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lized in mystical tradition by the heavenly androgyne (male and female united in one) and represents a state of mystical transcendence and union with the supreme. it is compared to satori and nirvana. chokmah: the second emanation on the tree of life, following kether. occultists identify chokmah with the great father, the giver of the seminal spark of life which is potent only when it enters the womb of the great mother, binah. from the union of the great father and great mother come forth all the images of creation. chokmah is associated with such deities as kronos, saturn, thoth, atum-ra, and ptah in other pantheons. 66 binah: the third emanation on the tree of life. occultists identify binah with the great mother in all her forms. she is the womb of forthcoming, the source of all the g

18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

nursery-tales take up the character as dscherling, aschenhrodcl, ashcfis (cinderel: the hero-youth lives inactive and despised by the kitchen-hearth or in the cattle-stall, out of whose squalor he emerges when the right time comes. i do riot recollect any instance in greek mythology of this exceedingly favourite feature of our folk-lore. unborn children, namely those that have been cut out of the womb, usually grow up heroes. such was the famous persian liustem in ferdusi, as well as tristan according to the old story in eilhart, or the russian hero dobrunii nikititch, and the scotch macduff. but volsungr concerns us more, who spoke and made vows while yet unborn, who, after being cut out, had time to kiss his mother before she died (volsungas. cap. 2. 5. an obscure^ these remarkable vitae

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

he hoop was unbroken, the people flourished. the flowering tree was the living centre of the hoop and the circle of the four quarters nourished it. the east gave peace and light, the south gave warmth; in the west, thunder beings gave rain and the north with its cold and mighty wind gave strength and endurance' and so the earth was respected as the sacred mother, giver of life and crops, to whose womb the dead returned. it is no accident that the sioux medicine wheel and the celtic wheel of the year are so similar in formation and purpose, linking all life to the cycles of nature. so if we are to use magick in a positive way, we must remember that it brings responsibility along with benefits. magick and knowledge white witchcraft is essentially the process of drawing on ancient wisdom and

ick is within you, so let it flow and make the world a better place. 1- the origins and practice of witchcraft a history of witchcraft witchcraft probably originated about 25,000 years ago in the palaeolithic era. at that time, humankind and nature were seen as inextricably linked. people acknowledged every rock, tree and stream as deities in the life force, and the earth as mother, offering both womb and tomb. prehistoric witchcraft early man used sympathetic, or attracting, magick- in the form of dances, chants and cave paintings of animals- to attract the herds of animals that provided for the needs of the group, and to bring fertility to humans and animals alike. hunters would re-enact the successful outcome of a hunt and would carry these energies into the everyday world. offerings we

ns and animals alike. hunters would re-enact the successful outcome of a hunt and would carry these energies into the everyday world. offerings were made to the mistress of the herds and later to the horned god, who was depicted wearing horns or antlers to display his sovereignty over the herds. animal bones would be buried so that they, like humankind, would enjoy rebirth from the earth mother's womb. where hunter-gatherers today continue the unbroken tradition that stretches back thousands of years- for example, among the lapps in the far north of scandinavia and the inuits- these rites continue, led by a shaman, or magick man, who negotiates with the mistress of the herds or fish in a trance for the release of the animals. one of the earliest recorded examples of shamanism is the dancin

le, which ceased for nine moons if a women was pregnant, the moon became linked with the mysteries first of birth, then of death as it waned, and finally with new life on the crescent. because the moon was reborn each month or, as it was thought, gave birth to her daughter each month, it was assumed that human existence followed the same pattern and that the full moon mirrored the mother with her womb full with child. the full moon was also associated in later ages with romance and passion, originally because this coincided with peak female fertility. moon magick for the increase of love and fertility is still practised under the auspices of the waxing moon. it was not until about 3,000 years ago that the male role in conception was fully understood in the west, and only then were the sky

or strength, success, energy, inspiration and increase. apollo apollo, the greek sun god, was twin brother of artemis, the moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this sense predated all other gods and was later called the dark sun, apollo's alter ego. the ancient greeks rededicated his shrine to apollo) apollo was god of prophecy as well as music, poetry, archery, healing and divination. he is very strongly animus and is good for all rituals of power, ambition and inspiration, as well as those areas under h

ease and, in spite of human pollution, she constantly heals and renews the planet. she is also a goddess of marriage. she is the natural focus for all green rituals. tellus mater tellus mater was the earth mother of the romans, the alter ego of ceres, the grain mother, and guardian of the fertility of people, animals and crops. however, tellus mater is also the mother who receives the dead in her womb to comfort and restore and so, like gaia, she is a excellent goddess for all green magick and rituals for healing pollution or deforestation. wophe wophe, or white buffalo calf woman, is the sacred creator woman of the lakotas and other peoples of the american plains. legend says she fell from a meteor and as she began her earth walk, she was discovered by two young lakota scouts who were hun

alone or as part of a coven. it is one i have found helpful, but you can create your own through a god meditation by visualising a god form that seems relevant to you. again i have used celtic god forms: these are the words of the father, who is son and consort of the great mother, born in the beginning of she who created the universe from her own body, from her smiles and tears and ever-fertile womb 'i am he, the wild untamed power of the hunt, the horned beasts and the woodland, that offers food, shelter and protection to people of all races, clans and creeds. i am cernunnos, horned lord of winter; as master of the animals and lord of the corn, i offer willing sacrifice for the land and people; as king of the dark places beneath the soil, in the nurturing womb of the mother, like all cr

ons and is especially associated with healing* finally, in the west, place a seed roll or bread, representing the cutting down of the corn, so completing the cycle* take a twig or a wand from a healing tree, such as ash, or a long frond of greenery and walk round the circle deosil. infuse each of the magical foods in turn with circles of the wand deosil, saying: fruits of the earth, born from the womb of the land, give life and healing, health and joy from your ever-replenishing store* touch the vegetable with the wand and then lift the wand in a high arc before lowering it to touch the bottle of water in the centre* now move to the east and circle the wand deosil over the seeds, saying: seeds of potential, from the loins of the father, give growth and power, possibility and regeneration f

n cycles in magick or in life is a bit like swimming against the flow: quite possible with practice, but involving unnecessary effort. the moon mother the moon was regarded as the mother of all long before written records existed, for she was seen to give birth to a new moon every 29 days. because the old moon apparently died, it was believed that that she took the souls of the dead back into her womb and gave them new life. in the same way, the three main lunar phases gave rise to the concept of the triple goddess who has been worshipped in cultures from palaeolithic times where early cave art displayed crescent moons that have been identified as goddess symbols. the evolved triple goddess of the celts, which reflects the lunar cycles of maiden, mother and crone, is an icon also seen thro

ay that should bring you new opportunities, though perhaps not exactly as you planned. mabon, the autumn equinox time: for three days from sunset on or around 21 september (21 march in the southern hemisphere) focus: a time of abundance, reaping the bounty of the earth and of celebration for life and its gifts; welcoming the waning, darker part of the year, the god in the underworld or within the womb of the earth mother; for letting go and if necessary grieving for what is not fulfilled the autumn equinox, or time of gathering, was traditionally celebrated as the wild or green harvest, a time of celebration for the fruits and vegetables of the earth and the earth mother. this equinox is the second time of the balance between day and night in the wheel of the year, and sees lugh, the god o

ween day and night in the wheel of the year, and sees lugh, the god of light, defeated by his twin and alter-ego, goronwy, the god of darkness. goronwy was associated with the horned god as lugh was with the green man, god of vegetation. mabon, or maponus, was another form of lugh, and was regarded as the son of the earth mother and known as the liberator-prisoner. the corn god lies fallow in the womb of the mother. but because his sacrifice was willing, death has no dominion over him and he grows stronger. this is the time of the second harvest of vegetables, fruit and remaining crops, the harvest home that pre-dates christianity. on the day when equal night and day heralded winter, the feast formed a sympathetic magical gesture to ensure that there would be enough food during the winter

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

nd serpent. gives one gentle knock. third adept opens door) 10 (serpent on the tree of life) third "by the aid of what symbol do ye seek admission" hodos (shows diagram "by the aid of the flaming sword, and the serpent of wisdom" second "whom bringest thou there" hodos "mighty adeptus major, i bring with me one who has passed the trials of humiliation, and has symbolically chosen to return to the womb. he humbly desireth admission to the tomb of the mystical mountain" second "let the aspirant be assisted to kneel (aspirant is brought to the door of the tomb between the third adept and hodos. all face east and kneel) second "from thine hand oh lord, cometh all good. the characters of nature with thy fingers thou hast traced, but none can read them unless he hath been taught in thy school. t

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

d to the lust of besz, and let her face be eaten by the god. it is not good to write his name. then they loosed me, and i lay smiling in the pool. they lifted me up and brought me to the feet of the goddess, so that i might kiss them. and as i kissed them such a thrill ran through me that i thought myself rapt away into the heaven of amoun, or even as asi when hoor and hoor-pa-kraat, cleaving her womb, sprang armed to life. then they stripped me of my robes, and lashed me with fine twigs of virgin hazel, until my blood ran from me into the pool. but the surface of the silver swallowed up the blood by some mysterious energy; and they took this to be a sign of acceptance. so then they clothed me in the right robes of a priestess of the veiled one; and they put a silver sistron in my hand, an

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

, of that which is not? yet that which is not neither is nor is not that which is! identity is perfect; therefore the w of identity is but a lie. for there is no subject, and there is no predicate; nor is there the contradictory of either of these things. holy, holy, holy are these truths that i utter, knowing them to be but falsehoods, broken mirrors, troubled waters; hide me, o our lady, in thy womb! for i may not endure the rapture. in this utterance of falsehood upon falsehood, whose contradictories are also false, it seems as if that which i uttered not were true. blessed, unutterably blessed, is this last of the illusions; let me play the man, and thrust it from me! amen. book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 31 [32] commentary( iota alpha "the glow-worm" may perhaps b

ok of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 38 mighty and erect is this phi-alpha-lambda-lambda-omicronsigma of my will. the seed thereof is that which i have borne within me from eternity; and it is lost within the body of our lady of the stars. i am not i; i am but an hollow tube to bring down fire from heaven. mighty and marvellous is this weakness, this heaven which draweth me into her womb, this dome which hideth, which absorbeth, me. this is the night wherein i am lost, the love through which i am no longer i [40] commentary( iota-epsilon) the card 15 in the tarot is "the devil, the mediaeval blind for pan. the title of the chapter refers to the phallus, which is here identified with the will. the greek word pi-upsilon-rho-alpha-mu-iotasigma has the same number as phi-alpha-la

ll these are different ways of saying the same thing. the last paragraph is even obscurer to those unfamiliar to the masterpiece referred to in the note; for the eye of horus (see 777, col. xxi, line 10 "the blind eye that weeps" is a poetic arab name for the lingam. the doctrine is that the great work should be accomplished without creating n ew karma, for the letter n, the fish, the vesica, the womb, breeds, whereas the ey e of horus does not; or, if it does so, breeds, according to turkish tradition, a me ssiah. death implies resurrection; the illusion is reborn, as the scythe of death in the tarot has a crosspiece. this is in connection with the hindu doctrine, express ed in their injunction "fry your seeds. act so as to balance your past karma, and create no new, so that, as it were

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

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

om one into the others. they are, as it were, thrown together- untamed, only sympathising by virtue of their wild and stormy but elastically resistless energy. the central letter is "he- the letter of breath- and represents spirit. the first letter "aleph" is the natural letter of air, and the final "mem" is the natural letter of water. together "aleph" and "mem" make "am- the mother within whose womb the cosmos is conceived. but "yod" is not the natural letter of fire. its juxtaposition with "he" sanctifies that fire to the "yod" of tetragrammaton. similarly we find "lamed" for earth, where we should expect tau- in order to emphasize the influence of venus, who rules libra "alhim, therefore, represents rather the formula of consecration than that of a complete ceremony. it is the breath o

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

ula which enables it to express its secret self; its dew falling upon the rose is developed into an eidolon of itself, in due season> and the phallic symbol of resurrection. will itself must be ready to culminate in the surrender of that will<lxv and liber vii> the aspiration's arrow that is shot against the holy dove must transmute itself into the wondering virgin that receives in her womb the quickening of that same spirit of god. any idea that is thus in itself positive and negative, active and passive, male and female, is fit to exist above the abyss; any idea not so equilibrated is below the abyss, contains in itself an unmitigated duality or falsehood, and is to that extent qliphotic<qabalah for the use of this word, and study the doctrine concerning the kings of

jor- obtains a general mastery of practical magick, though without comprehension. adeptus (exemptus- completes in perfection all these matters. he then either("a) becomes a brother of the left hand path or("b) is stripped of all his attainments and of himself as well, even of his holy guardian angel, and becomes a babe of the abyss, who, having transcended the reason, does nothing but grow in the womb of its mother. it then finds itself a magister templi (master of the temple: whose functions are fully described in liber 418, as is this whole initiation from adeptus exemptus. see also "aha. his principal business is to tend his "garden" of disciples, and to obtain a perfect understanding of the universe. he is a master of samadhi. 232 magus- attains to wisdom, declares his law (see liber i

f our order; the absolute abandonment of himself and his attainments. he cannot remain indefinitely an exempt adept; he is pushed onward by the irresistible momentum that he has generated. should he fail, by will or weakness, to make his self-annihilation absolute, he is none the less thrust forth into the abyss; but instead of being received and reconstructed in the third order, as a babe in the womb of our lady babalon, under the night of pan, to grow up to be himself wholly and truly as he was not previously, he remains in the abyss, secreting his elements round his ego as if isolated from the universe, and becomes what is called a "black brother. such a being is gradually disintegrated from lack of nourishment and the slow but certain action of the attraction of the rest of the univers

eady to face the unspeakable terror of the abyss which lies between manhood and godhead; teach him to know that agony, to dare that destiny, to will that catastrophe, 241 and to keep silence for ever as he accomplishes the act of annihilation. from the abyss comes no man forth, but a star startles the earth, and our order rejoices above that abyss that the beast hath begotten one more babe in the womb of our lady, his concubine, the scarlet woman, babalon. there is not need to instruct a babe thus born, for in the abyss it was purified of every poison of personality; its ascent to the highest is assured, in its season, and it hath no need of seasons for it is conscious that all conditions are no more than forms of its fancy. such is a brief account, adapted as far as may be to the average

y spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire, and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me. section d. water. hear me- ru-abra-iaf<form fiaof will be found preferable in practice "thou the wheel, thou the womb, that containeth the father iaf" mriodom "thou the sea, the abode" babalon-bal-bin-abaft "babalon! thou woman of whoredom" 268 "thou, gate of the great god on! thou lady of the understanding of the ways" asal-on-ai "hail thou, the unstirred! hail, sister and bride of on, of the god that is all and is none, by the power of eleven" aphen-iaf "thou treasure of iao" i "thou virgin twin-sexed! tho

gel. after that i had attained unto the knowledge and conversation of him by virtue of mine ardour towards him, and of this ritual that i bestow upon men my fellows, and most of his great love that he beareth to me, yea, verily, he led me to the abyss; he bade me fling away all that i had and all that i was; and he forsook me in that hour. but when i came beyond the abyss, to be reborn within the womb of babalon, then came he unto me abiding in my virgin heart, its lord and lover! also he made me a magus, speaking through his law, the word of the new aeon, the aeon of the crowned and conquering child<equinox, vol. i "the temple of solomon the king, liber 418, liber aleph, john st. john, the urn, and book 4, part iv> thus he fulfilled my will to bri

the deacon and all the people. i believe in one secret and ineffable lord; and in one star in the company of stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one father of life, mystery of mystery, in his name 346 chaos, the sole viceregent of the sun upon earth; and in one air the nourisher of all that breaths. and i believe in one earth, the mother of us all, and in one womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, mystery of mystery, in her name babalon. and i believe in the serpent and the lion, mystery of mystery, in his name baphomet. and i believe in one gnostic and catholic church of light, love and liberty, the word of whose law is gr:theta-epsilon-lambda-eta-mu-alpha. and i believe in the communion of saints. and, forasmuch as meat and d

ssant, and paternal to perfect this feast"(at each name the "deacon "signs+ with thumb between index and medius. at ordinary mass it is only necessary to commemorate those whose names are italicised, with wording as is shown" the people. so mote it be. 354 (the earth) the deacon. mother of fertility on whose breast lieth water, whose cheek is caressed by air, and in whose heart is the sun's fire, womb of all life, recurring grace of seasons, answer favourably the prayer of labour, and to pastors and husbandmen be thou propitious. the people. so mote it be (the principles) the deacon. mysterious energy triform, mysterious matter, in fourfold and sevenfold division; the interplay of which things weave the dance of the veil of life upon the face of the spirit, let there be harmony and beauty

rit is the norm; male-female, quintessential, one, man-being veiled in woman-form. glory and worship in the highest, thou dove, mankind that deifiest, being that race, most royally run, to spring sunshine through winter storm. glory and worship be to thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! first semichorus: men. glory to thee from gilded tomb. second semichorus: women. glory to thee from waiting womb. men. glory to thee from earth unploughed! women. glory to thee from virgin vowed! men. glory to thee, true unity of the eternal trinity! women. glory to thee, thou sire and dam and self of i am that i am! 358 men. glory to thee, eternal sun, thou one in three, thou three in one! chorus. glory and worship unto thee, sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree "these words are to form the substance of t

ALEISTER CROWLEY SEPHER SEPHIROTH

he three that bear witness, above and beneath, respectively (md) the spirit, the water, and the blood: aleph being air (spiritus, daleth standing for md blood, and mem being both water and the initial of mym, water. cf. 203& 447 )rb md) uriel or auriel: archangel of earth (lit. resp. gflame of el h and gmy light is el h) l)yrw) in vision h)rmb wine; bitumen; an ass (from gto disturb h) rmx mercy; womb; vulture mxr a lance xmr archangel of chokmah l)yzr 249 fear, terror rwgm 250 the living god of the worlds, or of the ages mymlw(h yxl) midday (the south) mwrd habit; action (ch) rwdm lamp; prosperity; instruction rn shout, rejoicing nr 251 fir, cedar (cf. 208) nr) the angel uriel: gvrih1 h, i.e. magical force (see lytton fs gcoming race h, and abra-melin fs forehead lamin) lhyrw 252 serpent

n#w# delight, joy nw# a furnace rwnt by day *mmwy 658 a name of god *myhl )wh 660 flashings, scintillations tycycyn zones; members nyr#q a day; the seas; the times *mymy vases, vessels *mylk spice; drug; poison *ms 661 a lily; a rose (cf. 656) hn#w# a storehouse *ms) 662 the garland of god l)yrtk) 663 stones of marble (see zohar, pt. i. fol. 34. col. 134# ynb) songs twrymz prophets *my)bn 665 the womb mxrh tyb 666 the number of the beast. 1-36. 36 is the sum of the letters aleph to cheth (tyx= 418, hence 666 is an expansion of 418. the number of talents of gold received by solomon in one year (i kings 10:14) aleister crowley (rabbi battiscombe gunn fs transliteration) ylwrq ry+syl) ommo satan: the gevil triad h of satan-typhon, apophras, and besz. lit. gthe dimness of satan h, scil. gveil

m (qnz *nqz to overwhelm (ps. 77:17; a flood *mrz 808 the brazen serpent (ii kings 18:4; cf. 1121) nt#xn under txt pure, innocent *px balances (ch *nynz)m the three that bear witness, above and beneath, respectively (md) the spirit, the water, and the blood: aleph being air (spiritus, daleth standing for md blood, and mem being both water and the initial of mym, water. cf. 203& 447*)rb md) mercy; womb; vulture *mxr to steam; darkness *k#x 809 shut up; body *pwg children *p+ 810 cain *nyq the living god of the worlds, or of the ages *mymlw(h yxl) midday (the south *mwrd 812 son of the right hand *nymynb 813 signs, marks, tokens twtw) ararita: a name of god which is a notariqon of the sentence dx) wzhrwmt wdwxy#)r wtwdx#)r dx, gone is his beginning: one is his individuality: his permutation

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

24 no thought of an harbor. the profane have each one his definite course of action; i alone appear useless and uncomprehending, like a man from the border. yea, thus i differ from all other men: but my jewel is the all-mother((cf 'afloat in the aether, o my god, my god' liber vii. it is the 'aimless winging' which gives 'joy ineffable' to the self-supported absolute) 25 chapter xxi the infinite womb. 1. the sole source of energy is the tao. who may declare its nature? it is beyond sense, yet all form is hidden within it. it is beyond sense, yet all perceptibles are hidden within it. it is beyond sense, yet all perceptibles are hidden within it. it is beyond sense, yet all being is hidden within it. this being excites perception, and the word thereof. as it was in the beginning, is now, a

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

gam-yoni conjoined. christos is 'the love of passion of the rising sun (r) and the serpent (s. the i and t indicate certain details which are foreign to the present discussion. neuma (atlantean n m) is the 'arch of the woman, maria, the woman of the sun* the words meithras and abraxas are again derived from atlas "the woman entered, lingam being conjoined with yoni, bears the sun from her serpent womb" and "from the womb's mouth the sun (cometh seeking) a womb for his desire, even the womb of a serpent, the course of the year being signified in this manner, as usual with the ancients. this plan of an idea corresponding to each letter was carried out very strictly: thus tla, black, means the stigma or mark of the virgin's womb, ia (hail! greeting 'face to face, from the other peculiarity de

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

resents the female principle, the fertile mother (an old name for the card is mat, from the italian 'matto, fool, but earlier also from maut, the egyptian vulture-mother-goddess. fertile, for the 'egg of blue' is the uterus, and in the macrocosm the body of nuith, and it contains the unborn babe, helpless yet protected and nourished against the crocodiles and tigers shown on the card, just as the womb is sealed during gestation. he sits on a lotus, the yoni, which floats on the 'nile, the amniotic fluid. in his absolute innocence and ignorance he is "the fool; he is the 'saviour, being the son who shall trample on the crocodiles and tigers, and avenge his father osiris. thus we see him as the "great fool" of celtic legend, the "pure fool" of act i of "parsifal, and, generally speaking, the

her sounds like the tone of nuit. a third alternative? can we have "phrased" it carelessly, or punctuated it incorrectly? or is there a qabalistic puzzle or a mystic submeaning concealed? the subject changes instantly, as it seems. i prefer to suggest that these "fools" are "silent selves, impotent babes unborn; then verse 12 continues "come forth, that is, bring your holy guardian angel from the womb of your subconsciousness. then "take your fill of love; that is, do your true will, whose mode of fulfilment is love, as explained later in this chapter. al i,12 "come forth, o children, under the stars& take your fill of love" the old comment 12. the key of the worship of nu. the uniting of consciousness with infinite space by the exercise of love, pastoral or pagan love. but vide infra. the

is the bull; and 50, nun, the scorpion. but 6 is also the number of the sun, our star. the n of nu is therefore the dragon "infinite space- and v is "the infinite stars" thereof. the ith is the honorific termination representing her fulfilment of creative force "i" being the inmost force, and "th" its extension. the dragon in current symbolism refers to the north or hollow of heaven; thus to the womb of space, which is the container and breeder of all that exists. liber aleph should be consulted for further information as to the magical import of scorpio and taurus. al i,25 "divide, add, multiply, and understand" the old comment 25. dividing 6/50= 0.12. 0, the circumference, nuit, the centre, hadit. 1, the unity proceeding, ra-hoor-khuit. 2, the coptic h, whose shape closely resembles the

misapplied. it is our first duty to ourselves to preserve the treasure entrusted to us "what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul" the nature of man is individual. no two faces are identical, still less are two individuals. unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity, inasmuch as all cometh from the womb of nuit- to it returneth all. the apprehension of this sublimity is the mark of divinity. knowing this, all is liberty; ignorant of this, all is bondage. as no two individuals are identical, so also, there can be no identity between the quintessential expressions of the will of any two persons; and the expression of each person, in the first instance, as his purely physical prerogative, is hi

erate the world, the little world, my sister" the misunderstanding of sex, the ignorant fear like a fog, the ignorant lust like a miasma, these things have done more to keep back humanity from realization of itself, and from intelligent cooperation with its destiny, than any other dozen things put together. the vileness and falseness or religion itself have been the monsters aborted from the dark womb of its infernal mystery. there is nothing unclean or degrading in any manifestation soever of the sexual instinct, because, without exception, every act is an impulsively projected image of the will of the individual who, whether man or woman, is a star; the pennsylvanian with his pig no less than the spirit with mary; sappho with atthis and apollo with hyacinth as perfect as daphnis with chl

ul be indeed its father's son, he will not fear to show lack of filial reverence, or presumption, if he forget its family in the fervour of founding one of his own, of begetting boys not better or braver indeed than his brothers, girls not softer or sweeter indeed than his sisters, but wholly his own, with his own defects and desires evoked by enchantment of ecstasy when he dies to himself in the womb of the witch who lusts for his life, and buys it with the coin that bears his image and superscription. such is the secret of the soul of the artist. he knows that he is a god, of the sons of god; he has no fear or shame in showing himself of the seed of his father. he is proud of that father's most precious privilege, and he honours him no less than himself by using it. he accepts his family

objection to calypso, circe, armida, kundry, and co. is that one is liable to be shut up in their gardens. the whole of the book of the dead is a device for opening the closed vehicles, and enabling the osiris to go in and out at his pleasure. on the other hand, there seems to be a sealing up, for a definite period, in order to allow the change to proceed undisturbed. thus earth lies fallow; the womb is closed during gestation; the osiris is plugged with talismans. but it is vital to consider this as a strictly temporary device; and to "cut out the idea of eternal rest. this nibbana-idea is the coward 'mother's boy' idea; one ought to take a refreshing dip in the tao, no more. i think this must be brought forward as the cardinal point of our holy law. thus though nuit cries "to me" that i

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the deacon and all the people: i believe in one secret and ineffable lord; and in one star in the company of stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one father of life, mystery of mystery, in his name chaos, the sole viceregent of the sun upon the earth; and in one air the nourisher of all that breathes. and i believe in one earth, the mother of us all, and in one womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, mystery of mystery, in her name babalon. and i believe in the serpent and the lion, mystery of mystery, in his name baphomet. and i believe in one gnostic and catholic church of light, life, love and liberty, the word of whose law is velhma. and i believe in the communion of saints. and, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in u

aleister crowley--oh sons of the lion and the snake! with all thy saints we worthily commemorate them worthy that were and are and are to come. may their essence be here present, potent, puissant and paternal to perfect this feast! the people: so mote it be. the earth the deacon: mother of fertility on whose breast lieth water, whose cheek is caressed by air, and in whose heart is the sun's fire, womb of all life, recurring grace of seasons, answer favorably the prayer of labour, and to pastors and husbandmen be thou propitious. the people: so mote it be. the principles the deacon: mysterious energy, triform, mysterious matter, in fourfold and sevenfold division, the interplay of which things weave the dance of the veil of life upon the face of the spirit, let there be harmony and beauty i

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

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lly dealt with in liber 418. notice 156= 12 13. this was a name given and ratified by qabalah; 156 is not one of the priori helpful numbers. it is rather a case of the qabalah illuminating st. john s intentional obscurity. 165. 11 xv should be a number capricorni pneumatici. not yet fulfilled. 201. ra, light (chaldee. note 201= 3 67, binah, as if it were said, light is concealed as a child in the womb of its mother. the occult retoret of the chaldean magi to the hebrew sorcerers who affirmed rwa, light, 207, a multiple of 9. but this is little more than a sectarian squabble. 207 is holy enough. 206. rbd, the word of power. a useful acquisition= the gateway of the word of light. 210. upon this hoiest number it is not fitting to dilate. we may refer zelatores to liber vii. cap i, liber legis

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s throne! difficult is the task, replied the alarmed deity, but i will use all my influence. i 1 the government, in the intersts of buddhists themselves, reserves all ground within 50 feet of a dagoba. the incident described in this section actually occurred in 1901. 2 siam. know a thing or two about indra, for example it was done. beautiful was the young girl s face as she sprang mature from the womb of matter, on her life-journey of an hundred thousand years. of all indra s flute-girls she played and sang the sweetest. yet ever some remembrance, dim as a pallid ghost that fleets down the long avenues of deodar and moonlight, stole in her brain; and her song was ever of love and death and music from beyond. and one day as she sang thus the deep truth stole into being and she knew the nobl

h the bloom of the wind s cheek as it clusters from the hidden valley s gloom; then i walk in woodland spaces, musing on the solemn ways of the immemorial places shut behind the starry rays; of the east and all its splendour, of the west and all its peace; and the stubborn lights grow tender, and the hard sounds hus and cease. in the wheel of heaven revolving, mysteries of death and birth, in the womb of time dissolving, shape anew a heaven and earth. ever changing, ever growing, ever dwindling, ever dear, ever worth the passion growing to distil a doubtful tear. these are with me, these are of me, these approve me, these obey, choose me, move me, fear me, love me, master of the night and day. these are real, these illusion: i am of them, false or frail, true or lasting, all is fusion in t

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divinely ripples the rose-petals of her nipples, and the jetted milk he laps from the soft delicious paps, sweeter than the bee-sweet showers in the chalice of the flowers, more intoxicating than all the purple grapes of pan. ah! my proper lips are stilled. only, all the world is filled with the echo, that dips over like the honey from the clover. passion, penitence, and pain seek their mother's womb again, and are born the triple treasure, peace and purity and pleasure- hush, my child, and come aloft where the stars are velvet soft! aleister crowley. 46 the magic glasses1 47 1 weh note: this frank harris story reads like a metaphor of crowley's subsequent career. biographers, consider the possible impact of this theme on crowley's attitude to public life. the magic glasses one raw novemb

i stagger him, i cut away earth from under his feet, i turn him upside down, i give him hashish and make him run amok, i twitch his buttocks with the red-hot tongs of my sadistic fancy- until he feels uncomfortable. but to the man who is already as uneasy as st. lawrence on his silver grill, who feels the spirit stir in him, even as a woman feels, and sickens at, the first leap of the babe in her womb, to him i bring the splendid vision, the perfume and the glory, the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel. and to whosoever hath attained that height will i put a further question, announce a further glory. 133 it is my misfortune and not my fault that i am bound to deliver this elementary message "man has two sides; one to face the world with, one to show a woman when he love

r life itself hath become unto me as a swordless scabbard- so i sat still and gloomed into the darkness. 209 the warrior there is an indifference which overleaps satisfaction; there is a surrender which overthrows victory, there is a resignation which shatters the fetters of anxiety, a relaxation which casts to the winds the manacles of despair. this is the hour of the second birth, when from the womb of the excess of misery is born the child of the nothingness of joy "solv" for all must be melted in the crucible of affliction, all must be refined in the furnace of woe, and then on the anvil of strength must it be beaten out into a blade of gleaming joy "coagula" weep and gnash your teeth, and sorrow sits crowned and exultant; therefore rise and gird on the armour of utter desolation! slay

? words of mystery float around me, a music of voices, a sweetness, as of the scent of far burning incense; yea! i see, i hear, i am caught up on the wings of song. yet i doubt, and doubt that i doubt. i behold! see! the night heaves as a woman great with child, and the surface of the black waters shimmers as the quivering skin of one in the agony of travail. the horizon is cleft and glows like a womb of fire, the hosts of the night are scattered, i am born, and the stars melt like flakes of snow before mine eyes. lo! there she stands, born in maturity, shaken from out the loins of the darkness, as a rainbow from the purple jars of the thunder. her hair is as a flood of dancing moon- beams, woven with golden ears of corn, and caught up by flashing serpents of malachite and emerald. on her

and night shall heave as an harlot great with child, and purity shall be born of corruption, and the light shall quiver through the darkness, an effulgence of opals like the beams of many colours irradiated from the l. v. x. through the night of reckoning hast thou passed,and thy path hath been wound around the land of darkness under the clouds of sleep. thou hast cleft the horizon as a babe the womb of its mother, and scattered the gloom of night, and shouted in thy joy "let there be light" now that thou has seized the throne, thou shalt pass the portals of the tomb and enter the temple beyond. 228 there thou shalt stand upon the great watch-tower of day, where all is awakenment, and gaze forth on the kingdom of the vine and the land of the houses of coolness. thou shalt conquer the empi

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manner. concentrate thy thought of thyself in the base of the spine, and move it gradually up a little at a time. by this means thou wilt become conscious of the spine, feeling each vertebra as a separate entity. this must be achieved most fully and perfectly before the further practice is begun. 4. next, adore the brain as before, but figure to thyself its content as infinite. deem it to be the womb of isis, or the body of nuit. 5. next, identify thyself with the base of the spine as before, but figure to thyself its energy as infinite. deem it to be the phallus of osiris or the being of hadit. 6. these two concentrations 4 and 5 may be pushed to the point of samadhi. yet lose not control of the will; let not samadhi be thy master herein. 7. now then, being conscious both of the brain an

ealt with in liber 418. notice 12 x 13= 156. this was a name given and ratified by qabalah; 156 is not one of the priori helpful numbers. it is rather a case of the qabalah illuminating st john's intentional obscurity. 165. 11 x xv should be a number capricorni pneumatici. not yet fulfilled. 201. ar, light (chaldee. note 201= 3 x 67, binah, as if it were said "light is concealed as a child in the womb of its mother" the occult retort of the chaldean magi to the hebrew sorcerers who affirmed avr, light, 207, is holy enough. 206. dbr, the word of power. a useful acquisition "the gateway of the word of light" 210. upon this holiest number it is not fitting to dilate. we may refer zelatores to liber vii. cap. i, liber legis cap. i, and liber 418. but this was only revealed later. at first i on

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all is changed; all is confounded; naught is ordered: the white is stained with blood: the black is kissed of the christ! return! return! it is a new chaos that thou findest here: chaos for thee: for us it is the skeleton of a new truth" i said: tell me this truth: for i have conjured ye by the mighty names of god, the which ye cannot but obey. the voice said: light is consumed as a child in the womb of its mother to develop itself anew. but pain and sorrow infinite, and darkness are invoked. for this child riseth up within his mother and doth crucify himself within her bosom. he extendeth his arms in the arms of his mother and the light becometh fivefold1. lux in luce, christus in cruce; deo duce sempiterno. and be the glory for ever and ever unto the most high god, amen! then i returned

carlet lightning; his face is black, and his eyes white without any pupil or iris. the face is very terrible indeed to look upon. now in front of him is a wheel, with many spokes, and many tyres; it is like a fence in front of him. and he cries: o man, who art thou that wouldst penetrate the mystery? for it is hidden unto the end of time. and i answer him: time is not, save in the darkness of her womb by whom evil came. and now the wheel breaks away, and i see him as he is. his garment is black beneath the opal veils, but it is lined with white, and he has the shining belly of a fish, and enormous wings of black and white feathers, and innumerable little legs and claws like a centipede, and a long tail like a scorpion. the breasts are human, but they are all scored with blood; and he cries

of a fish, and enormous wings of black and white feathers, and innumerable little legs and claws like a centipede, and a long tail like a scorpion. the breasts are human, but they are all scored with blood; and he cries: o thou who hast broken down the veil, knowest thou not that who cometh where i am must be scarred by many sorrows? 11 and i answer him: sorrow is not, save in the darkness of the womb of her by whom came evil. i pierce the mystery of his breast, and therein is a jewel. it is a sapphire as great as an ostrich egg, and thereon is graven this sigil: illustration on page 12 described: this is in the form of two "u" shapes, very elongated in the risers. the one to the right is lower than the first, and its left riser extends 2/3's of the way up inside the center of the one to t

y have none above them; wherefore dispersion and disorder. now cometh from every side at once a voice, terribly great, crying: close the veil; the great blasphemy hath been uttered; the face of my mother is scarred by the nails of the devil. shut the book, destroy the breaker of the seal! 14 and i answered: had he not been destroyed he had not come hither, for i am not save in the darkness in the womb of her by whom came evil into the world. and this darkness swallows everything up, and the angel is gone from the stone; and there is no light therein, save only the light of the rose and of the cross. aumale, algeria "november" 23, 1909, between 8 and 9 p.m. the cry of the 27th aethyr, which is called zaa there is an angel with rainbow wings, and his dress is green with silver, a green veil

thou art a partaker of the five-fold mystery. thou must roll up the ten divine ones like a scroll, and fashion therefrom a star. yet must thou blot out the star in the heart of hadit. 26 for the blood of my heart is like a warm bath of myrrh and ambergris; bathe thyself therein. the blood of my heart is all gathered upon my lips if i kiss thee, burns in my fingertips if i caress thee, burns in my womb when thou art caught up into my bed. mighty are the stars; mighty is the sun; mighty is the moon; mighty is the voice of the ever-living one, and the echoes of his whisper are the thunders of the dissolution of the worlds. but my silence is mightier than they. close up the worlds like unto a weary house; close up the book of the recorder, and let the veil swallow up the shrine, for i am arise

door of the place of his retirement; lest he contaminate his glory with uncleanness, and lest they that behold him be smitten by his glory unto death. for this is a holy mystery, and he that did first attain to 55 reveal the alphabet thereof, perceived not one ten-thousandth part of the fringe that is upon its vesture. come away! for the clouds are gathered together, and the aire heaveth like the womb of a woman in travail. come away! lest he loose the lightnings from his hand, and unleash his hounds of thunder. come away! for the voice of the aethyr is accomplished. come away! for the seal of his loving-kindness is made sure. and let there be praise and blessing unspeakable unto him that sitteth upon the holy throne, for he casteth down mercies as a spendthrift that scattereth gold. and h

to thy heart, and shaketh thee as an aspen in the wind. they also tremble that are without, and they are shaken 108 from without by the earthquakes of his judgement. they have set their affections upon the earth, and they have stamped with their feet upon the earth, and cried: it moveth not. therefore hath earth opened with strong motion, like the sea, and swallowed them. yea, she hath opened her womb to them that lusted after her, and she hath closed herself upon them. there lie they in torment, until by her quaking the earth is shattered like brittle glass, and dissolved like salt in the waters of his mercy, so that they are cast upon the air to be blown about therein, like seeds that shall take root in the earth; yet turn they their affections upward to the sun. but thou, be thou eager

two: what is above and what is below? for there is the division that divideth not, and the multiplication that multiplieth not. and the one is the many. behold, this mystery is beyond understanding, for the winged globe is the crown, and the shaft is the wisdom, and the barb is the understanding. and the arrow is one, and thou art lost in the mystery, who art but as a babe that is carried in the womb of its mother, that art not yet ready for the light. and the vision overcometh me. my sense is stunned; my sight is blasted; my hearing is dulled. and a voice cometh: thou didst seek the remedy of sorrow; therefore all sorrow is thy portion. this is that which is written "god hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all" for as thy blood is mingled in the cup of babalon, so is thine heart the un

e, who art all spirit and fire, and hast no duller elements in thy star; thou art come to sight at the end of thy will. and if thou wilt hear the voice of the aethyr, do thou invoke it in the night, having no other light but the light of the half moon. then mayest thou hear the voice, though it may be that thou understandeth it not. yet shall it be a potent spell, whereby thou mayest lay bare the womb of thy understanding to the violence of chaos. now, therefore, for the last time, let the veil of the aethyr be torn. aha! aha! aha! aha! aha! aha! aha! a ka dua tuf ur biu bi a'a chefu dudu ner af an nuteru. this aethyr must be left unfinished then until the half moon. hammam salahin "december" 18, 1909 3.10- 4.25 p.m. an olvah nu arenu olvah. diraeseu adika va paretanu poliax poliax in vah

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be poured out upon nile, and my flesh be given to besz to devour! let my phallus be concealed in the maw of mati, and my crown be divided among my brethren! let the jaws of apep grind me into poison! let the sea of poison swallow me wholly up! let asi my mother rend her robes in anguish, and nepti weep for me unavailing. then shall asi being forth hoor, and heru-pa-kraat shall leap glad from her womb. the lord of vengeance shall awaken; sekhet shall roar, and pasht cry aloud. then shall my members be gathered together, and my bonds shall be unloosed; and my khu shall be mighty in khem for ever and ever! 11.37. i return to he place of the evil triad, of ommo satan, that is before the altar. there to expiate my folly in 88 attaching myself to all this great concourse of ideas that i have he

of drought (the 3 1/2 coils of the kundalini are implied by this) and this ek grata is the little cloud like a hand (yod, the lingam of great shiva) and, though i catch up my robe and run before the chariot of the king into jezreel, it may be 91 that before i reach those gates the whole sky may be one black flame of thundercloud, and the violet swords of the lightning may split asunder its heavy womb, and the rain, laughing like a young child, may dance upon the desert! 12.58. the light beginneth to dawn upon the path, so that i see a little better where i stand. this whole journey seems under some other formula than iao perhaps a pentagram formula with which i am not clearly acquainted. if i knew the word of the grade, i could foretell things: but i don't. i think i will read through th

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prelude to a simple note on the precautions which i took in my experiments. first, the use of the minutest care in estimating doses. secondly, the rule never to repeat my experiment before the lapse of at least a month. 54 frankly, i doubt if these were necessary. i do not suppose my will to be abnormally strong; i believe rather that there is a definite type of drug-slave, born from his mother's womb; and that those who achieve it or have it thrust upon them are a very small percentage. in saying this i include such obsessions as music, religion, gambling, among drugs. is the "keswick week" less of a debauch than the navvy's bank holiday? there are people who rush from meeting to meeting, and give up their whole lives to this unwholesome excess of stimulant; they are happy nowhere else; t

he vision passed. yet still was beaten, for i knew myself was he, himself, the first and last; and as an unicorn drinks dew from under oak-leaves, so my strength was cast into the mire; for all i did was dream, and all i dreamt desire. xxiv more; in this journey i had clean forgotten the quest, my lover. but the tomb 100 of all these thoughts, the rancid and the rotten, proved in the end to be my womb wherein my lord and lover had begotten a little child to drive me, laughing lion, into the wanton wild! xxv this child hath not one hair upon his head, but he hath wings instead of ears. no eyes hath he, but all his light is shed within him on the ordered spheres of nature that he hideth; and in stead of mouth he hath one minute point of jet; silence, the lightning path! xxvi also his nostril

le empyrean down in the dusk with the dead galilean- fill me the cup of the poppy circean! ii hardly a glimmer to chasten the gloom. hardly a murmur of time at his loom. nothing of sense by the poppy-perfume. 191 boy, as you love me, i charge you to fold pipe over pipe into gardens of gold such as a god may be glad to behold. seated on high in the aeons of doom, sucked as a seed into the infinite womb, sealed is my soul in the sheath of its tomb. boy, as you love me, i charge you to mould pipe after pipe, till the heavens are rolled back and are lost as a tale that is told! iii silence and darkness are weaving a web broidered with nothing at uttermost ebb- cover, oh cover the shaming of seb! fling the wide veil, o nuit, on the shame- shame from the knowledge and unto the name- hide it, o h

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6 he dies (106 is "attained" and hb:nun-final hb:vau hb:nun scorpio. the symbolism of 120 having been accomplished, his tomb is found. this is the tomb of the postulant (note geomantic angelic symbolism of iao and inri) the l sign is the svastika (see z in 0= 0 ritual for meaning) also svastika hath 17 squares showing iao synthetical.23 and the svastika includeth the cross "even as a child in the womb of its mother to develop itself anew &c &c (cry of 29th aethyr.)24 the cubical svastika hath 78 faces= tarot and mezla. it is also hb:aleph= air and zero. it shows the initiation of a whirling force. the v sign is that of apophis and typhon. it is the y of pythagoras; it is the arms flung up of the drowning man and therefore= 12th key and hb:mem. it is also the horns of the mediaeval devil. i

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sh of whose whip gathered the ancient worlds, and looseth the blood from the virgin clouds of heaven. 11. o thou sovran moonstone of pearly loveliness, from out whose many eyes flash the fire-clouds of life, and whose breath enkindleth the byss and the abyss. i know thee! o thou fountain-head of fierce aethyr, in the pupil of whose brightness all things lie crouched and wrapped like a babe in the womb of its mother. 12. o thou sovran mother of the breath of being, the milk of whose breasts is as the fountain of love, twin-jets of fire upon the blue bosom of night. i know thee! o thou virgin of the moonlit glades, who fondleth us as a drop of dew in thy lap, ever watchful over the cradle of our fate. 13. o thou sovran all-beholding eternal sun, who lappest up the constellations of heaven, a

ll time and through all space: glory, and glory upon glory, everlastingly. amen, and amen, and amen. 27 the chapter known as libra the twelvefold gratification of god and the unity thereof i adore thee by the twelve gratifications and by the unity thereof. 1. o thou green-cloaked maenad in labour, who bearest beneath thy leaden girdle the vintage of thy kisses; release me from the darkness of thy womb, so that i may cast off my infant wrappings and leap forth as an armed warrior in steel. 2. o thou snake of misty countenance, whose braided hair is like a fleecy dawn of swooning maidens; hunt me as a fierce wild boar through the skies, so that thy burning spear may gore the blue heavens red with the foaming blood of my frenzy. 3. o thou cloudy virgin of the world, whose breasts are as scarl

e mind; nor grasped by the fingers of silence or of speech! i deny thee by the powers of mine understanding; robe me in the unity of thy might, and speed me into the blindness of thine all-pervading nothingness; for thy art all and none of these in the fullness of thy not-being. 33 9. o thou god of the nothingness of all things! thou who art neither the forge of eternity; nor the thunder-throated womb of chaos: o thou who art not found in the hissing of the hailstones; nor in the rioting of the equinoctial storm! i deny thee by the powers of mine understanding; bring me to the unity of thy might, and feast me on honeyed manna of thine all-pervading nothingness; for thou art all and none of these in the fullness of thy not-being. 10. o thou god of the nothingness of all things! thou who art

ters! i rejoice, yea, i shout with gladness! till my cries stir the night as the burnished gold of a lance thrust into a poisonous dragon of adamant, for the glory and splendour of thy name. 13. ah! but i rejoice in thee, o thou my god; thou self-luminous refulgent brilliance; thou eye of light that hath no eyelid; thou turquoise-studeed sceptre of deed: yea, i rejoice in thee, thou white furnace womb of energy; 40 o thou spark-whirling forge of the substance of the worlds; i rejoice, yea, i shout with gladness! till i mount as a white beam unto the crown, and as a breath of night melt into the golden lips of thy dawn, in the glory and splendour of thy name. o glory be unto thee through all time and through all space: glory, and glory upon glory, everlastingly. amen, and amen, and amen. 41

ely eagle of night, that drinkest at the moist lips of the moon! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou wild daughter of chaos, that art ravished by the strong son of law! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou ghostly night of terror, that art slaughtered in the blood of the dawn! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou poppied nectar of sleep, that art curled in the 59 still womb of slumber! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou burning rapture of girls, that disport in the sunset of passion! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou molten ocean of stars, that art a crown for the forehead of day! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou little brook in the hills, like an asp betwixt the breasts of a girl! i adore thee, evoe! i adore thee, iao! o thou

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changel, and his serpents echoed him till the world was filled with mocking laughter. but when he had left, he charged them straitly that the work must be regarded seriously. it would never do to fail! 205 so for aeons three hundred and twenty and five did they labour with all their might. but the crack was not diminished by an hair's breadth; nay, it seemed bigger than before- a very gape in the womb of the universe. crestfallen, kamael the mighty returned before the great white spirit, his serpents drooping behind him; and they grovelled before the throne of that all-powerful one. he dismissed them with a short laugh, and a wave of his right hand. if he was disturbed, he was too proud to show it "this" he said to himself "is clearly a matter for elohim gibor" therefore he summoned that d

perfect calmness, when the force of love is concentrated over the unlimited extension of silence('silence' is really choice. 287 "virtue" he defines as "the bent of mind towards self-command (and evidently practises it. his morals are good; but his scientific conceptions really "take the cake "there are three kinds of animate creations in the world" he writes "they are the creations from (1) the womb (2) eggs (3) perspiration" another gem "how is it that some of the bodies are male and some are female" answer "if the male seed preponderates, a male body is produced; and if female, a female. while, when both are equally proportioned, an eunuch is born) at one of his male meetings- there were also female ones; but mixed bathing in the ocean of infinite bliss was not allowed- he related to u

rs as he has in the last, soon we shall have some socialistic fellah depriving the world of its last great monuments, and building labourers' cottages out of the stones and bricks of the pyramids, because they are so very much more useful "solve" is the cry to-day; the sabbatic finger of the goat points upwards, yet on the clouds of darkness does it scrawl a sigil of light. a new god stirs in the womb of its mother; we can see his form, dim and red, in the cavern of time. dare we pronounce his name? yea! it is horus, horus the child, reborn amsu the good shepherd, who will lead us out of the sheepish stupidity of to-day. how many understand this mystery? perhaps none save those who have seen and subscribed to the law of thelema. j. f. c. f. the lost valley. by algernon blackwood. nash. 6"s

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of fate: his mother it is in very deed that gleeful goes the goatish gait. his mother it his, that pure and pale cried in the pangs that gave him birth; the holy image he would veil from aught the tiniest taint of earth. 7 she knows him, and black fear bedim those eyes; she offers to his gaze the blue-veined breasts that suckled him in childhood's sweet and solemn days. weeping she bares the holy womb! shrieks out the mother's last appeal: and reads irrevocable doom in those dread eyes of ice and steel. he winds his horn: his warriors pour in thousands on the fenceless foe; the sunset stains their hideous war with crimson bars of after-glow. he winds his horn; the night-stars leap to light; upspring the sisters seven; while answering flames illume the deep, the blue pavilions blaze to heav

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

o end the music earth began? we play with loaded dice! he cannot choose but raise right hand to bless. el arabi! el arabi! great is the love of god and man while i am trembling in thine arms, wild wanderer of the wilderness! el arabi! hilda norfolk. 38 lambda iota nu omicron sigma iota sigma iota delta omicron sigma lo! i lament. fallen is the sixfold star: slain is asar. o twinned with me in the womb of night! o son of my bowels to the lord of light! o man of mine that hast covered me from the shame of my virginity! where art thou? is it not apep thy brother, the snake in my womb that am thy mother, that hath slain thee by violence girt with guile, and scattered thy limbs on the nile? lo! i lament. i have forged a whirling star: i seek asar. o nepti, sister! arise in the dusk from thy cha

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

n! silence, coeval colleague of the voice, the plumes of amoun- rejoice! lo! i rejoice. i heal the sanguine scar of slain asar. i was the past, nature the mother. he was the present, man my brother. look to the future, the child- oh paean the child that is crowned in the lion-aeon! the sea-dawns surge an billow and break beneath the scourge of the star and the snake. to my lord i have borne in my womb deep-vaulted this babe for ever exalted! aleister crowley 40 the temple of solomon the king iv. the hermit with the seventh stage in the mystical progress of frater p. we arrive at a sudden and definite turning-poinjt. during the last two years he had grown strong in the magic of the west. after having studied a host of mystical systems he had entered the order of the golden dawn, and it had

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of hate, palaces of the underworld. but in the hell-glow of those eyes the ashen skull of pharaoh shone white as the moonrays that surprise the invoking druse on lebanon. moreover pylon shouldered round to pylon an unearthly tune, like phantom priests that strike and sound sinister sistrons at the moon. and death's insufferable perfume beat the black air with golden fans as turkis rip a nubian's womb with damascened yataghans. also the taste of dust long dead of ancient queens corrupt and fair struck through the temple, subtly sped by demons dominant of the air. last, on the flesh there came a touch like sucking mouths and stroking hands that laid their foul alluring smutch even to the blood's mad sarabands. 8 so did the neophyte that would gaze into dead pharaoh's awful eyes start from i

l asleep and never wake again; nothing is of us but the mouldering flesh, whose elements dissolve and merge afresh in earth, air, water, plants, and other men. we finish thus; and all our wretched race shall finish with its cycle, and give place to other beings, with their own time-doom infinite aeons are our kind began; infinite aeons after the last man has joined the mammoth in earth's tomb and womb. we bow down to the universal laws, which never had for man a special clause of cruelty or kindness, love or hate: if toads and vultures are obscene to sight, if tigers burn with beauty and with might, is it by favour or by wrath of fate? all substance lives and struggles evermore through countless shapes continually at war, by countless interactions interknit: if one is born a certain day on

the bloom of the wind's cheek as it clusters from the hidden valley's gloom; then i walk in woodland spaces, musing on the solemn ways of the immemorial places shut behind the starry rays; of the east and all its splendour, of the west and all its peace; and the stubborn lights grow tender, and the hard sounds hush and cease. in the wheel of heaven revolving, mysteries of death and birth, in the womb of time dissolving, shape anew a heaven and earth, ever changing, ever growing, ever dwindling, ever dear, ever worth the passion glowing to distil a doubtful tear. these are with me, these are of me, these approve me, these obey, choose me, move me, fear me, love me, master of the night and day. these are real, these illusion: i am of them, false or frail, true or lasting, all is fusion in t

n terror and lurks toward west] satan-typhon. i would have speech with my brother the sun. aries. it is well. leo. it is not well. there is danger herein to my lord["he bars the way" aries. speech cannot harm our lord. leo. brother, if thou be indeed our borther, what wilt thou say? satan-typhon. o sun, my brother, is it thy will that i have speech with thee? for i lay with thee nine moons in the womb of our mother; for we have loved as none have loved; for i am closer knit with thee than light and darkness, or than life and death! sol. 22-1-1-22 [leo "gives way and returns to his throne, very sad [satan-typhon "advances to" sol "and" aries "closes the veil on them [besz "jumps up and runs off crouchingly["the lights go out [scorpio-apophis "plays her serpent melody<
n, i am, alone. none other may abide apart: they perish, drawn into me, into my being grown. none other bosom is, to bear, to nourish, to be: the heart of all beneath my zone of blue and gold is scarlet-bright to cherish my own life's being, that is, and is not other; for i am god and nature and thy mother. 75 i am the thousand-breasted milky spouse, virginal also: tartarus and gaia twinned in my womb, and chaos from my brows shrank back abashed, my sister dark and dire, mother of erebus and night, that ploughs with starry-sandalled feet the fields of fire; my sister shrank and fell, the infernal gloom changed to the hot sweet shadow of my womb. i am: that darkness strange and uterine is shot with dawn and scented with the rose; the deep dim prison-house of corn and wine, flowers, children

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p. 5. thou art tossed about in the grip of the storm for an aeon and an aeon and an aeon. but thou givest not thy sap; thou fallest not. 6. only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great god f. i. a. t. is enthroned on the day of be-with-us. 7. for two things are done and a third thing is begun. isis and osiris are given over to incest and adultery. horus leaps up thrice armed from the womb of his mother. harpocrates his twin is hidden within him. set is his holy covenant, that he shall display in the great day of m. a. a. t, that is being interpreted the master of the temple of a. a, whose name is truth. 35 8. now in this is the magical power known. 9. it is like the oak that hardens itself and bears up against the storm. it is weather-beaten and scarred and confident like a se

ment, awake, and learn of me the secret of the sea, whose meaning is the sum of all things blent in fiercest harmony. soft winds are calling on the cloudy deep (like foam-flowers falling from the breasts of sleep their lotus-kiss is, such a world forestalling of wanton blisses, that the fear of palling makes e'en the sirens weep. ah me! what serpent hisses from out those purple bysses, far in the womb of the long-lying sea? she wakes! nor dare he creep back to her soul, whence sleep has torn aside the mist-hung drapery; too strange the way, and steep. ethel archer. 66 the scorpion a tragedy in three acts by aleister crowley "god is love- epistles of st john. 67 to gr:alpha-gamma-alpha-theta-alpha in memory of the hour of initiation, and to lampada tradam and mohammed ibn rahman in memory o

. yes. by that i knew that you loved me. laylah. and by this("she strikes him) know that i hate you. rinaldo. you are too young. i have seen lions. laylah. you are a savage. rinaldo. nature is savage. passion is savage. the god alike of jews and moslems delights in death. or why are men and beasts slain in his honour? brutal force is at the heart of things. man is dragged crying from his mother's womb in dire agony; man fights his surroundings- the nearer they are the more bitterly must he fight them 78- and at last he is hurled fighting into the hungry mouth of death. laylah. the cloud grows. rinaldo. indeed you love me, if you bid me waste no time. laylah. oh no. i must respect you. you treat me as if i were a pebble in the sand. nothing moves you. rinaldo. love moves me. laylah. we are

my lips as if it were a grape. and the wine of demeter flushes my cheeks; they burn with joy of youth. why should i greet the world? because my heart is bursting with love for the world. love, say i? why not lust? is not lust strength, and merriment, and the famine that only the infinite can stay? and why do i call myself the child of miracle? because i have entered a second time into my mother's womb and am born. because to the knowledge of manhood has come the passion, even the folly, of adolescence; with all its pride and purity. it is for this that you see me lying upon the thick wet grass, unquenchable; or rejoicing in the fat black loam. now the manner of the miracle was this. in the beginning is given to a youth the vision of his mate. this one must he henceforth seek blindly; and m

breast, in forest and on glacier, upon great plains and upon lonely crags, in heat and cold, fair weather and foul; and my blood is the blood of the earth. my life is hers, and as she is a spark thrown off from the whirling brilliance of the sun, so do i know myself to be a spark of infinite god. seek earth, and heaven shall be added unto you! back to our mother, drive the shining spade into her womb! wrinkle her with your furrows, she will only smile more kindly! let your sweat, the sweat of your toil, which is your passion, drip like benediction from on high upon her; she will render corn and wine. also your wife shall be desirable in your eyes all the days of your life, and your children shall 110 be strong and comely, and the blessing of the most high shall be upon you. then let your

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push) c: my name is n (giving light smack or push) each member of the coven in turn gives candidate a light swat or push, asking: each covener: what is thy name?(giving light smack or push) candidate responds to each with his (her) new name. when all have put the question, all return to their places and h. administers the oath saying: h: repeat thy new name after me: i, n, swear upon my mother's womb, and by mine honour among men and my brothers and sisters of the art, that i will never reveal, to any at all, any of the secrets of the art, except it be to a worthy person, properly prepared, in the center of a magic circle such as i am now in; and that i will never deny the secrets to such a person, if he or she has been properly vouched for by a brother or sister of the art. all this i sw

and scourges him kneeling before the altar, as before. he stands and is unbound and says: hp: now i must reveal a great mystery, hps stands vefore altar in god position. hp gives her fivefold salute [after he kisses feet, hps opens into goddess position, still holding scourge and athame. hps then sets scourge and athame aside and lies in the middle of the circle with her head to the east and her womb in the shekinah point. hp kneels beside her facing north [at each point marked (s) below he kisses her womb unless instructed otherwise] hp says: hp: assist me to erect the ancient altar, at which in days past all worshipped, the great altar of all things; for in old times, woman was the altar. thus was the altar made and placed; and the sacred point was the point within the centre of the cir

e giver of life. yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. i am alone, the lord within ourselves, whose name is mystery of mysteries. hp now kisses hps in the sigil of the third degree as follows [there's a diagram in the non-computer version which i can't reproduce. it shows the priestess with the points of the third degree sigil marked on her body. the points are: 1. genitals/womb; 2. right foot; 3. left knee; 4. right knee; 5.left foot; 6. genitals/womb; 7. lips; 8. left breast; 9. right breast; 10. lips] and then lays his body gently over hers, saying: hp: make open the path of intelligence between us; for these truly are the five points of fellowship- foot to foot, knee to knee, lance to grail, breast to breast, lips to lips. by the great and holy name cernunnos; in

e ones i'm sure of) the farrars say that they are giving gbg's text b version. l the great rite (alternative verse version of priest's declamation) assist me to build as the mighty ones willed an altar of praise from beginning of days. thus doth it lie 'twixt the points of the sky for thus was it placed when the goddess embraced the horn'd one, her lord, who taught her the word that quickened the womb and conquered the tomb. be thus as of yore, the shrine we adore [kiss] the feast without fail, the life-giving grail [kiss] before it uprear the miraculous spear [touches own phallus] and invoke in this sign the goddess divine [kiss] thou who at noon of night doth reign queen of the starry realms above, not unto thee may we attain unless thine image be of love [kiss] by moon-ray's silver shaf

om the one given here. see doreen valiente's the rebirth of witchcraft. l drawing down the moon needs: l wand, scourge, priestess' athame l priest, priestess follows: casting circle, witches' rune next: the charge hps stands in god position in n. before altar, holding scourge and athame. coveners are in s. facing altar. hp kneels before hps and salutes her with the fivefold kiss (as he kisses her womb, she opens into blessing position. hp again kneels before hps who stands in goddess positon (right foot slightly forward. hp invokes the goddess, saying: hp: i invoke thee and call upon thee, mighty mother of us all (touch right breast) bringer of all fruitfulness (touch left breast) by seed and root (touch womb) by stem and bud (touch right breast) by leaf and flower and fruit, by life and l

pens into blessing position. hp again kneels before hps who stands in goddess positon (right foot slightly forward. hp invokes the goddess, saying: hp: i invoke thee and call upon thee, mighty mother of us all (touch right breast) bringer of all fruitfulness (touch left breast) by seed and root (touch womb) by stem and bud (touch right breast) by leaf and flower and fruit, by life and love (touch womb) do i invoke (raising wand) thee to descend upon the body of this thy servant and priestess. here, speak with her tongue, touch with her hands, kiss with her lips, that thy servants may be fulfilled. as he invokes, hp touches hps gently with wand upon r. breast, l. breast, womb and upon the same three places again. as he finishes the invocation, he spreads his arms in adoration (still kneelin

o appears to be khaled's idea. l water deep body dryness, hotness, mind& body feel seperated, no empathy body puffiness, sinus (etc) flows, mood swings "touchiness, apathy goddess aspect: mother astrological rulers: venus, moon keys: love principle, fertility, gabriel (turns force into form) rules: emotions, love, sorrow, courage, astral planes, clairvoyance, tides, oceans, pools, streams, wells, womb melancholic; feeling; strong, excitatory virtues: compassion, tranquility, tenderness, forgiveness, modesty, fluidity in creativity, receptivity, influence vices: self-indulgence, negligence, cowardice, indifference, instability, moodiness, infatuation, easily put upon, delusions season: autumn time of day: sunset direction: west wind: zephyrus colour: blue symbols: willlow, dolphin, fish, wa

ally. after four or five hours pour into linen bag and squeeze grease through into pot again and fill with fresh leaves. repeat until grease is strongly scented. do same with marjoram, thyme and pounded dried patchouli leaves, an you may have them (for they be best of all. when strongly scented, mix all the greases together and keep in a well-stoppered jar. anoint behind ears, throat, breasts and womb. in rites where blessed be. may be said, anoint knees and feet, as also for rites connected with journeys or war. notes l published in janet and stewart farrar's the witches' way, from gbg's text b/c bos. various instructions a note upon the ritual of the wine and cakes. it is said that in olden days ale or mead was often used instead of wine. it is said that spirits or anything can be used "

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ious life of the earlier system, nor of the elemental life of this; only in the next system will be seen the manifestation of a form of consciousness of a type at present inconceivable to man. esoterically he is stated to have "neither sight nor hearing; he is neither deva nor human in essence. he is occultly "blind" utterly unaware; he is capable only of movement, and resembles the foetus in the womb; that which is coming to the birth only the next greater cycle will reveal. the mystery of the moon70(237) or of the "divine lunatic" is connected somewhat with the revelation (through the premature compassion of our planetary logos) of the life of this nature, informing the dense globe of the moon chain. on his high level, pity awoke in the heart of the planetary logos for certain involution

f their nature, you may consider them as standing in the same relation to the spiritually regenerated and released world brahmins or the nirmanakayas as these stand to the ordinary humanity. the angels were such brahmins in previous mahamanvantaras, who spent those enormous periods in suffering and toil for the sake of rearing wisdom in the world and hence they emerged as angels from the infinite womb of aditi under their karmic impulse after a period of mahapralaya. some thoughts on the gita, page 137. 192 20: the lunar pitris are all nature spirits. s. d, ii, 107. 1. they possess, or are the containers of the fire of the third aspect. s. d, ii, 81. 2. their work precedes that of the solar angels. s. d, i, 268. 3. they exist in seven classes as do the solar angels. s. d, ii, 96. a. three

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the proper path in order to carry out its creator's will and purpose. this takes place fairly early in the work and after the process of orientation the work of building proceeds, for the thought-form is not yet ready for an independent life. there is a true analogy between the gestation period of an infant and that of a thought-form. the importance of the right placement of the child within the womb is never overlooked by a good physician, and where there is analogously a wrong position upon the path to be followed into manifested existence, death and trouble oft ensue. the analogy is close as you well know. birth is preceded by the "breaking of the waters (in medical parlance, and before the thought-form brings about the desired results on the physical plane there comes too a similar re

e initiates of the time. held latent in the astrological presentation is that information which will lead disciples to realization, and which will put them en rapport with the seven planetary schemes. real developments in astrology may not be looked for, however, until the new age is really with us and the new orientation achieved. the form of humanity is completed. its right placement within the womb of matter is the objective of the hierarchy, with all the consequent implications. note these words. the need at this time is terrific, and the soul is at the birthing in humanity as a whole. cosmically speaking, if right direction of the forces of the human kingdom is now achieved, there will be manifested on the earth a humanity which will manifest a purpose, a beauty and a form which will

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pment, and finally (when the cycle draws towards its close) crystallisation and a gradual but steady emphasis of the letter and the form, till the death of that form becomes inevitable and wise. but the spirit remains to live on and take to itself new forms. the spirit of christ is undying, and as he lives to all eternity, so that which he incarnated to demonstrate must also live. the cell in the womb, the stage of littleness, the development of the child into the man to all this he submitted himself, and underwent all the processes which are the destiny of every son of god. because of this submission and because he "learned obedience by the things which he suffered,"2 he could be trusted to reveal god to man, and (may we say it) the divine in man to god. for the gospels show us that conti

is expanding consciousness, he is gradually led to experience more and more of the divine immanence, to perceive more of the divine transcendence, and to register with an increasingly illumined awareness the revelation which is sequentially presented for his education and his cultural growth. today we stand at the very verge of the birth hour of the racial christ, and out from the darkness of the womb of matter the christ child can enter into the light of the kingdom of god. another crisis is upon us, and for this christ has prepared the race, for when he was born at bethlehem, it was not simply the birth of another divine teacher and messenger, but the appearing of an individual who not only summed up in himself the past achievement of the race, but who was- 22- from bethlehem to calvary

sh. this is "christ in us, the hope of glory" but as yet only a hope for the mass of men. christ is not yet made manifest. he is hidden and veiled by the form. mary is seen, not the christ. 2. as the wheel of life (the galilee experience) carries us from one lesson to another, we approach nearer and nearer to the indwelling reality and the hidden deity. but the christ child is still hidden in the womb of the form. 3. in due time, the personality physical, emotional and mental is fused into one living whole. the virgin mary is ready to give birth to her son. 4. the long journey draws to a close, and the hidden christ child is born at the first initiation. this truth dr. inge touches upon in these words "macarius, following methodius, teaches that the very idea of the incarnation includes th

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e method is relatively gentle, when compared to the method of the first ray, and the process is somewhat longer whilst the overshadowing (carried forward prior to entering into the three worlds for purposes of appearance) is very much longer. this refers to that overshadowing of the substance to be built into form, and not to the overshadowing of the completed form, i.e. the child in the mother's womb. in the first case, it might be said that souls on the first ray are sudden and rapid in their desire to incarnate, and in the methods employed. souls on the second ray are slower in coming to that "impulsive" action (in the sense of impulse to action and not impulse in time) which leads to the occult manufacture of an appearance with which to manifest. souls on this ray, as they come into in

heir own problems. as time goes on, the stages of difficulty will be more carefully investigated from the angle of the occult hypotheses and then much progress will take place. this will be peculiarly so, if the problems of adolescence are studied, for they are the problems of the atlantean consciousness and of the mystical unfoldment. i would like here to point out that just as the embryo in the womb recapitulates the various stages of animal unfoldment, so the human being, during the years of infancy, adolescence and youth up- 371- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust to the age of 35, recapitulates the various racial stages of consciousness. at 35 years old he should then affirm in himself the stage of the intelligent disciple. much

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ht" about this stage i am now going to speak- 552- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. the first initiation. this initiation ever precedes the stage of accepted discipleship. no master accepts a disciple and takes him into his ashram in whom the birth of the christ has not taken place. saul must become paul, as the christian phraseology puts it. the babe within the womb of time emerges into the world of men and, from the standpoint of complete identification with matter (the mother, he becomes himself and seeks consciously to tread the ways of life and to become what he is. this is an esoteric repetition of the physical process of becoming a separate individual. between the stages of "isolated individuality" and "isolated unity" lies one to which the name of

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ace to the responsiveness of the personality to soul impression and consequent stabilising of the life on the physical plane. virgo the mind, under the influence of virgo, which has been analytical and critical, changes to that quality of mind which is best described by the words, illumination and revelation. the christ to whom the virgin must eventually give birth is recognised as present in the womb, though not yet born. life is recognised. the process of the revelation of the christ consciousness is carried intelligently forward and the selfish aspirations and experiments of the undeveloped man give place to the selflessness of the illumined and intuitive disciple. sagittarius this is now the sign of the one-pointed disciple. the life of fluid response to matter becomes that of the focu

moon, saturn and jupiter, whilst alan leo posits the controlling planets as venus, saturn and mercury. in this case, as in some others, the truth lies between the two or in a combination of both. the true rulers of the decanates in libra are jupiter, saturn and mercury. i need not enlarge upon their effect except to point out that the result of the jupiterian influence is to "open the door of the womb" in virgo a planet which we shall consider when we study that sign of the zodiac, which is our next undertaking. the words or keynotes of this sign are so clear and plain that any elucidation of mine would serve but to confuse the issue. they speak straight to the heart and without obscurity. to the average man with no developed spiritual consciousness, the word goes forth again and again thr

of great advancement) of the first half of the life cycle in solar system one, whilst virgo is an equally advanced expression of the second half. in an effort to grasp the situation, it should he remembered that the consciousness aspect, as we understand the ability to be aware, was lacking entirely except in such an embryonic manner that the whole process resembled the stage of the embryo in the womb, prior to the quickening at the middle point of the gestation process. it will, however, do none of you any harm to exert the imaginative faculty and thus get a vague and faint idea of the synthesis of the great evolutionary scheme which, in a cosmic sense, concerns the threefold personality of deity. with this i- 152- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 199

pths, darkness, quiet and warmth; it is the valley of deep experience wherein secrets are discovered and eventually "brought to light; it is the place of slow, gentle and yet powerful crises and periodic developments which take place in the dark and yet which lead to light. it is the "blinded stage" which is found in masonic rituals and which ever precedes the gift of light. virgo stands for the "womb of time" wherein god's plan (the mystery and the secret of the ages) is slowly matured and with pain and discomfort and through struggle and conflict brought into manifestation at the end of the appointed time. today it would seem (curiously and convincingly) that we are entering into the eighth month of the gestation period; this is almost literally the case where humanity is concerned for c

e of humanity and with a voluntary re-orientation of his energies so that they are directed towards the production of synthesis and understanding. this will be the situation in the future for the masses. the astrologer of the future will have to bear these three modes of progression carefully in mind. such is god's plan as we at present can sense it. in this plan virgo, the virgin, stands for the womb of time and passes the personality-soul (leo-virgo) through the three above stages or cycles. she stands also for the womb of form and for the nurturing mother, guarding the christ principle within her own material substance until in "the fullness of time" she can give birth to the christ child. there are three principal signs connected with the christ principle in this world period: 1. virgo

rgo, the word and the flesh (scorpio) here are the four signs of creative dualism and inter-related evolution presented and descriptive of the potency and objectives of the fourth creative hierarchy. when mercury, the divine messenger, the principle of illusion and the expression of the active higher mind, has performed his mission and "led humanity into the light" and the christ-child out of the womb of time and of the flesh into the light of day and of manifestation, then the task of that great centre we call humanity will be accomplished. ponder on this for the significance of esoteric astrology will emerge more clearly in your minds if you can understand this fourfold activity of mercury and the inter-relation of these four signs of the zodiac connected as they are with the logoic quat

love-wisdom, falls into generation in this sign and occultly "descends to earth" and stands (as the secret doctrine has so carefully pointed out) for the gift of mind and of divinity, embodied in the son of mind and thus for the descent of the christ principle into generation or into matter. virgo and venus are together two aspects of intelligence. the symbolism of the descent of spirit into the womb of the virgin mother is preserved for us in the astrological fact that venus falls in this sign; esoterically, she disappears from view and vanishes into the darkness. neptune, the expression of the sixth ray of idealistic devotion, is naturally rendered more impotent in this sign and simultaneously his "power is lessened" for the drive and urge of devotion and desire give place in this power

cally, she disappears from view and vanishes into the darkness. neptune, the expression of the sixth ray of idealistic devotion, is naturally rendered more impotent in this sign and simultaneously his "power is lessened" for the drive and urge of devotion and desire give place in this powerful sign to the natural processes of form production and to the silent activity which is going on within the womb of time and space. jupiter, in spite of its latent power, is also "lessened" in influence at this time because of the second principle or second aspect of divinity, the son or the germ of the christ who will come, the son of mind, descends into the depths and is temporarily veiled or hidden. i would recommend to the astrologers of the future a careful investigation of the falls, exaltations a

nd goes forth in the following words which institute the activity of virgo "and the word said, let matter reign" later, upon the wheel of the disciple, the voice emerges from the virgin herself and she says "i am the mother and the child. i, god, i, matter am" ponder upon the beauty of this synthesis and teaching and know that you yourself have said the first word as the soul, descending into the womb of time and space in a far and distant past. the time has now come when you can, if you so choose, proclaim your identity with both divine aspects matter and spirit, the mother and the christ- 169- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust leo, the lion passing as we are into the aquarian age in which the spirit of aquarius will be exemplified in

or with one of other of these signs rising. you have two signs of water and earth (cancer and virgo) in the stage of sub-conscious emphasis wherein everything is latent and hidden. human consciousness is only embryonic in cancer, for it is the mass mind which dominates and not the individual mind. in virgo, the christ life or consciousness is hidden and the christ child is as yet embryonic in the womb of matter and of time, and during this stage, the emphasis is upon the form which veils and hides the reality. the human soul and the divine soul (the essential duality) are there but their presence is not easily detected. in scorpio comes a point of transition, of change and of re-orientation. that which has been hitherto hidden appears and is brought to the surface by means of the experienc

s note of fear and thus it ends illusion. and then again the two are one. iv. the seven mothers blend their light and make it six (refers to the lost pleiad, a.a.b) and yet the seven still are there. their light is different from the other lights. this light evokes response from that which shouts aloud `i am the densest point of all the concrete world (capricorn. a.a.b. i am a tomb; i also am the womb. i am the rock which sinks itself into the deep of matter. i am the mountain-top on which the son is born on which the sun is seen and that which catches the first rays of light' to me a messenger comes forth (mercury. a.a.b) and says `the dayspring from on high is on the way, sent by the father to the mother' upon his way unto this nether star we call the earth he stopped at a bright sun whe

relation to time, to process and to the sustaining life of the mother (matter) which, throughout the gestation period, nourishes and cares for the rapidly developing christ child. the moon has also a peculiar function which can only be expressed in the idea of death the death of the relationships between the mother and the child because the moment comes when the christ child will emerge from the womb of time and of matter and stand free in the light. this will have been due, necessarily, to many inherent factors but primarily to the sustaining will of the mother, plus the dynamic will of the christ child. here again is an aspect of the curious and mysterious relation between the first and the second rays. 3. pisces. in this sign the work is consummated and the will of the father works out

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

agony that ever precedes the birth of the christ in the heart of the individual only this time it is the hearts of all humanity. preparatory to this first initiation, there has always to be individually and now collectively for the first time the denial of the lower self and the fervid acceptance by the personality of the loss of all the material factors which have held the soul a prisoner in the womb of time. hence, my brothers, the wide extent of the material destruction to be seen on every hand, the depths of physical poverty into which all men have been and are being plunged, the detachment from the priority of things which is being enforced, and the necessity for rebuilding human life on sounder values than the physical. in all this disciples and initiates are today sharing and (when

cognition of the feeling (registered in the astral body) is pleasurable, then desire is evoked for the continuance or the repetition of the experience. if it is not pleasurable, but painful, then the reaction is desire for the cessation of the experience and therefore liberation from it. this is the basic human desire, leading to desire for liberation (in the first and earliest instance) from the womb into life on the physical plane, on and up to that great and final desire which is for liberation into life itself. this thought leads us into the world of the most technical esoteric psychology. it is very difficult for the beginner to grasp the basic differentiations which he has welded into unities through his innate capacity to identify himself sequentially with that which is revealed. fe

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

ent sadly away; he had to prepare himself for the fourth initiation, the great renunciation, the crucifixion, and thus fit himself to pass through the needle's eye. there is a symbolic utterance in the old commentary which throws light upon the great opportunities which are found in the critical moments in the life of the soul as it experiences incarnation and becomes enriched thereby "within the womb of time and circumscribed by space and limited by darkness though sustained always by warmth the life evolves. it develops faculty. it becomes in miniature that which it is. it takes on form and knows the divinity of separation. such is its goal. reflect. knowledge will come "beyond the door is greater light and life. it knows itself for what it is. it suffices not unto itself and knows that

ealed and then the soul loaded with riches and the fruits of labour long will vanish as the mist and only god, the living one, be left" there is still another set of phrases dealing with that through which the perfected sons of god in their high place must pass when their work is done on earth and a greater glory reveals itself ahead. but this i give not. i give only three symbols, which are: the womb..individualisation..separation. leading to personality integration and self-realisation- 76- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust climaxing on the path of initiation..the birth of the christ. producing intelligent activity. initiation. the two-leaved door..initiation..group consciousness. leading to soul expression. climaxing in the t

l, inherent urge towards the light which is innate in all forms, which produces interplay and relationship, and which is the cause of all progress or pushing forward along the path of an expanding consciousness and a penetration into the light. this is true of a plant pushing its way out of the darkness of earth into the light of the sun, a child extricating itself under the life impulse from the womb of its mother, of the human being pushing himself into realms of greater knowledge and effective physical living, of the aspirant driving forward out of the hall of learning into the hall of wisdom, of the disciple penetrating into the realm of soul light and life, of the initiate passing from grade to grade in the hierarchy of liberation, of the christ moving on into the council chamber of s

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

ass to which he is held, by his instinct, and to develop instead the intuition, which will enable him so to rise. this sign is sometimes called "the coffin, by the hebrews, because it marks loss of identity, whilst, the early christians called it "the grave of lazarus, who was raised from the dead. in these words "coffin "grave "crab, and in the reference which we sometimes find to cancer as "the womb, we have the thought of hidden life, of a veiling form, of potentiality, and of that struggle with circumstances which will eventually produce, in leo, the emergence of the individual and, in capricorn, the birth of a world savior. definitely, therefore, it portrays the struggle that goes on in the life of the aspirant so that instinct can give place eventually to intuition. at-one-ment with

al signs. down through the ages, be it lilith or isis, eve or the virgin mary, all portray the mother of the world, but it is mary who at length bears the child in her arms. and it is in this sign that the christ consciousness is conceived and nurtured through the period of gestation until at last in pisces, the opposite sign, the world savior is born. as in leo, this is a cave experience "in the womb of time, and should be characterized by warmth, quietness, deep experiences and "slow, yet powerful crises. it is a synthetic sign. on this point the tibetan says "the symbology of virgo concerns the whole goal of the evolutionary process, which is to shield, nurture and finally reveal the hidden spiritual reality. this, every form veils but the human form is equipped and fitted to manifest i

following words, which constitute the activity of virgo "and the word said 'let matter reign. later, upon the wheel of the disciple, the voice emerges from the virgin herself, and she says 'i am the mother and the child. i, god, i, matter am" the tibetan adds "ponder upon the beauty of this synthesis and teaching and know that you yourself have said the first word as the soul, descending into the womb of time and space in a far and distant time. the time has now come when you can, if you so choose, proclaim your identity with both divine aspects, matter and spirit, the mother and the child (esoteric astrology, pp. 284-5. the first synthesizing keynote is "christ in you, the hope of glory" labor vii the capture of the erymanthian boar (libra, september 22nd- october 21st) the myth [125] the

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

nesis a man formed, then succeeds a woman, and from them all others. in the" commentary on the creation of genesis" still allegorical like genesis itself, it is stated "there is in heaven a treasury called gup, guph, and all the souls which were created in the beginning, and hereafter to come into this world, the holy one placed therein: out of this treasury the holy one furnishes children in the womb with souls" a further commentary in symbolic language narrates how the holy one perceiving a child's body to be in formation, sends for a suitable ego to inhabit it "the holy one, blessed be he, beckons to an angel who is set over the disembodied souls, and says to him 'bring me such a soul: and this is being always done since the world began; the soul appears before the holy one and worships

ny jews up to the ninth century of our era. the caraite jews have accepted it ever since the seventh century. st. jerome says it was a doctrine of the early christian church taught only to a select few believers, and origen was of opinion that without transmigration, the incidents of the struggle between esau and jacob before birth, genesis 25, v. 22, and the reference to jeremiah in the mother's womb could not be explained, jer. i. 5. the kabalah then teaches that the egos have come out from the spirit fountain, suffer incarnation again and again until experience and perfection have been attained, and ultimately rejoin the divine source: zohar i. 145, 168; ii. 97. now what is it that dwells for a time in this 'coat of skin" as genesis in chapter 3, v. 21, calls it, this so-called material

ANALYSIS OF THE 5 6 INITIATION

hance in a distant future, a record of temptations avoided, and of a life of self-sacrifice may serve as signs and pass words to secure admission to the palace of the great ki t1-3 analysis of the 5=6 initiation by g.h. frater p.c.a. r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 the candidate is brought forth in preparation for the actual initiation and placed within the confines of the womb box. the candidate then spends twenty-one hours in confined space in total darkness with only short intervals for bread, water and physical defecation requirements. how this prepares the candidate 1. the candidate is allowed to face fear within him or herself. there is no reason for fear to exist as the candidate is made as comfortable as possible and ventilation is abundant. this places the

ius. 2. the candidate, without his awareness passes through several stages. at one moment the light shineth within the darkness, then the lower will takes over and the light fadeth away. 3. the candidate learns that his mind is his enemy or ally and that unless surrender unto the divine is made, the whole of the twenty-one hours will be torturous. 4. the candidate can identify with osiris. 5. the womb is black, and it leads the candidate into an upward birth. this differs from regular physical birth which is descent downward into hycu. the candidate is then blindfolded after twenty-one hours in the womb and brought out into a special chamber for cleansing and purification. now the candidate is prepared not merely to walk through a skit, but to undergo complete initiation into our sanctione

APOCRYPHON OF JOHN

hought of the all- her light shines like his light- the perfect power which is the image of the invisible, virginal spirit who is perfect. the first power, the glory of barbelo, the perfect glory in the aeons, the glory of the revelation, she glorified the virginal spirit and it was she who praised him, because thanks to him she had come forth. this is the first thought, his image; she became the womb of everything, for it is she who is prior to them all, the mother-father, the first man, the holy spirit, the thrice-male, the thrice-powerful, the thrice-named androgynous one, and the eternal aeon among the invisible ones, and the first to come forth" requested from the invisible, virginal spirit- that is barbelo- to give her foreknowledge. and the spirit consented. and when he had con

e neck yammeax, the right shoulder yakouib, the left shoulder verton, the right hand oudidi, the left one arbao, the fingers of the right hand lampno, the fingers of the left hand leekaphar, the right breast barbar, the left breast imae, the chest pisandriaptes, the right shoulder joint koade, the left shoulder joint odeor, the right ribs asphixix, the left ribs synogchouta, the belly arouph, the womb sabalo, the right thigh charcharb, the left thigh chthaon, all the genitals bathinoth, the right leg choux, the left leg charcha, the right shin-bone aroer, the left shin-bone toechtha, the right knee aol, the left knee charaner, the right foot bastan, its toes archentechtha, the left foot marephnounth, its toes abrana "seven have power over all of these: michael, ouriel, asmenedas, saphasato

BASIL VALENTINE TWELVE KEYS

l influences. for all herbs, trees, and roots, and all metals and minerals, receive their growth and nutriment from the spirit of the earth, twelve keys of basil valentine 40 of 95 which is the spirit of life. this spirit is itself fed by the stars, and is thereby rendered capable of imparting nutriment to all things that grow, and of nursing them as a mother does her child while it is yet in the womb. the minerals are hidden in the womb of the earth, and nourished by her with the spirit which she receives from above. thus the power of growth that i speak of is imparted not by the earth, but by the life vgiving spirit that is in it. if the earth were deserted by this spirit, it would be dead, and no longer able to afford nourishment to anything. for its sulphur or richness would lack the q

BEHOLDERS OF NIGHT

n unto the night within the mysteries of vampyrism. the heart of the arcana is in the brain itself, it is our connection and desire to unite the hand and the eye in the grimoire of the fallen, which was long ago scribed in the blood of our spiritual ancestors, those who walk the ahrimanic path long ago, when the deserts whispered the timeless name of azazel, called our father and lilith, the very womb of our birth and initiation. i) the left hand path that the luciferian tradition is awakening from european traditional craft is nothing new, the emergence of the work in america leads to a left hand path approach to the path of the wise. considering much of the witchcraft tradition is a conglomeration of various magical traditions, the term witchcraft is as universal as its language. in the

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

ere obtained from a pha wang long bu [stone] and gold ore, and draw [the syllable] ti seven times with vermillion on the ones who lack turquoise eyes. in this regard, the vow-holders, having accepted the invitation and made offerings, recite the life and heart [mantra] many times and perform the consecration with the essence of dependent-arising. when this is accomplished, like a dog stuck in the womb, they are made to constantly guard the palace temple and the region" speaking thus, one [completes] the third procedure of the essence of the oral instruction, offering the heart of the vow[-holder s] life-energy. samaya. rgya rgya rgya. 443 1. gold (gser, 2. silver (dngul, 3. turquoise (g.yu, 4. coral (byu ru, and 5. pearl (mu tig. 444 the main beam of a building. 445 the blood of a person k

is a dark, brass castle endowed with a golden dome, gates of conch shell, copper locks, and stairs of lapis lazuli. within this, there was a father, the savage demon lord lekpa or that might demon lord named dawa t kar, who became the forefather of all might demons; and a mother, a flesh-eating violence demon named dongmarma. from his [mental] aggregates, chorpo entered an egg of blood within the womb of the flesh-eating demoness. nowadays, in most tantras, it is said that "by means of a collection of maliciousness and arrogance, he was born in a red egg of blood to the fierce-faced savage demon lord lekpa and the violence demoness dongmarma, daughter of the might demon lord dawa t kar" the gods are entreated by those renowned as conquerors, and even from within the invocations composed by

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

as stated aeons of years before even the evolution of the lemurian, the first physical man, which itself took place 18,000,000 years ago* preliminary evolution is described in one of the books of dzyan and the commentaries thereon in this wise- archaic scripture teaches that at the commencement of every local kalpa, or round, the earth is reborn "as the human jiva (monad, when passing into a new womb, gets re-covered with a new body, so does the jiva of the earth; it gets a more perfect and solid covering with each round after re-emerging once more from the matrix of space into objectivity (comment. this process is attended, of course, by the throes of the new birth or geological convulsions. thus the only reference to it is contained in one verse of the volume of the book of dzyan before

hma, the great rishi, and virtually a "kumara" if not so in name- interferes with, and twice frustrates daksha's aim, by persuading those sons to remain holy ascetics and eschew marriage. for this, daksha curses narada to be re-born as a man, as brahma had cursed him before for refusing to marry, and obtain progeny, saying "perish in thy present (deva or angelic) form and take up thy abode in the womb" i.e, become a man (vayu purana; harivamsa, 170. notwithstanding several conflicting versions of the same story, it is easy to see that narada belongs to that class of brahma's "first-born" who have all proven rebellious to the law of animal procreation, for which they had to incarnate as men. of all the vedic rishis, narada, as already shown, is the most incomprehensible, because the most cl

transformation. the first became the second root-race, without either begetting it, procreating it, or dying "they passed by together" as it is written "and he died and another reigned in his stead (genesis xxvi. 31 et seq. zohar iii, 292a. why? because "the holy city had not been prepared" and what is the "holy city? the maquom (the secret place or the shrine) on earth: in other words, the human womb, the microcosmic copy and reflection of the heavenly matrix, the female space or primeval chaos, in which the male spirit fecundates the germ of the son, or the visible universe* so much so, that in the paragraph on "the emanation of the male and female principles" in the zohar[[footnote(s* vide "the holy of holies: its esoteric meaning" in part io of this volume[[vol. 2, page] 85 the son of

"which in the chaldean account of the creation leads man to sin, is the creation of tiamat, the living principle of the sea, or chaos. which was opposed to the deities at the creation of the world" this is an error. the dragon is the male principle, or phallus, personified, or rather animalized; and tiamat "the embodiment of the spirit of chaos" of the deep, or abyss, is the female principle, the womb. the "spirit of chaos and disorder" refers to the mental perturbation which it led to. it is the sensual, attractive, magnetic principle which fascinates and seduces, the ever living active element which throws the whole world into disorder, chaos, and sin. the serpent seduces the woman, but it is the latter who seduces man, and both are included in the karmic curse, though only as a natural

g race. the same is true in the septenary creation of man, who evolves gradually in seven stages, and on the same principles, as will be shown further on. thus, while gods or dhyan chohans (devas) proceed from the first cause- which is not parabrahm, for the latter is the all cause, and cannot be referred to as the "first cause- which first cause is called in the brahmanical books jagad-yoni "the womb of the world" mankind emanates from these active agents in kosmos. but men, during the first and the second races, were not physical beings, but merely rudiments of the future men: bhutas, which proceeded from bhutadi "origin" or the "original place whence sprung the elements" hence they proceeded with all the rest from prabhavapyaya "the place whence is the origination, and into which is the

double mystery involved in this manifold allegory. we have said elsewhere that the great flood had several meanings, and that it referred, as also does the fall, to both spiritual and physical, cosmic and terrestrial, events: as above, so it is below. the ship or ark- navis- in short, being the symbol of the female generative principle, is typified in the heavens by the moon, and on earth by the womb: both being the vessels and bearers of the seeds of life and being, which the sun, or vishnu, the male principle, vivifies and fructifies* the first cosmic flood refers to primordial creation, or the formation of heaven and the earths; in which case chaos and the great deep stand for the "flood" and the moon for the "mother" from whom proceed all the life-germs* but the terrestrial deluge and

er from the romakupas, hair or skin pores. this allegorical description of the "sacrifice" is full of significance to the students of the secret doctrine who know of the "sweat-born" in the vayu purana's account of daksha's sacrifice, moreover, it is said to have taken place in the presence of creatures born from the egg, from the vapour, vegetation, pores of the skin, and, finally only, from the womb. daksha typifies the early third race, holy and pure, still devoid of an individual ego, and having merely the passive capacities. brahma, therefore, commands him to create (in the exoteric texts; when, obeying the command, he made "inferior and superior (avara and vara) progeny (putra, bipeds and quadrupeds; and by his will, gave birth to females. to the gods, the daityas (giants of the four

eing, the first flutter of the immortal breath passes through its being; it moves; and the divine essence settles in the infant frame, which it will inhabit until the moment of physical death, when man becomes a spirit. this mysterious process of a nine-months' formation, the kabalists call the completion of the "individual cycle of evolution" as the foetus develops amidst the liquor amnii in the womb, so the earths germinate in the universal ether, or astral fluid, in the womb of the universe. these cosmic children, like their pigmy inhabitants, are at first nuclei; then ovules; then gradually mature; and becoming[[vol. 2, page] 189 naturalists inventing links. mothers, in their turn, develop mineral, vegetable, animal, and human forms. from centre to circumference, from the imperceptible

asties of the kings" who all regard themselves as the "anointed" reigning "by the grace of god" whereas in truth, they reign by the grace of matter, the great illusion, the deceiver[[vol. 2, page] 234 the secret doctrine. meaning is now degraded in the kabala. the "anointed" who has the secrets and mysteries of hermes (buddha, wisdom, and who alone is entrusted with the key to the "sanctuary" the womb of nature, in order to fructify it and call to active life and being the whole kosmos, has become, with the jews, jehovah, the "god of generation" on the lunar mountain (sinai, the mountain of the moon "sin. the "sanctuary" has become the "holy of holies" and the arcanum has been anthropomorphised and phallicised and dragged down into matter, indeed. hence arose the necessity of making of the

ry kingdom of nature, are repeated on a microscopical scale in the first seven months of gestation of a future human being. let the student think over and work out this analogy. as the seven months' old unborn baby, though quite ready, yet needs two months more in which to acquire strength and consolidate; so man, having perfected his evolution during seven rounds, remains two periods more in the womb of mother-nature before he is born, or rather reborn a dhyani, still more perfect than he was before he launched forth as a monad on the newly built chain of worlds. let the student ponder over this mystery, and then he will easily convince himself that, as there are also physical links between many classes, so there are precise domains wherein the astral merges into physical evolution. of th

being buddhi. yet buddhi per se, being so near the absolute, is only latent consciousness* this is the "undying race" as it is called in esotericism, and exoterically the fruitless generation of the first progeny of daksha, who curses narada, the divine rishi, alleged to have dissuaded the haryaswas and the sabalaswas, the sons of daksha, from procreating their species, by saying "be born in the womb; there shall not be a resting place for thee in all these regions; after this narada, the representative of that race of fruitless ascetics, is said, as soon as he dies in one body, to be reborn in another[[vol. 2, page] 276 the secret doctrine. the fourth race, so called. in the vishnu purana it is simply said that daksha, the father of mankind, established sexual intercourse as the means of

terrestrial sexes; the later kabala has suffocated the divine ideal under the heavy phallic element. the kabalists say "god made man male and female "among the qabbalists, the necessity to continued creation and existence is called the balance" says the author of qabbalah; and being without this "balance" connected with ma-qom (mysterious place* even the first race is not[[footnote(s* simply, the womb, the "holy of holies" with the semites[[vol. 2, page] 458 the secret doctrine. as we have seen, recognized by the sons of the fifth adam. from the highest heavenly man, the upper adam who is "male female" or androgyne, down to the adam of dust, these personified symbols are all connected with sex and procreation. with the eastern occultists it is entirely the reverse. the sexual relation they

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

ne form of existence" is not altogether correct. the sanskrit word is prabhavapyaya "the place, or rather plane, whence emerges the origination, and into which is the resolution of all things" says a commentator. it is not the "mother of the world" as translated by wilson (see book i, vishnu purana; for jagad yoni (as shown by fitzedward hall) is scarcely so much "the mother of the world" or "the womb of the world" as the "material cause of the universe" the puranic commentators explain it by karana "cause- but the esoteric philosophy, by the ideal spirit of that cause. it is, in its secondary stage, the svabhavat of the buddhist philosopher, the eternal cause and effect, omnipresent yet abstract, the self-existent plastic essence and the root of all things, viewed in the same dual light a

"four-fold mystery" to make the whole clearer we have to turn for our illustrations to tenets more familiar to some of our readers, namely, the brahminical. according to manu, hiranyagarbha is brahma the first male formed by the undiscernible causeless cause in a "golden egg resplendent as the sun" as states the hindu classical dictionary "hiranyagarbha" means the golden, or rather the "effulgent womb" or egg. the meaning tallies awkwardly with the epithet of "male" surely the esoteric meaning of the sentence is clear enough. in the rig veda it is said "that, the one lord of all beings. the one animating principle of gods and man" arose, in the beginning, in the golden womb, hiranyagarbha- which is the mundane egg or sphere of our universe. that being is surely androgynous, and the allegor

we may only stop at present to discuss the lunar symbology casually, to show that the said superstition belongs to the most ancient beliefs, and even to judaism- the basis of christianity. with the israelites, the chief function of jehovah was child-giving, and the esotericism of the bible, interpreted kabalistically, shows undeniably the holy of holies in the temple to be only the symbol of the womb. this is now proven beyond doubt and cavil, by the numerical reading of the bible in general, and of genesis especially. this idea must certainly have been borrowed by the jews from the egyptians and indians, whose holy of holies was, and with the latter is to this day, symbolised by the king's chamber in the great pyramid (see "source of measures) and the yoni symbols of exoteric hinduism. t

to the ray latent in the one. when the period arrives, the absolute will expands naturally the force within it, according to the law of which it is the inner and ultimate essence. the hebrews did not adopt the egg as a symbol, but they substituted for it the "duplex heavens" for, translated correctly, the sentence "god made the heavens and the earth" would read "in and out of his own essence as a womb (the mundane egg, god created the two heavens" but the christians have chosen as the symbol of their holy ghost, the dove "whosoever acquaints himself with[[hebrew] the mercaba and the lahgash (secret speech or incantation, will learn the secret of secrets" lahgash is nearly identical in meaning with vach, the hidden power of the mantras. when the active period has arrived, from within the et

d tau; since the egg and the serpent are inseparable in the old worship and symbology of egypt, and since both the brazen and "fiery" serpents were saraphs, the "burning fiery" messengers, or the serpent gods, the nagas of india. it was a purely phallic symbol without the egg, while when associated with it- it related to cosmic creation "brass was a metal symbolizing the nether world. that of the womb where life should be given. the word for serpent was in hebrew nakash, but this is the same term for brass" it is said in numbers (xxi) that the jews complained of the wilderness where there was no water (v. 5; after which "the lord sent fiery serpents" to bite them, when, to oblige moses, he gives him as a remedy the brazen serpent on a pole to look at; after which "any man when he beheld th

when this description is correctly understood by orientalists in its esoteric significance then it will be found that this cosmic correlation of world-elements may explain the correlation of physical forces better than those now known. at any rate, theosophists will perceive that prakriti has seven forms, or principles "reckoned from mahat to earth" the "waters" mean here the mystic "mother; the womb of abstract nature, in which the manifested universe is conceived. the seven "zones" have reference to the seven divisions of that universe, or the noumena of the forces that bring it into being. it is all allegorical* as it is the maha, the great, or so-called final pralaya which is here described, every thing is re-absorbed into its original one element- the "gods themselves, brahma and the

g is quoted from the same kabalistic mss. already mentioned "pointing to like signification was the lotus growing in the waters of the nile. its mode of growth peculiarly fitted it as a symbol of the generative activities. the flower of the lotus, which is the bearer of the seed for reproduction, as the result of its maturing, is connected by its placenta-like attachment with mother-earth, or the womb of isis, through the water of the womb, that is, the river nile, by means of the long cord-like stalk, the umbilicus. nothing can be plainer than the symbol, and to make it perfect in its intended signification, a child is sometimes represented as seated in or issuing from the flower* thus osiris and isis, the children of chronos, or time without end, in the development of their nature-forces

, and will be, to redeem and ennoble once more the primitive conception so sadly profaned by its crude and gross application to exoteric dogmas and personations by theological and ecclesiastical religionists. the silent worship of abstract or noumenal nature, the only divine manifestation, is the one ennobling religion of humanity[[vol. 1, page] 382 the secret doctrine. within the workshop of the womb an intelligent creative power has intervened to fasten a living soul to a physical machine. the amazing wonderfulness of the fact attaches a holy sacredness to all connected with the organs of reproduction, as the dwelling and place of evident constructive intervention of deity" this is a correct rendering of the underlying ideas of old, of the purely pantheistic conceptions, impersonal and r

ent the anthropomorphism of judean symbology, other than dangerous for the sacredness of true religion, and fitting only our materialistic age, which is the direct outcome and result of that anthropomorphic character. for this is the key-note to the entire spirit and essence of the old testament "therefore" goes on the mss, treating of the symbolism of art-speech of the bible "the locality of the womb is to be taken as the most holy place, the sanctum sanctorum, and the veritable temple of the living god* with man the possession of the woman has always been considered as an essential part of himself, to make one out of two, and jealously guarded as sacred. even the part of the ordinary house or home consecrated to the dwelling of the wife was called the penetralia, the secret or sacred, an

the name for the water of the flood is m'bul. a reminder of the "three maries" at the crucifixion and their connection with mar, the sea, or water, may close this example. this is why in judaism and christianity the messiah is always connected with water, baptism, the fishes (the sign of the zodiac called meenam in sanskrit, and even with the matsya (fish) avatar, and the lotus- the symbol of the womb, or the water-lily, which is the same. in the relics of ancient egypt, the greater the antiquity of the votive symbols and emblems of the objects exhumed, the oftener are the lotus flowers and the water found in connection with the solar gods. the god khnoom- the moist power- water, as thales taught it, being the principle of all things, sits on a throne enshrined in a lotus (saitic epoch, se

f 7 days each (c) that period which is called "the period of viability" is one of 210 days, or 30 weeks of 7 days each (d) the period of parturition is accomplished in 280 days, or a period of 40 weeks of 7 days each, or 10 lunar months of 28 days each, or of 9 calendar months of 31 days each, counting on the royal arch of heavens for the measure of the period of traverse from the darkness of the womb to the light and glory of conscious existence, that continuing inscrutable mystery and miracle. thus the observed periods of time marking the workings of the birth function would naturally become a basis of astronomical calculation. we may almost affirm. that this was the mode of reckoning among all nations, either independently, or intermediately and indirectly by tuition. it was the mode wi

man, the creative origin of all things. this idea of connecting the circle and its diameter line, that is, number ten, with the signification of the reproductive organs, and the most holy place, was carried out constructively in the king's chamber, or holy of holies, of the great pyramid, in the tabernacle of moses, and in the holy of holies of the temple of solomon. it is the picture of a double-womb, for in hebrew the letter he[[diagram] is at the same time the number 5 and symbol of the womb, and twice 5 is 10, or the phallic number" this "double womb" also shows the duality of the idea carried from[[footnote(s* because it was too sacred. it is referred to as that in the vedas: it is the "eternal cause" and cannot, therefore, be spoken of as a "first cause" a term implying the absence o

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i were a highly strung musical instrument. my will runs over the strings, causing complete and harmonious vibrations in my being, which seems to give forth at times an unforrnulated and therefore most delightful melody. march 28th. how can i write it, how put into words the least idea of that which is unformed? yet i will try while yet a vestige of the thought remains. i have conceived within my womb a child. or is it that i have for the first time realized that i have a womb? yet it is so, that .blank. within, into which i have projected my thoughts, and from which they have come forth again .living. is for a greater purpose. can i not form therein a child that shall be myself made from the highest ideals, the essence of my pains, refined and purified, freed from dross by the living fire

the deacon and all the people: i believe in one secret and ineffable lord; and in one star in the company of stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one father of life, mystery of mystery, in his name chaos, the sole viceregent of the sun upon the earth; and in one air the nourisher of all that breathes. and i believe in one earth, the mother of us all, and in one womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, mystery of mystery, in her name babalon. and i believe in the serpent and the lion, mystery of mystery, in his name baphomet. and i believe in one gnostic and catholic church of light, life, love and liberty, the word of whose law is thelema. and i believe in the communion of saints. and, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in

aleister crowley.oh sons of the lion and the snake! with all thy saints we worthily commemorate them worthy that were and are and are to come. may their essence be here present, potent, puissant and paternal to perfect this feast! the people: so mote it be (the earth) the deacon: mother of fertility on whose breast lieth water, whose cheek is caressed by air, and in whose heart is the sun.s fire, womb of all life, recurring grace of seasons, the equinox 262 answer favorably the prayer of labour, and to pastors and husbandmen be thou propitious. the people: so mote it be (the principles) the deacon: mysterious energy, triform, mysterious matter, in fourfold and sevenfold division, the interplay of which things weave the dance of the veil of life upon the face of the spirit, let there be har

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

BOOK OF PLEASURE

ious! clownish that i am- yet all my ideas have come out of it (and, my friend, all yours, but ever have i been a sluggard- an old sinner who would see others almighty before himself. the death posture ideas of self in conflict cannot be slain, by resistance they are a reality- no death or cunning has overcome them but is their reinforcement of energy. the dead are born again and again lie in the womb of conscience. by allowing maturity is to predicate decay when by non-resistance is retrogression to early simplicity and the passage to the original and unity without idea. from that idea is the formula of non-resistance germinating "does not matter- please yourself" the conception of "i am not" must of necessity follow the conception of "i am" because of its grammar, as surely in this world

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

and succubi; witches' copulation with the devil; whether witches can sway the minds of men to love or hatred; whether witches can hebetate the powers of generation or obstruct the venereal act; whether witches may work some presti-digitatory illusion so that the male organ appears to be entirely removed and separate from the body; various ways that the witches may kill the child conceived in the womb, etc, etc. the second part, treating of the methods by which works of witchcraft are wrought and directed, and how they may be successfully annulled and dissolved' deals with 'the several methods by which devils through witches entice and allure the innocent to the increase of that horrid craft and company; the way whereby a formal pact with evil is made; how they transport from place to plac

nd of the ceremony the initiate is taken, by the high priest, around the circle to the four cardinalpoints. at each of these she is presented to the gods who are believed to be there witnessing the event as a newly made priestess and witch. anatomy of the occult raymond buckland, samuel weiser, ny 1977 42/ buckland's complete book of witchcraft after "death" the initiand then finds himself in the womb, awaiting his new birth. in some societies he finds himself in a hut which represents the world. he is at its center; he inhabits a sacred microcosm. the initiate is in the chthonian great mother mother earth. there are innumerable myths of great heroes' gods and goddesses, descending into mother earth (remember the myth of the seax-wica goddess, given in lesson two) and triumphantly returnin

w birth. in some societies he finds himself in a hut which represents the world. he is at its center; he inhabits a sacred microcosm. the initiate is in the chthonian great mother mother earth. there are innumerable myths of great heroes' gods and goddesses, descending into mother earth (remember the myth of the seax-wica goddess, given in lesson two) and triumphantly returning. within that earth-womb they invariably find great knowledge, for it is often the home of the dead who, traditionally, can see into the future and therefore know all things. therefore the initiates, by virtue of being in the womb/will learn new knowledge. this is underscored in the congo, for example, where those who have not been initiated are called vanga("the unenlightened) and those who have been initiated are t

ne, meditating on what you are about to undertake. you will cleanse yourself, by bathing and fasting only bread, honey and water are allowed for twenty-four hours prior to the actual initiation and by sexual abstinence. at the ritual itself, rather than any rigorous symbolic death or dismemberment, you will experience a blindfolding and binding, which symbolize the darkness and restriction of the womb. as you are "born, these restrictions will fall from you. you will gain new knowledge as certain things are revealed to you, and then receive a new name. you will be welcomed to your new life by your brothers and sisters of the craft. the full initiation is a very moving experience many claim it to be the most moving of their entire lives. the usual process is that you find a coven and, after

er. here do we symbolize that act, in veneration of our lady and our lord" priestess turns to face priest, bringing down the bowl and holding it between her breasts. priest "these rites of spring belong to us all; to us and to the gods. this is a time of joy and a time for planting" he places the seed in the hollowed space and closes the soil over on top of it. priest "this seed do i place in the womb of the earth that it may become a part of that earth, a part of life and a part of us" priest and priestess kiss, and priestess replaces bowl on altar. they then move around the circle, kissing and hugging each of the coveners. bell is rung three times. then shall follow the ceremony of cakes and ale. after that the clearing the temple is performed so that there is plenty of room for fun, gam

gs as you encounter other witches you will find common forms of greetings used. the two most common are "blessed be" and "merry meet. the first of these actually comes from the gardnerian tradition. in their initiation the priest says the following to the initiate "blessed be thy feet, that have brought thee in these ways. blessed be thy knees, that shall kneel at the sacred altar. blessed be thy womb, without which we would not be. blessed be thy breasts, erected in beauty and in strength. blessed be thy lips, that shall utter the sacred names" so to greet someone with the words "blessed be" is to imply all of the above "merry meet" is an older, more common, pagan greeting. in full it is (may we) merry meet; merry part; merry meet again. today it is usally just given as "merry meet" on me

warrior queen i am the warrior queen! the defender of my people. with strong arms do i bend the bow and wield the moon-axe. i am she who tamed the heavenly mare and rides the winds of time. i am guardian of the sacred flame; the fire of all beginnings. i am the sea-mare, the firstborn of the sea mother and command the waters of the earth. i am sister to the stars and mother to the moon. within my womb lies the destiny of my people for i am the creatrix. i am daughter to the lady with ten thousand names; i am epona, the white mare. tara buckland thelord behold! i am he who is at the beginning and the end of time. i am in the hgat of the sun and the coolness of the breeze. the spark of life is within me as is the darkness of death; for i am the cause of existence and the gatekeeper at the en

mend having a sword for coven use, but it is not mandatory. the athame lesson four 1. the whole initiatory process is referred to as a "rite of passage" but the central theme (which is what i asked for) is a palingenesis; a rebirth. 2. initiation generally follows the pattern of separation; cleansing; symbolic death; new knowledge; rebirth. 3. it represents the darkness and the restriction of the womb prior to birth. 4. i asked this before, in lesson two's examination questions, but i do want to impress it upon you. the wiccan rede is "an' it harm none, do what thou wilt. it means that you can do anything you like so long as you don't hurt anyone. and i would remind you that "anyone" includes yourself. 5. no, it is not usual. normally (traditionally) a man will initiate a woman and a woman

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es me there is none other. i only am the knower and the actor, the one i am, whether alone and unmanifest, or appearing in the multiplicity of created things. 10 the primal force of mine ideas dwelleth continually in atziluth. thence it floweth forth into the three lower worlds through the door of understanding. as it is written" by understanding hath he established the heavens" i am the fruitful womb whence all creatures have their birth. i am the mother of mothers. hence it is commanded" honour thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the lord thy god giveth thee" for i, who am thy father, am thy mother also; and if thou honourest me, the giver of life, then shalt thou triumph at the last, even over death [45] comment on daleth* d a l e t h, pronounced daw

hebrew, shemen le-mawaur, sh m n l m a v r "oil for lighting, is the number 667, and this is the number of sod ha-pehooluth, s v d h p o v l v th "secret of all spiritual activities, the name of the path of wisdom corresponding to teth [95] the meditation on yod* iam the creative hand, which fashioneth the worlds and establisheth the spheres, while yet the primal fire circleth untrammeled in the womb of space. that fashioning is not as the handiwork of man. it is my self-utterance through the voice of vision. by it i declare myself. yea, i utter myself as the father of all, and from my fatherhood is the brotherhood of all creatures. therefore do the wise see in the letter yod the fatherhood of chokmah, the unbounded wisdom which establisheth all. that father, ab, am i, the source of all;

ds up to 74, and this is the number of the noun diin, d i i n "leader, chief, judge. 3 "the long circuit of existence" is probably based upon the gematria of sabeeb, s b i b "a circuit, the place round about, environs. the number of s b i b is 74, the same as l m d [117] the meditation on mem* 1 i am the water of life, the mute, dark mirror of substance, reflecting myself unto myself. this is the womb of all beings. changeless, this great deep of elemental water remaineth forever pure. because of this it possesseth the quality of stability. it holdeth all things in solution, yet its own nature remaineth ever the same. 2 mem is the murmuring of this great sea of life: and by the addition of its letters, m i m, revealeth the number ninety, which representeth the operation of yesod through th

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

CASSANDRA EASON A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC

he hoop was unbroken, the people flourished. the flowering tree was the living centre of the hoop and the circle of the four quarters nourished it. the east gave peace and light, the south gave warmth; in the west, thunder beings gave rain and the north with its cold and mighty wind gave strength and endurance' and so the earth was respected as the sacred mother, giver of life and crops, to whose womb the dead returned. it is no accident that the sioux medicine wheel and the celtic wheel of the year are so similar in formation and purpose, linking all life to the cycles of nature. so if we are to use magick in a positive way, we must remember that it brings responsibility along with benefits [insert pic p009- magick and knowledge white witchcraft is essentially the process of drawing on an

so let it flow and make the world a better place. 1- the origins and practice of witchcraft [insert pic p014- a history of witchcraft witchcraft probably originated about 25,000 years ago in the palaeolithic era. at that time, humankind and nature were seen as inextricably linked. people acknowledged every rock, tree and stream as deities in the life force, and the earth as mother, offering both womb and tomb. prehistoric witchcraft early man used sympathetic, or attracting, magick- in the form of dances, chants and cave paintings of animals- to attract the herds of animals that provided for the needs of the group, and to bring fertility to humans and animals alike. hunters would re-enact the successful outcome of a hunt and would carry these energies into the everyday world. offerings we

ns and animals alike. hunters would re-enact the successful outcome of a hunt and would carry these energies into the everyday world. offerings were made to the mistress of the herds and later to the horned god, who was depicted wearing horns or antlers to display his sovereignty over the herds. animal bones would be buried so that they, like humankind, would enjoy rebirth from the earth mother's womb. where hunter-gatherers today continue the unbroken tradition that stretches back thousands of years- for example, among the lapps in the far north of scandinavia and the inuits- these rites continue, led by a shaman, or magick man, who negotiates with the mistress of the herds or fish in a trance for the release of the animals. one of the earliest recorded examples of shamanism is the dancin

le, which ceased for nine moons if a women was pregnant, the moon became linked with the mysteries first of birth, then of death as it waned, and finally with new life on the crescent. because the moon was reborn each month or, as it was thought, gave birth to her daughter each month, it was assumed that human existence followed the same pattern and that the full moon mirrored the mother with her womb full with child. the full moon was also associated in later ages with romance and passion, originally because this coincided with peak female fertility. moon magick for the increase of love and fertility is still practised under the auspices of the waxing moon. it was not until about 3,000 years ago that the male role in conception was seite 6 wicca01.txt fully understood in the west, and onl

ion and increase [insert pic p061- seite 33 wicca01.txt apollo apollo, the greek sun god, was twin brother of artemis, the moon goddess. as god of the solar light, apollo made the fruits of the earth ripen, and at delos and delphi where he slew python, the first crops were dedicated to him (python, the great lightning serpent, was the son-consort of the mother goddess in her form of delphyne, the womb of creation, fertilised by python. python in this sense predated all other gods and was later called the dark sun, apollo's alter ego. the ancient greeks rededicated his shrine to apollo) apollo was god of prophecy as well as music, poetry, archery, healing and divination. he is very strongly animus and is good for all rituals of power, ambition and inspiration, as well as those areas under h

human pollution, she constantly heals and renews the planet. she is also a goddess of marriage. she is the natural focus for all green rituals. tellus mater seite 40 wicca01.txt tellus mater was the earth mother of the romans, the alter ego of ceres, the grain mother, and guardian of the fertility of people, animals and crops. however, tellus mater is also the mother who receives the dead in her womb to comfort and restore and so, like gaia, she is a excellent goddess for all green magick and rituals for healing pollution or deforestation. wophe wophe, or white buffalo calf woman, is the sacred creator woman of the lakotas and other peoples of the american plains. legend says she fell from a meteor and as she began her earth walk, she was discovered by two young lakota scouts who were hun

alone or as part of a coven. it is one i have found helpful, but you can create your own through a god meditation by visualising a god form that seems relevant to you. again i have used celtic god forms: these are the words of the father, who is son and consort of the great mother, born in the beginning of she who created the universe from her own body, from her smiles and tears and ever-fertile womb 'i am he, the wild untamed power of the hunt, the horned beasts and the woodland, that offers food, shelter and protection to people of all races, clans and creeds. i am cernunnos, horned lord of winter; as master of the animals and lord of the corn, i offer willing sacrifice for the land and people; as king of the dark places beneath the soil, in the nurturing womb of the mother, like all cr

ons and is especially associated with healing* finally, in the west, place a seed roll or bread, representing the cutting down of the corn, so completing the cycle* take a twig or a wand from a healing tree, such as ash, or a long frond of greenery and walk round the circle deosil. infuse each of the magical foods in turn with circles of the wand deosil, saying: fruits of the earth, born from the womb of the land, give life and healing, health and joy from your ever-replenishing store* touch the vegetable with the wand and then lift the wand in a high arc before lowering it to touch the bottle of water in the centre* now move to the east and circle the wand deosil over the seeds, saying: seeds of potential, from the loins of the father, give growth and power, possibility and regeneration f

n cycles in magick or in life is a bit like swimming against the flow: quite possible with practice, but involving unnecessary effort. the moon mother the moon was regarded as the mother of all long before written records existed, for she was seen to give birth to a new moon every 29 days. because the old moon apparently died, it was believed that that she took the souls of the dead back into her womb and gave them new life. in the same way, the three main lunar phases gave rise to the concept of the triple goddess who has been worshipped in cultures from palaeolithic times where early cave art displayed crescent moons that have been identified as goddess symbols. the evolved triple goddess of the celts, which reflects the lunar cycles of maiden, mother and crone, is an icon also seen thro

ay that should bring you new opportunities, though perhaps not exactly as you planned. mabon, the autumn equinox time: for three days from sunset on or around 21 september (21 march in the southern hemisphere) focus: a time of abundance, reaping the bounty of the earth and of celebration for life and its gifts; welcoming the waning, darker part of the year, the god in the underworld or within the womb of the earth mother; for letting go and if necessary grieving for what is not fulfilled the autumn equinox, or time of gathering, was traditionally celebrated as the wild or green harvest, a time of celebration for the fruits and vegetables of the earth and the earth mother. this equinox is the second time of the balance between day and night in the wheel of the year, and sees lugh, the god o

t in the wheel of the year, and sees lugh, the god of light, defeated by his twin and alter-ego, goronwy, the god of darkness. goronwy was associated with the horned god as lugh was with the green man, god of vegetation [insert pic p268- mabon, or maponus, was another form of lugh, and was regarded as the son of the earth mother and known as the liberator-prisoner. the corn god lies fallow in the womb of the mother. but because his sacrifice was willing, death has no dominion over him and he grows stronger. this is the time of the second harvest of vegetables, fruit and remaining crops, the harvest home that pre-dates christianity. on the day when equal night and day heralded winter, the feast formed a sympathetic magical gesture to ensure that there would be enough food during the winter

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

ack venus" figurine unearthed near the czech village of dolni vestonice in 1924. also one at willendorf. 11 cm tall. discovered in 1908. oldest paleolithic sculptures? oldest known portrayals of women? 100 small statuettes have been found. 6500 bc catal huyuk, neolithic site in turkey (central anatolia) flourished..at catul huyuk the goddess images were shown with the bull horns emerging from her womb (june campbell pg 41) 4242 bce earliest recorded date in history (in ancient egypt. egyptian calendar which is regulated by sun and moon has 360 days with 12 months of 30 days. 4000 bce astrology begins in mesopotamia. sumerians build ziggurats, the first astrological observatories. the sun, moon and 5 visible planets are used. astrological knowledge is recorded in cuneiform on clay tablets

COLLIER IRENE CHINESE MYTHOLOGY

o te ching] has been translated more often into more languages than any other work in history except the bible.3 little is known about lao-tzu except that he is credited with the authorship of the tao te ching. in contrast, laotzu s mythological beginnings are widely celebrated. poet and translator witter bynner describes lao-tzu: immaculately conceived to a shooting-star, carried in his mother s womb for sixty-two years and born, it is said, white-haired, in 604 b.c, he became in due time keeper of imperial archives [s]addened by men s tragic perversity. laotzu [lao-tzu] rode away alone on a water-buffalo into the desert beyond the boundary of civilization, the great wall of his period.4 106 when he arrived at one of its gates, a guard stopped him and persuaded him to write down his thoug

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nd again the ruling bloodlines descended from them. the chinese emperors were the same. they were known as lung or dragons and many of the earliest emperors were depicted with reptilian features, very much like the nagas. one of them, called huang ti, was said to have been born with a "dragon-like countenance. it was claimed that he was conceived by a ray of golden light that entered his mother's womb from the big dipper constellation.12 the big dipper includes the star alpha draconis, the star of set in egypt. alpha draconis is an alleged base of the "draco" reptilian "royalty. one chinese legend says that when he died huang ti transformed into an etheric dragon and flew to the realm of the immortals. the priest kings of the peruvian incas were symbolised by the snake and they wore bracel

f merovee, the founder of the merovingians. this symbolism is supported by many ancient and modern accounts of "virgin birth" impregnations by reptilian beings. the stories of women being abducted by reptilians and then finding themselves pregnant are told today all around the world. often, as the zulu shaman credo mutwa reveals from the experience of african women, the baby "disappears" from the womb during the pregnancy. the anunnaki interbred with all genetic streams and those were the people who ruled by right of their bloodline in their particular countries and communities. so while the people believed they were being ruled by their own race, they were ruled by the same tribe. the hybrid reptilian-mammals ruled them all. exactly the same continues to happen today with these hybrids in

it hard to imagine that anyone (i.e. me) could still believe such stories in these more enlightened times. mmmm. the records of sumer, gardner says, reveal that the anunnaki had a "creation chamber" to produce these "royal" bloodlines and he says that the senior line of descent was determined by the "mitochondrial dna of the dragon queens. gardner talks of the "blood royal" or sang graal in the "womb of the dragon queen. other texts in france called this bloodline "le serpent rouge- the red serpent or the serpent blood.10 the female or "goddess" dna is most definitely the key here. rennes-le-chateau the cathars or albigensians, who were slaughtered by the roman church in the 13th century, were supporters of the "elven" or dragon bloodline, according to gardner. a female elf was called an

russia at pasyryk. these priest-queens performed sacrifices and caught the blood in "sacred cauldrons, and went with the men into battle and cast spells for victory. this again fits with the edda texts and is almost certainly the origin of the witches in "shakespeare's" macbeth. in the celtic legends the cauldron is associated with the underground world and has been symbolically connected to the womb of the "death-goddess. using this theme, children of the bloodlines come "out of the cauldron- the womb of the women who carry "royal blood, the reptilian dna. the moon-sickle used by the scythians, the mythical weapon that castrated the gods, became known as the scythe and was associated with the "grim reaper. yet again the grim reaper refers to a goddess, rhea, who was clothed in a 156 chil

dicke.com and long-time researcher into these subjects, once studied with the famous american scholar dr vendyl jones, the man who originally inspired the movie character indiana jones. lauren tells me that dr jones has stated that those biblical words attributed to "jesus" were from a south american language and that the translation into english had simply been a guess. now if the "grail" is the womb of the dragon queens, that sacred symbol of the serpent bloodlines, and jesus is symbolic of balder, son of the serpent goddess, it suddenly makes symbolic sense of the claims by people like sir laurence gardner. he says that the merovingian (reptilian) bloodline is the "grail" bloodline of "jesus" and "mary" magdalene. with his close connections to the ancient imperial royal dragon court and

mes mana and mania we get the word to describe crazed behaviour. this is derived from worship of the moon goddess, as in moon-madness or "lunacy. mantra, the sanskrit term for projecting vibrations by chanting words or sounds, comes from the same root. manu was the name for the indian version of noah, who survived the deluge with the help of the great serpent vasuki" in earlier times manu was the womb of the goddess. the levites, those babylonian mystery school initiates, invented an entire history for the hebrews to hide the real story and create a fiercely imposed structure of religious control. the rabbis continue that tradition to this day. there is far more about this story in the biggest secret, where i have highlighted the way these texts were coded with esoteric knowledge and why t

s literally breed bloodlines to conduct their rituals for them. the people of these bloodlines are very psychic and able to connect easily with energy, and therefore manipulate its vibrational state or draw desired frequencies into rituals. blond-haired, blue-eyed people turn up again and again in these bloodlines. from the moment a child of these "psychic" bloodlines is born, in fact even in the womb, they are subjected to trauma-based mind control. the idea is to turn them into compartmentalised people who can be "triggered" to conduct the rituals as programmed, but then "forget" everything they did until that compartment is accessed again for the next ritual. unfortunately for the illuminati, arizona's compartments began to break down after the death of her controller, josef mengele, in

rned skin, and walden believed there was a tail also. this entity claimed to have inhabited many "human" bodies and he said "my eyes have witnessed the evolution of humankind."3 under serving the dragon: the present (2) 253 hypnosis, walden recalled that he was part of an experimental group of human embryos, which were grown in a test tube. the embryo, he recalled, was implanted into his mother's womb and she had no idea this had been done. could this be an explanation of the legends of merovee, alexander the great, and others, who were said to have been fathered by serpent-like beings? and could this be at least one origin of the "virgin birth? walden said it certainly offered an explanation for why he had always felt different to all the other children. he believed that millions of peopl

t certainly offered an explanation for why he had always felt different to all the other children. he believed that millions of people in the world had been created in this way as part of an "alien" genetic programme. he said that the semen, taken during his abduction, was used to impregnate a woman of the "same stock. she was like a "human incubator" and he thinks the embryo was removed from her womb later. another interesting memory he had was that when he was on the table in that first abduction, his body had looked the same as the "aliens".4 walden felt that this was another-dimension of him, which inhabited his human form. he believed from his experiences that the "aliens" could transcend time, transform matter, manipulate human thought and behaviour, and create "distracting illusions

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g the baby jesus in the christian churches aremirrors of the way the egyptians portrayed isis holding the baby, horus. st bernard wasclearly a covert disciple of the goddess religion and was born at fontaines near dijon, acentre for black madonna worship. the templars shared his passion and they built theirown churches in a circular shape, indicating the feminine. the widespread use of thedome or womb by the brotherhood also relates to this, among other things.the new age belief system has often fallen into the trap of believing that femaleenergy is good and male energy not so good, because they think the world is male-dominated. in fact the world is dominated by the extremes of both energies, male andfemale. i am not talking about male and female bodies here, but male and female energywhi

eads. this is what the satanists still do today. the sheela-na-gigsymbols in old churches, particularly prevalent in ireland, represent naked women withspread legs and inside the alters of churches have been found stone phallic symbols. mygoodness, what will the vicar think? the often shell-like receptacle for the holy wateris goddess symbolism also, and churches were actually built as a symbolic womb. thespiders web and maze decorations of the gothic and other cathedrals and churchesrefer to the female goddess energy, the intuitive, creative force, which weaves andspins the fate of the world. this is also the symbolism of the spider woman legends ofthe native american traditions and the names of sacred places like spider rock inarizona. a book by fred gettings, the secret zodiac (routledg

lood royal. thegrant of arms emblem in sumer was. a cup of waters or a rosi-crucis or dew cup.it is described in egyptian, sumerian, phoenician and hebrew records as a cupdecorated with a red cross within a circle. this is the true origin of the grail cup. itwasnt the cup that caught the blood of jesus at the crucifixion because there was nojesus or crucifixion. it was the cup that symbolised the womb and the bloodline of themost pure of the reptilian crossbreeds which is passed on most crucially through thefemale. the term rosi-crucis was also the origin, quite obviously, of the rosicrucians,an ancient secret society which has schemed and manipulated to ensure the reptilianbloodlines continue to occupy the positions of power. one of the authors who is sellingthe idea that the bloodline re

e femalemenstrual cycle is governed by the cycles of the moon and the blood contains thatenergy. it222s ingredients are supposed to ensure a long life. in india it was called somaand in greece it was ambrosia, some researchers suggest. this was said to be the nectarof the gods and it was- the reptilian gods who are genetic blood drinkers. the 221holygrail222 chalice or cup is also symbolic of the womb and drinking menstrual blood, as wellas being a symbol of the reptilian 221royal222 bloodline itself. menstrual blood was providedfor the elite of the reptilian 221royal222 line by virgin priestesses and this is the origin of theterm 221scarlet woman222 or, to the greeks, 221sacred woman222. the greek word for this,hierodulai, was eventually translated into english as harlot and into german a

nd ofsharon tate, the actress murdered by charles mansons cult, made a film calledrosemary s baby. polanskis film was about a woman impregnated by a demon summonedby a satanic cult. over the centuries it became understood that if you torture a child in thewomb the baby would disassociate or split and so mothers are traumatised duringpregnancy to traumatise the child. needles are inserted into the womb to stab the baby.many are induced prematurely because of the effect that has on them and it is also part ofthe selection process.a child who shows the instinct and spirit for survival in a premature birth willnormally enlist that same spirit during the trauma-programming which will often takethem to near death. after birth, a programmer is assigned to them. this is normally awoman, although i

eat seal pyramid)and the key personnel were to be found in the top nine degrees.the obelisk and the dome are common sights in the monuments and buildings of thebrotherhood. the obelisk is an ancient phallic symbol of the male energy and solarenergy and the dome represents the female or moon energy. often they are placedtogether or close to each other. this is the symbolism of the oval office (the womb,female) in the white house which looks out on the washington monument, the vaststone obelisk (phallic, male. these symbols attract and generate the energy theyrepresent: they are a physical thought form. the obelisk also symbolises the penis of theegyptian sun god, osiris. according to legend, after osiris had been sliced into piecesby his rival, set, the queen isis found all the pieces excep

g to everything she said and alleyes would forever be watching her. this is the classic nowhere to run bind imposedon all mind controlled slaves. does anyone believe, therefore, that they would allowdiana into the clutches of mohamed al fayed if he was not under their control? theritual also involved the use of a golden penis (osiris symbolism) which was used ondiana to signify the opening of the womb. arizona says it was of reptilian shape andsize and had needle-like protrusions designed to superficially puncture the walls of thevagina and cause bleeding. diana was told that after this ritual, she would never behonoured again by attending their rituals and she was not to ask questions aboutthem. now do people understand why diana suffered from bulimia and seriousemotional problems from th

onfor their symbolism and ritual on such an apparently obsessional scale. everythingresonates at a frequency and symbols are very powerful examples of this. a symbol is aphysical representation of a thought. what that symbol means to you is the energy itwill resonate. an obelisk symbolises male sexual energy, the phallus, and so that is theenergy it generates and attracts. the dome represents the womb, the female, and that isthe energy it generates and attracts. the same with a pentagram, a lighted torch,whatever. if they are placed in particularly powerful vortex points and crossover pointson the earths magnetic grids, they will affect the vibrational state of the global energyfield even more efficiently. so it is with the geometrical street plans and the geometricalplacement of certain b

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g your return. you may ask, what then is the point of the "bath of consecration? external influences may never be completely neutralized; however, many influences will be eliminated, including those unwanted influences which are prone to hinder the operation of your rituals. the bath also serves as a separation between your old life and new life. as a new born infant emerges from the fluid of the womb to a new life, so will you emerge from the waters of leviathan to be reborn in the image of satan. these rites do not require an altar, sword, dagger, bell, gong, robe, wand, or any other ritual implement. although not essential to these rites, you may choose to burn candles and incense. if this is done, only black candles should be used. any "dark" or "evil" incense may be used in these ritu

and become magus of the aeon of lucifer* once more i shall perform the rituals of the demonic bible as revealed to me by the spirit azael, my unholy guardian demon, and confirmed by the 4 crown princes of hell, the 8 sub-princes of hell, and the 9 lords of the abyss* dark lord, consecrate this work which i begin this night that i may emerge from the waters of leviatan as a new born babe from the womb and, as a suckling, feed upon the breast of the great harlot, the lady of babylon and, once weened from the tit, grow as a child of darkness until i have become a god upon the earth, exercising the power and authority of the highest and ineffable king of hell* i bless and consecrate this water in the name of satan and in the name of lucifer (recite three times, then enter bath* sanctify me in

demon in the flesh to the glory of the infernal empire and to the majesty of the infernal king he, who shall reign forever upon the earth (exit bath, then say) as a sign of my rebirth, i take upon myself this cross which i shall wear at all times and in all places* dark lord, you have awakened me from death and given me life. i have emerged from the waters of leviatan, as a new born babe from the womb. wrapped in a blanket of darkness, i shall nurse upon the breast of the great harlot. as you have given me life, i dedicate this life to thy service. receive my life as your own that we may become one in body, mind, and soul. accept my life as a sacrifice to thy might and thy grandeur. open to me the gates of thy knowledge that we may become one.receive me as thy servant& disciple, as thy pri

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nd gaethya meaning to live thus from the latin roots as mens and mind. the spiritual or mind cannot be viable to any certainty in the physical realm beyond its will to shape its world around it, therefore the mind contains both elements of darkness and light. ahriman himself was born of light but yet chose darkness. in the zurvanite myth ahriman first perceived his own being and chose to exit the womb before his brother, who was born of light. ahriman was called dark and stinking by his father zurvan, who by casting aside his first born, allowed ahriman to go forth from the heavenly realm to choose his own devices within the physical and spiritual world. ahriman has free will to choose his own path, to become in both planes of existence based on that desire. the writer eznik11 presented a

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ility. sephirah: hebrew for "sphere" pronounced "seh-fear-ah" it is a sphere or area or emanation on the tree of life (q.v. sephirohth: pronounced "seh-fear-oht" the plural of sephirah (q.v. serpent: in alchemy (q.v, the result of heating a substance in the athanor (q.v. in sex magick, it is the semen. shakta: in hinduism and eastern occultism, the male seed or spark of light that impregnates the womb of the universal goddess, shakti (q.v, and allows her to give birth to all things. it is viewed as a god in tantrik doctrine. shakta does not himself exist, but he enables existence. shakti: in hinduism and eastern occultism, the universal power of realization that creates and sustains the world from moment to moment. in tantrik doctrine, it is viewed as a fertile goddess who gives birth to a

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t the nomenclature is apt; for form, although it is the builder and organiser, is also the limiter; each form that is built must in turn be outgrown, lose its mystical qabala page 84 usefulness, and so become a hindrance to evolving life, and therefore the bringerin of dissolution and decay, which lead on to death. the father is the giver of life; but the mother is the giver of death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled in form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. death is implicit in birth. 7. it is between these two polarising aspects of manifestation-the supernal father and the supernal mother-that the web of life is woven; souls going back and forth between them like a weaver's shuttle. in our individual lives, in our physiolog

it will be observed the importance attached to time, in other words to age, in these binah institutions; only grey hairs are venerable; ability alone carries little weight. that is to say, only those who are congenial to chronos can succeed in such an environment. 8. binah, the great mother, sometimes also called marah, the great sea, is, of course, the mother of all living. she is the archetypal womb through which life comes into manifestation. whatsoever provides a form to serve life as a vehicle is of her. it must be remembered, however, that life confined in a form, although it is enabled thereby to organise and so evolve, is much less free than it was when it was unlimited (though also unorganised) on its own plane. involvement in a form is therefore the beginning of the death of life

okmah supplies the energy, and binah supplies the machine. iii 28. consider now the maleness and femaleness of this pair of supernal opposites as reflected in the act of generation. the spermatozoa of the male are incapable of more than the briefest life; they are the simplest possible units of energy; once that energy is expended, they dissolve. but the reprod uctive mechanism of the female, the womb that bears and the breasts that feed, are capable of bringing this handed-on life to independent life of its own; and yet all this elaborate machinery must lie inert till the stimulus of the chokmah-force sets it in action. the female reproductive unit is all-potential, but inert; the male reproductive unit is all-potent, but incapable of bringing to birth. 29. most people think that because

s the realisations of the middle pillar. 79. this aspect of the central pillar is expressed in the yetziratic text wherein it states that malkuth causes an influence to emanate from the prince of countenances, the angel of kether. 80. the additional titles assigned to malkuth bring out its attnbutes clearly. it is regarded as the gate and the mate. these two ideas are in essence one idea, for the womb of the mother is the gate of life. it is also the gate of death, for birth into the plane of form is death to higher things. 81. malkuth is also said to be kallah, the bride of microprosopos, and malkah, the queen of male kh, the king. this clearly indicates the function in polarity that prevails between [page 290] the planes of form and the planes of force; the planes of form being the femal

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oncurred in this, as he had always had a repulsion for miss x, and had only tolerated her for his mother's sake. soon after this mrs. c. began to feel unwell, the indisposition slowly progressed, until finally, although she had no definite symptoms, she was obliged to consult a doctor on account of her steadily increasing weakness and sense of malaise. a diagnosis of rapidly growing cancer of the womb was made. an operation was performed, which gave temporary relief, it was not expected to do any more, and she went downhill steadily. towards the end she lapsed into unconsciousness, and at the same time, mr. c. also became unconscious, apparently having one of his seizures in sleep, from which he never awakened. they died within a few hours of each other. mr. c.'s first wife had also died o

n operation was performed, which gave temporary relief, it was not expected to do any more, and she went downhill steadily. towards the end she lapsed into unconsciousness, and at the same time, mr. c. also became unconscious, apparently having one of his seizures in sleep, from which he never awakened. they died within a few hours of each other. mr. c.'s first wife had also died of cancer of the womb. about this time miss x.'s aunt and fiance died within a short time of each other, and the last that was heard of miss x. was that she had been removed to a nursing-home in the country with a severe mental breakdown. taken separately, any of the incidents in this strange eventful history can be explained away, but taken together they make a curious story, especially when it is remembered that

satisfaction by astral visits, she would naturally not want to break her rapport with the man she loved by giving herself to the man she did not love. if she were a vampire, her motive for keeping the aunt and lover in her house, and their condition, would be readily explained. also her breakdown, which followed immediately upon their deaths. the fact that mr. cs first wife died of cancer of the womb does not in itself call for remark, but it is a curious thing that he should lose his second wife from the same disease. cancer is not as common as all that, and in any case, there are many available sites beside the womb. on the other hand, diana, one of the aspects of luna, of whom hecate, the goddess of witches, was another, presides over the female reproductive organs. the illness of mrs

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

suggenome'nou tekei n h?li'to'mhnon kai` a?s enh toi s ka'tw en gui'ois to`n a?rpokra'thn. the remainder of the hymn refers to horus] p. liii osiris invested with the attributes of ra. later in the xviiith, or early in the xixth dynasty, we find osiris called "the king of eternity, the lord of everlastingness, who traverseth millions of years in the duration of his life, the firstborn son of the womb of nut, begotten of seb, the prince of gods and men, the god of gods, the king of kings, the lord of lords, the prince of princes, the governor of the world, from the womb of nut, whose existence is for everlasting,[1] unnefer of many forms and of many attributes, tmu in annu, the lord of akert,[2] the only one, the lord of the land on each side of the celestial nile"[3] in the xxvith dynasty

a man, prostrate, adoring the disk (3) four men, upright, with both hands raised in adoration; and (4) a human-headed bird, emblematic of the soul of the deceased lady, standing upon a pylon] p. 253 text (1 [hymn to osiris "glory be to osiris un-nefer, the great god within abydos, king of eternity, lord of the everlasting, who passeth through millions of years in his existence. eldest son of the womb (2) of nut, engendered by seb the erpat,[1] lord of the crowns of the north and south, lord of the plate ii. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod14.htm (1 of 3 [8/10/2001 11:24:50 am] lofty white crown. as prince of gods and of men (3) he hath received the crook and the flail and the dignity of his divine fathers.[2] let thy heart which is [1. the word# er-pat is composed of er "chief" an

fore the might of neb-er-tcher.[3] he leadeth in his train that which is and that which is not yet, in his name (6) ta-her-seta-nef;[4] he toweth along the earth in triumph in his name seker.[6] he is (7) exceeding mighty and most terrible in his name osiris. he endureth for ever and for ever in his name un-nefer.[6 (8) homage to thee, king of kings, lord of lords, prince of princes, who from the womb of nut hast possessed the world (9) and hast ruled all lands and akert.[7] thy body is of gold, thy head is of azure, and emerald light encircleth thee. o an[8] of millions of years (10) all-pervading with thy body and [1. the name tettet or tattu was borne by two towns in lower egypt: busiris, the metropolis of the 9th nome, and mendes, the metropolis of the 16th nome. see brugsch, dict. g o

ek in the waters. the goddess hetep-se-khus is the eye of (95) ra, or (as others say, it is the flame which followeth after osiris to burn up (96) the souls of his foes. as concerning all the faults which are (97) in osiris, the scribe of the holy offerings of all the gods, ani, triumphant [they are all that he hath done against the lords of eternity][3] since he came forth (98) from his mother's womb. as concerning (99) the seven shining ones, even mestha, hapi, tuamautef, qebhsennuf (100) maa-atef-f, kheri-beq-f, and horus-khenti-maa, anubis appointed (101) them protectors of the body of osiris, or (as others say (102 [set them] behind the place of purification of osiris; or (as others say, those seven glorious ones are (103) netcheh-netcheh, aqet-qet, an-erta-nef-bes-f-khenti-heh-f,[4 (

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d, raphael (wisdom of god, and uriel (light of god, for ages and ages. amen. 7. let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the watersthat which is above as that which is below, and that which is below as that which is above, to the accomplishing of the wonders of the one thing. the sun is its father; the moon its mother, and the wind carried it in its womb; it ascendeth from earth to the sky, and returneth again from the sky to the earth. i exorcise thee, creature of water, that thou mayest be to me the mirror of the living god in his works, the fountain of life, and the cleansing of sinners. amen. 8. dregs of matter, the lord commandeth thee by the living and devoted serpent. cherub, the lord command thee by adam jol-havah! wandering eagle, th

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proceeded only to nantes, where prelati lived, and had attacked the miserable traitor with the utmost fury, threatening to slay him if he did not reveal the means of extracting from the devil the long-sought gold. stalling, prelati declared that terrible conditions were required by the infernal master; first would be the sacrifice of the marshal s unborn child, after tearing it from the mother s womb. de rais made no reply but returned at once to machecoul, the florentine sorcerer and his accomplice the priest on his heels. meanwhile, anne, left to her own devices on the roof of the tower and not daring to come down, had used her veil to send distress signals. these were answered by two cavaliers accompanied by a posse of armed men, who were riding toward the castle. they proved to be her

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nd, not being able to lie still, she tossed about all over the bed, sometimes putting her feet above her head as if trying a somersault. this she kept up throughout the throes of her illness and until it had gone down by degrees. when asked what had happened to her, she denied any remembrance of it. but on seeking the causes of this affection we were of opinion that it arose from a choking of the womb and from the rising of malignant vapours affecting adversely the heart and brain. we were at length forced to relieve her with drugs but these were of no avail and becoming more violent and congested she at last began to throw up long iron nails all bent, brass needles stuck into wax, and bound up with hair and a part of her breakfast.a mass so large that a man would have had difficulty in sw

ing world war i. he received the military cross. though he lived in australia, isborn was a member of the society for psychical research, london. sources: berger, arthur s, and joyce berger. the encyclopedia of parapsychology and psychical research. new york: paragon house, 1991. osborn, arthur w. the axis and the rim: the quest for reality in a modern setting. london: v. stuart, 1963. the cosmic womb: an interpretation of man s relationship to the infinite. wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1969. the expansion of awareness: one man s search for meaning in living. wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1967. the future is now: the significance of precognition. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1961. the meaning of personal existence in the light of paranormal phenomena

egent s park in 1874. the successors of joanna southcott her death and recantation left her thousands of followers in great confusion. a large number refused to believe that her mission had been a delusion. others formed splinter groups. among these was a group led by george turner, herald of shiloh, who claimed to be southcott s successor. he explained that shiloh had been taken from southcott s womb into paradise until the appointed time. turner s demented proclamation of the final days was to be delivered in palace yard, london. it denounced the treasury, horse guards, carlton house, the playhouses, churches and chapels, the tower, somerset house, and other public places. the angel of the lord shall sink all by earthquake. his radical manifesto dictated, the whole united kingdom is to b

turoff, stephen contemporary british spiritual healer who practices psychic surgery. his healing is through an entity claimed to be dr. joseph kahn, whose healing resembles that of philippine healers. at times, a real scalpel is manipulated; at other times, an invisible syringe or other apparatus is involved. purported healings effected through turoff s mediumship include cases of fibroids in the womb, infected lungs, and liver tumor. dr. kahn is said to be one of a team of 18 spirit helpers. turoff has demonstrated his healing before members of the noah s ark society for physical mediumship. turquoise a number of ancient beliefs surround this stone. j. b. van helmont stated: whoever wears a turquoise, so that it, or its gold-setting touches the skin, may fall from any height; and the ston

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all [abduction] experiencers (nyman, 1989. most investigators of the abduction phenomenon disagree, and indeed when nyman presented his ideas at a 1992 conference held at the massachusetts institute of technology, some questioners accused him of leading his subjects into confabulation. they were particularly critical of his practice of asking the subjects to recall memories of their lives in the womb. among nyman s defenders was harvard university psychologist john e. mack, who was also engaged in extensive hypnotic probing of ostensible abductees. in a book published two years later, ma c k told the story of a young man he identifies only as paul, one of an increasing group of a b d u c t e e s. who have discove red that they h a ve a dual identity of an alien (they do not use that word)

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al strain! the tear wells forth, the earth has me again! chorus of disciples. though he, victorious, from the grave s prison, living and glorious, nobly has risen, though he, in bliss of birth, creative joy is near, ah! on the breast of earth we are to suffer here. he left his very own pining for him we miss; ah! we bemoan, master, thy bliss! chorus of angels. christ is arisen out of corruption s womb! burst bonds that prison, joy over the tomb! actively pleading him, showing love, heeding him, brotherly feeding him, preaching, far speeding him, rapture succeeding him, to you the master s near, to you is here! outside the gate of the town all sorts of people are walking out. some young workmen why are you going off that way? other we re going to the hunters lodge today. the former but towa

ls of this thy house, instead of greeting from thine own, could meet and shake thee thus? conceal it thou canst not; for on that brow of thine i see aversion writ, a noble anger that is battling with surprise. helena [who has left the wings of the door open, agitated. a vulgar fear beseemeth not the child of zeus, no lightly fleeting hand of terror touches her; but that grim fright, that from the womb of ancient night rose at the first beginning and still multiform, like glowing clouds out of the mountain s fiery throat, rolls upward, might make even heroes breasts to quake. in such appalling wise today the stygians have marked my entrance to the house that i am fain to leave this threshold often trod and wished-for long, turning my steps away as of a guest dismissed. but no! i have retrea

wers, be who ye may! i ll plan some consecration and then, purified, may glowing hearth bid lord and mistress welcome home. leader of the chorus disclose, o noble lady, to thy serving-maids, to us who aid and honour thee, what has occurred. helena what i have seen, ye too with your own eyes shall see unless old night indeed has forthwith swallowed up her creature in the fearful depths of her dark womb. but yet that ye may know, i ll tell it you in words. when through the sombre courtyard of the royal house i stepped with reverence, my nearest task in mind, i marvelled at the drear and silent corridors. no sound of busy going to and fro fell on mine ear, no diligent swift hasting met my gaze. before me there appeared no maid, no stewardess, they who are wont to greet each stranger as a frie

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

wami vivekananda, a great disciple of sri ramakrishna, wrote the following hymn of samadhi: 24 lo! the sun is not, nor the comely moon, all light extinct; in the great void of space floats shadow-like the image universe. in the void of mind-involute there floats the fleeting universe, rises and floats, sinks again ceaseless, in the current i. slowly, slowly, the shadow multitude enters the primal womb, and flows ceaseless the only current. i am, i am. lo! tis stopped, even the current flows no more, void merged into void- beyond speech and mind; whose heart understands, he knows the truth. 4' 8: h" 2: 2 2:e 8% 2 f 4# ancient of days (peshitta) when the connection is opened via nirvikalpa samadhi to the substratum of the ayn, everything disappears, including the idea of the substratum. you

o to the altar and kneel down before your shrine, briefly casting your gaze successively upon all the objects there, and finally upon the image of the name hvhy in the tzimtzum against the blue light of the endless. the next step is to make prostration. before people walk, they crawl; first on their bellies, then on their hands and knees. long before that, the fetal position is experienced in the womb. prostration blends postures that are deeply embedded in human consciousness. placing the forehead to the earth is a primordial act of reverence, unification, and extinction. the religious act of prostration is found in some form in virtually all faiths. as practiced in islam for instance, prostration (sujud) is a central component in the ritual of prayer (salat) that is performed five times

FOCUS OF LIFE

uffer. the difference between man and beast is one of acquisition, not digestion. there is no lasting peace-ye eternally fall in love with the new thing of belief. to the mental gymnast: your somersault returns from the place where it began. slave! all you know for certain-you suffer. embrace reality by imagination. from birth is a degeneration of function-safe is he who never leaves his mother's womb. what is perfect does not reflect its caricature. what is true has no argument-in that it is volition. the workers of malignity own the kingdom of earth. what asses these teachers, prophets and moralists now appear! and through them what greater she-asses we have become! you would have prophecy? first tell me your sleeping partner's name. what once evoked a mighty passion-is now repulsive; le

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

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

for you, think yourself immortal and capable of understanding all, all arts, all sciences, the nature of every living being. mount higher than the highest height; descend lower than the lowest depth. draw into yourself all sensations of everything created, fire and water, dry and moist, imagining that you are everywhere, on earth, in the sea, in the sky, that you are not yet born, in the maternal womb, adolescent, old, dead, beyond death. if you embrace in your thought all things at once, times, places, substances, qualities, quantities, you may understand god. say no longer that god is invisible. do not speak thus, for what is more manifest than god. he has created all only that you may see it through the beings. for that is the miraculous power of god, to show himself through all beings

for you, think yourself immortal and capable of understanding all, all arts, all sciences, the nature of every living being. mount higher than the highest height; descend lower than the lowest depth. draw into yourself all sensations of everything created, fire and water, dry and moist, imagining that you are everywhere, on earth, in the sea, in the sky, that you are not yet born, in the maternal womb, adolescent, old, dead, beyond death. if you embrace in your thought all things at once, times, places, substances, qualities, quantities, you may understand god.3 by engraving in memory the celestial images, archetypal images in the heavens which are shadows near to the ideas in the divine 1 the great men and inventors (op. lat, ii(i, pp. 124-8) are in thirty groups with five subdivisions le

ul, which is on the horizon between corporeal and spiritual, spiritual and intellectual. and, to return to our purpose said isis to momus, the stupid and senseless idolaters had no reason to laugh at the magic and divine cult of the egyptians, who in all things and in all effects, according to the proper reasons of each, contemplated the divinity; and knew how through the species which are in the womb of nature, to receive those benefits which they desired from her. for, as she gives fish to the sea and rivers, deserts to wild animals, metals to the mines, fruits to the trees, so they give certain lots, virtues, fortunes and impressions to certain parts of certain animals, beasts, and plants. hence the divinity in the sea was called neptune, in the sun, apollo, in the earth ceres, in the d

wisdom and judgement, that art industry and use of the intellectual light, which is sometimes less, and sometimes in greater abundance revealed to us by the intelligible sun, which habit is called magic. the stupid and senseless idolaters had no reason to laugh at the magical and divine worship of the egyptians, who contemplated the divinity in all things. and knew, by means of the species in the womb of nature, how to receive those benefits which they desired of her. which (species) like diverse ideas, were diverse divinities in nature, who all centered at last in one deity of deities, and fountain of ideas above nature. from hence i believe is derived that cabala of the jews, the wisdom of which (of whatsoever kind it be) hath proceeded from the egyptians, among whom moses was educated

FRATER ELIJAH ANGELS OF CHAOS

e second sigil: inverse libra) absolute chaos. 7 is also a symbol of set as an ax. sept is seven the sixth and central cosmic power zone: beauty--tiphareth--sun/son. the number 6(sex):vau- sexual union zain: the number 7--twins set/ horus (gemini, 6'th and 7'th months gemini- cancer. sexual polarity. lovers of the tarot. the letter zain spelled in full equal's 67 (reverse 76) which symbolizes the womb of the mother (binah=67. in reversal, the dark) mother, inverse birth (destruction--the phoenix again. there is also some relation to sekmet. on the gateway sigil (i do not know why i name it like this [2: unity in chaos, very similar to the mage as a uniter of worlds. the third ritual is to follow this upcoming tuesday, on my birthday, the moon is now waning. today is 11/8/98 [2] is connecte

FREEMASON BLUEBOOK

god, and the image of his goodness; it is a one, yet it is capable of becoming a plurality. the prophets saw the divinity clothed in a garment white as snow, and his hair white, like unto wool "god created the universe from his love, and he sustains it by his wisdom. in every system of cosmogony, the divine wisdom, the eternal light dissipates the primitive darkness, and fashions the world in the womb of chaos" this symbol is also represented by a white taper, which at the opening of the lodge you are (presumed) to light at the altar, thereby reminding you that before entering upon the important duties of your station you should first seek to be enlightened by the divine wisdom,which can only be obtained by diligently searching the revealed word of him "who is without beginning of days or

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

beckons it to a new birth that it may acquire more skill in the arts and crafts of temple-building. about five months after the quickening, when the last of the watery signs, pisces, has been passed, the representative of the lucifer spirits, samael, focuses the forces of the fiery sign, aries, where mars is positively polarized, so that under the impulse of their dynamic energy the waters of the womb are voided, and the imprisoned spirit is liberated into the physical world, to fight the battle of life. it may blindly butt its head against the cosmic forces typified by the first of the fiery signs, aries, the ram, which is a symbol of the brute strength brought to bear upon the problems of life by the most primitive races; or it may adopt the more modern method of cunning, as a means of a

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

14; also r. swinburne, the mysteries of osiris or ancient egyptian initiation, p. 185] a christian author explains this somewhat obscure statement, above, on the sexual symbology of the rainbow "in the ancient jewish kabbala. mystical rabbis taugh he t that the rainbow symbolized a sexual rite. the bow of t rainbow was supposedly the phallus of the male god which descended into the kingdom of the womb, the queen or goddess. the union was said to create immense divine powers [texe marrs, mystery mark of the new age, p. 97] sex in the cross and the crown most christians would have no trouble accepting the cross and the crown symbol here. after all, our savior and lord jesus christ received his crown in heaven after he suffered the agony of the cross. however, freemasons have just a little bi

their brains. in the masonic report, we make this discovery: question: what does masonry's emblem of the 'cross and crown' actually symbolize" answer "the 'cross' of freemasonry is a philosophical cross, according to albert pike 'morals and dogma, p. 771. it is philosophical in the sense that it represents the generating fecundating principle by the perpendicular shaft [phallus, and the matrix of womb of nature, the female producing principle [female vulva, by the horizontal shaft. the philosophy of the masonic cross is totally phallic. the 'crown' of this masonic emblem is also phallic, it being the first emanation of the cabalistic sephiroth [c.f. mcquaig, the masonic report, norcross, georgia, answer books and tapes, 1976, p. 34] masons have taken the cross of jesus christ and turned it

FULL MOON RITUALS

of and horn" deer hears and knows well that to all who desire to see- whether seeing shadow, or faint outline of magical light- that he wears both now. as deer drops to his left knee with both hands clasped upon his right, he reverently lowers his eyes to the floor and to his sister's feet. and, hearing her gentle permission among the many melodies already playing in his head, raises them. knees, womb, heart, breasts. knowing that his goddess already resides within, as she does within all women, but must be called out for all the rest to see. deer rises and places both hands squarely on owl's shoulders, looking directly into her eyes, and notes that it is now she who trembles. while deer can only imagine that the mixture of desire and apprehension which he felt are now hers, that self with

FULLER J F C SECRET WISDOM OF THE QABALAH

brium in state g before entering state j, he will realize that this is not the only reality; that gas above so beneath h, state g is equally real; that they are in fact two realities, the one belonging to conscious existence and the other to what may be called super-conscious existence; that there is a relationship between these two, just as there is a relationship between the human embryo in the womb and the fully developed man; and that to attempt to explain the super-conscious state to the purely conscious individual- that is to an individual who has never experienced super-consciousness- is to turn wisdom upside down. such a man, the ordinary individual, we will call y; then, if x attempts to explain his experiences to y, as all language deals with three-dimensional concepts, he can on

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

ced, this particular fruit appears the most conspicuous. its significance, as revealed by inman and other writers, is too gross to be set forth in these pages. among the most sacred plants or flowers were the lotus and the fleur de lis, both of which were venerated because of some real or fancied organic sexual peculiarity. the lotus is adored as the female principle throughout nature, or as the "womb of all creation" and is sacred throughout oriental countries. it is said to be androgynous or hermaphrodite--hence its peculiarly sacred character. it has long been thought that this lily is produced without the aid of the male pollen, hence it would seem to be an appropriate emblem for that ancient sect which worshipped the female as the more important creative energy. of the lotus, inman re

tion of society under which gynaecocracy, or the social and political pre-eminence of women, prevailed, was the importance attached to the female principle in the deity in all ancient mythologies. according to the testimony of various writers, om, although comprehending both elements of the deity, was nevertheless female in signification. sir william jones observes that om means oracle--matrix or womb.[27] upon this subject godfrey higgins, quoting from drummond, remarks [27] see anacalypsis, book iii, ch. ii "the word om or am in the hebrew not only signifies might, strength, power, firmness, solidity, truth, but it means also mother, as in genesis ii, 24, and love, whence the latin amo, mamma. if the word be taken to mean strength, then amon will mean (the first syllable being in regimin

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

ntain answering to ararat, and which was filled with the natural elements of reproduction, is found amongst the traditions of every country of the globe. in egypt, the destructive agency drives the god into the ark--or into the fish's belly, where he is obliged to remain until the flood subsides. in other words, at the time of the destruction of the world, the creative agency is forced within the womb of nature, there to remain until it again comes forth to recreate the world; nor does the symbolism end here, for this god--the sun, or the reproductive power within it, which every year is put to death by the cold of winter, must for a season remain lifeless, but, at the proper time, will come forth with healing in his wings. this god must issue forth to life through female nature. the god-m

he same as the greek phanes, and phanes is noah, the egg being the ark or female principle from which he was produced. the greek god phanes is the same as the egyptian osiris, who was driven into the ark by the "wind that blasts" or by the evil principle [45] the theogony "as cupid is indifferently said to have been produced from an egg at a time when the whole world was in disorder, and from the womb of the marine goddess venus, the egg and the womb of that goddess must denote the same thing. accordingly we shall find that, on the one hand, venus is immediately connected with the symbolical egg; and, on the other hand, that she is identical with derceto and isis, and is declared to be that general receptacle out of which all the hero-gods were produced. now there can be little doubt in wh

e sacred yoni, through which the person to be regenerated is to pass" thus at the time nicodemus is said to have queried concerning the mysteries of the new birth, it is observed that the outward forms of regeneration had long been in use among the pagans. in passing themselves through these apertures, the applicant for regeneration was supposed to represent the condition of one "issuing from the womb to a new scope of life" according to the testimony of various writers upon this subject, there are still extant, not alone in oriental countries, but in ireland and scotland as well, numerous excavations or apertures in the rocks which by an early race were used for the same purpose. through the misconception, bigotry, and ignorance of the roman catholic missionaries in ireland, these opening

yths of the ancients the sun is yearly overpowered by cold or by the destructive agencies in nature. astronomically, or astrologically, it wanders in darkness and desolation during the winter months; in fact dies, and descends into hell in order that he may rise at the easter season to gladden and make all things new again. mythologically, this new sun becomes incarnate; enters again his mother's womb, and is born into the world in the form of a man whose mission is to renew human life. hence we have an explanation of the eastern buddhas and crishnas, all of which were born of virgins at the winter solstice. the new sun which at the close of each cycle was believed by the more ancient people of the globe to "issue forth from the womb of nature to renew the world" now that the truths underl

ception in heaven. each and every one of the solar deities has been born at midnight, on the 25th of december, at the time when the sun has reached its lowest position and begins to ascend. macrobius, a learned roman writer, observes that the early historic nations "believed that the sun comes forth as a babe from its cradle at the winter solstice" neith is made to say "the sun is the fruit of my womb" the 15th of august, assumption day, the time when mary, the mother of jesus, ascends to heaven is the day when the zodiacal constellation virgo "the greek astrea, leaves the european horizon" and the "8th of september, when virgo emerges from the sun's rays, is held sacred as the nativity of the queen of heaven" of the mid-winter festival, bede says "the pagans of these isles began their yea

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

ultimate reunion with the divine is the result of the purified soul having completed its pilgrimage. in thecommentaryonthecreationofgenesis,still allegorical like genesis itself, it is stated:thereis in heaven a treasury called guph, and all the souls which were created in the beginning, and hereafter to come into this world, god placed therein: out of this treasury god furnishes children in the womb with souls.a further commentary in symbolic language narrates how the power, perceiving a child's body to be in formation, sends for a suitable ego to inhabit it.god beckons to an angel who is set over the disembodied souls, and says to him 'bring me such a soul; and this has been always done since the world began: he appears before jehovah, anda further glance at the kabalah 107worships in h

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

rieved him and shot at him, and hated him:buthis bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mightygodof jacob (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of israel) even by the god of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the almighty who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessingsofthedeep thatiiethunder, blessings of the breasts and of the womb: the blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of joseph, and on the crown of the head ofhimwho was separate from his brethren' moses says 'blessed of the lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, and for the precious frui

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undisputable scientific fact. he writes: we will consider a very important natural law. this is the formula proposed by haeckel "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" if we take a human being as an example, the meaning of the law is as follows: the morphological changes and changes in the order and function of the organs that a human being undergoes, from the first cellular formation in his mother's womb, until he is born and during his life until he dies, is nothing more than a recapitulation of the changes that he has undergone since the beginning, from his initial cellular formation in earth and in water until today.1 master mason selami isindag also places great importance on haeckel's theory. in an article entitled "masonic doctrines" he writes "in his experiments, darwin proved that var

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t is also known as an nganga, such in the methods of primal sorcery. the magician should create or obtain such a pot or urn for which you will summon and bind such spirits to. this is traditionally symbolic to the vessel of solomon of which he bound the 72 djinn of the shemhamforasch. the sorcerer who seeks to transmit the knowledge of old through their essence of being may use these vessels as a womb for the daemon of the sun or the moon. upon obtaining the proper urn or pot, wash and purify the vessel for a time. allow it to dry in the light of dawn until dusk. allow the sun s rays to purify the urn and prepare it to house the great familiars and djinn of the fallen angels, who still walk in spirit among and within us. the vessel will indeed become their binding place once they have been

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

ient maxim the astrological influences in the four great crosses are shown in appendix d. how these forces influence the lesser watchtower squares is shown in appendix c. the primary meanings of these signs are given below. aries: the first cause, the life-principle, pure spirit. taurus: pure substance, undiferentiated matter. gemini: motion, phenomena, elementary relationships. cancer: universal womb, pure waters of life, the motherprinciple. leo: creation made rnanifest, divine incarnation, creative activity, the ideal mart. virgo: organized matter purifed and refined, the ideal woman. libra: ideal relationships, perfect harmony and balance, universal harmony. scorpio: emotional power, regeneration, death. sagittarius: aspiration, transformation of consciousness, the principie of perfect

rents that flow through these aethyrs. if you can wear your robe and 160 conduct each operation in your magical temple, so much the better. step 1. sit comfortably with spine erect. keep your feet together. keep your hands together. step 2. concentrate on your spinal column. begin at the base of your spine and "feel" each vertebra upward one at a time. step 3. imagine your brain to be a yoni, the womb of isis, a receptacle of infinite space. imagine your spine to be a l ingam, the phal lus of osiris, a receptacle of infini te energy. step 4. concentrate to the brink of samadhi. be conscious of both brain and spine. imagine a hunger of one for the other. imagine this hunger to be increasing. continue to increase this tension as long as you can. step 5. imagine a current of light about the w

GREY W G CONDENSATION OF KABBALAH

eemed to fit their concepts nicely until they realised that if god were placed at the top, and man at the bottom which seemed natural, the polarity of the fourth sphere down would be wrong, because it should have been on the masculine right instead of the neutral centre. they solved this problem by considering that if the final creative act were equivalent to the expulsion of an individual from a womb, then the final tenth sphere of the human world, should be another stage lower and the two above it should follow suit to balance the design. this gave figure 3, which left a space below the top three concepts which provided a useful symbology of its own. a gap, or abyss just below this top level of consciousness which clearly indicated the difference between divine and human thinking. it als

(powerful/almighty lord of life).creatively byarchangelgavriel (virility ofgod. formatively by the angelic order of the ishim (souls of fire. expressively by levanah (themoon, which is closest to this planet. this is the sphere of familial influence from bloodlines, where dreams develop and everything comes together for emergence into independent life. humanly this is the finishing process in the womb, and where we get our imagination from. after nine months, everything is projected into: 10 thekingdomof thisworld.originated by thegod-aspect of adonaiha-aretz (lord of the earth/land. created by archangel sandalfon (co-brother) who is the other end of metatron. formed by the angel order of the keruvim (winged bulls. expressed by the life-elements of earth, air, fire and water( olam ha- yeso

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he molte (mould, pulvis) p. 251, was accounted holy: it is the ^6wv 7ro\v^6reipa out of its teeming lap rise fruits and trees, into it the dead are laid, and decay or fire restores them to dust and ashes.1 to die was to sink to the earth/ til iarsar (til moldar) hniga/ to kiss the earth/ still more prettily in on. i modurcett falla (nialss. cap. 45, in maternum genus cadere, to fall back into the womb of terra mater." 2 they also said iarffar megin kiosa (vim telluris eligere, i.e. invocare, sasm. 27b; and as the greeks made the falling giant acquire new strength the moment he touched the ground, the edda has aukinn iarffar megni (auctus vi telluris, 118b, 119a. 3 one who had been long away from home kissed the earth on treading it once more; in o.fr. poems baiser la terre is a sign o

ve been discovered, in which the bodies neither lie nor sit, but crouch with the head, arms and legs pressed together, in receptacles nearly square. m. fred. troyon of french switz, who has carefully explored and ob served many old graves, expressed to me his opinion, that by this singular treat ment of dead bodies it was prob. intended to replace man in the same posture that he maintained in the womb before birth. thus the return into mother earth would be at the same time an intimation of the coming new birth and resurrection of the embryo. 3 the servians, by way of protesting, say tako mit zemlie! so (help) me earth. a gaelic saw (armstrong sub v. coibhi, priest, supra p. 92 note) declares: ged is fagus clach do n lar, is faigse na sin cobhair choibhi, near as a stone is to the ground

HANDBOOK OF EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

xhaled from atum s nose and tefnut being spat from his mouth. these apparently contradictory statements are clarified in later sources, such as the bremner-rhind papyrus and the memphite theology. atum excites his penis with his hand and takes the semen into his mouth. the vignettes to some mythological papyri illustrate this moment in graphic detail. the mouth of the creator acts as a substitute womb. atum uses his powers of thought and utterance to transform the seed into the first two gendered deities, who are expelled from his mouth or through the nose and mouth. the combination of biological and intellectual methods of creation is stressed in the memphite theology, which states that the ennead of atum (the first nine deities created) came into existence through his seed and his finger

n a great cycle in which everything had to change to survive and yet everything remained fundamentally the same. the separation of nut and geb made it possible for their children to be born. these were the gods osiris, seth, and horus the two-eyed and the goddesses isis and nephthys. some sources leave out horus. a tradition as old as the pyramid texts had seth break violently out of his mother s womb. seth was mythical time lines 65 a god whose nature linked him with chaos, so the birthday of seth was said to be the day on which disorder and strife first entered the world. osiris, seth, isis, and nephthys, together with geb and nut, shu and tefnut, and ra-atum, made up the four-generational group of deities known as the ennead of heliopolis or the great ennead. horus, the sky falcon whose

yth (see stars and planets in deities, themes, and concepts, but by far the most significant heavenly phenomenon was the daily rising and setting of the sun. the solar cycle the apparent movement of the sun across the sky was seen both as a life cycle and as a journey. the daily life cycle of the sun was more an extended metaphor than a narrative. the sun was said to be born each morning from the womb of the sky goddess, nut. at dawn the sun was a child a daily repetition of the emergence of the sun child during the first time. at noon, the sun reached the peak of his strength and could be portrayed as a triumphant falcon. by evening he was an old man, virtually the only god to be shown as old. the common mythical time lines 91 identification of the evening sun as atum linked it with the m

during the new kingdom, bes was usually paired with the fearsome hippopotamus goddess taweret rather than with beset. the two deities appear in scenes celebrating the births of kings and commoners. bes and taweret were also the guardians of the divine infants worshipped in the birth houses of temples of the first millennium bce. temple and magical texts give bes or bes-shu the role of opening the womb to allow a child to be born. the symbolism of birth was reproduced in tombs to help the dead to new life. some royal tombs and sarcophagi show bes with hippopotamus-faced demons protecting the lion-shaped bed on which the deceased hoped to be reborn. a painted statue of bes dominates a tomb chamber in the recently discovered valley of the golden mummies. see also eye of ra; feline deities; ha

ra coiled around the sun disk, she was more powerful than all other deities. important goddesses such as hathor, bastet, and mut can be called both the eye of atum and the eye of ra. other egyptian texts refer to these two eyes as if they were separate entities. this may be to distinguish between the creative and destructive aspect of the eye goddess. the pupil of the eye could be thought of as a womb in which gods and other beings were formed. a child or a dwarf can be shown inside the eye, representing the sun that will be born in the red sky of dawn. deities, themes, and concepts 129 figure 28. a king is given power over foreign lands by sekhmet, one of the goddesses who could be known as the eye of ra. relief in the temple of seti i at abydos (courtesy of richard pinch) the unblinking

rth of divine kings show khnum making the royal body and its ka or double on his potter s wheel. this seems to be taking place in the celestial realm as a necessary prelude to the king s physical birth. in temples of the first millennium bce, the births of gods were celebrated in similar scenes. khnum creates and animates the physical forms of these baby gods, starting with shaping the egg in the womb. at the roman period temple of esna, khnum s role as maker of bodies was celebrated at the festival of the potter s wheel. hymns sung at this festival praised the lord of the wheel as the one who fashioned gods and men. when khnum was viewed as a universal creator, his name was joined with those of other creator deities such as amun, ptah, or ra. his wheel was spun to remake the cosmos every

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nto sekhet-aaru, a portion of osiris's kingdom of sekhet-hetepet, and a constant and abundant supply of wheat (for bread, barley (for beer, incense, unguents &c, and the power to assume any form he pleases at will. in the latter he calls upon certain gods to make his soul rejoin its body, and, addressing the gods who tow the boat of millions of years, he asks them to cause him to be born from the womb of the sky-goddess nut in the eastern horizon of heaven [daily] for ever. it has already been said that a complete illustrated copy of the book of gates was also inscribed on the sarcophagus of seti i, and it is not easy to explain this fact until we remember the important position which it makes osiris to hold in the other world. that the book is formed of very ancient materials is evident f

world of light according to the book am-tuat. the twelfth division, or hour, or city, is called kheper-kekiu-khau-mestu, the name of its gate is then-neteru, and the hour-goddess is maa-nefert-ra; it is the "uttermost limit of thick darkness" i.e, it is not a part of the tuat proper, and it contains the great celestial watery abyss nu, and the goddess nut. who is here the personification of the "womb of the morning" so soon as the sun-god passes from the thighs of nut he will enter the matet boat, and begin his course in the world of light. we see afu-ra in his boat as before, and in the front of it is the beetle of khepera, under whose form the god is to be re-born. the space in front of the boat is filled by the body of a huge serpent called ankh-neteru, which lives upon the rumblings o

nd the god takes his place in it, with the gods who are to guide and propel it. nu then lifts the boat up above his head, and the goddess nut receives the disk of the sun in her hands. it will be noted that she stands on the head of a god whose body is bent in such a way that it forms a circle: the explanatory text shows that the god is osiris, and that his body is the tuat. thus we see that the "womb of nut" from which the sun-god is said to be born, lies quite close to the eastern end of the tuat, and that it forms by itself the vestibule which leads into the world of light. close to the high prow of the boat we see (vol. ii, p. 303) the sun's disk passing through a gap in the mountain which divides the eastern vestibule of the tuat from the sky of this world; this disk is the same which

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

attribute of every creative god, as of every creative goddess,the latter being, philosophically considered, only the feminine aspect of the god, at first androgynous,afterwards male. it is from padma-yoni "the bosom of the lotus" from absolute space, or from the universe outside timeand space, that emanates the cosmos, conditioned and limited by time and space. the hiranya garbha "theegg (or the womb) of gold, from which brahma emerges, is often called the heavenly lotus. the god,vishnu- the synthesis of the trimurti or hindu trinity- during the "nights of brahma" floats asleep onthe primordial waters, stretched on the blossom of a lotus. his goddess, the lovely lakshmi, rising from thebosom of the waters, like venus-aphrodite, has a white lotus beneath her feet. it was at the churning of

HINE PHIL ASPECTS OF EVOCATION

t into chaos- the confrontation with death, the demon feast, trial by fire, communion with the dead- and the subsequent return- the realisation of power, and the subsequent return to human affairs as an initiate. the core elements in this process can be summarised as follows: phase of departure: summons to depart, seperation from mundane life, descent. phase of initiation: ordeals, the labyrinth, womb, whales. belly, guides and allies. illumination/transformation phase of return: rebirth, return to world. mastery awareness of this process is a central theme of the contemporary approach to development which has come to be known as chaos magick, an approach which focuses on the examination and removal of belief structures, the cultural conditioning which defines our experience of the world

INFERNAL SABBAT LIVE

e very forces which society generally shuns. musickally psychonaut 75 is an industrial and ritualistic band which embodies the essence of not only chaos sorcery and luciferian witchcraft, but experimentation and extreme electronic and hybrid soundscapes. gate of black earth, nephillmic tomb in the sunless palace of azrail, open forth the dreaming fields of night, from thy vessel, born of lilith s womb shall the vampyre shade awaken before us lilith, queen of those who walk the shadows- i come before you, night born as the queen of the dead. behold unto my death mask, the temple of azothoz as a current of the living flame. i shall bless each one of you with the devil s sight, the serpents tongue shall speak of the secret alphabet which ye all shall scribe on the walls of the sunless palace

ISIS UNVEILED

for they never wore their hair long. the nazarite, who separated himself unto the lord, allowed "no razor to come upon his head "he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow" says num- bera (vi, 5. samson was a nazarite, i. e, vowed to the service of god, and in his hair was his strength "no razor shall come upon his head; the child shall be a nazarite unto god from the womb" judges, ziii, 5. but the final and most reasonable conclusion to be inferred from this is that jesus, who was so opposed to all the orthodox jewish practices, would not have allowed his hair to grow had he not belonged to this sect, which in the days of john the baptist had already become a heresy in the eyes of the sanhedrim. the talmud, speaking of the nazaria, or the nazarenes (who had ab

r? svayambh^ the unknown essence of the br&hmanas, is identical with ain-soph, the unknown essence of the kabalists. as with the latter, the ineffable name could not be pronounced by the hindas, under the pen- alty of death. in the ancient primitive trinity of india, that which may be certainly considered as pre-vedic, the germ which fecundates the moth^-prindpu, the mundane egg, or the universal womb, is called nora, the spirit, or the holy ghost, which emanates from the primordial essence. it is like sephira, the oldest emanation, called the primordvd jmnl, and the white head, for it is the point of divine light appearing from within the fathomless and boundless darkness. in manu it is "naha" or the spirit of god, which moves on "ayana [chaos, or place of motion, and is called niratana"

ko; ul iil 33. 094. tbe ubh inntcnutiou uc[ md in the amaogoaf of tmj imiidrtwit utmo. thin m m iu llic etyptiui dytbolocr, hit ud owii, ialer ubd brother, maa jud wif; uid horua. the sod oi botb. becoiiiiii( iht huabud ol hii bkiukr. iu. had produdiis? aon, malmli i>uii- fifw; trnf. p. z) after brooding over the 'deq' the 'spirit of god' produoea iti own image in the water, the univerwl womb, byn- boliaed in mann by the golden e- in the kabalivtic coamogony, heaven and earth are penouified by adam kadmon and the aeeond adam. the fint ineffable triad, contained in the abalract idea ain-soph, sepliira, and adam kadmon, the protogonoa, the utt t being identical with the forma, when biienal* in every triad there ii a male

e male prind- is the tame; adam ifj^mmi? the type pie, downward the female; the two typify- of humanity a* a cosectite totality within ing at the nme time tpirit and matter. the unity of the creative god and the uni- hiit wtdd within the infinite universe it venal ^lirit. the microcoam within the macrocomn. as toa bn? tb* trinit? ol sum, ud a, in the jewish kabala. it is tbe tymbol of bbht of the womb of the universe, the terreatrial dpk, tli tgg, whose archetype is the golden mun- dpk dane egg. it is from within this spiritual bosom of mother natute that proceed all the great savion of the onivene the avatar* of the invisible deity "of him who it and yet is not, from the not-being, etenial cause, is bom the being^ j n u puruaha" says manu, the legislator. wuntfacis puni^ia i* the 'divine

prompted by the desire to create, the spirit [first of the emanations] operates the creation and gives birth to ether, which the sages consider as having the faculty of transmitting sound" ether begets air whose property b tangible [and which is necessary to life "through a transformation of the air, light is produced "from [air and] light [which begets beat, water is formed [and the water is the womb of all the living germs* throu^out the whole immense period of progressive creation, cover- ing 4,320,000,000 years, ether, air, water and fire (heat) are constantly forming matter under the never-ceasing impulse of the spirit, or the un- receaud god who filb up the whole creation, for he is in all, and all is in him. this computation, which was secret and which is hardly hinted at even now

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

longer do* the desire to nourish ourselves begins long before our birth. it carries over as an imprinting from another time as molecules re-gather to create a new form. the ancient wisdom says that half of all the atoms in each new life are re-gathered from our previous form, like old clothes cast aside then collected to dress us once more. regardless of such beliefs, from the moment we exit the womb, we are driven by our desire to be fed. to feed on the love of our mother, to feed on the milk of her body, to feed on her touch, to feed on the sound of her voice and to feed on her smell. then slowly, all our senses come alive to absorb the food of the world and often it takes decades to discover what truly feeds us, and what drains us, and makes us emotionally cold and also old. there are

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

from a common ancestor. now, the colour heraldic on which they are always emblazoned is azure, or blue which is the colour of the sea, which is salt. in an anagram it may be expressed as c. following on this allusion, we may say that ventre-saintgris! is a very ancient french barbarous expletive, or oath. literally (which, in the occult sense, is always obscurely, it is the sacred blue (or gray) womb, which is absurd. strange myths. 41 now, the reference and the meaning of this we will confidently commit to the penetration of those among our readers who can felicitously privately surmise it; and also the apparently circuitous deductions, which are yet to come, to be made by us. blue is the colour of the virgin maria. maria, mary, mare, mar, mam, means the bitterness, or the saltness, of t

KETAB E SIYAH

rthrow him and give us victory in god's judicious court? how shall we bring testament to his evil and thus stem its monstrous tide? if we cannot bring proof of his sin then how can we deliver our father from the serpent's tongue? yet what proof is there of his guilt that we can show before our lord whose eyes see all truth and yet now see not this perfidy that has the seed of ruin in its cankered womb. what testimony then shall expound his guilt that all the world may know of it and make him accursed for his crime, driving him ever as a broken exile, 10 once haughty and noble when he was great and wore the princely mantle that we shall wear, bent over with weariness and defeat like an old beggar or a starved hound? how shall we win this most righteous victory" michael in reply spoke thus

row him and give us victory in god's judicious court? how shall we bring testament to his evil and thus stem its monstrous tide? if we cannot bring proof of his sin then how can we deliver our father from the serpent's tongue? yet what proof is there of his guilt 71 that we can show before our lord whose eyes see all truth and yet now see not this perfidy that has the seed of ruin in its cankered womb. what testimony then shall expound his guilt that all the world may know of it and make him accursed for his crime, driving him ever as a broken exile, once haughty and noble when he was great and wore the princely mantle that we shall wear, bent over with weariness and defeat like an old beggar or a starved hound? how shall we win this most righteous victory" michael in reply spoke thus, wit

ture and greeted me anew with such respect as a prince would show his tutor or the child his mother, for no more is my due from mankind that i made not to kneel but to rule. then, for the first time i embraced my daughter and son as a parent and held them to me, weeping that i had first forsaken them to the cunning tongues of heaven, and wept with joy, feeling the new life that stirred within the womb of woman and the brave new race of gods that it promised to me. yet i could not tarry longer within the garden and no more could the nephilim race for no rose the sun that banished darkness to the shadowed west and betrayed my presence and my deeds to heaven's spies. cursing once again the name of raphael i did remove myself from that fond embrace and counsel once more children with a parent'

re, between the rivers, came the beasts that dwell upon the earth to swear their fealty to the new monarchs of the middle realm, renouncing heaven's rule. a great multitude of god's creatures came to kneel before the sceptre of the noble nephilim. first of all the beasts was the ox, most strong, who would pull the plough and give the milk for her own calves, for woman's expected child, within her womb; then the horned goat, my own totem beast, knelt low, yielding fleece and milk to man, as most worthy gifts to bestow upon so great a prince; the hound then did come to declare his oath to be man's constant ally, knight and hunter to the king, charged to guard the ox and goat and hunt the deer whose wild temperament would submit not to human hand; the stallion and the mare, once untamed, subm

hey spoke would not move the hearts of those moved to hate. the noblest of men did cry out against their brothers who were set upon the path of destruction, desiring only to spill the blood of those not like themselves. to no avail the good and wise spoke against such a way but were themselves reviled for such words as they spoke most nobly, seeking what was right "brothers, sisters, of that same womb of aboriginal woman and the seed of man are we descended all and of satan's flesh. let us not then abhor each other for we are of the same blood. though our skins be of different hues we possess all the same spirit within our hearts. let there not be war amongst the children of the shedim because we are in outward appearance changed. if you would but strip away these surface changes you would

and its passing was not marked by momentous happening as had once before crowded pages of the histories. not that these days were uneventful but those happenings of those days were of a quality that changed nothing of the future's. in those days ten thousand empires waxed great yet none persisted and did fall. the great men of older days had passed from the world and awaited rebirth in a distant womb, walking not amongst the nations of men. chadel, in those days, was quiet and the shedim were roused to no action by the doings of the nephilim or elohim but yet watched and awaited those that might come later to fulfil that foreseen destiny and build amongst my children an eternal empire to exceed heaven and reign most potent over all creation. yet was it in those days that ishtar came to me

the true law. thus am i sent from heaven to bestow upon the entire world this gift. if you would but kneel to god of his great vengeance shall you be saved and shall enjoy everlasting bliss" thus was born the child of gabriel, sired by love or hatred i know not but to taint all love with hatred and to weave fine things 327 into a bloody tapestry of wrongs. even as they had whispered to him in the womb did they whisper to him in childhood and as he grew to be a man they whispered still though others heard them not, the elohim of gabriel's sympathy, descended to him to sing of heaven and, over and over, tutored him in that which he should speak until he was completely given over to those lies that they taught him. yet even when he was but a child did those of heaven perceive his destiny and

mother of his son to deliver the suckling babe from israel unto the river kingdom of the pharaoh's that offered libations at the altar to ashmedai, the thrice greatest, and to aset, the bright goddess. even as the soldiers of the king burst inwards with naked swords to claim the child gabriel spoke these words with a desperate tongue to that daughter of the nephilim that he had loved and of whose womb jesu, son of gabriel, was born, addressing her with those words with which he had first approached her "mary, most blessed of the women of the earth, mother to that prince most blessed that is the very son of heaven. swiftly must you fly hence for it is that herod, king of israel, grows jealous of the blessing of your son and perceives in that boy that which would eclipse his kingdom. thus, i

ike the lions of the desert. war-like, proud, yet decadent, nurturing not fine things of the soul but outer strength and greed. it was as though they believed they might make fecund the desert's wastes by libations of the blood of men. well did they feed the jackals. yet amongst this savage people was a most noble child born, of ishmael's lineage well extracted. yet before he was brought from the womb was his father dead and he was not yet a man when death took his mother also. so it was taken upon the shoulders of his tribe that they raise him unto manhood. in the city of mecca was the orphan raised and he was bright amongst men though he mourned for two parents. his name was given to him "muhammed" but the people of mecca called him "trustworthy" for amongst all that barbarous crew was h

se perfect mechanisms yielded truth. in the stars were the secrets of creation revealed to those that could divine them. in the motions of the planets did the nephilim come to understand. that which gabriel had taught to them they now knew as falsehood. the power of the deceiver over them was broken by the turning of the spheres. now the age of darkness was ending and the age of light grew in the womb of history. nowhere did gabriel look upon the world and saw not his power fade from him. the nephilim have within themselves the strength to cast off their chains. as rome had fallen so did heaven, as were badr's victors the defeated of uhud so did the work of another thousand years break the empire built up in a thousand. the shedim now walked amongst men once more and great nephilim were bo

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ude of forces was discarded and was replaced with an assumption about a wise, unified force that guides the world. however, due to humanity s insignificance, compared to the greatness of this force, we are left unattended. alas, humanity continues to suffer regardless of the numerous theories about the world s creation and governance. it is incomprehensible why nature is so gentle in the mother s womb and during early childhood, and so ruthless in adulthood, when we seemingly b a s i c c o n c e p t s i n k a b b a l a h 32 need its help even more. a question arises: are we not the reason for nature s cruelty toward the world? all of nature s actions are interconnected; hence, by violating one of its laws, we upset the balance of the entire system. it does not matter whether we speak of na

LAITMAN M KABBALAH SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

to fit our needs. either way, it does not seem that our lives are working very well. the best state in which we can get along with the world is that of equilibrium. if everyone understood me and wanted exactly what i want, that would be a state of equilibrium. there is no state more perfect than the sense of being in balance with the world. it can only be compared to being a fetus in my mother s womb: everything exists only to care for me; there is no need to erect any defenses. science refers to that state as homeostasis. the greek word, homo, means same or similar, and stasis is greek for condition. this is the state of being that every object in reality strives to achieve. s t r i v i n g f o r b a l a n c e 85 the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology explain that the only reason fo

LAITMAN M THE KABBALAH EXPERIENCE

exile, and only by reacquiring it can we be reestablished here. p r e r e q u i s i t e s q: do i have to study the pentateuch and the other scriptures before i begin to study kabbalah? a: you don t have to study anything before you begin to study kabbalah, because kabbalah is contact with the creator. a person who wants to study kabbalah is like an infant emerging wet and naked from its mother s womb. what would an infant need to know at that point? when we want to learn about the upper world, we do not need anything that we learned in this world, because it is the upper world we wish to enter. in order to be interested in kabbalah, you don t need any preconditions other than finding the right sources of information. a n yo n e c a n s t u dy k a b b a l a h q: everyone knows that before

processes both before and after crossing the barrier in full consciousness, but the crossing itself is impossible to predict in advance. crossing the barrier is a one-way climb to the spiritual world, but never back to ours. we are aiming to achieve lishma, the intention to please the creator, complete unity with him, like a fetus t h e k a b b a l a h e x p e r i e n c e 154 inside its mother s womb. hence once filled with such a sensation, we will realize that we are there. q: in the attainment of the worlds beyond there is a line: the lowest spiritual level is the level at which the spiritual becomes more important than the material. do i have it right v when a person values the spiritual more than the material he steps into the spiritual? a: yes, but it cannot be achieved coercively

o become even more detached from our own needs. at the moment, we may be incapable of it; it seems unnatural. we think that only a madman could do this. however, we must accept them with faith above reason, and adopt them as our own. if we succeed, the creator will raise us to the next spiritual degree, closer to him, and we thus become an embryo in the next degree. like an embryo in its mother s womb, we agree to unite with the creator with our eyes shut. there are no other means to come to a higher degree. now we can understand why it is impossible to do this without help from above. we must aim at faith above reason instead of trying to understand with reason and logic, even if it were possible. within a group are always opportunities to accept a friend s opinion. the group should becom

t, which indicates that the person is inside something very big, and is rather lost in it. everyone feels this preliminary sensation, but after a person experiences that sensation several times, it diminishes because one learns correctly, studies the kabbalah correctly and begins to create within vessels that will help one feel spiritual sensations. a person thus stops being like an embryo in the womb (a state that exists in a beginner) and becomes more and more mature. emotions are then redefined and analyzed, and thus one grows farther away from that preliminary situation. instead of wanting to be enveloped in something higher like an embryo, one should aspire to attain the upper one himself, to consciously be in him and try to move forward independently. that can be possible only if the

hrough all the processes both before and after crossing the barrier in full consciousness, but the crossing itself is impossible to predict in advance. crossing the barrier occurs only in a one-way direction, to the spiritual world but not back to ours. it means attaining lishma, the intention for the sake of the creator, and consequently, complete unity with him, like a fetus inside its mother s womb, hence being filled with such a sensation, we certainly realize we are there. t h e t r e e o f l i f e a n d t h e i n n e r r e f l e c t i o n q: could you please explain the titles of two books: the tree of life and the inner reflection? does the tree of life mean life in its general sense organic life, the force giving and supporting life, or life as being opposed to death, as not being?

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te, we cross the barrier and enter the spiritual world. this is the third situation. at that stage, a screen t h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 18 with aviut shoresh (root coarseness) replaces the point in the heart. it is called galgalta with the light of nefesh. that state is regarded as the embryonic state. much like an embryo in our world, the seeker wants nothing but to lie inside the maternal womb, inside a higher partzuf that will raise the developing spiritual seeker. after that, the embryo takes nine months to develop its own nine sefirot in malchut, from nefesh of nefesh (keter of malchut) to yechida of nefesh (malchut of malchut. at this point, the fetus is born and acquires a vessel of hochma with the light of ruach (nrnhy of ruach) with aviut aleph (1st degree coarseness. this p

its mother. how does the milk become food for the baby? when menstruation stops, the mother s blood is used for the development of the embryo. during labor, blood pours out; this blood is impure and cannot be corrected. it becomes impure desires, denied of any desire to give, to bestow. but there is a part of the blood that turns into milk after labor. it rises from the sefira of yesod, where the womb is, to the chazeh (chest, which is in the sefira of tifferet of the partzuf. everything that happens in the spiritual world and every spiritual law automatically applies to our world. thus, by studying the processes of impregnation, the evolution of the embryo, and labor, as well as the infancy and growth of the spiritual partzufim, we can understand the processes that occur in our world and

. in this way, the soul acquires the screens in the root coarseness of the world of assiya and goes over to the first screen of the first degree of coarseness of the world of yetzira. the soul continues this way until it crosses all the worlds and all 125 degrees. when we are in the world of assiya with our root coarseness, our soul evolves through a number of degrees like a fetus in its mother s womb (bina. the conception lasts nine months, the same time it takes for a woman to give birth in our world. the birth of the soul is the transition from root to first degree coarseness, from the world of assiya to the world of yetzira, which corresponds to the birth of a baby in our world. in the world of beria, the soul undergoes a two-year phase of suckling, during which the soul evolves and re

rselves from this responsibility. changing our lives cannot be bought for money or any other currency. t h e s p i r i t ua l wo r l d q: what is a spiritual birth? is it anything like a physical birth? a: everything that happens in our world matches perfectly what happens in a spiritual birth. when one is completely liberated from egoism, this state corresponds to that of a fetus in its mother s womb. the fetus then goes through nine months of spiritual development that cort h e pa t h o f k a b b a l a h 128 respond to a state of conception, until it is born as an independent, though small being. then there are two years of infancy and feeding at the breast of the superior. then, the infant continues to grow (at the expense of the superior partzuf, but in a separated form) until the age

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

nd from caesar that the druidic method of instruction was by symbols, enigmas and allegories, and that they taught orally, deeming it unlawful to commit their knowledge to writing. it is said that their ceremonies of initiation required much physical purification and mental preparation. in the first degree the aspirant s symbolical death was represented, and in the third his regeneration from the womb of the giant goddess ceridwin and the committal of the newly-born to the waves in a small boat, symbolical of the ark. their doctrines were similar to those of pythagoras- including reincarnation and the existence of one supreme being. apart from a few stray references in classical authors, we know of them today chiefly through the bardic songs attributed to the welsh poet taliesin, of the si

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

hall call unto a horrible thing, abasing their eyes, they shall come forth from the tombs as if they were scattered grasshoppers, running with outstretched necks to the caller. the unbelievers shall say, this is a hard day (arberry 1969, 247. and judged: then he whose deeds weigh heavy in the balance shall inherit a pleasing life, but he whose deeds weight light in the balance shall plunge in the womb of the pit (arberry 1969, 348. paradise (al-jannah) is located at the macrocosmic center of light and is composed of eight levels (or, according to some authorities, as many as the number of souls. this is viewed as a garden where all kinds of delights are prepared for the saved. on the far outer part of the macrocosm lies hell (an-nar, arranged in seven layers, where the soul s punishment co

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. 4. up. 5. thou art tossed about in the grip of the storm for an aon and an aon and an aon. but thou givest not thy sap; thou fallest not. 6. only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great god f.i.a.t. is enthroned on the day of be-with-us. 7. for two things are done and a third thing is begun. isis and osiris are given over to incest and adultery. horus leaps up thrice armed from the womb of his mother. harpocrates his twin is hidden within him. set is his holy covenant,that he shall display in the great day of m.a.a.t, that is being interpreted the master of the temple of a a, whose name is truth. 8. now in this is the magical power known. 9. it is like the oak that hardens itself and bears up against the storm. it is weather-beaten and scarred and confident like a seacaptain

LIBER ALEPH

ly 101 gf de femina quadam (of a certain woman) nowest thou for what cause i am moved to write this unto hee, my son only-begotten, child of magick and of mystery? it is that i thy father am also in this ordeal of initiation at this hour. for the sun is nigh unto the end of the sign of he fishes in the thirteenth year of the on, and the new current of high magick leapeth forth as a flood from the womb of my true lady babalon. and a word hath come to me by he mouth of the scarlet woman, whose name is eve, or ahitha, concerning the temple of iuppiter that is builded for me. and therein is a woman appointed to a certain office. now this woman appeared to me in a vision when i was in the house of the juggler by the lake among the mountains, the sun being in cancer in the eleventh year of the o

dynamic, and that of its effect in static presentation. now this rapture of art is a virtue or triumph of love in his most universal comprehension, but the ecstasy of science is a continual orgasm of light; that is, of the mind. thou sayest, o my father, how may i attain to this fulness and perfection? art thou there, o my son? it is well, and blessed be the bed wherein thou was begotten, and the womb of thy sweet mother hilarion, my concubine, holy and adulterous, the scarlet woman! amen! l liber aleph vel cxi 136 e# de ecstasia samadhi, quo modo ab illis differt (of the ecstasy of samadhi, how it differs from these) onfuse thou not this beatific vision with the trances called samadhi; yet is samadhi the pylon of the temple hereof. for samadhi is the orgasm of the coition of the unlike, a

LIBER CCCXXXV ADONIS

a chain of ages, and a flash liber cccxxxv 6 of lightning.which thou wilt.since.oh i see nothing, feel nothing, and am nothing.ash of the universe burnt through! astarte. and i the flame! esarhaddon. wreathing and roaring for an ageless aon, wrapping the world, spurning the empyrean, drowning with dark despotic imminence all life and light, annihilating sense. i have been sealed and silent in the womb of nothingness to burst, a babe fs bold bloom, into the upper aethyr of thine eyes. oh! one grave glance enkindles paradise, one sparkle sets me on the throne above, mine orb the world. astarte. nay, stir not yet. let love breathe like the zephyr on the unmoved deep, sigh to awakening from its rosy sleep; let the stars fade, and all the east grow grey and tender, ere the first faint rose of d

quack! there fs ducks and devils on his back. keep him away. you want a man, you say? well, there fs a king for you to-day. go, kiss him! slobber over him! his ribs should be readily tickled. wah! wah! wah! she jibs. ugh! there he came too close. i fll bite the dust; i.ll lick the slime of babylon. great lust, great god, great devil, gar-gra-gra-gra! spare me! take this wench, though she were the womb that bare me! see! did i tell you, he fs the king, the king, the king of terrors. see me grovelling! yah! ha! liber cccxxxv 12 psyche. there fs nothing there. are you a man to craze at naught? esarhaddon. immitigable ban! immitigable, pitiful, profound. ban, can, fan, ran, and pan is underground, round, bound, sound.oh have pity. who art thou whose coming thus unmans me? not till now saw i, o

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

i were a highly strung musical instrument. my will runs over the strings, causing complete and harmonious vibrations in my being, which seems to give forth at times an unforrnulated and therefore most delightful melody. march 28th. how can i write it, how put into words the least idea of that which is unformed? yet i will try while yet a vestige of the thought remains. i have conceived within my womb a child. or is it that i have for the first time realized that i have a womb? yet it is so, that blank within, into which i have projected my thoughts, and from which they have come forth again living is for a greater purpose. can i not form therein a child that shall be myself made from the highest ideals, the essence of my pains, refined and purified, freed from dross by the living fire? th

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

d of fate: his mother it is in very deed that gleeful goes the goatish gait. his mother it his, that pure and pale cried in the pangs that gave him birth; the holy image he would veil from aught the tiniest taint of earth. she knows him, and black fear bedim those eyes; she offers to his gaze the blue-veined breasts that suckled him in childhood.s sweet and solemn days. weeping she bares the holy womb! shrieks out the mother.s last appeal: and reads irrevocable doom in those dread eyes of ice and steel. sir palamedes, the saracen knight 7 he winds his horn: his warriors pour in thousands on the fenceless foe; the sunset stains their hideous war with crimson bars of after-glow. he winds his horn; the night-stars leap to light; upspring the sisters seven; while answering flames illume the de

LIBER CXLVIII SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK

i stagger him, i cut away earth from under his feet, i turn him upside down, i give him hashish and make him run amok, i twitch his buttocks with the red-hot tongs of my sadistic fancy.until he feels uncomfortable. but to the man who is already as uneasy as st. lawrence on his silver grill, who feels the spirit stir in him, even as a woman feels, and sickens at, the first leap of the babe in her womb, to him i bring the splendid vision, the perfume and the glory, the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel. and to whosoever hath attained that height will i put a further question, announce an further glory. it is my misfortune and not my fault that i am bound to deliver this elementary message. gman has two sides; one to face the world with, one to show a woman that he loves

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

be poured out upon nile, and my flesh be given to besz to devour! let my phallus be concealed in the maw of mati, and my crown be divided among my brethren! let the jaws of apep grind me into poison! let the sea of poison swallow me wholly up! let asi my mother rend her robes in anguish, and nepti weep for me unavailing. then shall asi being forth hoor, and heru-pa-kraat shall leap glad from her womb. the lord of ven-geance shall awaken; sekhet shall roar, and pasht cry aloud. then shall my members be gathered together, and my bonds shall be unloosed; and my khu shall be mighty in khem for ever and ever! 11.37. i return to the place of the evil triad, of ommo satan, that is before the altar. there to expiate my folly in attaching myself to all this great concourse of ideas that i have her

t (the 3. coils of the kundalin. are implied by this) and this ek.grata is the little cloud like a hand (yod, the lingam of great .iva. and, though i catch up my robe and run john st. john 77 before the chariot of the king into jezreel, it may be that before i reach those gates the whole sky may be one black flame of thundercloud, and the violet swords of the lightning may split asunder its heavy womb, and the rain, laughing like a young child, may dance upon the desert! 12.58. the light beginneth to dawn upon the path, so that i see a little better where i stand. this whole journey seems under some other formula than iao.perhaps a pentagram formula with which i am not clearly acquainted. if i knew the word of the grade, i could foretell things: but i don ft. i think i will read through th

LIBER HHH

manner. concentrate thy thought of thyself in the base of the spine, and move it up gradually a little at a time. by this means thou wilt become conscious of the spine, feeling each vertebra as a separate entity. this must be achieved most fully and perfectly before the further practice is begun. 4. next, adore the brain as before, but figure to thyself its content as infinite. deem it to be the womb of isis, or the body of nuit. svb figvra cccxli 7 5. next, identify thyself with the base of the spine as before, but figure to thyself its energy as infinite. deem it to be the phallus of osiris, or the being of hadit. 6. these two concentrations 4 and 5 may be pushed to the point of sam.dhi. yet lose not control of the will; let not sam.dhi be thy master herein. 7. now then, being conscious

LIBER LVII

y dealt with in liber 418. notice 156= 12 13. this was a name given and ratified by qabalah; 156 is not one of the a priori helpful numbers. it is rather a case of the qabalah illuminating st. john.s intentional obscurity. 165. 11 xv should be a number capricorni pneumatici. not yet fulfilled* 201. ra, light (chaldee. note 201= 3 67, binah, as if it were said .light is concealed as a child in the womb of its mother. the occult retoret of the chaldean magi to the hebrew sorcerers who affirmed rwa, light, 207, a multiple of 9. but this is little more than a sectarian squabble. 207 is holy enough. 206. rbd, the word of power. a useful acquisition .the gateway of the word of light. 210. upon this hoiest number it is not fitting to dilate. we may refer zelatores to liber vii. cap i, liber legis

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

throne .difficult is the task. replied the alarmed deity .but i will use all my influence. i 1 the government, in the intersts of buddhists themselves, reserves all ground within 50 feet of a dagoba. the incident described in this section actually occurred in 1901. 2 siam. know a thing or two about indra, for example .it was done. beautiful was the young girl.s face as she sprang mature from the womb of matter, on her life-journey of an hundred thousand years. of all indra.s flute-girls she played and sang the sweetest. yet ever some remembrance, dim as a pallid ghost that fleets down the long avenues of deodar and moonlight, stole in her brain; and her song was ever of love and death and music from beyond .and one day as she sang thus the deep truth stole into being and she knew the nobl

h the bloom of the wind.s cheek as it clusters from the hidden valley.s gloom; then i walk in woodland spaces, musing on the solemn ways of the immemorial places shut behind the starry rays; of the east and all its splendour, of the west and all its peace; and the stubborn lights grow tender, and the hard sounds hus and cease. in the wheel of heaven revolving, mysteries of death and birth, in the womb of time dissolving, shape anew a heaven and earth. ever changing, ever growing, ever dwindling, ever dear, ever worth the passion growing to distil a doubtful tear. these are with me, these are of me, these approve me, these obey, choose me, move me, fear me, love me, master of the night and day. these are real, these illusion: i am of them, false or frail, true or lasting, all is fusion in t

LIBER SAMEKH

glowing, inhabited by a solar- phallic lion of an uranian nature) hear me, and make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the firmament and of the ether: upon the earth and under the earth: on dry land and in the water: of whirling air, and of rushing fire: and every spell and scourge of god may be obedient unto me. section d. water. hear me. ru-abra-iaf* gthou the wheel, thou the womb, that containeth the father iaf! h mariodom gthou the sea, the abode! h* see, for the formula of iaf, or rather fiaof, book 4 part iii, chapter v. the form fiaof will be found preferable in practice. liber samekh svb figvra dccc 6 babalon-bal-bin-abaft g babalon! thou woman of whoredom! thou, gate of the great god on! thou, lady of the understanding of the ways! h asal-on-ai g hail thou, the

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

LUCIFERIAN INITIATION VIA NOCTURNE

by the torch of azazel, brought to man and woman, hearken and appear through mine eyes. the figure enters you at this instant, allowing a calm silence to fill as the sounds of the musick and the goats grow muffled and dim. by the four winds and the four watchtowers, i call thee angels of silence to bless my initiation. by the call of lilith, grant me passage through the fields of night. from the womb of the mother i emerge with the caul, the stain of witchblood. open your eyes stand and face the altar, staring intently into the mirror: by night, the sabbatic honor of being, the dreamer shall ride the back of the owl, this is the awakening of the dark flesh! eko, eko, asmodee! banish and close circle1 luciferian s o r c e r y luciferian& sethanic magick 2 luciferian sorcery by michael w. f

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ore shall the woman dress, think and align herself with this positive and balanced image of death and life, that through the witchcraft shall she set herself up as queen and mistress of the beast 666, whom is the solar force of creation and joy. the woman is highly respected in the witches sabbat path, as she is the beauty, life and joy of the feminine which is beheld in us all. it is through her womb that the night transfers knowledge and one must seek to continually manifest this through the individual, being male or female. the sabbat is the manifestation of the witch queen in all of her aspects, thus she is deadly and protective at the same time. the sabbat is paralleled in morocco by the ancient meeting of spirits called the zabbat, translating the forceful or powerful one, and those

l cain. as is within all luciferian paths, the significance of individual study and obtainment of knowledge is paramount. the answers to all things, according to robert cochrane are in the air inspiration which is brought on the winds shall give the gift of answers to the many questions you may seek. the trees will bring power and the sea will bring patience, for as cochrane wrote, the sea is the womb which contains the memory of all things. you essentially will be brought to listen to the elements, observe and learn. the one who brings the mind in tune with his or her surroundings is better adapted to work magick and achieve the gnosis of which he/she seeks after. this is primarily an individual process 13 and involves a large amount of personal dedication. the results, or treasure of the

LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT AN INTRODUCTION

s is within all luciferian traditions, the significance of individual study and obtainment of knowledge is paramount. the answers to all things, according to robert cochrane (5. are in the air inspiration which is brought on the winds shall give the gift of answers to the many questions you may seek. the trees will bring power and the sea will bring patience, for as cochrane wrote, the sea is the womb which contains the memory of all things. you essentially will be brought to listen to the elements, observe and learn. the one who brings the mind in tune with his or her surroundings is better adapted to work magick and achieve the gnosis of which he/she seeks after. this is primarily an individual process and involves a large amount of personal dedication. the results, or treasure of the wo

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

se who made no endeavor to improve themselves (whose souls have slept) during their physical lives, passed at death into hades, where, lying in rows, they slept through all eternity as they had slept through life. to the eleusinian philosophers, birch into the physical world was death in the fullest sense of the word, and the only true birth was that of the spiritual soul of man rising out of the womb of his own fleshly nature "the soul is dead that slumbers" says longfellow, and in this he strikes the keynote of the eleusinian mysteries. just as narcissus, gazing at himself in the water (the ancients used this mobile element to symbolize the transitory, illusionary, material universe) lost his life trying to embrace a reflection, so man, gazing into the mirror of nature and accepting as h

le. osiris represents a certain manifestation of solar energy, and therefore his house or tomb is emblematic of the universe within which he is entombed and upon the cross of which he is crucified. through the mystic passageways and chambers of the great pyramid passed the illumined of antiquity. they entered its portals as men; they came forth as gods. it was the place of the "second birth" the "womb of the mysteries" and wisdom dwelt in it as god dwells in the hearts of men. somewhere in the depths of its recesses there resided an unknown being who was called "the initiator" or "the illustrious one" robed in blue and gold and bearing in his hand the sevenfold key of eternity. this was the lionfaced hierophant, the holy one, the master of masters, who never left the house of wisdom and wh

rees of dodona were the oldest. though it is impossible to trace back to the genesis of the theory of oracular prophecy, it is known that many of the caves and fissures set aside by the greeks as oracles were sacred long before the rise of greek culture. the oracle of apollo at delphi remains one of the unsolved mysteries of the ancients. alexander wilder derives the name delphi from delphos, the womb. this name was chosen by the greeks be cause of the shape of the cavern and the vent leading into the depths of the earth. the original name of the oracle was pytho, so called because its chambers had been the abode of the great serpent python, a fearsome creature that had crept out of the slime left by the receding flood that had destroyed all human beings except deucalion and pyrrha. apollo

and the duad. the monad is the symbol of the divine father and the duad of the great mother. the triad being made of these two is therefore androgynous and is symbolic of the fact that god gave birth to his worlds out of himself, who in his creative aspect is always symbolized by the triangle. the monad passing into the duad was thus capable of becoming the parent of progeny, for the duad was the womb of meru, within which the world was incubated and within which it still exists in embryo. the tetrad--4--was esteemed by the pythagoreans as the primogenial number, the root of all things, the fountain of nature and the most perfect number. all tetrads are intellectual; they have an emergent order and encircle the world as the empyreum passes through it. why the pythagoreans expressed god as

amination of the head of the bird. the ungainly lower part of the pelican's beak is entirely missing, the head of the phoenix being far more like that of an eagle than of a pelican. in the mysteries it was customary to refer to initiates as phoenixes or men who had been born again, for just as physical birth gives man consciousness in the physical world, so the neophyte, after nine degrees in the womb of the mysteries, was born into a consciousness of the spiritual world. this is the mystery of initiation to which christ referred when he said "except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of god (john iii. 3. the phoenix is a fitting symbol of this spiritual truth. european mysticism was not dead at the time the united states of america was founded. the hand of the mysteries contro

n the threefold aspect of father, mother, and child. these three constituted the divine family, whose dwelling place is creation and whose natural and peculiar symbol is the 47th problem of euclid. god the father is spirit, god the mother is matter, and god the child--the product of the two--represents the sum of living things born out of and constituting nature. the seed of spirit is sown in the womb of matter, and by an immaculate (pure) conception the progeny is brought into being. is not this the true mystery of the madonna holding the holy babe in her arms? who dares to say that such symbolism is improper? the mystery of life is the supreme mystery, revealed in all of its divine dignity and glorified as nature's per feet achievement by the initiated sages and seers of all ages. the pr

d: for the seed is raised up from the ground, puts forth flowers, and bears fruit, simply through the agency of natural influences. as it is with plants, so it is with metals. while they lie in the heart of the earth, in their natural ore, they grow and are developed, day by day, through the influence of the four elements: their fire is the splendor of the sun and moon; the earth conceives in her womb the splendor of the sun, and by it the seeds of the metals are well and equally warmed, just like the grain in the fields* for as each tree of the field has its own peculiar shape, appearance, and fruit, so each mountain bears its own particular ore; those stones and that earth being the soil in which the metals grow (see translation of 1893) next: stones, metals and gems sacred texts esoteri

ey opened their treasure and presented unto him gifts, gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and by the commandment of god went home to their habitation. these four waxing young again successively many hundreds of years, made a magical language and writing, with a large dictionary, which we yet daily use to god's praise and glory, and do find great wisdom therein* now whilst brother c.r. was in a proper womb quickening, they concluded to draw and receive yet others more into their fraternity" the womb herein referred to was apparently the glass casket, or container, in which the brothers were buried. this was also called the philosophical egg. after a certain period of time the philosopher, breaking the shell of his egg, came forth and functioned for a prescribed period, after which he retired ag

il of symbolism; they do not realize that the creative mystery in the material world is merely a shadow of the divine creative mystery in the spiritual world. because of the phallic significance of their symbols, both the rosicrucians and the templars have been falsely accused of practicing obscene rites in their secret ceremonials. while it is quite true that the alchemical retort symbolizes the womb, it also has a far more significant meaning concealed under the allegory of the second birth. as generation is the key to material existence, it is natural that the fraternity of r.c. should adopt as its characteristic symbols those exemplifying the reproductive processes. as regeneration is the key to spiritual existence, they therefore founded their symbolism upon the rose and the cross, wh

he mysteries, so the secrets for the redemption of the metals are also concealed, that they may not fall into the hands of the profane and thereby become perverted. if any would grow metals, he must first learn the secrets of the metals: he must realize that all metals- like all stones, plants, animals, and universes--grow from seeds, and that these seeds are already in the body of substance (the womb of the world virgin; for the seed of man is in the universe before he is born (or grows, and as the seed of the plant exists for all time though the plant live but a part of that time, so the seeds of spiritual gold and material gold are ever present in all things. the metals grow throughout the ages, because life is imparted to them from the sun. they grow imperceptibly, in form like tiny sh

yed. for this reason the declare that virtuous and illumined men, instead of ascending to heaven, will bring heaven down and establish it in the midst of earth itself. p. 188 spirit of evil. the war in heaven relates to the destruction of the planet ragnarok and to the fall of the angels. the virgin can be interpreted to signify the secret doctrine itself and her son the initiate born out of the "womb of the mysteries" the spirit of evil thus personified in the great dragon attempted to control mankind by destroying the mother of those illumined souls who have labored unceasingly for the salvation of the world. wings were given to the mysteries (the virgin) and they flew into the wilderness; and the evil dragon tried to destroy them with a flood (of false doctrine) but the earth (oblivion)

description constitute one of the most remarkable expositions ever made of the appearance of the wise man's house and the way by which it must be entered_ eventually civilization will destroy itself in one great cataclysmic struggle. then must be reenacted the eternal drama of reconstruction. out of the ruins of the civilization which died when its idealism died, some primitive people yet in the womb of destiny must build a new world. foreseeing the needs of that day, the philosophers of the ages have desired that into the structure of this new world shall be incorporated the truest and finest of all that has gone before. it is a divine law that the sum of previous accomplishment shall be the foundation of each new order of things. the great philosophic treasures of humanity must be prese

MASTERING WITCHCRAFT

handy bowl and ashtray. the witches' cup the witches' cup is a variant of the cauldron of ceridwen. this, in turn, was a celtic development of early prytanic myth which later became the central theme of all the legends concerning the holy grail, that mysterious relic which is woven inextricably into the arthurian romances. the cauldron, bowl, or cup symbolizes the receptive passivity of the great womb of nature, out of which all things are born and to which all return. it is seen as female in nature and is analogous with night, darkness, space, and, of course, the all-encompassing sea. water is the traditional element of the wise related to it. the cup or chalice is used to contain the salt water of exorcism or, alternatively, the wine of libation. this is the sacramental wine which is con

ch in the name of the gods as newly made priest or priestess and witch. a second degree or grade is sometimes bestowed to elevate the witch in the coven hierarchy and enable him or her to form his own coven, which differs only from the first in that the candidate, though bound, remains unhoodwinked, gives no passwords, and joins in the initial ceremonies and chants. after an oath on "his mother's womb" he or she is consecrated by the pentacle as opposed to triangle; this involves anointing with oil, wine, and lips the genital organ, right breast, left hip, right hip, left breast, and genital organ again, in that order; an inverted pentacle, in fact. the new initiate, after being empowered by the laying on of the initiator's hands, is then instructed in the use of the magical implements and

birth used in your necromancy ritual. it signifies many things. primarily it is the sign of osiris, seen as synonymous with hades, dis, and the horned one as god of death. it also represents the skull and crossbones itself, and finally the erect phallus flanked by twin testes below. the gesture of the high priestess is the mirror image of the magister's. it represents both the lunar crescent, the womb of space, and the horns of hathor, all of which are symbols pertaining to isis, the great egyptian mother goddess and consort of osiris. as such, the magister and high priestess are the human representatives of the two great archetypal poles of life, whether you conceive of them as isis and osiris, summer and winter, life and death, or yin and yang. having called down the two powers, such mag

MICHAEL FORD BOOK OF CAIN

deed cain who would feed ones soul to the wolves of the shadows, when the will is weak. invoke cain in isolation and within the circle of those who are of the mark. isolation is a silent wisdom from which the fountain is never dry seek with the cup of emerald. o cain, spirit born of fire and darkness, shadowed initiator! o cain, who wanders the earth from deserts to forests brought forth from the womb, flesh-born son of the dragon and the harlot goddess, mother of witch blood. spirit and lord of the blackened fires of the forge, who tasted the blood mark as an x upon the brow. o cain, who was awakened by the skull bearing omen of abel lord of beasts and initiator of sorcerous fire, werewolf shapeshifter! let me see within and beyond the caul of lilith s veil! father and brother of the cave

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

magnificent splendor- the great predators of night that fly about the shadowed skies. you are now in the bosom of the great goddess, she of many names to whom all forms of life eventually answer. face this with great understanding of who you are and remember that, other than a vehicle for the magickal current, you are nothing. all living things, great and small come and return to dust, the great womb is a spawning ground of genetic isolation and personality. time is not our own yet it is within our control. knowing this, you are truly free to do what you will and live your life according to your inner desire, independent of external manipulation. the purpose of initiation is to set you upon the path so that the self may be revealed. the holy guardian angel or true will shall manifest in t

arcana of self. 78 78 imbolg february 2nd. this festival is of fire. the powers of fire reside in creation and destruction, the flames either caress or break down. if at all possible, this rite should be conducted outdoors, providing room for an ample fire. if not, a well decorated chamber adorned with the images of fire and sleep. imbolg is represented as the first stirring of spring within the womb of the earth. this rite is a celebration of the coming of light, therefore of great inspiration leading in reverse towards the moon. a sigil of astral rising should be consecrated by the sorcerer or witch, and then laid upon the altar for each coven member to focus upon. the sigil should be absorbed in the mind, becoming all things of which there is a creative spark or flame. imbolg is the fi

degree of development and should only be attempted by those who have had significant experience and practice in the matter of creating and/or evoking servitors. 138 138 nature is more atrocious -sex magick- the birth of a lunar intelligence warning: caution should be exercised with this rite. the creation of a moon child on the astral plane is sometimes more dangerous than giving it flesh in the womb. the reason it is dangerous is that it is yet another step up from any normal elemental, in simple terms it is the closest to human intelligence that one could create, it stands on the threshold of having it s own will. the other point to understand is that such servitors, due to their lack of will, act only unto your commands. if one falls prey to starting to communicate with them when unnec

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ngship (sic, kin-ship) arises from the camaraderie and collaboration of all, not the ego driven, auto-cratic travesties of later periods. in many cultures the dead warriors were buried in cir-cular cairns or mounds called sidhes (pronounced she. this word connotes femalebreast and the burial chambers actually look like such from outside. the implication isthat the dead are placed again inside the womb, the breast, the symbols of renewedlife. the egyptians used to place their dead within sarcophagi that were symbols of thefemale body. in fact, the interior of the lid of the sarcophagus had the image of thenight sky as the over-arching body of the mother goddess nuith.clearly, the monarchies of any age have been responsible for atrocious crimes. and yet, themonarchs themselves claim rulershi

ever out of seasonsome blackened pride still burns insidethis shell of bloody treasonhere's my gun for a barrel of funfor the love of living death.the killer's breed or the demon's seedthe glamour, the fortune, the paingo to war again, blood is freedom's stainbut don't you pray for my soul anymore.two minutes to midnightthe hands that threaten doom.two minutes to midnightto kill the unborn in the womb.the blind men shout- let the creatures outwe'll show the unbelieversthe napalm screams of human flamesof a prime time belsen feast..as the reasons for the carnagecut their meat and lick the gravywe oil the jaws of the war machineand feed it with our babies.the body bags and little ragsof children torn in twoand the jellied brains of those who remaini put the finger right on you.as the madmen

ovum of the female.so when it is said that the semen of enki merged with mud, it meant ovum (see p. 80)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation215 appendix b: book abstracts eve (hawah/ava/hayah)all these words for the female meant to give life. she was also known as the lady of the serpent.the word hayah is akin to hayyat, which means serpent (see p. 80)omega was meant to represent a womb. it is close to the symbol of leo, where the sun was born in the ancienttimes. it is similar to the serpent sign, as well as that of libra, which is a v enusian sign (p. 77)no satan in genesisnowhere in the genesis account is there any mention, direct or indirect, of satans involvement, andyet it has become common practice for the church to portray the serpent as an emissary of satan, oreven

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

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

resides to this day, promising to return and rule for a 1,000 years, and afterwards he will live forever more with god. the hindus have the many incarnations of the most-high god vishnu. vishnu, who resides in heaven, came upon man in many forms and these forms are called avatars. an avatar is essentially a god in the flesh. for example, krishna, one of the 10 avatars of vishnu, was born from the womb of a human woman in order to fight the demons that plagued humanity. the first incarnation of vishnu was that of a fish-man. nine incarnations of vishnu have already arrived, whereas the tenth avatar will arrive to earth during the end of the world riding a white horse and fighting for righteousness. there is a similar account in the bible where a character who fights for justice and rides a

ose symbol is an upward-pointing triangle with a horizontal line through it s center, is also associated with an angel (or man, the east, the color yellow, and the arch-angel raphael. and, as stated before, the dagger is used to threaten and punish disobedient spirits. the cup, or goblet, is associated with the element of water. water is symbolic for the passive force, and feminine quality of the womb, and its ability to bear life. water is likewise symbolic for blood and, more specifically, the previously discussed life-force. in magic, fire and water represent the polar opposites of male and female. water, who symbol is a downward-pointing triangle, is also associated with the eagle, the west, the color blue, and arch-angel gabriel. in magic, water corresponded to dreams, emotions, and p

ghest abode in the heavens is frequently represented by a lightning bolt, whereas the human s path upwards may include a snake--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 61 famous phrases: transformation through the mystic passageways and chambers of the great pyramid passed the illumined of antiquity. they entered its portals as men; they came forth as gods. it was the place of the "second birth" the "womb of the mysteries" and wisdom dwelt in it as god dwells in the hearts of men. somewhere in the depths of its recesses there resided an unknown being who was called "the initiator" or "the illustrious one" robed in blue and gold and bearing in his hand the sevenfold key of eternity. who was the master dwelling in the mighty pyramid, the many rooms of which signified the worlds in space; the mas

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

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ephilim and watchers, who descended into the demonium of the earth, to merge spirit with beast and human flesh. wear this mask with intent and pure love, then shall the secret of the essence be revealed in your sunless palace of night. approach the tomb "gate of black earth, nephilimic tomb in the sunless palace of azrail, open forth the dreaming fields of night, from thy vessel, born of lilith's womb shall the vampyre shade awaken hekak vozath ka-sath-ompos shu-seth-evoi-zrazza (by the magic of secret names shall set strengthen the shadow tongue of the serpent) by the blackened fire of my spirit, born in the shadows of the adversary, shall the dragon coil in my being! let the moon be born again in the darkness, from which my desires arise from the grave.the arcane of my self is great, suc

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e whole is a single animal; what is done _in_ it, is done _by_ it; the same world _acts, and _acts upon itself. he divides it into "heaven" and "generation" in the former, he says, are placed and arranged the conservative causes of generation, superintended by the genii and gods. the earth, or rhea, associated ever with saturn in production, is mother of the effects of which heaven is father; the womb or bosom that receives the fertilizing energy of the god that engenders ages. the great work of generation is operated, he says, primarily by the action of the sun, and secondarily by that of the moon, so that the sun is the primitive source of this energy, as father and chief of the male gods that form his court. he follows the action of the male and female principles through all the portion

ul had studied the kabalah at the feet of gamaliel the rabbi. with this benignity, the autocracy of the dominion and control of the deity is imbued and interpenetrated. the former _poured, as it were, into the latter, is an integral and essential _part_ of it, and causes it to give birth to the succession and continuance of the universe. for malakoth, in the kabalah, is _female, and the matrix or womb out of which all creation is born _the sephiroth may be arranged as on page 770_ the kabalah is the primitive tradition, and its entirety rests on the single dogma of magism "the visible is for us the proportional measure of the invisible" the ancients, observing that equilibrium is in physics the universal law, and that it results from the apparent opposition of two forces, concluded from th

needs, to the comfort, and to the luxury of man. from her teeming and inexhaustible bosom come, the fruits, the grain, the flowers, in their season. from it comes all that feeds the animals which serve man as laborers and for food. she, in the fair springtime, is green with abundant grass, and the trees spring from her soil, and from her teeming vitality take their wealth of green leaves. in her womb are found the useful and valuable minerals; hers are the seas the swarm with life; hers the rivers that furnish food and irrigation, and the mountains that send down the streams which swell into these rivers; hers the forests that feed the sacred fires for the sacrifices, and blaze upon the domestic hearths. the earth, therefore, the great producer, was always represented as a _female, as the

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ents the female principle, the fertile mother (an old name for the card is mat, from the italian 'matto, fool, but earlier also from maut, the egyptian vulture-mother-goddess) fertile because the 'egg of blue' is the uterus, and in the macrocosm the body of nuit, and it contains the unborn babe, helpless, yet protected and nourished against the crocodiles and tigers shown on the card, just as the womb is sealed during gestation. he sits on a lotus, the yoni, which floats on the 'nile, the amniotic fluid. in his absolute innocence and ignorance he is "the fool; he is the 'saviour, being the son who shall trample on the crocodiles and tigers, and avenge his father osiris. thus we see him as the "great fool" of celtic legend, and "pure fool" of act i of parsifal, and, generally speaking, the

misapplied. it is our first duty to ourselves to preserve the treasure entrusted to us "what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul" the nature of man is individual. no two faces are identical, still less are two individuals. unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity, inasmuch as all cometh from the womb of nuit--to it returneth all. the apprehension of this sublimity is the mark of divinity. knowing this, all is liberty; ignorant of this, all is bondage. as no two individuals are identical, so also there can be no identity between the quintessential expressions of the will of any two persons; and the expression of each person, in the first instance, as his purely physical prerogative, is his

egenerate the world, the little world, my sister. the misunderstanding of sex, the ignorant fear like a fog, the ignorant lust like a miasma, these things have done more to keep back humanity from realization of itself, and from intelligent cooperation with its destiny, than any other dozen things put together. the vileness and falseness of religion itself have been monsters aborted from the dark womb of its infernal mystery. there is nothing unclean or degrading in any manifestation soever of the sexual instinct, because, without exception, every act is an impulsively projected image of the will of the individual who, whether man or woman, is a star; the pennsylvanian with his pig no less than the spirit with mary; sappho with athis and apollo with hyacinth as perfect as daphnis with chlo

ul be indeed its father's son, he will not fear to show lack of filial reverence, or presumption, if he forget his family in the fervour of founding one of his own, of begetting boys not better or braver indeed than his brothers, girls not softer or sweeter indeed than his sisters, but wholly his own, with his own defects and desires evoked by enchantment of ecstasy when he dies to himself in the womb of the witch who lusts for his life, and buys it with the coin that bears his image and superscription. such is the secret of the soul of the artist. he knows that he is a god, of the sons of god; he has no fear or shame in showing himself of the seed of his father. he is proud of that father's most precious privilege, and he honours him no less than himself by using it. he accepts his family

n god and his soul. let it be understood that the immaculate virgin is a necessary concept; but it must be equilibrated by the opposite concept, since no idea that is not thus balanced by its opposite can exist above the abyss. see liber xxv, and liber v, and liber xxx vi. babalon in greek is mapie, maria. she is the immaculate virgin, the woman clothed with the sun maia with the solar "r" in her womb. but she is simultaneously the great whore, the shameless one who gets drunk on the blood of the saints. she is nature, whose mystery is eternally inviolate, the veiled isis; and she is the diana of the ephesians, frenetically copulating with, and giving suck to, all her creatures: isis unveiled, the heavenly and earthly venus. beyond them, uniting their aspects in a single female symbol, is

objection to calypso, circe, armida, kundry, and co. is that one is liable to be shut up in their gardens. the whole of the book of the dead is a device for opening the closed vehicles, and enabling the osiris to go in and out at his pleasure. on the other hand, there seems to be a sealing up, for a definite period, in order to allow the change to proceed undisturbed. thus earth lies fallow; the womb is closed during gestation; the osiris is plugged with talismans. but it is vital to consider this as a strictly temporary device; and to cut out the idea of eternal rest. this nibbana-idea is the coward 'mother's boy' idea; one ought to take a refreshing dip in the tao, no more. i think this must be brought forward as the cardinal point of our holy law. thus, though nuit cries "to me, that i

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

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the black empire. the iii emulates set, particularly in his coming into being. we understand that such events are not something that happened in some far-off historical time. we know that such events happen in a dimension of mind and can be said to be happening all the time. these events are synchronistic with our xeper. there are two stories of the birth of set. one that he tore himself form the womb of his mother nuit, the other that he began as bata, a human being, and through a series of remanifestations became a god. we each must seek to emulate these things. the first which is that sudden realization of being separate form the cosmos- we can only have once, but we can participate in others coming to that realization- just as set participated in our own coming to that realization. the

i was overcome with purpose. emotions filled me, tears into my heart soaked my words as i flung myself over the edge. down into my fear i fell, the howling wind covering the words spoken so softly. with great reverence i admitted to myself that i was a priest of set. with this my body became ablaze as a falling star. the sepulcher cracked, and the stones shattered. the embryo burst forth from the womb. i was crying and laughing, wailing and screaming "i lay upon the slab, half-conscious, my body engulfed in flames. my flesh peeled and sputtered. as the ashes cooled, i saw the stars from the shattered sepulcher. but it was not destroyed. it had changed. the starry sky shown down through the walls and halfstanding pillars. what was to be found in those stars was the will of my transformation

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lord! hear my song. homeric hymn to apollo this greek votive relief dating from the 5th century bce shows a family sacrificing a bull to asclepius and his daughter hygeia. asclepius asclepius was the son of apollo and the nymph coronis. but coronis took a human lover, ischys, and, in a fit of anger, apollo killed her. he soon repented and told hermes (mercury) to rescue his unborn child from her womb. apollo then entrusted the child, asclepius, to cheiron (see box, who educated him, and he grew up to be the god of health and medicine. athena (minerva, also helped him by giving him two vials of blood from the medusa blood from her left side raised the dead; blood from the right caused death. when asclepius raised hippolytus, theseus dead son (see p. 57, hades (pluto) the god of the underwo

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

s upon my breast, tie my hair with silk. the kalevala: the drowned maid old v in m inen was delighted to have joukahainen s maid care for him in his old age. the kalevala: the singing match. now would be the time for me to part from this world the time to go to death. down below the deep billows. the kalevala: the drowned maid old man v in m inen, the eternal bard, spent 700 years in his mother s womb, and was already old by the time he was born. the story of v in m inen 77 contemplating death aino reached the sea early in the morning of the third day. heartbroken, she took off her clothes and swam out to a boulder in the distance. there she sat until the boulder sank down and the maid with the rock. in a source poem for this story, the girl, named anni, hangs herself rather than marry her

ften described as a god of the sea. father of the gods tangaroa created a family of gods from within himself. here, the newborn gods crawl over his body. tangaroa gives birth to the gods this wooden statue of tangaroa (a a) shows him giving birth to the gods who crawl all over his body. there is an opening at the back of this statue and inside there is a loose group of more god figures; a woman s womb was compared to the shell of tangaroa. from the conception the increase, from the increase the thought, from the thought the remembrance, from the remembrance the consciousness, from the consciousness the desire. maori creation chant great fish maui s catch, which is really land from below the sea, is described as various kinds of fish sometimes an ulua, sometimes a haha kahaki. either way, i

ith hotu matua as king. tane, the forest god t ane, the forest god, was born with his brothers rongo, the god of cultivated plants; tangaroa, the god of fish and reptiles; haumia, the god of wild plants; tu, the war god; and tawhiri, the storm god, from the union of rangi and papa, the sky and the earth. but so closely did rangi and papa cling to each other that the gods could not leave the earth womb and tane had to wrench his parents apart. although generally a peaceful god, tane was in constant conflict with his brother tangaroa, the sea god, because he gave human beings the wood and plant fiber to make equipment for fishing. tane s name means man and he is credited with a key role in the creation of human beings and their mortality. it is said that he created his own wife, hine-hau-one

a god (his mother saw the universe in his mouth and, as a baby, he killed the ogress putana, who fed him poisoned milk, krishna was playful, and many stories tell how he stole butter and teased the girls. with balarama, his brother, he had many adventures, killing king kamsa and winning his bride, rukmini. although it is said that vishnu put one black and one white hair from his head in devaki s womb to create the brothers, balarama is clearly an avatar of ananta, the world serpent, for the snake came out of his mouth when he died. krishna himself was killed after a long life by a hunter, who shot him by accident in the sole of his foot, his only vulnerable spot. shiva and his family 112 shiva and his family the god shiva lived on mount kailasa with his wife, the gentle goddess parvati, a

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ly. it is only when the flash of intuition is grasped in a way of analysis and comprehension that it can develop into a full blown concept, giving rise to true innovation. it is for this reason that chochmah and binah are also called by the terms abba (father) and imma (mother. this is because they are analogous to the seminal drop of the father being developed into a fully developed child in the womb of the mother. this is also the reason that they are called, trein ray in d lo mitparshin (the two lovers who never separate. this is because the two must always come together. in order for the seminal intuitive concept of chochmah not to dissipate it must be analyzed and developed in binah. conversely, if there is no "concept" or "subject" to analyze, binah is barren, so to speak, and has no

ith the arousal of the emotions and recedes. only when he calms down and the emotions die down, can he once again analyze the details. we see clearly that when the emotions are greatly aroused and excited, objective reasoning ceases. it is for this reason that chochmah and binah are called abba and imma. this is because at first the emotions are included in imma (binah) like a fetus in its mother womb. just as a fetus is concealed in its mother s womb where it develops, so too, the emotions are included and concealed in binah where they grow and develop. when the emotions are born as actual emotions, on the other hand, the intellect recedes. when someone is told "you know what so and so said about you" it will first be processed in her mind. the more she thinks about it, the more the intel

rn, so to speak. this is similar to a newborn infant who now has an identity separate and apart from his mother. nonetheless, the holistic overview and strength of position of her anger (nehi"y of abba, remain and transfer to the emotions. this is similar to the fact that a child develops from the seminal drop of the father. although the drop developed into a fully developed child in the mother s womb, its essence is still there. the maturation of zeir anpin continuing the example of a child, after the child is born, it goes through a process of maturation, in which its faculties develop. likewise above, zeir anpin too goes through a maturation process, until its faculties, the sefirot of zeir anpin, become fully developed. as mentioned before, each of the ten sefirot contains ten sefirot

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15+ 65= 80. these two names correspond to the two aspects with [yesod: yesod [itself] and its gcrown. h yesod itself is called kah, and its gcrown h is called adni. furthermore, the yesod of leah and the yesod of rachel are [signified by] two final mem fs, the combined numerical value of which is also that of yesod. leah and rachel are the two partzufim of nukva, as we know. the female yesod, the womb, is indicated by a final, closed mem, which depicts a closed, empty space that will be filled by the male seed. the numerical value of mem is 40, so the 2 yesod fs of leah and rachel equal together 80, the numerical value of yesod. this indicates that yesod couples with the two yesod fs of rachel and leah. now that we have explained the two names of isaac and jacob, and how both are manifesta

comprises are the twelve letters in the three names havayah that indicate the divine consciousness of the three sefirot of the mind, which manifest as the beard when the intellect descends into the emotions. therefore, rebecca was worthy of giving birth to twelve tribes, but because she said, gwhat is this [zeh] for me? h2 because of the pain of her pregnancy, and also because esau destroyed her womb, her son jacob was privileged to father the twelve tribes [instead of her. the numerical value of the word for gthis h (zeh, zayin-hei) is 12. so rebecca fs statement can mean, gwhat do i need the twelve for? h with the above in mind, we can understand the sages f injunction, geat bread with salt. h3 this statement alludes these two mazal fs. the [usual] word for gbread h is lechem, whose num

en we will give you that one, too. in return for the work that you will do for me for another seven years. h jacob complied and completed the bridal week of the one, and then [laban] gave him his daughter rachel to be his wife. c [jacob] thus also married rachel, and he loved rachel even more than leah. he then worked for [laban] another seven years. g-d saw that leah was hated, and he opened her womb, while rachel remained barren. the [mystical] significance of jacob and his two wives, rachel and leah, is as follows. as we have seen previously, rachel and leah personified the two partzufim of nukva, while jacob in general personified z feir anpin. know that jacob has two names, for he was originally named jacob, and this [name applies to him] when he had only rectified z feir anpin from t

and how this is done. yesod of ima extends until the chest of z feir anpin, as is known. from the two ghinges h and two gdoors h in [ima fs] yesod, the two breasts on the chest of z feir anpin are made, as we have explained in our exposition of the zohar.10 there, we explained that this is the mystical significance of the verse, gyour strongholds will be powerful. h11 the doors and hinges of the womb are understood to be the muscles that open and close it.12 the arizal says the following in sha far ma famarei rashbi:13 the supernal ima is manifest in z feir anpin via the intellect of z feir anpin. only netzach-hod-yesod [of ima] is manifest within it. her netzach has three segments [corresponding to the thigh, the leg, and the foot; these are manifest in the three sefirot on the right sid

onifying her malchut; and benjamin her yesod; while joseph personifies the yesod of z feir anpin. the above description moves freely between the actual nomenclature of the sefirot and their anatomical correlates. chesed-gevurah-tiferet correspond to the right arm, left arm, and torso; netzach-hod correspond to the right and left legs; malchut corresponds to the mouth; and yesod corresponds to the womb in the female and the reproductive organ in the male. 2 in our texts, binyamin appears with the second yud seven times (genesis 35:18, 42:4, 43:14, 43:16, 43:29, 45:12, 49:27. 3 yoma 9a. the arizal on parashat miket 209 this what is alluded to in parashat mikeitz, that joseph personified the masculine principle and the others personified the feminine principle. when they all saw that joseph p

e explained this to you with regard to why z feir anpin is at first only six extremities and does not ten become full [sefirot, i.e, a partzuf] until after the rectification process.13 similarly, at that time [i.e, of the egyptian exile, z feir anpin reverted to its original state, that of gthree folded within three. h we always refer to this state as gthe first impregnation. h it returned to the womb of ima, and was not revealed outside. rabbi meir poppers insists that the statement that z feir anpin returned to the womb of ima must not be taken literally. rather, z feir anpin remained a full, mature partzuf, but was informed only by the same level of mentality it possessed when it was in utero. this mentality is called in the zohar gthree folded within three, h i.e, chochmahbinah- da fat

rashat shemot [second installment] this parashah begins: gand these are the names of the sons of israel coming to egypt, with jacob, each man and his household came. h1 inasmuch as there are seventy facets to the torah and one of these is [verbal] allusion [remez [we will expound this verse in this manner. the descent of the israelites into egypt alludes to the embryo while still in its mother fs womb, in between those straits. the word for egypt, mitzrayim, means gstraits h or gconfinements. h it is therefore an allegory for the confinement of the soul as it leaves its native milieu in heaven and descends into the confinements of physicality, constrained to experience reality within the parameters of time and space. the phrase gin between the straits h is paraphrased from lamentations 1:3

soul, its intellectual and emotional faculties. the soul, or at least that part of it that is invested in the body, is conceived of as being gtailored h perfectly to the body (actually, since the soul comes first, the opposite is the case: the body is constructed so as to clothe the body perfectly) g cwith jacob h refers to the fact that they enter the child when it is still inside its mother fs womb, gwith jacob, h who is the good inclination [yetzer hatov. actually, it is explained elsewhere2 that the child is born only with the evil inclination, and the good inclination enters only beginning at the circumcision (or at birth, in the case of a girl) and fully at the bar (or bat) mitzvah. but as rabbi eliezer nannes (of blessed memory) told my wife, the divine soul (together with the good

is no artist like our g-d. h6 the word for grock h (tzur) is cognate to the word for gartist h (tzayar. for someone who draws a picture [of a person] on paper cannot [at the same time] draw internal organs, such as the stomach, intestines, heart, liver, or spleen, while g-d does not only this but draws the form of another [person] inside the abdominal cavity, i.e, the embryo inside its mother fs womb. and inside the embryo are more internal organs as well as its spirit. this is the meaning of the verse, ghe forms the spirit of man within him, h implying that the more the embryo develops and grows, the more the soul enters it. our verse therefore says gcoming into egypt h [in the present, indicating an ongoing process of entering, for the soul fs faculties enter little by little. afterward

w to be careful, and he doesn ft know how much pain and suffering come upon him [for following it. h thus, relative to an individual fs experience of them, the good inclination is gyounger h than the evil inclination. 5 1 samuel 2:2. 6 berachot 10a; megilah 14a. 7 exodus 1:8. 8 ecclesiastes 4:13; kohelet rabbah 4:9. the arizal on parashat shemot 231 g cover egypt h means when the person is in the womb. we thus see that the arizal teaches that the good inclination actually precedes the evil inclination in utero. the evil inclination, even in utero, is called ga new king [who] arose over egypt, h i.e, who usurped the rulership over the embryo from the good inclination, so that at birth, it is the sole conscious source of motivation. g cwho did not know joseph. h this refers to the holy one

ability properly, he or she could (theoretically, at least) arrive at the conclusion that g-d exists, he has a law for humanity to follow, and so forth. every thirteen (or twelve-)year old is thus obligated to fulfill the commandments, no matter what. the exodus from egypt is analogous to birth. the ten plagues also have their analogues in this context. the first plague was that of blood, for the womb cannot open without bleeding first. for if the blood would not come out first, the child would choke and drown in the blood, which correlates to the powers of impurity. blood issuing from the womb is associated with the powers of impurity since their issuance always causes the woman to focus on herself, and self-awareness is the antithesis of divine consciousness, as we have explained previou

e woman giving birth, which correspond to the seventy words in psalm 20, which begins, gmay g-d answer you on the day of pain. h [these voices] are thus alluded to by a bird, referring to the [sounds women make like] birdcalls and chirps when giving birth [the analogue of] the plague of darkness [is as follows. it is known that during the first trimester, the fetus is in the lower chamber [of the womb, during the middle trimester, it is in the middle chamber, and during the last trimester, it is in the upper chamber. at birth, it rolls down and dwells in darkness and great pain. darkness was the ninth plague. the plague of the firstborn corresponds to the subjugation of the [evil inclination fs ancillary] powers of impurity that ruled within the womb. if this would not occur, they would ki

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and progression the whole sephirotic scheme into a unity. and daleth and venus are the attributions of that door into the tomb of the justified one, the vault of the adepti, even as the reciprocal path of venus, daleth, on the tree of life, is the secret gate which leads out from the garden of venus into the <298> newer life, the glory of the boundless light. the secret of that gate abides in the womb of the great mother, the intrinsic regenerating nature of the empress of the tarot- isis-urania. again, there are other considerations. at the end of the order document on the symbolism of the neophyte grade there is the statement that "nephesch ha-mesiach, the animal soul of the messiah" is "the shekinah or presence between the kerubim" note that the shekinah represents, as i previously atte

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

ight and day, light and darkness, water and fire are all active in thegeneration of the precious metals. it has been a matter of assumption, that the invisible operation ofthe sun effects the natural production of gold, while the refining and bleaching lucidity of the moonhad its effect on silver. whence their origin, if they do not germinate and fructify in the laboratoriesof the earth as in the womb of their mother, and produce strains of nature in maturing? the purposeof the alchemist is to assist nature and expedite it through the hermetic art.rituals of the societas rosicrucianis in angliapracticus31 a spark, an atom of fire, life, or divine lux, which is within every thing, is in the metals, deeplyhidden in the interior which buds, germinates and bears fruit.conductor:the production

isces, the fishes, so all nature prepares for the reception of the seed. from thewomb of darkness and despair, loving nature prepares for the bursting forth of life: and numberlessstarlets shall wake in the wake of formalhaut.the conductor and companions proceed to 4th ancient whose three tapers have just been lighted.herald222s lights still burning.2nd ancient, 3rd sign: from the great deep, the womb of moisture, the welling of the fountains, the great oceanof the world, nature has entered upon its travail; the waves have become confined, the mountainsstand forth, the hidden treasures in. their seed are implanted in the bowels of the earth, secretly laidup, the metals, the mineries, the material of quarries which shall yield their riches in due time.millions of wonders doth the very face

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

served; thereby we behold the reflections of the invisible world; it is the glass of visions and the apparatus of magical life. by its intervention we heal diseases, modify the seasons, warn off death from the living and raise the dead to life, because it is the imagination which exalts will and gives it power over the universal agent. imagination determines the shape of the child in its mother's womb and decides the destiny of men; it lends wings to contagion and directs the arms of warfare. are you exposed in battle? believe yourself to be invulnerable like achilles, and you will be so, says paracelsus. fear attracts bullets, but they are repelled by courage. it is well known that persons with amputated limbs feel pain in the vicinity of members which they possess no longer. paracelsus o

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ht. as it may likewise seem strange, yet nothing vicious, in the [cases of] such as mr. greatrakes, the irish stroker [that is, healer, seventh sons, and others that cure the king's evil, and chase away diseases and pains, with only [that is, nothing more than] stroking of the affected part [of the body. which [ability, if it be not the relic of miraculous operations, or some secret virtue in the womb of the parent, which increases until seven sons be born and decreases by the same degrees afterwards, proceeds only from the sanative [that is, curative] balsam of their healthy constitutions. virtue goes out from them by spirituous effluxes into the patient, and their vigorous healthy spirits affecting the sick [just] as usually the unhealthy fumes of the sick infect the sound or whole [that

t or by a magical well. his horse may be found by the well as a sign or totem symbol of his presence, but he is present in another dimension, that of elfland, fairyland, the otherworld or under world. he is summoned by the pulling of roses, and it should be noted in this context that appendix 3: the ballad of tam lin 131 plants and trees are the routes whereby spirits are enabled to return to the womb for rebirth, in primal tradition. 6. janet becomes pregnant despite tam lin's seeming insubstantiality, janet 'goes with child, and will not acknowledge any mortal origin for her condition. this pregnancy is significant in several ways, over and above the obvious allusion to pagan fertility magic. there is a strong parallel between janet's pregnancy 'in a mist' and the actual translation of t

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nfluence of the order to which he aspires. he must then decide upon the critical adventure of our order: the absolute abandonment of himself and his attainments. should he fail, by will or weakness, to make his self-annihilation absolute, he is nonetheless thrust forward into the abyss; but instead of being received and reconstructed in the third order [the silver star of the aa] as a babe in the womb of our lady babalon, under the night of pan, to grow up to be himself wholly and truly as he was not previously, he remains in the abyss, secreting his elements around his ego as if isolated from the universe, and becomes what is called a 'black brother. such a being is gradually disintegrated from lack of nourishment and the slow but certain action of the attraction of the rest of the univer

fication: v2- b54.br- 1 author: justin kaan i date: december, xxvi subject: balance reading list: feeling that this was the cross roads of my spirituality) as i passed the door i found myself in a dark room, and there before me was a huge scale. the scale was all gold and dark, if dark can be considered a color. it wasn't black in the sense of black, but more like a purple color. it felt like the womb. the reason i was so aware of these colors was that there was a feather on one side of the scale. it had in itself so many different colors, and each color told a story (perhaps the story of many different life times. on the other side was a vase, a clear, almost glass-like container. in the vessel was a man-creature, or so i thought. every time i blinked my eyes, the figure changed. behind t

urring phenomenon. because it is the will of set that a setian remanifest his/her higher self, his presence can be said to be implied rather than directly experienced. this transcript is thus analogous to a mirror image of the will of set (see plato's allegory of the cave. sokaris is the egyptian lord of death "the hidden one" or "he who is shut in- osiris as the black sun enclosed in the earth's womb, at the bottom of the underworld, in a secret pyramid filled with "blackest darkness" sokaris was a title of the phallus at the point of "dying" sending forth seed into the dark. the arabic word for "penis" zekkar, came from the god's name. the same lord of death was a tutelary deity of the necropolis at saqqara, another variation of his name. he also appeared in babylon as zaqar, a messenger

tation has been a long one, but now it is time for you to give birth upon the altar of set. come now, maat, position your self this night and experience the pleasure within the pain of birth [the delivery] countless millennia past were you conceived, child of darkness, and the time of your birth is come. with the aeon of harwer was your presence hinted at. with the age of s atan did you swell the womb of her. and now it is the aeon of set your father- it is within this eternal aeon that you are due to be delivered. her water has broken and the nectar which nourished you flows forth from the mother, maat. with your birth will her fluid free the universe. a god begets a god! witness the birth of a god unknown to all, but the father and mother, before this night of wonder. do you hear the cry

y hand to the iron doors in the ceiling of the sky, and they shall open to me; and i shall stretch out my hand to the doors of the abyss, and they too shall open. as the name of him who is neither man nor beast, the one who dwelled in pamat-et, flourishes, the name of (child) shall flourish; and all that is around me i shall touch that it may flourish [mother] in the dark the seed quickened in my womb. in the dark the seed budded and became a child, my golden one. now he has spoken his name and taken to himself his spirit. i cry out that on this journey from dark to dark no suffering shall come upon him, nor his health and safety be in peril. classification: v2- c33.1- 1 author: betty ford ii date: xi html revision: dec. 18, 1998 ce subject: naming ceremony reading list #2 [priest] as all

and the destruction of our enemies [celebrant (addressing the nun and the visiting bishop] enlightened sisters, we ask a blessing [during the following reading, the celebrant places an icon of the putative virgin in the chamber pot. the deacon also places an icon in it [visiting bishop: hail mary, full of grace! the lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, jesus. holy mary, mother of god, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. amen [when this reading is over, the deacon presents the chamber pot to the nun as the visiting bishop says [visiting bishop] she maketh the font resound with the waters of her mortification. the waters of her shame become a shower of blessing in the tabernacle of satan, for that which hath been withheld

self. yet we are known and watched in our search, for in the midst of night are beloved friends/patrons, who know we are alone and who remind us that this is itself only a beginning, only a trial. for the night before us is a darkness well-lit for those who are beaconed to remain. for those who content themselves merely to pay a visit will be beckoned/drawn to their deserving, to a mother earth's womb which aborted them long ago. a chance to retrace their abandonment: it is theirs, a loss in search of a loss. it is before us. it awaits only for us to call out a search. the night before us is ours. song of nepthys reading list: hear the call of set as it plays atop the waves of trafficking seas. see the tides, diving inwardly and outwardly, like knives glimmering in the night. his beauty ca

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ces, entered once again his childish adoration of his father, because he had, had, had worshipped him, he was a great father until you started growing a mind of your own, and then to argue with him was called a betrayal of his love, but never mind that now _i accuse him of becoming my supreme being, so that what happened was like a loss of faith. yes, the father ship, an aircraft was not a flying womb but a metal phallus, and the passengers were spermatozoa waiting to be spilt. five and a half hours of time zones; turn your watch upside down in bombay and you see the time in london _my father, chamcha would think, years later, in the midst of his bitterness _i accuse him of inverting time. how far did they fly? five and a half thousand as the crow. or: from indianness to englishness, an im

; if anything, they redoubled in their intensity, and perhaps fifteen minutes later chamcha distinctly heard a second infant's voice joining the first. still the woman's birth-agony refused to end, and at intervals ranging from fifteen to thirty minutes for what seemed like an endless time she continued to add new babies to the already improbable numbers marching, like conquering armies, from her womb. his nose informed him that the sanatorium, or whatever the place called itself, was also beginning to stink to the heavens; jungle and farmyard odours mingled with a rich aroma similar to that of exotic spices sizzling in clarified butter- coriander, turmeric, cinnamon, cardamoms, cloves "this is too much" he thought firmly "time to get a few things sorted out" he swung his legs out of bed

ars of taking her temperature every morning before getting out of bed, and then plotting the results on graph paper in order to establish her pattern of ovulation, had actually dissuaded the babies from being born, partly because it was difficult to be properly ardent when science got into bed along with you, and partly, too, in her view, because no self--respecting foetus would wish to enter the womb of so mechanically programmed a mother; mishal still prayed for a child, although she no longer mentioned the fact to saeed so as to spare him the sense of having failed her in this respect. eyes shut, feigning sleep, she would call on god for a sign, and when saeed became so loving, so frequently, she wondered if maybe this might not be it. as a result, his strange request that from now on

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le for the influence of the order to which he aspires. he must then decide upon the critical adventure of our order; the absolute abandonment of himself and his attainments" and further "should he fail, by will or weakness, to make his self-annihilation absolute, he is none the less thrust forward into the abyss; but instead of being received and reconstructed in the third order, as a babe in the womb of our lady babalon, under the night of pan, to grow up to be himself wholly and truly as he was not previously, he remains in the abyss, secreting his elements round his ego as if isolated from the universe, and becomes what is called a "black brother. such a being is gradually disintegrated from lack of nourishment and the slow but certain action of the attraction of the rest of the univers

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le for the influence of the order to which he aspires. he must then decide upon the critical adventure of our order; the absolute abandonment of himself and his attainments" and further "should he fail, by will or weakness, to make his self-annihilation absolute, he is none the less thrust forward into the abyss; but instead of being received and reconstructed in the third order, as a babe in the womb of our lady babalon, under the night of pan, to grow up to be himself wholly and truly as he was not previously, he remains in the abyss, secreting his elements round his ego as if isolated from the universe, and becomes what is called a "black brother. such a being is gradually disintegrated from lack of nourishment and the slow but certain action of the attraction of the rest of the univers

SATANGEL

nd is considered the angel of truth. gabri-el is described as possessing 140 pairs of wings and in judeo-christian lore is the angel of annunciation, resurrection, mercy, revelation and death. the root of the name gabri-el lies in the sumerian word gbr, meaning gubernator or governer. the name may also be translated as divine husband, and in luke 1:26 it is gabriel who places the child within the womb of mary. the ruler of the cherubim and the governor of eden, said to sit on the left side of god, some theologians have made a case for gabri-el being female. if such is so she is the only female angel of the higher echelons known by name. in occult lore she is often associated with childbirth, and with escorting the invariably complaining soul from paradise to its reincarnation in the womb o

tobit, one of the seven angels of the throne. although officially a virtue he has the six wings of a seraph, yet at the same time is of the cherubim, dominions and powers. he presented noah with the knowledge he required to build the ark, and with a medical book/ grimoire that is sometimes identified as the book of raziel. he is also identified in hebrew tradition as a guide of sheol, the pit or womb of the underworld. uri-el fire of god, identified in later scriptures with phanuel, face of god. the angel who gave mankind the kaballah. presides over tartarus (hell, being both seraphim and cherubim. identified as the cherub who stands at the garden of eden with a fiery sword, and who watches over thunder and terror. appears as the angel of repentance in the apocalypse of st. peter; uri-el

story is inconsistent, and there are many conflicting versions of how he and his fellows came to exist. later christianity adopted the legend of the fall, a theme most popular throughout the middle east. the following canaanite scripture was recorded five centuries before the hebrew scribes produced the old testament, and concerns the legend of shaher, who was born of the pit, helel, which is the womb of the mother goddess. compare with isaiah 14:12-14 as we know it now; how hast thou fallen from heaven, helel s son shaher! thou didst say in thy heart, i will ascend to heaven. above the circumpolar stars i will raise my throne and i will dwell on the mount of council in the back of the north. i will mount the back of a cloud. i will be like unto elyon. according to some versions of this my

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with a "divine" or chosen one (one in whom a god or the flame of god dwelt) would abolish and transform sin into virtue. this doctrine has overt resemblance to and varies only slightly from one preached by the brethren of the free spirit in france, germany and czechoslovakia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. the brethren of the free spirit was a sect of dissidents that miscarried from the womb of its mother roman church. they taught that within each human being there dwelt a little divine spark (f nklein. they believed that a simple recognition of this magical essence within each man was enough to liberate one from any restrictions whatsoever, whether social, sexual or intellectual. the russian has been, throughout history, predominantly receptive, though sometimes quixotic and des

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e, which, if properly affected parallels the previous etherical event -14- when the black magician exercises his dark will, he enters into the governing etherical plane where everything lawful is subject to his desires. hence, this is the nature of the parallelogram, which is the foundation of cause and effect. devaxcus librt, the beast of revelation, was sired by satan and brought forth from the womb of lilith adam s first wife. the beast represents emotion and man s inherent animal nature that spiritual man has opposed; has fought to unlawfully repress since the very beginnings of civilization. prior to, and including the time of jesus the nazarene, devaxcus librt and his doctrine flourished. however, a time went on, the nazarene legacy spread and the old doctrine began to arouse fear an

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about thirty thousand. history and development according to daoist tradition, the religion was first developed by laozi( born c. 604 bce, whose name is variously spelled lao-tzu, lao-tsu, lao-tse, or lao-tze. the name means old master. according to legend laozi was conceived by a shooting star and born as an old man with a flowing white beard, after spending eighty-three years in his mother s 177 womb before birth. it was laozi who authored the dao de jing (also spelled tao te ching, often translated as the book of the way and the power (or virtue. this short text has been translated more than one hundred times and remains the central and most sacred daoist writing. daoism originally began as a philosophy, or a method for seeking knowledge and wisdom. its basic concepts and beliefs are est

of dining room chairs, for example. odd numbers represent loneliness, while even numbers represent luck. world religions: almanac 199 daoism its goal is to return the body and the mind to its original pure state. daoist taijichuan uses a lot of stretching and turning in the 108 movements of the exercise. from birth to death daoism figures into the major events of each person s life. babies in the womb are protected by the guardian spirit, tai shen, so pregnant women make regular offerings to that deity. after birth, further offerings are made to female spirits. these offerings are usually of baby clothes, for these spirits are considered to be mothers themselves. a daoist adult is chosen as a godparent, and more offerings are made when the infant is four months old to ensure its health and

itle of laozi, meaning old man or old master. sima qian s source for this information appears to have been a tutor for the imperial household whose family name was li and who traced his ancestry back to laozi. at this point, myth and legend attempt to fill in some of the historical gaps. laozi was said to have had a miraculous birth. in one story his mother was reported to have carried him in her womb for sixty-two years. in another story, it was seventy-two (a magical number in chinese folk belief. one legend claims laozi s mother gave birth to him while leaning against a plum tree, and at birth he was already white-haired and wise. the baby s first words supposedly referred to his origins: he declared that he would take his family name from the word for plum (li in chinese) and then add

astes are hereditary indian social classes. his mother, trishala, was related to the ruler of the nearby city of vaisali, and his father, siddhartha, was a local king. according to legend vardhamana was originally conceived by a brahmin mother, devananda (brahmins are the highest indian caste and are usually priests, religious teachers, and intellectuals) the embryo was then moved into trishala s womb. the legends also hold that vardhamana s conception was foretold to his mother in a series of dreams. these dreams, called auspicious dreams (favorable or lucky dreams) included images of a lion, the full moon, the rising sun, an ocean of milk, a white bull, and a white elephant. these dreams are described in jain literature and are often depicted in temples. as a child vardhamana received an

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s, delights and saturates all things: and the nitrous earth, mother-like, nourishes and sustains all things; the air was born out of fire, and in turn makes the fire burn, that it may live, but air in the form of water is food for the fire, and the fire burns into this element: water and dew of the ground, the greasy fat dew of the ground, the earth as keeper of nitrous salt nourishes it. for the womb of the earth is the sulphuric nitrous salt of nature, the one good thing god has created in this visible world. the same salt-mother of the elements is the nitrous, aluminous and spiritual gumosic water, salt earth or crystal, which has nature in its womb, a son of the sun, and a daughter of the moon. it is a hermaphrodite, born out of the wind, a phoenix living in fire, a pelican, reviving h

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? as it is written (genesis 33:17, and jacob travelled to succot. he built himself a house, and for his livestock he built succot (huts. therefore he named the place succot. 106. rabbi berachiah sat and expounded: what is the axis (teli? this is the likeness that is before the blessed holy one. it is thus written (song of songs 5:11, his locks are curled (taltalim. what is the sphere? this is the womb. what is the heart? it is that regarding which it is written (deuteronomy 4:11, unto the heart of heaven. in it are included the 32 mystical paths of wisdom. 107. what is the meaning of the verse (numbers 6:24-26, may god (yhvh) bless you and watch you. may god (yhvh) make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. may god the bahir 28 (yhvh) lift his face to you and give you peace. this i

n, clear as the sun, terrible like an army with banners? this relates to the female. because of her, the female was taken from adam. this is because it is impossible for the lower world to endure without the female. and why is the female called nekevah? because her orifices (nekev) are wide. also because she has more orifices than the male. what are they? they are the orifices of the breasts, the womb, and the receptacle. 174. and what is the reason that you said that the song of songs is beautiful? yes, it is the most beautiful of all the holy scriptures. rabbi yochanan thus said: all scripture is holy, and all the torah is holy, but the song of songs is the holy of holies. what is the meaning of the holy of holies? it means that it is holy for the holy ones. what are the holy ones? they

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

numbness and torpor which had usurped her faculties, tossed to and fro on her couch, restless and perturbed. the stillness became intolerable; yet more intolerable the sound that alone broke it, the voice of the clock, knelling moment after moment to its grave. the moments, at last, seemed themselves to find voice, to gain shape. she thought she beheld them springing, wan and fairy-like, from the womb of darkness; and ere they fell again, extinguished, into that womb, their grave, their low small voices murmured "woman, we report to eternity all that is done in time! what shall we report of thee, o guardian of a new-born soul" she became sensible that her fancies had brought a sort of partial delirium, that she was in a state between sleep and waking, when suddenly one thought became more

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

pt.42 the eye represented the mystic symbol of the so-called egyptian "trinity" expressed in these words, often inscribed on the statues of isis "i am all that has been, that is, or shall be, and none among mortals has hitherto taken off my veil" she was the daughter of saturn and her name meant ancient. she married her brother osiris, and was pregnant by him even before she had left her mother's womb, according to plutarch's account. she and her brother-husband comprehended all nature and all the gods of the heathens. she was the venus of cyprus, the minerva of athens, the cybele of the phrygians, the ceres of eleusis, the proserpine of sicily, the diana of crete, the bellona of the romans &c. and she was the moon and osiris the sun.43 osiris received the same adoration as anubis, bacchus

STEINER RUDOLF CHRISTIANITY AS MYSTICAL FACT

le times. often when i wished to put my philosophical thoughts in writing in my accustomed way, and saw quite clearly what was to be set down, i found my mind barren and rigid, so that i was obliged to give up without having accomplished anything, and seemed to be beset with idle fancies. at the same time i marveled at the power of the reality of thought, with which it rests to open and close the womb of the human soul. at other times, however, i would begin empty and arrive, without any trouble, at fullness. thoughts came flying like snowflakes or grains of corn invisibly from above, and it was as though divine power took hold of me and inspired me, so that i did not know where i was, who was with me, who i was, or what i was saying or writing; for then a flow of ideas was given me, a del

for the continuing relevance of steiner s account to modern developments, welburn, the beginnings of christianity, pp. 40ff. 154. see for example i qh iii, 3-18 one of the essene initiationpoems, reproduced with commentary in welburn, gnosis, the mysteries and christianity (floris books, edinburgh, 1994, notes 227 pp. 70ff. its principle that the racking birth-pains come upon all that bear in the womb the seeds of the new life seems to refer to a personal initiation-experience, but also to the struggles of the community, and a turning-point at which the manchild long foretold will be born. 155. the structure of the community and the principle of consent are spelled out in the essene community rule i qs v, 1-3. 156. any dispute as to the authenticity of this work may now be regarded as sett

SYMBOLISM OF THE BANNERS

tained. it almost could be said that the symbolism of the crucifixtion left the last key to the formula of the cross or lvx. the formula is victory, life= sacrifice of the lower unto the higher. the word lvx could almost be said to contain within it the power of the cross. now, in taking a look at the banners, notice the use of two forms of the cross. the most visible is the calvary cross. in the womb of the hexagram, we notice the appearance of a three-armed cross, the t cross, or the crux commissa. the t cross was found in history in the catacombs of rome and was given many names like "anticipatory cross" or "type cross" and the "cross of the old testament" it represents in its shape a cross-headed yoke or gibbet, and by others, the hammer of thor. in looking at its origin, it could be s

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wnish that i am- yet all my ideas have come out of it (and, my friend, all yours, but ever have i been a sluggard- an old sinner who would see others almighty before himself. 23 24 25 the death posture ideas of self in conflict cannot be slain, by resistance they are a reality- no death or cunning has overcome them but is their reinforcement of energy. the dead are born again and again lie in the womb of conscience. by allowing maturity is to predicate decay when by non-resistance is retrogression to early simplicity and the passage to the original and unity without idea. from that idea is the formula of non-resistance germinating "does not matter- please yourself" the conception of "i am not" must of necessity follow the conception of "i am" because of its grammar, as surely in this world

THE CRAFT GRIMOIRE OF ECLECTIC VERSION 2

eachings of that tradition. altars can take any form, from a ritual table, to the top of your bedroom dresser. it is the place for you to honor the lord and lady, and to work your magick. basic ritual tools are, the chalice, the athame (pronounced, ath-ah-may, the pentacle, and the wand. chalice this tool, more then any other, represents the creative aspect of the goddess. it is the symbol of the womb. in ritual, it is used for the sharing of wine, juice, or herbal potions. it can also be employed for scrying. it is associated with the element of water. athame this tool represents the active principle of the god. usually it is black handled, with a double-edged blade. in ritual, it is used to cast the circle, as well as to evoke or banish energies. it is associated with the element of air

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ore, we have existed from the beginning, for in the beginning was the word. not for the first time does he show pity on us in our wanderings; he pitied us from the very beginning. the christian philosopher st. augustine (354 430 c.e) asked the eternal question in his confessions: say, lord did my infancy succeed another age of mine that died before it? was it that which i spent within my mother s womb? and what before that life again, o god was i anywhere or in any body? even though the majority of eastern cultures maintain a belief in reincarnation as an integral element in their religious faiths, people young children, in particular are not encouraged to remember past lives. regardless of such admonitions against pursuing the t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l

ound the medium. spirit cabinets may be elaborate wooden structures or they may simply be blankets strung across wires in order to give the medium some privacy while in trance. the miracle of materialization, maurice barbanell (1902 1981) writes in this is spiritualism (1959, is that in a few minutes there is reproduced in the seance room the birth which normally takes nine months in the mother s womb. numerous researchers, as well as spiritualists, have claimed to have seen a nearly invisible cord which links the materialized spirit figure to the medium and have all made the obvious comparison to an umbilical cord. if, indeed, disembodied spirits are capable of fashioning temporary physical bodies for their ethereal personalities, just what kind of substance could be used for such a remar

alists 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 88 mediums and mystics psychic photography is nearly as old as photography itself. give to such a substance is ectoplasm, and they contend that it is drawn from the medium s body. maurice barbanell claims that ectoplasm is ideoplastic by nature, which is to suggest that it may be molded by the psychic womb of the medium into a representation of the human body. barbanell gives spirit chemists the credit for compounding ectoplasm until it assumes a human form that breathes, walks, and talks, and is apparently complete even to fingernails. french researcher dr. charles richet (1850 1935) christened ectoplasm in the 1920s, but baron albert von schrenck notzing (1862 1929, a german investigator of t

sects, such as the gnostics, was the wife of jesus (c. 6 b.c.e. c. 30 c.e) in this interpretation of the events that occurred after jesus death at the hands of the romans, mary brought the cup used at the last supper the holy grail from palestine to southern france, where it would eventually be guarded by the knights templar. there is also a belief that mary arrived in france carrying within her womb a child fathered by jesus of nazareth, who then became the progenitor for the royal family of france. for those who hold such beliefs, the holy grail is but a metaphor for mary magdalene s womb, which carried the true blood of jesus in the person of his unborn son. therefore, many of the depictions of the black madonna and child throughout the regions of southern france and spain may be regar

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more productive personality, just as the vampire attaches itself to those hosts on whose blood it feeds. such individuals almost always subconsciously desire to return to the state of complete dependence characteristic of the prenatal state. psychoanalysts often discover that in those pathological cases in which subjects believe themselves to be vampires the grave or coffin comes to symbolize the womb. the vampire s dependence upon the grave or coffin as a place of safety seems again to betray a deep longing for the prenatal security of the womb. the act of sucking a victim s blood is in itself significant, for many psychologists state that such an act would be a sign of mother-fixation. m delving deeper fodor, nandor. between two worlds. new york: paperback library, 1967. the haunted mind

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to myth, the god apollo murdered delphyne and claimed the shrine and the pythia for himself, imprisoning the serpent seer in the recesses of a cave beneath the temple. the name of delphi means gwomb, h and suggests the journey that the seekers of prophetic knowledge had to take as they entered the cave of the pythoness and descended deeper into the mystical recesses of the oracle, deeper into the womb of mother earth. the pythia would await the seekers while seated upon a three-legged seat, or tripod, and it was from such a perch that she would issue her prophetic utterances. the many tripods scattered throughout the cave were, in essence, individual altars for her sister priestesses, the three legs symbolizing the connection between them and the triadic spirit of prophecy. in the summer o

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

otentials. she is seen in many mythologies as darkness, the darkness of old night (and dame dark, or night are also names for her) and in this capacity, she is the figure old fate, the ultimate, supreme, and first being, from whom all things come. she was an underworld goddess, the dark and first queen of the underworld, because the darkness of the underworld, which is also the darkness of fate s womb, is the same primal darkness that existed at the beginning, and from which the cunning fire and light flowed. but as she is the origin and source of all, she is the end of all, that to which all returns, before regeneration. the nine worlds of indo-european mythology were all born from her womb, and at the world-doom, they were withdrawn back into her darkness, to await regeneration, and only

things that symbolize them, such as the act of spinning, the earth, and the moon. only females pass mitochondrial dna to their children; mothers therefore have a special and unique connection to their children, which gives them the hallowed status in tradition of being the members of the distaff line, or the means by which ancestral spirits return to incarnation. it was the red line, the blood or womb line of the mother s family that the dead used to re-enter serial time in the form of reborn humans; this is a deep mystery that is central to the importance of the deep feminine. the masculine mysteries the masculine mysteries have been mostly discussed in the preceding sections; only a touch up is required here. the masculine mysteries revolve around the fire, and the descent of the fire-br

THE HOLY ROSARY OF THE BRETHREN

art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. thy kingdom come. thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. give us this day, our daily bread. and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. the hail mary 10 hail mary full of grace, the lord is with thee. blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, jesus. holy mary, mother of god, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. amen. the ave maria ave maria, gratia plena; dominus tecum: benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui yeheshua. sancta maria, mater dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. amen. the qabalistic cross in latin tu es regnum, et potestas, et gloria, saecula, saeculo

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e by the rainbow of the final deluge, and which throws a bridge between the two worlds. and can you believe that a past without aureole and without glory, might capture and devour so great a future? could you think that the spur of a tartar might one day tear up the pact of our glories, the testament of our liberties? say rather that we may again become children, and enter again into our mother's womb "go on! go on" said the voice of god to the wandering jew "advance! advance" the destiny of the world cries out to france. and where do we go? to the unknown, the the abyss perhaps; no matter! but to the past, to the cemeteries of oblivion, to the swaddling-clothes which our childhood itself tore in shreds, towards the imbecility and ignorance of the earliest ages. never! never! xv the number

e? such is the question of human ignorance in its most frequent and its saddest doubts. this, too, is what the human embryo may vaguely ask itself at the approach of that birth which is about to throw it into an unknown world by stripping it of its protective envelope. let us study the mystery of birth, and we shall have the key of the great arcanum of death! thrown by the laws of nature into the womb of a woman, the incarnated spirit very slowly wakes, and creates for itself with effort organs which will later be indispensable, but which as they grow increase its discomfort in its present situation. the happiest period of the life of the embryo is that when, like a chrysalis, it spreads around it the membrane which serves it for refuge, and which swims with it in a nourishing and preservi

drag itself into the outer darkness, and pass slowly through the dead sea, the slumbering waters of ancient chaos. these wounded souls are the larvae of the second formation of the embryo; they nourish their airy bodies with a vapour of shed blood, and they fear the point of the sword. frequently they attach themselves to vicious men and live upon their lives, as the embryo lives in its mother's womb. in these circumstances, they are able to take the most horrible forms to represent the frenzied desires of those who nourish them, and it is these which appear under the figures of demons to the wretched operators of the nameless works of black magic. these larvae fear the light, above all the light of the mind. a flash of intelligence is sufficient to destroy them as by a thunderbolt, and h

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clear of all body, and surmounting all time, become eternal and thou shalt know god. there is the qabalistic cross and the pentagram ritual 55 nothing impossible to thyself. deem thyself immortal and able to do all things .become higher than all height and lower than all depth .to be eve ything at the same time in earth and sea and heaven. think that thou art as yet begotten, that thou art in the womb, that thou art young, that thou art old, that thou hast died and art beyond death: perceive all these things together .and thou shalt know god. but ifthou shuttest up thy soul in thy body, and abasest thyself and sayest 'i know nothing, i can do nothing, i am afraid of earth and sea, i cannot mount to heaven, i know not what i was or what i shall be' then what hast thou to do with god (corpus

THE PAGAN BOOK OF WORDS PRAYERS CHANTS AND RHYMES

//www.sacredspiral.com land prayer grain goddess, upon your body i live. you give to us the gift of life and the gift of nourishment. to you, i offer my love, my courage and my strength. so mote it be. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com hail mother! hail mother, full of grace, your people live upon you. blessed are all men and women and blessed is your womb from which all life springs. hail mother! goddess of all, cradle us within your loving arms from birth to death and to rebirth. faeries of the earthen mounds. guardians of secrets dear. by your love commit me here. to teach the knowledge of the ancient ones. be ever at my side to light my way. to guide and teach me both night and day. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com elements spirit of

skin. i am the goddess, three times three. i will. i am. i was. and i will be again. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com mother hecate come mother hecate come to me. mother hecate come. spider s web and blackened tree. at the crossroads we shall meet. mother hecate come to me. mother hecate come. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com my breasts are the mountains. my blood is the rivers. my womb is the oceans. i am the one. i am the three. i am she. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com children s prayer king of the woods, protect us. mother of all, guide us. bless us in our daily lives and bring love to all of earth s tribes. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com medusa in darkness. i go within your darkness. i am surrounded by your darkness. i am filled with your darkness. i sm

spiral outward; go with out. go with in. go with out. dance of life. spiral. spiral. inward. outward. go with in. go with out (continue at beginning) eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com make me whole mother of earth, make me whole. spirit of air, make me whole. power of fire, make me whole. flow of water, make me whole. mother. spirit. power. flow. make me whole. make me whole. make me whole. womb chant i am the womb from which life springs forth. i am the womb from which love springs forth. i am the womb. i am the womb. i am the womb. from which all springs forth. eliza fegley http//www.sacredspiral.com riddance chant what was brought to light, now be gone! end this plight. over and done. group chant brothers and sisters, circle round. in spirit and happiness, we are bound. eliza fegl

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ituality is. if he studies kabbalah at that state, he crosses the barrier. this is the third situation. at that stage, he receives a screen with aviut shoresh (root coarseness) instead of the point in the heart. it is called galgalta with the light of nefesh. that state is regarded as the embryonic state. much like an embryo in our world, he doesn t want anything; he just lies inside his mother s womb, i.e. inside a higher partzuf that raises him devotedly. after that, the embryo takes nine months to develop; meaning develops his own nine sefirot in malchut, from nefesh of nefesh (keter of malchut) to yechida of nefesh (malchut of malchut. at this point he stops being an embryo, he is born and acquires a vessel of hochma with the light of ruach (nrnhy of ruach) with aviut aleph (1st degree

ow does the milk become food for the baby? when menstruation stops, the mother s blood is used for the development of the embryo. during labor the blood of labor pours out, it is an impure blood that can t be corrected. it becomes impure desires, denied of any desire to give, to bestow. but there is a part of the blood that turns into milk after labor. it rises from the sefira of yesod, where the womb is to the haze (chest, which is in the sefira of tifferet of the partzuf. 13 of 273 every thing that happens in the spiritual world and all the spiritual laws automatically apply to our world. thus, by studying the processes of impregnation, the evolution of the embryo and labor, as well as the infancy and the growing of the spiritual partzufim, we can accurately understand the processes that

assiya. this is how the soul acquires the screens in the root coarseness of the world of assiya and goes over to the first screen of the 1st degree coarseness of the world of yetzira. the soul continues this way until it crosses all the worlds and all 125 degrees. when we are in the world of assiya with our root coarseness, our soul evolves through a number of degrees like a fetus in its mother s womb (bina. the conception lasts nine months, the same time it takes for a woman in our world. the birth of the soul is the transition from root, to 1st degree coarseness, from the world of assiya to the world of yetzira, which corresponds to the birth of a baby in 24 of 273 our world. in the world of beria the soul undergoes a two year phase of sucking, during which the soul evolves and receives

not discharge himself from the responsibility to his own life. it cannot be bought for money or any other way. the spiritual world q: what is a spiritual birth? is it anything like a physical birth? a: every thing that happens in our world matches perfectly what happens in a spiritual birth. when one is completely liberated from his egoism, his state corresponds to that of a fetus in its mother s womb. the fetus then goes through nine months of spiritual development that correspond to a state of conception, until he is born as an independent, though small being. then there are two years of infancy and feeding of the breast of the superior. then the infant continues to at the expense of the superior partzuf, but in a separated form. the child continues to grow until he reaches the age of th

life, those are the only testimonies to one s readiness to study the wisdom of kabbalah. moreover, rabbi kook answered the question of, who can study kabbalah? with the simple words: anyone who wishes it. prior knowledge there is no need for any prior knowledge in order to study kabbalah. it is a science that deals with one s spiritual contact with the creator. just as a child leaves its mother s womb naked and wet, so does a person who decides to study kabbalah. if one feels inside him a spiritual need to study about the upper world, the knowledge he has acquired in this world will not help him, because he wants to understand the laws of the upper world, not the laws of this world! therefore, such a person should not be met with demands and prior conditions of a specific education that is

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

s surface, and the whiteness of the silver of which it is moulded; for it was cast from the crucible of many mysteries, and fashioned by the cunning hand of a master who will endure to the end. the looking-glass on surveying the works of aleister crowley the two essential facts that grip our understanding are: firstly, the superabundance of his genius; and secondly, the diversity of his form. gmy womb is pregnant with mad moons and suns, h* he writes, and though we could hardly agree to endow so virile a master with so feminine an organ, yet we can attribute something very like it to his brain. pregnant it certainly is, and more, being already the mother of a large family, a family as diverse as the offspring of uranus, father of the gods, born to him by earth, earthy and celestial. sweet

ve kissing me over and over! better sleep so than be conscious, and know how death hath a charm to discover *gargoyles, vol. iii, p. 94. but not until we read gthe eyes of pharaoh h do we read one of the most astounding paintings in words, i make bold to say, that has ever been written in any language: and death fs insufferable perfume beat the black air with golden fans as turkis rip a nubian fs womb with damascened yataghans *gargoyles, vol. iii, p. 100. this one astonishing verse upsets the equilibrium of the whole poem, as it would of any poem; for if the remaining thirteen had been penned in an equivalent vividness of colouring, the effect would have been one of complete overpowerment rather than of a sudden and dizzy joy. as the aristocratic virtues of one century become the democrat

ble. to formulate the formless c *tannhauser, vol. i. p. 237. again tannhauser bursts into song, one of those magnificent lyrics, flashing like a ruby, warm and flaming in the glowing gold of this drama. and thus does his song end: whose long-drawn curse runs venom in my veins? what dragon spouse consumes me with her breath? what passionate hatred, what infernal pains, mixed with thy being in the womb of death? blistering fire runs. scorching, terrific suns, through body and soul in this abominable marriage of demon power subtle and strong and sour, a draught of ichor of the veins of hell! curses leap leprous, epicene, unclean, the soul of the obscene incarnate in the spirit: and above hangs sin, vast vampire, the corrupt, that swings her unredeeming wings over the world, and flaps, for lu

gain *carmen saeculare, vol. i, p. 217. wealth and luxury are her curse, as they are everywhere else: the politician and the millionaire regain maternal dung *carmen saeculare, vol. i, p. 217. nevertheless in a patriotic poem entitled gan appeal to the american republic, h he strongly urges union between great britain and the united states. that friendship and dominion shall be wrought out of the womb of thought, and all the bygone days be held as things of nought.*1. are we not weary of the fanged pen? are we not friends, and men? let us look frankly face to face. and quarrel then!*2 *1. an appeal to the american republic, vol. i, p. 137 *2. ibid, vol. i, p. 139. strongly advocating fraternity between the two great nations, he vehemently deprecates gthe hireling quillmen and the jingo cro

f egypt, before the coffin which is supposed to contain the child of her incest, but which holds in reality her leprous and long-forgotten husband. she is maddened with lust and religious frenzy, and stands entranced till the leper rises as from the dead, and s fafi, the child of her whoredom, tears off his mask and shrieks: i am the hideous poison of thy veins and foulest fruit of thy incestuous womb *the fatal force, vol. i, p. 150. gi am thy mother, h is her answer; so, even in her frenzied madness, the greatest force in nature asserts itself. he stabs her, and stabs himself! such also is filial love *compare story of semiramis and ninyas. in gthe mother fs tragedy h the characters are practically reversed. ulric, who ravishes cora, his mother, even sinks deeper in the mire of lust than

christ: away with messalina, incestuous prophetess of lust. away! away! to the west, to the east, till they meet in some flaming region of equatorial fury, and flashing interfuse and interblend. once again must a prophet of the lord arise and wed a wife of whoredoms, who hath committed great whoredom, departing from the lord. once again must hosea expire on the crimson lips of gomer, and from the womb of a harlot must the christ be reborn a woman, wise, beautiful, and young; who is both circe and diana, isis and aphrodite, in whose veins course all the fury of medea, all the abominations of canidia, who revels in the infernal rites of sagana and locusta, and yet is vestal and virgin; white as the driven snow, pure as a mountain rill. one with the pale mother of bethlehem and the scarlet ha

e find that of motherhood. the true wife must sacrifice her children before the shrine of her lover, and the true mother must sacrifice her lover on the altar of her children. this is no paradox, no riddle, no twisting of words; for crowley offers us in the glittering chalice of eternity the sacred blood of the bull, the second christ; and as the first, the lamb of god, sprang from the immaculate womb of the virgin-mother, so shall this second incarnation spring blood-red from the snowy lips of the great supernal mother, androgynous, the circe-isis of the ages. in galice, an adultery, h we see a woman passionate in her love, strenuous in her affection, yet in the end failing by abandoning her lover for her children. not so, however, in grosa inferni, h wherein we feel, as we read, a feroci

e to tell us, and the blessed virgin fs affaire du coeur with the amiable gabriel is but touched on for a moment: gfear nothing, mary! all is well! i am the angel gabriel. h she bared her right breast (query why *the sword of song, pentecost, p. 60; vol. ii, p. 182. according to al beidawi, gabriel blew into the bosom of mary fs shift, which he opened with his fingers, and his breath reaching her womb, caused the conception. it may also be remembered that the spanish mare, of silius italicus was similarly impregnated by a certain gas or spirit in the atmosphere. etc, etc, vide koran. but as regards that most irate and truculent old gentleman, j.h.v.h, he has a considerable amount to relate. how gall power can be all wickedness, h is a question that not only strikes crowley fs brain as exce

e breath of an incarnate hatred. darkness fell and chaos, from prodigious gulphs of hell. life, that rejoiced to travail with a man, looked where the cohorts of destruction ran, saw darkness visible, and was afraid, seeing. there grew like death a monster shade, blind as the coffin, as the covering sod damp, as the corpse obscene, the christian god. so to the agony dirges of despair man cleft the womb, and shook the icy air with bitter cries for light and life and love. but these, begotten of the world above, withdrew their glory, and the iron world rolled on its cruel way, and passion furled its pure wings, and abased itself, and bore fetters impure, and stopped, and was no more, but resurrection fs ghastly power grew strong. and lust was born, adulterous with wrong, the child of lies; so

and poor, good and bad, are made one, lost in the depths of the lethean sea. and what can all this lead us to, this progress through misery? to the great archetype the arahat-ship of buddha. it was by gazing on the sunken eyes of a corpse, so the legend runs, that gautama forsook pleasure for a life of pity. life is feodal to death, and our ultimate sleep is greater than our first awakening. the womb was dark; from out it sprang the thoughtless; the tomb is darker still; into it creeps the thoughtful. the dead are our gods, soon we shall strike our tent for the last time and join the great caravanserai of the departed: wend now thy way with brow serene, fear not thy humble tale to tell. the whispers of the desert-wind; the tinkling of the camel fs bell *the kasidah. r. burton. this beauty

y a man full of brains and bowels. the maidens of athens laughed at him, wizened misogynist and dreary sage, yet even the most beautiful of these monthly would spill her crimson libation to the moon. gyea! truly, away, away, out of my sight, o shadow of a king; but last night wert thou not fingering the delicate chalice of campaspe, and a few hours hence will not thy drowsy hand crimson the white womb of thy mother earth with the red lees of the grape of bacchus, so full of the poppies of sleep, and the wormwood of sorrow. h from the silver goblet of laughter, that leaden cup of weeping, have the nations drunk the dregs of many lives: for the woman arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with pearls and precious stones, hath made them drunk on the golden cup of her abominations, on the w

ium of both body and mind are balancing between conscious alienation and unconscious insanity; and this state is the cerberus we all have to pass before we can regain the blissful arms of our long-lost eurydice. to clearly illuminate the orphic progress through the plutonic regions of philosophy, it will be necessary, first of all to satisfy the three heads of the terrible offspring of echidna fs womb, whose names are berkeley, hume, and kant. berkeley berkeley, that ggod-illumined adept, h*1. almost at the commencement of his introduction to gthe principles of human knowledge, h states: gupon the whole, i am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to ours

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

gift of the black flame in the form of an apple, leading to the possibility of mankind being as gods if they chose to. tiamat may be a etymological form of what would become the adversary as ahriman/jahi or samael/lilith, the name itself being the enemy of the so-called righteous, depending on whoever associates with the term at that time. the origins of the adversary ahriman was first within the womb along with his brother, ohrmazd. ohrmazd had overheard zurvan whisper 'whichever of the two shall come to me first, him will i make king. upon hearing this ohrmazd told his brother of this ahriman ripped from the womb and came forth to his father zurvan. it was zurvan who insulted his son and called him dark and stinking but considered the second born, action-less son ohrmazd was favored and

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ture of the spirit is liberty, and as the wind, he goeth as it listeth him to impregnate the worlds. and as the son is double, so is the spirit double; for he is both male and female. for the dove is the bird of venus; yet our ancient brother marcus valerius martialis that was grand orator of the roman empire in days of old hath hidden the sacred phallus in this image. he is the mother. he is the womb. he is the sperm that fertilizes the ovum: nay, but he is that fertilized and self-living thing which is neither sperm nor ovum, but their marriage, the perfect tincture, the medicine of metals, the philosophical stone, the universal medicine, the elixir of life. he is that dove that, returning to the ark of noah, bore a branch of olive. he is the eagle of jupiter, he is the swan of brahma. f

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uel the syrian of padan-aram, the sister to laban the syrian. 25:21 and isaac intreated the lord for his wife, because she [was] barren: and the lord was intreated of him, and rebekah his wife conceived. 25:22 and the children struggled together within her; and she said, if [it be] so, why [am] i thus? and she went to enquire of the lord. 25:23 and the lord said unto her, two nations [are] in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and [the one] people shall be stronger than [the other] people; and the elder shall serve the younger. 25:24 and when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold [there were] twins in her womb. 25:25 and the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name esau. 25:26 and after that came his brother

ve with me yet seven other years. 29:28 and jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him rachel his daughter to wife also. 29:29 and laban gave to rachel his daughter bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. 29:30 and he went in also unto rachel, and he loved also rachel more than leah, and served with him yet seven other years. 29:31 and when the lord saw that leah [was] hated, he opened her womb: but rachel [was] barren. 29:32 and leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name reuben: for she said, surely the lord hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me. 29:33 and she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, because the lord hath heard that i [was] hated, he hath therefore given me this [son] also: and she called his name simeon. 29:34 and she

conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, now will i praise the lord: therefore she called his name judah; and left bearing. 30:1 and when rachel saw that she bare jacob no children, rachel envied her sister; and said unto jacob, give me children, or else i die. 30:2 and jacob s anger was kindled against rachel: and he said [am] i in god s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? 30:3 and she said, behold my maid bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees that i may also have children by her. 30:4 and she gave him bilhah her handmaid to wife: and jacob went in unto her. 30:5 and bilhah conceived, and bare jacob a son. 30:6 and rachel said, god hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name dan. 30:7

d she called his name issachar. 30:19 and leah conceived again, and bare jacob the sixth son. 30:20 and leah said, god hath endued me [with] a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because i have born him six sons: and she called his name zebulun. 30:21 and afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name dinah. 30:22 and god remembered rachel, and god hearkened to her, and opened her womb. 30:23 and she conceived, and bare a son; and said, god hath taken away my reproach: 30:24 and she called his name joseph; and said, the lord shall add to me another son. 30:25 and it came to pass, when rachel had born joseph, that jacob said unto laban, send me away, that i may go unto mine own place, and to my country. 30:26 give [me] my wives and my children, for whom i have served thee, a

w, saying, by the man, whose these [are, am] i with child: and she said, discern, i pray thee, whose [are] these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff. 38:26 and judah acknowledged [them] and said, she hath been more righteous than i; because that i gave her not to shelah my son. and he knew her again no more. 38:27 and it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins [were] in her womb. 38:28 and it came to pass, when she travailed, that [the one] put out [his] hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, this came out first, 38:29 and it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, how hast thou broken forth [this] breach [be] upon thee: therefore his name was called pharez. 38:30 and afterward ca

nd hated him: 49:24 but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty [god] of jacob (from thence [is] the shepherd, the stone of israel) 49:25 [even] by the god of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: 49:26 the blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. 49:27 benjamin shall ravin [as] a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. 49:28 all these [are] the tw

is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. 12:50 thus did all the children of israel; as the lord commanded moses and aaron, so did they. 12:51 and it came to pass the selfsame day [that] the lord did bring the children of israel out of the land of egypt by their armies. 13:1 and the lord spake unto moses, saying, 13:2 sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of israel [both] of man and of beast: it [is] mine. 13:3 and moses said unto the people, remember this day, in which ye came out from egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the lord brought you out from this [place] there shall no leavened bread be eaten. 13:4 this day came ye out in the month abib. 13:5 and it shall be when the lord shall bring thee in

fering unto the lord. 8:14 thus shalt thou separate the levites from among the children of israel: and the levites shall be mine. 8:15 and after that shall the levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them [for] an offering. 8:16 for they [are] wholly given unto me from among the children of israel; instead of such as open every womb [even instead of] the firstborn of all the children of israel, have i taken them unto me. 8:17 for all the firstborn of the children of israel [are] mine [both] man and beast: on the day that i smote every firstborn in the land of egypt i sanctified them for myself. 8:18 and i have taken the levites for all the firstborn of the children of israel. 8:19 and i have given the levites [as] a gift

parted from off the tabernacle; and, behold, miriam [became] leprous [white] as snow: and aaron looked upon miriam, and, behold [she was] leprous. 12:11 and aaron said unto moses, alas, my lord, i beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned. 12:12 let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother s womb. 12:13 and moses cried unto the lord, saying, heal her now, o god, i beseech thee. 12:14 and the lord said unto moses, if her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in [again] 12:15 and miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till miriam was broug

keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which i command thee this day, to do them. 7:12 wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the lord thy god shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: 7:13 and he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 7:14 thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. 7:15 and the lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases

angel of the lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, behold now, thou [art] barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. 13:4 now therefore beware, i pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean [thing] 13:5 for, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a nazarite unto god from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver israel out of the hand of the philistines. 13:6 then the woman came and told her husband, saying, a man of god came unto me, and his countenance [was] like the countenance of an angel of god, very terrible: but i asked him not whence he [was] neither told he me his name: 13:7 but he said unto me, behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine

me and told her husband, saying, a man of god came unto me, and his countenance [was] like the countenance of an angel of god, very terrible: but i asked him not whence he [was] neither told he me his name: 13:7 but he said unto me, behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean [thing] for the child shall be a nazarite to god from the womb to the day of his death. 13:8 then manoah intreated the lord, and said, o my lord, let the man of god which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born. 13:9 and god hearkened to the voice of manoah; and the angel of god came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but manoah her husband [was] not with her. 13:10 and the woman made

TURNER ROBERT ARBETEL OF MAGICK

gers, by the command of god; as the prophet jeremiah testifieth, in his eighth chapter, concerning the jews. 4. in all the elements there are the seven governours with their hosts, who do move with the equal motion of the firmament; and the inferiours do always depend upon the superiours, as it is taught in philosophy. 5. a man that is a true magician, is brought forth a magician from his mothers womb: others, who do give themselves to this office, are unhappie. this is that which john the baptist speaketh of: no man can do any thing of himself, except it be given him from above. every character given from a spirit, for what cause soever, hath his efficacie in this business, for which it is given, in the time prefixed: but it is to be used the same day and planetary hour wherein it is give

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

his symbol, but did not choose to reveal it, it being a part of the mystic worship. 2 plate iii, fig. 1. 3 lib. i. 40 on the worship world venerates, in many forms, with various rites, and various names. the egyptians, skilled in ancient learning, worship me with proper ceremonies, and call me by my true name, queen isis. 1 according to the egyptians, isis copulated with her brother osiris in the womb of their mother; from whence sprung arueris, or orus, the apollo of the greeks.2 this allegory means no more than that the active and passive powers of creation united in the womb of night; where they had been implanted by the unknown father, kronoj, or time, and by their union produced the separation or delivery of the elements from each other; for the name apollo is only a title derived fro

li) and serpents, a direct allusion to ophite rites. next after these comes a group which we have reproduced in our plate,2 representing a strange figure seated upon an eagle, and accompanied with two of the symbols represented on the coffer found in burgundy, the sun and moon. the two symbols below are considered by von hammer to represent, according to the rude medi val notions of its form, the womb, or matrix; the fecundating organ is penetrating the one, while the infant is emerging from the other. the last figure in this series, which we have also copied,3 is identical with that on the lid of the coffer found in burgundy, but it is distinctly represented as androgynous. we have exactly the same figure on another coffer, in the vienna museum,4 with some of the same symbols, the star, p

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

le, in order to understand him or herself and the work of magic. the unrnanifest created the universe of forms from a single point within itself by an act of divine wiu. within this point the diversity of the physical world-the ten thousand things of chinese philosophy--grew by rational stages from desire to idea to form to materiality, in a way analogous to the growth of a living creature in the womb. the ancients tried to express this idea by presenting the universe as a giant egg floating in the endless womb of god. around the egg of creation is a shell that can- not be breached from either side without destroying the respective universe that is violated. thus mankind cannot know god without destroying god (which is impos- sible, and god cannot enter the created universe that is made of

crossing the veil"-at which point the need to understand distinctions, which is an aspect of the manifest, ceases. after death all individuals become god-not parts of god, for the all has no parts but is whole. any part of the unmanifest is all of the unmanifest. the all is indivisible. the veil is crossed by the totality of being at birth and at death. when a human is conceived physically in the womb, the finer elements of divine conception join, and the personal human essence comes into being. at death the human identity, or soul, disperses and the physical body returns to the earth, but the divine essence that was the foundation of the life escapes across the veil back into the bosom of the unmanifest. this passage across the veil is true of all created things, not only human beings-poe

nifestation at the emanations from god, seeing them directly without their veil of forms. its reaction is terror and frustration, both emotions stemming from its inability to command these powers. at once it begins to confine the manifestations of the all into envelopes, thereby demonstrating that it is capable of manipulating them mentally and, by extension, physically. the process begins in the womb but is accelerated sharply by the shock of birth. this is the biblical fall of humanity. adam sinned when he drew a circle of flesh around himself to cover his nakedness, his lack of a barrier between outside and inside. in the timeless and dimensionless garden he had always been united with god and had known everything without conceptualizing; but when he accepted the apple from eve, who in

can be found in abyssinian amulets, apache beadwork, moroccan metalwork and embroidery, and in the art of many other cultures: if the square encloses the diamond, it represents the hidden life force that lies sleeping in inanimate stone and metal. the diamond in the square is a symbol of the natural order. it is the spark of life in the embryo receiving its form within the nurturing walls of the womb. it is usually a female symbol-for example, it appears in the cross of uri, who is the hawaiian female force of creation. inverted, with the square inside the diamond, the unbalanced octagram becomes a fearful symbol of animism, of walking trees and speaking winds. this is the symbol of pandora's box opened and solomon's brass bottle shattered. most commonly regarded as a male symbol, it is u

ter is overpowered by the brute instincts of the flesh. cast into the sea, he is swallowed by a whale- yet he does not die. jonah sees that his fears were needless, that he is protected by god. he perceives that the seemingly cruel act of his being cast overboard is part of a divine plan for his salvation. after three days and nights he is set safely on shore, symbolically reborn from the whale's womb, transformed by his new faith and understanding. another ancient symbol of initiation is the maze, or labyrinth. pursuing his quest, the seeker theseus enters the twisting darkness where lurks the monster of his bodily fears and desires waiting to devour him. yet with courage he overcomes the minotaur and follows the threads of ariadne, his faith, into the light of day. he has been transforme

dagger is used to command through threat of punishment. it can cause discomfort to psychic entities, as can all pointed steel or iron objects. generally it symbolizes justice and retribution. held with the point up, it is the symbol of liberation. held point down, it is symbolic of frustration and waste. focused force also called the chalice and grail. it suggests a seed unfolding new life and a womb ready to issue forth its contents, which it has nurtured and protected. growth, love, protection, and creation-all are represented by the cup. its element is water. magically, it is used as an instrument of nurture. strength may be drawn from the cup, and evil influences washed away in its waters. love may be spread through its sharing. held upright, it is the open womb waiting to receive the

se the same number of times used to open the door to the light. this seals the aperture in the veil of unknowing and is a necessary step to avoid obsessive thoughts, posses- sion or mental illness. it also symbolically represents the realization of the ritual purpose. the will of the magus was projected into the unmanifest by the clockwise inward spiral. this may be likened to impregnation of the womb. the mirror- opposite counterclockwise outward spiral carries forth into the world the return- ing pulse from the unmanifest. this may be likened to the birth of the magical child of the ritual. any spirit or blind force that may have been attracted to the perimeter of the circle (as sharks are drawn by disturbances in the water) must be sent back to its rightful sphere before the magus dares

an attempt to extend the boundaries of the self into the greater world. the larger the sphere of total control gained by an individ- ual, the greater his or her measure of success in society. humans spend their entire adult lives trying to break down a barrier they themselves erected in the cradle. the view of the child is not the illusion. how could it be, when the child is newly issued from the womb, newly come from the bosom of the unmanifest? no, what the child sees of the world is much closer to the root of reality than the distorted view of the adult. the child sees with clear sight while the adult looks through the lens of fears and prejudices. the adult constructs a dream world where he or she can live in comfort and security without going completely mad. only the child can stand t

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

od 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 heard even when he is out of sight. 256- soul flight 21. laguz literal meaning: water general sense: the unconscious, the womb, dreams, fantasies, hopes, vanities, fashions, fads, impermanent things, fickleness, changeability the world of laguz is the depths of an ocean lagoon of transparent emerald water, with strange sea plants waving in the currents, and looming towers and hills of coral that create a confusion of moving light and shadow. schools of colorful fish dart past and conceal themselves behind the coral g

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

ter is the left wing. this polarity is expressed in the banner sigils by the invoking and banishing forms in each pair of sigils, which are mirror opposites. the female wings are under the influence of the supernal sephirah binah, understanding, which stands at the head of the left pillar of severity on the tree of the kabbalah. binah is the seat of aima, the great dark mother who is the fruitful womb of the universe. it is the role of the wings on the left side to bring forth into being ideas and possibilities. the female angels are responsible for the fashioning, limiting, and destroying of things; for all analytical and critical judgement; for punishment, pain, and matters relating to the health of the body; for dreams, nightmares, and fantasies; for doubts, fears, self-analysis, and co

tyles, and other social trends outwardly expressed; indeed, for all manifest, structured forms and cycles. the male wings are under the influence of the supernal sephirah chokmah, wisdom, which stands at the head of the right pillar of mercy on the tree of the kabbalah. chokmah is the seat ofabba, the great father of light who is the viral impregnating seed of spirit that comes to fruition in the womb ofaima. it is the role of the wings on the right side to implant the seminal sparks that form the vital nuclei of all manifest things, sustaining and animating them in the universe. the male angels are responsible for sudden inspirations, insights, and creative ideas; acts of will; expansive impulses; higher consciousness; acts of inclusion and wholeness; visionary schemes and noble sacrifice

ure: a facade of self-assurance conceals a sensitive and imaginative nature. resourceful, tenacious, loyal, artistic, sympathetic. good memory. loves beautiful things. speaks in a brusque, matter-of-fact way to cover up his uncertainty. very sensitive to mockery. function: the protection and nurturing of the family and the home environment. care of children. helps the conception of a child in the womb. acquiring objects for collections. care and protection of private property. 130 tetragrammaton viii angel: yodiah (ivd+ih) pronounced: yo-di'-ah hebrew ;1"71' enochian: c$ u l- l banner: hvhi polarity: moon qpe: severity side: left sex: female element: water quality: cardinal sign: cancer house: fourth direction: south-southeast stone: garnet (red) ifibe: judah apostle: andrew enochian god n

" it was on the mount of olives that jesus delivered his famous sermon on the mount. in revelation 11:6, these two olive trees have the power to shut up the rain and withhold it from the earth. that is why in the key they are given "vessels to water the earth with her creatures" the earth is personified as a female spirit; more than this, she is a mother goddess who generates living things in her womb. the creatures of the earth are her children. the soul of the world (anima mundi) figures prominently in greek philosophy, and from this source found its way into the hermetic mysticism of the renaissance. this image of the earth as a fertile mother becomes very important in the key of the thirty aethers. the "continually burning lamps" may be a reference to the seven lamps of fire burning be

UNCLE SETNAKT SEZ BECOME EVIL AND RULE THE WORLD1

ly- if it is a helpful metaphor, consider the world as a battlefield. sanctuaries can be a safe place at work, a song invested with special meaning, or a picture of the wife and kids. it can be anything that enables you to gather your forces and renew your focus. in the middle of a campaign you can shift your attention briefly to the sanctuary. draw in a quiet cold breath (as though from the very womb of hel) and return refreshed. be content in your knowledge that your opponent lacks such places of power. magicians wishing to explore the concepts of rest and preservation in a world of change are referred to alvin toffler's future shock and eric hoffer's the ordeal of change. 4. recognize and align yourself with aeonic currents. the word of the aeon is xeper- come into being. as the new aeo

UNLEASHING THE BEAST

ng union; but there are in fact many hindu tantric traditions- and arguably, the older traditions- that call for ejaculation of the semen and consumption of the combined male and female sexual fluids. according to the brhat tantrasara- one of the largest compendia of tantric ritual and iconography composed by the great 16th century author, krishnananda agamavagisha- the shedding of semen into the womb of the female partner is the ultimate "sacrificial act" for "sexual union is the libation; the sacred precept is the shedding of semen."lxxxviii the mingled sexual fluids are then consecrated and consumed as the supreme sacrificial offering- called the kula dravya or "lineage substance- which has the power to fulfill all worldly and otherworldly desires.lxxxix as david gordon white has argued

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

bout like fish when they are laid on red-hot coals. then she uttered a series of heartbreaking laments, each of which begins with the words "horus is bitten" the heir of heaven, the son of un- nefer, the child of the gods, he who was wholly fair, is bitten! he for whose wants i provided, he who was to avenge his father, is bitten! he for whom i cared and suffered when he was being fashioned in my womb, is bitten! he whom i tended so that i might gaze upon him, is bitten! he whose life i prayed for is bitten! calamity hath overtaken the child, and he hath perished. whilst isis was saying these and many similar words, her sister nephthys, who had been weeping bitterly for her nephew horus as she wandered about among the swamps, came, in company with the scorpiongoddess serqet, and advised is

es of the two lands, and of the company of the gods, the lords of thebes, the beloved one. the beneficent god, the son of amen, born of mut, begotten of heru-khuti, the glorious offspring of neb-tchert,[fn#154] begetting [as] the bull of his mother [fn#155] king of egypt, governor of the deserts, the sovereign who hath taken possession of the nine nations of the bow [who] on coming forth from the womb ordained mighty things, who gave commands whilst he was in the egg, the bull, stable of heart, who hath sent forth his seed; the king who is a bull [and] a god who cometh forth on the day of battle like menthu,[fn#156] the mighty one of strength like the son of nut"[fn#157 [fn#150] i.e, the image who rises like the sun day by day, or the image of [many] crowns [fn#151] or, mighty one of the t

i sent forth a cry [saying [fn#229] or, ateh, the papyrus swamp [fn#230] i.e, set"'i, even i, lack a son to make answer [for me.[fn#231 [my] two breasts are full to overflowing [but] my body is empty [my] mouth wished for that which concerned him.[fn#232] a cistern of water and a stream of the inundation was i. the child was the desire of my heart, and i longed to protect him. i carried him in my womb, i gave birth to him, i endured the agony of the birth pangs, i was all alone, and the great ones were afraid of disaster and to come out at the sound of my voice. my father is in the tuat,[fn#233] my mother is in aqert,[fn#234] and my elder brother is in the sarcophagus. think of the enemy and of how prolonged was the wrath of his heart against me [when] i, the great lady, was in his house [

rus is bitten, he the son of un-nefer, who was born of auh-mu. horus is bitten, he in whom there was nothing abominable, the son, the youth among the gods. horus is bitten, he for whose wants i prepared in abundance, for i saw that he would make answer[fn#239] for his father. horus is bitten, he for whom [i] had care [when he was] in the hidden woman [and for whom i was afraid when he was] in the womb of his mother. horus is bitten, he whom i guarded to look upon. i have wished for the life of his heart. calamity hath befallen the child on the water, and the child hath perished [fn#238] he is nothing, i.e, he is dead [fn#239] i.e, become an advocate for. then came nephthys shedding tears and uttering cries of lamentation, and going round about through the papyrus swamps. and serq [came als

fore, since the third of the superadded days was the birthday of typhon, the kings considered it to be unlucky,[fn#302] and in consequence they neither transacted any business in it, nor even suffered themselves to take any refreshment until the evening. they further add that typhon married nephthys,[fn#303] and that isis and osiris, having a mutual affection, enjoyed each other in their mother's womb before they were born, and that from this commerce sprang aroueris, whom the egyptians likewise call horus the elder, and the greeks apollo [fn#293] i.e, nut, the sky-goddess [fn#294] i.e, keb, the earth-god [fn#295] i.e, ra [fn#296] i.e, aah [fn#297] in egyptian "the five days over the year [fn#298] in egyptian thus- i. birthday of osiris, ii. birthday of horus, iii. birthday of set, iv. bir

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

erra, que rectificando encontrar s la piedra oculta. debemos buscar en el interior de nuestra tierra filos fica (el organismo humano) que rectificando, trabajando con el arcano a.z.f, hallaremos la piedra filosofal. 47 the sun (phallus, masculine principle, is the father of the stone. the moon (uterus) is the feminine principle, the mother of the philosophical stone. the wind bears the son in its womb and the earth nourishes it. the sun and the moon, masculine and feminine principles are combined inside of the chalice (symbol of the mind. the sun is the father of the stone (fire, the moon is the mother (water, and the wind (seminal vapors) bear the son in its alchemical womb and the philosophical earth nourishes it. the chalice is resting on the caduceus of mercury (the central system, spi

s entered. we departed from eden. eden is sex in itself. therefore only through the doors of sex can we enter into eden. the fetus (after having accomplished its entire process of gestation) arrives at the moment when it must depart through the same door that its seed-germ entered. this is the law. the physical body of the human being is the outcome of nine months of gestation within the maternal womb. by means of philosophical analogies we also deduce that the human species remained within the maternal womb of the divine cosmic mother isis (rea, cibeles, mary, adonia, insobertha, kali, etc) gestating for nine ages. in the authentic initiation, this return to the point of departure is nothing more than the descent into the ninth sphere, which is a test of action for the supreme dignity of

s la gran obra. la carta doce del tarot es alkimia sexual. la cruz hombre debe ligarse con el tri ngulo esp ritu, mediante el fuego sexual. 84 according to the chinese, the god fu ji (the adam- christ) is born at midnight, on the fourth day of the tenth moon after precisely twelve years, the virgin hoa se, while walking along the shore of the river (the seminal liquor, conceived the christ in her womb while placing her foot on the footprint of the great man. you must study these numbers 4-10- 12 under the light of the lectures 4, 10 and 12 of this present course. white and black tantrism there exist two kinds of tantrism in the orient. in the positive tantrism, the ejaculation of the ens seminis is not taught, whereas in the negative tantrism the ejaculation of the ens seminis is practiced

la conciencia profundamente dormida y sue an, todo lo que ves entre las gentes, son simplemente sue os. recuerda que no identificarse no significa abandonar tus deberes como padre, madre, o hijo, etc. pero no te identifiques. as despertar s del sue o profundo que vives. 87 arcanum 13 let us now study the thirteenth arcanum of tarot. this is the arcanum of death. indeed, death is the return to the womb. life and death are two phenomena of the same kind. death is the remainder of whole numbers. when the mathematical operation is completed, only the values of the consciousness remain. these values, when seen clairvoyantly, look like a legion of phantoms that continue living. the re-encarnation of the values is the mechanism of nature. truly, the soul does not reincarnate, because the human be

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

les, squares, etc) should be carefully drawn with a compass and a ruler. planetary relationships very early in its evolution, human consciousness deduced that there was some occult connection between the seven planets, metals, and days of the week. as each of the seven days of the week was considered to be under the auspices of specific spirits in the heavens, so did mother nature generate in her womb a concrete expression of that star in the form of the seven principle metals. talismans were often made of the specific planetary metals and then worn. the science of alchemy seeks to release the spirit from the metal in the process of transmutation. we can visualize the same process happening within us, and much of the psychological interpretation of carl jung uses alchemical allegories. her

shout of joy (godwin) root: attached to all ideas of spiritual emanation; the effect of sound, voice, echo; the diffusion of a thing absolute in nature 9: gv, gev: middle, interior root: the center of things and that which preserves them; that which organizes and gives life to the organs 81: number of cells in kamea 81: alim, alim: rams 81: avod: i will meet (g. g. locks) 81: btnk, ve-tanek: your womb (deut. 7: 13) 81: anki, anoki: the personal pronoun, i 81: gchnk: your belly (locks) 81: v-lilh, ve-layil: and night 81: l-akl, le-achel: to be devoured, or consumed 81: l-hedil: to divide (locks "let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night (gen. 1: 14) 81: tbo, teba: nature 81: obdh, abodah: divine service, work 81: ksa, kebe: time of the full moon 81:

god established the earth, with understanding he established the heavens, and with his knowledge, the depths (chaos) were broken up (prov 3: 19, 20. it is through daath (knowledge) that the creative power of the elohim (emanating from binah) begins to manifest something from the chaotic nothing. although masculine language is used in proverbs, in qabalah, these depths are often referred to as the womb, or ani in hebrew. this word is simply a rearrangement of the word ain, or nothingness, and therefore would have the same numerical value. this value is sixty-one, which is the number exactly in the center of the magical square of daath, as can be seen in figure 12-d. if we look at the kamea closely we can see a number of interesting properties. it just happens that this magical number ain, o

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the female lunar essence. the female menstrual cycle is governed by the cycles of the moon and the blood contains that energy. its ingredients are supposed to ensure a long life. in india it was called soma and in greece it was ambrosia. this was said to be the nectar of the gods and it was the reptilian gods who are genetic blood drinkers. the 'holy grail' chalice or cup is also symbolic of the womb and drinking menstrual blood, as well as being a symbol of the reptilian 'royal' bloodline itself. menstrual blood was provided for the elite of the reptilian 'royal' line by virgin priestesses and this is the origin of the term 'scarlet woman' or, to the greeks 'sacred woman. the greek word for this, hierodulai, was eventually translated into english as harlot and into german as 'hores, the

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

he perfect time for a pagan festival of lights. and as for spring, although this may seem a tenuous beginning, all the little buds, flowers and leaves will have arrived on schedule before spring runs its course to beltane 'candlemas' is the christianized name for the holiday, of course. the older pagan names were imbolc and oimelc 'imbolc' means, literally 'in the belly (of the mother. for in the womb of mother earth, hidden from our mundane sight but sensed by a keener vision, there are stirrings. the seed that was planted in her womb at the solstice is quickening and the new year grows 'oimelc' means 'milk of ewes, for it is also lambing season. the holiday is also called 'brigit's day, in honor of the great irish goddess brigit. at her shrine, the ancient irish capitol of kildare, a gro

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the clear sea: i myself see in mag mon rosy-colored flowers without fault. sea-horses glisten in summer as far as bran has stretched his glance: rivers pour forth a stream of honey in the land of manannan son of lir. the sheen of the main, on which thou art, the white hue of the sea, on which thou rowest, yellow and azure are spread out, it is land, and is not rough. speckled salmon leap from the womb of the white sea, on which thou lookest: they are calves, they are colored lambs with friendliness, without mutual slaughter. though but one chariot-rider is seen in mag mell of many flowers, there are many steeds on its surface, though them thou seest not. the size of the plain, the number of the host, colors glisten with pure glory, a fair stream of silver, cloths of gold, afford a welcome

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e, the secret of the forty-five and fifty-two.204 kabbalistically interpreting the eschatological conception of the cosmic sabbatical cycle transmitted in the name of r. qatina six thousand years of history followed by a thousand years of desolation205 haver characterizes the seventh millennium as the elevation of everything to the mother, a standard designation of the third emanation, binah, the womb whence the lower seven sefirot emerge and whither they shall return. a similar account of the eschatological return of everything to binah in the seventh millennium is presented in the commentary on sifra di-seni uta attributed to elijah ben solomon: the matter is that the six thousand years are the six days wherein the six extremities [hesed to yesod] are operative, and the seventh is malkhu

on binah, and she returns to her source. and this is the secret of sabbath and the sabbatical year [sod ha-shabbat u-shemittah] in which work is forbidden, and the secret of the jubilee [sod ha-yovel. and the world-to-come, which is in the secret of atarah returning to binah, and she is the woman of valor, crown of her husband (prov 12:14. then binah rules and everything returns to binah, to the womb of their mother, and this is the secret of the destruction of this world [hurban ha-olam ha-zeh, which is governed by 90 chapter two means of binah, the supernal world. thus in the end of the sixth millennium all of them are rectified by means of the eighth king,206 the mercy that is revealed in the world, and afterwards in the seventh millennium all of them will return to their mother, and t

, and there are no new souls, therefore there is in it no eating etc. and this is the secret of the earth was destroyed, and binah remains alone, for all of them are concealed in her midst.210 the eschatological state of redemption characteristic of the seventh millennium, the cosmic sabbath or desolation that follows the cycle of six millennia, is depicted both as the return of all things to the womb of binah, the maternal fountainhead in the sefirotic pleroma, and as the elevation of malkhut to the head of her husband. the latter image conveys the asceticism appropriate to redemption, a point underscored by the symbolic connection between binah, the worldto- come, and yom kippur. in her transformed condition, the female is a crown on the male rather than a separate vessel to receive the

flow. insofar as time is the divine impulse, which is marked by the dialectic of contracting and extending, it stands to reason that it will exhibit both male and female characteristics, and that these will correspond respectively to light and darkness, day and night. yet, as suggested by the image in one bahiric passage the precious pearl that is at once the inseminating seed and the inseminated womb that gives birth237 the nocturnal and diurnal aspects are both localized in what i have called the androgynous phallus in an effort to indicate that, according to the traditional kabbalistic construction of gender, masculinity and femininity are ontologically located in the attribute that assumes the function and role of the divine phallus.238 to elucidate the point, i focus on a zoharic homi

e of mem and by consequence the symbolic status of the middle, which corresponds to the present tense. by heeding the assonance of mem, we attempt to take hold of the moment at hand, to grasp what cannot be grasped except by letting-go, clutching the reiteration of what has yet to be acclaimed. what is the open mem? the open mem is comprised of male and female, and the closed mem is made like the womb from above. did r. rehumai not say that the womb is like teit? what he spoke of was from within and what i spoke of was from without. what is mem? do not read mem but rather mayim. just as these waters are moist so the womb is always moist. why is open mem comprised of masculine and feminine and the closed [mem] masculine? to teach you that the essence of mem is masculine. the opening [of mem

uously been. mem, the letter in the middle, imparts this sense of fluency and ephemeral density. this is the meaning of the exegetical injunction do not read mem but mayim, which coincidentally, or perhaps intentionally, is repeated twice in the bahiric fragment. mem, most elementally that is, when heard at its philological root denotes water, 3 which in the present context is associated with the womb, designated by the term beten,4 source of engenderment, matrix of life. thus, it is posited that mem relates to the shape of the womb, or, to be more precise, the womb can be envisioned as mem when viewed from outside; when viewed from inside, it has the shape of teit. 138 chapter four the gender dimension of the letter symbolism provides a key to opening the text interpretatively, but to app

al dogma of the church.44 needless to say, in the period of the redaction of the bahir, christianity was not monolithic indeed, at no time in history has it been and surely some authors could have accommodated the notion that jesus came to be from the union of male and female. none, however, could have comfortably interpreted the matter somatically, presuming thereby that jesus was conceived in a womb fertilized by semen discharged physically by an actual man.45 but it is precisely this view that underlies the bahiric explication of the double nun in the name yinnon, offering a naturalistic conception of the birth of the messiah that is antithetical to the supernatural understanding implied in the doctrine of the incarnation.46 the polemical point is sharpened when we examine more carefull

n suggested that yod-nun in the zoharic text serves as an acrostic for yeshu nosri.51 even if we do not assume this was the bahiric author s intent, can we propose the christological myth as its conceptual underpinning? did the anonymous kabbalist intend to turn an axiom of christian eschatology on its head? did he wish to assert that the real saddiq is not the messianic redeemer born of a barren womb never polluted by seminal fluid but the cosmic foundation, the mundane manifestation of the 146 chapter four androgynous phallus in the sefirotic pleroma, the divine potency ritually embodied in the circumcised flesh of the jewish male semiotically sealed with the inscription of the divine name?52 as i have suggested, this is precisely the metaphoric implication of the double nun in yinnon. w

on of the double nun in yinnon. we are now in a better position to comprehend the bahiric interpretation of the two shapes of mem. insofar as the essence of mem relates to the masculine iqqar ha-mem hu ha-zakhar it follows that the closed mem, which is depicted as masculine, discloses the symbolic nature of the letter. but the closed mem, we have already noted, is associated with the shape of the womb from above or when it is looked at from without. how do we account for this apparent discrepancy? 53 the masculine depiction of the closed mem and the image of the womb evinces that, in the absence of male seed, the woman is like the man who does not give birth through his opening, presumably the aperture of the penis. by contrast, the open mem, which comprises male and female, is a sign of t

bove or when it is looked at from without. how do we account for this apparent discrepancy? 53 the masculine depiction of the closed mem and the image of the womb evinces that, in the absence of male seed, the woman is like the man who does not give birth through his opening, presumably the aperture of the penis. by contrast, the open mem, which comprises male and female, is a sign of the fertile womb because it contains both male and female.54 encoded in this passage is a highly complex relationship between the male organ and the womb, a conceptual mesh that one might well expect in an androcentric worldview: even the womb, the source of generative power that biologically distinguishes woman from man, is pilfered by the male imaginary and rendered in phallic terms. the womb yet to be fill

onceptual mesh that one might well expect in an androcentric worldview: even the womb, the source of generative power that biologically distinguishes woman from man, is pilfered by the male imaginary and rendered in phallic terms. the womb yet to be filled with semen is compared to the hole of the male organ, for without a ground in which to plant its seed the penis is not procreative. 55 yet the womb, represented by closed mem, is essentially masculine. to pro/ject, to open its opening, the womb must receive the seed of the male, a receiving that transforms the status of the feminine receptacle to masculine benefactor. the gender metamorphosis is conveyed in the midrashic gloss of mem as mayyim, that is, the watery texture of the womb renders it necessary for the woman to be warmed by man

closed mem, is essentially masculine. to pro/ject, to open its opening, the womb must receive the seed of the male, a receiving that transforms the status of the feminine receptacle to masculine benefactor. the gender metamorphosis is conveyed in the midrashic gloss of mem as mayyim, that is, the watery texture of the womb renders it necessary for the woman to be warmed by man. consequently, the womb that retains the semen is portrayed as open mem, the joining of masculine and feminine. the tradition preserved in the bahir presumes that the closed mem represents the womb that has not been inseminated; such a womb being infertile, it thus could not have conceived the messiah described as the son born of woman. 56 an exegetical frame for this hermeneutical conflict may be located in the mes

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father. and zain spelt fully is 67, the number of binah the all-mother. ayin is moreover the devil of lust, the goat of mendes, pan, baphomet; and spelt fully ayin is the erection and le aping and extension of the phallus; yod is the spermatoon, the solitary boy her mes, the virgin; while nun is the eagle of sexual ecstasy, the serpent of life through death, the scorpion or scarab of kephra, the womb which transmutes thro ugh corruption, the semen or fluid vehicle of the spirit, the elixir of magick, the blood, wine, and poison in the chalice. and yod repeating that god, and pr ophesying the vau that follows it, ends with daleth the letter of venus, the do or of the palace of love. then vau reproduceth itself in its spelling, as it is written``all is ever as it was' in "the book of the la

ever as it was' in "the book of the law, and in aiwaz are f ound the three star-clusters of earth-nature, the goat under the god set or sat urn for hadith, the begetter, and mars exalted therein for force and fire, the virgin under thoth or mercury, his word creating in her the eidolon of his natu re, and the bull under isis or venus, the mighty redemption and nourish ment of love, for nuith the womb of space wherein her lord worketh his work. by this cometh forth the sign of the child, the star-cluster of the twins, un der hermes the word, airy, elastic, bisexual, eternally young, the lovers born of one womb, made two that by love they may make themselves one. so then in this name aiwaz is every rite of the magick of the aeon of horus d eclared in detail, and in his number 93 is shewn fo

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is father. and zain spelt fully is 67, the number of binah the all-mother. ayin is moreover the devil of lust, the goat of mendes, pan, baphomet; and spelt fully ayin is the erection and leaping and extension of the phallus; yod is the spermatoon, the solitary boy hermes, the virgin; while nun is the eagle of sexual ecstasy, the serpent of life through death, the scorpion or scarab of kephra, the womb which transmutes through corruption, the semen or fluid vehicle of the spirit, the elixir of magick, the blood, wine, and poison in the chalice. and yod repeating that god, and prophesying the vau that follows it, ends with daleth the letter of venus, the door of the palace of love. then vau reproduceth itself in its spelling, as it is written``all is ever as it was' in "the book of the law

is ever as it was' in "the book of the law, and in aiwaz are found the three star-clusters of earth-nature, the goat under the god set or saturn for hadith, the begetter, and mars exalted therein for force and fire, the virgin under thoth or mercury, his word creating in her the eidolon of his nature, and the bull under isis or venus, the mighty redemption and nourish ment of love, for nuith the womb of space wherein her lord worketh his work. by this cometh forth the sign of the child, the star-cluster of the twins, under hermes the word, airy, elastic, bisexual, eternally young, the lovers born of one womb, made two that by love they may make themselves one. so then in this name aiwaz is every rite of the magick of the aeon of horus declared in detail, and in his number 93 is shewn fort

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and shot at him, and hated him: but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty god of jacob (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of israel) even by the god of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: the blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head ofjoseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren' moses says 'blessed of the lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, and for the precious fr

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es the admission badge of scales. notes on the symbolism of the 6=5 ritual by p.j. zalewski preparation before the start of the ritual, the shekinah pricks her finger and mixes her blood with that of olive oil saying "blood is the life of man; let the man give his life" this symbology is very complicated, and at more than one level. olive oil is under the goddess athena (which also means vulva or womb) who presided over voyages. in order that a person can be made new or life given to him, he must pass into the land of the unborn. it is the voyage of the spirit seeking his eternal roots. with the introduction of blood, we have the melusine, an entity who has the capacity to cure diseases and change shape, and is a form of regression wherein she becomes what she was in the beginning of man:

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

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