnu in the form of a white elephant with six tusks, jesus of jehovah upon a virgin, and many another. even true gods were born of mortal mothers, as dionysius of semele. also they recount many loves of heaven for earth, diana for endymion, zeus for leda, danae, europa, and the rest; even hades issued from his gloomy kingdom to ravish the maid persephone. ther

all being now clear to you, very illustrious sir knights and my illuminated brethren, hasten not to the sacrament. for this festival is holy; this wedding is of the soul with our lord jesus christ; and thou must be adorned, as it is written, the king s daughter is all glorious within; her raiment is of wrought gold. first therefore observe as thou hast sworn the rule of chastity; for thou must be virgin unto thy lord. second, do thou fast, worshipping god triune for seven hours before the feast. third, be thou clothed in that one vestment many-coloured which was bestowed upon thee at thine initiation. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c3.html (14 of 18 [12/28/2001 2:05:41 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. now then, entering the privy chap

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

[let the same be] she [that] thou hast appointed for thy servant isaac; and thereby shall i know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master. 24:15 and it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, rebekah came out, who was born to bethuel, son of milcah, the wife of nahor, abraham s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. 24:16 and the damsel [was] very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up. 24:17 and the servant ran to meet her, and said, let me, i pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher. 24:18 and she said, drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. 24:19 and when she had done giving him drink, she said, i will draw [water

my kindred, and of my father s house: 24:41 then shalt thou be clear from [this] my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee [one] thou shalt be clear from my oath. 24:42 and i came this day unto the well, and said, o lord god of my master abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which i go; 24:43 behold, i stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw [water] and i say to her, give me, i pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink; 24:44 and she say to me, both drink thou, and i will also draw for thy camels [let] the same [be] the woman whom the lord hath appointed out for my master s son. 24:45 and before i had done speaking in mine heart, behold, rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she w

they shall stone them with stones: their blood [shall be] upon them. 21:1 and the lord said unto moses, speak unto the priests the sons of aaron, and say unto them, there shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: 21:2 but for his kin, that is near unto him [that is] for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 21:3 and for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled. 21:4 [but] he shall not defile himself [being] a chief man among his people, to profane himself. 21:5 they shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. 21:6 they shall be holy unto their god, and not profane the name of their

go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; 21:12 neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his god; for the crown of the anointing oil of his god [is] upon him: i [am] the lord. 21:13 and he shall take a wife in her virginity. 21:14 a widow, or a divorced woman, or profane [or] an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife. 21:15 neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for i the lord do sanctify him. 21:16 and the lord spake unto moses, saying, 21:17 speak unto aaron, saying, whosoever [he be] of thy seed in their generations that hath [any] blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his god. 21:18 for whatsoever man [he be] that hath a blemish, he shall not appr

er] saying, i found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these [are the tokens of] my daughter s virginity. and they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 22:18 and the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; 22:19 and they shall amerce him in an hundred [shekels] of silver, and give [them] unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days. 22:20 but if this thing be true [and the tokens of] virginity be not found for the damsel: 22:21 then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in israel, to play the whore in her father s house:

TRUE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT

confesses under pain, recants when the pain is removed, only to be moved by more pain to confess again, she is asked "how did she influence the weather? she does not know what to say and can only whisper, oh, heavenly queen, protect me" was the victim calling upon "the goddess? or, as seems more likely, upon that aforementioned transfiguration of all ancient goddesses in christian mythology, the virgin mary. one more quote from dr. robbins, and i will cease to parade late medieval history before you. it comes from yet another priest, father cornelius loos, who observed, in 1592 that "wretched creatures are compelled by the severity of the torture to confess things they have never done, and so by cruel butchery innocent lives are taken (ibid, p 16. the "evidence" of the witch trials indica

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

na in crete, acting the same part with dictynna, the cretan diana, as the swan is usually represented acting with leda.4 this composition has nearly the same signification as that before described of the bull in the lap of ceres, diana being equally a personification of the productive power of the earth. it may seem extraordinary, that after this adventure with the dove, she should still remain a virgin; but mysteries of this kind are to be found in all religions. juno is said to have renewed her virginity every year by bathing in a certain fountain;5 a miracle which i believe even modern legends cannot parallel. 1 the active and passive powers of creation are called male and female by the ammonian platonists. see proclus in theol. platon. lib. i, c. 28. 2 lucian, de dea syri. 3 matth. ch

nta in ipsis articulis esse vera, quia poterant habere mulieres pulchras et bene comptas, et frequenter eas habebant, cum essent divites et potentes, et ex hoc ipse et alii fratres ipsius ordinis amoti fuerant a suis domibus, ut dixit. proc s, i, 326. generative powers 193 neglect the other sex in a statement quoted by du puy that, if a child were born from the intercourse between a templar and a virgin, they roasted it, and made an unguent of its fat, with which they anointed their idol.1 those who confessed to the existence of the vice were so few, and their evidence so indefinite or indirect, that they are deserving of no consideration. one had heard that some brethren beyond the sea had committed unnatural vices.2 another, hugh de faure, had heard say that two brothers of the order, dw

worship, it appears certain that in the time of de lanere his favourite form of showing himself was that of a goat. at the opening of the sabbath the witches, male or female, presented formally to the devil those who had never been at the sabbath before, and the women especially brought to him the children whom they allured to him. the new converts, the novices, were made to renounce christ, the virgin mary, and the saints, and they were then re-baptized with mock ceremonies. they next performed their worship to the devil by kissing him on the face under the tail, or otherwise. the young children were taken to the edge of a stream for the scene was generally chosen on the banks of a stream and white wands were placed in their hands, and they were entrusted with the care of the toads which

ays la lanne du bouc. o ils se mettent dancer l entour d une pierre, qui est plant e audit lieu, sur laquelle est assis un grand hoome noir, qu elles 226 on the worship of the she said that they were carried to that place on an animal which sometimes resembled a horse and at others a man, and they never rode on the animal more than four at a time. when arrived at the sabbath, they denied god, the virgin, and the rest, and took satan for their father and protector, and the she-devil for their mother. this witness described the making and sale of poisons. she said that she had seen at the sabbath a notary, whose name she gave, whose business it was to denounce those who failed in attendance. when on their way to the sabbath, however hard it might rain, they were never wet, provided they utte

the nephew of madame martin, who went to his aunt and merely enjoined her not to take the girl to the sabbath any more. jeannette said that at the solemn festivals all kissed the devil s posteriors except the notable witches, who kissed him in the face. according to her account, the children, at the age of two or three years, or as soon as they could speak, were made to renounce jesus christ, the virgin mary, their baptism &c. and from that moment they were taught to worship the devil. she described the sabbath as resembling a fair, well supplied with all sorts of objects, in which some walked about in their own form, and others were transformed, she knew not how, into dogs, cats, asses, horses, pigs, and other animals. the little boys and girls kept the herds of the sabbath, consisting of

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

t numerous sites of ancient human habitation. cultures devoted to the goddess tend to be stable and agrarian, inward-seeking and secretive in their rites. they build no empires, but are subject to the empire-building of more aggressive neighbors. cults of female gods, existing away from the center of societies, can still be observed. remnants of goddess worship are evident in the adoration of the virgin mary among christians, the veneration of the matronit and shekhinah among jews, the worship of shakti among hindus. the women's movement has sparked a revival of interest in the goddess. the contemporary pagan religion of wicca wor- ships the earth mother in her many guises. as for the worship of god as a child, christianity is the most obvious example. in the middle ages, jesus was often d

e 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 simplistic but can be useful in practical magic. the tree is consulted to discover the workings of spirit in the so

is presented as a trine-the fish, wholly water creatures; the crab, which lives both in the sea and on the land; and the scorpion, 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

eased into the world. accepting creative force birthing shield also called the disk, the pentacle, and the coin. it is the only one of the four ele- mental instruments that cannot be rotated around its center point to change its meaning. it suggests completeness, and thus sterility. it is self-contained, giving nothing and taking nothing. the shield symbolizes frigidity, aridity, and inertia; the virgin and the maidenhead. but the other side of the coin is resistance, persis- tence, and a cold, remorseless strength. its element is earth. magically, the shield is used as a protection against hostile forces. it imposes a freeze similar to that associated with the equal-armed cross. the shield neither moves nor can be moved, although it can be shattered if sufficient force is applied. the dag

rough history by the christian church that the magus may be embar- rassed to make use of it. the conical cap symbolizes the descent of the light from out of the point of self into the awareness of the magus. the best color for the cap is light blue, signifying a passive and gentle descent of the light. it should be made of paper or stiffened cloth. leather can be used, but it must be taken from a virgin animal, a kid or lamb. if using paper, make sure it has no recycled fibers. recycling may be fine for the environment but is bad for magic. crown this is a circlet worn around the brow that is made of brass, silver, or gold in the shape of a serpent swallowing its tail. the head of the serpent is worn to the front. it symbolizes the inward spiral, or the descent of the will of the magus fro

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

r off the path and over a cliff in the darkness. the hermitage is a rough building of heavy timbers on a foundation of native stone, build to withstand the storms of winter. the old chapter twelve: the tarot 21 1 man invites you inside when he sees you, so that you may warm yourself before the fire in the common room. it is a lonely spot and he seldom gets visitors. the ruling intelligence is the virgin goddess of the heavens, virgo, whose statue stands within a small shrine inside the hermitage. if you light a candle in her honor, she may respond to your question by either nodding or by shaking her head. x the wheel offortune hebrew letter: kaph (fist) correspondence: jupiter path: twenty-first the waite version of this trump is abstract and does a poor job of presenting its astral landsc

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

th roman numerals, for the twenty-four hours of the day. although the hand of the sun is longer than that of the moon, the sun, which points to the hours, appears to me to be the hour hand. this would be symbolically correct. the circular face of the clock is enclosed in a square with four circular windows, one in each corner (symbolizing the four beasts. above the clock is a statue of the seated virgin mary holding christ upon her knee. she represents the queen of heaven in revelation 12:l. to her right is a large roman numeral x; to her left is an equally large arabic numeral 5 (in connection with these numerals, see the description of the hieroglyphic monad in chapter viii, specifically dee's comments regarding the roman numeral x. in passing, it might be pointed out that much of this s

(burning flame) and gah (spirit. a literal translation might be "spirits of burning flame" the "first glory" perhaps refers to the rosy dawn, the goddess aurora, who had many lovers. the "house of virgins" would seem to be a reference to the biblical book of esther, which describes the sexual habits of king ahasuerus. it was the custom of ahasuerus to keep two houses. in one house all the fairest virgin girls in his kingdom were gathered together for purification. after twelve full months of ritual cleansing (six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet incense, each virgin went in to the king's bedchamber and spent the night with him. in reward, he gave the girl anything her heart desiredbeautiful robes, jewelry, servants. then she was sent to live in a second house with the oth

microprosopus, the king of the qabalistical sephirotic greatest trinity, and 248 tetragrammaton the son in his human incarnation, in the christian acceptation of the dinity. therefore, as the son reveals the father, so does ihvh, jehovah, reveal ahih, eheieh. and adni is the queen "by whom alone tetragrammaton can be grasped" whose exaltation into binah is found in the christian assumption of the virgin. the tetragrammaton ihvh is referred to the sephiroth, thus: the uppermost point of the letter yod, i, is said to refer to kether; the letter i itself to chokmah, the father of microprosopus; the letter h, or "the supernal he" to binah, the supernal mother; the letter v to the next six sephiroth, which are called the six members of microprosopus (and six is the numerical value of v, the heb

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

f you want to return to the father who dwells in secret, you must first return to the bosom of your divine mother kundalini. you need to raise the serpent of life through your medullar channel. this is alchemy. alchemy: you have forgotten your divine mother kundalini. you need to worship the divine and blessed mother goddess of the world. you have been ungrateful to your cosmic mother; she is the virgin of all religious cults; she is isis, mary, cibeles, adonia, insoberta, etc. the stone of grace is surrounded by nine delectable mountains. that stone is sex. if you all want to return to the bosom of your divine mother, you need to work with the philosophical stone sex. the mayans stated that in the first heaven god, the word, had held his stone, had held his serpent, and had held his subst

rno. vuestra divina madre es el arcano ii, la papisa del tarot. ella est coronada con la tiara. la cabeza de la madre c smica est rodeada de un velo. vosotros deb is ser valientes y levantar el velo de isis. nuestra divisa gn stica es thelema (voluntad. 17 the mother carries her son (the word) in her arms; and she is seated between the two columns that symbolize the man and the woman. worship the virgin of the sea, brethren of mine. the divine mother appears in the second arcanum holding the priestly esoteric sign with her hand. study within the sacred book of your divine mother. ask and it shall be given to you. knock and it shall be opened unto you (matthew 7:7) your divine mother can grant the occult powers you long for. pray to your divine mother; practice your esoteric exercises; you

o el trabajo tiene por objeto adquirir alma, es decir, lograr el ligamen de la cruz con el tri ngulo. esa es la gran obra. la carta doce del tarot es alkimia sexual. la cruz hombre debe ligarse con el tri ngulo esp ritu, mediante el fuego sexual. 84 according to the chinese, the god fu ji (the adam- christ) is born at midnight, on the fourth day of the tenth moon after precisely twelve years, the virgin hoa se, while walking along the shore of the river (the seminal liquor, conceived the christ in her womb while placing her foot on the footprint of the great man. you must study these numbers 4-10- 12 under the light of the lectures 4, 10 and 12 of this present course. white and black tantrism there exist two kinds of tantrism in the orient. in the positive tantrism, the ejaculation of the

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-l, and 4-m. one can experiment with alternate designs on these kameas, provided that every cell is included. for example, i have used a very powerful symbol, which has come to be known as the miraculous medal, on the simplest of the planetary squares. this medal was revealed to st. catherine laboure (who has had an incorruptible body.now in an open casket in paris.since her death in 1876, by the virgin mary in a vision, and has become a very potent miracle working talisman in the past 100 years. it fits very nicely on the saturn kamea (see figure 4-n. it is also appropriate there symbolically because mary (miriam. whose initial it is, means bitter sea, an attribution of binah/saturn, and she is said to be the universal mother. qabalistic students will notice other similarities in the symb

ice, 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 tetragramatton (twenty-six) by the sephiroth (ten. the intelligence of mercury, which also has a value of 260, designates the consciousness of the divine order which, when correctly applied, results in the human being's use of the objective mind as an instrument to link to superconscious powers. some of the powe

-consciousness by virtue of his concentration. the greatest powers of intuition come when we have perfected the art of inductive reasoning, or the ability to draw logical inferences from experience. the number eight is the number representing rhythm and renewal, and because of its shape, is the lemniscate, or infinity sign as well. this symbol is placed about the head of both the magician and the virgin (see figure 10-h) in key eight of most tarot decks. the number has a hidden reference to the serpent-power that this virgin, who is also a magician, has control of. this picture hints at her ability to act as a time-binder, uniting past to present to future. the serpent is the most frequent symbolic mythological image attributed to mercury. in astrology, the eighth sign is scorpio, which ru

one (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: from my hand 64: nvgh, nogah: venus 64: sbb, sahbab: to revolve, turn, surround 64: sal aqua (latin: salt water, the matrix corpus 64: solve (latin: dissolve 64: sperma (latin: seed 64: virgo (latin: virgin 64: dictum (latin: a saying, prediction, command 64: alethia (greek: truth 260: magic sum of kamea 260: tirial: intelligence of mercury 260: grzim: gerizim (deut. 11: 29; josh. 8: 33) 260: sr, sar: ill-humored (godwin) root: all ideas of disorder, contortion; also return, education, new direction 260: vrdim, veradim: roses 260: krm, kerem: vineyard 260: tzmtzm, tzimtsen: to contract or draw

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in india it was called soma and in greece it was ambrosia. this was said to be the nectar of the gods and it was the reptilian gods who are genetic blood drinkers. the 'holy grail' chalice or cup is also symbolic of the womb and drinking menstrual blood, as well as being a symbol of the reptilian 'royal' bloodline itself. menstrual blood was provided for the elite of the reptilian 'royal' line by virgin priestesses and this is the origin of the term 'scarlet woman' or, to the greeks 'sacred woman. the greek word for this, hierodulai, was eventually translated into english as harlot and into german as 'hores, the origin of whore. the word ritual derives from this practice (ritu= redness) and so do the words rite and red. menstrual blood is one reason why the colour red is so important to sa

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andles that would be used for the coming liturgical year (catholics will be reminded that the following day, st. blaise's day, is remembered for using the newly-blessed candles to bless the throats of parishioners, keeping them from colds, flu, sore throats, etc) the catholic church, never one to refrain from piling holiday upon holiday, also called it the feast of the purification of the blessed virgin mary (it is surprising how many of the old pagan holidays were converted to maryan feasts) the symbol of the purification may seem a little obscure to modern readers, but it has to do with the old custom of 'churching women. it was believed that women were impure for six weeks after giving birth. and since mary gave birth at the winter solstice, she wouldn't be purified until february 2nd

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 virgin aspect at candlemas, welcomes the young sun god's embraces and conceives a child. the child will be born nine months from now, at the next winter solstice. and so the cycle closes at last. we think that the customs surrounding the celebration of the spring equinox were imported from mediterranean lands, although there can be no doubt that the first inhabitants of the british isles observed

rst day of the first sign of the zodiac, aries. however you look at it, it is certainly a time of new beginnings, as a simple glance at nature will prove. in the roman catholic church, there are two holidays which get mixed up with the vernal equinox. the first, occurring on the fixed calendar day of march 25th in the old liturgical calendar, is called the feast of the annunciation of the blessed virgin mary (or b.v.m, as she was typically abbreviated in catholic missals 'annunciation' means an announcement. this is the day that the angel gabriel announced to mary that she was 'in the family way. naturally, this had to be announced since mary, being still a virgin, would have no other means of knowing it (quit scoffing, o ye of little faith) why did the church pick the vernal equinox for t

e winter solstice (i.e, christmas, celebrated on the fixed calendar date of december 25. mary's pregnancy would take the natural nine months to complete, even if the conception was a bit unorthodox. as mentioned before, the older pagan equivalent of this scene focuses on the joyous process of natural conception, when the young eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 14 virgin goddess (in this case 'virgin' in the original sense of meaning 'unmarried) mates with the young solar god, who has just displaced his rival. this is probably not their first mating, however. in the mythical sense, the couple may have been lovers since candlemas, when the young god reached puberty. but the young goddess was recently a mother (at the winter solstice) and is probably still nu

rlands to decorate the village the next morning. one angry puritan wrote that men 'doe use commonly to runne into woodes in the night time, amongst maidens, to set bowes, in so muche, as i have hearde of tenne maidens whiche went to set may, and nine of them came home with childe' and another puritan complained that, of the girls who go into the woods 'not the least one of them comes home again a virgin' long after the christian form of marriage (with its insistence on sexual monogamy) had replaced the older pagan handfasting, the rules of strict fidelity were always relaxed for the may eve rites. names such as robin hood, maid marian, and little john played an important part in may day folklore, often used as titles for the dramatis personae of the celebrations. and modern surnames such a

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o were initiated say 'all the mysteries were the same, surely they must mean the inner essences were the same. a heathen examining the various christian sects, catholic, roman and orthodox, presbyterian, methodist and church of england churches, would say they are at heart all the same. they all worship the triune god, the father, the son and the holy ghost. though some may pay more honour to the virgin and the saints than others, and the people who thus worship are on the whole good and worthy people and obviously would not so worship if the religion were evil, so when we find that the greatest and best men of the ancient world belonged to the initiates, we may be sure the mysteries were not just orgies. indeed we know, as shown above, a little of what they were. lewis spence in his occul

f the garter was taken away and destroyed not long after his death. i have seen two witch garters; they were of green snakeskin with gold or silver gilt buckles and were backed with blue silk. they were worn above the left knee. they are badges of rank. in this connection, can anyone tell me exactly what is the meaning of the double ss on the collar of the garter? it is sometimes said to mean the virgin, sometimes the holy ghost (sanctus spiritus. the order is dedicated to the virgin, certainly, but i do not see how it can refer to her. nor does it seem to be dedicated to the holy ghost. my reason for asking is that on all athama and many other witch tools i have seen- and i have seen many besides those in my own private collection- there are a number of signs carved. these are always the

of signs carved. these are always the same and in the same order and have the same meanings. it is necessary to have these signs put on before they are consecrated (in the burning times they would write them in ink and wash them off after consecration) the third sign is ss: that is, two s's as used on the collar of the garter. witches have their own interpretation of this sign (and it is not the virgin or the holy ghost. black is said to be a feature in the order of the garter. the black book, containing the original constitutions of the order, is said to have been taken away for secret reasons before the time of henry v, as mentioned earlier, and from this black book comes the important post of black rod. one would think that there must have been important reasons to conceal something be

king about the witches belonging to the cult. the village wise-woman fortune-telling type may have done anything. witches are constantly accused of raising storms. my informants simply do not know how to, and, by the system of magic they use, i do not see how they could, except of course by asking their gods. in other words 'by prayer. they know vaguely that pouring water, especially over a naked virgin, is said to produce rain, but they have no special rite or ceremonial to that effect, or if they had, it has not been preserved. in both the first and second world wars there were stories that the germans could and did work the weather to their own advantage, and witches wondered if this was true, and if so, how it was done. undoubtedly in the old days part of the witches' job was to work t

ade under torture would name him as their god, but a transcript produced in court would substitute the word devil. now you cannot blame the poor witch for this. the tortures witches suffered would make anyone confess anything. i have heard that some great man at the time said 'if they did that to me they could make me confess that i'd murdered god the father and the son and the holy ghost and the virgin' before i finish i would like to mention one or two final matters that may have some bearing on the subject of witchcraft, in the hope that someone can give me more information. at rushen abbey, near castletown, some curious discoveries have been made (vide articles in the isle of man natural history and antiquarian society proceedings, march 1935. mr. w. christian cubbon writes (page 111 '

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n essentially masonic, thus severing all connection with those adepts who have not been craftsmen, as basil valentine, artephus, nicolas flamel, jacob behmen and robert fludd. the rosicrucian society in the same manner fails to recognize any worth for occult research in women. this is also an innovation or the scheme of the ancient mysteries in many of which, notably those of isis priestesses and virgin prophetesses, were prominent ministers. note specifically, that there are several instances in the ancient m.s. of our order, which are written in cypher, where reference is made to the fratres and sorores, the words "her or him" occur showing that in olden time, as at the present day, women rose to high rank and attainment in the secret knowledge of the order. mention may be suitably made

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t power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 10. tartarus, from its being at the lowest extremity, is dissimilarly similar to god, at the highest end of the series. 11. the styx, from its immutable nature. 12. horror, the ineffable, is perfectly unknown and is therefore terrible. 13. void of mixture, from the simplicity of the nature of the ineffable. 14. lethe, oblivion, ignorance. 15. a virgin, from the purity of its nature. 16. atlas, it connects, supports and separates all things. 17. the sun. 18. apollo. 19. pyralios, dweller in fire. 2 0. morpho. 2 1. the axis. 2 2. vesta, or the fire in the center of the earth. 2 3. spermatic reason. 2 4. the point within a circle, the central fire deity. the lingam, an upright pillar, was its hindu symbol. the monad being esteemed the fathe

similar positions. it is supposed that one recurrence of this period is referred to in the 4th eclogue of virgil, the poem, which, as is well known, has been spoken of as containing an allusion to the messiah, jesus. the period sung by the cumaean sibyl has now arrived, and the grand series of ages (that series which occurs again and again in the course of a mundane revolution) begins afresh. the virgin astraea returns, another reign of saturn commences, and a new progeny descends from heaven. 68. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott it has been calculated by the late dr. kenealy that a messiah, or divine teacher, has been sent to the world every 600 years, thus- adam, the first messenger from the gods to our race on earth. enoch the second 600 years

of 223 lunations. 69. the circumference of a globe has been fixed at 360 degrees, six sixties; the hour divided into 60 minutes, each of 60 seconds. the tartars had a period of 60 days, the chinese also. and the asiatics generally a period of 60 years. the babylonian great period was 3600 years, the naros multiplied by 6. the lily which in all the old annunciation pictures gabriel presents to the virgin has 6 leaves and the numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott flower shows 6 petals all alike, around a central threeheaded stigma, as is botanically correct. one of the three main divisions into which plants are arranged by botanists, is typified by a predominance of the numbers 3 and 6, in all parts of the flowers, 6 leaves forming a perianth, 6 stamens

one ei-meri, whose engraved title is chief of the dwelling of the great six# 72. chapter eleven the heptad, s even, 7. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott he heptad, say the followers of pythagoras, was so called form the greek verb sebo, to venerate (and from the hebrew shbo, seven, or satisfied, abundance, being septos, holy, divine, and motherless, and a virgin. from nicomachus we learn that it was called minerva, being unmarried and virginal, begotten neither by a mother, i.e, even number, nor from a father, i.e, odd number. but proceeding from the summit of the father of all things, the monad; even as minerva sprang all armed from the forehead of jove or zeus. hence also obrimopatre, or daughter of a mighty father, and glaucopis, shining-eyed, a

pers of ephesus, according to the monkish legend, were christians who hid in a cave under the persecutions of decius in the 3rd century. they fell into a trance and slept 200 years. they awaked in a.d. 447 and going to the emperor theodosius ii, they convinced him of the truth of the life beyond the grave. this done, they returned to the cave to sleep until the last judgment. the 7 dolours of the virgin mary is the name of a roman catholic fast day held on the friday before palm sunday. the 7 wise masters were officers of king kurush who tell stories to save the life of the king s son. they exist in greek, syriac, hebrew, persian and in english are called the book of sindibad, edited by clouston. the coptic gnostics represented the jehovah of the hebrews by a curious arrangement of the 7 v

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such a womb being infertile, it thus could not have conceived the messiah described as the son born of woman. 56 an exegetical frame for this hermeneutical conflict may be located in the messianic meaning ascribed to the closed mem in the expression le-marbbeh ha-misrah, in token of abundant authority (isa 9:6. in response to christian exegetes who interpreted the closed mem as a reference to the virgin womb and the savior-god born therefrom, the kabbalist insinuates that the letter in this orthographic shape signifies sterility, an inability to extend the body of engenderment, in mospik s telling phrase.57 one zoharic homily, in particular, is an especially significant locus for the kabbalistic polemic against the christological doctrine of the virginal conception and birth of the messiah

tion in the godhead,61 a theme that is expressed in the zoharic passage by the image of the phallic gradation, which is designated peace (shalom, sitting upon the throne of david.62 an admittedly later source, the thirteenth-century christian work pugio fidei, supports this interpretive stance. in this treatise, friar raymond martin a rms that the closed mem of le-marbbeh ha-misrah alludes to the virgin womb whence jesus was born. furthermore, he relates this exegesis to two talmudic dicta.63 it is worth considering these two texts carefully, as friar raymond s readings may sensitize us to nuances at play in the kabbalistic sources, particularly in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. the first talmudic text preserves a homiletical reflection attributed to bar qappara in sepphoris and

h the pollution of the seminal flux and the impurities of the womb, see the extensive analysis in cuffel, filthy words, pp. 117 212. 46. an assault on the irrationality of the christian doctrine of the incarnation is not uncommon in medieval jewish texts, and in some cases this mode of argument was meant to counter christian polemicists who argued for the rational and naturalist conception of the virgin birth. see cuffel, filthy words, pp. 283 350; chazan, fashioning, pp. 264 265, 268 273, 334, 349 350. 47. bahir, 42, p. 141. 48. see wolfson, circumcision, secrecy, pp. 59 61. 49. i have translated the passage as it appears in midrash otiyyot de-rabbi aqiva ha- shalem, p. 112. this version is based on the edition of the two recensions published by wertheimer in battei midrashot, 2: 343 418

tel-aviv university, 1976 (hebrew. gould, stephen jay. time s arrow, time s cycle: myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time. cambridge: harvard university press, 1987. graeber, bruce s. heschel and the philosophy of time. conservative judaism 33 (1980: 44 56. green, arthur. keter: the crown of god in early jewish mysticism. princeton: princeton university press, 1997. shekhinah, the virgin mary, and the song of songs: reflections on a kabbalistic symbol in its historical context. ajs review 26 (2002: 1 52. gri n carl w, and david l. paulsen. augustine and the corporeality of god. harvard theological review 95 (2002: 97 118. gri ths, jay. a sideways look at time. new york: penguin putnam, 1999. gross, benjamin. le messianisme juif: l eternit d isra l du maharal de prague. pari

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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 moreover the devil of lust, the goat of mendes, pan, baphomet; and spelt fully ayin is the erection and le aping and extension of the phallus; yod is the spermatoon, the solitary boy her mes, the virgin; while nun is the eagle of sexual ecstasy, the serpent of life through death, the scorpion or scarab of kephra, the womb which transmutes thro ugh corruption, the semen or fluid vehicle of the spirit, the elixir of magick, the blood, wine, and poison in the chalice. and yod repeating that god, and pr ophesying the vau that follows it, ends with daleth the letter of venus, the do or of the p

d pr ophesying the vau that follows it, ends with daleth the letter of venus, the do or of the palace of love. then vau reproduceth itself in its spelling, as it is written``all is ever as it was' in "the book of the law, and in aiwaz are f ound the three star-clusters of earth-nature, the goat under 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, m

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he 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 moreover the devil of lust, the goat of mendes, pan, baphomet; and spelt fully ayin is the erection and leaping and extension of the phallus; yod is the spermatoon, the solitary boy hermes, the virgin; while nun is the eagle of sexual ecstasy, the serpent of life through death, the scorpion or scarab of kephra, the womb which transmutes through corruption, the semen or fluid vehicle of the spirit, the elixir of magick, the blood, wine, and poison in the chalice. and yod repeating that god, and prophesying the vau that follows it, ends with daleth the letter of venus, the door of the pala

, and prophesying the vau that follows it, ends with daleth the letter of venus, the door of the palace of love. then vau reproduceth itself in its spelling, as it is written``all is ever as it was' in "the book of the law, and in aiwaz are found the three star-clusters of earth-nature, the goat 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, mad

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seemed an impossibility. my practice was purely a personal one; there was no one who could take charge during my absence and my other work had grown steadily and demanded more of our time and attention. people had to be taught and helped and we could be ill spared. yet on the other hand, it would be a terrible pity to let such an opportunity as this slip. we would be pioneers in a new world with virgin soil to work with. wyn westcott aided feilkin by giving him introductions to various masonic groups in australia (in adelaide, melbourne and sydney. as a 32 degree mason, felkin was one of the highest to visit new zealand. he was also appointed as an inspector for the societies of rosicrudans in anglia, which had a foothold in new zealand at that stage, though he never offidally took up thi

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

on the head of the serpent that the father may be born anew in the son. it is the key to the whole rosicrucian philosophy, the redemtion of matter, transforming the human into the divine. the blending of the dew and fire in purification and consecration. the exaltation of the cross of light. so, from the four we pass to three the triangle of spirit rising from the cube of matter. isis the eternal virgin (under whatever name we hail her. eternal mother, sophia, mary; osiris, father, and son jesus. and between them the serpent which must be transformed into the eagle. the destroyer who must become the transmuter. remember also that these 3 letters have a further significance thus 't' stands for the ego, the indestructible unit which survives from life to life "0" is the eternal spirit, embra

that postulant may hear through partially dosed door 'harken now unto the mystery of the tarot key before thee, and meditate thereon in thy heart. is not the taro itself named after the rota? the wheel of destiny: of birth and rebirth. lo, do not the radii thereof spring from the white centre of the divine spirit, passing into the darkness of the womb of the divine mother; that being born of the virgin, they may be crucified upon the cross of manifestation, and thence commit themselves again unto the father "man indeed standeth between spirit and matter, betwixt angel and animal, at the summit of his ascent. we behold as in a glass darkly, that perfected being whom our father strove to represent in the sphinx, compound of the four elements in balanced disposition "the intelligence of man;

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the sacred inbetweenness concepts give us the flesh! we, who shall suffer all ecstasies give us the will! by the quadriga sexualis give us invariant desire! by the conquest of fatigue give us eternal resurgence! by the most sacred word-graph we invoke thee. amen second formula: the formula of plotinus as sent me through the delphic pythoness via automatism, called "giving life to the autistic by virgin earthenware (now unto this period i had copulated only the atmosphere or rode whores, lined old hags, witches and bitches of all kinds, there being few virgins) the autotelic wish into heterotelic conception is by concummation through using an urn of correct shape and dimension which must correlate nearly to that of the lingam used so that there is sufficient vacuum. at the moment of orgasm

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le how much in this may be genuine tradition, and how much the erudition of the 16th century foisted in, to the glorification of the new palace at heidelberg= heidberg; the very mndow on the hill avould seem to have been copied from veleda's tower, though brynhild too resides upon her rock, and has a high tower (vols, saga, cap. 20, 24, 25; conf. menglots, ohg. maniklata 1) on the rock, with nine virgins at her knees (siem. 110. 111. if the enchantress's name were hcida instead of jettha, it would suit the locality better, and perhaps be an echo of the on. heidr. priestesses. 97 their blood in the sacrificial cauldron, appear as frightful witches by the side of the bructerian imaid; together with divination they exercise the priestly oftice. their minutely described apparel, we may suppose

which suggests the walada above, being only derived in a different way. in the saga eiriks ransa we come upon thorhiorg, the little vala (edda ssem. hafn. 3, 4. hei&r is the name not only of the volva in the edda (ssem. 4, conf. 118) but also of the one in the orvarodssaga (conf. sagabibl. 3, 155. hyndla (canicula) is a prophetess that rides on wolves, and dwells in a cave. i guess also that the virgins thorger&r and ir-pa (fornm. sog. 2, 108. 3, 100. 11, 134-7. 142. 172, to whom all but divine honours were paid, and the title of horgabrusr (nympha lucorum) and even the name of gus (numen) was accorded, nialss. cap. 89, are not to be excluded from this cii'cle. so in the valkyrs, beside their godhood, there resides somewhat of the priestly, e.g. their virginity (see ch. xvi and suppl. we

iver of rain present to their minds; and so a connexion with mary the mother of god (p. 174) could be the more easily established. the earliest troubadour (diez p. 15. raynouard 4, 83) actually names christ still as the lord of thunder, jliesus del tro. a neapolitan fairy-tale in the pentamerone 5, 4 personifies thunder and lightning truone e lampe) as a beautiful youth, brother of seven spinning virgins, and son of a wicked old mother who knows no higher oath than' pe truone e lampe. without asserting any external connexion between this tradition and the german 1 brem. wtb. 2, 575. dat di de hamer sla! strodtm. p. 80, conf. schm. 2, 192. the hammer, or a great hammer strike you! abeles kihistl. imordn. 4, 3. gerichtsh. 1, 673. 2, 79. 299. 382. verhamert diir, kolt, schiitze 2, 96 =verdonn

her cave, percy's eeliques 3, 220-2.2 even in the north, urd'r must have been of more consequence than the other two, for the fountain by the sacred ash is named after her, ur&arhrunnr^ and beside it stands the hall from which the three norns issue; it is also' urd'ar orc5' word (ssem. 112) that is chiefly spoken of, and once' grimmar ur&ir' dira fata, is used impersonally, ssem. 216. these three virgins allot to every man his term of life' sha'pa monnum aldr; shop i ardaga (yeardays' sn. 18. ssem. 181^ i have elsewhere (ea. 750) shown the technical pertinence of the term shapa to the judicial office of the norns* to whom for the same reason are ascribed domr and 1 fornald. sog. 1, 32 hkuld, daughter of an alfkoiia; also in saxo gram. p. 31, sciilda, n. prop^ conf. jamieson sub v. weird (w

l was encircled with jlickering fiame' oc var um sal hennar vafrlogi' sn. 139 (see suppl, as was also that of menglocf (ohg. maniklata, i.e, monili laetabunda, another valkyr: salr er slunginn er visom vafrloga (seem. 110, conf. 1 some people think gerdrut, gerdraut, an unchristian name. frau trmle (kinderm. 43^ flogel, gesch. des groteskekom. p. 23. 424 wise women. 107. before this menglos, nine virgins kneel, sit, and sing; sacrifice is offered to them all (111; conf, ch. xxxvi. then vebiorg shialdmccr appears in fornald. sog. 1, 384. and vro babehilt, whom dietrich finds at a fountain, asleep (as sigurd found brynhild, and who gives him healing salves, and foretells his fate (ecke 151 160, must also be reckoned among norns or valkyrs. the valkyrs bestowed on their favourites, as staufen

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ociated with all mountains. she and shiva are often pictured as a family in the himalayas with their sons ganesh, god of wisdom and learning, and six-headed skanda, the warrior god. she is invoked for all family matters and those concerning children and by women in distress. vesta vesta is the roman goddess of domesticity and of the sacred hearth at which dead and living were welcomed. the vestal virgins of rome kept alight the sacred flame in vesta's temple and this was rekindled at the new year, as were household flames. vesta can be invoked in rituals centred around the element fire. father gods the father gods represent authority, channelled power, benevolence and altruism, nobility of purpose, expansion and limitless potential. dagda dagda, the father god in the celtic tradition, was

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than twenty-five years nor more than fifty; he should have no hereditary disease, such as virulent leprosy; whether he be free or married importeth little; a valet, lackey, or other domestic servant, can with difficulty arrive at the end required, being bound unto others and not having the conveniences at disposal which are necessary, and which this operation demandeth. among women, there be only virgins who are suitable; but i11 strongly advise that so important a matter should not be communicated to them, because of the accidents that they might cause by their curiosity and love of talk, the sacred magic 48 the fourth chapter. that the greater number of magical books are false and vain. ll the books which treat of characters, extravagant figures, circles, convocations, conjurations, invo

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mple at the source of mother nile; it might be. foolishness! i have scarce stirred from thebai. yet have i explored strange countries that they knew not of: and of this also will i tell in due course. i remember- as i never could while i lived in khemi-land- all the minute care of my birth. for my mother was of the oldest house in thebes, her blood not only royal, but mixed with the divine. fifty virgins in their silver tissue stood about her shaking their sistrons, as if the laughter of the gods echoed the cries of the woman. by the bed stood the priest of horus with his heavy staff, the phoenix for its head, the prong for its foot. watchful he stood lest sebek should rise from the abyss. on the roof of the palace watched the three chief astrologers of pharaoh with their instruments, and

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earest to thee unto the infernal gods! the englishman lives upon the excrement of his forefathers. all moral codes are worthless in themselves; yet in every new code there is hope. provided always that the code is not changed because it is too hard, but because if is fulfilled. the dead dog floats with the stream; in puritan france the best women are harlots; in vicious england the best women are virgins. if only the archbishop of canterbury were to go make in the streets and beg his bread! the new christ, like the old, it the friend of publicans and sinners; because his nature is ascetic. o if everyman did no matter what, provided that it is the one thing that he will not and cannot do [130] commentary( xi) the title is explained in the note. the number of the chapter may refer to the let

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butamonu od inoasa ni pa-ra-diala. casa-remeji ujeare cahirelanu, od zodonace lucifatianu, caresa ta vavale-zodirenu tol-hami. soba lonudohe od nuame cahisa ta da o desa vo-ma-dea od pi-beliare itahile rita od miame ca-ni-quola rita! zodacare! zodameranu! iecarimi quo-a-dahe od i-mica-ol-zododa aaiome. bajirele papenore idalugama elonusahi od umapelifa vau-ge-ji bijil-iad! the east is a house of virgins singing praises among the flames of first glory wherein the lord hath opened his mouth; and they are become as 28 living dwellings in whom the strength of man rejoiceth; and they are apparelled with ornaments of brightness, such as work wonders on all creatures. whose kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth strong towers and places of comfort, the seats of mercy and continuanc

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e eater of dung, the afflicted in the day of be-with-us. 13. yea! verily this is the truth, this is the truth, this is the truth. unto thee shall be granted joy and health and wealth and wisdom when thou art no longer thou. 14. then shall every gain be a new sacrament, and it shall not defile thee; thou shalt revel with the wantons<equinox i, 6 has "wanton> in the market place, and the virgins shall fling roses upon thee, and the merchants bend their knees and bring thee gold and spices. also young boys shall pour wonderful wines for thee, and the singers and the dancers shall sing and dance for thee. 15. yet shalt thou not be therein, for thou shalt be forgotten, dust lost in dust. 16. nor shall the aeon itself avail thee in this; for from the dust shall a white ash be prepared

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persecution, and founded a religion to which even to-day one man in every eight belongs. the history of christianity shows precisely the same remarkable fact. jesus christ was brought up on the fables of the "old testament" and so was compelled to ascribe his experiences to "jehovah" although his gentle spirit could have had nothing in common with the monster who was always commanding the rape of virgins and the murder of little children, and whose rites were then, and still are, celebrated by human sacrifice<jews in eastern europe which surprise the ignorant, are almost invariably excited by the disappearance of "christian" children, stolen, as the parents suppose, for the purposes of "ritual murder<blood-lib

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diseased by the corset demanded by jaganath fashion, so is her soul by the compression of convention, which is a fashion as fitful, arbitrary, and senseless as that of the man-milliner, though they call him god, and his freakish fiat pass for everlasting law. the english bible sanctions the polygamy and concubinage of abraham, solomon and others, the incest of lot, the wholesale rape of captured virgins, as well as the promiscuity of the first christians, the prostitution of temple servants, men and women, the relations of johannes with his master, and the putting of wandering prophets to stud, as well as the celibacy of such people as paul. jehovah went so far as to slay onan because he balked at fertilizing his brother's widow, condoned the adultery, with murder of the husband, of david

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l night and victory, among others, are obviously inspired by her beauty; and her devotion to him, the abasement of soul, the prostitution of body, she underwent for and with him, is one of the noblest stories life has known. she seems to have dived with him, yet ever trying to raise his soul from the quagmire; if god is just at all, she shall stand more near to his right hand that all the vaunted virgins who would soil no hem of vesture to save their brother from the worm that dieth not! the works of george archibald bishop will speak for themselves; it would be both impertinent and superfluous in me to point out in detail their many and varied excellences, or their obvious faults. the raison d tre, though, of their publication, is worthy of especial notice. i refer to their psychological

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rth. life is as prisoner in a dungeon, still i laugh; for i, in my strength, have begotten a might beyond the walls of prisons; for life and death have become one to me- as little children gambolling on the sands and splashing in the wavelets of the sea. i laugh at their pretty play, and upon the billows of my laughter do i build up the kingdom of the great in which all carouse at one table. here virgins mingle with courtesans, and the youth and the old man know neither wisdom nor folly. i have conquered the deserts and the forests, the valleys and the mountains, the seas and the lands. my palace is built of fire and water, of earth and of air, and the secret place within the sanctuary of my temple is as the abode of everlasting mirth. all is love, life, and laugher; death and decay are no

e. o my love. my love. o my love" then i caught up her song and cried "yea! o queen of the night, o arrow of brightness drawn from the quiver of the moon! o thou who hast ensnared me in the meshes of thine hair, and caught me up on the kisses of thy mouth; o thou who hast laid aside thy divinity to take refuge in mine arms, listen "i have drunk deep of the flagons of passion with the white-veiled virgins of vesta, and the crimson-girdled daughters of circe, and the drowsy-eyed maidens of ind. i have woven love with the lithe girls of hellas, and the subtle-limbed women of egypt whose fingers are created to caress; all the virgins of assyria, and the veiled beauties of arabia, have been mine; yet amongst them all have i not found one to compare to a lash on the lid of thine eye. o thou art

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tring of passion, that is more akin to death than love, that shrieking sin whose teeth tear passion's tortured skin and drink love's blood, and rage within black bowels of lust to win, to win some crown of thorns incarnadine, some cross whereof to fashion some newer, truer passion than even the agony of the violin "the prophet" yes! like a careless breeze, the close caress expands with a sob; the virgins wheel; there glows 19 in the midst a mystical rose["the dancers unfold, and their queen appears" o musical ministress of the dancing violin! in an emerald spangled skin, hooded with harvest hair close-coiled, her serpent eyes hold ineffable sorceries! slender, and full, and straight is she as an almond tree blest by an hermit! her serpent eyes hold ineffable sorceries! slow she sways; her

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mitage, and brood as an eyeless corpse beneath the coffin-lid of the mighty sea. 3. o thou incandescent ocean of molten stars, surging above the arch of the firmament; i swear to thee by the mane-pennoned lances of light, to stir the lion of thy darkness from its lair, and lash the sorceress of noontide into fury with serpents of fire. 4. o thou intoxicating vision of beauty, fair as ten jewelled virgins dancing about the hermit moon; i swear to thee by the peridot flagons of spring, to quaff to the dregs thy chalice of glory, and beget a royal race before the dawn flees from awakening day. 5. o thou unalterable measure of all things, in whose lap 16 lie the destinies of unborn worlds; i swear to thee by the balance of light and darkness, to spread out the blue vault as a looking-glass, an

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se, and set a period unto restriction! that is sin: to hold thine holy spirit in! o thou that chafest at thy bars, invoke nuit beneath her stars with a pure heart (her incense burned 47 of gums and woods, in gold inurned, and let the serpent flame therein a little, and thy soul shall win to lie within her bosom. lo! thou wouldst give all_ and she cries: no! take all, and take me! gather spice and virgins and great pearls of price! worship me in a single robe, crowned richly! girdle of the globe, i love thee! pale and purple, veiled, voluptuous, swan silver-sailed, i love thee. i am drunkness of the inmost sense; my soul's caress is toward thee! let my priestess stand bare and rejoicing, softly fanned by smooth-lipped acolytes, upon mine iridescent altar-stone, and in her love-chaunt swooni

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matism of literal buddhism appalled him. the five precepts, which are the yama and niyama of buddhism, he at once saw, in spite of nagasena and prig milinda, must be broken by every arahat each time he inhaled a breath of air. they were as absurd as they were valueless. but behind all this tantalizing "frou-frou" this "lingerie de cocotte" beautifully designed to cover the narded limbs of foolish virgins, sits the buddha in silent meditation; so that p. soon discovered that by stripping his body of all these tawdry trappings, this feminine under-wear, and by utterly discarding the copy-book precepts of baptistical buddhists, the four noble truths were none other than the complete yoga, and that in the three characteristics293 the summit of philosophy (the ruach) had been reached. the terri

of crucifixion that had made it two score times stronger than it was before. he too bore the wings and weapons of space and of justice; and in himself he was that great amen that is the beginning and the end of all. behind him were the seraphim, the fiery serpents. on their heads the triple tongue of fire; their glory like unto the sun, their scales like burning plates of steel; they danced like virgins before their lord, and upon the storm and roar of the sea did they ride in their glory "sir" cried the archangel "sir" cried kamael the mighty one, and his legions echoed the roar of his voice "hast thou called us forth to perform so trivial a task? well, let it be so "your scorn" the great white spirit replied mildly "is perhaps not altogether justified. though the hole be indeed but a ba

any others, too, i suppose he would have worn the appropriate ribbons. the truth about coote-comstock crapulence is this. manx cats subscribe to the society for the suppression of persian cats. these funds go to support 338 a lot of holy souteneurs in idleness- and they find it pays to foam at the mouth from time to time against the other souteneurs who live on poor prostitutes instead of wealthy virgins. i should like, too, to ask mr. coote a rather curious question. we were talking about paternity. his then secretary, mr. hewston, had given me to understand that the vigilance society made a practice of paying (on behalf of and at the expense of the fathers) allowances to the mothers of illegitimate children, of caring for the mothers, helping them to get work,and eventually marrying them

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d, aye guided by that wizard's head, that like a windy moon did scud before him, winking eyes of red and snapping jaws of white: but then what cared for living or for dead sir palamede the saracen? 32 xii sir palamede the saracen follows the head to gloomy halls of sterile hate, with icy walls. a woman clucking like a hen answers his lordly bugle-calls. she rees him in ungainly rede of ghosts and virgins, doves and wombs, of roods and prophecies and tombs- old pagan fables run to seed! sir palamede with fury fumes. so doth the head that jabbers fast against that woman's tangled tale (god's patience at the end must fail) out sweeps the sword- the blade hath passed through all her scraggy farthingale "this chatter lends to thought a zest (quod he "but i am all for act. sit here, until your t

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; and thou shalt be the lonely one, the eater of dung, the afflicted in the day of be-with-us. 13. yea! verily this is the truth, this is the truth, this is the truth. unto thee shall be granted joy and health and wealth and wisdom when thou art no longer thou. 14. then shall every gain be a new sacrament, and it shall not defile thee; thou shalt revel with the wanton in the market-place, and the virgins shall fling roses upon thee, and the merchants bend their knees and bring thee gold and spices. also young boys shall pour wonderful wines for thee, and the singers and the dancers shall sing and dance for thee. 26 15. yet shalt thou not be therein, for thou shalt be forgotten, dust lost in dust. 16. nor shall the aeon itself avail thee in this; for from the dust shall a white ash be prepa

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it seems such an innocuous drink-a bit like cough medicine-and the younger the girl, the less suspicious she is about its potency. after a couple of glasses it's a short step to the bedroom. once on the bed you can expect a brief tussle with the dressand then it's all plain sailing. funny thing, there's only the initial difficulty; once the dress is off, the 45 defences are down. they are usually virgins-and they usually come back for more, night after night, like bitches on heat' ruth was different; she looked like a slightly delinquent schoolgirl, but turned out to be a nineteen-year-old woman separated from her husband. she was brought to one of alex's parties by a mutual friend and she was a welcome change from the virgins. temporarily out of work, she was glad to move in at riversdale

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in heaven" it is michael, gabriel, raphael, surgal and uriel who denounced to the lord god those of their brethren who were said to have pried into the divine mysteries and taught them to men: by this means they themselves escaped a like punishment. michael was commissioned to fight the dragon, and so was karttikeya, and under the same circumstances. both are "leaders of the celestial host" both virgins, both "leaders of saints "spear-holders (saktidhara, etc, etc. karttikeya is the original of michael and st. george, as surely as indra is the prototype of karttikeya[[vol. 2, page] 383 the gods, the facets of one gem. to indra, karttikeya, and even kasyapa-aditya, and at the same time to michael (as the angelic form of jehovah) the "angel of the sun" who is "like" and "one with, god" late

heus say to io* that the sacred neilos (the god, not the river "he to the land, three-cornered, thee shall guide- namely, to the delta, where her sons are foreordained to found "that far-off colony (v. 830 et seq. it is there that a new race (the egyptians) will begin, and a "female race (873) which "fifth in descent" from dark epaphos "fifty in number shall return to argos" then one of the fifty virgins will fail through love and shall. a kingly race in argos bear. but from this seed shall dauntless heroes spring, bow-famous, who shall free me from these ills" when this hero shall arise, the titan does not reveal; for as he remarks "this, to set forth at large needs lengthy speech[[footnote(s* alexander, who was better acquainted with attock than with india (where he never went) could not

ning of the black age- it took place in a point situated between the wheat ear of virgo and the star[[theta] of the same constellation. one of their most esoteric cycles is based upon certain conjunctions and respective positions of virgo and the pleiades (krittika. hence, as the egyptians brought their zodiac from southern india and lanka* the esoteric meaning was evidently identical. the three "virgins" or virgo in three different positions, meant, with both, the record of the first three "divine or astronomical dynasties" who taught the third[[footnote(s* ceylon[[vol. 2, page] 436 the secret doctrine. root-race; and after having abandoned the atlanteans to their doom, returned (or redescended, rather) during the third sub-race of the fifth, in order to reveal to saved humanity the myste

day is in the puranas unmistakably, though the translators fail to see it. and secondly- the kapila of the satya, and the kapila of the kali-yugas may be one and the same individuality, without being the same personality. kapila, besides being the name of a personage, of the once living sage and the author of sankhya philosophy, is also the generic name of the kumaras, the celestial ascetics and virgins; therefore the very fact of bhagavata purana calling that kapila- which it showed just before as a portion of vishnu- the author of sankhya philosophy, ought to have warned the reader of a blind containing an esoteric meaning. whether the son of vitatha, as harivansa shows him to be, or of anyone else, the author of sankhya cannot be the same as the sage of the satyayuga- at the very begin

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only exist during its manifestations, and is destroyed during the maha-pralayas. rosenroth's kabala is no guide, but very often a puzzle (b) as in the japanese system, in the egyptian, and every old cosmogony- at this divine flame, the "one" are lit the three descending groups. having their potential being in the higher group, they now become distinct and separate entities. these are called the "virgins of life" the "great illusion" etc, etc, and collectively the "six-pointed star" the latter is the symbol, in almost every religion, of the logos as the first emanation. it is that of vishnu in india (the chakra, or wheel, and the glyph of the tetragrammaton, the "he of the four letters" or- metaphorically "the limbs of microprosopos" in the kabala, which are ten and six respectively. the l

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tains. she and shiva are often pictured as a family in the himalayas with their sons ganesh, god of wisdom and learning, and six-headed skanda, the warrior god. she is invoked for all family matters and those concerning children and by women in distress. vesta seite 37 wicca01.txt vesta is the roman goddess of domesticity and of the sacred hearth at which dead and living were welcomed. the vestal virgins of rome kept alight the sacred flame in vesta's temple and this was rekindled at the new year, as were household flames. vesta can be invoked in rituals centred around the element fire. father gods the father gods represent authority, channelled power, benevolence and altruism, nobility of purpose, expansion and limitless potential [insert pic p068- dagda dagda, the father god in the celti

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id not leave off, but said, noble and virtuous lady, may i not have only one letter? yes, she said, that may well be done. page 42 what then, i replied again, may the seventh contain? it contains, she said, as many as there are lords here. with this i was content, and easily found her name, at which she was very pleased, and assured us that much more should yet be revealed to us. meantime certain virgins had made themselves ready, and came in with great ceremony. first of all two youths carried lights before them; one of them was of jocund countenance, sprightly eyes and gentle proportion. the other looked rather angry, and whatever he would have, must be, as i afterwards perceived. after them first followed four virgins. one looked shame-facedly towards the earth, very humble in behaviour

hough they had likewise wreaths of laurel upon their heads, yet over them hung a large and costly crown. now although they were not at this time so fair as i had before imagined to myself, yet so it was to be. behind them on a round form sat for the most part ancient men, yet none of them had any sword or other weapon about him, at which i wondered. neither saw i any other body-guard, but certain virgins who were with us the day before, who sat on the sides of the arch. here i cannot pass over in silence how the little cupid flew to and fro there, but for the most part he hovered over and played the wanton about the great crown; sometimes he seated himself between the two lovers, somewhat smiling upon them with his bow. indeed, sometimes he made as if he would shoot one of us. in brief, th

ost part he hovered over and played the wanton about the great crown; sometimes he seated himself between the two lovers, somewhat smiling upon them with his bow. indeed, sometimes he made as if he would shoot one of us. in brief, this knave was so full of his waggery, that we would not even spare the little birds which flew in multitudes up and down the room, but tormented them all he could. the virgins also had their pastimes with him, but whenever they could catch him, it was not so easy a matter for him to get from them again. thus this little knave made all the sport and mirth. before the queen stood a small but inexpressibly curious altar, on which lay a book covered with black velvet, a little overlaid with gold. by this stood a small taper in an ivory candlestick. now although it w

all could not choose but marvel at it. together with this altar, there were up and down the room wonderful images, which moved themselves as if they had been alive, and had so strange a contrivance that it would be impossible for me to relate it all. likewise, as we were passing out, there began such a marvellous kind of vocal music, that i could not tell for sure whether it was performed by the virgins who still stayed behind, or by the images themselves. now we being satisfied for the time being, went away with our virgins, who (the musicians being already present) led us down the winding stairs again, and the door was diligently locked and bolted. as soon as we had come again into the hall, one of the virgins began: i wonder, sister, that you dare hazard yourself amongst so many people

ed; and we did not stay long there, for the royal procession was just ready, yet without any music at all. the unknown duchess who was with us yesterday went in front, wearing a small and costly coronet, appareled in white satin. she carried nothing but a small crucifix which was made of a pearl, and this very day wrought between the young king and his bride. after her went the six aforementioned virgins in two ranks, who carried the king s jewels belonging to the little altar. next to these came the three kings. the bridegroom was in the midst of them in a plain dress, but in black satin, after the italian fashion. he had on a small round black hat, with a little pointed black feather, which he courteously took off to us, so to signify his favour towards us. we bowed ourselves to him, as

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human. cathy relates another important experience she had with miguel de la madrid, the president of mexico during bush's tenure at the white house. she writes in trance-formation of america "de la madrid had relayed the 'legend of the iguana' to me, explaining that lizardlike aliens had descended upon the mayans. the mayan pyramids, their advanced astronomical technology, including sacrifice of virgins, was supposedly inspired by the lizard aliens. he told me that when the aliens interbred with the mayans to produce a form of life they could inhabit, they fluctuated between a human and iguana appearance through chameleon-like abilities 'a perfect vehicle for transforming into world leaders' de la madrid claimed to have mayan/alien ancestry in his blood, whereby he transformed 'back into

want the blood of pre-pubescent children and young women who have not had sex. this is to do with the purity of the blood and energy of children, and the changes that take place within the energy field once a person has experienced sex or puberty. thus the llluminati sacrifice children and young women more than anyone and this is the origin of the stories throughout history of sacrificing "young virgins" to the gods. scientists have discovered aspects of shape-shifting phenomena. polymer gels, for instance, are remarkable, shape-shifting materials. when exposed to small alterations in acidity or temperature they can dramatically transform their appearance and size. the different acidities and temperatures are simply different vibrational states. the changing vibration is the key. the forc

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ands of years. i know otherpeople who have seen bush shape-shift into a reptilian.the president of mexico in the 1980s, miguel de la madrid, also used cathy in hermind controlled state. she said he told her the legend of the iguana and explained thatlizard-like extraterrestrials had descended upon the mayans in mexico. the mayanpyramids, their advanced astronomical technology and the sacrifice of virgins, wasinspired by lizard-like aliens, he told her.30 he added that these reptilians interbred withthe mayans to produce a form of life they could inhabit. de la madrid told cathy thatthese reptile-human bloodlines could fluctuate between a human and iguana appearancethrough chameleon-like abilities- a perfect vehicle for transforming into worldleaders, he said. de la madrid claimed to have m

ieved to live off humanflesh. a male child was offered every friday evening at the temple of shiva at tanjoruntil the practice was stopped (officially) in the mid-nineteeth century. the thugs, one ofthe ancient secret societies in the brotherhood network, murdered their victims accordingto elaborate rituals dedicated to kali, who is depicted wearing a garland of skulls.children or so-called young virgins are used in these sacrificial rituals because thesatanists and their reptilian masters want to access the pure pre-pubescent energy fortheir own purposes. i have been told by satanists, many of their victims, and bytherapists working with victims, the same stories of regeneration rituals. the ageingsatanist, sometimes a high ranking member of the brotherhood, stands in the centre of acircl

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protection without discharging the spirit or err in the performance of the ritual or else the spirit will seize the magician and kill him or else drive him insane. ironically, the magician would have to be insane to believe that the great adonai would grant him the power to command spirits in order that he might destroy his enemies, obtain great treasure, and fulfill his sexual desires with young virgins or that the demonic lords he calls upon would be so easily intimidated by his threats. if the magician sees a spirit appear within the triangle of evocation it is simply because his mental state from fasting, fatigue, and fervent prayer has brought him in the point of delusion. if the spirit appears but refuses to speak with him or to satisfy his demands, the magician must continue his fas

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utamonu od inoasa ni pa-ra-diala. casaremeji ujeare cahirelanu, od zodonace lucifatianu, caresa ta vavale-zodirenu tol-hami. soba lonudohe od nuame cahisa ta da o desa vo-me-dea od pibeliare itahila rita od miame ca-ni-quola rita! zodacare! zodameranu! iecarimi quo-adahe od imica-ol-zododa aaiome. bajirele papenore idalugama elonusahi-od umapelifa vau-ge-ji bijil- iad (dee) the east is a house of virgins singing praises amongst the flames of the first glory, wherein the lord hath opened his mouth and they are become 28 living dwellings in whom the strength of men rejoyceth and they are appareled with ornaments of brightness such as work wonders on all creatures whose kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth strong towers and places of comfort, the seats of mercy and continuance

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rituals of asatru. 3 vols. breckenridge, tex: asatru free assembly, 1985. what is the norse religion? turlock, calif: the author, n.d. asbestos asbestos is so called from being inextinguishable even by showers and storms, if once set on fire. the name derives from an ancient greek term for a fabulous stone. pagan peoples made use of it for lights in their temples. plutarch records that the vestal virgins used perpetual lamp wicks, while pausanias mentions a lamp with a wick that was not consumed, being made from a mineral fiber from cyprus. asbestos is of woolly texture and is sometimes called the salamander s feather. leonardus stated: its fire is nourished by an inseparable unctuous humid flowing from its substance; therefore, being once kindled, it preserves a constant light without fee

might be with him to avert this danger by spitting, and the complaint of menalcas (in virgil) that some evil eye had fascinated his lambs. the romans, with their usual passion for increasing the host of heaven, deified this power of evil, and enrolled a god, fascinus among their objects of worship. although he was a numen (presiding spirit, the celebration of his rites was entrusted to the vestal virgins, and his phallic attribute was suspended around the necks of children and from the triumphal chariots. lucretius, in of natural witchcraft for love, states: but as there is fascination and witchcraft by malicious and angry eyes unto displeasure, so are there witching aspects tending contrariwise to love, or, at the least, to the procuring of good will and liking. for if the fascination or

ic story in 1778, ann radcliffe s the mysteries of udolpho (1794, and matthew gregory lewis s successful sensation the monk (1794. such horrid mysteries became the mainstay of the rapidly developing circulating libraries that were replacing the old-time ballad and chapbook peddlers in every large town and city in england. stock ingredients of the gothic novel were such plot elements as pure young virgins and chivalrous heroes embroiled with scoundrels of continental origin (usually italians, base monks, cruel inquisitors, and ruthless bandits. they struggled in a fantasy medieval world of gloomy castles, ruined abbeys, dismal dungeons, bloodstained daggers, skulls, sliding panels, secret rooms, magic books, and animated portraits, all in a twilight setting of dark forests, pale moonlight

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it to the pythoness before she ascended the tripod. the inquisitor and the priestess wore laurel crowns. originally the oracle spoke only on the seventh day of the month byssus. this was regarded as the birthday of apollo and was called polypthonus. according to diodorus, virginity was originally a prerequisite in the pythoness, due to the purity of that state and its relation to diana; moreover, virgins were thought better adapted than other women to keep oracular mysteries secret and inviolate. but after an accident had occurred to one of the pythonesses, the guardians of the temple permitted no one to fulfil the duties of the office until she had attained the age of 50. the oracle of dodona another celebrated oracle, that of jupiter, was at dodona in epirus, greece (from which jupiter d

serving the flames of torches and even by throwing powdered pitch into a fire; if it caught quickly, the omen was good. the flame of a torch was good if it formed one point, bad if it divided into two; but three was a better omen than one. sickness for the healthy, and death for the sick, was foreshadowed by the bending of the flame and some frightful disaster by its sudden extinction. the vestal virgins in the temple of minerva at athens were charged to make particular observations on the light perpetually burning there. pyroscopy a branch of pyromancy (divination by fire, based on the burn stains left on a light surface after burning a sheet of paper on it. pyromancy encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1266 q the q directory british directory published in london of occult

fologists have been fixated comprise the least compelling evidence for the existence of ufos. the best evidence.in the form of radar trackings, landing traces, photographs. suggests that at least some ufos may be technological devices. the extreme claims, even when related by apparently sincere persons, amount only to stories. he went on: the fantastic entities described.fairies, merfolk, blessed virgins, apparitions of all kinds.do not bless us with physical evidence or even coherent pictures of themselves, their behaviors, and their missions. of such things we can say only that experiences of them are possible, but the question of whether these experiences are events is another matter altogether. if events.in other words, occurrences amenable to incorporation into consensus acceptance vi

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couch! aaos seizing his sword gnashing his teeth, trembling in every limb, and with ghastly visage, shouted "alpha and omega! thou thyself shall throttle that which thou wouldst surpass" and swung his sword which struck horribly. then shaking the perspiration from his head he muttered to himself "verily! again am i the pitiable moralist, the drowsiest of watchman. sisters were ever deceivers! all virgins are foolish; what does their virginity matter" then clasping his sword again he went to his couch and tried to rest but no sleep came, until daybreak: for he wondered who his sister was. the butcher of those who follow in a dream, aaos one day crossed the border line and wandered into the flat country towards what seemed, in the half-rain, a deserted heap of ruins. arriving closer to the c

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male principle, bring forth a child, the fulfilment of which prophecy would vindicate the ancient faith and forever settle the dispute relative to the superiority of the female in the office of reproduction. thus would the woman "bruise the serpent's head" in process of time not only yonigas, but lingajas as well, came to accept the doctrine of the incarnation of the sun in the bodies of earthly virgins. by lingaites, however, it was the seed of the woman and not the woman herself who was to conquer evil. finally, with the increasing importance of the male in human society, it is observed that a reconciliation has been effected between the female worshippers and those of the male. athene herself has acquiesced in the doctrine of male superiority. thalat, the great chaldean deity, who pres

as containing the life principle, in process of time it is observed that fire attracted the highest regard of human beings, and on their altars the sacred flame, said to have been kindled from heaven, was kept burning uninterruptedly from year to year, and from age to age, by bends of priests "whose special duty it was to see that the sacred flame was never extinguished" the office of the vestal virgins in rome was to preserve the holy fire. the egyptians, and in fact all the earlier civilized nations, knew that force proceeds from the sun, hence the frequent appearance of this orb among their symbols of life. indeed there is not a country on the globe in which, at some time, divine honors have not been paid to fire and to light. the hindoos "believing fire to be the essence of all active

e name of this festival is derived from one of the cognomens of ceres--the goddess "who first gave laws and made life orderly" ceres was the divinity adored by the amazons, and is essentially the same as the egyptian isis. she represents universal female nature. the thesmophorian rites, which are believed by most writers to have been introduced into greece directly from thrace, were performed by "virgins distinguished for probity in life, who carried about in procession sacred books upon their heads" inman, in his ancient faiths, quotes an oracle of apollo, from spencer, to the effect that "rhea the mother of the blessed, and the queen of the gods, loved assemblages of women" as this festival is in honor of female nature, the various female attributes are adored as deities, demeter being t

winter months; in fact dies, and descends into hell in order that he may rise at the easter season to gladden and make all things new again. mythologically, this new sun becomes incarnate; enters again his mother's womb, and is born into the world in the form of a man whose mission is to renew human life. hence we have an explanation of the eastern buddhas and crishnas, all of which were born of virgins at the winter solstice. the new sun which at the close of each cycle was believed by the more ancient people of the globe to "issue forth from the womb of nature to renew the world" now that the truths underlying nature-worship were lost, became a redeemer or mediator between earth and heaven, or between spirit and matter. it is stated that at the time of the appearance of christ not alone

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itten 400 years before or about 270b.c.st paul in his sermon on mars hill, related in his acts of the apostles, xvii, quotes from this poem; both these authors were natives of cilicia. they give 48 constellations. the poem of aratus is said to be a versificationof the knowledge imparted by eudoxus a hundred years before. hesiod, in hisworks and days,mentions, orion, canis, arcturus, and the seven virgins as stars; and homer in the odyssey refers to the pleiades, the northern team, orion and the bear. so that some constellations had familair names some thousand years before jesus. the hebrew name mzrut,mazzaroth,occurs in job xxxviii v. 32, and in our bible weread-'canstthou bring forth mazzaroth in his season' this question is put by the lord god to job, speakingtohim from a whirlwind. in

this case also there were two stages of reception.thelesser rites were performed every third year, and the greater ones every five years. the lesser festival was chiefly notable for the contests of strength and skill, special dances, and a competition of musicians. in the greater festival there was a grand procession, in which the peplos, or cloak, sacred to minerva, was carried. it was woven by virgins, of white colour, and embroidered upon it in gold, were designs representing the achievements of minerva and jupiter.kabeiria:a very ancient system of the mysteries existed among the islands of the243geansea, and chieflyat samothrace. this district was inhabited by the pelasgians, a race of indio-284themagical masongermanic type which preceded the greeks.thesamothracians performed the myst

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the key to all the sciences. the turning of the tripletaumay be accomplished. by a perfect knowledge of numbers. then 4 is, as i said, the great name: also the 4 elements and the 4 ordersofelemental. intelligences .or elemental beingsorpowers, of fire, water, earth, and air. 5 was pre-eminently the number of marriage among thejews.2555gifts, 5 blessings, the guests were admitted by fives, 5 wise virgins and5foolish in the parable,and5 is the humannumber-the 5 points of the human being,thes-pointedstar, as well as the humanhieroglyph the pentalpha- which is not the seal of solomon as some people think,butwhich is the symbolof.health. thetrue.sealofsolomon. is the interlaced triangle, which signifies the atonement. and there again we get the relation of the number of the 7 principles. 7 is

icating to them that far distant time- probably, i think,ifwe may go by the hindu calculations, about eight to nine millions of years ago- that is a calculation which one may leave to physical astronomers;but190thesorcerer and his apprenticein the meantime, the zodiacs which we have- the zodiac of dendera among others, and the hindu and burmese zodiacs- present many points yet unsolved. the three virgins-theone holding a child, another nursing a child, and thethirdholding an ear of com--might seem to indicate three separate stellar years. and these three separate positions of virgo appear in the zodiac of dendera.aliother problem is the esne lion, and the altered position of the lion's tail- probably pointingtoisomeparticular object, someparticularstar, probably indicating the position of

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e great pyramid in egypt under enoch and will lead the lost tribes of israel in the end times. and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, the gnostic handbook page 94 and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. these are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. these are they which follow the lamb whithersoever he goeth. these were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto god and to the lamb. revelation 13:3-4 the celestial class are those who have reached perfection through the path of transfiguration and achieved a state of godhood. they continue to incarnate on earth working with the will (logos) of the lord of wisdom. in the end t

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known as the monadic plane. from this plane the true self (yechidah) or the pneumatic light self operates in the present cycles, though in most of humanity it is in a embryonic form only. in the cycles of creation this is the plane from which polarisation and differentiation originates. it is on this level that the seven rays regulate the cycles of creation. the divine plane and the plane of the virgins spirits are equivalent to the world of atziluth in the kabbalistic fourfold structure. the plane of divine spirit this plane is also known as the spiritual plane. it is the plane of archetypal forms, and is the location from which energies from the upper planes are condensed and radiated into the lower. this is the plane on which the immortals exist. this is the goal for those on the terre

they were the builders of the great pyramid in egypt under enoch, and will lead the lost tribes of israel in the end times. and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. these are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. these are they which follow the lamb whithersoever he goeth. these were gnostic theurgy page 132 redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto god and to the lamb. revelation 13:3-4 the celestial class are those who have reached perfection through the transfiguration and achieved a state of godhood. they continue to incarnate on earth, working with the divine will (logos. at the ome

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e of fire angle of air tablet. hxrn: subservient angel of earth angle of water tablet. hzn: cacodemon of air angle of earth tablet. i: are/ is/ in/ angel (filius lucis) associated with sol, name of saturn heptagram. i corsca: is such as. i dlugam lonshi: is given power. i dlugam: is given. i l: is all one. i li or ili: in the first/ the first. i salman: is a house. i salman paradiz: is a house of virgins. i ta: is as. i vmd: is called. i za zaz: have framed: ia i don: of the all-powerful. ia ial: conclude us. iaaasd: calling angel of fire angle of water tablet. iaba: subservient angel of fire angle of earth tablet, also known as ianba. iabes: god/ lord/ supreme life. iada: god. iad baltoh: the god of righteousness. iad oi as momar: of him that is, was, and shall be crowned. iad: god/ the g

sagacor: one number/ in one number. saiinou: senior of jupiter on the water tablet. saix: subservient angel of air angle of water tablet, also known as saaix. salabaiotza: salbrox, sulphur. salada: sald, wonder. salamanu: salman, house. salbrox: sulphur (cf. dlasod. sald/ ald: wonder/ wonders (n (cf. zirn. salman: the house/ house/ a house. salman balt: house of justice. salman paradiz: house of virgins. salman teloch: house of death. samapha: governor of the first division of the aethyr zom (7. samvelg: righteous/ to the righteous (cf. balit. sapah: sound/ sounds/ mighty sounds. sapm: subservient angel of fire angle of earth tablet. saucp: angel, also known as sacp. sava: subservient angel of fire angle of water tablet. saxtomp: governor of the first division of the aethyr maz (16. sazia

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ar and continuance as the second and the third. wherefore, solpeth bi-en b-ri-ta od zacam hearken unto my voice. i have talked of you and i move you g-macalza sobol ath trian lu-ia he in power and presence: whose works shall be a song of honour od ecrin mad qaa-on. and the praise of your god. in your creation. bitom, o the seventh key raas i salman paradiz oe-crimi aao ial- the east is a house of virgins singing praises amongst the flames pir-gah qui-in enay butmon od i 12 of first glory, wherein the lord hath opened his mouth and they are noas ni paradial casarmg vgear become 8 living dwellings in whom the strength of man chirlan od zonac luciftian rejoiceth and they are apparelled with ornaments of brightness cors ta vaul zirn tol hami sobol ondoh od such as work wonders on all creatures

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ar and continuance as the second and the third. wherefore, solpeth bi-en b-ri-ta od zacam hearken unto my voice. i have talked of you and i move you g-macalza sobol ath trian lu-ia he in power and presence: whose works shall be a song of honour od ecrin mad qaa-on. and the praise of your god. in your creation. bitom, o the seventh key raas i salman paradiz oe-crimi aao ial- the east is a house of virgins singing praises amongst the flames pir-gah qui-in enay butmon od i of first glory, wherein the lord hath opened his mouth and they are noas ni paradial casarmg vgear become 8 living dwellings in whom the strength of man chirlan od zonac luciftian 12 rejoiceth and they are apparelled with ornaments of brightness cors ta vaul zirn tol hami sobol ondoh od such as work wonders on all creatures

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ultiply upon the earth. thus you have become the skirts of justice and truth" ln the narre of this same god, lift yourselves up 1 say. behold, his mercies flourish, and his name. has become mighty arnong us. in him we say, move, and descend. apply yourselves to us as you would to partakers of his secret wisdom in your creation. step 3. recite the seventh cali as follows: 128 the east s a house of virgins who sing praises among the flames of the first glory. there the lord opened his mouth, and they became 28 living dwellings wherein the strength of man rejoices.they are clothed with ornaments of brightness, and they work wonders on all creatures. their kingdoms and continuance are like the third and fourth; strong towers and places of confort, the seats of merey and continuance. o you serv

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bes the devil as chained in hell, so through the mid, ages in general he seems to have been imagined as lying bound till the dawn of the judgment-day; then he will get loose, and appear in company with antichrist. his libcratimi from honds therefore marks also the time of general confusion and the world's destruction. one popular tradition makes him lie tlijhthj hound under the table at which two virgins (evidently norns) are spinning, deut. sag. no.9. in other tales a noose of hast is slipt over his head, which like the chained wolf he is unable to break, and in that state is mauled on the anvil with a hammer, which leaves him lamed (mahrische sagen, briinn 1817, pp. 69. 72. 123; still better known is the story of the blacksmith, who gets him to creep through the keyhole into a sack, and

kes it burning of the spleen or cold tumour, otherwise called 'the evil wind' tobl. p. 70; in lower hesse it is swollen udder in a cow, and the charm there muttered against it is: die hilnsche und der dmche (dragon) die giengen liber die bache (beck; die hiiusche die vertrank (was drowned, al. verschwauk vanished, der drache der versank. a charm in mone's anz. 465 begins' there went three blessed virgins over a liuntschen hill, the hilntsclien meets them, and one says, here is the ituntsche' certainly the word seems to contain the ohgr. adj. hiinisc, mhg. hiunisch, and may refer to giants or to huns (p. 523; the' hiinische berg' tells in favour of the first, in case a giant's mount is meant. adelung writes' der hintsch/ and explains it as asthma. a lg. formula substitutes for hiinsche site

ngth of the saint's image, and tie it round their body (f, ol. wier's arzneibuch p. 31-3 mentions a disease called in the treves country naclit-grif (brought on by the grip of a night-spirit; to ascertain its presence, you proceed thus: draw the sick man's belt about his naked body, lengthwise and breadthwise, then take it off, and hang it on a nail with the words' o god, i pray thee by the three virgins margarita, mariamagdalena and ursula, be pleased to vouchsafe a sign upon the sick man, if he have the nightgrip or no; then measure again, and if the belt be shorter than before, it is a sign of the said sickness. by the schles. prov. bl. 1798. 27, 16 20, scarce a village in the liegnitz country but has its inesserin, always an old woman. when she is asked to say whether a person is in da

te dod' black death, perhaps even in allusion to surtr (p. 809. 1 to the greeks the whizzing shafts of wrathful apollo brought the plague: a man dying suddenly is slain by apollo's artillery, a woman by that of artemis; conf. the destroying angel, 2 sam. 24, 16. hermes, protector of the flock, carries round it the ram, to ward off murrain; afterwards he carries it round the city also, kpio(f)6po" virgins were sacrificed to stay the ravages of pestilence. pliny 26, 9 [60] says a maiden can cure boils (panes) by laying verbascum on them: experti afermavere plurimum referre, si virgo imponat nuda, jejuna jejuuo, et manu supina tangens dicat' negat apollo pestem jiosse crescere, cui nuda virgo restinguat' atque retrorsa manu ter dicat, totiesque despuant ambo. the ceremony was transferred from

fro' it is evidently the same widely diffused notion as at p. 337; but it is not always so easy to hit upon the heathen names that lie at the bottom. a favourite way is to start with tjiree personages: as the idisi fall into three sets (p. 1231, so the three marys look out (p. 416, like three norns or three fays 'three brothers went afield (keisersb. ameis 50 'three blessed br' spell xxxi 'three virgins come down from heaven to earth, the one bliit-gillpe, the next blut-sti'd'pe^ the third blut-stehe-still/ mark, forsch. 1, 262; the last is the maid hilda named alone in the other spell. i will only add from roth, de nominibus vet. germanorum medic, helmst. 1735. p. 139' juvat subnectere incantationis formulam, qua in marchia brandenb. atque adjacentibus regionibus in ophthalmia curanda ut

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vrsfbrli be the hero of the lost mhg. poem erek der wallaere (pilgrim? the name qdainsakr may however be an adaptation of an older and heathen ol8insakr=vallh6ll, conf. the oden saker in sweden, p. 158, last line. vol. it. c c 824 time and woeld. again, as valholl had only received men who died by weapons (vapn-dau3a vera, whilst other dead men were gathered in folkvangr with freyja (p. 304, and virgins with gefjon (sn. 36; from this time forward gimill takes in without distinction all the just, the good, and hel all the bad, the criminal; whereas the former hel, as a contrast to valholl, used to harbour all the resi due of men who had not fallen in fight, without its being implied that they were sinners deserving punishment. the most difficult point to determine is, how matters exactly s

ay not empty-handed. the rock-dwelling in the wooded mountain seems an essential part of nearly all these narratives: it is the ruined castle in which the( white lady appears, it is the tower of veleda, mengloft, brunhild (p. 96 n. are the companions, playmates, by whom dame. honour is attended, as the highest virtue by the lower ones, to be traced back to a retinue of priestesses and ministering virgins of the heathen time? to valkyrs and messengers of a goddess? dame era, aiza (p. 414 n) may go a long way back by that very name: in the story from p. suchenw. xxiv. 68 is uttered the notable precept ere all frouwen fin! honour all gentle dames (p. 398, and see suppl) as a counterpart, there are personifications of vices too, but far fewer and feebler, as our antiquity in general does not g

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ult of his attunement with the divine of his own nature. the term has no significance other than cosmic consciousness. the non- christian mystic prefers the latter term because this universal or cosmic consciousness has been had by other illuminated personages and should have no personal designation. colombe.the word colombe means dove. in earlier rosicrucian temples there were one or more vestal virgins who not only kept the important symbolical and holy fire in the vestal stand ever burning, but who also served in the ritualistic work and mystical exercises as a symbol of fire, light, life, and love, and the dove of consciousness. the colombe also represents the conscience of each frater and soror of the lodge. compensation.(see karma) concentration.concentration means bringing to a cent

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ssion, whose parallel may not be found in some older doctrine or philosophy. surely, the almighty were it but to spare future generations their present perplexity might have brought down with him, at his first artd only incarnation on earth, something original something that would trace a distinct line of demarcation between himself and the score or so of incarnate pagan gods, who had been bom of virgins, had all been saviors, and were either kiued, or otherwise sacrificed themselves for humanity. too much has already been conceded to the emotional side of the story. what the world needs is a less exalted, but more faithful view of a personage, in whose favor nearly half of christendom has dethroned the almighty. it is not the erudite, world-famous scholar, whom we question for what we fin

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l with cords, wherewith they bound themselves about their shirts or next their skins( processus contra templarios, dugd. monast. ang. vol. vi. part ii. pp. 844-846, 240 the rosicrucians &c. there is something strange about these cords; cordons, ropes, belts, bands, baldrics (also in the term belted earls. these are always male accessories; except the zones, sashes, or girdles, worn as the mark of virgins, which cinctures may yet draw their symbolic meaning from this same umbilicus in question. the reader will notice also the connection of these ideas and the practice in the roman race of the lupercal, at the february roman religious solemnities (february of the fishes. at these it was the custom of the runners to flog bystanders, particularly women) with thongs or cords; which were probabl

prey upon those of both sexes who have imposed upon themselves too severe refraining or bridling. this incidence is ingrain in nature. but the dangers resulting from the abuse of these amiable pleasures are much more formidable. pp. 38, 39, of curiositates erotica physiologies (1875. woman s physical constitution adapts her for love. but (until proven) she is rigid, and to a certain extent (like virgins usually) insensate, and even rebelliously irresponsive. all the pittoresques to the number of twelve, invented by the greek courtesan, cyrene, as being the best in which to signalise that particular loving mystery, which has everything (enjoined) under it; all those enchanting modes of sympathy which phyleiris and ashyanase published, which elephaseus composed in leonine verse, and which a

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

panded the youngsters imaginations. after the charges came out, the accused were harassed by abusive phone calls, acts of vandalism against their automobiles, and bricks thrown at their homes. in the initial police investigation, no evidence was found to support the charges, which had become increasingly bizarre. the girls who had leveled charges of sexual abuse were examined and discovered to be virgins. a pediatrician with a special expertise in satanic ritual abuse provided support for the families of the accusing children. despite these negative indicators, the investigation was pushed forward by public opinion and certain segments of the police force. as in earlier ritual abuse cases, numerous personnel and departmental resources were committed to the investigation. a team of policeme

ay, i give you my life as your own (cavendish 1967, 321) this piece of evidence was presented at grandier s trial in 1634, along with an endorsement signed in hell: we, the all-powerful lucifer, seconded by satan, beelzebub, leviathan, elimi, astaroth, and others, have today accepted the pact of alliance with urbain grandier, who is on our side. and we promise him the love of women, the flower of virgins, the chastity of nuns, worldly honors, pleasures, and riches. he will fornicate every three days; intoxication will be dear to him. he will offer to us once a year a tribute marked with his blood; he will trample under foot the sacraments of the church, and he will say his prayers to us. by virtue of this pact, he will live happily for twenty years on earth among men, and finally will come

and compassion (healing) magic (in this regard, see part 4 of lavey 1969) in other words, satanic ritual magic has a much brighter side that my questionnaire did not address. respondents themselves expressed concern about satanism and the way it is perceived. several people were concerned about the tendency of society to apply traditional stereotypes to modern satanism: satanists do not sacrifice virgins and drink blood and so on, and i hope satanism will be taken seriously as a religion. perhaps the single greatest concern expressed was the alarming tendency of many satanists to try to make satanism into another clique: conformity as a movement can be a useful tool, given the need to mobilize ourselves for a task, but a lack of individuality and personal meaning is detrimental to the very

LIBER 141

r virtue thereof, and replace it in the svadistthana-cakkra, so also and much more do they extravagantly labour to retain the prime prana of life, the bindu. therefore they stimulate to the maximum its generation by causing a consecrated prostitute to excite the organs, and at the same time vigorously withhold by will. after some little exercise they claim that they can deflower as many as eighty virgins in a night without losing a single drop of the bindu. nor is this ever to be lost, but reabsorbed through the tissues into the body. the organs thus act as a siphon to draw constantly fresh supplies of life from the cosmic reservoir, and flood the body with their fructifying virtue. the initiate is asked to compare and contrast this chapter with chapter xiv, observing in particular, underl

LIBER CCXLII AHA

and set a period aha! 31 unto restriction! that is sin: to hold thine holy spirit in! o thou that chafest at thy bars, invoke nuit beneath her stars with a pure heart (her incense burned of gums and woods, in gold inurned, and let the serpent flame therein a little, and thy soul shall win to lie within her bosom. lo! thou wouldst give all.and she cries: no! take all, and take me! gather spice and virgins and great pearls of price! worship me in a single robe, crowned richly! girdle of the globe, i love thee! pale and purple, veiled, voluptuous, swan silver-sailed, i love thee. i am drunkness of the inmost sense; my soul.s caress is toward thee! let my priestess stand bare and rejoicing, softly fanned by smooth-lipped acolytes, upon mine iridescent altar-stone, and in her love-chaunt swooni

LIBER CHANOKH

butamonu od inoasa ni pa-ra-diala. casa-remeji ujeare cahirelanu, od zodonace lucifatianu, caresa ta vavale-zodirenu tol-hami. soba lonudohe od nuame cahisa ta da o desa vo-ma-dea od pi-beliare itahile rita od miame ca-ni-quola rita! zodacare! zodameranu! iecarimi quo-a-dahe od i-mica-ol-zododa aaiome. bajirele papenore idalugama elonusahi.od umapelifa vau-ge-ji bijil-iad! the east is a house of virgins singing praises among the flames of first glory wherein the lord hath opened his mouth; and they are become as 28 living dwellings in whom the strength of man rejoiceth; and they are apparelled with ornaments of brightness, such as work wonders on all creatures. whose kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth strong towers and places of comfort, the seats of mercy and continuanc

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

d, aye guided by that wizard.s head, that like a windy moon did scud before him, winking eyes of red and snapping jaws of white: but then what cared for living or for dead sir palamede the saracen? 28 xii sir palamede the saracen follows the head to gloomy halls of sterile hate, with icy walls. a woman clucking like a hen answers his lordly bugle-calls. she rees him in ungainly rede of ghosts and virgins, doves and wombs, of roods and prophecies and tombs. old pagan fables run to seed! sir palamede with fury fumes. so doth the head that jabbers fast against that woman fs tangled tale (god.s patience at the end must fail) out sweeps the sword.the blade hath passed through all her scraggy farthingale .this chatter lends to thought a zest (quod he .but i am all for act. sit here, until your t

LIBER DCCCXI ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

e was the simplicity of a master. let no one then imagine that i fail to perceive or underestimate the dangers of employing these methods. the occurrence even of so simple a matter as fatigue might change a las meninas into a stupid sexual crisis. it will be necessary for most englishmen to emulate the selfcontrol of the arabs and hindus, whose ideal is to deflower the greatest possible number of virgins.eighty is considered a fairly good performance.without completing the act. it is, indeed, of the first importance for the celebrant in any phallic rite to be able to complete the act without even once allowing a sexual or sensual thought to invade his mind. the mind must be as absolutely detached from one's own body as it is from another person fs. 14 liber dcccxi xi of musical instruments

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

all night. and .victory. among others, are obviously inspired by her beauty; and her devotion to him, the abasement of soul, the prostitution of body, she underwent for and with him, is one of the noblest stories life has known. she seems to have dived with him, yet ever trying to raise his soul from the quagmire; if god is just at all, she shall stand more near to his right hand that the vaunted virgins who would soil no hem of vesture to save their brother from the worm that dieth not! the works of george archibald bishop will speak for themselves; it would be both impertinent and superfluous in me to point out in detail their many and varied excellences, or their obvious faults. the raison d tre, though, of their publication, is worthy of especial notice. i refer to their psychological

LIBER STELLAE RUBEAE

.d. the hiereus was horus in the avenger of the gods aspect and the hierophant osiris; so in fact, they have been changed ovn liber stella rvbea a secret ritual of apep, the heart of iao-oai, delivered unto v.v.v.v.v. for his use in a certain matter of liber legis, and written down under the figure lxvi v a a publication in class a imprimatur: n. fra. a a 1 1. apep deifieth asar. 2. let excellent virgins evoke rejoicing, son of night! 3. this is the book of the most secret cult of the ruby star. it shall be given to none, save to the shameless in deed as in word. 4. no man shall understand this writing.it is 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 thi

LOGOMACHY OF ZOS

ed body, fecundity of conception and facility of expression. what more should one need of freedom unless to rob others of theirs? the duality i know is between man and man, man and nature, man and his god. man is a revolt and his apparent duality the great mystery. truth is sustenance, and there is nothing untrue anywhere; it may oft appear so because we cannot relate it accurately. many men seek virgins for pleasuring, whereas i am oft content with an old bitch. sound practice if you have imagination. the object of loving is to be the beloved, and the begetting is evidence of consummation. there is no contraception in the great procreative effort to become ourselves. you cannot start from not-belief and hope to flow into the stream of belief, as if this were possible. usually, the inveter

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

s "their chiefest study was to wrap up their secrets in fables, and spin out their fancies in vailes and shadows, whose radii seems to extend every way, yet so, that they meet in a common center, and point onely at one thing" the fact that the scriptures reveal a hidden knowledge, if considered allegorically, is clearly demonstrated by a parable describing king solomon, his wives, concubines, and virgins, which parable occurs in geheime figuren der rosenkreuzer, published in ultona in 1785. dr. hartmann, who translated part of this work into english, declared that the wives of solomon represented the arts, the concubines the sciences, and the virgins the still unrevealed secrets of nature. by order of the king the virgins were forced to remove their veils, thus signifying that by means of

s, supposing we will straightway teach them how to make gold by art, or furnish them with ample treasures, whereby they may live pompously in the face of the world, swagger, and make wars, turn usurers, gluttons, and drunkards, live unchastely, and defile their whole life with several other sins, all which things are contrary to the blessed will of god. these men should have learnt from those ten virgins (whereof five that were foolish demanded oil for their lamps, from those five that were wise) how that the case is much otherwise. p. 159 "it is expedient that every man should labor for this treasure by the assistance of god, and his own particular search and industry. but the perverse intentions of these fellows we understand out of their own writings, by the singular grace and revelatio

era, ascended the 365 steps of the royal winding stairs. the guests were given wreaths of laurel and, a curtain being raised, found themselves in the presence of the king and queen. c.r.c. was awestruck by the glory of the throne room and especially by the magnificence of the queen's robes, which were so dazzling that he could not gaze upon them. each guest was presented to the king by one of the virgins and after this ceremony the virgo lucifera made a short speech in which she recited the achievements of the honest "artists" and begged that each be questioned as to whether she had properly fulfilled her duty. old atlas then stepped forward and in the name of their royal majesties greeted the intrepid band of philosophers and assured virgo lucifera that she should receive a royal reward

the center stood the triangular sepulcher of lady venus. lifting a copper door in the pavement, the page ushered c.r.c. into a crypt where stood a great bed upon which, when his guide had raised the coverlets, c.r.c. beheld the body of venus. led by his page, c.r.c. then rejoined his companions, saying nothing to them of his experience. virgo lucifera, robed in black velvet and accompanied by her virgins, then led the guests out into the courtyard where stood six coffins, each with eight pallbearers. c.r.c. was the only one of the group of "artists" who suspected the royal bodies were no longer in these coffins. the coffins were lowered into graves and great stones rolled over them. the virgo lucifera then made a short oration in which she exhorted each to assist in restoring the royal per

.r.c. with his ladder made reasonable speed. on the second floor the wedding guests, musicians, and virgo lucifera gathered about a fountain-like contrivance containing the bodies of the six royal persons. virgo lucifera then placed the if moor's head in a kettle-like receptacle in the upper part of the fountain and poured upon it the substances prepared on the previous day in the laboratory. the virgins placed lamps beneath. these substances when they boiled passed out through holes in the sides of the kettle and, falling upon the bodies in the fountain below, dissolved them. the six royal bodies having been reduced thus to a liquid state, a tap was opened in the lower end of the fountain and the fluid drained into an immense golden globe, which, when filled, was of great weight. all but

MATHERS MACGREGOR THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON LEMEGETON VOL 2

hour of the day- here before me in this crystal stone [or here before this circle &c. the name& seal of buriel the next of these wandering princes is called buriel; who hath many dukes and other servants, which doth attend on him to doe his will, they are all by nature evil; and are hated by all other spirits; they appear rugish& in the forme of a serpent lemegeton: clavicula salomonis 38 with a virgins head; and speaketh with a mans voyce, they are to be called in the night [because they hate the day] and in the planetary hours, whereof wee shall mention 12 of the chiefe dukes that answereth to the 12 planetary hours in the night; who hath 880 servants to attend on them in the night; their names and seals are as followeth &c. the 12 dukes are as followeth: merosiel his seal almadiel; his

eat dukes besides 200 lesser dukes& servants without number; whereof we shall mention 12 of the chiefe dukes who hath 1320 servants to attend them; they are to be called in the day, as well as in the night accordingly to the planetary motion; the first beginneth with the first hour of the day or night; and so successively on; till you come to the last; they appear in the forme of a serpent with a virgins head& face; yet they are very courteous and willing to obey; they delight most in or about waters& all moyst grounds &c. their names& seals are as followeth: morfatiel; his seal chalmoriel; his seal pesariel; his seal musuziel; his seal lameniel: his seal brackiel; his seal samiel; his seal dusiriel; his seal chamiel; his seal arbiel; his seal lusiel; his seal chariel his seal the conjurat

megeton: clavicula salomonis 46 macariel his seal the 9th. wandring spirit in order is called macariel, who hath 40 dukes besides other inferior servants to attend him, whereof we shall mention 12 of the chief dukes which hath 400 servants to attend them, they are all good by nature and obedient to do the will of the exorcist, they appear in diverse forms but mostly in the form of a dragon with a virgins head, and these dukes are to be called in the day as well as in the night, according to the planetary order& their names& seals are as followeth &c. chaniel seal drusiel seal andras seal caroel seal amadiel seal remijel seal naustuel seal verpiel seal germel seal thirsiel seal burfiel seal aromusij seal the conjuration "i conjure thee o thou mighty& potent prince macariel who (wandreth &c"

burfiel seal aromusij seal the conjuration "i conjure thee o thou mighty& potent prince macariel who (wandreth &c" theurgia goetia 47 vriel his seal the 10th. wandring spirit in order is called vriel, who hath 10 dukes& 100 under dukes with many servants to attend him, they are all by nature evil& will not obey willingly& are very false in their doings, they appear in the form of a serpent with a virgins head& face, whereof we shall mention but 10 of the chief dukes which hath 650 companions and servants to attend them, their names& seals are as followeth &c. chabri seal darbos seal narmiel seal frasmiel seal brymiel seal dragon seal curmis seal darpios seal hermon seal adrnsis seal the conjuration "i conjure thee o thou mighty& potent prince vriel &c" lemegeton: clavicula salomonis 48 byd

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ve that god ate and drank (p. 19)i come to thee in a thick cloud that the people may hear when i speak to thee ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests.take heed, go not up to the mount (sinai, whosoever toucheth the mount shall surely be put to death. moses and aaron were the aries, the number two men (p. 19)vicar means vice-arioracles the means by which the gods communicated via mind-controlled virgins.the sybilrome was virtually founded after the fall of troy and many gods may have migrated there. there was adark age about 1000 b.c, just like the one after charlemagne.in cavesno craft they knew, with woven brick and jointed beam to pile the sunward porch; but in the dark earth burrowed and housed like sunless ants in sunless caves (aeschylus)secrecy from the word root sacsacred, sacrame

MORALS AND DOGMA

das, 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 name was _succoth_ or _succothbeneth_ derived from a chaldean word signifying to _speculate_ or _observe_ the _hyades_ are five stars in the form of a v, 11 southeast of the pleiades. the greeks counted them as seven. when the vernal equinox was in taurus, aldebar n led up the starry host; and

arch for the body of khir-om and the murderers. their number corresponds with that of the pleiades and hyades in taurus, among which stars the sun was found when light began to prevail over darkness, and the mysteries were held. these stars, we have shown, received early and particular attention from the astronomers and poets. the pleiades were the stars of the ocean to the benighted mariner; the virgins of spring, heralding the season of blossoms. as six pleiades only are now visible, the number twelve may have been obtained by them, with aldebaran, and five far more brilliant stars than any other of the hyades, in the same region of the heavens, and which were always spoken of in connection with the pleiades; the three kings in the belt of orion, and bellatrix and betelgueux on his shoul

the space of the houses of the sun, where they have all the virtues required "something from each of the three kingdoms of nature is assigned to each celestial house, to the end that everything may be done in accordance with sound philosophical rules; and that everything may be thoroughly purified in its proper time and place in order to be presented at the wedding-table of the spouse and the six virgins who hold the mystic shovel, without a common fire, but with an elementary fire, that comes primarily by _attraction, and by digestion in the philosophical bed lighted by the four elements "at the banquet of the spouses, the viands, being thoroughly, purified, are served in salt, sulphur, spirit, and oil; a sufficient quantity thereof is taken every month, and therewith is compounded, by me

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

diseased by the corset demanded by jaganath fashion, so is her soul by the compression of convention, which is a fashion as fitful, arbitrary, and senseless as that of the man-milliner, though they call him god, and his freakish fiat pass for everlasting law. the english bible sanctions the polygamy and concubinage of abraham, solomon and others, the incest of lot, the wholesale rape of captured virgins, as well as the promiscuity of the first christians, the prostitution of temple servants, men and women, the relations of johannes with his master, and the putting of wandering prophets to stud, as well as the celibacy of such people as paul. jehovah went so far as to slay onan because he balked at fertilizing his brother's widow, condoned the adultery, with murder of the husband, of david

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

ays appears fully draped. her countenance is distinguished by a serene gravity of expression [50] vesta. vesta occupies a distinguished place among the earlier divinities of the romans. her temple in rome, containing as it were the hearthstone of the nation, stood close beside the palace of numa pompilius. on her altar burned the never-ceasing fire, which was tended by her priestesses, the vestal virgins.[22] the temple of vesta was circular in form, and contained that sacred and highly prized treasure the palladium of troy.[23] the great festival in honour of vesta, called the vestalia, was celebrated on the 9th of june. demeter (ceres. demeter (from ge-meter, earth-mother) was the daughter of cronus and rhea.[24] she represented that portion of gaa (the whole solid earth) which we call t

e goddess for her daughter proserpine. during this festival, games were celebrated in the circus maximus, to which none were admitted unless clothed in white. vestalia. the vestalia was a festival held in honour of vesta on the 9th of june, and was celebrated exclusively by women, who walked barefooted in procession to the temple of the goddess. the priestesses of vesta, called vestales or vestal virgins, played a conspicuous part in these festivals. they were six in number, and were chosen.between the ages of six and ten.from the noblest families in rome. their term of office was thirty years. during the first ten years, they were initiated in their religious duties, during the second ten they performed them, and during the third they instructed novices. their chief duty was to watch and

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

and continuance as the second 3and the thiid. 4wherefore '0d miam ta wdd 4darsar 'hearken unto my voice. 9 have talked of you 3and i move you 'solpeth bi-en zb-ri-ta wd zacam 'in power and presence: whose 3works %hall be a song of honour 'gmacalsa 2sobol 3ath 4trian lu-la he 'and the praise of your god. 2in your creation 'od errin mad zqaa-on 'bitom, fire. the seventh key 'the east fis a house of virgins 'singing raises 4amongst the flames 'raas 4 salman paradiz %e- rimi 4aao lal 'of first glory, 2wherein 3the lord hath opened his mouth 4and they are 'pir-gah* qui-in 3emy butmon 'odl 'become 28 3l.iving dwellings 41n whom the strength of man 'noas 2nl 3paradial 4casanng 'vgear irejoiceth zand 3they are apparelled with wmaments of brightness 'chirlan wd 3zomc 4luciftian 'such as work 'wonde

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

preserver. but the synagogue denied its messiah, and the hebrew letters were effaced, at least for the blinded eyes of the jews. the roman persecutors dishonoured hellenism, and it could not be restored by the false moderation of the philosopher julian, surnamed perhaps unjustly the apostate, since his christianity was never sincere. the ignorance of the middle ages followed, opposing saints and virgins to gods, goddesses and nymphs; the deep sense of the hellenic mysteries was less understood than ever; greece herself did not only lose the traditions of her ancient cultus but separated from the latin church; and thus, for latin eyes, the greek letters were blotted out, as the latin letters disappeared for greek eyes. so the inscription on the cross of the saviour vanished entirely, and n

ched by deformed or misshapen persons, or by immoral women; those of the moon are profaned by the looks and hands of debauched men and menstruating females; those of mercury lose their virtue if seen or touched by salaried priests; those of mars must be concealed from cowards; those of venus from depraved men and men under a vow of celibacy; those of jupiter from the impious; those of saturn from virgins and children, not that their looks or touches can ever be impure, but because the talisman would bring them misfortune and thus lose all its virtue. crosses of honour and other kindred decorations are veritable talismans which increase personal value and merit; they are consecrated by solemn investiture, and public opinion can impart to them a prodigious power. sufficient attention has not

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

ad seen the horns growing on chamcha's head, but she went deaf and, instead of answering, told him how she would sit on a camp stool by the galp n or bull-pen at los alamos and the prize bulls would come up and lay their horned heads in her lap. one afternoon a girl named aurora del sol, who was the fianc e of martin de la cruz, let fall a saucy remark: i thought they only did that in the laps of virgins, she stage-whispered to her giggling friends, and rosa turned to her sweetly and replied, then perhaps, my dear, you would like to try? from that time aurora del sol, the best dancer at the estancia and the most desirable oi all the peon women, became the deadly enemy of the too-tall, too-bony woman from over the sea "you look just like him" rosa diamond said as they stood at her night-tim

SATANGEL

ir, meaning hairy goats. demons in the shape of goats, to whom the children of israel offered sacrifice (leviticus 17:7. selene (greek. also called mene, moon, a tutelary deity of sorcerers and magickians, fused with hekate and artemis, the romans knew her as luna. later, she is identified as a queen of hell. serguthy (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of satanachia. has power over wives and virgins, when the occasion is favourable. seth (hebrew, transgression. the third child of adam and eve, after the desasterous relationship of cain and abel. a curious parallel exists between the tale of the two brothers in genesis, and the mystery of set and osiris. seth, set, setech, sutech (egypt. who murders his brother osiris, lord of the desert, whose priests were all had red hair. equated wi

, shouting; procul! o procul! este pofani! bahlasti! ompheda! in the name of the great and terrible one i declare that i have banished these shells to their habitations! finally, the gesture of silence, standing erect with fingers on lips. exorcism i conjure you, o devil, by the father and the son and the holy spirit, and by the patriarchs and prophets, apostles, evangelists, martyrs, confessors, virgins, and all the holy men and holy women of god. and by our lord jesus christ i conjure, that you should recede from this servant of god [n, i conjure you, o devil, by the passion of our lord jesus christ, which he endured for the human race, that you should recede from this servant of god,[n. i conjure you, o devil, by the holy cross on which our lord died for the servant of god,[n, that you

d continuance as 2the second 3and the third. 4wherefore, 1od miam ta 2viv 3od d 4darsar 1hearken unto my voice. 2i have talked of you 3and i move you 1solpeth bi-en 2b-ri-ta 3od zacam 1in power and presence: 2whose 3works 4shaii be a song of honour 1g-macalza 2sobol 3ath 4trian lu-ia he 1and the praise of your god. 2in your creation. 1od ecrin mad 2qaa-on. the seventh key 1the east 2is a house of virgins 3singing praises 4amongst the flames 1raas 2i salman paradiz 3oe-crimi 4aao ial- 1of first glory, 2wherein 3the lord hath opened his mouth 4and they are 1pir-gah 2qui-in 3enay butmon 4od i 1become 28 3living dwellings 4in whom 5the strength of man 1noas 2ni 3paradial 4casarmg 5vgear 1rejoiceth 2and 3they are apparelled with 4ornaments of brightness 1chirlan 2od 3zonac 4luciftian 1such as w

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

ts but officials carrying out their civic duties, like mayors presiding over modern cities. there were no regular services in greek or roman religion. 230 world religions: almanac greco-roman religion and philosophy there were, however, many regular religious festivals, and then the priests would conduct ritual sacrifices. the highest religious officials in rome were six women known as the vestal virgins. their name comes from the goddess vesta, spirit of the hearth and home, whom they served. it was their duty to keep the sacred fire lit in the temple of vesta. the daily religion of the people of greece and rome was largely conducted in private. each person could pray to his or her personal god, asking for good health, riches, success, or good luck. prayers were made standing up with the

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

ve for the terrible and dark "true" said nicot, thoughtfully "and yet that feeling is only a superstition. the nursery, with its tales of ghosts and goblins, is the cradle of many of our impressions in the world. but art should not seek to pander to our ignorance; art should represent only truths. i confess that raphael pleases me less, because i have no sympathy with his subjects. his saints and virgins are to me only men and women "and from what source should painting, then, take its themes "from history, without doubt" returned nicot, pragmatically "those great roman actions which inspire men with sentiments of liberty and valour, with the virtues of a republic. i wish the cartoons of raphael had illustrated the story of the horatii; but it remains for france and her republic to give to

urned nicot, pragmatically "those great roman actions which inspire men with sentiments of liberty and valour, with the virtues of a republic. i wish the cartoons of raphael had illustrated the story of the horatii; but it remains for france and her republic to give to posterity the new and the true school, which could never have arisen in a country of priestcraft and delusion "and the saints and virgins of raphael are to you only men and women" repeated glyndon, going back to nicot's candid confession in amaze, and scarcely hearing the deductions the frenchman drew from his proposition "assuredly. ha, ha" and nicot laughed hideously "do you ask me to believe in the calendar, or what "but the ideal "the ideal" interrupted nicot "stuff! the italian critics, and your english reynolds, have t

in grinned and gave up the ghost. i went upon deck, what a sight! twenty bold fellows stark and cold, and the moon sparkling on the puddles of blood as calmly as if it were water. well, signor, the victory was ours, and the ship mine; i ruled merrily enough for six months. we then attacked a french ship twice our size; what sport it was! and we had not had a good fight so long, we were quite like virgins at it! we got the best of it, and won ship and cargo. they wanted to pistol the captain, but that was against my laws: so we gagged him, for he scolded as loud as if we were married to him; left him and the rest of his crew on board our own vessel, which was terribly battered; clapped our black flag on the frenchman's, and set off merrily, with a brisk wind in our favour. but luck deserted

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

oice and be glad when thou sailest about hither and thither, and dost see the beautiful thickets which are on the lake, and when thou seest the pretty banks thereof and the beautiful fields then shall thy heart feel happiness" he next begged that the king would allow him to organize the journey, and asked his permission to let him bring twenty ebony paddles inlaid with gold, and also twenty young virgins having beautiful heads of hair and lovely forms and shapely limbs, and twenty nets wherein these virgins may array themselves instead of in their own ordinary p. 9 garments. the virgins were to row and sing to his majesty. to these proposals the king assented, and when all was ready he took his place in the boat; while the young women were rowing him about hither and thither the king watch

SOLOMON

rose up from his throne, and went outside into the vestibule of the court of his palace; and there he saw the demon, shuddering and trembling. and he said to him "who art thou" and the demon answered "i am called ornias" 10. and solomon said to him "tell me, o demon, to what zodiacal sign thou art subject" and he answered "to the water-pourer. and those who are consumed with desire for the noble virgins upon earth, these i strangle. but in case there is no disposition to sleep, i am changed into three forms. whenever men come to be enamoured of women, i metamorphose myself into a comely female; and i take hold of the men in their sleep, and play with them. and after a while i again take to my wings, and hide me to the heavenly regions. i also appear as a lion, and i am commanded by all th

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

diem, crushed the cao dai cult in 1955-56. with the assistance of pham cong tac's military chief-of-staff general nguyen thanh phuong. the general disarmed the 400-man "papal guard" and clapped a score of "cardinals" and pham cong tac himself under house arrist. in early march, 1956, the general forced the "pope" into exile in pnompenh in cambodia, by collecting certified letters from 19 "vestal virgins" of cao dai who complained that pham cong tac had raped them. the cao dai. at the height of its power in l955, controlled. with two other sects. one-third of south viet nam. the three sects formed an exotic consortium of religious fanatics, feudal warlords, uniformed hoodlums and racket bosses. their combined armies totaled 40,000 men. one of the sects, the hoa hao. is composed of dissiden

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

throat from ear to ear" 289 in the active days of benjamin franklin and our nation's founders, their secret society counterparts in great britain made use of the god harpocrates. sir francis dashwood, instrumental in the british operation of the illuminati, recruited nobility for his hell-fire club, a secret group based on magic, satanism, and sex. numerous harlots and sometimes newly deflowered virgins were scandalously used by dashwood and his occultic, jolly men. on club premises, the members erected a statue of harpocrates, depicting him solemnly holding a finger to his mouth to remind the frolicking members of the hell-fire club that "what happens here, stays here."8 rome also had the mystery goddess angerona. her statue showed angerona as a beautiful woman holding a finger to her mo

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

as certainly never the dupe of this boudoir theologian. he accepted him without perusal, as the englishman accepts shakespeare and milton- o. m> of st. vincent de paul, of fenelon, and so many more. 95 science. admit that if religion has produced much good, she has also done much evil. faith. when one kills in the name of the god who said "thou shalt not kill<virgins and the massacre of children. 1 sam. xv. 3, etc- o. m> when one persecutes in the name of him who commands us to forgive our enemies, when one propagates darkness in the name of him who tells us not to hide the light under a bushel, is it just to attribute the crime to the very law which condemns it? say, if you wish to be just, that in spite of religion, much evil has been done upon earth

nero or of heliogabalus made like a masterpiece of phidias, would it not be an absolutely beautiful and absolutely good work- and would not he deserve the execration of the whole world who would propose to break it because it was the representation of a monster? scandalous statues are those which are badly sculptured, and the venus of milo would be desecrated if one placed her beside some of the virgins which they dare to exhibit in certain churches. one realizes evil in books of morality ill-written far more than in the poetry of catullus or the ingenious allegories of apuleius. there are no bad books, except those which are badly conceived and badly executed. every word of beauty is a word of truth. it is a light crystallized in speech. but in order that the most brilliant light may be

her, and from their union will be born the practical truth, the real and progressive word. it is necessity which should constrain the workmen to choose for the corner-stone that which they had at first despised and rejected. let contradiction, then, never discourage men of initiative! earth is necessary for the ploughshare, and the earth resists because it is in labour. it defends itself like all virgins; it conceives and brings forth slowly like all mothers. you, then, who wish to sow a new plant in the field of intelligence, understand and respect the modesties and reluctances of limited experience and slow-moving reason. when a new word comes into the world, it needs swaddling clothes and bandages; genius brought it forth, but it is for experience to nourish it. do not fear that it will

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

h *the sword of song, pentecost, vol. ii, p. 168. leaving now these satirical poems for other works of crowley fs, we shall find a deep, yet in no way less, intense hatred for the sham ideal of all religions. in gjephthah h we listen to jephthah praying to jehovah, god of hosts, for victory over the ammonites, not-withstanding the fact that should victory be his lot a general violation of all the virgins of ammon was to follow: and turn their own devouring blade on city fired and violate maid *jephthah, vol. i, p. 74. chemosh was probably no whit better than jahveh, and jephthah has almost as firm a belief in the former as in the latter* in fact, all were as the ground from which they had sprung and on which they grew *jephthah, vol. i, p. 76. in gthe triumph of man, h a magnificent poem i

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

re first made travel and the intercommunication of the priests of mithras, adonis, attis, osiris, dionysius, isis, astarte, venus and many scores of others possible. traces of this recension are still visible in the mass and in the calendar of the saints, all gods and goddesses of universal import receiving the same honour by the same rites as before, while the local gods were replaced by saints, virgins, martyrs, or angels, often of the same name, always of the same character. thus on the altar the solar-phallic crucifix is surrounded by six lights for the planets, to use one example only of a hundred at our disposal; and christmas is at the winter solstice, the birth of christ put for the birth of the sun. all these points may be studied in: la messe et ses mysteres rome, pagan and papal

out life upon them, vivifying them therewith. then shall they conjoin, making unto themselves a new heaven and a new earth, whose union shall breed elements, and multitudes of beings to live and love in liberty beneath thy light, an house file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c2.html (8 of 12 [12/28/2001 2:05:25 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. of virgins singing praises among the flames of glory wherein the lord hath opened his mouth; whose works shall be a song of honour and the praise of your god in your creation! xiii of damnation remember, dearly beloved, perfectly illuminated adepts of this secret areopagus, that from the beginning of all, the vows of your initiation have invoked upon you the most fearful penalties of disobedience. fo

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

of [being] not with it, he shall surely make [it] good. 22:15 [but] if the owner thereof [be] with it, he shall not make [it] good: if it [be] an hired [thing] it came for his hire. 22:16 and if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 22:17 if her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. 22:18 thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. 22:19 whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. 22:20 he that sacrificeth unto [any] god, save unto the lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed. 22:21 thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of egypt. 22:22 ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 22:23 if thou afflict

gregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, go and smite the inhabitants of jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children. 21:11 and this [is] the thing that ye shall do, ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man. 21:12 and they found among the inhabitants of jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to shiloh, which is in the land of canaan. 21:13 and the whole congregation sent [some] to speak to the children of benjamin that [were] in the rock rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them. 21:14 and benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of jabeshg

said unto him [there is] no cause: this evil in sending me away [is] greater than the other that thou didst unto me. but he would not hearken unto her. 13:17 then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, put now this [woman] out from me, and bolt the door after her. 13:18 and [she had] a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king s daughters [that were] virgins apparelled. then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her. 13:19 and tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that [was] on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying. 13:20 and absalom her brother said unto her, hath amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he [is] thy brother; regard not this thing. so t

to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that [it] should be published according to the language of every people. 2:1 after these things, when the wrath of king ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. 2:2 then said the king s servants that ministered unto him, let there be fair young virgins sought for the king: 2:3 and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto shushan the palace, to the house of the women unto the custody of hege the king s chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given [them] 2:4 and let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead

the king s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. and esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her. 2:16 so esther was taken unto king ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which [is] the month tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. 2:17 and the king loved esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of vashti. 2:18 then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants [even] esther s feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king. 2:19 and when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then mordecai sat in the king s gate. 2:20 esther

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

he others, pleaded that he did not adore it in his heart. he described it as supported on four feet, two before and two behind.3 guillaume de arrablay, the king s almoner (eleemosynarius regius, said that in the chapter at which he was received, a head made of silver was placed on the altar, and adored by those who formed the chapter; he was told that it was the head of one of the eleven thousand virgins, and had always believed this to be the case, until after the arrest of the order, when, hearing all that was said on the matter, he suspected that it was the idol; and he adds in his deposition that it seemed to him to have two faces, a terrible look, and a silver beard.4 it does not appear very clear why he should have taken a head with two faces, a fierce look, and a beard, 1 quod adora

and a beard, 1 quod adorant, osculantur, et vocant salvatorem suum. proc s, ii, 279. 2 et vidit fratres adorare illud; et ipse fingebat illud adorare, sed numquam fecit corde, ut dixit. proc s, ii, 300. 3 proc s, ii, 363. 4 videtur sibi quod haberet duas facies, et quod esset terribilis aspectu, et quod haberet barbam argenteam. proc s, i, 502. generative powers 197 for one of the eleven thousand virgins, but this is, perhaps, partly explained by the deposition of another witness, guillaume pidoye, who had the charge of the relics &c, belonging to the temple in paris, and who produced a head of silver gilt, having a woman's face, and a small skull, resembling that of a woman, inside, which was said to be that of one of the eleven thousand virgins. at the same time another head was brought

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

god will praise the spirits for their works. since prayer is a union with god, where the soul of the individual is dissolved and lost in the infinite sea of divinity, both these interpretations are equally valid. the spirits praise god, and god praises the spirits, because in the fulfillment of the work of the spirits they become indistinguishable from god. the seventh key the east is a house of virgins singing praises amongst the flames of the first glory, wherein the lord hath opened his mouth, and they are become 28 living appendix a: the keys dwellings in whom the strength of men rejoiceth; and they are appareled with ornaments of brightness, such as work wonders on all creatures; whose kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth, strong towers and places of comfort, the seat

to the king's bedchamber and spent the night with him. in reward, he gave the girl anything her heart desiredbeautiful robes, jewelry, servants. then she was sent to live in a second house with the other concubines, and "she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name (esther 2: 14. the imagery of this key reflects the legend of ahasuerus. the virgins of the east become "28 living dwellings in whom the strength of men rejoiceth" when the lord "hath opened his mouth" or called them. afterwards "they are appareled with ornaments of brightness such as work wonders on all creatures" the virgins have become courtesans who allure and bewitch with their adornments. also, they are individualized by names, which define them. however, the primary

each of the tribes. as these chosen ones stand before the throne, divine harpers begin to sing and play: 204 tetragrammaton and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. these are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. these are they which follow the lamb whithersoever he goeth. these were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto god and to the lamb (rev. 14:3-4) although it is very dangerous to attach specific symbolic meanings to the numbers in the keys, i am tempted to look upon this description as a metaphor for the progress of the sun through the twenty-eight mansions of the moon. the s

h specific symbolic meanings to the numbers in the keys, i am tempted to look upon this description as a metaphor for the progress of the sun through the twenty-eight mansions of the moon. the sun enters each house of the moon successively in his yearly course around the heavens, and by his entry he adorns that house with his splendor. each house thus has twelve months to prepare, just as did the virgins who purified themselves for king ahasuerus, who cleansed themselves six months with oil (water) and six months with incense (fire. maintaining the pattern established in keys five and six, the messiah says of these living dwellings of the house of the east that their "kingdoms and continuance are as the third and fourth, strong towers and places of comfort, the seats of mercy and continuan

rth monsters. 2. wo be unto the kings of the earth, for they shall be beaten in a mortar. 3. wo be unto such as paint themselves, and are like unto the prince of pride; for they shall drink the blood of their neighbours, and of their own children. 4. wo be unto the false preachers, yea seven woes be unto them; for they are the teeth of the beast. he that hath ears, let him hear. 5. wo be unto the virgins of the earth, for they shall disdain their virginity, and they shall become concubins for satan, and despise the god of righteousnesse. 6. wo be unto the merchants of the earth, for they are become abominable: behold, they are become the spies of the earth, and the dainty meat of kings. but they are foolish: yea, they shall fall into the pit that they have digged for others. 7. wo be unto

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

with at least one tantric text: like the jews, the wise men of india have a belief that a certain particular prana, or force, resides in the bindu, or semen. therefore they stimulate to the maximum its generation by causing a consecrated prostitute to excite the organs, and at the same time vigorously withhold by will. after some little exercise they claim that they can deflower as many as eighty virgins in a night without losing a single drop of the bindu. nor is this ever to be lost, but reabsorbed through the tissues of the body. the organs thus act as a siphon to draw constantly fresh supplies of life from the cosmic reservoir, and flood the body with their fructifying virtue. initiates will notice also that these heathen philosophers have made one further march towards the truth when

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

and 14-b. red is traditionally associated with the triangle and fire and therefore it will be found in the designs of the fire signs. it is the first form by which deity usually manifests, such as the burning bush and tongues of fire, and signals an immediate opening of consciousness and vibrant, active life. fire was an element thought to be particularly numinous in the ancient world, and vestal virgins were endowed with the task of making sure the sacred flame was never extinguished. red can also shift to its opposite, green, and in esoteric literature, the true occult color, or that kept secret from the profane, is often given as the complementary color. the simple design on page 19 (see figure 2-g) is very revealing in terms of uncovering this secret of the mystery of complementary rel

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

mous fin mac coul was reborn in ulster in the person of king mongan, two hundred years after his death. there was also a class of diviners called druidesses and mentioned by caesar in his de bella gallica, who were looked on as even more ancient than the druids; they were shape-changers and seem to have had all the characteristics of witches. they made rain by sprinkling water over or beside nude virgins. christians accused them of 'baptising' children into heathenism. their association could only be entered by initiation, and learning and practising their secret lore. their magic power was much feared by early christians, who ascribed it to the devil. if we only knew really what the druids believed and taught, whether there was only one form of belief and whether they had various sects am

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

five years old. the trespass offering imposed on the philistines, 5 golden emerods and 5 golden mice. joseph gave benjamin 5 suits of raiment joseph presented only 5 of his brethren to pharaoh. david took 5 pebbles when he went to fight goliath. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 62. the jews classed a bride s attendants by fives five wise and five foolish virgins. there are five articles of belief in the mahometan faith in allah, in angels, in the prophet, the day of judgment, and predestination. the five duties of a member of the christian church were stated by the fathers. to keep holy the festivals; to observe the fasts; to attend public worship; to receive the sacraments; and to adhere to the customs of the church. st. paul said he preferred to

ed in the original reference, avoth d rabbi nathan, chapter 34. there are 10 hebrew words to designate idols and 10 for joy. sodom was to be spared for 10 righteous men; gideon took 10 servants to destroy the altar of baal; boaz chose 10 witnesses for his marriage with ruth; joab s armor was borne by 10 young men. jesus speaks of 10 talents, 10 cities, 10 pieces of silver and gave a parable of 10 virgins. the tabernacle has many 10 dimensions. there are 10 bible names of god, 10 canticles, and 10 necessaries for man s life. ecclus. 39. 26. there were 10 pythagorean virtues of initiation and the buddhists teach 10 paramitas of perfection. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott in the alchymico-kabalistic tract called aesch metzareph referred to by eliphas

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