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ind a rhythm that suits you and helps you feel comfortable and still. having attained this, count the breath for two or three minutes, or until you are completely quieted and relaxed. you may then proceed with the meditation or ritual work. the hebrew alphabet 55 letter name value final with value meaning power a aleph 1 ox a b beth 2 house b, v g gimel 3 camel g, gh d daleth 4 door d, dh h heh 5 window h w vav 6 nail, pin, hook v, o, u z zayin 7 sword, armor z j cheth 8 fence, enclosure ch f teth 9 snake t y yod 10 hand y, i k kaph 20 ]500 palm, fist k, kh l lamed 30 ox goad l m mem 40 \600 water m n nun 50 700 fish n s samekh 60 prop s u ayin 70 eye aa,ngh p peh 80 [800 mouth p, ph x tzaddi 90 900 fish hook tz q qoph 100 ear, back of head q r resh 200 head r c shin 300 tooth s, sh t tav

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

dressing up their wives as men, had thought of nothing but swelling the apparent numbers of their warriors. i need scarcely remind the reader, that this mythical interpretation of the lombard name is a false one, for au the credit it found in the mid. ages^ there is one more feature in the legend that must not escape our notice. wodan from his heavenly dwelling loolis doum on the earth through a window, which exactly agrees with on. descriptions. osinn has a throne named fflicfshicdf, sitting on which he can survey the whole world, and hear all that goes on among men]?ar er einn stasr er hlisscialf heitir, oc)?aer osiun settiz jjar i hasoeti, oc ?a sd hann of alia heima, oc vissi aua luti, j?a er hann sa (there is a stead that h. hight, and when 0. sat there on high-seat, then saw he over

cap. 109, ed. 1556 p. 106, ed. 1590 p. 85. rollwagenbiichlein 1590, pp. 98-9 (here a golden settle. moserrf vermischte schriften 1, 332. 2, wodan. 137 can it be alluded to in tlie mhg. poem, amgb. 3? der nu den himel hat erkorn, der geiselt uns bi uuser habe; ich viirhte sere, unt wirt im zorn, den slegel wirft er uns her abe^ in a servian song (vuk 4, 9) the angels descend to earth out of god's window (od bozhieg prozora; pro-zor (out-look, hence window) reminds one of zora (dawn, prozorie (morning twilight, and of wodan at early morn looking toward the sunrise. the dawn is, so to speak, the opening in heaven, through which god looks into the world. also, what paulus diac. 1, 20 tells of the anger of the lord (supra, p. 18, whereby the herulian warriors were smitten before their enemies

body, that has not eaten zemmcdc^ that day, takes out any other food he has had, and fills the empty space with hay or straw wisps and bricks, and at last sews his body up again, using a ploughshare for a needle, and for thread a rohm chain. p. 159: at oppurg, the same night of the year, perchtha found the spinning-room full of merrymaking guests, and in a towering rage she handed in through the window twelve cm-pty reels, which were to be spun full to the rim within an hour, when she would come back; one quarter of an hour had passed after another in fearful expectation, when a saucy girl ran up to the garret, reached down a roll of tow, and wrapped it round the empty reels, then they spun two or three thicknesses of thread over the tow, so that the reels looked full. perchtha came, they

the similar story of the white manikin in bader, p. 3g9. p. 167: at langendembach lived an old spinningwife, who swiftly wound the thread all the winter through, and did not so much as leave off on twelfth day-eve, though son and daugliter-in-law warned her' if perchtha comes, it will go hard with you' heyday' was her answer' perchtha brings me no shirts, i must spin them myself after a while the window is pushed open, perchtha looks into the room, and throws some empty selpliartes re^el (wackernarrel's lb. 903, there is exhibited, together with bruoder zornli and bruoder ergerli, a bruoder wirra' der sin herze mit weltlichen dingen also heworren hat (has so entangled his lieart with worldly things, daz da nilit me in mag. and that notion of tangled thread and hair, which prevails abont be

y had to leave that lovely region. arrived at the other side, perchtha bade the boatman cross once more and fetch the heimchen that had been left behind, which under compulsion he did. she in the meantime had been mending the plovgh, she pointed to the chii^s, and said to the ferryman' there, take that to reward thy trouble. grumbling, he pocketed three of the chips, and at home flung them on the window-shelf, and himself, ill at ease, into bed. in the morning, three gold-pieces lay where he had thrown the chips. the memory of perchtha's passage is also preserved at kaulsdorf on the saale, and at kostriz on the elstcr, not far from gera. p. 126: late one night, the master wheelwright at colba was coming home from oppurg, where he had 276 goddesses. been to work; it was the eve of the three

ouls of infaiit children are found in their host, as they likewise rule over elves and davarfs, but night-hags and enchantresses also follow in their train: all this savours of heathenism. it is very remarkable, that the italians too have a mis-shapen fairy befana, a terror to children, who has sprung out of epiphania (befania: on that day the women and children set a doll made of old rags in the window; she is black and ugly, and brings presents. some say, she is, herod's daughter; eanke's hist, zeitschr. 1,717' la befania' pulei's morg. 5, 42. berni says' il di di befania vo porla per befana alia fenestra, perche qualcun le dia d' una ballestra' it would be astonishing, if twice over, in two different nations, a name in the calendar had caused the invention of a supernatural being; it is

anrvco'i raptim. thus athene or here comes al^aga, od. 1, 102. h. 2, 167. 4, 74. 19, 114. 22, 187; thetis, the dream, atliene, here, all a[)pear kaptrdxi'p.co'i, h. 1, 359. 2, 17. 1g8. 5, 8g8. 19, 115. od. 2, 40g; fuseidon and here kpattrvd, kpalirvo, ii. 13, 18. 14. 292; even zeus, when he rises from his throne to look on the earth, arrrj dvai^awindow (p. 274. imuch in the same way i understand the expression used in sa3m. 53^ of thorr and tyr: foro driugom (ibant tractim, raptim, exfcrjsov, for driugr is from driuga, goth, driugan trahere, whence also goth, drauhts, ohg. truht turba, agmen, on. drangr larva, phantasma, ohg. gitroc fallacia, because a spectre appears and vanishes quickly in the air. at the same time it means the rush and

e their shifts again, and fly away in the shape of swans. he lay in wait for them another time, and abstracted the garment of the youngest; she fell on her knees before him, and begged for it, but he took her home with him, and married her. when seven years were gone by, he shewed her the shift he had kept concealed; she no sooner had it in her hand, than she jleiv out as a simii through the open window, and the sorrowing husband died soon after. afzelius 2, 143-5. on the other hand, the swan-hero forsakes his wife the moment she asks the forbidden question. a. peasant had a field, in which whatever he set was trampled down every year on st. john's night. two years in succession lie set his two eldest sons to watch in the held; at midnight they heard a hurtling in the air, which sent them

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

love. such actions were quite a normal part of life, a way of tapping into the same energies that made the cattle fertile and the corn set seed. farmers would leave milk for the faeries that they might bring good fortune, young girls recited love charms while planting herbs in soil embedded with a would-be lover's footprint. on hallowe'en, housewives opened their windows and placed garlic on the window ledge so that only the good family dead might enter and take shelter from the cold. this simple folk magick, rather than ceremonial magick, forms the basis for the majority of spells. as above, so below, the words of the semi-divine father of magick, hermes trismegistos, may originally have evolved from popular magick that is practised in many different cultures around the world to this day

ic and contagious magick to bring you something you desire. for example, you could scatter pins across a map between the places you and a lover live and with a magnet collect them, while reciting: come love, come to me, love to me come, if it is right to be. you would then place your pins in a silk, heart-shaped pincushion or a piece of pink silk, also in the shape of a heart, and leave it on the window ledge on the night of the full moon, surrounded by a circle of rose petals. banishing and protective magick this involves driving away negative feelings, fears and influences by casting away or burying a focus of the negativity. for example, you might scratch on a stone a word or symbol representing some bad memories you wished to shed, and cast the stone into fast-flowing water. alternativ

le speaking words of love and desire to increase the love energies* for the first two days, blow out the candles, sending the light to wherever your lover is. on the third day, leave the candles to burn down, allowing the wax from the two candles to merge* in the melded wax, cut the shape of a heart and on this scratch your entwined zodiacal glyphs. wrap the symbol in white silk and leave it on a window ledge from the waxing to the full moon. a candle ritual to heal the polluted seas and other bodies of water this is a ritual to be carried out after dusk. it also has the effect of clearing old hurts and regrets that can hold us back from experiencing joy. a wonderful selection of garden torches and candles are now available, that can be placed in the ground for working out of doors. as you

perity, fertility, healing and success and could contain either a single herb or a mixture, depending on the purpose. poppets, which are used mainly in love or healing or occasionally in protective magick, are generally kept in a safe place, such as a drawer, rather than carried around. so, for a love spell, two poppets would be tied together and placed in a drawer in a bedroom or left out on the window ledge in the moonlight, especially around the time of the full moon. for fertility, a miniature poppet might be placed in a tiny woven cradle on the window ledge from the new to the full moon. it would then be wrapped in silk until the end of the moon cycle and kept in an enclosed space, for example, a large painted egg made of pottery or wood. the would-be father would make the cradle and

uncast the circle, but do not blow out the candles. leave them and the oil to burn through, and only then put the lid back on the pot and return it to the warm place* add a coin to the pot every day if you can. to empower the spell even further, you could also place a pot of basil, a herb of wealth, to the east of the burner during the ritual and after the three days, place the charged herbs on a window ledge to attract money. do something positive to help a person, animal or place on the day after the third ritual. it need not involve money. you can re-light the oils at any time if energies seem sluggish and repeat the whole ritual a moon cycle later for as long as is necessary. there may be a lot of negative vibes swimming the other way, so persevere and be patient. incense magick incens

l (or sachet or poppet) nine times widdershins, saying as a mantra: go, pain and sorrow, change to star or sunbeam, transformed in joy and in tranquillity* plunge the pendulum into the water and hold it to the light so the drops of water fall off and scatter as rainbow light beams all around the symbol. you can also create the light beams by angling your candle or hanging rainbow crystals in your window. it is not cheating, but directing natural forces for a purpose and infusing physical light beams with spiritual energies. mirrors are another good way of reflecting light beams* now circle the pendulum nine times deosil over the symbol, saying: sunbeam, star beam, rays of light, replace, restore, renew, rejoice* blow out the candle, sending the light to the sick or sorrowing person, saying

it make you more jittery, less cautious (which may or may not be a good thing, more intuitive, more family-orientated, reverting to out-moded patterns of reaction? again, you can maximise positive effects if you are aware of them, like anticipating a wave and riding it, rather than being submerged by the surge of power. rituals and moon phases if possible, always work out of doors or near an open window so that you feel connected to the lunar energies. however, do not feel that you must freeze if the weather is cold: in spite of the superstitions, it is not unlucky to look at the moon through glass. i have suggested a ritual for each phase and listed the best kinds of magick for each time. the waxing moon this is the time for new beginnings and long-term goals and you can repeat the same s

waves* take an egg and carefully with a needle make a hole in it to drain out all the fluid. you can cook this and eat it or feed this to an animal to avoid waste. if you do not want to use a real egg, you can buy painted wooden or even agate ones in two halves that slot together* cut your shell in half and in one half place either a moonstone or a tiny crystal egg* place both halves open on your window ledge* make love when you wish* on the night the full moon is in the sky, take a tiny paper knife and gently prick the crystal still inside the shell saying: god to goddess, thee to me, grant increase, if 'tis right to be* make love in the full moonlight if it is shining or at any time that night even if it is not, so that you can see the egg on the window ledge or if you are outdoors on a

nal and spiritual regeneration, especially if you have been hurt or lack confidence. if you carry them out, by easter you will be filled with new optimism and a sense of direction and hopefully any new relationships, whether for love or friendship, initiated at imbolc will be slowly but gradually developing. traditionally, those celebrating this festival would light candles and place them at each window of their houses on 31 january or candlemas night, 1 february, and leave them to burn down completely. for safety reasons, nowadays, however, many people use the type of electric candle sets that are popular in windows in swedish homes before christmas. a single, large, white candle was also lit in or near the family hearth as a centrepiece for the family feast on the same evening to welcome

lame, saying: burn a pathway to my door, five rose petals now are four, four to three in candle fire, bringing closer my desire. from three to two i burn the rose, love no hesitation shows, from two to one till there is none, the spell is done, come, lover, come* place the map and the roses, the candle and a vase with the rose from which you plucked the petals, in a safe place near an uncurtained window until the candle has burned down* then put all the roses in the vase in your bedroom and when they die repeat the spell if necessary. a knot ritual for making a wish come true* name your wish* take nine scarves or nine pieces of cord, each about the length of a bootlace* place them on a table and slowly tie a loose knot in each so you secure the nine together in a circle, saying with increa

to a whisper until you are quite still* sit and make a nine-day plan for making your wish materialise and each morning untie one of your knots as you repeat the chant. a fertility spell* when the crescent moon is in the sky, take a hen's egg and paint or colour it with permanent marker pens and decorate it with mother goddess symbols, such as spirals, butterflies, bees and birds* place it on the window ledge of your bedroom and leave it there until the night of the full moon* on this night, prick the egg gently with a silver pin or paper knife* the next day, early in the morning, sprinkle it with a few drops of almond or pure olive oil for added fertility* place the egg in one half of a coconut shell (the coconut is the most potent fertility fruit) or a tiny straw basket, and set your lit

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tism, i care nothing. 87 rue mozart, auteuil, paris. introduction xix sound or power hebrew and chaldee letters numerical value* how expressed in this work by roman letters hebrew name of letter signification of name 1 a (soft breathing) 1 a aleph ox, also duke, or leader 2 b, bh (v) p 2 b beth house 3 g (hard, gh o 3 g gimel camel 4 d, dh (flat th) i 4 d daleth door 5 h (rough breathing) u 5 h h window 6 v, u, o y 6 v vau peg, nail 7 z, dz t 7 z zayin weapon, sword 8 ch (guttural) r 8 ch cheth enclosure, fence 9 t (strong) e 9 t teth serpent 10 i, y (as in yes) w 10 i yod hand 11 k, kh" final: 20 final= 500 k kaph palm of the hand 12 l l 30 l lamed ox-goad 13 m k final= j 40 final= 600 m mem water 14 n h final= g 50 final= 700 n nun fish 15 s f 60 s samekh prop, support 16 o, aa, ng (gutt

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being of importance, i shall leave alone for the present all other considerations, so that we may begin with the operation which we should perform on the first morning after the celebration of the feast of easter (or passover. firstly: having carefully washed one s whole body and having put on fresh clothing: precisely a quarter of an hour before sunrise ye shall enter into your oratory, open the window, and place yourselves upon your knees before the altar, turning your faces towards the window; and devoutly and with boldness ye shall invoke the name of the lord, thanking him for all the grace which he hath given and granted unto you from your infancy until now; then with humility shall ye humble yourselves unto him, and confess unto hirn entirely all your sins; supplicating him to be wil

om, and ye shall have no lack of instructions how to pray with fruit. and although in the commencement your prayer may be weak, it sufficeth that your heart be true and loyal towards god, who little by little will kindle in you his holy spirit, who will so teach you and enlighten your spirit, that ye shall both know and have the power to pray. when ye shall have performed your orations, close the window, and go forth from the oratory; so that no one may be able therein to enter; and ye shall not yourselves enter again until the evening when the sun shall be set. then shall ye enter therein afresh, and shall perform your prayers in the same manner as in the morning. for the rest, ye shall govern yourselves each day as i shall tell you in the following instructions. concerning the bed chambe

ts; that is to say, the interior where the altar and tabernacle will be placed after the manner of a temple; and the part exterior, which with the rest of the place will be as a portico thereunto. now if you commence not this operation in the country, but perform it in a town, or in some dwellingplace, i will show unto ye what shall be necessary herein.40 ye shall choose an apartment which hath a window, joined unto the which shall be an uncovered terrace (or balcony, and a lodge (or small room or hut) covered with a roof, but so that there may be on every side windows whence you may be able to see in every direction, and whence you may enter into the oratory. in the which place41 the evil spirits shall be able to appear, since they cannot appear within the oratory itself in the which plac

rself in all points; because your guardian angel is already about you, though invisible, and conducteth and governeth your heart, so that you shall not err. the two moons being finished, in the morning ye shall commence all that is commanded in the ninth chapter,53 and further observe this present chapter. when first ye shall enter into the oratory, leave your shoes without, and having opened the window,54 ye shall place the lighted coals in the censer which55 you shall have brought with you, you shall light the lamp, and take from the cupboard of the altar your two vestments, the crown, the girdle and the wand, placing them upon the altar. then take the sacred oil in your left hand, cast some of the perfume upon the fire, and place yourself upon your knees,56 praying unto the lord with fe

sel which may be necessary unto you, he will disappear, but the splendour will remain. the which the child having observed, and made the sign thereof unto you, you shall command him to bring you quickly the little plate of silver, and that which you find written thereon you shall at once copy, and order the child to replace it upon the altar. then you shall go forth from the oratory and leave the window open, and the lamp alight, and during this whole day you shall not enter into the oratory; but shall make preparation for the day following; and during the day you shall speak to none, nor make answer, even were it your own wife or children or servants; except to the child whom you can send away. also you shall beforehand have set your affairs in order, and so arranged: of abramelin the mag

invisible; while on taking it away, you will appear visible again. chapter xv (for the spirits to bring us anything we may wish to eat or to drink, and even all kinds of food that we can imagine) as for this symbol, and all like ones appertaining unto this chapter, when you shall wish to make use of them, you shall put them between two plates, dishes, or jugs, closed together, on the outside of a window, and before a quarter of an hour shall have passed, you will, find and will have that which you have demanded. but you must clearly understand that with such kind of viands you cannot nourish men for more than two days only; for this food, although it be appreciable by the eyes and by the mouth, doth not long nourish the body, which hath soon hunger again, seeing that this (food) giveth no

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angels, and in part also by the evil spirits (b) asmodee and magot together execute the operations of this chapter (c) the familiar spirits cannot well execute the operations of this chapter (d) as for these symbols and all like ones appertaining unto this chapter, when you shall wish to make use of them, you shall put them between two plates, dishes, or jugs, closed together on the outside of a window; and before a quarter of an hour shall have passed you will find and will have that which you have demanded; but you must clearly understand that with such kinds of viands you cannot nourish men for more than two days. for this food although it be appreciable by the eyes, and by the mouth, doth not long nourish the body, which hath soon hunger again, seeing that this food gives no strength

therefore this square should be numbered d, instead of b. no. c consists of b a squares taken from a square of c f squares. basar means flesh. no. d consists of c b squares in the form of the roman capital letter e, taken from a square of d g squares. lechem means bread, cnohah implies corn, and mechel means a cake. therefore this should evidently he numbered b, instead of d. mechel also means a window. no. e is a square of c f squares. dacad should be spelt with a g instead of a c; the meaning is bring forth fish. camac means meal, or flour. afara may be from the greek adverb aphar= straightway or forthwith but if taken as a hebrew root may mean bring forth fruit. no. f is a gnomon of b f squares and d other supplementary ones taken from a square of g e squares. lebhinah is from lba= mil

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

e are composed is indeed constantly occupied in the satisfaction of its particular needs by its own particular yoga; but for that very reason it is completely obsessed by its own function, which it must naturally consider as the be-all and end-all of its existence. for instance, if you take a glass tube open at both ends and put it over a bee on the windowpane it will continue beating against the window to the point of exhaustion and death, instead of escaping through the tube. we must not confuse the necessary automatic functioning of any of our elements with the true will which is the proper orbit of any star. a human being only acts as a unit at all because of countless generations of training. evolutionary processes have set up a higher order of yogic action by which we have managed to

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER CHANOKH

as ivemeda aqoso adoho moz, od maof-fasa. bolape como belioeta pamebata. zodacare od zodameranu! odo cicale qaa. zodoreje, lape zodiredo noco mada, hoathahe i a i d a. o thou mighty light and burning flame of comfort! that unveilest the glory of god to the centre of the earth, in whom the 6332 secrets of truth have their abiding, that is called in thy kingdom joy and not to be measured. be thou a window of comfort unto me! move and appear! unveil the mysteries of your creation, be friendly unto me, for i am the servant of the same your god, the true worshipper of the highest. the angle of e of b in the tablet of b. the princess of the shining flame, the rose of the palace of fire. the forty-eight keys or calls 32 mark well! these first 18 calls are in reality 19; that is, 19 in the celesti

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

he case; as when a doctor makes a wrong diagnosis, and his treatment injures his patient. there may be failure to apply the right kind of force, as when a rustic tries to blow out an electric light. there may be failure to apply the right degree of force, as when a wrestler has his hold broken. there may be failure to apply the force in the right manner, as when one presents a cheque at the wrong window of the bank. there may be failure to employ the correct medium, as when leonardo da vinci found his masterpiece fade away. the force may be applied to an unsuitable object, as when one tries to crack a stone, thinking it a nut (4) the first requisite for causing any change is through qualitative and quantitative understanding of the conditions (illustration: the most common cause of failure

: wisdom: 3 :bet-yod-nun-heh: understanding: 4 :chet-samekh-dalet: mercy: 5 :gemel-bet-vau-resh-heh: strength: 6 :taw-peh-aleph-resh-taw: beauty: 7 :nun-tzaddi-chet: victory: 8 :heh-vau-dalet: splendour: 9 :yod-samekh-vau-dalet: foundation: 10 :mem-lamed-koph-vau-taw: kingdom: 11 :aleph-lamed-pehfinal: ox: 12 :bet-yod-taw: house: 13 :gemel-mem-lamed: camel: 14 :dalet-lamed-taw: door: 15 :heh-heh: window: 16 :vau-vau: nail: 17 :zain-yod-nunfinal: sword: 18 :chet-yod-taw: fence: 19 :tet-yod-taw: serpent: 20 :yod-vau-dalet: hand: 21 :koph-pehfinal: palm: 22 :lamed-mem-dalet: ox goad: 23 :mem-yod-memfinal: water: 24 :nun-vau-nunfinal: fish: 25 :samekh-mem-kophfinal: prop: 26 :ayin-yod-nunfinal: eye: 27 :peh-heh: mouth: 28 :tzaddi-dalet-yod: fish-hook: 29 :qof-vau-pehfinal: back of head: 30 :re

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

in one sense magick may be defined as the name given to science by the vulgar. 23 as when a rustic tries to blow out an electric light. there may be failure to apply the right degree of force, as when a wrestler has his hold broken. there may be failure to apply the force in the magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 39 right manner, as when one presents a cheque at the wrong window of the bank. there may be failure to employ the correct medium, as when leonardo da vinci found his masterpiece fade away. the force may be applied to an unsuitable object, as when one tries to crack a stone, thinking it a nut) 4. the first requisite for causing any change is thorough qualitative and quantitative understanding of the condition (illustration: the most common cause of failure

ould sit in the attitude called padmasana, which is that usually seen in seated images of the buddha. of these men, allan was one. he could knot his legs so well that, putting his hands on the ground, he could swing his body to and fro in the air between them. when i looked into his room i found him not seated on his meditation mat, which was in the centre of the room at the end farthest from the window, but in a distant corner ten or twelve feet off, still in his knotted position, resting on his head and right shoulder, exactly like an image overturned. i set him right way up, and he came out of his trance. he was quite unconscious that anything unusual had happened. but he had evidently been thrown there by the mysterious forces generated by pranayama "there is no doubt whatever about th

lu; let me give you an instance: reading. one of us would take the children shopping and bring up the subject of ice-cream. where, oh where could we get some? presently one would exclaim and point to a placard and say "i really do believe there'll be some there- and lo! it was so. then they 9 would wonder how one knew, and one would say: why, there's "helados" printed on that piece of card in the window. they would want to learn to read at once. we would discourage them, saying what hard word it was, and how much crying it cost, at the same time giving another demonstration of the advantages. they would insist, and we should yield- to active, eager children, not to dullards that hated the idea of "lessons" so with pretty well everything; we first excited the child's will in the desired dir

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

re (deut. 4:24. see 182; deut. 28:58) kyhl) hwhy mud cb litter bc 93 aiwass: the minister of hoor-paar-kraat( gcorrect h. cf. 78) zwy( the sons of [the merciful] god l) ynb incense hnwbl a disc, round shield; a defender ngm possession hlxn arduous, busy; host, army )bc 94 corpse hpwg the valley of vision nwyzxyg to extinguish k(d a fault (ps. 50:20, i.e. there gallege a fault h) ypd a shore pwx a window nwlx a drop hp+ children mydly congratulations, good luck bw+ lzm prickly dnm side dc 95 the sphere of mars myd)m the great stone hldg nb) the waters mymh multitude, abundance nmh journey klhm queen hklm selah, glift up! h (ps. 32:5, 7, etc) hls 96 a name of god ynd) l (chaldee form of myhl) nyhl) by day mmwy occupation [mundane] work (cf. 415& 420) hk)lm the secret [counsel] of the lord (p

compelled by force hswn) revolutions [of souls] mylwglg evil possessing spirit qwbyd 123 a name of god implying kether, chokmah and binah (3, 4& 5 letters) myhl) hwhy hh) war hmxlm a blow; plague (gn pleasure, delight gn( an attack upon others, a violation, injury mgp high priest lwdgh nhk 124 an oak; hardness nswx pleasure, delight: eden nd( 125) thine hand (ps. 139:5; see s.d. 5:16) hkpk 126 a window hnml) darkness hlyp) a name of god )lg) ynd) hwhy hospitality nwlm horse sws on: a name of god (cf. 120; penalty of iniquity: gbeing taken away h nw( humble, afflicted wn( 127 material, natural (ar (b+wm 128 to withdraw, rescue, deliver; to equip for war clx goodly strength; proof nysx god the eternal one wnyhl) hwhy 129 pleasure (gn. 18:12) hnd( delight, pleasure gnw( the standing prayer (

basis of vanity lbh t# oak; oak-wood *nwl) 738 the lower part, the loins *myclx 740 manna; portion *nm 741 the four letters of the elements; hence a concealed hwhy #tm) a tree *nly) firm, faithful; amen: so be it: a title of kether *nm) 742 the ark of the covenant (lit. gof tremblings h, scil. gvibrations h) twd(h nwr) 743 a disc, round shield; a defender *ngm 744 the valley of vision *nwyzxyg a window *nwlx footprints (foot fs breadth (deut. 2:5 *krdm 745 the great stone *hldg nb) multitude, abundance *nmh 746 the names twm (chaldee form of myhl *nyhl) a [civil] officer *mynwmm a place *mwqm 747 the voice of the turtle-dove (ct. 2:12) rwth lwq changeless, constant; the god amon (na. 3:8 *nwm) the appointed time *nmz auphanim, wheels: the angelic choir of chokmah *mynpw) 748 the oil of an

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rom the sanctuary, he becomes a vulgar drunkard "this folly against self" altruism is a direct assertion of duality, which is division, restriction, sin, in its vilest form. i love my neighbour because love makes him part of me; not because hate divides him from me. our law is so simple that it constantly approximates to truism "the exposure of innocence" exposure means "putting out" as in a shop-window. the pretence of altruism and so-called virtue "is a lie" it is the hypocrisy of the puritan, which is hideously corrupting both to the hypocrite and to his victim. to "lust" is to grasp continually at fresh aspects of nuit. it is the mistake of the vulgar to expect to find satisfaction in the objects of sense. disillusion is inevitable; when it comes, it leads only too often to an error wh

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275 the hindu, an advaitist, crosses off maya from the list; believes in one exactly so, dhyana-consciousness, you know! may it not be that one step further 280 this lotused buddha roaring murther ?39 nibbana is the state above you christians and them hindus lord love you! where nothing is perceived as such. this clever thought doth please me much. 285 but if das essen ist das nichts ha! hegel s window! ancient lichts! and two is one and one is two bother this nonsense! go on, do! my wandering thoughts you well recall! 290 i focus logic s perfect prism: lo! the informing syllogism! the premiss major. life at best is but a sorry sort of jest; at worst, a play of fiends uncouth, 295 mocking the soul foredoomed to pain. in any case, its run must range through countless miseries of change. so

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erlooking a dingy road and barges drawn up on the slimy, fetid mud-banks. and yet, even here, romance was present for the romantic; the fog-wreaths curling over the river clothed the houses opposite in soft mystery, as if they had been draped in blue samite, and through the water-laden air the sun glowed round and red as a fiery wheel of pha ton's chariot. the room was very bare; by the broad low window stood a large deal table crowded with instruments and glasses; strong electric lamps on the right and left testified to the prolonged labours of the optician. the roof of the garret ran up towards the centre, and by the wall there was a low truckle-bed, fenced off by a cheap japanese paper- screen. the whole of the wall between 59 the bed and the window was furnished with pine-shelves, fill

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s hb:taw hb:vau hb:dalet hb:vau hb:samekh hb:yod hb:mem-final hb:lamed hb:chet kingdom. hb:taw hb:vau hb:koph hb:lamed hb:mem 10 66 air hb:chet hb:vau hb:resh ox. hb:peh-final hb:lamed hb:aleph 11 78 mercury (planets follow house. hb:taw hb:yod hb:bet 12 91 luna sephiroth camel. hb:lamed hb:mem hb:gemel 13 105 venus corresponding) door. hb:taw hb:lamed hb:dalet 14 120 aries hb:heh hb:lamed hb:tet window. hb:heh hb:heh 15 136 taurus hb:resh hb:vau hb:shin nail. hb:vau hb:vau 16 153 gemini hb:mem-final hb:yod hb:mem hb:vau hb:aleph hb:taw sword. hb:nun-final hb:yod hb:zain 17 171 cancer hb:nun-final hb:tet hb:resh hb:samekh fence. hb:taw hb:yod hb:chet 18 190 leo hb:heh hb:yod hb:resh hb:aleph serpent. hb:taw hb:yod hb:tet 19 210 virgo hb:heh hb:lamed hb:vau hb:taw hb:bet hand. hb:dalet hb:v

hat she had tested- and it had tricked her. what do i need? she thought. mut it be blood? she was a maiden of the pure english strain; brave, gay, honest, shrewd- and there was not one that guessed the inmost fire that burnt her. for she was but a child when the visitor came. the first of the visits was in a dream. she woke choking; the air- clear, sweet, and wholesome as it blew through the open window from the chilterns- was fouled with a musty stench. and she woke her governess with a tale of a tiger. the second visit was again at night. she had been hunting, was alone at the death, had beaten off the hounds. that night she heard a fox bark in her room, she spent a 125 sleepless night of terror; in the morning she found the red hairs of a fox upon her pillow. the third visit was nor in

nds to her body. he was telling the truth "the visitor" she screamed once with fright, and was silent. he switched the light on, and she screamed again. there was a savage lust upon his face "this afternoon" he cried "you called me a dog. i looked like a dog and thought like a dog; and, by god! i am a dog. i'll act like a dog then" obedient to some strange instinct, she dived from the bed for the window. but he was on her; his teeth met in her throat. in the morning they found the dead bodies of both hound and fox- but how did that explain the wonderful elopement of lord eyre and miss fleming? for neither of them were ever seen again. i think margaret understands; in the convent which she rules to-day there hangs beside a blood-stained cutting-whip the silver model of a fox, with the inscr

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rous food and divine madness. come unto me, o ye children of men; come unto me, in whom i am, in whom ye are, were ye only alive with the life that abideth in light" all this time i have been fading away. i sink. the veil of night comes down a dull blue-gray with one pentagram in the midst of it, watery and dull. and i am to abide there for a while before i come back to the earth (but shut me the window up, hide me from the sun. oh, shut the window!)5 now, the pentagram is faded; black crosses fill the aethyr gradually growing and interlacing, until there is a network. it is all dark now. i am lying exhausted, with the sharp edge of the shew- stone cutting into my forehead. bou-saada "november" 30, 1909. 9.15- 10.50 a.m. 46 5 it was done- o.v. illustration plate facing page 47 partly appro

ther and be brought to understand. and thus shall he do who will attain unto the mystery of the knowledge and conversation of his holy guardian angel: first, let him prepare a chamber, of which the walls and the roof shall be white, and the floor shall be covered with a carpet of black squares and white, and the border thereof shall be blue and gold. and if it be in a town, the room shall have no window, and if it be in the country, then it is better if the window be in the roof. or, if it be possible, let this invocation be performed in a temple prepared for the ritual of passing through the tuat. from the roof he shall hang a lamp, wherein is a red glass, to burn olive oil. and this lamp shall he cleanse and make ready after the prayer of sunset, and beneath the lamp shall be an altar, f

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gel, within the pyramid already duly prepared by dclxxi. 12.57. alas! in vain have i tried even the supreme ritual of awaiting the beloved, although once i thought ah! give unto thy beloved in sleep! how ashamed i should be, though! for an earthly lover one would be on tiptoe of excitement, trembling at every sound, eager, afraid i will, however, rise and open (as for a symbol) the door and the window. oh that the door of my heart were ever open! for he is always there, and always eager to come in. 1.0. i rise and open unto my beloved. may it be granted unto me in the daylight of this day to construct from dclxxi a perfect ritual of self-initiation, so as to avoid the constant difficulty of assuming various god-forms. then let that ritual be a constant and perfect link between us so tha

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ats and other vermin "after this, he led me upstairs to another floor, and into a room which in the dim light appeared to be an attic. 37 "see" liber o. 38 weh note: crowley's original vision record identifies the omission as being the central part dealing with the archangels "before. illustration on page 309 approximated: e fire-place_ n s door& crucifix low stairs/ x_ opaim? door_ table stairs/ window the attic_ w diagram 56. plan of the adept's room and the attic above "at the west end of this room, lying upon her back, i saw a naked woman. turning, i challenged the adept, who at once gave me the 0= 0 and 1= 10 signs; but he would not give me 2= 9 .39 "the adept then turned from me and said 'she is in a trance; she is dead; she has been dead long' and immediately her flesh becoming rott

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once upon a time i was the happy proprietor of hundreds of carrier-pigeons. misfortune and a short acquaintance with some faddists caused me to drown my ennui. i drank most of my pigeons- dozens at the time- or rather their equivalent in temperance drinks. i ruined my health. an illness followed, long and painful; the doctor's bill took the rest. but let us forget! now the pigeon came through my window, stood on the ledge and waited. it was a carrier, and it had a message. i took the pellucid note from the tube, and read its short contents, which aroused my curiosity "kidnapped- prisoner- have written report. ignore where pigeon goes, but trust the recipient will read this and send back the pigeon with a note giving news of england. are radicals still in power? shall send the letter by re

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at this conception. only in the soul can we perceive the one unchanging whole. at the same time, the book is well worth study; it summarises thought. the style is [we regret that our space will not admit a more extended review- ed] 104 the dream circean the dream circean i au "lapin agile" perched at the junction of two of the steepest little streets in montmartre shines the "lapin agile" a tiny window filled with gleaming bottles, thrilled through by the light behind, a little terrace with tables, chairs, and shrubs, and two dark doors. roderic mason came striding up the steepness of the rue st. vincent, his pipe gripped hard in his jaw; for the hill is too abrupt for lounging. on the terrace he stretched himself, twirled round half a dozen times like a dervish, pocketed his pipe, and we

indulging in a reverie of the kind that begins 'if only' if only she had been a princess ravished by a wicked ogre. if only. if only "on the south side of the rue des quatre vents is a house standing well back from the street, with a railing in front of it- a common type, is it not? but what riveted my 115 attention upon it was that while the front of the house was otherwise entirely dark, from a window on the first floor streamed a blaze of light. the window was wide open to the street; voices came from it "the first an old, harsh, menacing voice, with all the sting of hate in it; nay, the sting of something devilish, worse than hate. a corrupt enjoyment of its malice informed it. and the words it spoke were too infamous for me to repeat. they are scarred upon my brain. addressed to the v

said- rather obviously, one may admit 'i came 'adding under my breath 'i saw, i conquered 'who is that' i added sternly, pointing to the prostrate hag"'ah, sir (she began to cry 'it is my mother' the horror of it was tenfold multiplied 'she- she' the child blushed, stammered, stopped "i heard, mademoiselle' i cried indignantly"'i am here (she sobbed 'for a month, starved, whipped- oh! by day the window barred with iron; by night, open, the more to mock my helplessness' then, with a sudden cry, her little pink hand darting out and showing a faultless arm 'look! look! she is on you "the mother had drawn herself away with infinite stealth, regained her feet, and, a thin stiletto in her hand, was crouched to spring. indeed, as she leapt i was hard put to it to avoid the lunge; the dagger-edge

er right hand- oh, the delicate beauty of it! i kissed it 'my knight' she said 'jean is below; he may hear you; you go perhaps to your death- kiss me "with a sob i caught her once full in my arms, and our mouths met. i closed my eyes in trance; my muscles failed; i sank, my forehead to the ground before her "when i opened my eyes again she too was praying. softly, without a word, i stepped to the window, took the dagger in my teeth, dropped from the edge, landed lightly beside the corpse. she was quite dead, the skull broken in, the teeth exposed in a last snarl. she lay on her back; i opened the coat, turned her over. the gruesome task was nearly finished when the door of the house opened, and an old man, his face scarred, one lip cut half away in some old brawl, so that he grinned horrib

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easter at about the time of the vernal equinox. the time necessary for the working is six months, so that should it be commenced on march 22, it would end on september 21. the six months is divided into three periods of two months each "first period "every morning precisely a quarter of an hour before sunrise enter your oratory, after having washed and dressed yourself in clean clothing, open the window, and then kneel at the altar facing the window and invoke the name of the lord; after which you should confess to him your entire sins. this being finished you should supplicate him "that in time to come he may be willing and pleased to regard you with pity and grant you his grace and goodness to send unto you his holy angel, who shall serve unto you as a guide."34 in the above exercise by

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ouncing jane fleming, the butler, and dale as the authors of the crime. they have not been arrested. why? i am certain that they are entirely innocent; yet the police cannot be aware of the reasons which lead me to this certainty, and in the absence of these proofs they ought to be suspected. mrs. ridley's bed stood with the foot towards the fireplace, a door being on either side of the head, the window on her left hand. when her maid entered the room in the morning she found the body of her mistress lying at the foot of the bed, the head towards the window. it was entirely naked. near the body was a shift, and over the neck a white shawl had been carelessly thrown. it had upon it in various parts as many as sixteen wounds, cuts and bruises of various importance. the most serious and only

rains i received the following letter; and that is why i know so much. for the very reason of its strangeness i felt at once that it could be the work of no practical joker. the mysterious part of the adventure can, i believe, be solved without much difficulty "dear sir" it ran "you do not know me; but i know you. i have followed you through the world with the eyes of my spirit. i once saw in the window of a paris photographer a portrait of yours which arrested my attention, and since that day your personality has been the constant, though not unpleasant, obsession of my life. i am perfectly acquainted with you and your life, your work and moods and ways of living. i came to england a few weeks ago and i saw you. to-day i write. i am aware that you are interested in the strange happenings

and a certain uncanny look which never quite left him made that man an undesirable neighbour to me. had i not seen him i would refuse to admit the reality of his existence. 295 "i met him during a journey. comfortably seated in a corner of the railway compartment, i was reading a book of the sixteenth century in france merely to occupy my mind, so that i should not be tempted to look through the window at the too commonplace scenery "we had just passed a station, as i knew by the disturbing voice of a porter; and, on resuming my journey, i felt sorry that no companion of travel had entered the lonely carriage. i attempted another perusal of my book, when, without any opening of the door or of the window, i noticed a stranger seated in the opposite corner. his eyes were on me. he left me n

here is your criticism, arthur, straight from the shoulder. any man that knows truth and conceals it is a traitor to humanity; any 321 man that doesn't know, and tries to conceal his ignorance by pretending to be the guardian of a secret, is a charlatan. which is it? we recommend every one to buy the pack, send mr. waite's book to the kitchen so as to warn the maids, throw the major arcana out of window, and play bridge with the minor arcana, which alone are worth the money asked for the whole caboodle. the worst of it all is: mr. waite really does know a bit in a muddled kind of way; if he would only go out of the swelled-head business he might be some use. but if you are not going to tell your secrets, it is downright schoolboy brag to strut about proclaiming that you possess them. au re

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, thou flame-crested pillar of fury! yea, as i approach thee, thou departest from me like unto a wisp of smoke blown forth from the window of my house. 2. o thou summer-land of eternal joy, thou rapturous garden of flowers! yea, as i gather thee, my harvest is but as a drop of due shimmering in the golden cup of the crocus. 3. o thou throbbing music of life and death, thou rhythmic harmony of the world! yea, as i listen to the echo of thy voice, my rapture is but as the whisper of the wings of a butterfly. 4. o thou burning te

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thirst" i cried "yet one more trial. there must be people in all these immense houses. doubtless they love the dying traveller, and will give him to drink. good friends! water! water" a horribly deafening din poured down on me from the four sides of the square. every sash of all the hundred stories of every house in that colossal quadrangle flew up as by one spring. awakened by my call, at every window stood a terrific maniac. sublimely in the air above me, in front, beside me, on either hand, and behind my back, a wilderness of insane faces gnashed at me, glared, gibbered, howled, laughed horribly, hissed and cursed. at the unbearable sight 258 i myself became insane, and leaping up and down, mimicked them all, and drank their demented spirit. hasheesh is indeed an accursed drug, and the

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n thou hast had it. fatma. it was not a beating that thou didst earn, princess. many a time i have fetched water from the well by- laylah. abdul khan! take out this prating hag and beat her soundly. fatma! this is the last time i leave thy lying tongue in that camel-lipped old face of an unbelieving jinneeyah["the eunuch drags her out, screaming and scolding" what news! what news! ledmiya["at the window. a horseman gallops from jerusalem. laylah. oh, quick, quick, quick, his tidings! for pity's sake. would it were the winged horse of brass! i am distracted. mind me not! i can wait. a queen must be able to wait. ledmiya. he is quite near now. and in the distance is a glint, and a faint shouting. i think the battle is coming here. laylah. oh, we cannot have been beaten! silman is so strong a

annot have been beaten! silman is so strong and brave. fatma["re-entering. all is lost! all is lost! let us all flee! laylah. peace, parrot["enter messenger" messenger. pardon, princess! laylah. thy news, or thy head shall pay it. messenger. glorious news! sidi omar hath entered jerusalem, and sacked the house of the knights templars, and the house of the knights hospitallers, and- 86 ledmiya["at window. oh, i can see the spears shining through the dust of the horses! messenger- but- laylah. speak, if thou wouldst ever speak again! messenger. but the knights of malta appeared in great strength, riding from the valley on their noble chargers, armed at all points- laylah. yes? yes? messenger. so that we judged it best to fall back upon the reserves. the maltese fell upon us- you may see them

ith his own hand. and still he is in the front of the battle. he laughed "to-day i am a man, i need thee no more; by my chamberlain and carry this toy to my mother" i think she is a princess. the child. my father is the grand master of the temple, and he is coming to cut all your heads off. laylah. leave her with us! ride back on a fresh horse, and bear aid to the prince["exit" achmet ledmiya["at window. there is a tumult in the courtyard, and a great wailing["wailing without" laylah. the sun will be set in an hour. one hour more of favour and protection for my boy, oh god of battles! the child. our god is love! he will protect me, i know. laylah. imp! be silent! how you startled me! and now i look at you- what is it? what is it? you frighten me. take her away- there, with the pipe-slaves

own hall] lay him there["she rends her veil] sidi omar, these twenty years have i been wedded to thee and thou hast not known my heart! leave me, that i may bewail him as is fitting["all depart but" fatma and ledmiya "and the" pipe-slaves "with their prisoner] fatma, do thou lament. i await tidings of the battle. is there sign of a messenger [fatma "goes to corpse and mutters over it" ledmiya["at window. there are many that make hither. some bear the dead away- two, three, five, eight, oh so many! some ride weary or wounded. laylah. some ride like messengers? ledmiya. no. yes, one. no, he has fallen from his horse, and lies still["wailing without" laylah. go, bid those fools be quiet. is there not enough woe in this house but that their shrieks should edge it [ledmiya "goes out. the wailin

aylah. some ride like messengers? ledmiya. no. yes, one. no, he has fallen from his horse, and lies still["wailing without" laylah. go, bid those fools be quiet. is there not enough woe in this house but that their shrieks should edge it [ledmiya "goes out. the wailing stops. then suddenly it begins again more loudly than before" fatma. more death! more misery [ledmiya "returns, and goes again to window" 89 laylah. silence, thou blotchy spider! thou baboon of ugliness! mother of curses["four eunuchs bring in the corpse of the boy" mohammed. ah god! my youngest, my own delicate darling! lay him by his sire["she goes down and bends over him] was not this arm too tender to bear a sword? why would he go to the battle? he was made for luting and the zephyr. his eyes were larger and lovelier tha

i am not a woman. lay him there, beside his 90 father["she goes down to corpse] akbar, my little one! strong wast thou and greater than thy brothers. thou hadst the hawk's eye, and the deer's foot; and thine hand on the bowstring was surer and stronger than thy father's! three, of my five, my five that should guard me and cherish me! three taken, and two left! yet, while one is left. ledmiya["at window. the battle is fiercer every moment. hundreds and hundreds must be killed. but the press is thinner. i can make out the banners. oh! i can see sliman's banner! laylah. let me see! let me see["she rushes to window] yes! it flows free in the good air! how fierce he fights. i cannot see him; but he must be there. yes! it moves forward now; the christians part before him like the air before an

aylah. bewail the dead, thou bald vulture, shaggy toothless crone, dam of perdition! there floats the banner again, above them all. the templar's banner dips; some one has cut through the staff. the christians are in rout["four eunuchs enter, bearing the corpse of "othman. fatma. othman is dead! alas! alas! weep, mother, three brave boys beside their sire! all dead! dead! laylah["not turning from window. lay him beside his father and his two brothers! brave banner! brave 91 banner! we go through the christians as a wedge cleaves a plank, as a ship cleaves the sea, as a bird cleaves the air! victory! sliman! sliman! drive them, like cattle, to their walls again! fatma. she has always been mad! i wonder what really happened. laylah. the sun is setting in blood. there are storm-clouds lit lik

t understand. laylah. oh! will your father say "i do not understand" what am i? yet i gave him my greatest gift- and i have yet a greater gift to give him- and i have a gift that he has always had and i have never lost. the child. are you an enchantress? you do not talk sense. laylah. your are the child of an enchanter. the child. my father burns enchanters alive when he catches them. ledmiya["at window. there is a great concourse without. the men are returning. they ride slowly, as in peace. 93 but one rides fast, for i can hear his hoofs ring the gallop above all the trampling. laylah. it is sliman! his horse has silver shoes. wait there, child! i have joy for you to come["a horse is heard galloping into the courtyard, and a battle-cry, la allah illa allah, rings out in a boy's clear voi

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he fertility cultthe broomsticks, the raised athames, he knew he would never be satisfied until he had conjured them up in a circle to hear what they had to tell him. unable to practise his witchcraft properly, for gran had explained time and time again tha only a third-grade w tch could work in a circle, and then with at least one companion, alex had to observe the full-moon rites at his bedroom window. his athame had been left at his grandmother's, but he went through the motions, wishing himself back in 24 k.w -3 25 circle, she would tell him all the tales that had been passed from witch to witch through the ages. the true religion, she explained, was the love of life and the love of the giver of life. man must love woman, woman man, and both must love the god that made them. the main t

eath. it vanished almost 'immediately but not before she had resolved to be by her mother until her death. it came four days later, and while maxine's little sister went to live with relatives, maxine tried to put the family affairs in order. her efforts were not helped by neighbours who, having heard ofthe girl's allegiance to witchcraft, slandered. her in the street and threw bricks through her window. newspapers printed reports of the 'persecution, and the following week maxine wasdismissed 90 from the garage where she worked. the manager apologized; if it had been left to him, he would have let maxine wqrship as she liked, but hew-as being 'pressed' by some clients; alex knew that the time had come to make her his wife. there could be no church ceremony, their both being pagans, nor an

but she was not convinced 'stay for a meal' she urged 'it always starts up after tea' it began like a distant knocking 'run the .tap' alex advised. he had noticed the hot-water pipes skirting the iii kitchen and. ought there. might be air in them. for a few moments. the. knocking. stopped.and lie believed he had found the trouble" then. it began in .earnest. walls rumbled..as though being kicked,window"panes rattled although there was nowind,and the .brass ornaments on the mantelpiece rocked and shook. boldly alex raised his fist and demanded that the spiritsgoor be destroyed by incense and curses. from room to room he ran, chasing the invisible spectre, encouraged. by mrs .peters who .charged behind hint. crying 'hallelujah. but the noises continued 'yourmagic isn't enough without voodoo

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e ego on the physical plane. the jewel in the lotus is the centre of force which links the buddhic and mental planes. when it is to be seen and felt, the man can function consciously on the buddhic plane. the third eye links the awakened physical plane man with the astral or subjective world, and enables him to function consciously there. the jewel, or diamond concealed by the egoic lotus, is the window of the monad or spirit whereby he looks outward into the three worlds. the third eye is the window of the ego or soul functioning on the physical plane whereby he looks inward into the three worlds. the jewel in the lotus is situated between manas and buddhi whilst the third eye is found- 672- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust between the right and left eyes. one of the m

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world of psychic endeavor (both lower and higher) then we shall have a simplification of the present confusion. in an old book written for disciples of a certain degree these words occur and are of value to all probationary and accepted disciples. the translation gives the sense, and is not literal- 15- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust "let the one who looks out take care that the window through which he gazes transmits the light of the sun. if he use it in the early dawn (of his endeavor. a. b) let him remember that the orb is not yet risen. the clear cut outlines cannot be perceived, and wraiths and shadows, gloomy spaces and areas full of darkness as yet confuse his vision" at the close of this sentence is found a curious symbol, which conveys to the disciple's mind the

soul uses the mind as its instrument of vision. charles johnston translates the same sutra as follows "the seer is pure vision. he looks out through the vesture of the mind" it is that clear apprehension of knowledge and a perfect comprehension of the things of the soul which is characteristic of the man who through concentration and meditation has achieved mind control. the mind then becomes the window of the soul, and through it the spiritual man can look out onto a new and higher realm of knowledge. simultaneously with the development of this type of vision, the pineal gland becomes active, and the third eye (in etheric matter- 43- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust develops with a paralleling activity. 6. spiritual vision or true perception. this type of vision opens up t

s means, the world of causes can be interpreted in terms of the intellect. c. by using it correctly, the seer can transmit to the physical brain of the lower personal self (the reflection in the world of effects of the true man) that which the soul sees and knows. this triangle is then formed and comes into working activity: the seer or spiritual man, the mind, his medium of investigation, or the window through which he looks out (whether upon the world of effects, upon himself, or upon the world of cause) and the brain, which is the receiving plate upon which the seer can impress his "pure knowledge" using the mind as an interpreter and transmitting agency. 21. all that is exists for the sake of the soul. man in his arrogance should not take this sutra to mean that all that is created exi

llations. these points are enumerated to show how impossible it is that the majority of the claims regarding past incarnations can be true. they are the result of a vivid imagination and the assumption that the flashes of astral sight which reveal glimpses of the akashic film give that which pertains to the one who sees. this is not the case any more than the people and activities seen out of any window in a big city reveal to the onlooker his own relatives, friends and pursuits. the knowledge referred to in the sutra comes in three ways: 1. direct ability to see the records if so desired. this form of acquiring knowledge is seldom employed except by initiates and adepts in connection with their pledged disciples. 2. through direct knowledge of the group activities and relations of a man's

hrough which we see. we, however, do not make the mistake of regarding the eye itself as a source of light and as that which produces revelation. we know it as an instrument which is responding to certain light vibrations whereby certain information is conveyed anent the physical plane to our brain, that great receiving plate upon the physical plane. to the soul, the mind acts also as an eye or a window through which information comes, but is not itself the source of light or illumination. it is interesting here to note that as the brain and the mind became coordinated (as was first the case in lemurian days) the sense of sight was simultaneously developed. as evolution proceeds, a higher coordination takes place, and the soul and the mind become at-oned. then, that organ of subtle vision

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

and the physical brain. the first relation is developed and fostered through sound methods of exoteric education and of training; the second is made possible through meditation, a higher form of the educational process. chapter five stages in meditatlon- 38- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust "what would you do within, o soul, my brother? what would you do within? bar door and window that none may see: that alone we may be (alone! face to face in that flame-lit place) when first we begin to speak one with another" evelyn underhill we have studied briefly the objectives which we set before ourselves as we seek to reorient the mind to the soul, and through the union thus effected, enter into communication with a higher world of being. we are seeking to utilize the equipme

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eave the pattern which i seek and like. the warp and woof is planned by my desire. i gather here a thread and here a colour. i gather there another. i blend the colours and i mix and blend the threads. as yet i cannot see the pattern, but it will surely measure up to my desire' loud voices, and a movement from outside the darkened chamber where the weaver sits; they grow in volume and in power. a window breaks and, though the weaver cries aloud, blinded by the sudden light, the sun shines in upon his woven carpet. its ugliness is thus revealed. a voice proclaims 'look from out thy window, weaver, and see the pattern in the skies, the model of the plan, the colour and the beauty of the whole. destroy the carpet which you have for ages wrought. it does not meet your need..then weave again, w

n. but in the pyramid, down in its dim laboratory, a worker stood, toiling at work. his test tubes and his frail appliances he used with skill. in rows and rows, the retorts for fusing, and for blending, for crystallising and for that which sought division, stood with their flaming fires. the heat was great. the toil severe. dim passages, in steady progress, led upward to the summit. there a wide window stood, open unto the blue of heaven, and carrying one clear ray down to the worker in the depths..he worked and toiled. he struggled onwards toward his dream, the vision of an ultimate discovery. he sometimes found the thing he sought, and sometimes failed; but never found that which could give to him the key to all the rest..in deep despair, he cried aloud unto the god he had forgot 'give

an be stirred up until it becomes a boiling cauldron, causing much distress. the conscious is limited to that which the man knows himself to be and have in the present the category of qualities, characteristics, powers, tendencies and knowledges of all kinds which constitute a mans stock in trade and of which he is definitely aware or of which the psychologist is aware. these are displayed in his window for all to see, and they make him what he apparently is to the outer onlooking world. by the super-conscious, i mean those potencies and knowledges which are available but which are as yet uncontacted and unrecognised and, therefore, of no immediate use. these are the wisdom, love and abstract idealism which are inherent in the nature of the soul but which are not yet, and never have been a

and nature of the concentration, with the theme of the meditation, i will not deal, for i am considering here only results and not the methods for producing them. suffice it to say, that the man's efforts in meditation have opened a door through which he can pass at will (and eventually with facility) into a new world of phenomena, of directed activity, and of different ideals. he has unlatched a window through which light can pour in, revealing that which is, and always has been, existent within the consciousness of man, and throwing illumination into the dark places of his life; into other lives; and into the environment in which he moves. he has released within himself a world of sound and of impressions which are at first so new and so different that he does not know what to make of th

ed, and when the initial revelation has come, when the place of the part in relation to the whole is sensed, and when the world which includes our little world is first contacted, there is always a moment of crisis and a period of danger. then, as familiarity grows and our feet have wandered in and out of the door we have opened, and we have accustomed ourselves to the light which the unshuttered window has released into our little world of daily living, other psychological dangers eventuate. we are in danger of thinking that what we have seen is all there is to see, and thus on a higher turn of the spiral and in a larger sense we repeat the dangers (earlier considered) of undue emphasis, of wrong focus, of narrow minded belief, and idee fixe. we become obsessed with the idea of the soul;

upon the astral plane. it is on this plane that the man is usually found when the thread of consciousness is separated from the body. in this case, the man is either participating in certain activities, or he is in the position of the onlooker who sees actual sights, performances, people, etc, etc, just as any person can see them as he walks down a street in any large city or as he looks out of a window in any environment. these sights and sounds will often be dependent upon the wish-life and the predilections of the subject, upon his likes and dislikes and his desires and recognised attractions. he will seek for and often find those he loves; he will sometimes search for and find those he seeks to damage, and find occasion to hurt those he hates; he will favour himself by participating in

d an imaginative satisfaction) embody the expression of the wish-life of the race and exist, therefore, upon the astral plane for all to see. many people do see and contact them and can identify themselves with them upon returning to waking consciousness. in fact, however, they have really done no more than register these thought forms in the same manner as one can register the contents of a shop window when passing by. a shocked horror can, for instance, induce a person to relate, quite innocently, a dream which is, in reality, no more than the registering of a sight or experience which was witnessed in the hours of sleep but with which the man has no real connection whatever. this experience he relates with dismay and disgust; most feelingly he tells the experience to the psychologist, a

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at this time somewhat aware of the angel and can now begin to respond, dimly and faintly, to that great whole which lies behind the subjective world of being, as that world lies behind the physical, tangible world of everyday life. a symbol of this can be seen in the knowledge that the entire planet lies outside of the room in which you are pondering my words and is only separated from you by the window and the extent of your conscious awareness. the outer universe of the planet, the solar system and the starry heavens, lies revealed to you through that sheet of glass which reveals, if clean and unveiled, but which acts as a barrier to vision, if soiled or hidden by a blind. this and your ability to project yourself into the immensity of the universe, governs the extent of your knowledge a

se of the planet, the solar system and the starry heavens, lies revealed to you through that sheet of glass which reveals, if clean and unveiled, but which acts as a barrier to vision, if soiled or hidden by a blind. this and your ability to project yourself into the immensity of the universe, governs the extent of your knowledge at any given time. think this out, my brother, and look through the window of the mind to that light which reveals the angel which, in its turn, veils and hides the vast unknown, yet alive and vibrant, deity. this practice of the presence can be dealt with in so many different ways and there are many techniques of contact. for you, the practice should connote simplicity, peace, and joy. cultivate simplicity of thought and remember that bewilderment and undue conce

ss which are abstract, mystical or egoic. contact must be made with the physical plane and through physical brain awareness. work, therefore, for the next few months at strengthening your alignment, linking consciously brain-mind-soul, and producing a deepened and more stabilised inter-relation and awareness. use the imagination whilst so doing, and for three minutes each morning stand before the window and visualise your head (the area around it and in it, as a centre of force into which is streaming a ray or beam of light from the soul, the oversoul. this is seen as pouring down into the head centre from the soul, via the mind, gathering thus mental intensity; through the astral body, gathering to itself high aspiration and devotion; and through the etheric body, vitalising it in every p

found in all three bodies simultaneously. this increases your problem but it also increases your opportunity. i seek now to give you a meditation form which is based on a recognition of this fact and which will help you to gain a more perfect alignment and the further release of the inner channel of contact. continue as heretofore with the breathing exercises and with your moments before the open window. this meditation is to be followed with the cultivated realisation that you are the soul, the christ within. eliminate fear, my brother. that continuity of the spiritual consciousness which is one of your dearest dreams can be ultimately developed, but you must proceed with care. dreams are sometimes a guarantee of reality. august 1935- 354- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1

r between the eyebrows, as the symbol of an awakened ajna centre and of an integrated personality. it is a four-pointed star. the star of initiation is, as you know, a five-pointed star. 3. then say something to each of your brothers, after due effort to link up with them. study the ideas which give utterance to your words and note, in writing, their general import. 4. then rise, and going to the window, send out love and light to those who guide the destinies of men upon the earth (i refer not to the hierarchy) in london, leningrad, washington, berlin, geneva and in rome. do this with as much love as you can and without much thought, for thought can be separative and critical where there is not adequate knowledge. this is an initial part of the technique of dissipating group glamour. 5. t

nterested to know, after six months' meditation, what you have done in your little boat- 413- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. then raising the consciousness as high in your head as possible, meditate "in the light" on the following seed thoughts: 1st month for me there is no light apart from others. if they are in the dark, into that dark i go. 2nd month i am a window through which the light can shine. that light must reach my fellowmen. 3rd month in service to the nearest and the farthest i must each day dedicate my prime endeavour. 4th month i heal not with my hands. i heal through speech. thus must i learn to speak and speak aright. 5th month the mind reveals the truth. that truth am i. my words must open up the way to other hearts and minds. 6th mont

, the tibetan. july 1933 my brother: the way of the aspirant climaxes at times, and might be described as a series of steady growth cycles, accentuated at intervals by definite periods of forced development wherein one limitation after another is forcibly removed, by you yourself. all limitations and hindrances have to go. you have for years been like a man standing in a room with his back to the window a window that so sadly needed cleaning that the light in the room was dim and only partially diffused. you are today like a man who has turned around and walked over to the window, and then has cleaned a small circle through which you look. you can see that which is around much more clearly. the room is better lighted, and you are now more clearly aware of what you need to do for yourself a

is much, my brother, for you have done it all within the last twelve months. before that time your accomplishment seemed doubtful, not from bad intent but because you had become accustomed to your position and attitude and to the room in which you lived. your knowledge of what lay outside was theoretical but not of a practical nature. a brief period of time remains in which to finish cleaning the window and illumining the room, thereby associating yourself with the life outside the window. i believe you can do it if you desire nothing for the separated self; if you train yourself to see things and, above all, people as they are and in a true perspective. people are not what you want them to be and they live also in rooms with darkened windows. when you look through the window there is noth

yourself know, however, how intensely applicable they are to you. you can resume the study of my instructions and writings but must preserve a balanced attitude. there are other things to be done than simply to be a devotee of the tibetan brother. follow the meditation i here give you. march 1934 my brother: for you i have this time no instructions. i must know first that you have cleaned another window pane. that also which you earlier cleansed and to which i referred in my last communication is again befogged, not so much from the accumulation of grime, but by the cold within, which produces condensation. think this out. seek out your motives, for they are at the root of all your trouble, and glamour not yourself with the belief that you are animated by principle or are fighting for prin

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

eel it demonstrates as the pervasiveness of wisdom (pisces) and the universal love of the truly developed aquarian. on the wheel as it "rolls onward into illusion" the wheel of the personality, the superficiality and the airy nature of the undeveloped aquarian deepens gradually into the concrete and rocky material nature of the capricornian. the average man in aquarius puts all his wares into the window, and often in the room behind the window there is little to be found. esoterically, the developed aquarian puts all he has into his water pot, storing it there for service and giving it freely on demand to meet a need. the sign aquarius is also a dual sign and signifies two vibrations. it is here that its relation to pisces emerges, for just as pisces on the wheel of illusion, the mutable c

e can as yet grasp; personality has to be transcended before even the earlier stages of the understanding of these mysteries become possible, and this transcendence is something you have not yet accomplished but which some day inevitably you will. once man is impersonal and free from the reactions of the lower self, and his consciousness is illumined by the clear light of the intuition, then his "window of vision" becomes clarified and his sight into reality is unimpeded. obstructions (always erected by humanity itself) are removed and he sees all life and form in their true relation and can comprehend, and even occultly "see" the "passage of the energies" the relationship of certain rays and cosmic triangles may become clearer to you if the following tabulation is studied with care. note:

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

. then from 9.30 till noon we worked at our lessons with our governess and this was followed by a walk. we were allowed to have lunch in the dining room but were not permitted to speak and our good behavior and silence were under the anxious eyes of our governess. to this day i can remember going off into a reverie or day dream (as all children do) with my elbow on the table and gazing out of the window. i was suddenly brought back to everyday life by hearing my grandmother say to one of the footmen, waiting at table "james, fetch two saucers, please, and put miss alice's elbows into them" this james obediently did and for the remainder of the meal there my elbows had to be. i have never forgotten the humiliation and even today, more than fifty years later, i am still conscious that i am b

ld lead from one unfoldment to another. it is as if one had climbed a mountain peak and at the moment of gaining the summit suddenly there stretches before one a promised land to which one must inevitably proceed; but (across that promised land and away in the distance) another peak is seen emerging, hiding still vaster reaches of territory. at one time in my life i used to look out of my bedroom window and see in the distance that- 29- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust stupendous mountain pile, kinchengunga, one of the highest peaks in the himalayas. it looked so close, almost as if a day's walking would bring me to its foot but i knew that it would take at least twelve weeks hard trekking to get an able bodied climber there, and then there would be the terrific clim

it was really beautiful. for several years i had made her collars and cuffs in gratitude for the fact she had always understood me. she had never married but she knew life and she loved people. i told her the story of walter evans, about the major in london and about the silly, wealthy idiot who had followed me home and was even then standing outside the house. i can see her now going over to the window and peeking at him through the lace curtain and laughing. we talked for two hours and she told me to leave the matter to her, that she would think over and pray over what i should do. she told me she would do what she rightly could to straighten out my problem as i was too ill to have any judgment or common sense left. i relaxed under her skilful handling and went back to my aunt feeling be

my room one night. he had been reading late, down stairs, and the wind had blown out his candle as he came up and at the same time had blown open my door. he hoped to find his door easily by passing his hand along the wall as his door was next to mine. finding an open door he naturally thought it was his dressing room. in the meantime, the wind had awakened me and i jumped out of bed to shut the window and bumped into him. this, coming on top of my experience a few months earlier, did not help and laid the foundation for a state of fear which i have never succeeded in overcoming. i have had two other very bad frights in my life when alone in a house and cannot claim to have any courage, except that i have not permitted it to condition my actions and i stay alone when i have to. i'm terrif

was a hank of hair and a bony female" i have always had lots of hair. it is a family inheritance and my three girls have masses of lovely hair. i shall never forget a remark of my eldest daughter, dorothy (who is famous for her remarks with a double meaning. i had washed my hair one day in england and was sitting out in the garden at ospringe place, faversham, drying it. dorothy looked out of the window and called out "oh! mother, if you would only keep your back to people and they saw only your lovely hair, they would never guess how old you are" towards the end of 1919 mr. bailey was made national secretary of the theosophical society. dr. shepherd was made publicity director and i became editor of the sectional magazine, the messenger, and chairman of the committee which was running kro

ot a streak of viciousness in him and we all adored him. the cat nobody adored because it adored only me. it was a huge and quite magnificent tom cat that we picked up as a stray when it was a wee kitten. it would speak to nobody but me. it would accept food from nobody but me. it refused to enter the house if i were not downstairs so at last foster built it a ladder from the garden to my bedroom window and cut a hole in the screen so that he could get into my room and from that moment it was entirely happy, never using any door, but always shooting up the ladder on to my bed. the work was growing apace during these years. my husband had started the magazine, the beacon, and it was meeting a real need as it does today. i usually put on 6 or 8 public lectures a year and as long as no paid a

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llowing process which is carried forward silently by the creative activity of the imagination- 19- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust a. imagine or visualise yourself as standing before a golden or ivory door. b. see that door slowly open, revealing a long low room with three windows one looking east, one looking west and one looking north. seated before the eastern window on a low carved chair (but looking towards you, and therefore sitting with his back to the window) you may visualise your tibetan brother, in deep meditation, seeking to contact you and all for whom he is, as a teacher, responsible. c. then picture yourself as advancing slowly up the long room (which is his study and work room) and then standing before him. see also your group brothers stan

om in nature. this kingdom is destined to act as a transmitter of force, of energy and life and of inspiration to the three subhuman kingdoms. it is this mechanism which will constitute the bridge between the fourth and fifth kingdoms. it is the individual and the group antahkarana. i am going to change your full moon work a little. proceed as heretofore, but as you stand with me before the "open window' and prior to the attempt to hear me speak the words which i may have for you, imagine yourselves as bathed in a vivid butter-coloured living light which is pouring through the open window and enveloping the group. note, as this happens, which centre responds or registers the vibration and stimulation or any phenomena of any kind, and then record this upon your monthly reports. i am also go

dience and the acceptance of the statement and expressed wish of your master and this because you know me better and trust me more. let me give you a visualisation exercise to be followed by you each sunday morning, every friday morning, and for the five days which come at the time of the full moon each month. in company of your group brothers, you have for years visualised me standing by an open window, and you have thus sought contact with me. this trained facility forms the basis of the following suggested exercise, the procedure of which is as follows: 1. picture to yourself a wood of pine trees, a purling brook, a winding, mounting path, and at the end a low built bungalow of undressed wood, in which i live. with you are walking your group brothers, and all of you are talking on the w

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

s, the egoic body, occupying a midway point between the threefold monad and the threefold lower man. the more advanced should follow this. the development of the faculty of mind control, so that the thinker grips and holds steady the mental processes and learns to regard the mind as the interpreter of the states of consciousness, as the transmitter of egoic intent to the physical brain and as the window through which the ego, the real man looks out upon vast and (to the majority) unknown fields of knowledge- 3- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust ii. an emergence into manifestation of the subjective aspect in man. one of the objects of evolution is that the subjective reality should eventually be brought forward into recognition

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

deed something so unearthlyin its appearance, and something so awful in its great green eyes which shone like torches, that theboldest man might have been appalled by them.but one evening gianni reflected that it was foolish to be afraid of a mere cat, which need only scarea boy, and so he boldly ventured on an attack. so going forth, he took a ladder, which he carriedand placed against the ladys window. but while he stood at the foot, he found by him an oldwoman, who earnestly began to beg him not to persevere in his intention. for thou knowest well,gianni, she said, that the lady will have none of thee; thou art a terror to her. do but go home andlook in the glass, and it will seem to thee that thou art looking on a mortal sin in human form.then gianni in a roaring rage cried, i will hav

said, that the lady will have none of thee; thou art a terror to her. do but go home andlook in the glass, and it will seem to thee that thou art looking on a mortal sin in human form.then gianni in a roaring rage cried, i will have my way and my will, thou old wife of the devil, if imust kill thee and the girl too! saying which, he rushed up the ladder; but before he had opened orcould enter the window, and was at the top, he found himself as it were turned to wood or stone,unable to move. page 72 it befell that one evening melambo, thinking on this while playing with a nest of young serpentswhich his servant had found in a hollow oak, said: i would that i could talk with you;well i know that ye have language,as graceful as your movement,as brilliant as your colour.then he fell asleep, an

rein dwelt a married couple,who had but one child, a daughter, whom they adored. truly if the child had but a headache, theyeach had a worse attack from fear.little by little as the girl grew older, and all the thought of the mother, who was very devout, was thatshe should become a nun. but the girl did not like this, and declared that she hoped to be marriedlike others. and when looking from her window one day, she saw and heard the birds singing in thevines and among the trees all so merrily, she said to her mother that she hoped some day to have afamily of little birds of her own, singing round her in a cheerful nest. at which the mother was soangry that she gave her daughter a cuff. and the young lady wept, but replied with spirit, that if beat-en or treated in any such manner, that sh

in the occult mysteries of love or dreams. so it struck byron 21 as an original thought thatthe sun does not shine on half the forbidden deeds which the moon witnesses, and this is empha-sised in the italian witch-poem. in it the moon is distinctly invoked as the protectress of a strangeand secret amour, and as the deity to be especially invoked for such love-making. the one invokingsays that the window is opened, that the moon may shine splendidly on the bed, even as our love isbright and beautiful. and i pray her to give great rapture sfogo to us.the quivering, mysteriously beautiful light of the moon, which seems to cast a spirit of intelligence oremotion over silent nature, and dimly half awaken it raising shadows into thoughts and causingevery tree and rock to assume the semblance of

rero!endamone, endamone, endamone!sopra te io mi metto al lume,il tuo (cuore) io dimeno,e mi dimeno io pure e cosi,e cosi tanto far,t anto far e tanto faremmo,che uniti ne veremmo.the counter-charm.endamone, endamone, endamone!by the love i feel, which ishall ever feel until i die,three crosses on thy bed i make,and then three wild horse-chestnuts take, 19 in that bed the nuts i hide,and then the window open wide,that the full moon may cast her lightupon a love as fair and bright,and so i pray to her abovet o give wild rapture to our love,and cast her fire in either heart,which wildly loves to never part;and one thing more i beg of thee!if any one enamoured be,and in my aid his love hath placed,unto his call ill come in haste. page 38 volont di fare al amoreverra e non la potrai farecome u

ed that i from itmay draw good profit when at last tis sold,so may good fortune come unto my vines,and into all my land whereer it be!but should my vines seem in an evil way,ill take my horn, and bravely will i blowin the wine-vault at midnight, and ill makesuch a tremendous and a terrible soundthat thou, dianafair, however faraway thou mayst be, still shalt hear the call,and casting open door or window wide,shalt headlong come upon the rushing wind,and find and save me that is, save my vines,which will be saving me from dire distress; page 34 chapter viii.t o have a good vintage and very good wine by the aid of diana.sweet is the vintage when the showering grapesin bacchanal profusion reel to earth,purple and gushing. byron, don juan, c. 124.vinum bonum et suave,bonis bonum, pravis prave

BELL CHRISTOPHER PAUL TSIU MARPO THE CAREER OF A TIBETAN PROTECTOR DEITY

ithin most monasteries that houses the statues of the protector deities. 32 samye on his way from lhasa to tsetang (rtse thang).50 according to popular belief this chamber is supposed to be the place where tsi u dmar po sits in judgement of the souls of men, an activity assigned otherwise by orthodox traditions to yama, the ruler of the hells. the chamber is said to have only one extremely narrow window, and legends claim that through this fissure the souls of the dead have to squeeze through at night-time, in order to appear before tsi u dmar po. as some of them find it rather difficult to pass, one is able as the legend tells to see around this window numerous scratches which these unfortunate spirits had caused by their nails. some people even allege that a strong smell of blood comes o

legends claim that through this fissure the souls of the dead have to squeeze through at night-time, in order to appear before tsi u dmar po. as some of them find it rather difficult to pass, one is able as the legend tells to see around this window numerous scratches which these unfortunate spirits had caused by their nails. some people even allege that a strong smell of blood comes out of this window, as inside the chamber, after the judgement had been pronounced, the souls are cut to pieces by the acolytes of tsi u mar po. a wooden chopping-block is kept to this purpose in this chamber, and some of my tibetan informants who had stayed at samye claimed that at night they could hear the sound of thuds coming from within the room. monks of this monastery also allege that annually a new ch

e invocation of the horse race of the might demon brigand [327] the s.dhana of the seven emanating riders, the full assault506 of the spiritual master padma[sambhava" regarding the history of these [demons; previously, in the region of the blazing mountain charnel grounds in india, in front of the dark red copper mountain, there are eleven red fierce might demons of the demoness s flame-patterned window that are similar to the rising demoness. because padmasambhava settled there, at midnight a time when seven wolves with bloody manes arose and created obstacles for the guru the spiritual master resided in the meditative stabilization of glorious tamdrin. from this he raised the vajra. because of this, the seven horsemen having departed, they arose in homage. due to saying "who are you" the

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

f every kind, to be kept inexhaustible there, so long as those men shall stay in the vara" those "men" in the "vara" are the "progenitors" the heavenly men or dhyani, the future egos who are commissioned to inform mankind. for "vara" or the "ark (or again the vehicle) simply means man* verse 30 says "thou shalt seal up the vara (after filling it up with the seeds, and thou shalt make a door and a window self-shining within" which is the soul. and when yima inquires of ahura mazda how he shall manage to make that vara, he is answered "crush the earth. and knead it with thy hands, as the potter does when kneading the potter's clay (31. the egyptian ram-headed god makes man of clay on a potter's wheel, and so in genesis do the elohim fashion him out of the same material. when the "maker of th

, as the cycle ran down toward that point when the physiological senses were developed by, and went pari passu with, the growth and consolidation of the physical man, the interminable and complex vicissitudes and tribulations of zoological development, that median "eye" ended by atrophying along with the early spiritual and purely psychic characteristics in man. the eye is the mirror and also the window of the soul, says popular wisdom* and vox populi vox dei[[footnote(s* the "nervous ether" of dr. b. w. richardson, f.r.s- the nerve-aura of occultism. the "animal spirits) are equivalent to the currents of nerve-auric compound circulation* let us remember that the first race is shown in occult sciences as spiritual within[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 299 the evolution of

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nd the visible being only its reflection, its shell. the nasmyth willow leaves, mistaken by sir j. herschell for "solar inhabitants" are the reservoirs of solar vital energy "the vital electricity that feeds the whole system. the sun in abscondito being thus the storehouse of our little kosmos, self-generating its vital fluid, and ever receiving as much as it gives out" and the visible sun only a window cut into the real solar palace and presence, which reflects, however, faithfully the interior work. thus, there is a regular circulation of the vital fluid throughout our system, of which the sun is the heart- the same as the circulation of the blood in the human body- during the manvantaric solar period, or life; the sun contracting as rhythmically at every return of it, as the human heart

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costume, arabs or turks i thought. one old man took me by the hand, i made the sign of the pentagram over him, but he smiled and said .come along, it.s all right. and led me along a street paved with cobbles, the houses of which overhung, till we reached a sort of a mosque. entering this he led me to the altar, which was supported by brackets from the wall, and above which was a beautiful stained window. at the sides were thin columns and sort of boxes, similar to theatre boxes. we knelt at the altar; and he took my hand and said .raise your consciousness. i perceived a star and crescent above me, and a cross dimly formulated in the background. after this, the astral seemed to coincide with the body; but consciousness of the astral surroundings was still clear. continued to raise conscious

behind me! but my soul, with no star left to point the pole, witless and banned of grace or goal, beggared of all its wealth, bereft of all its images, unweft its magic web, its tools all broken, its name forgot, its word unspoken, the equinox 190 widowed of its undying lord, its bowl of silver broke, its cord of gold unloosed, its shining ladders thrown down, its ears more deaf than adders, its window blind, its music stopped, from its place in heaven dropped, from its starry throne was hurled beyond the pillars of the world. borne from the byss of light to the dark night! the moon had sunk behind the tower when, for a moment, by the power of nature, as even the eagle s eye turns wearied from the sun, did i fall from the conning-crag, that springs above the universe of things, into the d

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ed by the hands of the operator, or bought before the initiation of the experiments. in either case, the instruments should be consecrated as to dedicate their use for the assistance in this operation. the instruments are as follows. the configuration of the temple. this temple is to measure fifteen feet square and may be constructed out of either stone or wood, as is preferred. there should be a window to allow light into the temple, as this is a work of the attainment of light, and where there is no light there is only darkness, as we are told. the ceiling of the temple should not be less than six feet high; both it and the ceiling should be unadorned, unless there is a reason to do contrariwise. the magic circle& triangle of the art. the circle is to measure nine feet across. it may to

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cleansed and consecrated circle. if, for some reason, you must choose another area, it should be cleansed and consecrated in the same manner as your circle. some adepts insist that the meditator face the east. in certain cases it does seem to give a slight benefit, but generally speaking the direction of physical orientation is of slight importance. if your area has a blank wall on the east and a window on the west, you will probably feel far more comfortable facing the window. the important thing is to be as comfortable as possible. remove possible sources of disturbance where possible. a ticking clock or, worse, the discordant ring of a telephone or doorbell, can be shattering. disconnect them if you can. radios and television sets should be turned off, of course. clothing should be loos

. at each new moon, clean the talisman with a good metal cleaner (for a parchment talisman, just rub over it lightly with a gum eraser. for copper i would recommend washing with salt and vinegar, and then rinsing in clear water. at each full moon, hold out the talisman in the palm of your hand and expose it to the unrestricted light of the moon. by "unrestricted" i mean not through the glass of a window. either open the window or take it outside. expose it for about five minutes on each side while concentrating your thoughts on the original purpose of the talisman (if it should happen to be cloudy, so that you don't actually see the moon itself, that is all right. lesson twelve: the power of the written word/ 183 a talisman can also be made in the form of a ring. usually such a form has th

times each day for the first four days. then strain and bottle. bee wine into a syrup solution of two tablespoonsful of sugar to a pint sent received sent received sent received figure 12.7 186/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft of water, put a very small pinch of tartaric acid and a piece of yeast the size of a dime. start it off at blood heat and stand the glass jar in a warm room near the window and leave it to work. in a day or so the yeast will begin to grow and collect bubbles so that the lump floats up and down (like a bee; hence the name. fermentation will proceed until the liquid is converted into a sweet wine, which you may flavor by adding fruit juice. do not let it work too long or it will become sour and eventually turn to vinegar. tomato wine take the stalks off some sou

ven for cataracts. violet: good for mental disorders; for the nervous system; for baldness and for female complaints. directing the color it is the color that is important, so anything that will produce colored light will serve your needs. this could be colored glass, plastic or even cellophane. you don't even have to wait for sunshine. any light will do, including artificial light. if you have a window that gets a lot of sunshine then certainly make use of that. tape a sheet of colored glass, plastic or even tissue paper over the window and have the patient sit in front of it so that the colored light falls directly on her/him. make sure it falls on the troubled area (e.g. for an upset stomach, direct yellow light on the stomach area. concentrate the light on the area for at least thirty

lls directly on her/him. make sure it falls on the troubled area (e.g. for an upset stomach, direct yellow light on the stomach area. concentrate the light on the area for at least thirty minutes each day. two periods of thirty minutes (one in the morning and another in the evening) would be better. you will notice a definite improvement almost from the start. if you don't have a convenient sunny window, then a good substitute is a photographic slide projector. in fact, in many ways it is better than the window since you can focus on particular areas. from photo supply stores you can obtain empty cardboard slide mounts. into these put small rectangles of colored plastic or acetate, so that you have a set of slides of the seven primary colors. color-charged water you can turn ordinary water

l rectangles of colored plastic or acetate, so that you have a set of slides of the seven primary colors. color-charged water you can turn ordinary water into potent medicine by charging it with colored light. fill a clear bottle with water and tape a sheet of colored paper or acetate around it (if you can get a colored bottle of the appropriate color, all the better. then stand the bottle in the window for six to eight hours. even if the sun is not shining directly on the bottle, it will still charge the water. then, a wineglassful of the water, taken three times a day, will have a similar effect to the half-hour of colored light application. if you are feeling "down, or listless, a glassful of red-charged water each morning will pep you up. similarly, if you have trouble sleeping at nigh

r the appropriate colored light and leave it there. a low wattage bulb is best for this; perhaps something like a nightlight bulb. you will find it easier to put the colored sheet over the front of the photograph than to try to wrap it around the light bulb. the best way is to put the photo in a frame together with the colored acetate and then to stand the frame in front of the light bulb, or the window. give it the light treatment for at least three hours a day. gem therapy you can take six different books dealing with precious and semi-precious stones and their occult properties and find six different opinions as to which do what. the reason for this is that the stones are usually corresponded with astrological planets and signs. the trouble there is (as w. b. crow explains in precious s

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hall the inner nature of that object be made known to thee, and by this means shalt thou draw nigh to some aspect of my being. 2 consider then the secret meaning of the letter heh. for even as i am the essence, and idea, and interior nature of every ox, of every house, of every camel, and of every door [51] t h e book of t o k e n s so am i also the essence, and idea, and interior nature of every window. if thou set thy mind to meditate upon the interior nature of a window, thou shalt readily perceive that every window hath somewhat the nature of a door, inasmuch as it is an opening in the wall of a house. 3 the house is kether, the crown of primal will, and the door is binah, the gate of understanding, and as the thought of the door is from the building of the house, so is the thought of

ow. if thou set thy mind to meditate upon the interior nature of a window, thou shalt readily perceive that every window hath somewhat the nature of a door, inasmuch as it is an opening in the wall of a house. 3 the house is kether, the crown of primal will, and the door is binah, the gate of understanding, and as the thought of the door is from the building of the house, so is the thought of the window from the fashioning of the door. hence those instructed in the secret wisdom declare that chesed, the path of beneficence, proceedeth from binah, the gate of understanding, even as the idea of the window proceedeth from the idea of the door. for i am merciful because mine understanding compasseth the secret nature of all things, and my loving-kindness is the fruit of my discrimination [52]

fashioning of the door. hence those instructed in the secret wisdom declare that chesed, the path of beneficence, proceedeth from binah, the gate of understanding, even as the idea of the window proceedeth from the idea of the door. for i am merciful because mine understanding compasseth the secret nature of all things, and my loving-kindness is the fruit of my discrimination [52] heh 4 again, a window is set in the wall of a house, even as the eye is set in the head, that they who dwell within may look abroad to see what passeth without. hence it is written in the book of formation that the letter heh correspondeth unto the faculty of sight. this referreth to my power of vision, which is not as thine, since nothing escapeth it, and all things appear unto it in their true aspect. it is wr

ima, the mother, concealeth the yod of ab, the father, so doth heh, though the wise call it "the mother, wherewith creation took place" conceal that same paternal yod, since heh in its plentitude is the number ten. therefore the letter heh belongeth to my paternal mercy, since in the number four, which appertaineth unto chesed, mercy, is the number ten concealed, even as it is hidden in the word "window. and in that exhaustless mercy [56] heh lie hid the riches of the kingdom, for the decad is the kingdom, and the decad is hidden in chesed. io regard me, therefore, as the paternal yod which imparteth life to the whole creatiou. not made with hands, but begotten. is this universe of which thou art at once a part and the whole. of mine own substance are all things made. and i give myself fre

r every need. 13 all this am i. therefore, though none may capture me in the net of thought, he shall speak truly who shall say, laying his hand on anything soever (whether men prize it, or scorn it as of no worth" dost ask me to show thee the lord? verily, in this shalt thou find him, if thou hast eyes to see [58] comment on heh* h h e h, pronounced hay. transcribed as "h. the number 5. meaning: window. the constituting intelligence. the first two paragraphs of this meditation state the fundamental premise upon which is based the qabalistic practice of meditation. the third paragraph establishes the correspondence between heh, the window, and daleth, the door, as being of the same nature as that between chesed, mercy, and binah, understanding. the fourth paragraph is an elaboration of the

t an end [161] t h e book o f t o k e n s the fish graspeth the hook, thinking to find food, but the fisherman is the enjoyer of the meal. 3 understand this saying if thou canst: the hook and the gate and the right hand am i. i draw men forth from the death of error into the life of truth. i am the gate through which they pass. i am the hand extended to guide them through the portal. and i am the window looking out upon the world, and inward upon my self. the passage from the death and darkness of the outer into the life and light of the inner is but the turning of the eye of the soul from the contemplation of appearance to the vision of reality. 4 i am the balance between victory and foundation. that balance i preserve by ceaseless meditation upon mine own nature [162] t z a d d i only be

intelligence. 3 "the hook "is the letter tzaddi "the gate" is the letter daleth, and "the right hand" is the letter yod. this paragraph of the meditation is merely a development, letter by letter, of some of the implicits of the letter-name tzaddi, tz d i. the number of the letter-name tzaddi is 104, and the addition of the digits of this number is 5, the number of the letter heh, which means "a window. the vision of reality which corrects the illusions of outer appearance results from the turning the eye of the soul within. compare this passage with the whole meditation on the letter heh. 4 this paragraph refers to the 28th path of wisdom which joins the sephirah netzach to the sephirah yesod. this path is called the "natural intelligence, and it is associated, through the letter tzaddi

perpetual instruction, for verily the path of tav hath its beginning in the foundation of instruction. now the burden of the instruction is this: end and beginning are one [187] the book of tokens 5 what, then, is the end which is the beginning also? behold, in th v, tav, is it concealed, for th v is a th h, atah, also. and thus is it made clear that thou, even thou art beginning and end, and the window of vision which looketh inward to the source and outward to the goal. 6 through all the shifting changes of existence i remain myself, and the self which i am is thine own true self. 7 therefore is the end of all wisdom hid within the one word a th h, thou. what thou seekest, truly that thou art. the treasure thou journeyest afar to find is the jewel of eternity in thy heart of hearts [188]

in th v, tav, is it concealed, for th v is a th h, atah, also" that is, th v is 406, the number of a th h, vhich means "thou [190] c o m m e n t on t a v this last is used as a personal pronoun and as a divine name. its first letter. a, begins the alphabet, and is therefore a sign of beginning. its second letter, th, as the last of the alphabet, is the sign of the end. the final letter, h, means "window, and to it is attributed the faculty of sight. so ends the book of tokens, with the affirmation which is made, in one way or another, by all the sages, of whatever race, time, or creed. the innermost self of man is the jewel of eternity, or the magical stone of the wise, which gives its possessor the priceless boon of immortality. he who truly knows the self, who has freed himself from the

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

love. such actions were quite a normal part of life, a way of tapping into the same energies that made the cattle fertile and the corn set seed. farmers would leave milk for the faeries that they might bring good fortune, young girls recited love charms while planting herbs in soil embedded with a would-be lover's footprint. on hallowe'en, housewives opened their windows and placed garlic on the window ledge so that only the good family dead might enter and take shelter from the cold. this simple folk magick, rather than ceremonial magick, forms the basis for the majority of spells. as above, so below, the words of the semi-divine father of magick, hermes trismegistos, may originally have evolved from popular magick that is practised in many different cultures around the world to this day

ic and contagious magick to bring you something you desire. for example, you could scatter pins across a map between the places you and a lover live and with a magnet collect them, while reciting: come love, come to me, love to me come, if it is right to be. you would then place your pins in a silk, heart-shaped pincushion or a piece of pink silk, also in the shape of a heart, and leave it on the window ledge on the night of the full moon, surrounded by a circle of rose petals. banishing and protective magick this involves driving away negative feelings, fears and influences by casting away or burying a focus of the negativity. for example, you might scratch on a stone a word or symbol representing some bad memories you wished to shed, and cast the stone into fast-flowing water. alternativ

le speaking words of love and desire to increase the love energies* for the first two days, blow out the candles, sending the light to wherever your lover is. on the third day, leave the candles to burn down, allowing the wax from the two candles to merge* in the melded wax, cut the shape of a heart and on this scratch your entwined zodiacal glyphs. wrap the symbol in white silk and leave it on a window ledge from the waxing to the full moon. a candle ritual to heal the polluted seas and other bodies of water this is a ritual to be carried out after dusk. it also has the effect of clearing old hurts and regrets that can hold us back from experiencing joy. a wonderful selection of garden torches and candles are now available, that can be placed in the ground for working out of doors. as you

perity, fertility, healing and success and could contain either a single herb or a mixture, depending on the purpose. poppets, which are used mainly in love or healing or occasionally in protective magick, are generally kept in a safe place, such as a drawer, rather than carried around. so, for a love spell, two poppets would be tied together and placed in a drawer in a bedroom or left out on the window ledge in the moonlight, especially around the time of the full moon. for fertility, a miniature poppet might be placed in a tiny woven cradle on the window ledge from the new to the full moon. it would then be wrapped in silk until the end of the moon cycle and kept in an enclosed space, for example, a large painted egg made of pottery or wood. the would-be father would make the cradle and

uncast the circle, but do not blow out the candles. leave them and the oil to burn through, and only then put the lid back on the pot and return it to the warm place* add a coin to the pot every day if you can. to empower the spell even further, you could also place a pot of basil, a herb of wealth, to the east of the burner during the ritual and after the three days, place the charged herbs on a window ledge to attract money. do something positive to help a person, animal or place on the day after the third ritual. it need not involve money. you can re-light the oils at any time if energies seem sluggish and repeat the whole ritual a moon cycle later for as long as is necessary. there may be a lot of negative vibes swimming the other way, so persevere and be patient. incense magick incens

l (or sachet or poppet) nine times widdershins, saying as a mantra: go, pain and sorrow, change to star or sunbeam, transformed in joy and in tranquillity* plunge the pendulum into the water and hold it to the light so the drops of water fall off and scatter as rainbow light beams all around the symbol. you can also create the light beams by angling your candle or hanging rainbow crystals in your window. it is not cheating, but directing natural forces for a purpose and infusing physical light beams with spiritual energies. mirrors are another good way of reflecting light beams* now circle the pendulum nine times deosil over the symbol, saying: seite 102 wicca01.txt sunbeam, star beam, rays of light, replace, restore, renew, rejoice* blow out the candle, sending the light to the sick or so

it make you more jittery, less cautious (which may or may not be a good thing, more intuitive, more family-orientated, reverting to out-moded patterns of reaction? again, you can maximise positive effects if you are aware of them, like anticipating a wave and riding it, rather than being submerged by the surge of power. rituals and moon phases if possible, always work out of doors or near an open window so that you feel connected to the lunar energies. however, do not feel that you must freeze if the weather is cold: in spite of the superstitions, it is not unlucky to look at the moon through glass. i have suggested a ritual for each phase and listed the best kinds of magick for each time. the waxing moon this is the time for new beginnings and long-term goals and you can repeat the same s

waves* take an egg and carefully with a needle make a hole in it to drain out all the fluid. you can cook this and eat it or feed this to an animal to avoid waste. if you do not want to use a real egg, you can buy painted wooden or even agate ones in two halves that slot together* cut your shell in half and in one half place either a moonstone or a tiny crystal egg* place both halves open on your window ledge* make love when you wish* on the night the full moon is in the sky, take a tiny paper knife and gently prick the crystal still inside the shell saying: god to goddess, thee to me, grant increase, if 'tis right to be* make love in the full moonlight if it is shining or at any time that night even if it is not, so that you can see the egg on the window ledge or if you are outdoors on a

nal and spiritual regeneration, especially if you have been hurt or lack confidence. if you carry them out, by easter you will be filled with new optimism and a sense of direction and hopefully any new relationships, whether for love or friendship, initiated at imbolc will be slowly but gradually developing. traditionally, those celebrating this festival would light candles and place them at each window of their houses on 31 january or candlemas night, 1 february, and leave them to burn down completely. for safety reasons, nowadays, however, many people use the type of electric candle sets that are popular in windows in swedish homes before christmas. seite 152 wicca01.txt a single, large, white candle was also lit in or near the family hearth as a centrepiece for the family feast on the s

lame, saying: burn a pathway to my door, five rose petals now are four, four to three in candle fire, bringing closer my desire. from three to two i burn the rose, love no hesitation shows, from two to one till there is none, the spell is done, come, lover, come* place the map and the roses, the candle and a vase with the rose from which you plucked the petals, in a safe place near an uncurtained window until the candle has burned down* then put all the roses in the vase in your bedroom and when they die repeat the spell if necessary [insert pic p282- a knot ritual for making a wish come true* name your wish* take nine scarves or nine pieces of cord, each about the length of a bootlace* place them on a table and slowly tie a loose knot in each so you secure the nine together in a circle, s

to a whisper until you are quite still* sit and make a nine-day plan for making your wish materialise and each morning untie one of your knots as you repeat the chant. a fertility spell* when the crescent moon is in the sky, take a hen's egg and paint or colour it with permanent marker pens and decorate it with mother goddess symbols, such as spirals, butterflies, bees and birds* place it on the window ledge of your bedroom and leave it there until the night of the full moon* on this night, prick the egg gently with a silver pin or paper knife* the next day, early in the morning, sprinkle it with a few drops of almond or pure olive oil for added fertility* place the egg in one half of a coconut shell (the coconut is the most potent fertility fruit) or a tiny straw basket, and set your lit

CHIREAU YVONNE BLACK MAGIC RELIGION AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CONJURING TRADITION

ack snake" that slithered out of her foot. as the snake retreated the conjurer remarked "deah goes duh devil" and dorsey later recovered. sarah handy noted that one doctor's treatment included the burning of "various black magic page 66 of 144 http//content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docid=kt600020q0&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print 7/14/2006 vile-smelling powders" in a patient's room, followed by his opening a window "to let the devil out" the devil was incarnated in the form of a snake, an archetypal symbol for evil in the biblical tradition.[33] these accounts offer numerous possibilities for understanding physical affliction among african americans. some patients and practitioners balanced multiple ideas in order to interpret the causes of sickness and misfortune in their lives. a late-nineteenth-cen

apparent. theirs is not a pure, unmediated connection to an essentialized african origin, but a hybridized lineage, one that is additive, constantly recreated, and shaped according to circumstance. in this book i have argued that african american supernatural traditions, as dynamic products of black spirituality, are best understood within their actual social contexts. these traditions can open a window onto the many levels at which black life has been suffused with religious meaning. historically, many black americans have not separated magical beliefs from religion, seeing that the two exist as necessary counterparts. beliefs in conjure have not precluded an acceptance of christianity as a complementary system of practice. conjure coexists with christianity because it is an alternative s

CHYMICAL WEDDING OF CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUTZ

at last i well observed; so i made as though i was fast asleep, but no sleep came into my eyes, and i could not put the beheaded out of my mind. now my lodging was directly over against the great lake, so that i could easily look upon it, the windows being near to the bed. about midnight, as soon as it had struck twelve, suddenly i saw a great fire on the lake, so out of fear i quickly opened the window to see what would become of it. then from afar i saw seven ships making forward, which were all full of lights. above each of them on the top hovered a flame that passed to and fro, and page 57 sometimes descended right down, so that i could easily judge that it must be the spirits of the beheaded. now these ships gently approached land, and each of them had no more than one mariner. as soo

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tors 164,000,000 which created a cash crisis for the roman catholic church, similar to the one faced by the protestant church of england in more recent years. roberto calvi, who became known, as did sindona, as 'god's banker, fled to austria and then england, where he arrived on june 15th 1982. two days later his secretary, graziella corrocher, who kept the books for p2 'fell' from a fourth floor window at the ambrosiano bank. the following day calvi was dead, too. he was found hanged from scaffolding under blackfriars bridge in london, with his pockets full of masonry, four miles from the chelsea cloisters where he was staying. even as his body was being found and reported, italian police and other officials were chartering a plane to england. they need not have been so hasty, there were

oval of the head office in rome could only come out of "never, never land" the judge said that drogoul and four other employees at the branch..were pawns or bit players in a far larger and wider-ranging sophisticated conspiracy that involved bnl-rome and possibly large american and foreign corporations and the governments of the united states, england, italy and iraq..smoke is coming out of every window. i have to conclude that the building is on fire."28 this is the last thing the bush administration and the global elite wanted to hear. judge schoob was removed from the case and replaced by judge ernest tidwell, who refused to allow any evidence to be presented about the cia or bush white house involvement in the bank. drogoul was persuaded by his attorney, against his better judgement, t

nd won the day, the police were advised that giles was missing. the next morning, john giles was found dead on a path close to the rear entrance of lancaster house. verdict "suicide. his death would not have been made public at all, unless an ambulance man had alerted the press. the coroner, who did not call policemen at the scene to give evidence, decided that giles had jumped from a first floor window at lancaster house, which those who have been to the spot say was an impossibility, given where the body was found. and that's another thing. the lancaster house staff used the service door of the building and would have had to step over the body to get in and out. it was supposed to have laid there through a whole afternoon, evening, and night. yet it wasn't found until the following morni

rist who "assessed" sirhan sirhan, the patsy in the bobby kennedy murder. just a coincidence! lsd was widely used in the cameron experiments. it creates confusion, a key aspect of mind control. one of the early victims was frank olsen, a chemist specialising in airborne disease. he was given lsd while suffering from "depression and paranoia" and two weeks later threw himself to his death from the window of a new york hotel. the cia funded a series of 'safe houses' for experimentation in san francisco and new york. here mkultra operatives observed through two-way mirrors how the clients of cia-hired prostitutes responded after being secretly given lsd. at ewen cameron's headquarters, the allan memorial institute in montreal, canada, he 'treated' unsuspecting people for a variety of mental p

ng the video claims and there are many questions about it i would like to ask, but it certainly reveals a very different version of what happened. 382..and the truth shall set you free in the first attack in the february, we see four batf men dressed in black on the mount carmel building. they are all armed, but no shots are coming from the building. three of these men are seen to climb through a window while the fourth stays on the roof outside. when his colleagues have disappeared through the window, he throws in a grenade and begins to open fire in that direction. bullets burst through the wall from the inside. but is this the branch davidians returning fire or the three batf men retaliating in response to their 'buddy's' actions? all three of those men who entered that window were foun

hly significant astrological events have already occurred like the uranus-neptune alignments in 1993 and the effects of pluto in 1995 which are speeding the awakening of those who are ready. the year 2000 coincides with the highest point of the upwards cycle of the orion constellation to which the pyramid builders apparently aligned their geometry, and it was in the 11th millennium bc, within the window period suggested for great geological upheavals on the earth, that orion reached the lowest point of its cycle. astrological events affect earthquakes and weather systems because of the vibrational change they create on earth, as does collective human thought. also on may 5th 2000, the sun and the planets, neptune, uranus, venus, mercury, and mars all align with each other. the vibrational

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your entire life. that there's something very wrong with the world. you don't know what it is- but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. it is this feeling that has brought you to me. do you know what i'm talking about? the matrix? do you want to know what it is? the matrix is everywhere. it is all around us. even now, in this very room. you can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. you can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. it is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. what truth? that you are a slave neo. like everyone else you were born into bondage. born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch- a prison for your mind. unfortunately, no one

the day the earth nearly died, by d.s. allen and j.b. delair (gateway books, bath, 1995, the geological and biological evidence is supported by the ancient accounts with the most incredible synchronicity. everywhere the ancients recorded the effects of these events. professor james demeo writes in his book, saharasia (hidden mysteries, texas, 2000) of vast changes in the middle east in this same "window" of time "a massive climate change shook the ancient world, when approximately 6,000 years ago vast areas of lush grassland and forest in the old world began to quickly dry out and convert into harsh desert. the vast sahara desert, arabian desert, and the giant deserts of the middle east and central asia simply did not exist prior to (about) 4,000bc".12 the upheavals of the ancient world de

mal bowls found in every christian church are symbolic of the "magic stone bowl" of the serpent cult or illuminati described in the edda. the gothic "christian" doorways and the ridges around them are depictions of the vulva and many even have a clitoris symbol at the top of the arch. the same is depicted in windows and especially the rose windows of the gothic cathedrals. at chartres they have a window featuring the "rose of france" with "mary" in the centre. rose windows face west, the sacred direction of female deities. the red rose is symbolic of the goddess and so we have the rosicrucians with their red rose and cross symbols. they are a major strand in the illuminati web and claim a lineage to ancient egypt and back to "noah, that symbol of the reptilian bloodline. another elite netw

and famous as inaccurately as the church has with jesus, they would be sued or laughed out of existence in a month. outside the grotto in bethlehem, the guide introduced me to a friend of his "he likes your face" my guide informed me "and he invites you back to his home for a drink" we arrived at his "home" after a few seconds' walk. it was a nice home, but strange in a way. it had a large front window, credit card signs, counters, a cash register, and lots of shelves with things on. if i didn't know better, i would have said it was the image of a big souvenir shop. as i looked around, i didn't know whether to laugh or scream. you could buy holy this, holy that, holy anything. i didn't see any holy toilet paper, but it must have been there. in fact, given all the crap spoken about religio

nton graduated from yale in 1973, gerald ford, a yale law school graduate, became president of the united states in 1974 after the watergate scandal removed nixon, and george bush senior and junior are both yale men who were initiated into the skull and bones society. interestingly, according to a history channel documentary in february 2001, son bush's skull and bones name was "temporary! in its window less mausoleum across the road from the yale campus, the skull and bones initiates take part in their blood rituals. these involve drinking from a human skull (see..and the truth shall set you free and the biggest secret. jim shaw reveals that the initiation into the 33rd degree of the scottish rite of freemasonry includes drinking wine from a human skull. the knights templar, out of which

were beings coming to harvest the baby, but i was not asleep or controlled by the sound in the usual way. they must have gotten it later because when the placenta came out the baby had been extracted earlier."20 "spiritual" satanism and "christian" conmen 327 in october 1992, the month her husband died of cancer, she says she was lying on her bed with only a robe on when a light came through the window and burned a hole in her abdomen about the size of a pencil all the way into the organs "it was probably the height of the uterus but to the right side a little bit" this caused a serious infection, she said, and she has since had huge burns on her abdomen. she recalls that the doctor asked how she got the burn and she could only tell him that it was there when she woke up "i just told him

guns.html 19 http//www.davidicke.net/medicalarchives/badmed/5000die.html 20 london sunday times reported: on april 16th, 1995 21 nexus magazine, summer 1994 22 http//www.davidicke.net/newsroom/global/090800a.html 23 http//www.reptilianagenda.com/exp/e020900a.html chapter 18 the matrix the matrix is everywhere. it is all around us. even now, in this very room. you can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. you can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. it is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. morpheus in the movie, the matrix e think we live in a "world. in fact we live in a frequency range. that's all it is. we are trapped in a frequency range and therefore trapped in an illusio

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nd to devour one anothers flesh and drink blood. the earth laidaccusation against the lawless ones.16that passage describes the bloodlines i am highlighting and they came together inthe babylonian brotherhood which has since expanded across the planet. while welook out of our eyes and feel part of this physical world, the reptiles look into this thirddimension, much like someone looking through a window. in this case, the eyes of thephysical body. we are consciously in the third dimension, they are consciously in thefourth looking into the third. when you know what you are looking for it is the eyesthat give them away. they are dark, piercing and cold. the reptile full-bloods are notattached to their bodies like humans. they are knowingly using them as space suits tooperate in this world

he entrance to the church he had written in french: this place is terrible.as you walk through the door you are faced with a demonic statue depicting a particularversion of the devil. it is asmodeus who, the legend says, was forced by king solomon tohelp with the building of his temple in jerusalem. a cutting with a picture of asmodeus inchains was found among saunieres possessions. a plate glass window features marymagdalene anointing the feet of jesus and a statue of mary magdalene includes a skull ather feet- that symbol of the templar rituals. the floor is laid out with the black and151white squares of a masonic temple. a feature of the sauniere-inspired decoration in thechurch is the rose and the cross. this is the symbol of the secret society called therosicrucians or rose croix and

zero. he calls this zero point when the earths magnetic field will all butdisappear because the planets rotation will have stopped. this doesnt mean there willbe no gravity because that is created by other phenomena, not the spin of the planet.something like this seems to have happened at least 14 times in the last 4.5 millionyears. the last is estimated to have been about 11-13,000 years ago, a window of timewhich corresponds with many estimates of the end of atlantis and the beginning of therecovery from that great cataclysm after about 10,500 bc. 13,000 years ago would havebeen the halfway point in the great cycle of 26,000 years which is ending now, anothertime of great change. i am not saying the earth is going to stop rotating, but i certainlywould not dismiss the possibilityit coul

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cies. but the more powerful his "transmitter" becomes, the more people he will be able to influence directly. the quickest and most direct route to the brain is through the optic nerve. mental transmissions from the brain are sent through the optic nerve to the eyes and out through the eye cavities. this is the origin of the "evil eye" and "fascination, as well as the expression "the eyes are the window to the soul" in the middle ages, witch-hunters used to remove the eyes of "witches" so that they would not be able to look upon them and curse them. once a magician has acquired control of his own mental states (through ritual magic, and has converted the "receiver" in his brain into a "transmitter, he is able to "influence" rather than "be influenced. he may even feel contempt for those wh

emeda aqoso adoho moz, od maoffasa. bolape como belioreta pamebeta. zodacare od zodameranu! odo cicale qaa. zodoreje, lape zodiredo noco mada, hoathahe saitan (dee) o thou mighty light and burning flame of comfort which openest the glory of god to the center of the earth. in whom the 6,332 secrets of truth have their abiding which is called in thy kingdom ioye and is not to be measured, be thou a window of comfort unto me. move and shew yourselves. open the mysteries of your creation. be friendly nto me for i am the servant of the same, your god, the true worshipper of the highest (lavey) o thou mighty light and burning flame of comfort, that unveilest the glory of satan to the center of the earth; in whom the great secrets of truth have their abiding; that is called in thy kingdom "streng

open the mysteries of your creation. be friendly nto me for i am the servant of the same, your god, the true worshipper of the highest (lavey) o thou mighty light and burning flame of comfort, that unveilest the glory of satan to the center of the earth; in whom the great secrets of truth have their abiding; that is called in thy kingdom "strength through joy, and is not to be measured. be thou a window of comfort unto me. move therefore, and appear! open the mysteries of your creation! be friendly unto me, for i am the same, the true worshipper of the highest and ineffable king of hell! the call of the 30 ayres (or 19th enochian key) anton lavey writes: the nineteenth enochian key is the great sustainer of the natural balance of the earth, the law of thrift, and of the jungle. it lays bar

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ten her a letter. what that letter contained, i do not know. as soon as i had written it and put it where she would get it, i fell into a sort of stupor, and lay in this state with my mind completely in abeyance till the following evening. that is to say, from two o'clock one afternoon till about eight o'clock of the following day, thirty hours. it was a cold spring day with snow on the ground. a window close to the head of the bed was wide open and the room unheated. i had no covering over me, but i felt neither cold nor hunger, and all the processes of the body were in abeyance. i never stirred. heartbeat and respiration were very slow, and continued so for several days. i was found eventually by the housekeeper, who revived me by the simple application of a good shaking and a cold spong

mpared notes, and found we had all, some six or seven of us, had similar nightmares, and proceeded to exchange experiences. the effect of this upon miss l. was curious. she squirmed upon her chair as if it had suddenly become red-hot and said with much emphasis "these things should not be discussed, it is most unwholesome" out of deference to her feelings we desisted. but presently up to the open window came another member of our community, a woman who slept in an open-air shelter at some little distance from the house. we enquired after her health, as usual, and she replied that she was not feeling very well, as she had slept badly, and proceeded to recount the same nightmare as the rest of us. later on in the morning, another lady, who had a house a little way down the road, arrived, and

ing the windows, the danger is not outside the house but in it. go to bed, and be sure and lock your door" she would give no answer to my questions except to reiterate that i should lock my door. this was the first night i had slept in that house, previously having been in a cottage on the opposite side of the road. i did not lock my door because the night was intolerably hot and the room and the window small. i compromised, however, by putting an enamel slop-pail at a strategic spot in the fairway, trusting that any intruder would fall over it and give the alarm. nothing happened, and i slept quietly. next morning, however, the storm broke. miss l. and i were peacefully at work in the kitchen when she suddenly caught up a carving-knife and started after me, as mad as a march hare. fortuna

ut, or at least make a considerable amount of noise. where such manifestations take place, it is obvious that we are dealing with something more substantial than the mind, for although mind can influence mind, and through it the body to an extent to which in the present state of our knowledge it is difficult to set limits, mind cannot manipulate matter directly: that is to say, you cannot smash a window by means of a thought. there must be some physical vehicle that can be manipulated by the mind if effects are to be wrought on the physical plane. the living body is such an instrument; it is manipulated by the mind every time a voluntary movement takes place, and the operations of spiritual healing are simply an extension of this principle to the involuntary muscles and physiological proce

, had fallen to my lot. there came a time, however, when we decided that he was so far recovered that it was unnecessary for anyone to sit up with him, so to bed we all went, for the first time for several days. i shared a room with another member of the community. it was a comparatively small cottage we were in, and our two beds were close together, side by side, right under the uncurtained open window. it was the time of the full moon, and i remember that i had no need to light a candle in order to see to undress. i fell asleep at once, for i was very tired. i could not have been asleep very long, however, when i was awakened by the sensation of a weight upon my feet. it was as if a good-sized dog, say, a collie, had jumped up and lain down on the bed. the room was flooded with moonlight

ly presentable types that not infrequently crop up in old families whose blood is too blue to be wholesome. this lad was taken as boarder in a flat which the student shared with another woman, and they soon began to be troubled with curious phenomena. about the same time every evening the dogs in a neighbouring mews began a furious outcry of barking and howling, and a few moments later the french window leading on to the verandah would open. it did not matter how often they got the locksmith to it, nor how they barricaded it, open it would come at the appointed time, and a cold draught sweep through the flat. this phenomenon took place one evening when the adept, z, was present, and he declared that an unpleasant invisible entity had entered. they lowered the lights, and were able to see a

rceiving the images in the reflecting ether, the photographic plate of nature, and there may be no actual entity present. where the disturbance is heard, but not seen, it may be due to astral forces set in motion by ritual magic, and which continue for a while after the original impulse is withdrawn. these may be perfectly harmless, save that they disturb the sleep in the same way that a rattling window would do. on the other hand, if powerful evocative rituals have been performed, and the clearing of the sphere has not been properly done, profound disturbances may result and the whole situation be exceedingly unpleasant. examples will again help to make the problem clear. as an instance of a non-ritual haunting, i may cite the case of a friend of mine who went to live in a block of modern

make the problem clear. as an instance of a non-ritual haunting, i may cite the case of a friend of mine who went to live in a block of modern mansions. from the first she was not happy there, and as time went by the oppression and distress strengthened. coming into her drawing-room one evening at dusk, she saw in the half-light a man standing with his back to the room, gazing intently out of the window. she switched on the light, and found that there was no one there. on several occasions her maid saw someone walk down the passage leading to this room. moreover, the hall door had a knack of coming open of its own accord. my friend's depression deepened until finally, when standing herself at the drawing-room window one day, she had a sudden impulse to fling herself out. then she realised

al, but pure obsessions; and this leads to the third point. not one of these incidents happened while i was asleep. always i found myself awake with the terror upon me and struggling violently to cast off the spell. i have had nightmares before, but no nightmare that i have ever had could hold my mind in its grip for minutes at a time as this thing did, or send me plunging through a ten-foot-high window to the ground below "the first indication i had that these visitations were absolutely out of the ordinary course of events came on may 30. about midnight i was suddenly awakened by a voice calling loudly 'look out' and at once i became aware of a red serpent coiling and uncoiling itself under my bed, and reaching out onto the floor with its head. just as it was about to 43 of 103 attack me

below "the first indication i had that these visitations were absolutely out of the ordinary course of events came on may 30. about midnight i was suddenly awakened by a voice calling loudly 'look out' and at once i became aware of a red serpent coiling and uncoiling itself under my bed, and reaching out onto the floor with its head. just as it was about to 43 of 103 attack me i jumped through my window, and came to earth among the rose bushes below, fortunately with no more damage done than a badly bruised arm "after this there was absolute peace until june 30, when the real climax came. i had seen the thing again on the night of the new moon, and had noticed considerable changes in its appearance. especially it seemed far more active, while its long hair had changed into serpent heads. t

moon, and had noticed considerable changes in its appearance. especially it seemed far more active, while its long hair had changed into serpent heads. the night after i was awakened by a violent noise and jumped out of bed. i then saw the noise was caused by a great red obelisk which crashed through the west wall of my room and leaned against the wall at the east end, smashing both that and the window to pieces but missing my bed, which was in an alcove to the left of its path. in its transit it had smashed all the mirrors, and the floor and top of my bed were strewn with broken glass and fragments of wood. this time the obsession must have lasted some minutes, i dared not move for fear of cutting myself, and to reach the matches- wherein, i knew, lay safety- i had to lean across the bed

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gaged the whole community of ufo researchers. in 1979, raymond fowler wrote the first of four books discussing what became known as the andreasson affair. andreasson s story began on the evening of january 25, 1967, in south ashburnham, massachusetts. the lights went out in her home, and her seven children and her parents, who were visiting, gathered in the kitchen. her father looked out the back window, attracted by a pink light that was shining, and he saw several little creatures which he thought of as halloween- like entities. he made a passing note of them, but did not do anything. the next morning, all appeared to be back to normal, except andreasson had a strange feeling that something out of the ordinary had happened. over the next few weeks she had flashbacks of humanoid creatures

th to a child three weeks before which i did not know till after her death. in a similar case a mother brought the news of the death of her grandson by drowning, the drowned man also appearing to the percipient. in an instance quoted by camille flammarion in the unknown (1900, the percipient, whose brother was killed in the attack at sedan, awoke suddenly during the night and saw. opposite to the window and beside my bed my brother on his knees surrounded by a sort of luminous mist. i tried to speak to him but i could not. i jumped out of bed. i looked out of the window and i saw there was no moonlight. the night was dark and it was raining heavily, great drops pattering on the window panes. my poor oliver was still there. then i drew near. i walked right through the apparition. i reached

to him in life. the pictorial and often symbolic nature of the communication has been suggestive of the more subjective explanations of apparitions. in a curious group of cases images are seen instead of the lifelike figure. anna blackwell testified to such an experience before the london dialectical committee in 1870. the face of a beloved relative, like a life-size daguerreotype, appeared on a window pane of the house opposite to her window. it faded away several times, and appeared again. there seemed to be upon the pane a sort of dark iridescence out of which the face evolved, each appearance lasting about eight seconds, and each being darker and fainter than the preceding one. she also quoted the case of a mrs. m. g. who saw in the tortoiseshell handle of a new parasol the face of ch

pillar of black vapor. there are some cases in which the apparition is behind the percipient, yet clearly seen. again, the phantom may appear quite solid, yet objects may be seen beyond it. occasionally, it is a reflection only. as reported in phantasms of the living (vol. 2, p. 35, a mrs. searle fainted. her husband saw her head and face white and bloodless about the same time in a mirror upon a window opposite him. meeting cases apparitions seen at deathbeds are in a class of their own. in these so-called meeting cases, a type of near-death experience, it appears as if deceased friends and relatives hasten to the borderland to extend a welcome to the dying. in peak in darien (1882, frances power cobbe writes, the dying person is lying quietly, when suddenly, in the very act of expiring

and i were all in the dining room at 9:20 p.m. we were all close together, mother seated in a chair, self and wife standing. no one else was in the room. my wife was in the act of parting mother s hair with her fingers to examine the cut and i was looking on. at that instant i happened to raise my eyes and i saw something issue from a point close to the ceiling in the corner of the room over the window, and distant from my wife (who had her back to it) three and a quarter yards, and four and a quarter yards from myself, facing it. it shot across the room close to the ceiling and struck the wall over the piano, upon which it then fell, making the strings vibrate, and so on to the floor on which it rolled. i ran and picked it up, and found, to my astonishment, that it was a jar of ointment

f ointment which mother used specially for cuts and bruises, and which she kept locked up in her wardrobe. the intention was evident, the ointment was for the wound. i saw it come apparently through the wall, near the ceiling, and this with no one within three and a quarter yards of the place. the room is over nine feet high and was brilliantly lighted by a 100 candle-power lamp, and the door and window were shut, the latter fastened, and incapable of being opened from the outside. tweedale recorded several other similar observations. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. apports 77 we were talking about the mysterious disappearance of the keys. suddenly i saw something bright coming swiftly through the air from the direction of the corner opposite the door and high up towards

side. tweedale recorded several other similar observations. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. apports 77 we were talking about the mysterious disappearance of the keys. suddenly i saw something bright coming swiftly through the air from the direction of the corner opposite the door and high up towards the ceiling, and so from that part of the room where there is neither door, nor window, nor any opening in the wall. the bright thing rushed through the air and struck my wife on the coil of hair at the back of her head. it came with such a force that it bounced from her head to a distance of nearly three and a half yards from where she stood. my wife uttered a loud cry of alarm, due to the shock and surprise, but owing to the thick mass of hair intervening, she was not hurt

nd the contents were identical. in experiments with lajos pap at the budapest metapsychical museum, chengery pap often obtained living insects, frogs, and butterflies. often they were completely dazed and motionless on arrival but recovered completely after a few minutes. apports have also frequently been noticed in poltergeist cases. in stone throwing the stones may arrive apparently through the window without breaking the glass. in the case reported in the journal of the society for psychical research (vol. 12, stones seemed to pass through the roof of a mr. grottendieck s hut in the jungle of sumatra without making a hole. they were so hot that grottendieck at first believed them to be meteorites. apport mediums observed that the actions of apport mediums require careful attention befor

e understood when i was introduced to him with my friend, whom i shall call omega, and who was bent on the same errand. slade and mr. terry constituted the circle of four who sat around the table in the center of the room almost as immediately as we entered it. there was nothing in the room to attract attention. no signs of confederacy, human or mechanical. the hour was eleven in the morning. the window was unshuttered, and the sun was shining brightly. the table at which we sat was a new one, made especially by wallach brothers, of elizabeth street, of polished cedar, having four slight legs, one flap, and no ledges of any kind underneath. as soon as we examined it slade took his seat on one side, facing the window, and the rest of us occupied the other three seats. he was particularly an

arched, stripped, sometimes dressed in a new suit, tied up in a sealed sack, with openings for the hands to hold the apported object; on special occasions the sitters were also searched and the medium was enclosed in a cage with close mosquito netting. the doors were locked or sealed, no furniture was kept in the room except chairs and a table, the fireplace was blocked, and the only second floor window was papered. immediately after bailey went into trance, the controls took charge of the phenomena. the chief control was a dr. whitcombe, sometime physician in melbourne. another, dr. robinson, claimed to have been professor of syro-chaldaic literature in new york. the apport of old coins and babylonian clay tablets with cuneiform inscriptions were apparently due to him. a third control was

color, before the sitters eyes, and in daylight was an even more mysterious phenomenon. at first a locked box or curtained-off space was used and several sittings were required. later they were openly precipitated, as if by an airbrush, as quickly as within eight minutes. the arrangement was as follows: two identical, paper-mounted canvases in wooden frames were held up, face to face, against the window, the lower edges resting on a table and the sides gripped by each medium with one hand. a short curtain was hung on either side and an opaque blind was drawn over the canvases. with the light streaming from behind, the canvases were translucent. after a quarter of an hour, the outlines of shadows began to appear and disappear as if the invisible artist were making a preliminary sketch, then

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oster, i witnessed the presence of nine hands floating over the dining table (notes and studies on animal magnetism and spiritualism, 1867. signor g. damiani testified before the london dialectical society as having seen, at a seance of the davenport brothers in london in 1868. five pink transparent hands ranged perpendicularly behind the door. subsequently, he said, i placed my hand in the small window of the cabinet, when i felt each of my five digits tightly grasped by a distinct hand; while my own was thus held down, five or six other hands protruded from the hole above my wrist. on withdrawing my hand from the aperture, an arm came out therefrom.an arm of such enormous proportions that had it been composed of flesh and bone, it would, i verily believe, have turned the scale (being wei

on. she even allowed crookes encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. materialization 991 to enter the cabinet where, armed with a phosphorus lamp, he saw both the medium and katie at the same time. in studying d. d. home s mediumship, crookes did not see many fully materialized figures. he observed: in the dusk of the evening during a seance with mr. home at my house, the curtains of a window about eight feet from mr. home were seen to move. a dark, shadowy, semi-transparent form, like that of a man, was then seen by all present standing near the window, waving the curtain with his hand. as we looked, the form faded away and the curtains ceased to move. mrs. crookes described a semitransparent phantom form playing an accordian, which she said was also seen by her husband, the re

not help screaming. the figure seemed to sink into the floor, to the waist, leaving only the head and shoulders visible, still playing the accordion, which was then about a foot off the floor. a description of a more solid case was given by lord adare who also sat in home s seances: her form gradually became apparent to us; she moved close to home and kissed him. she stood beside him against the window intercepting the light as a solid body, and appeared fully as material as home himself; no one could have told which was the mortal body and which was the spirit. it was too dark, however to distinguish features. i could see that she had her full face turned towards us, and that either her hair was parted in the middle, and flowed down over her shoulders or that she had on what appeared to

, london. he convinced judge dailey, an american, that the dead returned through his body. monck s reputation was high. disaster struck monck in 1876 shortly after the trial of fellow medium henry slade. at a huddersfield seance on november 3, a conjurer named h. b. lodge suddenly demanded a search of the medium. monck ran for safety, locked himself into his room upstairs, and escaped through the window. as a further evidence of his guilt, a pair of stuffed gloves was found in his room. in the medium s luggage were found spirit lamps, a spirit bird, cheesecloth, and reaching rods, as well as some obscene correspondence from women. there were other cases in which monck was caught in flagrant fraud. sir william barrett wrote of a piece of white muslin on a wire frame with a black thread atta

lf foot off the floor under special circumstances that rendered trickery impossible (r. g. medhurst, k. m. goldney, m. r. barrington, crookes and the spirit world [1972, 115. d. d. home testified before the committee of the london dialectical society: i have seen a table lifted into the air with eight men standing on it, when there were only two or three other persons in the room. i have seen the window open and shut at a distance of seven or eight feet, and curtains drawn aside and, in some cases, objects carried over our heads. in the house of mr. and mrs. s. c. hall a table went up so high in the air that we could not touch it. at a supper party attended by 30 persons, including florence cook, the heavy dining table, with everything on it, rose in full light into the air, until the feet

be created at the expense of the medium and the sitters. by calculation julien ochorowitz announced the finding that the dynamometric energy which a circle lost corresponded to the average energy of a man. if the theory of a separate dynamic organism were accepted, it could account for experiences like that reported by lord adare [d. d] home. told me to go into the next room and place outside the window a certain vase of flowers. i did so, putting the vase outside the ledge and shutting the window. home opened the window of the room in which we were sitting. the flowers were carried through the air from the window of the next room in at our open window. we could all hear the rus- encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. movement (paranormal) 1065 tling, and see the curtains moved

rously. i was told not to read what was printed, and i have worked myself into such a religious fear of losing this new power that i obeyed reverently. the next morning, also before sunrise the same power came and wrote (or printed rather) again. again i laid the matter away very religiously, saying little about it to anybody. one morning i accidentally (seemed accidental to me) looked out of the window and beheld the line of light that rested on my hands extending heavenward like a telegraph wire towards the sky. over my head were three pairs of hands, fully materialised; behind me stood another angel with her hands on my shoulders. my looking did not disturb the scene, my hands kept right on printing. printing. for 50 weeks this continued, every morning, half an hour or so before sunrise

greatly startled by these sounds, several times repeated, at the medium s command, he remained perfectly still until the voice of his friend speaking in his well-remembered scotch accent sounded close to his ear, whilst a column of grey misty substance reared itself by his side. this apparition was plainly visible in the subdued light of the hut, to which there was only one open entrance, but no window. though he was much startled by what he saw and heard, mr. marsden had presence of mind enough to gently put his hand through the misty column which remained intact, as if its substance offered no resistance to the touch. being admonished by an earnest whisper from the maori woman, who had fallen on her knees before the apparition, to keep still, he obeyed, when a voice.seemingly from an im

ite of his stupidity. for his critics, a problematic instance of psychic phenomena is the story of the william eglinton letter. from the boat vega, the letter was claimed to be astrally conveyed first to bombay, then with the superimposed script of blavatsky carried to calcutta, where it fell from the ceiling in mrs. gordon s home while olcott pointed to the apparition of two brothers outside the window. according to mrs. gordon s testimony, olcott told her that the night before he had an intimation from his chohan (teacher) that k. h (a mahatma) had been to the vega and had seen eglinton. if the delivery of this letter was fraudulent (and it has been convincingly argued by experts that the k. h. letters were written by blavatsky, the only excuse for olcott is that he acted unconsciously f

grees of fire. but about midnight, the friday following, this artificer, lying in a chamber next to his laboratory, betwixt sleeping and waking, heard a horrible noise, like unto the lowing of kine, or the roaring of a lion; and continuing quiet, after the ceasing of the sound in the laboratory, the moon being at the full, and, by shining enlightening the chamber suddenly, betwixt himself and the window he saw a thick little cloud, condensed into an oval form, which, after, by little and little, did seem completely to put on the shape of a man, and making another and a sharp clamour, did suddenly vanish. and not only some noble persons in the next chambers, but also the host with his wife, lying in a lower room of the house, and also the neighbours dwelling in the opposite side of the stre

questioned by carrington. it said that at a sitting held on december 18, a young man crept under the cover of darkness into the cabinet and, during the movement of a small table, while professor hugo munsterberg was controlling the left foot of palladino, the young man grabbed a human foot, unshod, by the instep. palladino s foot was pulled out of the shoe. later she was watched from a concealed window in the cabinet and from a bureau provided with a secret peephole. she achieved the desired effect by gradual substitution, i.e, making one foot do duty for two as regards the control of her limbs, and acting freely with the loose foot. it had not been emphasized that paladino, at this stage, was so apprehensive of her investigators that she did not allow herself to go into trance for fear t

EVERBURNING LAMPS

renewed from heaven on several occasions.-lev. ix, 24; 2 chron. vii, 1; 1 kings xviii, 38. other writers have taken the other side of the argument, viz, that the gift of a flame that would need no attention would have tended to idolatry, to which the israelites were ever prone. the chaldeans and persians used to maintain a perpetual fire in the temples. certain scholars have considered that the "window" mentioned as placed in the ark of noah was not such, as during a period of prolonged cloud and storm a window should not light such a chamber. in the hebrew version of genesis, cap. 6, v. 16, the word is tzer, which means "something transparent" and is to be compared with the similar word zer, always translated "splendour" or "light" hence they suggest that this tzer, or zer, was some form

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

affa, though swan insisted he had not contacted her affa. back in washington larsen talked with center director arthur lundahl and lundahl s assistant, lt. cmdr. robert neasham, a navy officer. in their presence larsen entered a trance state and supposedly contacted affa while lundahl and neasham peppered him with questions. at one point, challenged to prove his existence, affa replied, go to the window. lundahl saw nothing but clouds, though neasham seemed convinced that a 12 affa spaceship was hiding in them. neasham would also claim that radar operators at washington national airport told him that that particular portion of the sky was mysteriously blocked out. no independent evidence supported that allegation. neasham notified major robert friend, head of the air force s ufo-investigat

sensed somehow that she had not really been in space. what she had experienced were vivid mental images that the aliens had beamed into her brain. at the same time, she was certain that she had not dreamed any of this; it was much too real and had none of the distinguishing characteristics of dreams. see also: hybrid beings further reading randles, jenny, and paul whetnall, 1981. alien con- tact: window on another world. london: neville spearman. artemis artemis hails from the planet miranda, located in an uncharted region of the milky way galaxy. he and the thirteen thousand beings on his team orbit earth in a giant space platform, focusing their attention on most of the north american continent. other spaceships from other places attend to the rest of earth. artemis, who channeled throug

sisted on anonymity confided a strange tale to ufologist lyonel trigano about a decidedly unsettling encounter on a rural road in var one dark, rainy night in november 1962. as he rounded a curve, he saw, some fifty to sixty feet ahead of him, a group of figures standing close to one another in the middle of the highway. he slowed down, and as he did so, the group jerkily broke into two parts. my window was down, he related, and i leaned my head out slightly to see what was the matter; it was then that i saw beasts, some kind of bizarre animals, with the heads of birds, and covered in some sort of plumage, which were hurling themselves from two sides toward my car. shocked and frightened, he quickly rolled up the window and accelerated. after moving a few hundred feet to what he thought wa

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 gable and more to the east of the figures, all, of course, outside the church at knock (mc- clure, 1983) the other witnesses came to the scene and o b s e rved the motionless fig u res. though it was raining all the while, they would re p o rt, the ground around the fig u res remained dry. yet when ma ry be i r n e s mother appro a c h e d to kiss the bv m s feet, she felt nothing. s

she lifted a glass, and the beings lifted theirs, but when they saw her watching them, they blinded her with the light beam. the next thing she knew, they were putting empty glasses down. next she thought of offering them cigarettes and cigars that they were looking at. when she lit one, however, the beings recoiled in fright. she thought they were afraid of fire. a loud noise brought her to the window, where she saw that the orange ufo was back. the beings put their hands to their sides, she recalled. they lifted themselves up, pressing buttons on their chests, and they glided themselves out. each was holding its mince pie. they sailed out the back door and entered through an opening in the ufo, which flew away and was soon lost to view. at that moment, hingley suffered a g o n y, p u re

poke of it to each other. i have no explanation to offer, the woman said, but i do know that this was not a figment of my imagination (creighton, 1970. in a ufo-age counterpart to this strange story, a seattle woman reported that around 2 a.m. one night in late august 1965 she awoke paralyzed. unable to speak or move, she watched helplessly as a football-shaped gray object sailed through her open window and hovered over a carpet in her bedroom. as the tiny ufo prepared to land, three tripod legs dropped from it. once settled on the floor, the ufo let out a ramp, down which stepped five or six miniature beings clad in tight-fitting uniforms. they then engaged in what appeared to be repair work on their craft. on completing the job, they walked up the ramp and into the ship and flew away. at

from early witness linda scarberry (wife of roger scarb e r ry, who said that she and her husband had seen the cre a t u re hundreds of times, one from as close as three or four feet. sh e went on, it seems like it doesn t want to hurt you. it just wants to communicate with you. but you re too afraid when you see it to do anything. we rented an apartment down on thirteenth street, and the bedroom window was right off the roof. it was sitting on the roof one night, looking in the window, and by then i was so used to seeing it that i just pulled the blinds and went on. i felt kind of sorry for it [because] it gives you the feeling like it was sitting there wishing it could come in and get warm because it was cold out that night (raynes, 1976) a mothmanlike cre a t u re was also invo l ve d i

smith during a wave of sightings of mysterious, never-explained airships (ufos in modern terminology) in the spring of 1897, a rockland, texas, man named john barclay claimed an encounter with a close-lipped pilot who gave only his last name. the houston daily post of april 25 reported the incident. around 11 p.m, as barclay told the story, he heard his dogs barking frantically. glancing out his window, he was startled to see an oblong-shaped object with wings circling just above his pasture. moments later the ship landed. winchester rifle in hand, the witness stepped outside where he spotted a stranger. the stranger identified himself only as smith. he would not allow barclay to get closer to the ship. we cannot allow you to get any closer, but do as we request [and] your kindness will b

n when he thought he heard music. looking outside, he saw a group of little people no more than three or four inches high dancing under the elm tree. they also seemed to be humming along with the melody. the scene was clear and unmistakable. yet, still unable to credit his senses, he turned away, then glanced back. the strange tiny fig u res we re still there. he got up and looked through another window in case the whole scene was simply a trick of light. he could still see the fig u res. he moved about v i g o rously to discharge any extant images kept over from sleep. after five minutes the little people began to fade away, and soon only the grass on which they had been moving re m a i n e d. exhausted, he returned to bed and fell asleep. he would never forget the incident. recalling it

FAUST

, may it please you, look on me with pity, and see and soften my distress! let me not vainly grind here waiting! who likes to give, alone is gay. a day all men are celebrating, be it for me a harvest day. another citizen i know naught better on a sunday or a holiday than chat of wars and warlike pother, when off in turkey, far away, the people clash and fight with one another. we stand beside the window, drain our glasses, and see how each gay vessel down the river passes, then in the evening homeward wend our ways, blessing with joy sweet peace and peaceful days. third citizen yes, neighbour! i would leave things so; each other s skulls they well may crack, and everything may topsyturvy go, if only things at home stay in the old, old track. old woman[to two citizens daughters] my! how dre

opposing your frigid devil s fist with might and main. it s clenched in spite and clenched in vain! seek something else to undertake, you, chaos odd, fantastic son! mephistopheles we ll really ponder on what can be done when my next visits here i make. but may i for the present go away? faust why you should ask, i do not see. though we have only met today, come as you like and visit me. here is a window, here a door, for you, besides a certain chimney-flue. mephistopheles let me own up! i cannot go away; a little hindrance bids me stay. the witch s foot upon your sill i see. faust the pentagram? that s in your way? you son of hell explain to me, if that stays you, how came you in today? and how was such a spirit so betrayed? mephistopheles observe it closely! it is not well made; one angle

serve it closely! it is not well made; one angle, on the outer side of it, is just a little open, as you see. faust that was by accident a lucky hit! and are you then my captive? can that be? by happy chance the thing s succeeded! mephistopheles as he came leaping in, the poodle did not heed it. the matter now seems turned about; the devil s in the house and can t get out. faust well, through the window- why not there withdraw? mephistopheles for devils and for ghosts it is a law: where they slipped in, there too must they go out. the first is free, the second s slaves are we. faust does hell itself have its laws then? that s fine! a compact in that case might be concluded safely with you gentlemen? mephistopheles what s promised, you ll enjoy with naught subtracted, with naught unduly sni

time be sure to laugh at you. she once led me astray, she ll do it to you too. give her a kobold for her lovesick yearning! at some cross-road let him go woo her. let some old buck, from blocksberg homeward turning, still on the gallop, bleat good evening! to her. a gallant fellow of real flesh and blood is for that wench a deal too good. i ll hear no greetings to that lass but such as smash her window-glass. brander [pounding on the table. give heed give heed! lend me your ear! you, sirs, confess that i know what is what. some lovesick folk are sitting here, and so in honour due their present lot i must contribute to their night s good cheer. give heed! a brand-new song twill be! and sing the chorus lustily! he sings. there once in a cellar lived a rat, had a paunch could scarce be smoot

i scratch my head- he puts the casket in the press and turns the lock again. away and speedy!to turn the sweet young child that she be led to satisfy your heart s desire and will; and you look around as if to a lecture you were bound, as if before you, living still, stood physics and metaphysics grey! but off! away! exeunt. margaret [with a lamp. here is such close such sultry air! she opens the window. and yet it s really not so warm out there. i feel so strange- i don t know howi wish that mother came home now. from head to foot i m shudderingi m but a foolish, fearsome thing! she begins to sing while she undresses. there was in thule olden a king true till the grave, to whom a beaker golden his dying mistress gave. naught prized he more, this lover, he drained it at each bout; his eyes

. first came your passion like the furious current of brooklets swollen high from melted snow. into her heart you poured the torrent, and now again your brooklet s running low. i think, instead of sitting throned in forests wild it would become so great a lord to seek the poor, young, silly child and give her for her love some due reward. to her the time grows pitiably long. she stands beside the window, sees the clouds that stray over the old town wall and far away. were i a little bird! so goes her song, all day long and half the night long. she s mostly sad, at times is gay, at times is quite wept out, and then, it seems, is calm again, and is in love always. faust serpent! serpent! mephistopheles [aside. good! i ll bet that i will get you yet! faust infamous fiend! off, get you hence!

nd than is a devil who despairs. gretchen s room gretchen [at her spinning-wheel, alone. my peace is gone -my heart is sorei ll find it, ah, never, no, nevermore! when he is not near, my grave is here; my world is all turned into gall. my poor, poor head is all a-craze, and my poor wits all in a maze. my peace is gone -my heart is sorei ll find it, ah, never, no, nevermore! to see him only at the window i stay, to meet him only from home i stray. his noble form, his bearing so high, and his lips so smiling, and the power of his eye, his flowing speech s magic bliss, his hands fond clasp, and, ah, his kiss! my peace is gone -my heart is sorei ll find it, ah, never, no, nevermore! my bosom yearns toward him to go. ah! might i clasp him and hold him so, and kiss his lips as fain would i, upon

gazing, art deep sighs raising on high for his and for thy pain. who feeleth how reeleth this pain in every bone? all that makes my poor heart shiver, why it yearneth and doth quiver, thou dost know and thou alone! wherever i am going, how woe, woe, woe is growing, ah, how my bosom aches! when lonely watch i m keeping, i m weeping, weeping, weeping, my heart within me breaks. the plants before my window i wet with tears- ah, meas in the early morning i plucked these flowers for thee. ah, let my room but borrow the early sunlight red, i sit in all my sorrow already on my bed. help! rescue me from death and stain! oh, bend thou, mother of sorrows; send thou a look of pity on my pain! night the street before gretchen s door. valentine [a soldier, gretchen s brother. when i ve sat with a jovia

ose in air, each scurvy knave may taunt and sneer! i ll sit like one accursed by debt and at each casual word i ll sweat! though i would like to smash and maul them, still, liars i could never call them. what s coming here? what sneaks in view? if i mistake not, there are two. if he is one, swift at his hide i ll drive! he shall not leave this spot alive! faust. mephistopheles. faust how from the window of yon sacristy upward the glow of that eternal taper shimmers, and weak and weaker sideward glimmers, and darkness round it presses nigh! so in my bosom do night shadows gather. mephistopheles i m like a sentimental tom-cat, rather, that stealthy sneaks by fire-escapes, along the walls quite softly scrapes. i feel quite like myself in this, i must confess: a bit of thievish greed, a bit of

ray? valentine that too! mephistopheles sure! valentine i believe the devil s in the fray! what s this? my hand s already going lame. mephistopheles [to faust. thrust home! valentine [falls. o woe! mephistopheles now is the lubber tame! but quick away! we must at once be gone, for even now a murd rous cry arises. with the police quite nicely i get on but fare but ill with the assizes martha [at a window. out, neighbours, out! gretchen [at a window. here, bring a light! martha [as above. they rail and scuffle, yell and fight. people already one is lying there! he s dead! martha [coming out. the murderers! where have they run? gretchen [coming out. who s lying here? people your mother s son! gretchen almighty one! what misery! valentine i m dying! that is quickly said and quicker still can b

ed mephistopheles [appears from behind a curtain. as he raises the curtain and looks back, faust is seen stretched out on an old-fashioned bed. lie there, poor wretch! seduced, unwise, scarce to be rescued from love s chain! whom helena doth paralyze, his reason he ll not soon regain. looking around him. i look around and through the glimmer unchanged, uninjured all appears; methinks the coloured window-panes are dimmer, the cobwebs have increased with years. the ink is dry, the paper brown and sere, yet all is in its place, in very fact; even the pen s still lying here which faust used when he signed the pact. aye, deeper in the pen is lurking still a trace of blood i lured him on to spill. to find a relic so unique as this would be some great collector s highest bliss. from its old hook

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

literati."2 the state of the age being found to be so terrible that many commit suicide to be out of it, apollo orders a universal reformation of which the seven wise men of greece are to be in charge. the wise men make speeches giving their views as to what ought to be done. thales is of the opinion that hypocrisy and dissembling is the main cause of the present evils, and advises that a little window should be made in men's breasts to enforce candour. this seemed a good idea to apollo and he gave orders that the little windows should be made. but when the surgeons took their instruments in hand, some of the literati pointed out how awkward the business of governing would become if everyone could see into the governors' breasts; so the plan was given up. the opinion of solon is that what

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

the subject of the story is the suggestion that, at certain times when the conjunctions of the stars assume the correct aspect, certain dark forces can influence sensitive individuals, giving them visions of the great old ones, godlike aliens of extraterrestrial origin. these entities exist in another dimension, or on a different vibrational level, and can only enter this universe though specific window areas or psychic gateways- a concept fundamental to many occult traditions. cthulhu is the high priest of the old ones, entombed in the sunken city of r lyeh, where he awaits the time of their return. he is described as a winged, tentacled anthropoid of immense size, formed from a semi-viscous substance which recombines after his apparent destruction at the conclusion of the tale. the narra

FRATER U D PRACTICAL SIGIL MAGIC

practical sigil magic one technique which is frequently quoted in terature, but hardly ever explained in detail, is spare fs so-cal or horror. second, the effort to achieve a sexual climax is so much less than to achieve a trance through fasting, for another example, which would take several days of starving oneself, or a fear trance, for which you might have to hang half of your body out of the window on the seventeenth floor of a building (of course, a high ride on a roller coaster might do the trick as well, but can you really control your acrophobia enough to charge a sigil) nevertheless, you should get to know as many different circumstances for sigil charging as possible to widen your scope of magical techniques considerably. li led death posture. whereas pete carroll in liber null

FULL MOON RITUALS

e frequently of the "asking for something" persuasion, hence the word "petition, which is used to mean anyone's personal contribution. other than workings for a desired goal "petitions" have included expressions of gratitude to the gods and/or the members, performances of poetry or music, whatever people want to do with their space. petitions aren't scheduled; you come in any time during the main window, usually 4-5 days. how does it work? the fmr is done during a 5-7 day window. the leader posts an opening note, setting place and mood, usually casting the circle, and welcoming participants. over the next 24-48 hours the quarters are called, the god and goddess are invoked, and the leader posts a transition to the petition period. thereafter people come in at their own time to petition unt

as this place is, the heavy door turns easily and silently upon its hinges. a sense of timelessness and yet of immense age washes over deer as he stands beneath the high lentil, momentarily swept away in memories of many moons spent within these walls. lowering his pack to the floor, deer retrieves from its depths a large beeswax globe of deepest crimson, which he sets upon the broad sill of the window that sidelights the ancient door, and lights the wick protruding from its crown. almost instantly, a specter of cinnamon flows into the cavernous depths of the great room as the light illuminates the stone foyer and shines as a beacon through the window and out into the night. deer lays a blessing about the doorway for all who enter here this eve and places a wicker basket upon the sill of

delights the ancient door, and lights the wick protruding from its crown. almost instantly, a specter of cinnamon flows into the cavernous depths of the great room as the light illuminates the stone foyer and shines as a beacon through the window and out into the night. deer lays a blessing about the doorway for all who enter here this eve and places a wicker basket upon the sill of the sidelight window opposite to the candle, which is filled to overflowing with small felt reindeer (rodney's, rhonda's, ramona's and randy's from the local hallmark) intended to depart homewards with each celebrant, then shoulders his pack and moves deeper into the belly of this place. elenya's willow broom still leans beside the massive walk-in fireplace, black with the smoke and soot of generations, behind

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

which is the thorah itself; and in the future time they will be prepared to contemplate the soul of that soul [i.e. the deity] which breathes in the thorah.4 this idea is again set forth in the zohar in the following allegory: secret wisdom of the qabalah page 12 like unto a beautiful woman hidden in the interior of a palace who, when her friend and beloved passes by, opens for a moment a secret window, and is only seen by him; then again retires and disappears for a long time; so the doctrine shows herself only to the elect, but also not even to these always in the same manner. in the beginning, deeply veiled, she only beckons to the one passing, with her hand; it simply depends [on himself] if in his understanding he perceives this gentle hint. later she approaches him somewhat nearer

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

onstruct a creator independently of its most essential factor. protestant christianity, probably the most intensely masculine of all religious schemes which have claimed the attention of man, has not wittingly retained any of the detested female emblems, yet so deeply has the older symbolism taken root, that even in the architecture of the modern protestant church with its ark-shaped nave and its window toward the rising sun, may be detected the remnants of that early worship which the devotees of this more recently developed form of religious faith so piously ignore. the large number of upright columns, circles of stone, cromlechs and cairns still extant in the british isles, bears testimony to the peculiar character of the religious worship which once prevailed in them. of these shrines

GILBERT AE WAITE A MAGICIAN OF MANY PARTS

rt of kensal green cemetery' and close enough for hismothertomournperpetually almostwithinsight of her daughter's grave. but if waite mourned, it wasnotover frederica's gravebutwhile he 'walked in dreams and dreamed in endless walks'(sly,p.67);andit wason oneofthesewalksthat hefoundawayofescapefromhisdoubts:mywanderings had taken me once to the crowded purlieus of edgware road, and in the side255 window of a corner pork-butcher's shopihad seen displayed to my astonishment a few copies49_'whileyetaboy i soughtforghosts. 48of themediumanddaybreak,a journal devoted to modern spiritualism. having long contemplated the columns of the front page, iwentin to purchase a copy, taking care to address himwhomi assumed to be the master rightly, a tall, broad, expansive personality,withgoodwillinscribe

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

d was renewed from heaven on severaloccasions-lev.ix.,24; 2 chron. vii, 1; 1 kings xviii, 38. other writers have taken the other side of the argument, viz, that the gift of a flame that would need no attention would have tended to idolatry, to which the israelites were ever prone.thechaldeans and persians used to maintain a perpetual fire in the temples. certain scholars have considered that the 'window' mentioned as placed in the ark of noah was not such, as during a period of prolonged cloud and storm a window would not light such a chamber. in the hebrew version of genesis, chap. 6, v. 16, the word istzer,which means 'something transparent, and is to be compared with the similar wordzer,always translated 'splend255 our' or 'light, hence they suggest that thistzer,orzer,was some form of

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

ic effort lcontrived to make the siga of the cross,wltchcraft267rituals151and to commence the lord's prayervaad the pressure began to relax, and i was able to drawastruggling breath;butthe sensation was oneofextremepain.it was as though i had swallowed a ball of horsehair, which were being slowly dragged out hair by hair through lacerated nerves.thebottle was broken. i contrivedtothrowitoutof the window,267 and kept my own counsel as to the formula, burning the tell-tale parchment. my family diagnosed a vividnightmare, and the doctor spoke learnedly about overwrought nerves, globus hystericus, and other slangofhisprofession, and adrriinistered sedatives.ofcourseheknew nothing of the formula. but i suspect, even if he had, his opinion would have remained the same. naturally, i was properly

ble to arouse the particular mood in themselves at will, and to see the same mood awaking in another person roused and held by their will, gave a sensation of power that was irresistible, though they knew full well that ere long they were certain to be caught and to pay dearly for their pranks. one of them records the savage glee with which she set the neighbours quarrelling, and watched from her window a free fight in the village street. in most cases it seems to have been a small success at first thatledto further experiments. this i have been told is often the case with spiritual healers today. there comes an earnest desire to heal some one who is sick, and a conviction of being able to do so, a hand laid upon the sick person, and a speedy recovery. another experiment also succeeds, and

f the hollow crystal ball, for although it is not really a hollow crystal globe, for the purpose of this illustration it produces the same198 the sorcerer and his apprenticeeffect. when that picture reaches the interior surface ofthehollow globe, part of it goes on and part of it is kept back. i add another illustration. if you are going along in a railway carriage by day, and you look out of the window, you see the surrounding country; but as night comes on and the lamp is lighted in the carriage, you look outofthe window, and you do not see the surrounding country,butyou see the reflection of the railway carriage. betwixt and between in the twilight you see both, you see the reflection of the interior of the carriage like a spectral form upon the landscape outside; and even in the broad

iage like a spectral form upon the landscape outside; and even in the broad daylight, you canifyou choose see that reflection of the interior of thecarriage-andthatisacurious experiment, which is worth making because itisvery illustrative of the philosophy ofthe.science of the tatwas, that absolutelyincertain conditions of light, at the will of your mind, you can either look through your carriage window and see the country outside, or you canlook at the glass and see the glass and see the reflection of the carriage within. that is precisely a small analogy of what happens at the confines of theairat the blue sky.thegreater part of the picture which is formed upon the earth goes out into the infinite,buta certain portion is reflected back to earth. thus the sky on a clear day, contains as i

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

than lunar based. the ancient hindus had an evolved system of surya yoga, the mayans and aztecs believed that the sun was a great source of power that had to be honoured and supplicated, and in most of the old pagan traditions the sun had an honoured place. probably one of the most outstanding examples is found in akhenaton, the sun pharoah of ancient egypt. for the gnostic the physical sun is a window through which the solar sphere shines, it emanates x and y factors which influence and control the development of humanity. by using solar meditations it is possible to increase our receipt of x factors, and hasten our spiritual development. as the energy is received from the sun the physical rays of light enter the eyes and pass their energy into the physical system, while at the same time

GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS ENOCHALL

earth angle of air tablet. bnagole: prince, associated with venus of sol (14. bnapsen: king, associated with saturn (36. bnaspol: king, associated with mercury (29. bnhr: subservient angel of water angle of air tablet. boaza: angel, also known as boza. bobogel: king, associated with sol (8. bogemo (meaning unknown. bogpa: reign/ rule (cf. sonf. bolp: be/ be thou. bolp como bliort pamt: be thou a window of comfort unto me. bonefom: prince, associated with venus of mars (21. booapis: serve, also see aboapri. bormila: prince, associated with venus of saturn (38. bornogo: prince, associated with sol of venus (2. boyu: subservient angel of water angle of air tablet. boza: kerubic angel of air angle of earth tablet, also known as boaza. bracn: angel, also known as brcn. bragiop: prince, associa

ablet. coa: cacodemon of earth angle of air tablet. coalg: continually. coasg: caosg, earth. coasgin: than the earth. coazior: increase. cocasb: of time/ time/ the time. cocasg: times. cocn: kerubic angel of earth angle of earth tablet. colis: making. collal: sleeve/ sleeves. com selh: a circle. comanan: governor of the second division of the aethyr zax (29. commah: truss/ trussed. como bliort: a window of comfort. como: window. comselh: circle (n. cona: subservient angel of earth angle of air tablet. congamphlgh: man's spirit; the holy ghost. conisbra: work(s) of man. const: thunder (cf. avavago, coraxo. 17 cop: cacodemon. cop: cacodemon of earth angle of water tablet, counterpart of the angel opna. copa: subservient angel of earth angle of water tablet. cophan: lamentation. cope: subserv

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key ils micaolz olprt od ialprt bliors ds odo 0 thou mighty light and burning flame of comfort which openest busdir oiad ovoars caosgo casarmg eran the glory of god unto the centre of the earth, in whom the 6332 laiad brints cafafam ds i vmd aqlo adohi secrets of truth have their abiding, which is called in thy kingdom moz od ma-of-fas bolp como bliort pambt joy and not to be measured. be thou a window of comfort unto me. zacar od zamran odo cicle qaa move and show yourselves. open the mysteries of your creation. zorge lap zirdo noco mad be friendly unto me, for i am the servant of the same your god, hoath iaida. the true worshipper of the highest. l of o 23 the call of the 30 aethyrs madriaax ds praf lil chis micaolz the heavens which dwell in the first aire are mighty in the saanir caos

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key ils micaolz olprt od ialprt bliors ds odo 0 thou mighty light and burning flame of comfort which openest busdir oiad ovoars caosgo casarmg eran the glory of god unto the centre of the earth, in whom the 6332 laiad brints cafafam ds i vmd aqlo adohi secrets of truth have their abiding, which is called in thy kingdom moz od ma-of-fas bolp como bliort pambt joy and not to be measured. be thou a window of comfort unto me. zacar od zamran odo cicle qaa move and show yourselves. open the mysteries of your creation. zorge lap zirdo noco mad be friendly unto me, for i am the servant of the same your god, hoath iaida. the true worshipper of the highest. l of o 23 the call of the 30 aethyrs madriaax ds praf lil chis micaolz the heavens which dwell in the first aire are mighty in the saanir caos

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143-4. 5 ibid. 6 ibid, p. 144. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 48 linemakers, map-makers i m flying over the lines, trying to make sense of it all. my pilot is rodolfo arias, lately of the peruvian airforce. after a career in jet fighters he finds the little cessna slow and uninspiring and treats it like a taxi with wings. once already we ve been back to the airstrip at nazca to remove a window so that my partner santha can point her cameras vertically down at the alluring glyphs. now we re experimenting with the view from different altitudes. at a couple of hundred feet above the plain ricinulei, the amazonian spider, looks like he s going to rear up and snatch us in his jaws. at 500 feet we can see several of the figures at once: a dog, a tree, a weird pair of hands, the condor

went on his way, calling forth the races of men. when he came to the district of puerto viejo he was joined by his followers whom he had sent on before, and when they had joined him he put to sea in their company and they say that he and his people went by water as easily as they had traversed the land.8 always this poignant goodbye. and often a hint of science or magic. time capsule outside the window of the train things were happening. to my left, swollen with dark water, i could see the urubamba, a tributary of the amazon and a river sacred to the incas. the air temperature had warmedup noticeably: we had descended into a relatively low-lying valley with its own tropical micro-climate. the mountain slopes rising on either side of the tracks were densely covered in green forests and i w

ne beneficial side-effect: machu picchu was never found by the conquistadores and friars during their days of destructive zeal. indeed, it was not until 1911, when the fabulous heritage of older races was beginning to be treated with greater respect, that a young american explorer, hiram bingham, revealed machu picchu to the world. it was realized at once that this incredible site opened a unique window on pre- 7 the ancient civilizations of peru, p. 237. 8 juan de batanzos 'suma y narracion de los incas, in south american mythology, p. 79. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 64 colombian civilization; in consequence the ruins were protected from looters and souvenir hunters and an important chunk of the enigmatic past was preserved to amaze future generations. having passed through a

ed. and every man was destroyed, all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, and noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. in due course, in the seventh month in the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest upon the mountains of ararat. and the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: and it came to pass at the end of forty days, that noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. and he stayed

pe-ladder for him. 7 the gods of the egyptians, volume ii, p. 241. 8 the ancient egyptian pyramid texts, p. 70, utt. 261. 9 ibid, p. 97. 10 ibid, p. 107. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 356 up and alight. 11 other passages also seemed to me worthy of more thorough investigation than they have received from scholars. here are a few examples: o my father, great king, the aperture of the sky-window is opened for you.12 the door of the sky at the horizon opens to you, the gods are glad at meeting you. may you sit on this iron throne of yours, as the great one who is in heliopolis.13 o king, may you ascend. the sky reels at you, the earth quakes at you, the imperishable stars are afraid of you. i have come to you, o you whose seats are hidden, that i may embrace you in the sky..14 the e

n we had been stopped at a road-block in asiut and ordered to wait for our escort. now, although obviously rattled at being obliged to match the high speed of the escorting vehicles, he seemed to relish the kudos of being part of an impressive convoy, lights flashing and sirens wailing, weaving in and out of the slower traffic on the main highway from upper to lower egypt. i looked out of the car window for a while at the unchanging spectacle of the nile, at its fertile green banks and the red haze of the deserts a few 6 ibid, pp. 179-81. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 417 miles away to east and west. this was egypt, the real organic egypt of today and yesterday, which overlapped (but spread out far beyond) the strange official egypt of the map described, a rectangular fiction exa

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

irn mika khoronzon which means "the wonder and might of khornzon" where khoronzon is the name of the demon of the great outer abyss of zax. aiq bkr reduces 1275 to 6 and also reduces 600 (khoronzon=600) to 6. in addition, the formula is composed of six letters. the letters of niakod add up to 450 which is equal to efafafe-zax meaning "vessels of zax" where zax is the 10th aethyr. the word komo "a window" is also equal to 450. in addition, 450=45x10, where 45 is the number for the word tab ges which means a cave or recess and 10 is the number of zax. these correspondences show 193 and travel through the abyss of zax. the enochian words nia-kod can be translated "safe traveling, or a means "of passage. the correct way to use this formula is suggested by its letters: you must face your person

GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 3

about the boar (see suppl. the people dread having to do with these powerful spirits, and whoever breaks through this backwardness pays for it heavily. the westphalian peasant (p. 921) fared worse than he of saalfeld; so did a tailor in the miinsterland. when the wild hunt swept over his house, he mocked the hunter by repeating his hiihu, mif- jclaf after him; then a horse^s foot came through the window, and knocked him ofi" his table, while a terrible voice rang out of the air' willstu mit mir jagen, sollst du mit mir knagen (gnaw' ds. no. 309. a girl at delligsen by alfeld (hildesheira country) tells the tale: mine mutter vertelle, dat de helljiiger dorch de luft ejaget herre (had been hunting) un jimmer eraupen' ha ha! tejif, tejaf, tejaf' de knechte (labourers) tau hohne ut'n ganzen do

100 seq. names taken from his figure. 999 the shape of a fy pervaded all nature. lith. mussd hirhijcs, flygod (mielke 231, birbiks usu. blowing, buzzing. fairytales have diabolic spirits imprisoned in phials as flies loki turns into a flij (fluga, when he wants to defraud freyja of the brisinga-men. connect with this a lombard story in paul diac. 6, 6 of the' malignus spiritus' who settles on the window as a flij, and gets a leg chopped off; and one in acta bened. sect. 1, p. 238 of a devil being cast out' in muscae similitudinem prorumpens cum sanguine de naribus egressus est inimicus' as a fly, loki finds his way into locked rooms through the keyhole, he can slip even through a needle's eye (norske folkev. no. 31, which puts me in mind of his insinuating mother (p. 246. the devil, like t

re the future, sup. c, p. los. this again must have been a holy place, for sick children were also set on the roof to be cured. sup. c, 10, 14; p. 195. does this explain why, when a person cannot die, some shingles in the roof are turned, or taken right out (i, 439. 721? also when a child has convulsions, a plank is turned, j. schmidt 121. a peculiar practice is, to listen while you dangle out of window a ball of thread fastened to a hereditary key, sup. i, 954. sneezing [irralpeiv, sternuere) has from the earliest times been fraught with meaning. some take it for a mild form of apoplexy, a momentary palsy, during which one loses the free use of his limbs. sup. h, c. 74. the greeks saluted the sneezer with tfidi, zev aojcrov\ conf. anthol. gr. ii. 13, 11 'cur sternumentis salutamus? quod e

; then she disappeared, still threatening vengeance. sometimes the dzmna rides through the wood in a waggon, attended by owls and uhus (great horned owl: this ghostly procession is named homen, woyc. 1 ,130 3. 159 163. but the plague could only last till new-year's day; then those who have fled troop back to their homes, taking care however not to walk in throu2rh the door, but to climb in at the window. a tale narrated by a weudish peasant, joh. parum schulze^ falls somewhere in the middle of the 17th century: so it came to pass, that a man, as i have always heard tell, that was niebuhr by name, where now kuflalen dwell, that was afterward luchau, as he rideth home from town, there comes a man alongside, and begs that he may ride a little in the cart, for that he avas right weary. this ha

djures the plague to take herself away to steely mountains in the gloomy north: saddle-horse and carriage-horse shall be given her for the journey. she is called rutto, the sudden, like our mhg. gahe tot. in l. germany they have folktales about the heidmann (heath man) who peeps in at your loindow at night: any one he looks at then, must die within year and day; just so does berhta look in at the window (p. 274, so does death (p. 772. in tyrol too they tell of a ghost that goes about at the time of one's death: whatever window he looks into, people die in that house, ds. no. 266. in the lausitz smertnitsa in white array prowls about the villages: to whatever house she directs her step, a corpse will soon be there. in the house itself she announces her presence by thumping and turning the b

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rank; and only plunges him back into his pristine poverty, when, urged by the counsels of a too ambitious wife, he desires at last to be equal with god. the bestowal of the successive dignities is in a measure a creation of the different orders.1 one more story of the deluge, which relates the origin of the lithuanians, deserves to be introduced.2 when pramzimas the most high god looked out of a window of his heavenly house (like wuotan, p. 135) over the world, and perceived nothing but war and wrong among men, he sent two giants wanda and weyas (water and wind) upon the sinful earth, who laid all things waste for twenty nights and days. looking down once 1 conf. the capture of the soothsaying marmennil, p. 434. 2 dzieje starozytne narodu litewskiego, przez th. narbutta. wilno 1835. 1, 2

are. these demi-gods and giants stand related to donar the supreme director of clouds and weather, as ^eolus or boreas to zeus. and from zeus it was that the favourable wished-for wind proceeded: aios ovpos, od. 5, 176. wuotan (the all-pervading, 1 sup. i, 282. praetorius s weltbeschr. 1, 429: at bamberg, when a violent wind was raging, an old woman snatched up her mealsack, and emptied it out of window into the air, with the words: dear wind, don t be so wild; take that home to your child! she meant to appease the hunger of the wind, as of a greedy lion or fierce wolf. 2 forniots sefar= sea and wind, ssem. 90b. wind. stoem. 637 p. 630) makes the wish-wind, oska-byrr, p. 144. what notion lies at the bottom of wolfram s making juno give the segels luft/ sail-wind (parz. 753, 7? again in par

ome with songs. 2 this tree is undoubtedly a symbol of summer introduced in the place of death driven out. such decorated trees are also carried about the village by boys collecting gifts, after they have rid themselves of death. in other cases they demand the contribu tions while taking the puppet round. here and there they make the straw man peep into people s windows (as berhta looks in at the window, p. 274: in that case death will carry off some one in the house that year, but by paying a money ransom in time, you can avert the omen. at konigshain by gorlitz the whole village, young and old, wended their way with torches of straw to a neighbouring height called the todtenstein, where formerly a god s image is said to have stood; they lit their torches on the top, and turned home singi

n which kings hold their court are whitsuntide and the blooming maytime, rein. 41 seq. iw. 33 seq, and wolfram calls king arthur der meienbcere man/ parz. 281, 16; conf. pfingestlicher (pentecostal) kiiniges name/ ms. 2, 128a. on the whole then, there are four different ways of welcoming horae belg. 2, 178-180. conf. ic wil den mei gaen houwen voor mijns liefs veinsterkyn, go hew before my love s window, uhland s volksl. 178. 1 has the may-drink still made in the lower rhine and westphalia, of wine and certain (sacred) herbs, any connexion with an old sacrificial rite? on no account must woodroof (asperula) be omitted in preparing it. 2 fuller descript. in j. strutt, ed. lond. 1830, p. 351-6. haupt s zeitschr. 5, 477. 3 the as. poems have no passage turning on the battle of s. and w. in be

e crossed over the extinguished torch. at times he appears black (like hel, p. 313) or black-winged (atris alis: rbv be ireaovra etxe/,exa? odvaros, tyv%r) etc cra&gt/-iato&lt? ettt (batrach. 207) 1, and d\evaro krjpa ^k\aivav (ibid. 85. but usually the departing dead is represented riding a horse, which a genius leads: an open door betokens the departure, as we still throw open a door or window when any one dies (superst. i, 664. as a symbol, the door alone, the horse s head alone, may express the removal of the soul.2 the roman genius of death seems to announce his approach or the hour of parting by knock ing at the door; 3 a knocking and poking at night is ghostly and ominous of death (see suppl. roman works of art never give death the shape of a female like halja, though we sho

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tion; at length a friend advised her to go to the pious solitary, and tell him her griefs: the woman followed his advice, and went to-him. after she had told him all her troubles, he desired her to wait awhile there until he returned and brought her an answer. she sat down to wait, and the man opening a door, went into his closet. but the woman thinking he stayed a long time, rose up, went to the window in the door, lifted up the little curtain, and looking in, saw him lying on a couch like a corpse; she then immediately went back to her place. at length he came and told her that her husband was in london, in a coffee-house which he named, and that he would return very soon: he then told her also the reason why he had been unable to write..thewoman went home pretty much at ease 'what the s

some one of his servants had stolen various articles of property; mr salt sent for a celebrated mugh -reb -ee magician, with the viewofintimidating the suspected person, and causing him voluntarily to confess if he were really guilty: the magician came, and at once declared that he would cause the exact image of theguiltyperson to appear tocontributionsto the zoist193three reverences towards the window, waved his wand nine times, sangoutsomething beyond their interpretation, and at length called out "boy, what do you behold""thesultan alone remains" said the child "and beside him i see a pale-facedfrank-butnot dressed like thesefranks-withlargeryes,a pointed beard, a tall hat, roses on his shoes, and a short mantle!"theother asked forfrancisarouetdevoltaire,and the boy immediately describ

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 much frightened at the smoke, and the smell, and the chatter, but by and by he sucked his sugar candy, and recovered his tranquillity; and the magician made him seat himself under a window,theonlyonethat had notbeendarkened,and poured out a table-spoonful ofsomeblackliquidinto theboy'srighthand,and bade him hold the hand steady, and keep his eye fixed upon the surface of the liquid("here" the doctor says, as with the magic mirrors of old "is the medium used to embody the idea, which has been conveyed by the operator to persons in correspond255 ence; the angle of direction fro

nowledge it became more used, it is the best means by which spiritual knowledge can be used or gained.itis so closelyconnectedwith.thespiritual world, that anyone using it, with thegiftof second sight, can see thro' that into the spirit world, the spirits do not actually appear inthat-butyou look through it and converse with them while moving through their ownsphere-inthe same way that you make a window in a house to look out into thestreet-youwill stay in your room butifyou wish to converse withanyonein the street you would speak and common courtesy would oblige them toanswer-thatis the way with atmospheric spirits. with guardian spirits and spirits of a higher plane it is rather different-wherever they move in the spiritual world the air which surrounds them is cleared of everything in a

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

its first rays kiss the cliffs of thebeautiful shore. glad is the song of the lark, as, emerging from its warm nest of herbs, it drinks the morningdew from the deep flower-cups; when the tip of the rosebud thrills under the caress of the first sunbeam, andearth and heaven smile in mutual greeting. sad is the soul-ego alone as it gazes on awakening nature fromthe high couch opposite the large bay-window. how calm is the approaching noon as the shadow creeps steadily on the sundial towards the hour of rest!now the hot sun begins to melt the clouds in the limpid air and the last shreds of the morning mist that lingerson the tops of the distant hills vanish in it. all nature is prepared to rest at the hot and lazy hour of midday.the feathered tribes cease their song; their soft, gaudy wings d

stion, i directed my gaze towards them, and what i saw made mefor the time being forget the agony of the pain that racked my swollen arm and rheumatical body. over the windows was creeping a mist; a dense, heavy, serpentine, whitish mist, that looked like the hugeshadow of a gigantic boa slowly uncoiling its body. gradually it disappeared, to leave a lustrous light, softand silvery, as though the window-panes behind reflected a thousand moonbeams, a tropical star-lit sky--first from outside, then from within the empty rooms. next i saw the mist elongating itself and throwing, as itwere, a fairy bridge across the street from the bewitched windows to my own balcony, nay, to my very ownbed. as i continued gazing, the wall and windows and the opposite house itself, suddenly vanished. thespace

nees in the middle of the lamp-litcircle. such was the eastern mode of mesmerization as practised among the dervishes. and now the dwarf seemed entirely oblivious of external objects and in a deep trance. her head and jawdropped on her chest, her eyes were glazed and staring, and altogether her appearance was even more hideousthan before. the dervish then carefully closed the shutters of the only window, and we should have been intotal obscurity but that there was a hole bored in it, through which entered a bright ray of sunlight that shotthrough the darkened room and shone upon the girl. he arranged her drooping head so that the ray should fallupon the crown, after which, motioning us to remain silent, he folded his arms upon his bosom, and, fixinghis gaze upon the bright spot, became as

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

hat carsons did not exist! rather, it seems, he was actually, in terms of the above model, a construct; a personality generated out of dion fortune.s experimental magic and experiences, and hence an interface for accessing information. if you imagine the sum total of your personal memories and knowledge as a sphere in space- the unknown- then to extend your sphere of information it is as though a window must be created, through which the unknown, or raw data, can be translated into information that is meaningful in terms of perceptual limitations. inner-plane entities are how we tend to conceptualise these windows into chaos. they appear as independent entities so that we can make sense of the incoming data. their personalities are usually concurrent with the recipient.s belief system. hen

t set has already been noted by eod initiates. from the foregoing, i would suggest that yog-sothoth is quite possible a kind of .guide. entity that appears in many cultures as the .guardian. of the underworld entered through ascs, though one which is capable of manifesting as a series, perhaps, of electro- magnetic phenomena. the entity which coheres in the form we understand as yog-sothoth is a .window. into the darkness of the unknown, and perhaps by creating 40 interfaces, or personae through which we may glean information, we can attain further insights into the way we interact with our universe. having theorised thus far, what only remains is to go forth and evoke! postscript .from the ancient hills i come. this essay is largely the result of reading other people.s research and shapin

HINE P OVEN READY CHAOS

good idea to, whatever you think about gods being archetypes or reflections of bits of yourself or whatever, behave as if they were real. so in a cthulhu mythos ritual, nothing will help build the neccesary tension than the adopted belief that if you get it wrong cthulhu will slime you! of course, outside the ritual you don t have to believe in cthulhu and that even now a slimy paw appears at my window..no! no..ahem, sorry about that. related to this approach is the idea that suspension of disbelief can also be useful. to do this, take a book which expounds an idea that you find totally crap (every magician has their favourite crap author) and try to see the writers message without your inner voice hurling abuse at the page. one of the most difficult suspensions for fledgling magicians is

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

ion. it is well that no explanation shall ever reach them. the press cuttings, as i have intimated, touched on cases of panic, mania, and eccentricity during the given period. professor angell must have employed a cutting bureau, for the number of extracts was tremendous, and the sources scattered throughout the globe. here was a nocturnal suicide in london, where a lone sleeper had leaped from a window after a shocking cry. here likewise a rambling letter to the editor of a paper in south america, where a fanatic deduces a dire future from visions he has seen. a dispatch from california describes a theosophist colony as donning white robes en masse for some "glorious fulfiment" which never arrives, whilst items from india speak guardedly of serious native unrest toward the end of march 22

. he had not long survived his return, said his wife, for the doings sea in 1925 had broken him. he had told her no more than he told the public, but had left a long manuscript- of "technical matters" as he said- written in english, evidently in order to guard her from the peril of casual perusal. during a walk rough a narrow lane near the gothenburg dock, a bundle of papers falling from an attic window had knocked him down. two lascar sailors at once helped him to his feet, but before the ambulance could reach him he was dead. physicians found no adequate cause the end, and laid it to heart trouble and a weakened constitution. i now felt gnawing at my vitals that dark terror which will never leave me till i, too, am at rest "accidentally" or otherwise. persuad-g the widow that my connexio

and accompanied his mother on all her wanderings. at home he would pore dilligently over the queer pictures and charts in his grandfather's books, while old whateley would instruct and catechize him through long, hushed afternoons. by this time the restoration of the house was finished, and those who watched it wondered why one of the upper windows had been made into a solid plank door. it was a window in the rear of the east gable end, close against the hill; and no one could imagine why a cleated wooden runway was built up to it from the ground. about the period of this work's completion people noticed that the old tool-house, tightly locked and windowlessly clapboarded since wilbur's birth, had been abandoned again. the door swung listlessly open, and when earl sawyer once stepped with

out all the partitions and even removed the attic floor, leaving only one vast open void between the ground storey and the peaked roof. they had torn down the great central chimney, too, and fitted the rusty range with a flimsy outside tin stove-pipe. in the spring after this event old whateley noticed the growing number of whippoorwills that would come out of cold spring glen to chirp under his window at night. he seemed to regard the circumstance as one of great significance, and told the loungers at osborn's that he thought his time had almost come 'they whistle jest in tune with my breathin' naow' he said 'an' i guess they're gittin' ready to ketch my soul. they know it's a-goin' aout, an' dun't calc'late to miss it. yew'll know, boys, arter i'm gone, whether they git me er not. ef th

ter spheres. whateley saw how things stood, and tried to answer lightly 'wal, all right, ef ye feel that way abaout it. maybe harvard won't be so fussy as yew be' and without saying more he rose and strode out of the building, stooping at each doorway. armitage heard the savage yelping of the great watchdog, and studied whateley's gorilla-like lope as he crossed the bit of campus visible from the window. he thought of the wild tales he had heard, and recalled the old sunday stories in the advertiser; these things, and the lore he had picked up from dunwich rustics and villagers during his one visit there. unseen things not of earth- or at least not of tridimensional earth- rushed foetid and horrible through new england's glens, and brooded obscenely on the mountain tops. of this he had lon

throat- such a scream as roused half the sleepers of arkham and haunted their dreams ever afterwards- such a scream as could come from no being born of earth, or wholly of earth. armitage, hastening into some clothing and rushing across the street and lawn to the college buildings, saw that others were ahead of him; and heard the echoes of a burglar-alarm still shrilling from the library. an open window showed black and gaping in the moonlight. what had come had indeed completed its entrance; for the barking and the screaming, now fast fading into a mixed low growling and moaning, proceeded unmistakably from within. some instinct warned armitage that what was taking place was not a thing for unfortified eyes to see, so he brushed back the crowd with authority as he unlocked the vestibule d

of greenish-yellow ichor and tarry stickiness was almost nine feet tall, and the dog had torn off all the clothing and some of the skin. it was not quite dead, but twitched silently and spasmodically while its chest heaved in monstrous unison with the mad piping of the expectant whippoorwills outside. bits of shoe-leather and fragments of apparel were scattered about the room, and just inside the window an empty canvas sack lay where it had evidently been thrown. near the central desk a revolver had fallen, a dented but undischarged cartridge later explaining why it had not been fired. the thing itself, however, crowded out all other images at the time. it would be trite and not wholly accurate to say that no human pen could describe it, but one may properly say that it could not be vividl

like 'n'gai, n'gha'ghaa, bugg-shoggog, y'hah: yog-sothoth, yog-sothoth' they trailed off into nothingness as the whippoorwills shrieked in rhythmical crescendos of unholy anticipation. then came a halt in the gasping, and the dog raised its head in a long, lugubrious howl. a change came over the yellow, goatish face of the prostrate thing, and the great black eyes fell in appallingly. outside the window the shrilling of the whippoorwills had suddenly ceased, and above the murmurs of the gathering crowd there came the sound of a panic-struck whirring and fluttering. against the moon vast clouds of feathery watchers rose and raced from sight, frantic at that which they had sought for prey. all at once the dog started up abruptly, gave a frightened bark, and leaped nervously out of the window

ird tales, vol. 28, no. 5, p. 538-53. i have seen the dark universe yawning where the black planets roll without aim, where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge or lustre or name. cautious investigators will hesitate to challenge the common belief that robert blake was killed by lightning, or by some profound nervous shock derived from an electrical discharge. it is true that the window he faced was unbroken, but nature has shown herself capable of many freakish performances. the expression on his face may easily have arisen from some obscure muscular source unrelated to anything he saw, while the entries in his diary are clearly the result of a fantastic imagination aroused by certain local superstitions and by certain old matters he had uncovered. as for the anomalous co

. he pointed the place out to several friends, but none of them had even been on federal hill or possessed the faintest notion of what the church was or had been. in the spring a deep restlessness gripped blake. he had begun his long-planned novel- based on a supposed survival of the witch-cult in maine- but was strangely unable to make progress with it. more and more he would sit at his westward window and gaze at the distant hill and the black, frowning steeple shunned by the birds. when the delicate leaves came out on the garden boughs the world was filled with a new beauty, but blake's restlessness was merely increased. it was then that he first thought of crossing the city and climbing bodily up that fabulous slope into the smoke-wreathed world of dream. late in april, just before the

t, but he conquered his mood and approached to try the three great doors in the fa ade. all were securely locked, so he began a circuit of the cyclopean building in quest of some minor and more penetrable opening. even then he could not be sure that he wished to enter that haunt of desertion and shadow, yet the pull of its strangeness dragged him on automatically. a yawning and unprotected cellar window in the rear furnished the needed aperture. peering in, blake saw a subterrene gulf of cobwebs and dust faintly litten by the western sun's filtered rays. debris, old barrels, and ruined boxes and furniture of numerous sorts met his eye, though over everything lay a shroud of dust which softened all sharp outlines. the rusted remains of a hot-air furnace showed that the building had been use

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the very warning meant to discourage them. interrupting these sculptured walls were high windows and massive twelve-foot doorways; both now and then retaining the petrified wooden planks- elaborately carved and polished-of the actual shutters and doors. all metal fixtures had long ago vanished, but some of the doors remained in place and had to be forced aside as we progressed from room to room. window frames with odd transparent panes- mostly elliptical- survived here and there, though in no considerable quantity. there were also frequent niches of great magnitude, generally empty, but once in a while containing some bizarre object carved from green soapstone which was either broken or perhaps held too inferior to warrant removal. other apertures were undoubtedly connected with bygone me

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atient as soon as i had fully ascertained the facts of his case. he seemed to sense a certain friendliness in me, born no doubt of the interest i could not conceal, and the gentle manner in which i questioned him. not that he ever recognized me during his attacks, when i hung breathlessly upon his chaotic but cosmic word-pictures; but he knew me in his quiet hours, when he would sit by his barred window weaving baskets of straw and willow, and perhaps pining for the mountain freedom he could never again enjoy. his family never called to see him; probably it had found another temporary head, after the manner of decadent mountain folk. by degrees i commenced to feel an overwhelming wonder at the mad and fantastic conceptions of joe slater. the man himself was pitiably inferior in mentality a

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he had stolen out into the fragrant summer night, through the gardens, down the terraces, past the great oaks of the park, and along the long white road to the village. the village seemed very old, eaten away at the edge like the moon which had commenced to wane, and kuranes wondered whether the peaked roofs of the small houses hid sleep or death. in the streets were spears of long grass, and the window-panes on either side broken or ifimily staring. kuranes had not lingered, but had plodded on as though summoned toward some goal. he dared not disobey the summons for fear it might prove an illusion like the urges and aspirations of waking life, which do not lead to any goal. then he had been drawn down a lane that led off from the village street toward the channel cliffs, and had come to t

pagodas, that he for a moment forgot celephais in sheer delight. but he remembered it again when he walked down a white path toward a red-roofed pagoda, and would have questioned the people of this land about it, had he not found that there were no people there, but only birds and bees and butterflies. on another night kuranes walked up a damp stone spiral stairway endlessly, and came to a tower window overlooking a mighty plain and river lit by the full moon; and in the silent city that spread away from the river bank he thought he beheld some feature or arrangement which he had known before. he would have descended and asked the way to oothnargai had not a fearsome aurora sputtered up from some remote place beyond the horizon, showing the ruin and antiquity of the city, and the stagnati

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he feex a arm of the plumber that get hurt of sudden. he nevair go out, only on roof, and my boy esteban he breeng heem hees food and laundry and mediceens and chemicals. my gawd, the sal-ammoniac that man use for keep heem cool" mrs. herrero disappeared up the staircase to the fourth floor, and i returned to my room. the ammonia ceased to drip, and as i cleaned up what had spilled and opened the window for air, i heard the landlady's heavy footsteps above me. dr. mu oz i had never heard, save for certain sounds as of some gasoline-driven mechanism; since his step was soft and gentle. i wondered for a moment what the strange affliction of this man might be, and whether his obstinate refusal of outside aid were not the result of a rather baseless eccentricity. there is, i reflected tritely

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ghteen years ago" back to del rey's sample chapter lledagon by h.p. lovecraft written jul 1917 published november 1919 in the vagrant, no. 11, 23-29. i am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight i shall be no more. penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone, makes life endurable, i can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below. do not think from my slavery to morphine that i am a weakling or a degenerate. when you have read these hastily scrawled pages you may guess, though never fully realise, why it is that i must have forgetfulness or death. it was in one of the most open and least frequented parts of the broad pacific that the packet of which i was supercargo fell a victim to the

er-soaked granite. i dream of a day when they may rise above the billows to drag down in their reeking talons the remnants of puny, war-exhausted mankind- of a day when the land shall sink, and the dark ocean floor shall ascend amidst universal pandemonium. the end is near. i hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. it shall not find me. god, that hand! the window! the window! 1998-1999 william johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:43 1ex oblivione by h.p. lovecraft 1920 when the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water that torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victims body, i loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. in my dreams i found a little of the beauty i had

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could have been the chaos of hellish sound if the pit itself had opened to release the agony of the damned, for in one inconceivable cacophony was centered all the supernal terror and unnatural despair of animate nature. human it could not have been- it is not in man to make such sounds- and without a thought of our late employment or its possible discovery, both west and i leaped to the nearest window like stricken animals; overturning tubes, lamp, and retorts, and vaulting madly into the starred abyss of the rural night. i think we screamed ourselves as we stumbled frantically toward the town, though as we reached the outskirts we put on a semblance of restraint- just enough to seem like belated revellers staggering home from a debauch. we did not separate, but managed to get to west s

that we had all evidently dined and wined rather well. apparently this acidulous matron was right; for about 3 a.m. the whole house was aroused by cries coming from west s room, where when they broke down the door, they found the two of us unconscious on the blood-stained carpet, beaten, scratched, and mauled, and with the broken remnants of west s bottles and instruments around us. only an open window told what had become of our assailant, and many wondered how he himself had fared after the terrific leap from the second story to the lawn which he must have made. there were some strange garments in the room, but west upon regaining consciousness said they did not belong to the stranger, but were specimens collected for bacteriological analysis in the course of investigations on the trans

rteen; three of the bodies had been in stricken homes and had not been alive. on the third night frantic bands of searchers, led by the police, captured it in a house on crane street near the miskatonic campus. they had organised the quest with care, keeping in touch by means of volunteer telephone stations, and when someone in the college district had reported hearing a scratching at a shuttered window, the net was quickly spread. on account of the general alarm and precautions, there were only two more victims, and the capture was effected without major casualties. the thing was finally stopped by a bullet, though not a fatal one, and was rushed to the local hospital amidst universal excitement and loathing. for it had been a man. this much was clear despite the nauseous eyes, the voicel

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not grow old. our discourse was unholy, and always hideously ambitious-no god or daemon could have aspired to discoveries and conquest like those which we planned in whispers. i shiver as i speak of them, and dare not be explicit; though i will say that my friend once wrote on paper a wish which he dared not utter with his tongue, and which made me burn the paper and look affrightedly out of the window at the spangled night sky. i will hint-only hint- that he had designs which involved the rulership of the visible universe and more; designs whereby the earth and the stars would move at his command, and the destinies of all living things be his. i affirm-i swear-that i had no share in these extreme aspirations. anything my friend may have said or written to the contrary must be erroneous

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mood which was engulfing her more and more deeply each moment, she took a magazine from the table and searched for some healing bit of poetry. poetry had always relieved her troubled mind better than anything else, though many things in the poetry she had seen detracted from the influence. over parts of even the sublimest verses hung a chill vapor of sterile ugliness and restraint, like dust on a window-pane through which one views a magnificent sunset. listlessly turning the magazine s pages, as if searching for an elusive treasure, she suddenly came upon something which dispelled her languor. an observer could have read her thoughts and told that she had discovered some image or dream which brought her nearer to her unattained goal than any image or dream she had seen before. it was only

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, yet what can marcia say but that the strain is "fit for the gods? and as she speaks there comes again a vision of parnassus and the far-off sound of a mighty voice saying, by his word shall thy steps be guided to happiness, and in his dreams of beauty shall thy spirit find all that it craveth" 1998-1999 william johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:4419polaris by h.p. lovecraft 1918 into the north window of my chamber glows the pole star with uncanny light. all through the long hellish hours of blackness it shines there. and in the autumn of the year, when the winds from the north curse and whine, and the red-leaved trees of the swamp mutter things to one another in the small hours of the morning under the horned waning moon, i sit by the casement and watch that star. down from the heights

ant uncorporeal presence, i now desired to define my relation to it, and to speak my mind amongst the grave men who conversed each day in the public squares. i said to myself "this is no dream, for by what means can i prove the greater reality of that other life in the house of stone and brick south of the sinister swamp and the cemetery on the low hillock, where the pole star peeps into my north window each night" one night as i listened to the discourses in the large square containing many statues, i felt a change; and perceived that i had at last a bodily form. nor was i a stranger in the streets of olathoe, which lies on the plateau of sarkia, betwixt the peaks of noton and kadiphonek. it was my friend alos who spoke, and his speech was one that pleased my soul, for it was the speech o

rs that bless with a sweet forgetfulness: only when my round is o'er shall the past disturb thy door. vainly did i struggle with my drowsiness, seeking to connect these strange words with some lore of the skies which i had learnt from the pnakotic manuscripts. my head, heavy and reeling, drooped to my breast, and when next i looked up it was in a dream, with the pole star grinning at me through a window from over the horrible and swaying trees of a dream swamp. and i am still dreaming. in my shame and despair i sometimes scream frantically, begging the dream-creatures around me to waken me ere the inutos steal up the pass behind the peak noton and take the citadel by surprise; but these creatures are daemons, for they laugh at me and tell me i am not dreaming. they mock me whilst i sleep

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ion. it is well that no explanation shall ever reach them. the press cuttings, as i have intimated, touched on cases of panic, mania, and eccentricity during the given period. professor angell must have employed a cutting bureau, for the number of extracts was tremendous, and the sources scattered throughout the globe. here was a nocturnal suicide in london, where a lone sleeper had leaped from a window after a shocking cry. here likewise a rambling letter to the editor of a paper in south america, where a fanatic deduces a dire future from visions he has seen. a dispatch from california describes a theosophist colony as donning white robes en masse for some 'glorious fulfilment' which never arrives, whilst items from india speak guardedly of serious native unrest towards the end of march

long survived his return, said his wife, for the doings at sea in 1925 had broken him. he had told her no more than he had told the public, but had left a long manuscript- of 'technical matters' as he said- written in english, evidently in order to safeguard her from the peril of casual perusal. during a walk through a narrow lane near the gothenburg dock, a bundle of papers falling from an attic window had knocked him down. two lascar sailors at once helped him to his feet, but before the ambulance could reach him he was dead. physicians found no adequate cause for the end, and laid it to heart trouble and a weakened constitution. i now felt gnawing at my vitals that dark terror which will never leave me till i, too, am at rest 'accidentally' or otherwise. persuading the widow that my con

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calmed my nerves to some degree, but i could not shut out the monotonous pounding. now that i was calmer, the sound became as fascinating as it was fearful, and i felt a contradictory desire to seek out its source despite my still powerful shrinking. opening a portiere at the side of the room nearest the pounding, i beheld a small and richly draped corridor ending in a cavern door and large oriel window. to this window i was irresistibly drawn, though my ill-defined apprehensions seemed almost equally bent on holding me back. as i approached it i could see a chaotic whirl of waters in the distance. then, as i attained it and glanced out on all sides, the stupendous picture of my surroundings burst upon me with full and devastating force. i beheld such a sight as i had never beheld before

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as the seat of my vigil the old room of jan martense, whose murder looms so great in the rural legends. i felt subtly that the apartment of this ancient victim was best for my purposes. the chamber, measuring about twenty feet square, contained like the other rooms some rubbish which had once been furniture. it lay on the second story, on the southeast corner of the house, and had an immense east window and narrow south window, both devoid of panes or shutters. opposite the large window was 'an enormous dutch fireplace with scriptural tiles representing the prodigal son, and opposite the narrow window was a spacious bed built into the wall. as the tree-muffled thunder grew louder, i arranged my plan's details. first i fastened side by side to the ledge of the large window three rope ladder

bed built into the wall. as the tree-muffled thunder grew louder, i arranged my plan's details. first i fastened side by side to the ledge of the large window three rope ladders which i had' brought with me. i knew they reached a suitable spot on the grass outside, for i had tested them. then the three of us dragged from another room a wide four-poster bedstead, crowding it laterally against the window. having strewn it with fir boughs, all now rested on it with drawn automatics, two relaxing while the third watched. from whatever direction the demon might come, our potential escape was provided. if it came from within the house, we had the window ladders; if from outside the door and the stairs. we did not think, judging from precedent, that it would pursue us far even at worst. i watche

two relaxing while the third watched. from whatever direction the demon might come, our potential escape was provided. if it came from within the house, we had the window ladders; if from outside the door and the stairs. we did not think, judging from precedent, that it would pursue us far even at worst. i watched from midnight to one o'clock, when in spite of the sinister house, the unprotected window, and the approaching thunder and lightning, i felt singularly drowsy. i was between my two companions, george bennett being toward the window and william tobey toward the fireplace. bennett was asleep, having apparently felt the same anomalous drowsiness which affected me, so i designated tobey for the next watch although even he was nodding. it is curious how intently i had been watching t

was asleep, having apparently felt the same anomalous drowsiness which affected me, so i designated tobey for the next watch although even he was nodding. it is curious how intently i had been watching the fireplace. the increasing thunder must have affected my dreams, for in the brief time i slept there came to me apocalyptic visions. once i partly awaked, probably because the sleeper toward the window had restlessly flung an arm across my chest. i was not sufficiently awake to see whether tobey was attending to his duties as sentinel, but felt a distinct anxiety on that score. never before had the presence of evil so poignantly oppressed me. later i must have dropped asleep again, for it was out of a phantasmal chaos that my mind leaped when the night grew hideous with shrieks beyond any

my right that tobey was gone, god alone knew whither. across my chest still lay the heavy arm of the sleeper at my left. then came the devastating stroke of lightning which shook the whole mountain, lit the darkest crypts of the hoary grove, and splintered the patriarch of the twisted trees. in the demon flash of a monstrous fireball the sleeper started up suddenly while the glare from beyond the window threw his shadow vividly upon the chimney above the fireplace from which my eyes had never strayed. that i am still alive and sane, is a marvel i cannot fathom. i cannot fathom it, for the shadow on that chimney was not that of george bennett or of any other human creature, but a blasphemous abnormality from hell's nethermost craters; a nameless, shapeless abomination which no mind could fu

casting of that brain-blasting shadow, i knew that i had at last pried out one of earth's supreme horors-one of those nameless blights of outer voids whose faint demon scratchings we sometimes hear on the farthest rim of space, yet from which our own finite vision has given us a merciful immunity. the shadow i had seen, i hardly dared to analyse or identify. something had lain between me and the window that night, but i shuddered whenever i could not cast off the instinct to classify it. if it had only snarled, or bayed, or laughed titteringly-even that would have relieved the abysmal hideousness. but it was so silent. it had rested a heavy arm or foreleg on my chest. obviously it was organic, or had once been organic. jan martense, whose room i had invaded, was buried in the grave-yard n

n there descended such a blinding sheet of torrential rain that shelter became imperative. the extreme, almost nocturnal darkness of the sky caused us to stumble badly, but guided by the frequent flashes of lightning and by our minute knowledge of the hamlet we soon reached the least porous cabin of the lot; an heterogeneous combination of logs and boards whose still existing door and single tiny window both faced maple hill. barring the door after us against the fury of the wind and rain, we put in place the crude window shutter which our frequent searches had taught us where to find. it was dismal sitting there on rickety boxes in the pitchy darkness, but we smoked pipes and occasionally flashed our pocket lamps about. now and then we could see the lightning through cracks in the wall; t

e could see the lightning through cracks in the wall; the afternoon was so incredibly dark that each flash was extremely vivid. the stormy vigil reminded me shudderingly of my ghastly night on tempest mountain. my mind turned to that odd question which had kept recurring ever since the nightmare thing had happened; and again i wondered why the demon, approaching the three watchers either from the window or the interior, had begun with the men on each side and left the middle man till the last, when the titan fireball had scared it away. why had it not taken its victims in natural order, with myself second, from whichever direction it had approached? with what manner of far-reaching tentacles did it prey? or did it know that i was the leader, and saved me for a fate worse than that of my co

te worse than that of my companions? in the midst of these reflections, as if dramatically arranged to intensify them, there fell nearby a terrific bolt of lightning followed by the sound of sliding earth. at the same time the wolfish wind rose to demoniac crescendos of ululation. we were sure that the one tree on maple hill had been struck again, and munroe rose from his box and went to the tiny window to ascertain the damage. when he took down the shutter the wind, and rain howled deafeningly in, so that i could not hear what he said; but i waited while he leaned out and tried to fathom nature's pandemonium. gradually a calming of the wind and dispersal of the unusual darkness told of the storm's passing. i had hoped it would last into the night to help our quest, but a furtive sunbeam f

tive sunbeam from a knothole behind me removed the likelihood of such a thing. suggesting to munroe that we had better get some light even if more showers came, i unbarred and opened the crude door. the ground outside was a singular mass of mud and pools, with fresh heaps of earth from the slight landslide; but i saw nothing to justify the interest which kept my companion silently leaning out the window. crossing to where he leaned, i touched his shoulder; but he did not move. then, as i playfully shook him and turned him around, i felt the strangling tendrils of a cancerous horror whose roots reached into illimitable pasts and fathomless abysms of the night that broods beyond time. for arthur munroe was dead. and on what remained of his chewed and gouged head there was no longer a face. i

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c from the peaked garret overhead, and the next day asked old blandot about it. he told me it was an old german viol-player, a strange dumb man who signed his name as erich zann, and who played eve nings in a cheap theater orchestra; adding that zann s desire to play in the night after his return from the theater was the reason he had chosen this lofty and isolated garret room, whose single gable window was the only point on the street from which one could look over the terminating wall at the declivity and panorama beyond. thereafter i heard zann every night, and although he kept me awake, i was haunted by the weirdness of his music. knowing little of the art myself, i was yet certain that none of his harmonies had any relation to music i had heard before; and concluded that he was a comp

e. but i did not pursue this course for more than a moment; for when the dumb musician recognized the whistled air his face grew suddenly distorted with an expression wholly beyond analysis, and his long, cold, bony right hand reached out to stop my mouth and silence the crude imitation. as he did this he further demonstrated his eccentricity by casting a startled glance toward the lone curtained window, as if fearful of some intruder a glance doubly absurd, since the garret stood high and inaccessible above all the adjacent roofs, this window being the only point on the steep street, as the concierge had told me, from which one could see over the wall at the summit. the old man s glance brought blandot s remark to my mind, and with a certain capriciousness i felt a wish to look out over t

reet, as the concierge had told me, from which one could see over the wall at the summit. the old man s glance brought blandot s remark to my mind, and with a certain capriciousness i felt a wish to look out over the wide and dizzying panorama of moonlit roofs and city lights beyond the hilltop, which of all the dwellers in the rue d auseil only this crabbed musician could see. i moved toward the window and would have drawn aside the nondescript curtains, when with a frightened rage even greater than before, the dumb lodger was upon me again; this time motioning with his head toward the door as he nervously strove to drag me thither with both hands. now thoroughly disgusted with my host, i ordered him to release me, and told him i would go at once. his clutch relaxed, and as he saw my disg

asked me if i would arrange with blandot to take a lower room where i could not hear him in the night. he would, he wrote, defray the difference in rent. as i sat deciphering the execrable french, i felt more lenient toward the old man. he was a victim of physical and nervous suffering, as was i; and my metaphysical studies had taught me kindness. in the silence there came a slight sound from the window the shutter must have rattled in the night wind, and for some reason i started almost as violently as did erich zann. so when i had finished reading, i shook my host by the hand, and departed as a friend. the next day blandot gave me a more expensive room on the third floor, between the apartments of an aged money-lender and the room of a respectable upholsterer. there was no one on the fou

it had seemed while he was persuading me to move down from the fifth story. he did not ask me to call on him, and when i did call he appeared uneasy and played listlessly. this was always at night in the day he slept and would admit no one. my liking for him did not grow, though the attic room and the weird music seemed to hold an odd fascination for me. i had a curious desire to look out of that window, over the wall and down the unseen slope at the glittering roofs and spires which must lie outspread there. once i went up to the garret during theater hours, when zann was away, but the door was locked. what i did succeed in doing was to overhear the nocturnal playing of the dumb old man. at first i would tip-toe up to my old fifth floor, then i grew bold enough to climb the last creaking

rrible fear or anguish. i knocked repeatedly at the door, but received no response. afterward i waited in the black hallway, shivering with cold and fear, till i heard the poor musician s feeble effort to rise from the floor by the aid of a chair. believing him just conscious after a fainting fit, i renewed my rapping, at the same time calling out my name reassuringly. i heard zann stumble to the window and close both shutter and sash, then stumble to the door, which he falteringly unfastened to admit me. this time his delight at having me present was real; for his distorted face gleamed with relief while he clutched at my coat as a child clutches at its mother s skirts. shaking pathetically, the old man forced me into a chair whilst he sank into another, beside which his viol and bow lay

iosity, to wait where i was while he prepared a full account in german of all the marvels and terrors which beset him. i waited, and the dumb man s pencil flew. it was perhaps an hour later, while i still waited and while the old musician s feverishly written sheets still continued to pile up, that i saw zann start as from the hint of a horrible shock. unmistakably he was looking at the curtained window and listening shudderingly. then i half fancied i heard a sound myself; though it was not a horrible sound, but rather an exquisitely low and infinitely distant musical note, suggesting a player in one of the neighboring houses, or in some abode beyond the lofty wall over which i had never been able to look. upon zann the effect was terrible, for, dropping his pencil, suddenly he rose, seiz

d the air it was a wild hungarian dance popular in the theaters, and i reflected for a moment that this was the first time i had ever heard zann play the work of another composer. louder and louder, wilder and wilder, mounted the shrieking and whining of that desperate viol. the player was dripping with an uncanny perspiration and twisted like a monkey, always looking frantically at the curtained window. in his frenzied strains i could almost see shadowy satyrs and bacchanals dancing and whirling insanely through seething abysses of clouds and smoke and lightning. and then i thought i heard a shriller, steadier note that was not from the viol; a calm, deliberate, purposeful, mocking note from far away in the west. at this juncture the shutter began to rattle in a howling night wind which h

om the viol; a calm, deliberate, purposeful, mocking note from far away in the west. at this juncture the shutter began to rattle in a howling night wind which had sprung up outside as if in answer to the mad playing within. zann s screaming viol now outdid itself emitting sounds i had never thought a viol could emit. the shutter rattled more loudly, unfastened, and commenced slamming against the window. then the glass broke shiveringly under the persistent impacts, and the chill wind rushed in, making the candles sputter and rustling the sheets of paper on the table where zann had begun to write out his horrible secret. i looked at zann, and saw that he was past conscious observation. his blue eyes were bulging, glassy and sightless, and the frantic playing had become a blind, mechanical

he sheets of paper on the table where zann had begun to write out his horrible secret. i looked at zann, and saw that he was past conscious observation. his blue eyes were bulging, glassy and sightless, and the frantic playing had become a blind, mechanical, unrecognizable orgy that no pen could even suggest. a sudden gust, stronger than the others, caught up the manuscript and bore it toward the window. i followed the flying sheets in desperation, but they were gone before i reached the demolished panes. then i remembered my old wish to gaze from this window, the only window in the rue d auseil from which one might see the slope beyond the wall, and the city outspread beneath. it was very dark, but the city s lights always burned, and i expected to see them there amidst the rain and wind

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ings made no noise. but more ghastly and terrible still was the slowness of my progress; for climb as i might, the darkness overhead grew no thinner, and a new chill as of haunted and venerable mould assailed me. i shivered as i wondered why i did not reach the light, and would have looked down had i dared. i fancied that night had come suddenly upon me, and vainly groped with one free hand for a window embrasure, that i might peer out and above, and try to judge the height i had once attained. all at once, after an infinity of awesome, sightless, crawling up that concave and desperate precipice, i felt my head touch a solid thing, and i knew i must have gained the roof, or at least some kind of floor. in the darkness i raised my free hand and tested the barrier, finding it stone and immov

of the gayest revelry. advancing to one of these i looked in and saw an oddly dressed company indeed; making merry, and speaking brightly to one another. i had never, seemingly, heard human speech before and could guess only vaguely what was said. some of the faces seemed to hold expressions that brought up incredibly remote recollections, others were utterly alien. i now stepped through the low window into the brilliantly lighted room, stepping as i did so from my single bright moment of hope to my blackest convulsion of despair and realization. the nightmare was quick to come, for as i entered, there occurred immediately one of the most terrifying demonstrations i had ever conceived. scarcely had i crossed the sill when there descended upon the whole company a sudden and unheralded fear

HP LOVECRAFT THE QUEST OF IRANON

let of vine-leaves, nor the youth in his golden voice. at evening iranon sang, and while he sang an old man prayed and a blind man said he saw a nimbus over the singer's head. but most of the men of teloth yawned, and some laughed and some went to sleep; for iranon told nothing useful, singing only his memories, his dreams, and his hopes "i remember the twilight, the moon, and soft songs, and the window where i was rocked to sleep. and through the window was the street where the golden lights came, and where the shadows danced on houses of marble. i remember the square of moonlight on the floor, that was not like any other light, and the visions that danced on the moonbeams when my mother sang to me. and too, i remember the sun of morning bright above the many-coloured hills in summer, and

one night when the moon was full the travellers came to a mountain crest and looked down upon the myriad light of oonai. peasants had told them they were near, and iranon knew that this was not his native city of aira. the lights of oonai were not like those of aira; for they were harsh and glaring, while the lights of aira shine as softly and magically as shone the moonlight on the floor by the window where iranon's mother once rocked him to sleep with song. but oonai was a city of lutes and dancing, so iranon and romnod went down the steep slope that they might find men to whom sings and dreams would bring pleasure. and when they were come into the town they found rose-wreathed revellers bound from house to house and leaning from windows and balconies, who listened to the songs of irano

HP LOVECRAFT THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

eft so high street, when the going was smoother; flying by stately old mansions of the early republic and still older colonial farmhouses, passing the lower green and parker river, and finally emerging into a long, monotonous stretch of open shore country. the day was warm and sunny, but the landscape of sand and sedge-grass, and stunted shrubbery became more and desolate as we proceeded. out the window i could see the blue water and the sandy line of plum island, and we presently drew very near the beach as our narrow road veered off from the main highway to rowley and ipswich. there were no visible houses, and i could tell by the state of the road that traffic was very light hereabouts. the weather-worn telephone poles carried only two wires. now and then we crossed crude wooden bridges

t was now gray and peeling and the black and gold sign on the pediment was so faded that i could only with difficulty make out the words "esoteric order of dagon. this, then was the former masonic hall now given over to a degraded cult. as i strained to decipher this inscription my notice was distracted by the raucous tones of a cracked bell across the street, and i quickly turned to look out the window on my side of the coach. the sound came from a squat stone church of manifestly later date than most of the houses, built in a clumsy gothic fashion and having a disproportionately high basement with shuttered windos. thongh the hands of its clock were missing on the side i glimpsed, i knew that those hoarse strokes were tolling the hour of eleven. then suddenly all thoughts of time were bl

gh the less solidly-built connecting doors of the rooms; the locks and bolts of which i would have to force violently, using my shoulder as a battering-ram whenever they were set against me. this, i thought, would be possible owing to the rickety nature of the house and its fixtures; but i realised i could not do it noiselessly. i would have to count on sheer speed, and the chance of getting to a window before any hostile forces became coordinated enough to open the right door toward me with a pass-key. my own outer door i reinforced by pushing the bureau against it- little by little, in order to make a minimum of sound. i perceived that my chances were very slender, and was fully prepared for any calamity. even getting to another roof would not solve the problem for there would then remai

such a crash that i knew those outside must have heard. instantly the outside knocking became a violent battering, while keys sounded ominously in the hall doors of the rooms on both sides of me. rushing through the newly opened connexion, i succeeded in bolting the northerly hall door before the lock could he turned; but even as i did so i heard the hall door of the third room-the one from whose window i had hoped to reach the roof below-being tried with a pass key. for an instant i felt absolute despair, since my trapping in a chamber with no window egress seemed complete. a wave of almost abnormal horror swept over me, and invested with a terrible but unexplainable singularity the flashlightglimpsed dust prints made by the intruder who had lately tried my door from this room. then, with

de open, but there was no time to think about checking the already turning lock in the hall. all i could do was to shut and bolt the open connecting door, as well as its mate on the opposite side- pushing a bedstead against the one and a bureau against the other, and moving a washstand in front of the hall door. i must, i saw, trust to such makeshift barriers to shield me till i could get out the window and on the roof of the paine street block. but even in this acute moment my chief horror was something apart from the immediate weakness of my defenses. i was shuddering because not one of my pursuers, despite some hideous panting, grunting, and subdued barkings at odd intervals, was uttering an unmuffled or intelligible vocal sound. as i moved the furniture and rushed toward the windows i

ng to washington street and slipping out of town toward the south. the clatter at the northerly connecting door was now terrific, and i saw that the weak panelling was beginning to splinter. obviously, the besiegers had brought some ponderous object into play as a battering-ram. the bedstead, however, still held firm; so that i had at least a faint chance of making good my escape. as i opened the window i noticed that it was flanked by heavy velour draperies suspended from a pole by brass rings, and also that there was a large projecting catch for the shutters on the exterior. seeing a possible means of avoiding the dangerous jump, i yanked at the hangings and brought them down, pole and all; then quickly hooking two of the rings in the shutter catch and flinging the drapery outside. the h

ng catch for the shutters on the exterior. seeing a possible means of avoiding the dangerous jump, i yanked at the hangings and brought them down, pole and all; then quickly hooking two of the rings in the shutter catch and flinging the drapery outside. the heavy folds reached fully to the abutting roof, and i saw that the rings and catch would be likely to bear my weight. so, climbing out of the window and down the improvised rope ladder, i left behind me for ever the morbid and horror-infested fabric of the gilman house. i landed safely on the loose slates of the steep roof, and succeeded in gaining the gaping black skylight without a slip. glancing up at the window i had left, i observed it was still dark, though far across the crumbling chimneys to the north i could see lights ominousl

the abandoned railway to rowley, whose solid line of ballasted; weed-grown earth still stretched off to the northwest from the crumbling station on the edge at the river-gorge. there was just a chance that the townsfolk would not think of that; since its briar-choked desertion made it half-impassable, and the unlikeliest of all avenues for a fugitive to choose. i had seen it clearly from my hotel window and knew about how it lay. most of its earlier length was uncomfortably visible from the rowley road, and from high places in the town itself; but one could perhaps crawl inconspicuously through the undergrowth. at any rate, it would form my only chance of deliverance, and there was nothing to do but try it. drawing inside the hall of my deserted shelter, i once more consulted the grocery b

ailway; and i now saw that the safest course was ahead to babson street; then west to lafayette- there edging around but not crossing an open space homologous to the one i had traversed- and subsequently back northward and westward in a zigzagging line through lafayette, bates, adam, and bank streets- the latter skirting the river gorge- to the abandoned and dilapidated station i had seen from my window. my reason for going ahead to babson was that i wished neither to recross the earlier open space nor to begin my westward course along a cross street as broad as south. starting once more, i crossed the street to the right-hand side in order to edge around into babeon as inconspicuously as possible. noises still continued in federal street, and as i glanced behind me i thought i saw a gleam

ible. noises still continued in federal street, and as i glanced behind me i thought i saw a gleam of light near the building through which i had escaped. anxious to leave washington street, i broke into a quiet dogtrot, trusting to luck not to encounter any observing eye. next the corner of babson street i saw to my alarm that one of the houses was still inhabited, as attested by curtains at the window; but there were no lights within, and i passed it without disaster. in babson street, which crossed federal and might thus reveal me to the searchers, i clung as closely as possible to the sagging, uneven buildings; twice pausing in a doorway as the noises behind me momentarily increased. the open space ahead shone wide and desolate under the moon, but my route would not force me to cross i

le from the rowley road. the marshy region began very abotly, with the single track on a low, grassy embankment where the weedy growth was somewhat thinner. then came a sort of island of higher ground, where the line passed through a shallow open cut choked with bushes and brambles. i was very glad of this partial shelter, since at this point the rowley road was uncomfortably near according to my window view. at the end of the cut it would cross the track and swerve off to a safer distance; but meanwhile i must be exceedingly careful. i was by this time thankfully certain that the railway itself was not patrolled. just before entering the cut i glanced behind me, but saw no pursuer. the ancient spires and roofs of decaying inns-month gleamed lovely and ethereal in the magic yellow moonligh

HP LOVECRAFT THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN

terrible old man loquacious concerning his hoarded gold and silver, for aged sea-captains are notably stubborn and perverse. still, he was very old and very feeble, and there were two visitors. messrs. ricci and silva were experienced in the art of making unwilling persons voluble, and the screams of a weak and exceptionally venerable man can be easily muffled. so they moved up to the one lighted window and heard the terrible old man talking childishly to his bottles with pendulums. then they donned masks and knocked politely at the weather-stained oaken door. waiting seemed very long to mr. czanek as he fidgeted restlessly in the covered motor-car by the terrible old man s back gate in ship street. he was more than ordinarily tender-hearted, and he did not like the hideous screams he had

HP LOVECRAFT THE TOMB

oo, was different. instead of the hillside tomb, it was the charred cellar on the crest of the slope whose presiding demon beckoned to me with unseen fingers. as i emerged from an intervening grove upon the plain before the ruin. i beheld in the misty moonlight a thing i had always vaguely expected. the mansion, gone for a century, once more reared its stately height to the raptured vision; every window ablaze with the splendor of many candles. up the long drive rolled the coaches of the boston gentry, whilst on foot came a numerous assemblage of powdered exquisites from the neighboring mansions. with this throng i mingled, though i knew i belonged with the hosts rather than with the guests. inside the hall were music, laughter, and wine on every hand. several faces i recognized; though i

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ness of the spot brought by the intervention of a tottering, deserted seventeenth- century house between us and the nearest lighted road. there in the dark, upon that riven tomb by the deserted house, we talked on about the "unnamable" and after my friend had finished his scoffing i told him of the awful evidence behind the story at which he had scoffed the most. my tale had been called the attic window, and appeared in the january, 1922, issue of whispers. in a good many places, especially the south and the pacific coast, they took the magazines off the stands at the complaints of silly milk-sops; but new england didn't get the thrill and merely shrugged its shoulders at my extravagance. the thing, it was averred, was biologically impossible to start with; merely another of those crazy co

and as to the way i amplified the bare jotting of the old mystic- that was quite impossible, and characteristic of a flighty and notional scribbler! mather had indeed told of the thing as being born, but nobody but a cheap sensationalist would think of having it grow up, look into people's windows at night, and be hidden in the attic of a house, in flesh and in spirit, till someone saw it at the window centuries later and couldn't describe what it was that turned his hair gray. all this was flagrant trashiness, and my friend manton was not slow to insist on that fact then i told him what i had found in an old diary kept between 1706 and 1723, unearthed among family papers not a mile from where we were sitting; that, and the certain reality of the scars on my ancestor's chest and back whic

nature? molded by the dead brain of a hybrid night-mare, would not such a vaporous terror constitute in all loathsome truth the exquisitely, the shriekingly unnamable? the hour must now have grown very late. a singularly noiseless bat brushed by me, and i believe it touched manton also, for although i could not see him i felt him raise his ann. presently he spoke "but is that house with the attic window still standing and deserted "yes" i answered "i have seen it "and did you find anything there- in the attic or anywhere else "there were some bones up under the eaves. they may have been what that boy saw- if he was sensitive he wouldn't have needed anything in the window-glass to unhinge him. if they all came from the same object it must have been an hysterical, delirious monstrosity. it w

the world, so i went back with a sack and took them to the tomb behind the house. there was an opening where i could dump them in. don't think i was a fool- you ought to have seen that skull. it had four-inch horns, but a face and jaw something like yours and mine" at last i could feel a real shiver run through manton, who had moved very near. but his curiosity was undeterred "and what about the window-panes "they were all gone. one window had lost its entire frame, and in all the others there was not a trace of glass in the little diamond apertures. they were that kind- the old lattice windows that went out of use before 1700. i don't believe they've had any glass for a hundred years or more- maybe the boy broke 'em if he got that far; the legend doesn't say" manton. was reflecting again

s more wrought upon than i had suspected, for at this touch of harmless theatricalism he started neurotically away from me and actually cried out with a sort of gulping gasp which released a strain of previous repression. it was an odd cry, and all the more terrible because it was answered. for as it was still echoing, i heard a creaking sound through the pitchy blackness, and knew that a lattice window was opening in that accursed old house beside us. and because all the other frames were long since fallen, i knew that it was the grisly glassless frame of that demoniac attic window. then came a noxious rush of noisome, frigid air from that same dreaded direction, followed by a piercing shriek just beside me on that shocking rifted tomb of man and monster. in another instant i was knocked

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, weave spells. lovers draw or carve a circle or a heart on a tree or wall and put their initials inside, and this is supposed to have all magical effect of uniting them. they are trying to influence their destiny. new brooms are brought into new homes by people with the idea that they won't be bringing the dirt and problems of the old house into a new one. hanging bright strips of ribbon in your window is supposed to attract friendly spirits into your home, and many people still do this, perhaps without knowing why. whether it is considered superstition or lore, witchcraft comes to us as a gift from the past. but nothing that lives is safe from time, so that witchcraft, like a story of an ancient battle told and retold through the ages, is tainted by exaggeration and twisted by falsehood

centration of energy coming from her and know she was going to break that glass. without touching it, just sitting there, and turning on this power, the glass would shatter. i don't know what that psychic force is. she could make something at a distance rattle, and i imagine she'd be very good material for some psychic investigators. she'd call bugs into the house. an insect would fly through the window when she said it would, and then she'd put her hand out, and it would come to her. she could get a praying mantis to come in just by saying she would. the insect would come in through the window, come to the table and sit on her hand. she spoke to it in yugoslavian or english or italian, or she'd sing and hum; she'd say "c'mon, c'mon, i love you" and she'd charm it in. i lived with my grand

otent. 5. charmed sleep spellcasters use an enormous amount of energy, and in order to insure that the energy is restored, charmed sleep is essential. this is attained through a simple ritual. place a desert turtle under your bed. put fresh mint leaves inside your pillow-case and place a rose-tinted crystal glass filled with water next to your bed. three bright yellow daffodils are set up at your window. light three blue candles and let them flame for one hour while you're getting ready to go to bed. then draw a protective white chalk circle around the bed. once between the covers you say "sandoz" eight times. sleep in the nude or it doesn't work. witchcraft hinges on desire, and the reason for this is that most people find it easy to become emotional about things they want, about things t

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

long, and a quarter of an inch deep, but it bled not at all. then he launc'd the other hand, and then they bled "he further saith, that after she was in prison he went with roger hawkins and p. 120 others to discourse with the witch about the maid, and they asked what it was she spoke to the day before, and after some denial she said it was a greyhound which was her familiar, and went out at the window; and then she said, if have done the maid hurt i am sorry for it. and being asked whether she had done her any hurt she said she never did bewitch her, but confess'd she had overlooked her, at that time she kiss'd her, but that she could not now help her, for none could help her that did the mishap, but others. further the deponent saith, that meeting after the assizes at cashel with one wi

doctor used remedies on the 9th of may 1698, at which time it happened, but to no purpose, the child continued in a most terrible paroxysm; whereupon they sent for the minister, who scarce had laid his hand upon her when she was turned by the demon in the most dreadful shapes. she began first to rowl herself about, then to vomit needles, pins, hairs, feathers, bottoms of thread, pieces of glass, window-nails, nails drawn out of a cart or coach-wheel, an iron knife about a span long, eggs, and fish-shells p. 196 and when the witch came near the place, or looked to the house, though at the distance of two hundred paces from where the child was, she was in worse torment, insomuch that no life was expected from the child till the witch was removed to some greater distance. the witch was appre

; whereupon he produced a sword, and threatened to kill everybody in the house. this frightened her so much that she ran into the parlour and fastened the door, but the apparition laughed at her, and declared that he could come in by the smallest hole in the house like a cat or mouse, as the devil could make him anything he pleased. he then took up a large stone, and hurled it through the parlour window, which, upon trial, could not be put out at the same place. a little after the servant and child looked out, and saw the apparition catching the turkey-cock, which he threw over his shoulder, holding him by the tail; and the bird making a great sputter with his feet, the stolen book was spurred out of the loop in the blanket where the boy had put it. he then leaped over a wall with the turk

with his feet, the stolen book was spurred out of the loop in the blanket where the boy had put it. he then leaped over a wall with the turkey-cock on his back. presently the girl saw him endeavouring to draw his sword to kill the bird, but it escaped. missing the book out of his blanket he ran nimbly up and down in search of it, and then with a club came and broke the glass of the p. 205 parlour window. the girl again peeped out through the kitchen window, and saw him digging with his sword. she summoned up courage to ask him what he was doing, and he answered "making a grave for a corpse which will come out of this house very soon" he refused, however, to say who it would be, but having delivered himself of this enlivening piece of information, flew over the hedge as if he had been a bir

irtue of his oath, he having her hands fast down "the afflicted, during one of her fits, was observed by several persons to slide off the bed in an unaccountable manner, p. 217 and to be laid gently on the ground as if supported and drawn invisibly. upon her recovery she told them the several persons who had drawn her in that manner, with the intention, as they told her, of bearing her out of the window; but that she reflecting at that time, and calling upon god in her mind, they let her drop on the floor "the afflicted, recovering from a fit, told the persons present that her tormentors had declared that she should not have power to go over the threshold of the chamber-door; the evidence declared that they had several times attempted to lead her out of the door, and that she was as often

nside out, and in that dress to stand by the head of the cow until she sent for them, while the wife, the son, and an old woman named margaret lee remained in the house with her. montgomery and his ally kept their lonely vigil until daybreak, when, becoming alarmed at receiving no summons, they left their post and knocked at the door, but obtained no response. they then looked through the kitchen window, and to their horror saw the four inmates stretched on the floor as dead. they immediately burst p. 227 in the door, and found that the wife and son were actually dead, and the sorceress and margaret lee nearly so. the latter soon afterwards expired; mary butters was thrown out on a dung-heap, and a restorative administered to her in the shape of a few hearty kicks, which had the desired ef

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to every inhabitant of the southern ranges ot lebanon and anti-libanus. they were the work of an apos- tate dervish^ who was expelled from the sect hanafi for improper con- duct the embezzlement of the money of widows and orphans, llie expoai de la rdigian dea druxes, in two volumes, by silvestre de sacy (1838, is another network of hypotheses. a copy of this work was to be found, in 1870, on the window-sill of one of their principal holowsa, or places of religious meeting. to the inquisitive question of an english traveler as to their rites, the oldud^ a venerable old man who spoke english as well as french, opened the volume of de sacy, and, offering it to his interlocutor, remarked, with a benevolent smile "read this instructive and truthful book; i could explain to you neither better n

d the experiment, there was no end of most insulting abuse heaped upon her by a cathohc padre on his way through syra to some mission. the queen, he declared, was a "superstitious heretic "an abominable witch "jezebel using magic arts" much more the xealous missionary would doubtless have added, had he not, while in the midst of his vituperations, found himself landed in a pool of mud outside the window. the virtuous elocutionist was forced to this unusual transit by the strong arm of a greek officer who happened to enter the room at the right moment. there never was a great reli^ous reform that was not pure at the beginning. the first followers of buddha, as well as the disciples of jesus, were all men of the highest morahty. the aversion felt by the reformers of all ages to vice under an

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

light to treat of facts, and 84 the rosicrucians. of various historical monuments. they all bear reference to this universal story of the mystic fire. we claim to be the first to point out how strikingly and yet how, at the same time, without any suspicion of it these emblems and remains, in so many curious and unintelligible forms, of the magic religion are found in the christian churches. rose window, or catherine-wheel window (from laon cathedral, france) from the vaults of the temple of solomon, at jerusalem. chapter the eleventh. monuments raised to fire-worship in all countries. e think that we shall be able fully in our succeeding chapters to place beyond contradiction an extraordinary discovery. it is, that the whole round of disputed emblems which so puzzle antiquarians, and whic

e, in short, in these mythologies, as also in all the christian churches, meets us at every turn. but we must not mix up heathen ideas and christian ideas in these matters. egyptian torso (british museum) moorish arch (cathedral of cordova) chapter the nineeenth. mystic christian figures and talismans. ur engraving borrows from the west front of laon cathedral, france, a catherine-wheel (or rose) window. the twelve pillars, or radii, are the signs of the zodiac, and are issuant out of the glorified centre, or opening rose, the sun or beginning of all things. king arthur s round table displays the crucified rose in its centre. in the tables* alternating with tying-knots, of the order of the garter, which most noble order was originally dedicated, be it remembered, to the blessed lady, or to

s to be remembered that he made the crusade to palestine. he invited to england guido dalla colonna, the author of the troy-book, tale of troy; and he also invited raymond lully into his kingdom. raymond lully is affirmed to have supplied to edward six millions of money, to enable him to carry on war against the turks. the origin of the rose-nobles is from the rosicrucians. no. 1. catherine-wheel window 12 columns. query, the 12 signs, with the rose, disc, or lotus, in the centre? from a saracenic fountain near the council-house, jerusalem. this fountain seems to be built of fragments; the 262 the rosicrucians. proof of which is that this inscribed stone (no. 2) is placed over half the discus. the whole structure, though oriental or saracenic abounds with gothic or pointed features. such a

JESSUP MK THE CASE FOR THE UFO

railroad, recently, a train was just pulling out from the station when a storm commenced and in ten seconds there was such a fury of hail and wind that the engineer deemed it best to stop the locomotive. the "hailstones" were simply great chunks of ice, many of them three or four inches in diameter and of all shapes: squares, cones, cubes, etc, and the first "stone" that struck the train broke a window and the flying glass severely injured a lady on the face, making a deep cut. five minutes later there was not a whole pane of glass on the south side of the train, the whole length of it. the windows of the pullman cars were of french plate three-eighths of an inch thick, and double. the hail broke both thicknesses and tore the curtains to shreds. the wooden shutters were smashed and many o

highway that runs to the little town of beatty, eight miles distant "the nearest human habitation is a cattle ranch a mile away by coyote trail over the hills "it was 1:45 am on a night in january, 1949, just after what is known as the big snow. a frozen white pall lay draped over hill and desert. i had wakened from sound slumber a half-hour earlier. more sleep eluded me and i was standing at my window drinking in the beauty of the dimly moonlit landscape. not a creature was stirring, nor a breath of wind. if this happens, cover yourself with earth, jemi. 121 "gradually, my eyes focused upon a pale gray stain, irregularly shaped and no bigger than by two hands. it rested on the smooth crust near a corner of the grape arbor about three rods from the house and in line with the window. almos

st near a corner of the grape arbor about three rods from the house and in line with the window. almost at once this fuzzy-gray shadow that was not a shadow bloomed into a disc of clear white light approximately three feet in diameter. it lay there for fully two minutes. then suddenly contracting into a brilliant orange-tinted stream five or six inches wide, flowed swiftly over the snow toward my window and, to all appearances, exploded soundlessly against the stone foundation of the intervening front porch "several tongues of scintillating red and blue flame spurted a few inches above the two-and-a half foot high wainscoting of the porch. that was all "when daylight came, we searched conscientiously but found no signs, marks, or tracks of any kind that might help to explain this phenomeno

ience on tuesday, november 6, 1951. returning from his evening meal, burch stopped at the desk of the bremerton ymca, picked up his key, then rode the elevator to the top floor. inside his room, he noticed that it was 7:30 pm he switched on his radio, then turned to the dresser. suddenly, something made him look up. the mirror reflected a ball of orange-red fire coming toward him through the open window. there was a blinding flash and a loud report. the ceiling light went out and burch was knocked to the floor. in a daze he reached for the foot of his metal bed to haul himself upright. a searing pain shot up his arm. later it was diagnosed that he had received seconddegree burns. don't know if bulb imploded (later) hyper-activation by f-f on molecules could have caused burns or pure-energy

etal bed to haul himself upright. a searing pain shot up his arm. later it was diagnosed that he had received seconddegree burns. don't know if bulb imploded (later) hyper-activation by f-f on molecules could have caused burns or pure-energy implosion "bounces" back, effects secondary explosion, thus burns& etc. in the corner of his room the contents of a wastebasket blazed furiously. beneath the window a piece of fireproof samsonite luggage was charred and smoking. the cabinets of two radios were burned. the sill of the window through which the fireball had entered was black and too hot to touch. yes, all the above are sceintifically explainable they are reactions of force& energy, wild& tame. burch's roommate, alex myers, rushed in from the shower room three doors away. he had heard the

le they are reactions of force& energy, wild& tame. burch's roommate, alex myers, rushed in from the shower room three doors away. he had heard the loud report. a moment later, a city policeman entered. the officer, in the process of writing a traffic violation ticket three blocks away, had looked up, seen the orange-red ball flash across the sky in an arc from a southerly direction and enter the window. in the bremerton naval hospital the next day the bewildered burch, his arm swathed in bandages, still suffered from shock. ed: the following has no obvious reference or necessary position the terrifying thing about fireballs is that when human& fireball face each other, 122 the one recognizes a panicked intelligence in the other and is thus terrified in reciprocal emotions. a fireball is e

LAITMAN M KABBALAH ATTAINING THE WORLDS BEYOND

ll be able to perceive the creator. in general, the only cause of our misfortunes, and of the worthless and temporal nature of our lives, is our failure to perceive the creator. kabbalah impels us towards him by teaching us "taste and see that the creator is good" the aim of this text is to guide you through the initial stages of the path to perceiving the creator- 18- attaining the worlds beyond window to the heart it is clear that, since the creation of the world, humanity has suffered torment and pain in such magnitude, it has often been worse than death itself. who, if not the creator, is the source of that suffering? throughout history, how many individuals have been willing to suffer and endure any pain in order to attain superior wisdom and to achieve spiritual elevation? how many o

away from them and scorn their suffering? all of these human beings subconsciously realized that there is a higher purpose to the universe, and to every event that takes place. this realization is called the "drop of unification" of an individual with the creator. in fact, despite their immersion in egoism and their unbearable torment when they sensed the creator s rejection, they suddenly felt a window opening in their hearts, which until then had been closed to the truth. up until that moment, their hearts had been incapable of feeling anything but their own pain and desires. this window revealed that they were deemed worthy to experience and feel that longed-for "drop of unification" penetrating each heart through its broken walls. hence, all perceiving the creator- 19- their qualities

ei brak. rabbi laitman s search for kabbalah- 437- i justified it by arguing that if we were to find a teacher, it would be convenient to attend classes there. prior to that day i had visited bnei brak only two or three times, in my search for kabbalah books. that evening in bnei brak was just as cold, windy, and rainy. reaching the intersection of rabbi akiva and hazon- ish streets, i opened the window and yelled to a man across the street, dressed in long black attire "could you tell me where they study kabbalah around here" for people who are not familiar with the atmosphere and the society of the religious quarter, i must explain that my question sounded strange, to say the least. kabbalah was not taught in any of the institutions of learning or yeshivas. rarely would anyone have the b

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

i o n o f r e a l i t y 144 similarly, when leaving earth s atmosphere, we discover that outer space is dark. it may sound strange, considering that sunrays spread out across space, but if there is nothing that stands in the rays way and captures them, we cannot detect the existence of the light. another good example of this principle can be observed when we watch sunlight come in through an open window into a room with some dust in the air. we can only detect the rays by their reflection off the dust in the air. in other words, if the creature does not feel a certain thing, it cannot say that it exists on the outside. in such a state, we say that all that exists is the thought of creation to do good to that which has been created. the creature, which is at ein sof, discovers the ein sof a

LIBER 777

m hy 3* hnyb binah understanding \yhla hwhy 4* dsj chesed mercy la 5* hrwbg geburah strength rwbg \yhla 6* trapt tiphareth beauty tudw hwla hwhy 7 jxn netzach victory twabx hwhy 8 dwh hod splendour twaxb \yhla 9* dwsy yesod foundation yj la ydc 10* rwklm malkuth kingdom ]lm ynda 11 [la aleph ox hwhy 12 tib beth house (8) hgwbza 13 lmg gimel camel (81 \yla (9) hd 14 tld daleth door (7) aha 15 hh h window 16 ww vau nail 17 yz zain sword 18 tyj cheth fence 19 tyf teth serpent 20 dvy yod hand 21 [k kaph palm (34) ba la (4) aba 22 dml lamed ox goad 23 \ym maim water la 24 wn nun fish 25 ]ms samekh prop 26 yu ayin eye 27 hp p mouth (65) ynda 28 ydx tzaddi fish-hook 29 [wq qoph back of head 30 cyr resh head (36) hla 31 yc shin tooth \yhla 32 wt tau tau (as egyptian (15) hy (3) ba 32 bis wt tau[ r

LIBER CHANOKH

ivemeda aqoso adoho moz, od maof-fasa. bolape como belioeta pamebata. zodacare od zodameranu! odo cicale qaa. zodoreje, lape zodiredo noco mada, hoathahe i a i d a. o thou mighty light and burning flame of comfort! that unveilest the glory of god to the centre of the earth, in whom the 6332 secrets of truth have their abiding, that is called in thy kingdom .joy. and not to be measured. be thou a window of comfort unto me! move and appear! unveil the mysteries of your creation, be friendly unto me, for liber lxxxiv 35 i am the servant of the same your god, the true worshipper of the highest. the angle of e of b in the tablet of b. the princess of the shining flame, the rose of the palace of fire. mark well! these first 18 calls are in reality 19; that is, 19 in the celestial orders; but wi

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

costume, arabs or turks i thought. one old man took me by the hand, i made the sign of the pentagram over him, but he smiled and said come along, it s all right, and led me along a street paved with cobbles, the houses of which overhung, till we reached a sort of a mosque. entering this he led me to the altar, which was supported by brackets from the wall, and above which was a beautiful stained window. at the sides were thin columns and sort of boxes, similar to theatre boxes. we knelt at the altar; and he took my hand and said: raise your consciousness. i perceived a star and crescent above me, and a cross dimly formulated in the background. after this, the astral seemed to coincide with the body; but consciousness of the astral surroundings was still clear. continued to raise conscious

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

e angel, within the pyramid already duly prepared by 671. 12.57. alas! in vain have i tried even the supreme ritual of awaiting the beloved, although once i thought.ah! give unto thy beloved in sleep! how ashamed i should be, though! for an earthly lover one would be on tiptoe of excitement, trembling at every sound, eager, afraid. i will, however, rise and open (as for a symbol) the door and the window. oh that the door of my heart were ever open! for he is always there, and always eager to come in. 1.0. i rise and open unto my beloved. may it be granted unto me in the daylight of this day to construct from 671 a perfect ritual of self-initiation, so as to avoid the constant difficulty of assuming various god-forms. then let that ritual be a constant and perfect link between us. so that a

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

alfred t! the hindu, an advaitist, crosses off maya from the list; believes in one.exactly so, dhyana-consciousness, you know! may it not be that one step further..this lotused buddha roaring murther ?39 nibbana is the state above you christians and them hindus.lord love you. where nothing is perceived as such. this clever thought doth please me much. but if das essen ist das nichts. ha! hegel.s window! ancient lichts! and two is one and one is two .bother this nonsense! go on, do. my wandering thoughts you well recall! i focus logic.s perfect prism: lo! the informing syllogism! the premiss major. life at best is but a sorry sort of jest; at worst, a play of fiends uncouth, mocking the soul foredoomed to pain. in any case, its run must range through countless miseries of change. so far, n

LIBER SAMEKH

ngel a a publication in class d 41 and thus shall he do who will attain unto the mystery of the knowledge and conversation of his holy guardian angel. first, let him prepare a chamber, of which the walls and the roof shall be white, and the floor shall be covered with a carpet of black squares and white, and the border thereof shall be blue and gold. and if it be in a town, the room shall have no window, and if it be in the country, then it is better if the window be in the roof. or, if it be possible, let this invocation be performed in a temple prepared for the ritual of passing through the tuat.37 from the roof he shall hang a lamp, wherein is a red glass, to burn olive oil. and this lamp shall he cleanse and make ready after the prayer of sunset, and beneath the lamp shall be an altar

LIBER VII

aliber viii$ 3xeolfdwlrq lq &odvv' and thus shall he do who will attain unto the mystery of the knowledge and conversation of his holy guardian angel: first, let him prepare a chamber, of which the walls and the roof shall be white, and the floor shall be covered with a carpet of black squares and white, and the border thereof shall be blue and gold. and if it be in a town, the room shall have no window, and if it be in the country, then it is better if the window be in the roof. or, if it be possible, let this invocation be performed in a temple prepared for the ritual of passing through the tuat. from the roof he shall hang a lamp, wherein is a red glass, to burn olive oil. and this lamp shall he cleanse and make ready after the prayer of sunset, and beneath the lamp shall be an altar, f

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

roof of each section are shown three subdivisions, thus making in all the sacred number 33. occupying the position corresponding to the generative system of the human body will also be noted the cross upon the door of the central section. two openings are shown in the ark: one--the main door representing the orifice through which the animal lives descend into physical existence; the other a small window proximate to the crown of the head through which the spirit gains liberty according to the ancient rites "when the androgenic scorpio-virgo was separated and the balance or harmony made from scorpio, and placed between scorpio, i.e, male, and virgo, i.e, female, then appeared the 32 constellations or signs, as we now have them. the ark is three stories high (perhaps to symbolize heaven, man

as placed in the coffins with the body. the executioner was also decapitated and his head placed in a small chest. the virgo lucifera, after assuring c.r.c. and his companions that all should be well if they were faithful and true, ordered the pages to conduct them to their rooms for the night while she remained to watch with the dead. about midnight c.r.c. awakened suddenly and, looking from his window, beheld seven ships sailing upon a lake. above each hovered a flame; these he believed to be the spirits of the beheaded. when the ships reached shore, the virgo lucifera met them and on each of six of the vessels was placed a covered coffin. as soon as the coffins had been thus disposed of, the lights were extinguished and the flames passed back over the lake so that there remained but one

tones in a wall, by the spread of birds' wings in flight, by ripples on the surface of water, or by the length and order of lines used in shading. such cryptograms are not obvious, and must be decoded with the aid of an arbitrary measuring scale, the length of the lines determining the letter or word concealed. the shape and proportion of a building, the height of a tower, the number of bars in a window, the folds of a man's garments--even the proportions or attitude of the human body- were used to conceal definite figures or characters which could be exchanged for letters or words by a person acquainted with the code. initial letters of names were secreted in architectural arches and spans. a notable example of this practice is found on the title page of montaigue's essays, third edition

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

ur magnetism, or witch power. now the method of their employment is this: provide yourself with some pieces of clean paper, your pen and ink of art, a good supply of mercurial incense, your square of mercury, a flat-surfaced table, your thurible and your cup of salt and water. lock all the doors and means of access to your place of working, and if there is any chance of being overlooked through a window, make sure the drapes are drawn. then purify the chamber with fire and water as you were taught in an earlier chapter, using your mercurial incense. begin with the square of mercury ritual to tune your deep mind to the correct level. at this point, write out your question on the paper provided with the pen of art. then take the rune sticks in your right hand and cast them so they tumble awa

e known as lodestone or magnetite. from time immemorial siderites have been treasured by witches, and if you were to try to choose between wearing one of these as opposed to one of the preceding four, i would counsel you definitely to decide on the siderite. though slightly more complicated to manufacture and maintain, many witches find it well worth the effort. by the light of the full moon (the window must be open if you perform this ritual indoors, place the lodestone on a piece of talisman paper which in turn covers your workbook. now consecrate it with as many drops of sabbat oil (see chapter 7) as there are years in the prospective bearer's life, plus one extra dab for the present year, chanting the following quaint formula with each touch "may hertha bless thee [n] with all her migh

vations on plant lore that, as a witch, you should know about. more and more witches are tending to grow their own herbs, protective and otherwise, these days. apart from the pleasure one may derive from the pursuit, it does ensure that one can obtain the required ingredient in a pure form, and picked at the right phase of the moon. should you wish to do this, even if it be merely in a planter or window box, you should try to observe the following conditions: if you are planting an herb of which the end product will be the root, do this at the dark of the moon, when it is waning. on the other hand, those herbs you intend to use for their leaves or flowers should be planted during the waxing moon. when you wish to pick your herbs, do this in the moon's quarter which corresponds to the type

MEANING OF MASONRY

s degree before dealing with the opening and closing of the third degree, it should be observed that in the lodge symbolism the teaching of the first and second degrees is carried forward into the third. the traditional tracing-board of the third degree exhibits in combination (1) the chequered floorwork (2) the two pillars at the porchway of the temple (3) the winding staircase, and (4) a dormer window above the porchway. the brief explanation is given that the chequer-work is for the high priest to walk upon and the dormer-window is that which gave light to it. the entire symbol is but one comprehensive glyph or pictorial diagram of the condition of a candidate aspiring to master mason's rank. as high priest of his own personal temple he must have his bodily nature and its varied desires

involved in attaining this stability there has shone light on the path from the first moment that his apprentice's vision was opened to larger truth; light from the science and philosophy of the order itself which is proving his" porchway" to the ultimate sanctuary within; light from friendly helpers and instructors; above all, light from the sun in his own" heavens" streaming through the" dormer-window" of his illumined intelligence and slowly but surely guiding his feet into the way of peace. but now the last and greatest trial of his fortitude and fidelity, one imposing upon him a still more serious obligation of endurance, awaits him in the total withdrawal of this kindly light. hitherto, although guided by that light, he has progressed in virtue of his own natural powers and efforts

considered together. the re-arrangement of the factors constituting the ceremonial temple are symbolic of a structural re-arrangement which has occurred in the candidate's own psychical organization. this has undergone a repolarization as the result of the descent into it of that high central light which at first but shone as it were in his" heavens" afar off and above him, illumining the dormer-window of his natural intelligence. consider deeply what this change implies. the day-star from on high has now visited him; the fontal source of all consciousness has descended into the very chequer work material of his transient physical organism, not merely permeating it temporarily with light, but taking root and becoming grafted there substantially and permanently. in theological language, go

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the ease of her own obsession with staying young and her subconscious desire for the blood of youth. one tale set in the northwest of england involved a vampiric spirit known as the nightstalker of croglin grange. a family moved into an abandoned home located right next to a very old graveyard. the young woman, who lived there with her brothers, retired to bed one evening. she glanced out of her window to notice two red eyes gleaming in the darkness, moving around gravestones and through the yard. she then lost sight of it and in puzzlement went to sleep. she awoke some time later to a scratching at the window, in fear she froze, not being able to scream or even move. the vampire then tore away the lead of the window pane until the glass crashed to the floor. a necrotically gray hand reac

verwhelming sense of fear and even lust. 12 12 at some point she was able to regain her senses and scream aloud for help. once her brothers reached her bed chamber and entered they found their sister lying on the bed, blood pulsating from her throat and the white sheets covered in burgundy. there was no one present in the room, save the ghostly wind which blew through the cold room, from which no window pane kept out the night air. the werewolf has long been associated with vampirism in european folklore. it is after all, the vampire which is able to shape shift into such a wolf like beast covered in gray or black fur, gleaming red or yellow eyes and enormous, cruel fangs. the wolf form can be assumed in one of two external shapes, being a large hunting wolf or a giant man-wolf form, which

ranspires returns to her, she is the abyss in it's feminine aspect. all time melts into this goddess. kali is also life giving, a nurturing and loving mother, granting ecstasy to those who would invoke her in the rites of tantra, through which the sexual combination of opposites set in motion the process of creation. the union of male and female with a magickal aim or focus presents an accessible window to the astral and dream plane. thus through oz being pan can desire become flesh. it is through the divine woman that the essence of magick and witchcraft is found. those seeking beyond this path will often miss it altogether, due to the consistent denial of ones' own feminine or lunar side which must be invariably joined with the male or sun aspect. babalon the mysteries of babalon do hold

's initiator and witch mother passed on to a young aos. descended from 100 100 a line of salem witches, yelg paterson carried enormous individual power through which, according to aos, she could project images into a dark corner while the astonished observers would stare intently. the sorceries woven by yelg and eventually aos would incarnate in the art and writings of spare. this would provide a window for this current to manifest. to understand the system of zos kia in its mental expression, one must refer to his art. his writings give only a secondary view of the magickal worlds. the sabbat can be obtained through his paintings and drawings, each line causing a psychonautic strain to emerge and lift the individual towards the great and infinite id of power. the same can be said of other

ersonality as an extension of yelg paterson, i had tried to keep a distance from her, not knowing the sensual danger and passion which could be mine for the taking. the desire was catching up with me, not just for any mere sexual congress, for something greater, more powerful and dynamic than before. i searched for this lady only by her invitation. i could feel a cold wind take me from my chamber window. this of course by my own acceptance. i understood that i had actually known her once, in order to be waking into her dream. she was within a cold, stone constructed ruin of a building, something of an ancient temple. worn with age and often bitter temperatures, i could feel the vast solar and nocturnal rites which had taken place long before. time frozen traces of solar birth rites, and ce

werewolf, in which i shall ascend and explore the night in its beauty! so it is to be" one should now burn the sigil of desire, cast it to the night spirits and the elementals which you have created with pure desire and belief. allow the circle around your being to send forth this now subconscious desire once and for all. you must now forget it. all reminders should fly with the smoke out of the window into the night sky. so mote it be. banishing is the next step following the destruction of the sigil. a banishing rite could be made up of hysterical laughter, in which the mind is let loose on the conscious level from focus and consistent thought processes. when laughter occurs one is as close as one can be to the death posture on a conscious level. once the banishing rite is complete, the

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ut then it'll be too latewho are they who are the phantoms who will end our livesit's you and me, you and me open up your eyes!phantoms bring evil, destruction and deathnight after night the same old gamethey all look so harmless but deep in their heartssatan is lurking, and he will break outwe are all parasites of this world we shall die!(phantoms of death by kai hansen of helloween) born in the window, nobody's foolraised in the prison, you called the schooldark arcane legends show what to do i handed my childhood over to youtraveling endlessly, i'm searching my mindi'm almost afraid of what i will findwandering aimlessly, oh what can i do?i handed my future over to you, to you future looks blue- what can i do?working for freedom, fighting your warsfeeding your children, keeping your law

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

restingly enough the old persian draug, meaning also lie and is held connected to serpent, snake or dragon (i.e. worm. druj is a title representing antinomian power in a personage, a daeva in flesh. evil eye in the old gathic writings, the evil eye is considered a power of the daeva and druj, meaning the power to cause death, oppression and sickness. in a modern sense, the evil eye represents the window to the soul or spirit itself, not merely as a negative but equally so a positive. the eye of the yatu is the 82 commanding presence which is a form of spell casting, to focus the will itself on the desired goal, to achieve a result. many daevas are directly related to the evil eye, thus is as well a symbol of ahriman. ghanamino [avestan/pahlavi] name of ahriman or angra mainyu, spelling fro

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

messenger of azrael, i form you djinn haunter of the desert and forest (visualize the shade of self, that your shadow form, so closely connected that you are but the same, grant this phantom form your deepest attributes of vampyric self, be it the grave haunter and spirit of folklore) skeletal form, whose flesh is gray and green from the blood of arimanius, talons of the best, whom shall tap the window of the sleeping, beckoning their desire death-guise, pale and ashen corpse corpse face, whom embraces the manes of the dead in lustrous copulations, wrapped in the shroud of the tomb, i name you as myself azyta seker arimanius, whom gathers the darkness and emerges in the noon-tide sun, the time sacred of shaitan the opposer, as well as the midnight sun, the time sacred of mather lilith! i

MORALS AND DOGMA

cestors worshipped this triune deity; odin, the almighty father; frea, his wife, emblem of universal matter; and thor, his son, the mediator. but above all these was the supreme god "the author of everything that existeth, the eternal, the ancient, the living and awful being, the searcher into concealed things, the being that never changeth" in the temple of eleusis (a sanctuary lighted only by a window in the roof, and representing the universe, the images of the sun, moon, and mercury, were represented "the sun and moon" says the learned bro. delaunay "represent the two grand principles of all generations, the active and passive, the male and the female. the sun represents the actual light. he pours upon the moon his fecundating rays; both shed their light upon their offspring, the blazi

etal plate, it dances, trembles, and spins, and never comes into contact with it; and the mind may be plunged into truth, as the hand moistened with sulphurous acid may into melted metal, and be not even warmed by the immersion* the word _khairum_ or _khurum_ is a compound one. gesenius renders _khurum_ by the word _noble_ or _free-born: khur_ meaning _white, noble. it also means the opening of a window, the socket of the eye _khri_ also means _white, or an _opening; and _khris, the orb of the sun, in _job_ viii. 13 and x. 7 _krishna_ is the hindu sun-god _khur, the parsi word, is the literal name of the sun. from _kur_ or _khur, the sun, comes khora, a name of lower egypt. the sun, bryant says in his mythology, was called _kur; and plutarch says that the persians called the sun _kuros. ku

the legend (iao. she is seated on clouds, a star at her head, and three ears of wheat rising from an altar before her. horus was the _mediator, who was buried three days, was regenerated, and triumphed over the evil principle. the word heri, in sanscrit, means _shepherd, as well as _saviour. crishna is called _heri, as jesus called himself the _good shepherd [hebrew _khur, means an aperture of a window, a cave, or the eye. also it means white. in syriac [symbols [hebrew] also means an opening, and noble, free-born, high-born [hebrew, khurm means consecrated, devoted; in thiopic [symbols] it is the name of a city[_josh. xix. 38; and of a man[_ezr. ii. 32, x. 31 _neh. iii. 11 [hebrew _khirah, means nobility, a noble race. buddha is declared to comprehend in his own person the essence of the

d and the sun. a circular aperture in the roof admitted the light, and introduced the image of the sun into the body of the sanctuary, where he seemed to blaze as in the heights of heaven, and to dissipate the darkness within that temple which was a representative symbol of the world. there the passion, death, and resurrection of bakchos were represented. so the temple of eleusis was lighted by a window in the roof. the sanctuary so lighted, dion compares to the universe, from which he says it differed in size alone; and in it the great lights of nature played a great part and were mystically represented. the images of the sun, moon, and mercury were represented there (the latter the same as anubis who accompanied isis; and they are still the three lights of a masonic lodge; except that fo

rations and fasts, let us pause and inquire whether the same weakness of human nature does not exist to-day, causing rites and ceremonies to be regarded as _actively_ efficient for the salvation of souls. and let us ever remember the words of an old writer, with which we conclude this lecture "it is a pleasure to stand on the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and see a battle and the adventures thereof: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage-ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene, and to see the errors and wanderings, and mists and tempests, in the vale below _so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. certainly it is heaven upon

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

e for its analytical but for its numbing effect "this folly against self: altruism is a direct assertion of duality, which is division, restriction, sin, in its vilest form. i love my neighbour because love makes him part of me; not because hate divides him from me. our law is so simple that it constantly approximates to truism "the exposure of innocence: exposure means 'putting out' as in a shop-window. the pretence of altruism and so-called virtue 'is a lie; it is the hypocrisy of the puritan, which is hideously corrupting both to the hypocrite and to his victim. to 'lust' is to grasp continually at fresh aspects of nuit. it is the mistake of the vulgar to expect to find satisfaction in the objects of sense. disillusion is inevitable; when it comes, it leads only too often to an error wh

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

friends there. one of them, ralph a government employee with an interest in paranormal phenomena was with me that day. he had been given the task of running the class whilst ivan was away on vacation, and as we talked on into the late afternoon it was difficult to know if we had really seen something in the room. we had to consider that it could have been a shadow cast by something going past the window. i had been sitting facing the window with my eyes closed when the entity came and stood in front of me, blocking out the sunlight shining in through the window. i had an interesting emotional reaction (interesting, that is, to me) to this event. i felt a strange sensation. something indefinite, haunting, something half-forgotten, a far away memory returning again. when i was six or seven y

e occult forces do not exist. i learnt this particular technique during my days at the psychic research society of australian. no special equipment is required for this simple psychic experience. switch off the tv and radio. place an ordinary padded kitchen chair in the center of your witching circle. once your chair is positioned, darken the room by drawing the drapes or hanging a blanket at the window. ideally, the room should be dim enough so that you cannot read the fine print of a newspaper. now arrange a single light to shine gently over your shoulder so that you are able to see your hands in front of you. awaken your magic power. sit down in your chair and relax. make yourself comfortable with your back straight, but not stiff. tuck your buttocks into the back of the chair so that y

he area seen in the visions. leaving the densely populated areas behind us it was if we had driven into a rural landscape. ahead the road disappeared into the horizon and to either side cows grazed peacefully in paddocks dotted with vegetable gardens and solitary houses. look, said barry, pointing to a tin can on the opposite side of the< road. that s what i saw. i m sure of it. i glanced out the window as we pulled over to the side of the road. i was not so sure. the container barry had seen in his visions was at least two feet tall, and filled to the brim with gold coins, so if this was the right place, the visions had been more symbolic in nature than specific. i watched barry walk across the road towards the old tin can. he picked it up, looked inside and threw it back down to the grou

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

ow the corner of rue des barres and rue de l'hotel de ville. remnants of this hotel des barres are still in existence: at number 56 of rue de l'hotel de ville (the former rue de la mortellerie, we can see a strange ogive-shaped cavern in two bays. one of the arch keystones adorning the first bay is adorned with a crest that includes a cross; the keystone of the second bay is decorated with a rose window with a leafy border.40 in three parishes with confused borders saint paul, saint gervais, and saint jean en greve the number of properties owned by the* j. hillairet is mistaken in his assumption that the first templar establishment was slightly more to the north, at the site of the napoleon barracks (j. hillairet, evocation du vieux paris, 134, an opinion he borrowed from rochegude and dum

at day there shall be a root of jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people. speculative freemasonry 233 no other prophecy exists that influenced the art of the middle ages in such enduring fashion. according to emile male, the motif of the tree of jesse seems to have been conceived by abbot suger, for the oldest known image of the jesse tree can be found in saint denis in a stainedglass window that dates to a time earlier than 1144. jesse trees were numerous in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and can be found in stained glass (for example, in chartres, saint denis, le mans, and sainte chapelle) and in the archivolts of portals (in senlis, mantes, laon, chartres, amiens. starting at the end of the thirteenth century, the virgin began appearing at the top of the tree, holding

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

dectes, the king of the island. over the years, the old king tried to force dana to marry him. seeking to protect his mother, perseus succeeded in killing the terrifying gorgon medusa, using its lethal head to turn polydectes into stone and save dana. years later, the prophecy was fulfilled when perseus accidentally killed acrisius with a discus in a sporting competition. jealous wife outside the window, silently observing her husband s betrayal, hera takes on the form of her totem bird, the peacock. dana, when in the carven chest the wind blowing and the sea stirring shattered her with fear. her cheeks were wet as she put her loving arm round perseus, saying, oh, child! what trouble is mine simonides zeus and dana by joachim utewael (1566 1638) this renaissance painting shows zeus appeari

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

e earth, he wears a shoe to protect his foot. thus, enoch, both in his earthly life and in his celestial life as metatron, is involved in rectifying adam fs sin by protecting man from the injuries and dangers of evil. he was able to protect the light of the world of beriah from exposure to evil, but not any lower level. but about the world of yetzirah it says: gand abimelech looked in through the window. h9 when he was staying in the land of the philistines, isaac told the ruler, abimelech, that rebecca was his sister, for he feared that if he told him the truth, that rebecca was his wife, abimelech would kill him in order to take her. but, we are told, abimelech looked in to their tent through the window and saw them engaging in marital intercourse, and thus discovered that they were husb

f= 2+ 10+ 400= 412. the numerical value of the word for glight h (or) is 207: or: alef-vav-reish= 1+ 6+ 200= 207. 2 x 207= 414. presumably, the discrepancy implies that we are to add the kolel for each instance of glight. h these two lights refer to the two 24 fs missing from chesed of tiferet when the temple (the ghouse h) is in ruins. this is the mystical meaning of the verse, gi shall set your window [frames] with ruby c. h3 the word for gruby h (kadchod, kaf-dalet-kaf-dalet) may be seen as the word for gpitcher h (kad, kaf-dalet) doubled. this verse is part of a prophecy of the restoration of israel fs former glory that will be part of the messianic redemption. thus, the ruby window frames allude to the restoration of the two 24 fs to chesed of tiferet that are missing during the exile

al relations are to occur. true, we are bidden to sanctify our sexuality as much as we can, but.in 7 nidah 31a. 8 berachot 60a. 9 see bereishit rabbah 46:5. 10 leviticus 19:23. 11 ibid 19:24; see rashi ad loc. the arizal on parashat tazria (2) 456 contrast to the other three organs.the sanctification process consists not of eliminating the animal awareness but refining it such that it serves as a window to our divine soul. this is the paradox of marital relations: each partner is to focus on giving pleasure to the other, but in order for each partner to do this successfully, the other partner must oblige by experiencing his/her own pleasure. thus, each partner experiences his/her own pleasure as a way of helping the other partner fulfill her/his objective of pleasing. moreover, the greater

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

tion tlbt -tie kingdom n12% 52 the golden dawn: volume i book one the dagesh or pointing which represents the vowel sounds in modem hebrew script is not given. it was a later invention to standardize pronunciation and is described in hebrew grammars <103> the hebrew alphabet- letter power value final name meaning h a 1 aleph ox 2 biv 2 beth house 3 g,gh 3 gimel camel 7 d,dh 4 daleth door 5 h 5 he window 1 o,ulv 6 vau pin or hook 7 z 7 zayin sword or amour n ch 8 cheth fence, enclosure p t 9 teth snake 9 i,y 10 yod hand< k,kh 20,500 7 kaph fist l 30 lamed ox goad n m 40,600 d mem water i n 50,700 1 nun fish 0 s 60 samekh prop y aa,ngh 70 ayin 3 p,ph so, 800 pe eye mouth 3 tz 90,900 3 tzaddi fish-hook? q 100 qoph ear. back of head 7 r 200 resh head u s,sh 300 shin tooth n t,th 400 tau cross

fire. the eighteenth key '0 thou mighty light 3and burning flame of 4comfort which openest ins zmicaolz olprt wd lalprt 4 liords s 0do 'the glory of god zunto the centre of the earth, whom the 46332 'busdir oiad zovoars caosgo 3casanng 4eran 'secrets zof truth have their abiding 'which is called 41n thy kingdom 'luiad 2brints cafafam 3ds i vmd 4aql a dohi 'joy 2and not to be measured. 3be thou a window of comfort unto me 'moz yld ma-of-fas 3bolp como bliort pambt 'move and show yourselves "pen the mysteries of 3youi creation 'zucar od zamran yldo cicle qaa <343 'be friendly unto me, tor i am the servant of 3the same your god 'zorge 2lup zirdo noco 3mad 'the true worshipper of the highest. ihoath zlaida. earth of fire. these first eighteen calls are in reality nineteen- that is nineteen in

ROBERT KIRK WALKER BETWEEN WORLDS

permissions reserved http//www.dreampower.com/kirk_wbw/pg_40.htm (9 of 9 [10/9/2001 12:34:55 am] robert kirk- walker between worlds(pages 50-59) flip to page# the secret commonwealth 50 that every place and thing in cities and countries had special invisible regular gods and governors. cardan speaks of his father seeing the species [vision] of his friend on a moonlit night riding fiercely by his window on a white horse on the very night his friend died at a vast distance from him [yet] by which [vision] he understood that some [such] alteration would suddenly ensue. cornelius agrippa and the learned doctor moore have several passages tending that [same] way. the noctambulos [that is, sleep-walkers] would appear to have some foreign [that is strange] joking spirits possessing and supportin

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d me that the search i had undertaken on behalf) of the aliens was causing problems in the 'outside' world. compulsion caused me to continue. in ever-quickening strides, we went over bridges that crossed streams and pushed onwards. finally, we struggled up a hillside to arrive at a very small shack. upon seeing it, i knew that it contained the "myall. each of its four walls had a slotted door, or window. large enough to see into and possibly crawl through. we gazed inside. therein was a young 'baby, or baby bird in a nest. quite large for a bird (like an ostrich, and sans feathers. i removed it from its nest, took it right out of the shack, and placed it on the floor of the forest. instantly, upon touching the earth, it aged approximately 1 year. as well, it gained colour and feathers. cla

stop operating from an internal picture of yourself acting, and instead look, you will realize that the room, the things around your body, those are what is moving! if you don't see this yet, do it some more until you do. when you were very young, perhaps you remember sitting in a car or bus and watching the world move by. or even now, when you fly in a jet, you can see the clouds rush past your window where you are. this idea of being located somewhere specific (and this specific location being the center of all the universe) goes hand in glove with the deidentification process. if you live in a mental perspective disassociated from your direct experience, then it is quite easy to become identified with all of the elements of that "dream, in much the same way we can go to a movie and for

the book will be as i desire. ptah: when shall we begin? set: now. this first card shall replace the card now called art. it must be renamed the golden section, and drawn thusly. at this point a tcham sceptre approximately four and a half feet long materializes in his left hand. drawing it from left to right the new card is brought into view much like light being admitted to a room as you raise a window shade. the card hangs unsupported in the air and is breathtaking in design and color. set: after you have made a few sketches i shall explain some of the finer points regarding the card's construction. proceed. for the next twenty minutes i sketch furiously. i am careful to maintain all spatial relationships. frequent notes relating to color are entered in the margins. ptah: i'm almost fini

nce of participants, the only conventions would be that parameters would exist during which either transmission or receptions could take place. i described that element of the experiment like this "during the prescribed limit, a sender will transmit. only the sender will determine the exact time he wishes to send" in addition to my role in the experiment, each receiver was to determine their best window for reception. the two processes- that of sending and receiving- did not have to coincide. the real issue and objective behind mm#2 was this: could the participants pursue and perform their respective functions vs. could they successfully send or receive specific targets. i likened our charge to that of the black magician in general. performing the great work without lusting for results. ii

ve pollen, etc. blowing everywhere. figure at least two hours for the creation of the basic sandpainting. add hour for each sandpainting in addition to the central one within the pentagram. to paint the walls and ceiling, add water to the crushed minerals and/or use waterbased tempers. these paintings should not cover the entire surface of the wall or ceiling. instead they should be the size of a window, with each wall having one painting. 3. if you have a large group, you can split up into smaller groups: sandpainting, wall and ceiling painting, rock gathering, fire pit digging, and sweat lodge building. in this way all tasks may be accomplished simultaneously. you will need two fire pits: a deep one in which to heat the rocks for the sweat lodge, and a shallow one for cooking food. the (

er. drink this blood i have squeezed from the living heart of bata. accept the sacrifice of yourself that you may tear yourself free of the natural order and journey into the outer limits of consciousness [elemental summoning (run the strobe, and- if possible without damaging other equipment- run the tesla coil, or otherwise dramatically suggest lightning] by the might of those assembled i open a window to the north. blow, gale winds, into our ring. come, lightning engendered of cosmic rays. come, freezing snow and endless rainbows of aurora. come, energies of the polar night. ice wind chills us- makes us hard. lightning flashes [pause] it strikes the heart of the sentinel [pause] we are drawn to him like iron filings to a magnet. it strikes again filling us with energy. with the speed of

SABBATIC KABALA OF THE CROOKED PATH

ds in favour of a short exposition of the components of the vessel, or rather the kind of fuels necessary to effectuate the occult arte in the hand of the divine artist. firstly the elements are represented through this four-fold exposition, when properly adjusted it construct the fifth from the mage, who then becomes the sum of the four into the fifth and the one. therefore this cell acts as the window, in accordance with the symbolism in the fifth letter heh. properly enough heh is also connected to the star or the pentalpha. the sexual suggestions of the procedures to follow in the conjuration of this aat is evident and refers to the various modes of sexual congress and the type of kala these sexo-magical asanas will lead to. this aat is under the influence of aquarius and inhabits the

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her, the inexorability of an impossible thing that was insisting on its right to become. and, or, maybe: because after he ate the pigs the retribution began, a nocturnal retribution, a punishment of dreams. 3 once the flight to london had taken off, thanks to his magic trick of crossing two pairs of fingers on each hand and rotating his thumbs, the narrow, fortyish fellow who sat in a non-smoking window seat watching the city of his birth fall away from him like old snakeskin allowed a relieved expression to pass briefly across his face. this face was handsome in a somewhat sour, patrician fashion, with long, thick, downturned lips like those of a disgusted turbot, and thin eyebrows arching sharply over eyes that watched the world with a kind of alert contempt. mr. saladin chamcha had cons

me town, had come together in the stranger's bony embrace, and now that he had escaped that evil skeleton he must also escape bombay, or die. he began to concentrate fiercely upon this idea, to fix his will upon it at all times, eating shitting sleeping, convincing himself that he could make the miracle happen even without his father's lamp to help him out. he dreamed of flying out of his bedroom window to discover that there, below him, was- not bombay- but proper london itself, bigben nelsonscolumn lordstavern bloodytower queen. but as he floated out over the great metropolis he felt himself beginning to lose height, and no matter how hard he struggled kicked swam-in-air he continued to spiral slowly downwards to earth, then faster, then faster still, until he was screaming headfirst dow

evision, especially when the flintstones were on, because, he told his son, that wilma bibi reminded him of nasreen. salahuddin tried to prove he was a man by fasting right along with his father, trying to outlast him, but he never managed it, and when the pangs got too strong he went out of the hotel to the cheap joint nearby where you could buy take-away roast chickens that hung greasily in the window, turning slowly on their spits. when he brought the chicken into the hotel lobby he became embarrassed, not wanting the staff to see, so he stuffed it inside doublebreasted serge and went up in the lift reeking of spit--roast, his mackintosh bulging, his face turning red. chicken-breasted beneath the gaze of dowagers and liftwallahs he felt the birth of that implacable rage which would burn

aladin chamcha came to a flushed, embarrassed halt "such violence of the spirit after so long" changez said after a silence "so sad. a quarter of a century and still the son begrudges the peccadilloes of the past. o my son. you must stop carrying me around like a parrot on your shoulder. what am i? finished. i'm not your old man of the sea. face it, mister: i don't explain you any more" through a window saladin chamcha caught sight of a fortyyear-old walnut-tree "cut it down" he said to his father "cut it, sell it, send me the cash" chamchawala rose to his feet, and extended his right hand. zeeny, also rising, took it like a dancer accepting a bouquet; at once, vallabh and kasturba diminished into servants, as if a clock had silently chimed pumpkin-time "your book" he said to zeeny "i have

country, of its young people. i see them lost, sir. the young people of america: i see them in their despair, turning to narcotics, even, for i'm a plain--speaking man, to pre-marital sexual relations. and i said this then and i say it now to you. if i believed my great-granddaddy was a chimpanzee, why, i'd be pretty depressed myself" gibreel farishta was seated across the way, staring out of the window. the inflight movie was starting up, and the aircraft lights were being dimmed. the woman with the baby was still on her feet, walking up and down, perhaps to keep the baby quiet "how did it go down" chamcha asked, sensing that some contribution from him was being required. a hesitancy came over his neighbour "i believe there was a glitch in the sound system" he said finally "that would be

nd had given her the feeling of constancy she needed. while he, the orphan, found in her many women in one: mother sister lover sibyl friend. when he thought himself crazy she was the one who believed in his visions "it is the archangel" she told him "not some fog out of your head. it is gibreel, and you are the messenger of god" he can't won't see her now. she watches him through a stonelatticed window. he can't stop walking, moves around the courtyard in a random sequence of unconscious geometries, his footsteps tracing out a series of ellipses, trapeziums, rhomboids, ovals, rings. while she remembers how he would return from the caravan trails full of stories heard at wayside oases. a prophet, isa, born to a woman named maryam, born of no man under a palm--tree in the desert. stories th

g, my love, it's late, and tomorrow there are the accounts. she has long ears; has already heard what he said about lat, uzza, manat. so what? in the old days he wanted to protect the baby daughters of jahilia; why shouldn't he take the daughters of allah under his wing as well? but after asking herself this question she shakes her head and leans heavily on the cool wall beside her stone-screened window. while below her, her husband walks in pentagons, parallelograms, six--pointed stars, and then in abstract and increasingly labyrinthinc patterns for which there are no names, as though unable to find a simple line. when she looks into the courtyard some moments later, however, he has gone. o o o the prophet wakes between silk sheets, with a bursting headache, in a room he has never seen. o

le below her, her husband walks in pentagons, parallelograms, six--pointed stars, and then in abstract and increasingly labyrinthinc patterns for which there are no names, as though unable to find a simple line. when she looks into the courtyard some moments later, however, he has gone. o o o the prophet wakes between silk sheets, with a bursting headache, in a room he has never seen. outside the window the sun is near its savage zenith, and silhouetted against the whiteness is a tall figure in a black hooded cloak, singing softly in a strong, low voice. the song is one that the women of jahilia chorus as they drum the men to war _advance and we embrace you _embrace you, embrace you _advance and we embrace you _and soft carpets spread _turn back and we desert you _we leave you, desert you

ice, sits up, and finds himself naked beneath the creamy sheet. he calls to her "was i attacked" hind turns to him, smiling her hind smile "attacked" she mimics him, and claps her hands for breakfast. minions enter, bring, serve, remove, scurry off. mahound is helped into a silken robe of black and gold; hind, exaggeratedly, averts her eyes "my head" he asks again "was i struck" she stands at the window, her head hung low, playing the demure maid "oh, messenger, messenger" she mocks him "what an ungallant messenger it is. couldn't you have come to my room consciously, of your own will? no, of course not, i repel you, i'm sure" he will not play her game "am i a prisoner" he asks, and again she laughs at him "don't be a fool" and then, shrugging, relents "i was walking the city streets last

to feed him with her fingers. he will not let her put the fruit into his mouth, takes the pieces with his own hand, eats. she goes on "my last lover was the boy, baal" she sees the rage on his face "yes" she says contentedly "i heard he had got under your skin. but he doesn't matter. neither he nor abu simbel is your equal. but i am "i must go" he says "soon enough" she replies, returning to the window. at the perimeter of the city they are packing away the tents, the long camel--trains are preparing to depart, convoys of carts are already heading away across the desert; the carnival is over. she turns to him again "i am your equal" she repeats "and also your opposite. i don't want you to become weak. you shouldn't have done what you did "but you will profit" mahound replies bitterly "the

the dumbfounded house before it occurs to anybody to pick up, or throw, the first stone. o o o after the repudiation of the satanic verses, the prophet mahound returns home to find a kind of punishment awaiting him. a kind of vengeance- whose? light or dark? goodguy badguy- wrought, as is not unusual, upon the innocent. the prophet's wife, seventy years old, sits by the foot of a stone--latticed window, sits upright with her back to the wall, dead. mahound in the grip of his misery keeps himself to himself, hardly says a word for weeks. the grandee of jahilia institutes a policy of persecution that advances too slowly for hind. the name of the new religion is _submission; now abu simbel decrees that its adherents must submit to being sequestered in the most wretched, hovel-filled quarter

SATANGEL

he eighteenth key 1o thou 2mighty light 3and burning flame of 4comfort which openest 1ils 2micaolz olprt 3od ialprt 4bliors ds odo 1the glory of god 2unto the centre of the earth, 3in whom the 46332 1busdir oiad 2ovoars caosgo 3casarmg 4eran 1secrets 2of truth have their abiding, 3which is called 4in thy kingdom 1laiad 2brints cafafam 3ds i vmd 4aqlo adohi 1joy 2and not to be measured. 3be thou a window of comfort unto me. 1moz 2od ma-of-fas 3bolp como bliort pambt 1move and show yourselves. 2open the mysteries of 3your creation. 1zacar od zamran 2odo cicle 3qaa 1be friendly unto me, 2for i am the servant of 3the same your god, 1zorge 2lap zirdo noco 3mad 1the true worshipper of 2the highest 1hoath 2iaida. the call of the thirty aethyrs 1the heavens which dwell in 2the first aire 3are migh

SATANIC BIBLE

maoffasa. bolape como belioreta pamebeta. zodacare od zodameranu! odo cicale qaa. zodoreje, lape zodiredo noco mada, hoathahe saitan (english) o thou mighty light and burning flame of comfort, that unveilest the glory of satan to the center of the earth; in whom the great secrets of truth have their abiding; that is called in thy kingdom "strength through joy, and is not to be measured. be thou a window of comfort unto me. move therefore, and appear! open the mysteries of your creation! be friendly unto me, for i am the same, the true worshipper of the highest and ineffable king of hell! the nineteenth key the nineteenth enochian key is the great sustainer of the natural balance of the earth, the law of thrift, and of the jungle. it lays bare all hypocrisy and the sanctimonious shall becom

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

yazatas (guardian angels) are given to the days of the week and the months of the year. on a day or month that bears the name of a yazata, individuals may choose to recite one of the yashts in honor of that yazata. when zoroastrians pray, they generally face either the sun or another source of light, which is symbolic of the energy and goodness of ahura mazda. to face the sun, many will pray at a window in the home. world religions: almanac 455 zoroastrianism in addition, many individual acts of worship consist of prayers from the avesta that are recited at five different times during the day. these prayer times are called hawan( between sunrise to noon, rapithwin( between noon and 3:00 pm, uzerin( between 3:00 pm and sunset, aiwisruthrem( between sunset and midnight, and ushahin( between

university press, 1963. also available online at http/ www.ghazali.org/articles/watt.htm. 150 world religions: biographies abu ha mid muhammad al-ghaza l periodicals dallal, ahmad. ghazali and the perils of interpretation. journal of the american oriental society (october december, 2002: 773 87. web sites abu hamid al-ghazali. http//www.ghazali.org (accessed on june 2, 2006. abu hamid al-ghazali. window: philosophy on the internet. http//www.trincoll. edu/depts/phil/philo/phils/muslim/ghazali.html (accessed on june 2, 2006. halsall, peter. medieval sourcebook: abu hamid al-ghazali (1058 1111 ce: munkidh min al-dalal (confessions, or deliverance from error, c. 1100. fordham.edu. http//www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/1100ghazali-truth.html (accessed on june 2, 2006. nakamura, kojiro. al-ghazal

ed the secret to the walls of utanapishtim s house. ea told the walls to build a great boat and to gather all living things into it, and utanapishtim overheard. utanapishtim built the boat, loaded it with silver, gold, and living things, and launched it. soon a storm, with the thunder god adad inside, broke out, lasting for seven days and seven nights. after the storm ended, utanapishtim opened a window on the boat to discover that earth was flooded and that all humans had been turned to stone. the boat drifted until it came to rest on mount nimush, where it rested for seven days. utanapishtim then offered a sacrifice to the gods, who smelled the odor of the sacrifice and gathered around him. the gods, particularly enlil, the storm god, were enraged that a human had escaped the flood. enli

SEPHER HA BAHIR

a king once had a daughter who was good, pleasant, beautiful and perfect. he married her to a royal prince, and clothed, crowned and bejewelled her, giving her much money. is it possible for the king to ever leave his daughter? you will agree that it is not. is it ever possible for him to be with her constantly? you will also agree that it is not. what can he the bahir 15 then do? he can place a window between the two, and whenever the father needs the daughter, or the daughter needs the father, they can come together through the window. it is thus written (psalm 45:14, all glorious is the king s daughter inside, her garment is interwoven with gold. 55. what is the beth at the end [as it is written (proverbs 24:3, with wisdom will the house (bayit) be built. the verse does not say was bui

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e of the time, that would be better than nothing and worth developing. here is more wisdom; when adepts speak of seeing we mean more than just seeing with the eyes. there is more to it than the use of the other senses too, even the sixth sense. we begin by noticing things. when we look at something, we try to really see it and understand it for what it is. for example, when looking out of an open window, we notice more than the trees, grass, and sky. at first we ask ourselves questions about the scene before us such as: where is the sun? what is the time? what is the season? what do the leaves have to say? where is the wind going, and what secrets do the shadows hold? there are many answers in the world around us if we just learn to see them. an adept also learns to sense the world around

e senses what the others are going to do before they do it, even if they are a ways away. perhaps, what we call seeing might be better defined as expanded consciousness, but that is a big term for such a simple book. the awakening when an adept is fully awakened, he experiences what we call the knowing. he simply knows. the knowledge flashes into his mind like a bird that flies in through an open window. some say that they hear a bell ring as the knowledge appears. we adepts call this the bell of node. almost everyone has either experienced or knows of someone who has experienced this phenomena, as it is as old as the human race. the trick is to know what to do with it. it is a talent that can be developed by making use of the old three ps: prudence, patience, and perseverance. mostly, it

re to our liking. however, before we begin making changes, we must first learn to see their outcomes. remember, the rock of stupidity is large, but we may still trip over it if we can't see it. there are none so blind we become aware by seeing; think about seeing. ask yourself what is a seer. the simple answer is: someone who sees. rest assured that there is more to it than that. look out of your window for ten seconds, then try jotting down what you have seen without looking back at the object of your study. then, after you are sure that you have written down everything you have seen, compare your notes to the actual scene and discover all that you have missed. most of us will record the obvious, but neglect the fine detail. many will be unaware that any detail exists at all. try to disco

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

ll the great ladies have gone mad. they say he is so rich! oh! so much richer than any of the inglesi! not but what the signor glyndon "cease" interrupted the young actress "zanoni! speak of the englishman no more" the carriage was now entering that more lonely and remote part of the city in which viola's house was situated, when it suddenly stopped. gionetta, in alarm, thrust her head out of the window, and perceived, by the pale light of the moon, that the driver, torn from his seat, was already pinioned in the arms of two men; the next moment the door was opened violently, and a tall figure, masked and mantled, appeared "fear not, fairest pisani" said he, gently "no ill shall befall you" as he spoke, he wound his arm round the form of the fair actress, and endeavoured to lift her from t

as the prince di. his form, above the middle height, and rather inclined to corpulence, was clad in a loose dressing-robe of rich brocade. on a table before him lay an oldfashioned sword and hat, a mask, dice and dice-box, a portfolio, and an inkstand of silver curiously carved "well, mascari" said the prince, looking up towards his parasite, who stood by the embrasure of the deep-set barricadoed window "well! the cardinal sleeps with his fathers. i require comfort for the loss of so excellent a relation; and where a more dulcet voice than viola pisani's "is your excellency serious? so soon after the death of his eminence "it will be the less talked of, and i the less suspected. hast thou ascertained the name of the insolent who baffled us that night, and advised the cardinal the next day

know it is yours to "cease" cried zanoni, fiercely "what is all other fate as compared to the death of terror? what, when the coldest sage, the most heated enthusiast, the hardiest warrior with his nerves of iron, have been found dead in their beds, with straining eyeballs and horrent hair, at the first step of the dread progress, thinkest thou that this weak woman from whose cheek a sound at the window, the screech of the night-owl, the sight of a drop of blood on a man's sword, would start the colour could brave one glance of away! the very thought of such sights for her makes even myself a coward "when you told her you loved her, when you clasped her to your breast, you renounced all power to foresee her future lot, or protect her from harm. henceforth to her you are human, and human on

mple work for jourdan coupe-tete! but this, the englishman, just arrived, a stranger to all factions, did not as yet comprehend. he comprehended nothing but the song, the enthusiasm, the arms, and the colours that lifted to the sun the glorious lie "le peuple francais, debout contre les tyrans (up, frenchmen, against tyrants) the dark brow of the wretched wanderer grew animated; he gazed from the window on the throng that marched below, beneath their waving oriflamme. they shouted as they beheld the patriot nicot, the friend of liberty and relentless hebert, by the stranger's side, at the casement "ay, shout again" cried the painter "shout for the brave englishman who abjures his pitts and his coburgs to be a citizen of liberty and france" a thousand voices rent the air, and the hymn of th

feet. i beg thy pardon, but now i look at thine, i see the hall is not wide enough for them "ho! citizen nicot" cried a jacobin, shouldering his formidable bludgeon "and what brings thee hither? thinkest thou that hebert's crimes are forgotten already? off, sport of nature! and thank the etre supreme that he made thee insignificant enough to be forgiven "a pretty face to look out of the national window (the guillotine, said the woman whose robe the painter had ruffled "citizens" said nicot, white with passion, but constraining himself so that his words seemed to come from grinded teeth "i have the honour to inform you that i seek the representant upon business of the utmost importance to the public and himself; and" he added slowly and malignantly, glaring round "i call all good citizens

ns closing up the other. as he halted, he heard laughter and obscene songs from a house a little in his rear, between himself and the spy. it was a cafe fearfully known in that quarter. hither often resorted the black troop of henriot, the minions and huissiers of robespierre. the spy, then, had hunted the victim within the jaws of the hounds. the man slowly advanced, and, pausing before the open window of the cafe, put his head through the aperture, as to address and summon forth its armed inmates. at that very instant, and while the spy's head was thus turned from him, standing in the half-open gateway of the house immediately before him, he perceived the stranger who had warned; the figure, scarcely distinguishable through the mantle that wrapped it, motioned to him to enter. he sprang

was returned to the home of his infancy; that he was in the small chamber where, over his early slumbers, his mother had watched and prayed. there it was, visible, palpable, solitary, unaltered. in the recess, the homely bed; on the walls, the shelves filled with holy books; the very easel on which he had first sought to call the ideal to the canvas, dust-covered, broken, in the corner. below the window lay the old churchyard: he saw it green in the distance, the sun glancing through the yew-trees; he saw the tomb where father and mother lay united, and the spire pointing up to heaven, the symbol of the hopes of those who consigned the ashes to the dust; in his ear rang the bells, pealing, as on a sabbath day. far fled all the visions of anxiety and awe that had haunted and convulsed; yout

anion of eternity! this it is to die "ho! wherefore do they make us signs from the house-tops? wherefore gather the crowds through the street? why sounds the bell? why shrieks the tocsin? hark to the guns! the armed clash! fellow-captives, is there hope for us at last" so gasp out the prisoners, each to each. day wanes evening closes; still they press their white faces to the bars, and still from window and from house-top they see the smiles of friends, the waving signals "hurrah" at last "hurrah! robespierre is fallen! the reign of terror is no more! god hath permitted us to live" yes; cast thine eyes into the hall where the tyrant and his conclave hearkened to the roar without! fulfilling the prophecy of dumas, henriot, drunk with blood and alcohol, reels within, and chucks his gory sabr

ign of terror is no more! god hath permitted us to live" yes; cast thine eyes into the hall where the tyrant and his conclave hearkened to the roar without! fulfilling the prophecy of dumas, henriot, drunk with blood and alcohol, reels within, and chucks his gory sabre on the floor "all is lost "wretch! thy cowardice hath destroyed us" yelled the fierce coffinhal, as he hurled the coward from the window. calm as despair stands the stern st. just; the palsied couthon crawls, grovelling, beneath table; a shot, an explosion! robespierre would destroy himself! the trembling hand has mangled, and failed to kill! the clock of the hotel de ville strikes the third hour. through the battered door, along the gloomy passages, into the death-hall, burst the crowd. mangled, livid, blood-stained, speech

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enyon, assistant keeper in the dept. of mss, british museum. 98:1 see c. k. sharpe, witchcraft in scotland, london, 1884, p. 21. 98:2 london, 1778. 98:3 born about 1570, died about 1626. 99:1 london, 1895, pp. 53, 56. 100:1 in the worth riding of yorkshire evil influences were averted by means of a living black cock which "was pierced with pins and roasted alive at dead of night, with every door, window, and cranny and crevice stuffed up (see blakeborough, wit, character, folk-lore and customs of the north riding of yorkshire, london, 1898, p. 205. 101:1 the following words are put into the mouth of epistemon in damonologie, in forme of one dialogue, london, 1603, second booke, chap. v. pp. 44, 45. 102:1 oriental 646, fol. 29b ff. p. 104 chapter iv. magical pictures and formula, spells, et

l, rubbed all her body with the liquid, from head to foot, beginning with the ends of the nails, and suddenly feathers and wings began to grow upon her, and a hooked, horny beak took the place of her nose. in a very short time she resembled a bird in every respect, and when she saw that she was well feathered, she flew upwards and, uttering the cry of a night-raven, p. 205 disappeared through the window. 1 in connexion with the recital of certain chapters of the book of the dead a number of interesting ceremonies were performed, but as they only illustrate the beliefs described above they need not be mentioned here. footnotes 185:1 in memoire sur quelques papyrus du louvre, paris, 1875. 193:1 i.e "the son who loveth him" 193:2 see dumichen, der grabpalast des patuamenap, leipzig, vol. i, 1

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seal of the united states the great seal on the dollar bill the strange and fascinating history of the great seal of the united states has been included in this study because, one, the symbolism of the meditation room mural centers around the all-seeing eye which also appears above the pyramid on the reverse side of the great seal; two, both sides of the seal are prominent features of the mosaic window in the prayer room in the united states capitol; three, the all-seeing eye is symbolized in the temple of understanding; and four, both sides of the seal appear on the one dollar bill because of the same occult influence as was involved in the establishment of the meditation room, prayer room and the temple of understanding. arthur m. schlesinger jr, in his book, the coming of the new deal

irst essential to make sure that no part of the furnishings and no symbol used would give offense to members of any church' to make certain that this did not occur an advisory panel was constituted, the members of which were the chaplains of the house and senate, the assistant chancellor of the archdiocese of washington, and the minister of the washington hebrew congregation "the furnishings, the window, and the symbols have met with the unanimous approval of the four" according to the brooklyn tablet, april 2, 1955 "a scroll was eliminated from the original window design on the ground that it might have been regarded as a symbol" of a particular faith. the advisory group felt that "the decor should have a wholly non-denominational character" in spite of this advice, the two candelabra wer

even though they are traditionally associated with a specific faith. the lighting in this meditation room is subdued. a concealed ceiling light focuses on [he white oak altar, as in the u.n.'s room. there are ten chairs facing the altar, as in the u.n.'s room "when illumined by the indirect lights of the shielded wall brackets, the room is a soft color symphony of blue and gold" the stained glass window is cluttered and uninspiring. it was presented anonymously to the prayer room by the craftsmen in a studio in the twentyfirst congressional district of california. its central figure is that of the kneeling george washington. in the medallion immediately surrounding the central figure, woven into the ruby glass, is the text from psalm 16:1. extending out from behind the figure are the four

twentyfirst congressional district of california. its central figure is that of the kneeling george washington. in the medallion immediately surrounding the central figure, woven into the ruby glass, is the text from psalm 16:1. extending out from behind the figure are the four arms of one of the ancient forms of the mystic tau cross: the x (see part i -41- the most striking feature of the entire window with its clutter of shapes and designs is the depiction of the reverse side of the great seal at the top of the medaliion above the phrase from lincoln's gettysburg address "this nation under god" the obverse side of the great seal, with its solomonic crest, is at the bottom of the window. the appearance of these occult symbols in such a religious setting, in the very heart of the capitol

der god" the obverse side of the great seal, with its solomonic crest, is at the bottom of the window. the appearance of these occult symbols in such a religious setting, in the very heart of the capitol, cannot be ascribed to chance. the direct participation of the laymen's movement in the establishment of the room provides a guarantee that the placement of the two sides of the great seal in the window was made with foreknowledge of their real meaning. this window is described as "symbolizing our nation at prayer (h. doc. 234, p. 31. it "speaks of that religious faith which has always been a part of the greatness of our nation" the kneeling figure of washington is placed there to remind us "of the words from his first inaugural. it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first offici

rayer (h. doc. 234, p. 31. it "speaks of that religious faith which has always been a part of the greatness of our nation" the kneeling figure of washington is placed there to remind us "of the words from his first inaugural. it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that almighty being who rules over the universe" the two lower corners of the window each show the holy scriptures, an open book and a candle, signifying the light from god's law "thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path" why was this particular quotation chosen? the terms "word" and "light" have especially significant meanings in the occult lexicon. in the ancient mysteries of egypt the word "is said to have been the tetragrammaton (see source 9, part i, p

decoration of the prayer room, in addition to those already named, were: the senate chaplain, rev. frederick brown harris; the house chaplain, rev. bernard braskamp; the asst. chancellor of the archdiocese of washington. father edward j. herrmann; the minister of the washington hebrew congregation, rabbi norman gerstenfeld; representative edgar w. hiestand, who arranged for the gift of the mosaic window: representatives karl m. lecompte of iowa and katharine st. george of new york, members of a committee which allegedly arranged for the design and equipment of the room; and the architect of the capitol, j. george stewart. representatives hiestand and lecompte are no longer in congress] 42- part iv the temple of understanding -43 [permission granted to reprint by edith kermit roosevelt synd

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ine theory of knowledge is an awareness that the mystery of golgotha is the authentic source of those powers of insight and knowledge that lead the human being to the true birth of the i. in the first goetheanum, for which the foundation stone was laid in 1913, this path of knowledge was expressed architecturally in the double-domed hall from west to east. the path began in the west under the red window of knowledge. in the east, before the background 14. in beitr ge zur rudolf steiner gesamtausgabe, nrs. 37 38. 198 christianity as mystical fact of the stage under the smaller dome, would stand the statue of the representative of humanity, the christ, who is striding to meet us from east to west. rudolf steiner s path toward this noble goal of knowledge was an inner path through deserts and

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2: attempted murder of roberto rosone, general manager and deputy chairman of banco ambrosiano, who was trying to "clean up" the bank's operation. june 17, 1982: roberto calvi found hanged to death from a bridge in london. a few days later, a 1.3 billion dollar "hole" is discovered in banco ambrosiano, milan. october 2, 1982: guiseppe dellacha, executive at banco ambrosiano, dead of a fall from a window of banco ambrosiano, in milan. march 23, 1986: michele sindona found dead of poisoning in the italian jail to which he had been extradited on charges of ordering the murder of giorgio ambrosioli. albino luciano, pope john paul i list of masons in the italian church and vatican the following is a mason list reprinted from the bulletin de l'occident chretien nr.12, july, 1976 (directeur pierr

like chrysa is missing" i say "i bet the lazy b- couldn't get out of bed" i am very different at night. i use words that would horrify me during the day, and i am very catty and mean. the others laugh "she was late two weeks ago, too" says another "maybe we will need to report her" he is joking, but partly serious. no one is allowed to be late, or sick. or too early, either. there is a ten minute window of time when all members are supposed to report to meetings. if not, then they are punished if there isn't a good excuse. high fevers, surgery, or an auto accident are considered excuses. pms, fatigue, or the car not working aren't "we drink coffee to stay awake, since even our dissociated state doesn't stop the body's protest at being awake in the middle of the night after a full day's act

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le notice. on the other hand, if the ritualists are close to the ocean, or other large body of water (such as the great lakes. the rolling of the tide creates a very nice whitenoise. there is a great deal of difference in the composition of a night sky versus a daytime sky. these differences are significant on several sensory levels. the most obvious difference is that the night sky opens up as a window to the stars that are hidden during the daylight hours. the night, in effect, becomes a gateway to a larger universe beyond our direct apprehension. during the day, the sun permeates the atmosphere with different types of radiation that are not present during the night sky. the night sky is cooler, clearer and also reveals a primal aspect of oneself as the various senses become accentuated

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

that are common in asia (ananova.com news, may 1, 2003) 4 7 0 codex magica circular images of goddess worship and sun adoration are found in many new age and occult publications. witches are major promoters of the goddess revival. above is an ad for a witch's periodic newspaper (address deleted. scorched by the sun 471 an interesting drawing of an upscale witch, complete with lunar force (moon in window, pentagram (on chair, naked goddess holding the radiating sun in her left hand, and more (from the book, to ride a silver broomstick: new generation witchcraft, by silver raven wolf, llewellyn publications, st. paul, mn, 1993 (from the book, to ride a silver broomstick: new generation witchcraft, by silver ravenwolf) logo for a publisher of many occult and esoteric books. 472 codex magica t

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was ordered to leave italy on the charge of sorcery. he promised once again to abandon the summoning of spirits, but italian officials put little faith in such vows. home was forced to leave the country, and he returned to britain in 1864. the single event in home s remarkable psychic career that is most remembered occurred on the evening of december 13, 1868, when he was seen to float out of the window of a third-floor home in ashley house and return through another window to rejoin the men who witnessed the extraordinary act of levitation. among those who observed the feat were captain wynne, the earl of dunraven, and the earl of crawford, all men of solid character and integrity. ever since the phenomenon was first reported, skeptics have insisted that the witnesses themselves helped to

become the prototype for the spirit medium as a necromancer, a magician who raises the spirits of the dead. m delving deeper holy bible: contemporary english version. new york: american bible society, 1995. unterman, alan. dictionary of jewish lore and legend. london: thames and hudson, 1991. spiritualism modern spiritualism began in the late winter months of 1847 with the mysterious knocking and window rattling at the john fox residence in hydesville, new york. fox spent an entire day securing everything that looked as if it might shake or vibrate, only to have the night resound with even louder knockings and rappings. after a time, the fox family began to observe that the center of the disturbances seemed to be the bedroom shared by 12-year-old catherine (katie) and 15-year-old margarett

could not have been known through ordinary means takes on tragic significance when kane s history is revealed. kane was born margaretta fox, and it was she and her sister catherine who were credited with the founding of modern spiritualism. they were later discredited by certain investigators as being clever deceivers with no paranormal or mediumistic abilities whatsoever. mysterious knocking and window rattling began in the john fox home in hydesville, new york, shortly after they had moved into the house on december 11, 1847. after the first night, fox spent the next day securing everything that looked as though it might make knocking or rattling sounds, but the following night the knockings and rappings were even louder. one of the family members ventured a guess that it was a prankster

y that evening and try to get a good night s sleep. but that night when the disturbances began, the five children john, david, maria, margaretta (maggie, and catherine (katie) seemed to be more frightened than ever before by the continual knocks and thuds echoing throughout the house. observing that the strange noises were centering around 12- year-old katie and 15-year-old maggie, fox closed the window in the girls bedroom with a loud thump. his thump was immediately followed by two others, and katie cried out that they were answering him. for a few moments, no one moved. then fox cautiously knocked on the window sill. there came an answering knock from somewhere in the room. katie was more excited than frightened. as if it were all some thrilling game, she commanded the sounds to follow

ich specialized in designing computer websites. in october 1996, the group, which had seemingly chosen to live quietly and avoid extensive media exposure, moved into the mansion at rancho santa fe. five months later, on march 26, 1997, news media around the world carried the startling announcement of the mass suicide. apparently applewhite had become convinced that he had at last found the narrow window of opportunity for graduation to the higher level provided by a spacecraft bound for heaven, the father s kingdom. tragically, he took 38 loyal followers with him. m delving deeper jackson, forest, and rodney perkins. cosmic suicide: the tragedy and transcendence of heaven s gate. dallas, tx: pentaradial press, 1997. heaven s gate website [online] http//www.webcoast. com/heavensgate.com. 28

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ime friend of terhune s, rev. appleton grannis, paid a visit to sunnybank, and after a stroll around the estate and a pleasant afternoon meal, remarked that he thought bert fancied collies. terhune replied that was true. in fact all the dogs that he presently owned were collies. rev. grannis firmly disagreed. then what dog was it that stood all afternoon on the porch looking in through the french window at you? he s a big dog with a nasty, peculiar scar on his forehead. while the author knew at once that it was his old friend rex returning for another visit from the spirit world, terhune thought better than to attempt to explain the situation to a conventional man of the cloth. terhune said that even the other dogs were able to sense the presence of old rex. one of the collies that had alw

t a lawn party on a sunny july afternoon. she had approached the phantom and tried to engage it in conversation, but it had disappeared as she had drawn near to it. the sisters swore that the entire family had often seen the nun and that their brother had said that, when dead, he would attempt to manifest himself in the same way. it was their father, henry bull, who had bricked up the dining room window so that the family might eat in peace and not be disturbed by the spectral nun peeping in at them. a man who had served as gardener for the bull family told price that every night for eight months he and his wife heard footsteps in their rooms over the stables. several former maids or grooms testified that they had remained in the employ of the bulls for only one or two days before they wer

int. new york: penguin usa, 1996. mead, robin, and pamela wright, illus. haunted hotels: a guide to american and canadian inns and their ghosts. nashville, tenn: rutledge hill press, 1995. murray, earl. ghosts of the old west. new york: tor books, 1994. maurice, the son of m. and mme. de x. terrible screams sounded outside his room, and the violence of the successive blows on his door shook every window on the floor. on the night of january 26, the parish priest arrived with the intention of conducting the rites of exorcism. he had also arranged for a novena of masses to be said at lourdes that would coincide with his performance of the ancient ritual of putting a spirit to rest. the priest s arrival was greeted by a long, drawn-out cry and what sounded like a stampede of hoofed creatures

sian soldiers frequented the inn s bar after closing time, he placed a tape recorder in the room. the next morning during playback, johnson could clearly hear the sounds of bar stools being moved about, the water faucet being turned on and off, and glasses catching the water. some nights later, on a monday night when the bar was closed for the entire evening, a customer looking in the inn s front window claimed to have seen a man dressed in a revolutionary war-era hessian s uniform, sitting slumped at the bar. jim webb and his partner guy sileo bought the inn in 1995. when webb was found murdered in his office on december 27, 1996, and felicia moyse, a 20-year-old assistant chef, committed suicide on february 22, 1997, some people felt that the place had added two more ghosts to its roster

ear-old assistant chef, committed suicide on february 22, 1997, some people felt that the place had added two more ghosts to its roster. others recalled that one of the general wayne inn s most frequent customers in 1839 would have found the growing ghostly and gory history of the place to be right up his alley. the guest in question was edgar allan poe (1809 1849, who scratched his initials on a window of the inn in 1843. 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 ghosts and phantoms 39 thespirits of the hessians had been seen by many customers and employees at the general wayne inn. m delving deeper brown, jennifer. legendary inn haunted by ghosts, aura of death. centre daily times, march 1, 1997 [online] http//tristate.pgh.net/ bsilver/ hau

ands that guests leave the place and return to their own homes; an unseen pianist who plays the grand piano but who ceases at once if someone enters the room. there is another ghost of a young girl that seems to appear only when a thunderstorm approaches the plantation. the spectral image has long curly hair, wears an ankle-length dress, and is seen cupping her hands and trying to peer inside the window of the game room. many guests have heard the sounds of footsteps on the stairs and have seen the image of a man staggering to reach the hallway at the top. hester eby says that it is commonly believed that the ghost is that of william winter, an attorney who owned the myrtles plantation in 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 ghosts and p

onstructed his home on the site, a sailor named yankee jim robinson had been hanged on the spot of what would later become the arch between the music room and the living room in the mansion. whaley had been an observer when yankee jim kept his appointment with the hangman. some visitors to the whaley house have reported seeing a gaudily dressed woman with a painted face lean out of a second-story window. in reading s opinion, that could well be an actress from one of the theatrical troupes that had leased the second floor in november 1868. the court house wing of the mansion is generally thought to be the most haunted spot in the whaley house, due to the violent emotions that were expended there in the early days of san diego. many individuals who have visited the old house have heard the

forensic medicine at the university of leeds, england, wrote of a case of shc for the journal medicine, science and the law (5:37 8, january 1965. according to gee, the victim was a slim, 85-year-old woman who lived with her son and daughter-in-law in a ground-floor apartment. her family had left the apartment by 9:30 a.m. on the day she died. neighbors had discovered smoke issuing from a kitchen window and found the smoldering remains of a human body on the hearth. when gee visited the apartment two hours later, he noticed that the room was exceedingly warm and the ceiling felt hot. the paintwork was blistered and the walls and furnishings begrimed by soot. only a part of the wooden edge of the hearth was burned, and a small section, approximately one foot in diameter, of the floor was da

60, louise matthews of south philadelphia survived an eerie experience that might substantiate the theory of ball lightning as a factor in at least some of the mysterious cremations that have taken place throughout the world and throughout all recorded time. matthews claimed that she was lying on her living room sofa when she glanced up to see a large red ball of fire come through both the closed window and the venetian blinds without harming either. at first matthews thought that an atomic bomb had fallen, and she buried her face in the sofa. but the ball of fire passed through the living room, into the dining room, and drifted out through a closed dining room window. matthews said that it made a sizzling noise as it floated through her house. and she was able to exhibit visible proof of

rk, peer acceptance, work-related stress, taxes, and providing for one s children. yet there seems within each human being a desire to be frightened safely frightened, that is by those dormant memories of those demon-infested nights when the creatures waited in the shadows to seize their victims. as one watches the late-night creature feature on television and hears that strange sound outside the window, the thought pops uneasily into the mind that all things are possible even those things that everyone knows cannot possibly exist. 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 mysterious creatures 69 therianthropes, a human-animal hybrid, were painted by stone age artists more than 10,000 years ago. m delving deeper bord, janet, and colin bord. u

sistible, and his strength is that of a dozen men. he can transform himself into the form of a bat, a rat, an owl, a fox, and a wolf. he is able to see in the dark and to travel on moonbeams and mist. sometimes, he has the power to vanish in a puff of smoke. over the centuries certain precautions have been determined, such as liberally applying wolfbane and sprigs of wild garlic at every door and window. a crucifix can be worn about one s neck and placed prominently on several walls. and if people are truly serious about putting a stop to the nocturnal predator, they can hunt down his grave or coffin and place thereon a branch of the wild rose to keep him locked within. if that doesn t work, then the only courses of action remaining are to pry open his coffin during the daylight hours whil

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representations of what the reader 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 prophecy and divination 129 cartomancy in hexagram used for predictions in the 1893 edition of the mystic test book (fortean picture library) it is likely the kabballah was the spiritual ancestor of the philosophy of the tarot. perceives as best providing him or her with a window to the querent fs future. here are some basic meanings of the individual cards in the major arcana: the juggler or magician (arcanum one) stands with one hand raised to heaven and the other pointing to earth, thereby confirming the teaching of hermes trismegistus that what is in heaven is like what is below, that the little world (microcosm) within a human being contains the elements of the

elop a spread or layout that seems to stimulate his or her psychic awareness and increase the ability to gtune in to h the querent. some readers prefer to draw.or allow the querent to draw.one card at a time and do a free-flowing interpretation. others like the pattern of a cross, a circle, or several rows of cards placed in various representations of what the reader perceives as best providing a window to the querent fs future. listed are some basic meanings of the individual cards in the traditional deck.minus the joker (some readers use this card to represent the querent: diamonds: diamonds represent the practical, material side of life, especially money. they can also stand for difficulties that will arise if insufficient energy is expended in the desire to accomplish financial goals

eings as creatures of nature and teaches that instincts, feelings, and imagination should be allowed to have free reign. taoism is in sharp contrast to confucianism, which envisions humankind as rational and moral creatures who have responsibilities to their society. the essential philosophy of taoism is that the natural world and the tao are one. those who rely on the i ching as their dependable window to the future explain that they find this method of divination to be superior to all others because, as its name implies, it recognizes the difficulty of focusing on events that have not yet occurred and it takes into account the likelihood of changes that may most certainly occur. in fact, the basic premise of i ching is that every situation in the panorama of human events has within its c

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 prophecy and divination 155 psychic jean dixon (1918.1997 (corbis corporation) attended mass each morning, dixon was convinced that the gift of prophecy that she possessed was closely associated with the power of god, and she claimed to be cautious that she did not abuse this ability. in the 1960s, when she was hailed as gwashington fs window to the future, h she ran a profitable real estate concern in washington, d.c, with her husband, james l. dixon. there seemed to be no standard procedure to this seer fs prophetic insights. they came to her at various times, in various places, and in various emotional states. in the book the call to glory (1971, she envisioned herself as a prophet who issued predictions in order to fulfill t

ut out all brilliant highlights and reflections. in place of a crystal ball, scryers will occasionally use the surface of a pool or a glass or saucer full of water, ink, oil, or other liquids. such surfaces, when used by scryers for the purpose of divination, are known under the name of gspeculum. h in other instances, scryers will utilize a large piece of natural quartz crystal to serve as their window into other dimensions. in their instructions to those who would be scryers or crystal gazers, practitioners of the art advise the apprentice to make their mind a blank. they should gaze, rather than stare, steadily at the crystal, blinking as little as possible. it is also advised that they should not extend such steadfast gazes for more than five minutes at a time. if their eyes begin to w

holy line theory met the same fate as watkins fs ley lines. there were so many possibilities for connecting a variety of objects on a landscape that the odds were better of finding alignments than not finding them. teudt made another observation that had more lasting significance. he noted that an ancient chamber constructed in the naturally formed megaliths called the extersteine had a circular window that formed a point where rays of light at the midsummer solstice shone through, and where the moon was visible when it reached its northernmost position. he believed the neolithic peoples (before 2000 b.c.e) had used the site as an astronomical observatory and a calendar. the extersteine, which lies at the approximate latitude as stonehenge in great britain, is a natural site of five sands

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

ence given in many ofthe trials. mother waterhouse's account shows this clearly, and other essex witches[57] gave the same kindof evidence. thus ursley kemp in 1582 stated that "she went unto mother bennet's house for a mess of milk,the which she had promised her. but at her coming this examinate saith that she knocked at her door, and nobody made her any answer, whereupon she went to her chamber window and looked in thereat, saying, ho,ho, mother bennet, are you at home? and casting her eyes aside, she saw a spirit lift up a cloth lying over apot, looking much like a ferret. and it being asked of this examinate why the spirit did look upon her, shesaid it was hungry. mother bennet acknowledged to having familiars "many times did they drink of hermilk-bowl. and when, and as often as they d

familiars "many times did they drink of hermilk-bowl. and when, and as often as they did drink the milk, this examinate saith that they went into theearthen pot, and lay in the wool. another witness stated at the essex trials, that "about the fourteenth orfifteenth day of january last she went to the house of william hunt to see how his wife did, and she beingfrom home she called at her' chamber window and looked in, and then espied a spirit to look out of apotcharde from under a cloth, the nose thereof being brown like a ferret" elizabeth sawyer, the witch ofedmonton in 1621,[58] confessed that the devil came to her "he would come in the shape of a dog. when hecame barking to me he had then done the mischief that i bid him to do for me. i did stroke him on the back,and then he would beck

THE KEY TO THE MYSTERIES

ven more than you asked for, for you did not mention money to me "yes, doubtless" said the other sighing "but i do want to see him again "incorrigible" said eliphas. some days afterwards, the professor of transcendental magic was awakened, about two o'clock in the morning, by an acute pain in the head. for some moments he feared a cerebral congestion. he therefore rose, relit his lamp, opened his window, walked to and fro in his study, and then, calmed by the fresh air of the morning, he lay down again, and slept deeply. he had a nightmare: he saw, terribly real, the giant with the fleshless ox's head of which the workman had spoken to him. the monster pursued him, and struggled with him. when he woke up, it was already day, and somebody was knocking at his door. eliphas rose, threw on a d

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

usness by various practices, and hence the high priestess shows tiphareth as a measure of our reflection of truth, which hence flows into the lower sephiroth. iv. emperor: the emperor represents the power accessible to the fully operating tiphareth from chockmah, the source of all movement and direction. the emperor is the light of creation which bears one upwards through the letter heh, meaning "window. vi. lovers: operating at the same level as the emperor, but on the other side of the tree, the lovers represent the "impact of inspiration" from binah "understanding. regardie also notes that one interpretation of the card is "the liberating effect of the descent of the higher genius, a specific experience attributed to tiphareth. b. the initiation of the heart ix. hermit: the hermit conne

f fire, represented by a triangle. 1. kether; the ritual of the altar and the lamp altar; mzbth; the altar is the foundation of initiation, the link to on-high. offerings are made and intuition received here. the magician arranges the four elements and makes manifest his magic. lamp; mnvrh; the light of on-high, transforming the dark, bringing grace and enlightenment. the light of the lamp is the window through which we see. the lamp pertains to two of the sephiroth, and is used here to represent kether. the lamp hanging above the altar is symbolic of kether, as it illuminates all the work below. the lamp which is carried in the hand, or any other form of light thus carried, symbolises netzach, in that it represents the light of love, which is brought by the magician, and only illuminates

ic realm by imagining the spiral as forming the curve of a spiral of dna within your body, or the shape of a seashell. attempt to view time, and your own personal history as a spiral event rather than a linear one. what light does this template throw on the events which have taken place in your life? 3. binah; the ritual of the temple and triangle temple; hikl; the temple is existence itself, the window in which the great work is seen. the temple is our place of being and our place of study. triangle; mshlsh; in the triangle is both the water of purification and the fire of consecration. their equilibrium gives energy to the work. chalice; kvs; in the vault of the graal is the wine of inspiration which alone can truly support us. in this ritual, which is of the third sephirah, binah, we co

ributed to the hermit tarot card, and symbolises the guiding principle of light, to which nature aspires, as a seed becomes a plant which turns to the light. point nun light the candle in front of the chalice as symbolic of the sun (see also the point above regarding the candle, nr. say; let the gross be removed that the light may shine forth and fill this temple. point heh visualise a triangular window in the east, through which light shines, and fills the temple. raise your hands and state; let the spirit of understanding fill this temple i have built. the meditation of this ritual is that of the triangle, which is one of the symbols of binah, having three sides. it is also the first of the solid shapes after the circle, and is symbolic of the first equilibrium of unities, being composed

THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES

sands of cases in which the witnesses suffered eye-burns and temporary eye damage. even temporary blindness. after viewing a strange flying light in the night sky. one of the most extreme cases of ufo blindness occurred on the night of wednesday, october 3, 1973, in southeastern missouri. eddie webb, forty-five, of greenville, saw a luminous object in his rear-view mirror. he put his head out the window of his truck and looked back. there was a bright white flash. webb threw his hands to his face, crying "oh, my god! i'm burned! i can't see" one lens had fallen from his glasses and the frames were melted. his wife took over the wheel of their vehicle and drove him to a hospital. fortunately, the damage was not permanent. what puzzled me about connie's case, however, was that she had not se

l-known air force anti-ufo line and i explained gently that i had seen some of the damned things myself. at one point he pulled himself up and glared at me "are you calling an officer in the u.s. air force a liar" later on the phone rang and from his inflection it was obvious he was talking to a superior officer. i discreetly strolled to the far end of the room and stared out the tiny, prisonlike window. he mumbled something about some movie film and then in a very low voice he added "i'll nave to call you back.-there's somebody here in my office that i've got to stop" after he hung up we resumed our argument. he had clearly gone through this many times before. it was all an act. his moods changed abruptly from rage to politeness to chumminess. finally he escorted me down the hall to a lib

, on interstate 77. as they neared parkersburg, west virginia, an elongated object appeared low in the sky and descended directly in front of them. they stopped their car and a man emerged from the object and walked over to them. he looked like a normal man and was grinning broadly. he wore a black coat and kept his arms folded with his hands out of sight under his armpits. the witness rolled his window down and there was a very brief conversation. the stranger asked the pair who they were, where they were from, where they were going, and what time was it? then he strolled back to the dark cylinder and it rose quickly into the chill, drizzling sky. the two men had a strong emotional reaction to the seemingly pointless encounter. they debated whether they should tell anybody, deciding again

k and then enlarging in a great bulge in the center" it was a charcoal gray. he slammed on his brakes as the object turned crossways, blocking the road, stopping only eight or ten feet from it. a door slid open on the side of the thing and a man stepped out "i didn't hear an audible voice" woody said later "i just had a feeling. like i knew what this man was thinking. he wanted me to roll down my window" the stranger was about five feet ten inches tall with long, dark hair combed straight back. his skin was heavily tanned. grinning broadly, his arms crossed and his hands tucked under his armpits, he walked to the panel truck. he was wearing a dark topcoat. underneath it woody could see some kind of garment made of glistening greenish material almost metallic in appearance. do not be afraid

mother couldn't move to pick her up again. she stood transfixed, hypnotized by the blazing red circles on the top of the towering, headless creature. its great wings unfolded slowly behind its back. raymond wamsley grabbed the paralyzed woman and the child and they all ran back into the house, slammed the door, and bolted it. there was a sound on the porch and the two red eyes peered in through a window. the women and children became hysterical while wamsley frantically phoned the police. it was 9 p.m. hundreds of people, many of them armed to the teeth, were less than a mile away and would not know about the episode until they read it in the local papers the following evening. by the time the police reached the house the creature was gone. but for mrs. bennett this was just the beginning

m instantly. cold now had a first name indrid. iv. across the ohio river, almost directly opposite the tnt area, a music teacher, mrs. roy grose, was wakened by the barking of her dog at 4:45 a.m. on the morning of november 17, 1966. it was unusual for her little pet to bark late at night, so she got up to investigate. the moon was out and was very bright, she recalled. she looked out the kitchen window and saw an enormous object hovering at treetop level in a field on the other side of route 7. it was circular, the size of a small house, and brilliantly illuminated. it seemed to be divided into sections glowing with dazzlingly bright red and green lights "i was stunned" she said. before she could wake up her husband, the object made a zig- zag motion and suddenly disappeared. she did not

e end of the week his interrogators showed him a star map and pointed to a speck on it telling him "that's where they're from" they said they had interviewed several other contactees, all with stories similar to his own. when he asked why they didn't release their ufo information to the public, they allegedly replied that it would only cause panic. women would commit suicide, throw babies out the window, and this kind of panic could sweep the world, they said. derenberger brought home a flock of souvenirs as proof of his trip: photographs and even a scrap of the material used in our astronauts' space suits. this, woody says, is the same kind of reflective material worn by indrid cold under his coat on that rainy november evening] the head of nasa at that time was dr. thomas o. paine- 8- pr

tarted to get out of bed again, and again the noises stopped. finally they faded away. two evenings later mr. and mrs. christiansen returned home to find their children in a very distraught state. they had heard the strange hammering sound again, followed by heavy footsteps crunching through the thick snow outside the house. connie's nineteen-year-old boyfriend was present and he had looked out a window in time to see a tall figure hurrying away from the house. it was wearing a long white cape and when it reached a five-foot-high fence it leaped effortlessly over it and disappeared on the other side. the next morning ed christiansen examined the area for footprints. he found a set of large human tracks deeply imbedded in the snow, leading to the fence and continuing on the other, side. the

in the air, about four feet off the ground "it was a large metal sphere" he said "since it was broad daylight i got a very good look at it. it was about twenty feet in diameter and was the color of dull aluminum" he slowed his car and studied the thing for about two minutes "there were four legs attached to it" he continued "with casterlike wheels on the bottom of each one. and there was a small window about nine inches in diameter on the side facing me. but i couldn't see anything inside the sphere. on the underside there was something like a propeller. it was idling when i first drove up, then it started spinning faster and the whole object began to rise upward. it disappeared into the sky and i drove on to my store" shaken and puzzled by his sighting, he decided to call the police and

s of the prints left by their moon-walking shoes were identical to the footprints i had seen over and over again in my travels. obviously, the martians and venusians buy their equipment from the same companies that supply our space program. vi. connie carpenter's sighting of mothman in november 1966 triggered off a long series of weird situations. she heard loud beeping sounds outside her bedroom window on several occasions. then, in february 1967, someone tried to abduct her. early that month she and keith gordon were married and they moved across the river to a house in middleport, ohio. they did not have a phone and their new address was known only to their families and close friends. middleport is a town of about three thousand people. connie was still attending school. an excessively

tor, were out sky-watching at a place called bogle ridge one night when they saw a group of red, green, and white lights descend from the sky and drop into a gully close to their position. a moment later there was a bright flash and jim felt his face tingling, like a mild electric shock. then he heard voices outside the car. voices which daria could not hear. suddenly there was a sharp rap on the window, causing the pair to jump with alarm. a man holding some kind of red light stood outside the car and racket received a mental message to get out of the car "is she your wife" the man asked "no, she's my cousin" the man told him to tell daria to stay in the car. then he led young hacket off into the darkness. when he returned, his shoes, socks, and watch were missing. he said the man had tak

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

is filled with violence through them; and, behold, i will destroy them with the earth. 6:14 make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 6:15 and this [is the fashion] which thou shalt make it [of] the length of the ark [shall be] three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 6:16 a window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof [with] lower, second, and third [stories] shalt thou make it. 6:17 and, behold, i, even i, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life, from under heaven [and] every thing that [is] in the earth shall die. 6:18

the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. 8:4 and the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of ararat. 8:5 and the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth [month] on the first [day] of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. 8:6 and it came to pass at the end of forty days, that noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: 8:7 and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8:8 also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 8:9 but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the whole ea

statutes, and my laws. 26:6 and isaac dwelt in gerar: 26:7 and the men of the place asked [him] of his wife; and he said, she [is] my sister: for he feared to say [she is] my wife; lest [said he] the men of the place should kill me for rebekah; because she [was] fair to look upon. 26:8 and it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that abimelech king of the philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, genesis page 14 behold, isaac [was] sporting with rebekah his wife. 26:9 and abimelech called isaac, and said, behold, of a surety she [is] thy wife: and how saidst thou, she [is] my sister? and isaac said unto him, because i said, lest i die for her. 26:10 and abimelech said, what [is] this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and

rue token: 2:13 and [that] ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death. 2:14 and the men answered her, our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. and it shall be, when the lord hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee. 2:15 then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house [was] upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall. 2:16 and she said unto them, get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way. 2:17 and the men said unto her, we [will be] blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear. 2:18 behold [when] we come into

upon the wall. 2:16 and she said unto them, get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way. 2:17 and the men said unto her, we [will be] blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear. 2:18 behold [when] we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father s household, home unto thee. 2:19 and it shall be [that] whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood [shall be] upon his head, and we [will be] guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood [shall be] on our head, if [an

pon his head, and we [will be] guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood [shall be] on our head, if [any] hand be upon him. 2:20 and if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear. 2:21 and she said, according unto your words, so [be] it. and she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window. 2:22 and they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought [them] throughout all the way, but found [them] not. 2:23 so the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to joshua the son of nun, and told him all [things] that befell them: 2:24 and they said unto joshua, truly the lord

e brought forth butter in a lordly dish. 5:26 she put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen s hammer; and with the hammer she smote sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. 5:27 at her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. 5:28 the mother of sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, why is his chariot [so] long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots? 5:29 her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, 5:30 have they not sped? have they [not] divided the prey; to every man a damsel [or] two; to sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both side

the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of saul s presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and david fled, and escaped that night. 19:11 saul also sent messengers unto david s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and michal david s wife told him, saying, if thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain. 19:12 so michal let david down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. 19:13 and michal took an image, and laid [it] in the bed, and put a pillow of goats [hair] for his bolster, and covered [it] with a cloth. 19:14 and when saul sent messengers to take david, she said, he [is] sick. 19:15 and saul sent the messengers [again] to see david, saying, bring him up to me in the bed, that i may slay him. 19:16 and when the messen

the ark of the lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings. 6:14 and david danced before the lord with all [his] might; and david [was] girded with a linen ephod. 6:15 so david and all the house of israel brought up the ark of the lord with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. 6:16 and as the ark of the lord came into the city of david, michal saul s daughter looked through a window, and saw king david leaping and dancing before the lord; and she despised him in her heart. 6:17 and they brought in the ark of the lord, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that david had pitched for it: and david offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the lord. 6:18 and as soon as david had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he ble

y ibleam. and he fled to megiddo, and died there. 9:28 and his servants carried him in a chariot to jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of david. 9:29 and in the eleventh year of joram the son of ahab began ahaziah to reign over judah. 9:30 and when jehu was come to jezreel, jezebel heard [of it] and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. 9:31 and as jehu entered in at the gate, she said [had] zimri peace, who slew his master? 9:32 and he lifted up his face to the window, and said, who [is] on my side? who? and there looked out to him two [or] three eunuchs. 9:33 and he said, throw her down. so they threw her down: and [some] of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot. 9:34 and wh

israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, o my father, my father, the chariot of israel, and the horsemen thereof. 13:15 and elisha said unto him, take bow and arrows. and he took unto him bow and arrows. 13:16 and he said to the king of israel, put thine hand upon the bow. and he put his hand [upon it] and elisha put his hands upon the king s hands. 13:17 and he said, open the window eastward. and he opened [it] then elisha said, shoot. and he shot. and he said, the arrow of the lord s deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from syria: for thou shalt smite the syrians in aphek, till thou have consumed [them] 13:18 and he said, take the arrows. and he took [them] and he said unto the king of israel, smite upon the ground. and he smote thrice, and stayed. 13:19 and the

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

ceived them from a certain old woman of that city. the old woman was then arrested, convicted of being an obstinate heretic, and condemned to the stake. when they were preparing to carry her out to the fire, she suddenly turned to the judges and said, do you think that you are able to burn me in your fire? i care neither for it nor for you! and taking a ball of thread, she threw it out at a large window by which she was standing, holding the end of the thread in her hands, and exclaiming, take it (recipe. in an instant, in the sight of all who were there, the old woman was lifted from the ground, and, following the ball of thread, was carried into the air nobody knew where; and the archbishop s officers 1 bonacursus, vita h reticorum, in d achery, spicilegium, tom. i, p. 209. this book is

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

primary sense organ in modern humans) to the object of desire. the ancients believed, quite naturally, that this was the mechanism by which the sense of sight operated-that through the eye was put forth a power that touched the object looked upon. only when science began to analyze the nature of light was this idea displaced and ridiculed. the eye was then seen as a passive receptacle, a kind of window through which light entered. the poet and mystic william blake wrote: this life's dim windows of the soul distorts the heavens from pole to pole and leads you to believe a lie when you see with, not thro, the eyes blake knew that passive seeing is a pernicious delusion; and that if human beings believe themselves detached from the things they look upon, they must also believe many other fic

l tower star moon sun judgement world aleph w beth 1 cimel 3. daleth 7 he 7 vau 1 zayin t cheth n teth d yod' kaph 3 lamed 3 mem d nun 1 samekh 0 ayin y pe 5) tzaddi 3 qoph i;l resh 1 shin td tau n mother double double double single single single single single single double single mother single single single double single single double mother double c is meaning trans. value 1 ox house camel door window nail sword fence snake hand fist goad water fish prop eye mouth hook ear head tooth cross a b, v c, ch d, dh h 0, u, v z ch t 1, y k, kh l m n s aa, ngh p, ph tz q r s, sh t, th in divination with the tarot, where the cards are related to the life of a specific individual, the abstract observing fool is replaced by a significa- tor, one of the court cards of the minor arcana that is suppose

tant step in learn- ing tarot symbolism because the fool reveals the dynamics underlying this philo- sophical machine. the diviner and the fool are one, but the diviner is colored by various shades of prejudice and bias, whereas the fool is as clear as water. the diviner stands with the fool in a great circular chamber with twenty-one glass windows of different colors. as the diviner approaches a window, the light shining through it casts over him or her a certain hue, and causes the diviner to experience life from that color. since the diviner has colors in his or her own personality, however, he or she can never experience the light shining through the windows in its purity. to do this the diviner of the tarot must first become clear like the fool, and must make the fool his or her model

e should be a sense of belonging, yet when the magus leaves and looks back, there should be no impression that anything is lacking. ventilation is necessary, as sometimes large amounts of incense are burned in charcoal fires-during certain evocations, for example-and carbon monoxide poisoning could be a possible threat were the chamber sealed tightly. a large crack under the entrance door and the window left open slightly behind the vented shut- ters or drapes should solve this problem. ideally, the floor should have some spring so that prolonged standing and walking may be done without fatigue. concrete floors are tiring. before the chamber is used it must be purified and consecrated. some adepts maintain that the magic circle is not necessary when magic is done in a consecrat- ed chamber

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

a (1465-1546, who relates the story told to him by his friend, augustus de turre of bergamo. while still a young man, augustus returned late one night to his rented house in the university town of pavia, where he was studying to become a physician. for a long time he pounded on the door, but nobody answered. in frustration, he climbed the side of the house to a balcony and entered through an open window, and then went looking for the maid who was supposed to have been ready and waiting to unbolt the door when he knocked. he found her in her room, lying unconscious on the floor, and left her to her sleep. the next day, when he asked her what sht: had been doing on the floor, she replied that she had been "on a journey" 20. weyer, on witchcraft, 114. 24 soul flight writing about the astral f

alien abductions. the person taken is usually alone at the time, often lying awake or asleep in bed. a bright light or a glow may be seen, and strange noises heard. the abductee experiences physical paralysis and is levitated through the air, often in a prone position, by a beam of light or force, sometimes under the oversight of humanoid beings. the abductees feel themselves floating through the window or door and up into the air. the aliens sometimes pass through closed doors as though the doors did not exist. the abductee is taken to an enclosed chamber, usually rounded or domed, which is understood to be the interior of a spacecraft, placed on an examination table, and probed in various ways. needles may be inserted into the abductee's head. blood, sperm, or ova may be extracted, and t

ast tried to pull the book out of kelley's hands. dee could not see the spirit, but he heard the taps on the parchment cover of the book.ls3 another time, a spirit knocked over an object in the scrying chamber, and both men saw it and heard it fall. the most singular event of a physical kind was the apport of a crystal-scrying globe that appeared out of thin air in the scrying chamber beneath the window. this globe subsequently became dee's principal showstone, and was used by kelley with excellent results. four levels of astral awareness you will remember that emanuel swedenborg distinguished three types of astral projection, although he did not use that term, but instead resorted to biblical references. the naked pro- 181. casaubon, true& faithful relation, 25. 182. ibid, 62. 183. ibid

chian communications recorded by john dee between the years 1582 and 1587 were scried by edward kelley in several small globes of natural rock crystal. the best results were obtained by the globe dee referred to as his principal showstone, which was given to him in the form of an apport by the enochian angels. during the enochian communications, the crystal appeared to act not merely as a viewing window, but also as a power matrix and astral portal. it would glow at times with its own internal radiance. spirits came through it into the scrying chamber with kelley and dee, and kelley sent his awareness through it into various astral landscapes, so that he not only saw them but was also present within them. crystal balls of large size are expensive, particularly when they are clear with few

nce of a mist. carroll specifically wrote that the mist was "silvery" in color. silver is the color, and the metal, of the moon. mirrors are lunar not merely because they seem to create astral images in their depths, but because the substances of which they are made-glass and silver-are both strongly 190. carroll, 146. lunar materials. add to this their common rectangular shape, which resembles a window or doorway, and it is little wonder that they were used both for scrying and as astral portals. it is a common report that astral scenes are reflected left to right, in exactly the same way as mirror images. the members of the golden dawn made this observation while scrying in the spirit vision. israel regardie wrote: there was a good deal of glib parlance within the order as to "astral vis

as this is drawn with the right hand over the portal you wish to seal shut, it should be visualized as glowing upon the air. when using a large mirror as an astral doorway, it is best to keep it covered during the day, and not to use it for common purposes. it should be protected from the direct rays of the sun, and from strong daylight. to charge it with lunar virtue, set it outside or beneath a window where it can reflect the light of the full moon. covering the mirror with a black cloth after it is charged will help retain this virtue. to incorporate the lunar virtue of a mirror into the standard projection ritual, in which the chamber, corridor, and elevator are visualized, a small mirror may be combined with the symbolic key that specifies the astral destination. these can be held tog

then close your eyes and sustain the trump in your imagination. continue in this way for some time, striving to make the tarot image ever more real and detailed in your imagination. try to see beyond its edges in your mind, as though- 197. regardie, 465. 198. knight, practical guide, vol. 2,276. chapter twelve: the tarot 201 it were a three-dimensional scene that you looked upon through a little window. try to see behind objects in the scene. if details appear in your mental image of the trump that are not in the painting on the card, allow them to arise unhindered. if the leaves of trees begin to move in the breeze, or a stream or river in the image begins to flow, allow these animations to play themselves before your inner vision. when you have managed to open the image on the card into

ading table in the main reading hall, and a sister brings the book to them, then returns it to its place when the reader is done with it. the ruling intelligence is diana, goddess of the moon. her oracle is to be found in a small chapel dedicated to the lunar goddess. it has the form of a silver bowl filled with clear water that rests on a low stone pedestal. by gazing at the light from the round window above the altar that is reflected in the surface of the water, visions may be seen. iii the empress hebrew letter: daleth (door) correspondence: venus path: fourteenth a gracious lady of the manor who is in the late stage of pregnancy sits out of doors in the sunlight in a field of ripe grain, enjoying the fine weather and the fresh air. her skin is flawless and lightly tanned, so that it h

or her pleasure. the ruling intelligence is venus, goddess of love and sensual enjoyment-and also the goddess who presides over the health of beasts and the growth of crops. her oracle is delivered in the form of the pantomime staged for the empress by the minstrels who have been hired to entertain her. by observing the show, closely held truths may be revealed. iv the emperor hebrew letter: heh (window) correspondence: aries path: fifteenth the emperor is an elderly but strongly built man with a white beard, who sits upon a throne in a place of natural fortification that encloses and protects his army. it is evident from the armor he wears beneath his tunic and cloak that he is engaged in some military campaign. he looks directly forward with an unwavering gaze and a determined and somewh

of punishment. her artificial posture has the appearance of a formal pose as she walks into the courtroom with her instruments of justice in her hands, and sits upon the judgment seat before the audience assembled to witness the events of the trial. she soon puts aside her symbols, and the trial begins. the environment of this trump is the interior of a courtroom. behind the lady judge is an open window covered with a curtain that conceals the place of execution from the gaze of those in the courtroom. if her judgment is for a sentence of death, this curtain is withdrawn. the astral traveler may enter this scene as a spectator, a witness, or as the accused. the manner of the officers of the court is formal and reserved. guards prevent precipitous exits through the doors at the sides of the

they are directly addressed, and their responses are usually unhelpful. some of the doors are locked and others are open, but this cannot be known until they are tried. each opened door leads into a different tableau, in which the inhabitants of the chamber enact a drama for the traveler as he enters. if they are questioned, they will respond and explain what they are doing. the scene out of each window in different-some show cityscapes, others mountains, others the seashore, others forests or country scenes. the god of this place is the keeper of the keys, the owner of the house who selects what rooms the traveler may enter. he is never met directly, but may sometimes be glimpsed moving away from a door or around a corner, and the rattle of his key in a lock as he unlocks a door can be he

TYSON DONALD THE MAGICAL WORKBOOK

to look through the wall. take several deep, regular breaths. visualize yourself standing up from your chair and walking behind it on its right side to the center of the room in which you are practicing the exercise. stop with your back to the chair. examine the scene in front of you and be aware of all the furniture in the room, the woodwork, the floor, the ceiling, pictures on the wall, and the window or door if they are in your field of view. notice the colors and textures of the walls and furniture. see the room in as much detail as possible. slowly turn around to face the wall so that your projected astral form gazes at the back of your physical body seated in the chair. observe the color of your clothing, the appearance of your 62 sitting exercises hair, your collar, the shape of the

he cool smoothness of the brass as you turn and open it. the door swings on its hinges away from you to the left. walk through the doorway into a room with an oak floor and palegray walls that are almost white. the ceiling is painted the same pallid gray. close the door behind you without turning to look through its opening. you stand in the northwest corner of a large square chamber. there is no window in the room, but ample light streams in from visualization 111: astral temple 65 above through a circular dome made up of many small triangular panes of clear glass crystal. blue sky can be seen through the dome. in the middle of the floor rests a black marble altar in the shape of a double cube. the altar is two feet square and four feet high. its sides are featureless. on the center of th

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

-ihvh (vocalized "adonai) tzabaoth hod-elohim tzabaoth yesod-shaddai, or el chai malkuth-adonai ha aretz vibrating the name 4 1 it is important to understand that the true sephiroth are not the descriptive titles kether, chokrnah, binah, and so on; neither are they the spheres on the glyph of the tree of the kabbalah. the true sephiroth are nothing other than the ten names of god. all the rest is window dressing-an attempt to make the meanings and relationship of these ten names more comprehensible. all four of the elements are said to be required in the creation of the golem because four is the number of manifest being. the rabbis sought to create a physical man, not an ideal one. however, the "elements" of loew and his disciples represent, not the four physical elements which are all pre

you feel that it has absorbed as much light as is possible during that ritual, seal the light into the ring with the symbol of the circle-cross, inscribed vertically upon the air with the right index finger in the case of gold rings, but with the left index finger in the case of silver rings. sit comfortably before the altar and regard the ring. visualize its hoop expanding into a large circular window of light, and through the window see the angel of the ring standing before you arrayed in light, looking back at you. try to picture the angel in as much detail as possible (see chapter xiv. 118 tetragrammaton eventually the angels will become animate and you will be able to communicate with them. contemplate the lord of the ring for half an hour or so, then will the circle of light to dimi

prevent the ministers of the third flame from creating vexation in the heart of the magiciansomething which, in my opinion, is highly questionable. the eighteenth key 0 thou mighty light and burning flame of comfort, which openest the glory of god to the center of the earth, in whom the secrets of truth 6332 have their abiding, which is called in thy kingdom joy, and not to be measured: be thou a window of comfort unto me. move and show yourselves; open the mysteries of your creation; be friendly unto me, for i am the servant of the same your god, the true worshiper of the highest. analysis of the eighteenth key it is not stated explicitly that this is the fourth flame, but we can draw no other conclusion. it falls in the sequence of the keys upon the fourth angle of the north and complete

auty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all/ ye know on earth, and all ye need to know("ode on a grecian urn. the natural and uncorrupted human response to beauty is a recognition within the human soul of a transcendent truth that is not attainable through mere reason. it is a truth that must be grasped with the heart and that cannot be analyzed with the mind except on a secondary level. the phrase "window of comfort" may be a reference to the windows in the firmament through which the rain was supposed to pour when they were opened "and the windows of heaven were opened (gen. 7:ll. in biblical times, drought brought famine and plague. that is why the ministers of the first flame are said to "weave the earth with dryness" as a punishment for her multiplicity of forms. with the coming of new j

WHO ARE THE DRACONIANS

i started telling her of the things i had seen when i was little. then that night i remember being awaken by a noise, i first noticed that my computer monitor was reflecting a bright green light and then my whole room was filled with a bright green light. my first thought was 'oh no, they're back' then i again was paralyzed as it had happened to me when i was twelve. i was looking out my bedroom window and i stared face to face with a gray alien. there were two more behind him. i tried to yell but again my jaw was tight and my tongue was stiff. it just looked at me with those scary big black eyes liked it looked into my soul, i felt evil and fear, i am surprised i did not release my bowels! then the light consumed me and i was drawn out of my bed into the light. while this was happening i

d about the entire front yard like a morning who are the draconians file//d /my documents/avidya/reptilian agenda/who are the draconians.htm (51 of 68 [8/25/2000 17:20:00] sunrise. his face was gentle and happy and his eyes looked at me lovingly. his whole countenance was just amazing beyond description. he placed his hand upon my shoulder and pointed toward the house. i looked over to my bedroom window and saw the three beings still at my window hovering above the ground in a bright green beam of light which seemed to be coming from nowhere. the angel stayed by my side and protected me. i tried to cast the small gray aliens away with my priesthood but they were still there. i was so angry, the things that had made my life miserable since i was a child now there within my view, and i saw h

25/2000 17:20:01] one a certain sunday i was traveling this road by myself. it was early in the morning and i was quite tired. this road had many stop signal followed by brief areas of no turn offs. on this certain morning i pulled up to a red light and was waiting for the light to change. as i did i saw a black limo pull up directly beside me. as i looked over at the limo i noticed that the back window started to come down. i then saw two figures in the back seat. i then notice that the limo started to pull forward although the light hadn't changed. i then saw one of the figures come closer to the back window that was down. as he did i notice that his skin was very pale in color and had a green cast. he also was wearing a black hat, suit and sun glasses. he then took off his glasses and i

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

in which the priests of pan ran through the streets of rome whacking young women with goatskin thongs to make them fertile. the women seemed to enjoy the attention and often stripped in order to afford better targets. one of the nicest folk-customs still practiced in many countries, and especially by witches in the british isles and parts of the u.s, is to place a lighted candle in each and every window of the house, beginning at sundown on candlemas eve (february 1st, allowing them to continue burning until sunrise. make sure that such candles are well seated against tipping and guarded from nearby curtains, etc. what a cheery sight it is on this cold, bleak and dreary night to see house after house with candle-lit windows! and, of course, if you are your coven's chandler, or if you just

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

at this basilica was placed in a suburban villa. the orphic mysteries were as we know prohibited by the senatus consultum (de bacchanalibus) after they had given rise to scandals; but the most curious point is that according to livy these scandals happened precisely in campania and the initiations were by women and took place by day. our liturgy shows us the initiation of a woman and the enormous window proves that the initiations were made in the daytime. this orphic basilica, in days of old the secret meeting place of the initiated, enables us today to penetrate the secrets of the greek mysteries' more recent investigations have shown that this villa belonged to some of the imperial family and the high priestess in the frescoes has been identified as a portrait of the owner, though her n

WICCA MAGICK OCCULT THREE GREEN BOOKS DRUIDISM

ul sayings from the poets a faery song the prophet fergus and the druid sayings of the psychologists green book volume two celtic, native american,african, hindu& greek writings english poetry stopping by the woods jabberwocky welsh and irish poetry the waterfall sadness in spring rain outside winter and warfare mountain snow bright trees spoils of annwn cad goddeau leadership sunshine through my window suggested further reading thirteen fold mysteries nichol s 13 williams 13 graves 13 another 13 the voyage of bran proverbs of the modern gaels advice attitudes behavior company contentment death education& experience fate fighting foolishness god& heaven greed hope humor 225 hypocrisy& integrity love nature politics pride tact& talk wisdom work wisdom of the native americans born natural sa

self; this for my soul, and this other for my body? all your hours are wings that beat through space from self to self. he who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. the wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin. and he who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage. the freest song comes not through bars and wires. and he to whom worshipping is a window, to open but also to shut, has not yet visited the house of his soul whose windows are dawn to dawn. your daily life is your temple and your religion. whenever you enter into it take with you your all. the things you have fashioned in necessity or for delight. for in reverie you cannot rise above your achievements nor fall lower than your failures. and take with you all men: for in adoratio

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