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18276066 GRIMM JACOB TEUTONIC MYTHOLOGY VOL 1

re the word has more of a heathen look, and was not at that time used of christian worship; with the thing, the words for it soon die out. but its universal use in norse heathendom leaves no doubt remaining, that it avas equally in vogue among goths, alamanni, saxons, before their conversion to christianity. the on. verb hloia, pret. blet and blotagi, takes, like the gothic, an ace. of the object worshipped; thus, gragas 2, 170, in the formula of the trygdamcd: sva visa sem (as widely as) kristnir menn kirkior soekia, heisnir menu hof hlota (fana colunt; and in the edda: thor hlota, mik hlota, hlota&i 06in. seem. ill, 113, 141, 165: always the meaning is sacrificio venerari. so that in goth, and on. the verb brings out more the idea of the person, in ohg. and as. more that of the thing. bu

n of the ot. uses hlothe immolare, woc^amadh^ the gl. hrab. 954: laclia, plostar, is incomplete; in gl. ker. 45. diut. 1, 166" it stands: bacha sacriticat, ploastar jiloazit, or zepar plozit; so that it is meant to translate only the lat. verb, not the subst. bacha j^akxri. or perhaps a better reading is' bachat' for bacchatur, and the meaning is' non sacriticat^ landn. 1,2: blotaci hrafna jn-ia, worshipped three ravens, who were going to show him the road; so, in sasm. 141% a l)ird demands that cow.s be sacriticed to him; the victim itself is on. hlot, and we are told occasionally: feck at bloti, ak bloti niiklu, offered a sacrifice, a great sacrifice, landn. 2, 29. sacrifice. 37 lihamina.blotelsd holocaustum, molbech's ed. pp. 171. 182. 215. 2-1'j. also the o.swed. uplandslag, at the ver

s lucus ostenditur; praesidet sacerdos muliebri ornatu, sed deos interpretatione romana castorem pollucemque memorant. ea vis numini, nomen aids; nulla simulacra, nullum peregrinae superstitionis vestigium. ut fratres tamen, ut juvenes venerantur. this alcis is either itself the nom, or a gen. of alx (as falcis of falx, which perfectly corresponds to the gothic alhs. a pair of heroic brothers was worshipped, without any statues, in a sacred grove; the name can hardly be ascribed to them^ it is the abode of the divinity that is called alx. numen is here the sacred wood, or even some notable tree in it^ 1 unless it were dat. pi. of alcus [or alca akkr. a wendicliolz, boliem. holec, which has been adduced, is not to the point, for it means strictly a bald naked wretch, a beggar boy, pol. gole

s, in his treatise de translatione alexandri (pertz 2, 675, perhaps from some intermediate source. tacitus's words must be taken as they stand. in his day germany possessed no masters who could build temples or chisel statues; so the grove was the dwelling of the gods, and a sacred symbol did instead of a statue. moser 30 takes the passage to mean, that the divinity common to the whole nation was worshipped unseen, so as not to give one district the advantage of possessing the temple; but that sejsarate gods did have their images made. this view is too political, and also ill-suited to the isolation of tribes in those times. no doubt, a region which included a god's hill would acquire the more renowoi and sacredness, as spots like ehetra and loreto did from containing the slavic sanctuary

st. 4, 64, and conjugalcs dii (germ. 18; when he even distinguishes individual gods, and tries to suit them with eoman names, and actually names (interpretatione eomana) a mars, mercurius, hercules, castor and pollux, isis, nay, has preserved the german appellations of the deus terra editus and of his son, and of a goddess, the terra mater; how is it possible to deny that at that time the germans worshipped veritable gods? how is it possible, when we take into account all the rest that we know of the language, the liberty, the manners, and virtues of the germani, to maintain the notion that, sunk in a stolid fetishism, they cast themselves down before logs and puddles, and paid to them their simple adoration? the opinion of c?esar^ who knew the germans more superficially than tacitus a hun

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

rmit self-initiation. the high priest initiates the female members and the high priestess the male. they celebrate eight sabbats, or seasonal celebrations. there are, however, numerous forms of wicca and of witchcraft, many of which draw on ancient traditions. for example, the feminist dianic wicca, founded in the 1970s, is spiritually descended from the nature religion of the italian witches who worshipped diana as the triple goddess of the moon from about 500 bc. since the 1970s, less formal practices and covens have evolved, which may or may not have a structured learning system, and these create their own spells and ceremonies, rather than using an existing system, such as that recorded in gardner's own book of shadows, revised by his high priestess doreen valiente. these individual ce

n the four quartets called the 'still point of the turning world, that moment of timelessness that enables thought to be turned into reality on the material plane. it operates on the principle as above, so below. this phrase comes from the beginning of the emerald tablet, attributed to hermes trismesgistos (thrice-blessed hermes, thought to be a powerful first-century egyptian sorcerer who became worshipped as a god after his death. this tablet is said to contain all magical knowledge as well as the principles of alchemy, and states that human action and events reflect what occurs in the heavens. and so by releasing magical intentions into the cosmos, as i said earlier, they will be reflected back as actuality. since time immemorial, humans have called upon the power of higher beings to he

dour. his body is draped in shining gauze, whipped by the wind' he is especially associated with the life force and renewing health and energy. horus horus was the ancient egyptian sky god, represented as a falcon or a falcon-headed man. his eyes were the sun and moon and his wings could extend across the entire heavens. he was frequently associated with the morning aspect of ra, the sun god, and worshipped as re-harakhte. the son of isis and osiris, he is often depicted as an infant on his mother's lap and together the parents and child form a trinity. horus brings clarity of mind and purpose and the ability to seize upon an opportunity, and is effective for uncovering secrets, deception and illusion. lugh lugh, the celtic 'shining one, who gives his name to lughnassadh, celtic festival o

s well as love. like artemis, she is goddess of the hunt and a virgin goddess, but can be invoked in her role as an earth goddess and as protector of women in childbirth. her beauty and hunting skills make her a perfect focus for the pursuit of love, especially from afar. myesyats like the lunar goddesses, myesyats, the slavic moon god, represented the three stages of the life cycle. he was first worshipped as a young man until he reached maturity at the full moon. with the waning phase, myesyats passed through old age and died with the old moon, being reborn three days later. as he was the restorer of life and health, parents would pray to him to take away their children's illnesses and family sorrows. other sources have a female version, myesytsa, a lovely moon maiden who was the consort

ce, reason, negotiation and all forms of the arts and literature. the owl is her sacred bird and the olive her symbol representing peace, healing and nourishment. hathor hathor is the ancient egyptian goddess of truth, wisdom, joy, love, music, art and dance and protectress of women. she is said to bring husbands or wives to those who call on her and she is also a powerful fertility goddess. also worshipped as a sky goddess, hathor is frequently shown wearing a sun disc held between the horns of a cow as a crown. she was once entrusted with the sacred eye of ra, the sun god and her consort, through which she could see all things. she carried a shield that could reflect back all things in their true light. from her shield she fashioned the first magical mirror. one side was endowed with the

ALEISTER CROWLEY ACROSS THE GULF

, the beautiful gate, unto the land of khemi, and the city of thebai, and the temple that had been the temple of the veiled one. there i rejoined my body, making the magical links in the prescribed manner, and rose up and did adoration to the osiris by the fourfold sign. therefore the light of osiris began to dawn; it went about the city whirling forth, abounding, crying aloud; whereat the people worshipped, being abased with exceeding fear. moreover, they hearkened unto their wise men and brought gifts of gold, so that the temple floor was heaped high; and gifts of oxen, so that the courts of the temple could not contain them: and gifts of slaves, as it were a mighty army. then i withdrew myself; and taking counsel with the wisest of the priests and of the architects and of the sculptors

n i pulled away my veil, and the cold lightnings of death shot forth, and the people of the city fell dead where they stood. save only one, a young boy, a flute-player, that was blind, and, seeing not those eyes of mine, died not. then to him i spake, saying "arise, summon the priests and the people, all that remain. and let them build a temple unto osiris the god of the dead, and let the dead be worshipped for ever and ever" page 30 gulf.txt this i said, and went out from the city with the two slaves that i had left in the gate, and we went unto nile, unto a cave by the bank of the river; and there i abode for many months, weeping for isis my lady. for though i had avenged her in many dreadful deeds, yet i brought her not back unto life. moreover the lover of her was as it were dead in me

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

he yezidis of mesopotamia, knowledge of which led him to declare the lines that open this introduction. for he saw that the yezidis possess a great secret and a great tradition that extends far back into time, beyond the origin of the sun cults of osiris, mithra and christ; even before the formation of the judaic religion, and the hebrew tongue. crowley harkened back to a time before the moon was worshipped, to the "shadow out of time; and in this, whether he realised it as such or not, he had heard the "call of cthulhu. sumeria that a reclusive author of short stories who lived in a quiet neighbourhood in new england, and the manic, infamous master magician who called the world his home, should have somehow met in the sandy wastes of some forgotten civilisation seems incredible. that they

ed by the greeks "mesopotamia" and by the arabs as, simply "the island" for it existed between two rivers, the tigris and the euphrates, which run down from the mountains to the persian gulf. this is the site of the fabled city of babylon, as well as of ur of the chaldees and kish, with nineveh far to the north. each of the seven principal cities of sumeria was ruled by a different deity, who was worshipped in the strange, non-semitic language of the sumerians; and language which has been closely allied to that of the aryan race, having in fact many words identical to that of sanskrit (and, it is said, to chinese. for no one knows where the sumerians came from, and they vanished just as mysteriously as they appeared, after the assyrian invasions which decimated their culture, yet providing

power. worship of the ancient ones in history "let them curse it that curse the day, who are skilful to rouse leviathan- job 3:8 s.h. hooke, in his excellent middle eastern mythology, tells us that the leviathan mentioned in job, and elsewhere in the old testament, is the hebrew name given to the serpent tiamat, and reveals that there was in existence either a cult, or scattered individuals, who worshipped or called up the serpent of the sea, or abyss. indeed, the hebrew word for abyss that is found in genesis 1:2 is, hooke tells us, tehom, which the majority of scholars take to be a survival of the name of the chaos-dragon tiamat or leviathan that is identified closely with kutulu or cthulhu within the pages are mentioned independently of each other, indicating that somehow kutulu is the

east and the python dancers of africa, not to mention the round dances that were familiar to the gnostic christians, and the ones held every year in the past at chartres. the witches of today, however, while acknowledging the importance of the male element of telluric power, generally prefer to give the greater honour to the female principle, personified as the goddess. the goddess has also been worshipped all over the world, and under many names, but is still essentially the same goddess. that tiamat was undoubtedly female is to the point; and that the chinese as well as the sumerians perceived of two dragon currents, male and female, gives the researchers a more complex picture. the green dragon and the red dragon of the alchemists are thus identified, as the positive and negative energ

ed sin. in both cases, he was the father of the gods (of the planetary realm, the zonei, and was depicted as wearing horns, a symbol familiar to the witches as representative of their god. the horn shaped crown is illustrative of the crescent phases of the moon, and were symbolic of divinity in many cultures around the world, and were also thought to represent certain animals who were horned, and worshipped for their particular qualities, such as the goat and bull. they also represent sexual power. the fact that, in ancient sumeria and egypt, horns were solely representative of evil gods, but of many different deities, was used by the christian church in their attempt to eradicate pagan faiths. it was a simple enough symbol to identify with the author of evil, satan, which the church depic

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

pter is wholly devoted. the first section of the title is an analysis of 77 considered as a mystic number. 7, the septenary; 11, the magical number; 77, the manifestation, therefore, of the septenary. through matter, because 77 is written in hebrew ayin zayin (oz, and he-goat, the symbol of matter, capricornus, the devil of the tarot; which is the picture of the goat of the sabbath upon an altar, worshipped by two other devils, male and female. as will be seen from the photogravure inserted opposite this chapter, laylah is herself not devoid of "devil, but, as she habitually remarks, on being addressed in terms implying this fact "it's nice to be a devil when you're one like me" the text need no comment, but it will be noticed that it is much shorter that the title. now, the devil of the t

ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF THE LAW

rged by the prophet! then shall this knowledge go aright. ii,6: i am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. i am life, and the giver of life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. ii,7: i am the magician and the exorcist. i am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. come unto me is a foolish word: for it is i that go. ii,8: who worshipped heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for i am the worshipper. ii,9: remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass& are done; but there is that which remains. ii,10: o prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing. ii,11: i see thee hate the hand& the pen; but i am stronger. ii,12: because of me in thee which thou knewest not. ii,13

abomination of desolation; count well its name& it shall be to you as 718. iii,20: why? because of the fall of because, that he is not there again. iii,21: set up my image in the east: thou shalt buy thee an image which i will show thee, especial, not unlike the one thou knowest. and it shall be suddenly easy for thee to do this. iii,22: the other images group around me to support me: let all be worshipped, for they shall cluster to exalt me. i am the visible object of worship; the others are secret; for the beast& his bride are they: and for the winners of the ordeal x. what is this? thou shalt know. iii,23: for perfume mix meal& honey& thick leavings of red wine: then oil of abramelin and olive oil, and afterward soften& smooth down with rich fresh blood. iii,24: the best blood is of th

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

ere also said to guard the canopic jars in which the internal organs of the deceased were preserved, and their g.d. attributions to the crossquarters probably derive from a single find of an egyptian tomb which had the four jars with the images of the gods disposed thus. table of correspondences 53 col. xx. line 23: possibly a g.d. coptic spelling of ashtoreth who according to budge (op. cit) was worshipped in egypt in the later dynastic period (in regardie, complete g.d, sati-ashtoreth is referred to the fire queen in enochian chess, the name is spelt i#haourey in crowley s notes. line 25: a g.d. coptic spelling of aroueris. col. xxi. all this is derived from the famous speech in cap. 42 of the book of the dead. some minor errors have been corrected (e.g. line 12 read aupu the hips. the p

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

this elementary handbook. see, however, liber samekh, point ii, section j> the same idea is expressed by the rosicrucian formula of the trinity "ex deo nascimur. in jesu morimur per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus" this is also identical with the word lux, l.v.x, which is formed by the arms of a cross. it is this formula which is implied in those ancient and modern monuments in which the phallus is worshipped as the saviour of the world. the doctrine of resurrection as vulgarly understood is false and absurd. it is not even "scriptural. st. paul does not identify the glorified body which rises with the mortal body which dies. on the contrary, he repeatedly insists on the distinction. the same is true of a magical ceremony. the magician who is destroyed by absorption in the godhead is really

ath. the alchemists themselves taught this same truth. the first matter of the work was base and primitive, though "natural. after passing through various stages the "black dragon" appeared; but from this arose the pure and perfect gold. even in the legend of prometheus we find an identical formula concealed; and a similar remark applies to those of jesus christ, and of many other mythical godmen worshipped in different countries<golden bough" j.m.robertson "pagan christs" a. crowley "jesus" etc, etc> a magical ceremony constructed on this formula is thus in close essential harmony with the natural mystic process. we find it the 29 basis of many important initiations, notably the third degree in masonry, and the 5 degree= 6square ceremony of the g. d. described in equi

, and idols. but, it is actually true that a great deal of real magical force is locked up in such things; consequently, by destroying these sacred symbols, you can overcome magically the people who adore them. it is not at all irrational to fight for one's flag, provided that the flag is an object which really means something to somebody. similarly, with the most widely spread and most devotedly worshipped talisman of all, money, you can evidently break the magical will of a worshipper of money by taking his money away from him, or by destroying its value in some way or another. but, in the case of money, general experience tells us that there is very little of it lying about loose. in this case, above all, 137 people have recognised its talismanic virtue, that is to say, its power as an

import, sobeit that thou choose one suited to thine own highest nature. howsoever, this method is not so suitable for gods austere as saturn, or intellectual as thoth. but for such deities as in themselves partake in anywise of love it is a perfect mode. 2 "concerning the prime method of this magick art- let the devotee consider well that although christ and osiris be one, yet the former is to be worshipped with christian, and the latter with egyptian, rites. and this, although the rites themselves are ceremonially equivalent. there should, however, be "one" symbol declaring the transcending of such limitations; and with regard to the deity also, there should be some "one" affirmation of his identity both with all other similar gods of other nations, and with the supreme of whom all are bu

meditation there is mindfulness induced thereby; and second because a certain power enters and inhabits it by virtue of the ceremonies; or so it is said, and we deny it not. let this image be the most beautiful and perfect which the devotee is able to procure; or if he be able to paint or to carve the same, it is all the better. as for deities with whose nature no image is compatible, let them be worshipped in an 390 empty shrine. such are brahma, and allah. also some postcaptivity conceptions of jehovah. 5 "further concerning the shrine- let this shrine be furnished appropriately as to its ornaments, according to the book 777. with ivy and pine-cones, that is to say, for bacchus, and let lay before him both grapes and wine. so also for ceres let there be corn, and cakes; or for diana moon

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

r was of blood, and the boat of shining steel. then i loved her; and, loosing my girdle, cast myself into the stream. 8. i gathered myself into the little boat, and for many days and nights did i love her, burning beautiful incense before her. 9. yea! i gave her of the flower of my youth. 10. but she stirred not; only by my kisses i defiled her so that she turned to blackness before me. 11. yet i worshipped her, and gave her of the flower of my youth. 12. also it came to pass, that thereby she sickened, and corrupted before me. almost i cast myself into the stream. 13. then at the end appointed her body was whiter than the milk of the stars, and her lips red and warm as the sunset, and her life of a white heat like the heat of the midmost sun. 14. then rose she up from abyss of ages of sle

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE HEART OF THE MASTER

of that brother was hidden from me. then was i shewn the mystery of the words: how in the first period of recorded history men thought that life came from woman alone, and worked by the formula of isis, worshipping nature chaste and kindly, not understanding death, or the arcanum of love. so, when the time was ripe, appeared the brethren of the formula of osiris, whose word is i a o; so that men worshipped man, thinking him subject to death, and his victory dependent upon resurrection. even so conceived they of the sun as slain and reborn with every day, and every year. now, this great formula being fulfilled, and turned into abomination, this lion came forth to proclaim the aeon of horus, the crowned and conquering child, who dieth not, nor is reborn, the heart of the master get any book

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE LOST CONTINENT

en him to worship, a miracle-working image, whose principle exploits he would tattoo upon it "remember the sabbath day and keep it holy" the atlantean kept one day in seven for all purposes unconnected with his principle task "thou shalt not commit adultery" though the atlanteans married, intercourse with the wife was the only act forbidden "honour thy father and thy mother" on the contrary, they worshipped their children, as if to say "this is the god whom i have made in my own likeness" similarly, there is one exception and one only to the rule of silence. it is the utterance of the 'name' which it is death to pronounce. this word was constantly in their mouths; it is 'zcrra, a sort of venomous throat-gargling. hence, possibly the gaelic 'scurr 'speak, english 'scaur' or 'scar' in yorksh

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

ne solution is as given previously, to suppose that the perfect enjoys experience of (apparent) imperfection (there are deeper resolutions of this problem appropriate to the highest grades of initiation; but the above should suffice the average intelligence) al i,9 "worship then the khabs, and behold my light shed over you" the old comment 9. that khabs is declared to be the light of nu. it being worshipped in the centre, the light also fills the circumference, so that all is light. the new comment we are to pay attention to this inmost light; then comes the answering light of infinite space. note that the light of space is what men call darkness; its nature is utterly incomprehensible to our uninitiated minds. it is the 'veils' mentioned previously in this comment that obstruct the relati

of the matter of nuit (with special energies) determined in space by his relations with his neighbours, and in time by his relations with himself. it is evidently "a foolish word" for hadit to say "come unto me" as did nuit naturally enough, meaning "fulfil thy possibilities" for who can "come unto" motion itself, who draw near unto that which is in very truth his innermost identity? al ii,8 "who worshipped heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for i am the worshipper" the old comment 8. he is symbolized by harpocrates, crowned child upon the lotus whose shadow is called silence. yet his silence is the act of adoration; not the dumb callousness of heaven toward man, but the supreme ritual, the silence of supreme orgasm, the stilling of all voices in the perfect rapture. the new comment h

also the river was of blood, and the boat of shining steel. then i loved her; and, loosing my girdle, cast myself into the stream. i gathered myself into the little boat, and for many days and nights did i love her, burning beautiful incense before her. yea! i gave her of the flower of my youth. but she stirred not; only by my kisses i defiled her so that she turned to blackness before me. yet i worshipped her, and gave her of the flower of my youth. also it came to pass that thereby she sickened, and corrupted before me. almost i cast myself into the stream. then at the end appointed her body was whiter that the milk of the stars, and her lips red and warm as the sunset, and her life of a white heat like the heat of the midmost sun. then rose she up from the abyss of ages of sleep, and h

age of the kind implied. but there seems no special importance in this. i am inclined to see some deeper significance in this passage. there has elsewhere been reference to the words "not "one "thou knowest. the word "easy" is moreover suggestive of some mystery; it is used in the same doubtfully intelligible sense in verse 40. al iii,22 "the other images group around me to support me: let all be worshipped, for they shall cluster to exalt me. i am the visible object of worship; the others are secret; for the beast& his bride are they: and for the winners of the ordeal x. what is this? thou shalt know" the old comment 22. this first charge was accomplished; but nothing resulted of a sufficiently striking nature to record. the ordeal "x" will be dealt with in private. the new comment there

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

w are of the greek, and a and z of the latin. hence the word azoth, not to be confused with azote (lifeless, azotos, the old name for nitrogen. azoth means the sum and essence of all, conceived as one. liber lviii 32 406. wt, the letter tau (see 400, also hta, thou. note that aha (7, the divine name of venus (7) gives the initials of ani, hua, ateh i, he, thou; three different aspects of a deity worshipped in three persons and in three ways: viz (1) with averted face (2) with prostration (3) with identification. 418. pertains principally to part ii, q.v. 419. tyf, the letter teth. 434. tld, the letter daleth. 440. ylt, the great dragon.54 441. tma, truth. note 441= 21 21. 21 is hyha, the god of kether, whose will is truth. 450. t, the great dragon. 463. dqch hfm, moses wand, a rod of almo

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

ind some folks think me (for one) so great a fool that i disclaim indeed jehovah s hate for shame 525 that man to-day should not be weaned of worshipping so foul a fiend in presence of the living sun, and yet replace him oiled and cleaned by the egyptian pantheon, 530 the same thing by another name. thus when of late egyptian gods evoked ecstatic periods in verse of mine, you thought i praised or worshipped them i stand amazed. 535 i merely wished to chant in verse some aspects of the universe, summed up these subtle forces finely, and sang of them (i think divinely) in name and form: a fault perhaps 540 reviewers are such funny chaps! i think that ordinary folk, though, understood the things i spoke. for gods, and devils too, i find are merely modes of my own mind! 545 the poet needs enth

him: though for himself had he cut off the grip, yet for others well, let each man take his sword! the way went through a forest. now between two trees hung a man by one heel (love was that tree).5 crossed were his legs, and his arms behind his head, that hung ever downwards, the fingers locked. who art thou? quoth our father. he that came before thee. who am i? he that cometh after me. with that worshipped our father, and took a present of a great jewel from him, and went his ways. and he was bitterly a-cold, for that was the great water he had passed. but our father s paps glittered with cold, black light, and likewise his navel. wherefore he was comforted. now came the sudden twittering of heart lest the firmament beneath him were not stable, and lo! he danceth up and down as a very cor

the demon was wroth and shrieked: thy mother to black hell! she is mine! so the old hag confessed straight that she had given her body for love to that fiend of the pit. but our father paid no heed thereto and bade the demon to do his will, so that he brought him herbs many, and good, with which our father planted a great grove that grew about him (for the sun was now waxen bitter hot) wherein he worshipped, offering in vessels of clay these seven offerings :2 the first offering, dust; the second offering, ashes; the third offering, sand; the fourth offering, bay-leaves; the fifth offering, gold; the sixth offering, dung; the seventh offering, poison. with the dust he gave a sickle to gather the harvest of that dust. with the ashes he gave a sceptre, that one might rule them aright. with t

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

and omega are of the greek, and a and z of the latin. hence the word azoth, not to be confused with azote 104 (lifeless, asotos, the old name for nitrogen. azoth means the sum and essence of all, conceived as one. 406. thv, the letter tau (see 400, also athh "thou" note that aha (7, the divine name of venus (7, gives the initials of ani, hua, ateh- i, he, thou; three different aspects of a deity worshipped in three persons and in three ways: viz (1) with averted face (2) with prostration (3) with identification. 418. pertains principally to part, q.v. 419. tith, the letter teth. 434. dlth, the letter daleth. 440. thli, the great dragon. 441. amth, truth. note 441= 21 x 21. 21 is ahih, the god of kether, whose will is truth. 450. thn, the great dragon. 463. nth hshqd, moses' wand, a rod of

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nations? who is the beast? am not i one more than he? in 22 his hand is a sword that is a book. in his hand is a spear that is a cup of fornication. upon his mouth is set the great and terrible seal. and he hath the secret of v. his ten horns spring from five points, and his eight heads are as the charioteer of the west. thus doth the fire of the sun temper the spear of mars, and thus shall he be worshipped, as the warrior lord of the sun. yet in him is the woman that devoureth with her water all the fire of god. alas! my lord, thou art joined with him that knoweth not these things. when shall the day come that men shall flock to this my gate, and fall into my furious throat, a whirlpool of fire? this is hell unquenchable, and all they shall be utterly consumed therein. therefore is that a

ent substance, on which is written in the "dagger" alphabet: torsion is iniquity (this means, that the rashith ha-gilgalim is the first appearance of evil) and now an angel appears, like as he were carven in black diamonds. and he cries: woe unto the second, whom all nations of men call the first. woe unto the first, whom all grades of adepts call the first. woe unto me, for i, even as they, have worshipped him. but she is whose paps are the galaxies, and he that never shall be known, in them is no motion. for the infinite without filleth all and moveth not, and the infinite within goeth indeed; but it is no odds, else were the space-marks confounded. and now the angel is but a shining speck of blackness in the midst of a tremendous sphere of liquid and vibrating light, at first gold, then

s the light of truth that overmastereth the light of the sun, whereby she shines. the arrow is fledged with the plumes of maat, that are the plumes of amoun, and the shaft is the phallus of amoun, the concealed one. and the barb thereof is the star that thou sawest in the place where was no god. and of them that guarded the star, there was not found one worthy to wield the arrow. and of them that worshipped there was not found one worthy to behold the arrow. yet the star that thou sawest was but the barb of the arrow, and thou hadst not the wit to grasp the shaft, or the purity to divine the plumes. now therefore is he blessed that is born under the sign of the arrow, and blessed is he that hath the sigil 131 of the head of the crowned lion and the body of the snake and the arrow therewith

ding from the crown. o thou that hast beheld the city of the pyramids, how shouldst thou behold the house of the juggler? for he is wisdom, and by wisdom hath he made the worlds, and from that wisdom issue judgements 70 by 4, that are the 4 eyes of the double-headed one; that are the 4 devils, satan, lucifer, leviathan, belial, that are the great princes of the evil of the world. 142 and satan is worshipped by men under the name of jesus; and lucifer is worshipped by men under the name of brahma; and leviathan is worshipped by men under the name of allah; and belial is worshipped by men under the name of buddha (this is the meaning of the passage in liber legis, chap. iii) moreover, there is mary, a blasphemy against babalon, for she hath shut herself up; and therefore is she the queen of

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ce we will lead him out when we give our feasts. he shall ripen our corn for us and do menial work. we will kiss thy painted face, o sphinx, if thou wilt betray to us time. and yet i fear that in his ultimate anguish he may take hold blindly of the world and the moon and slowly pull down upon him the house of man. dunsany. 208 the priestess of panormita hear me, lord of the stars! for thee i have worshipped ever with stains and sorrows and scars, with joyful, joyful endeavour. hear me, o lily-white goat! o crisp as a thicket of thorns, with a collar of gold for thy throat, a scarlet bow for thy horns! here, in the dusty air, i build thee a shrine of yew. all green is the garland i wear, but i feed it with blood for dew! after the orange bars that ribbed the green west dying are dead, o lor

erly, tender. 209 o moon! ambrosial moon! arise on my desert of sorrow that the magical eyes of me swoon with lust of rain to-morrow! ages and ages ago i stood on the bank of a river holy and holy and holy, i know, for ever and ever and ever! a priest in the mystical shrine, i muttered a redeless rune, till the waters were redder than wine in the blush of the harlot moon. i and my brother priests worshipped a wonderful woman with a body lithe as a beast's subtly, horribly human. deep in the pit of her eyes i saw the image of death, and i drew the water of sighs from the well of her lullaby breath. she sitteth veiled for ever brooding over the waste. she hath stirred or spoken never. she is fiercely, manly chaste! what madness made me awake from the silence of utmost eld the grey cold slime

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ng to judge any isolated story by the general laws of probability, so, bowing gracefully, he rose and set out 267 to find frater i.a, whom he eventually ran down at the house of a holy yogi in the cinnamon gardens, colombo, to hear his account. frater i.a.'s account was less of a strain upon p.'s faculties of belief. they had had, he said, an argument about the god shiva, the destroyer, whom i.a. worshipped because, if one repeated his name often enough, shiva would one day open his eye and destroy the universe, and whom d.d.c.f. feared and hated because he would one day open his eye and destroy d.d.c.f. i.a. closed the argument by assuming the position padmasana and repeating the mantra "shiva, shiva, shiva, shiva, shiva, shiva" d.d.c.f, angrier than ever, sought the sideboard, but soon r

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ne another to lick her hands. on another occasion, extraordinary miracle, one glance from her eyes had stopped the tongue of a drunken pope who was swearing at a peasant in the foulest language. she was, of course, a favourite with all in the village: the simpler and nearer nature their souls, the more they gave the child her proper place. but it must not be inferred that little ljubov was either worshipped or freed from such menial works as children of her age are called upon to perform. nor did her playmates realize her superiority. the alleged miracles and the reported cases of healing were heard of some ten years after her death, when eye- witnesses had all departed from this world. yet, of course, they were possible, quite possible, quite. iii "all of you, suckling babes, have read th

ect of self-mutilated followers, o master, what of them "what of them" elph nor repeated "well, they were those who listened to ljubov, and took her word for it- that one sees a better world if one has no human eyes. they put it into practice and their ranks were soon filled. they blinded themselves; they blinded their children almost in their cradles. oh yes, there were soon hundreds of them who worshipped the lord our god in that manner; and ljubov and piotr were their ministers. is that all you want to know "master, what of the lady "the lady? faugh! she went away; the spirits of the earth prevented her from lodging a complaint; she hid her 308 wounded ears under a thick ornament of pearls and gold. it was not bad with her! besides, what is she to you, anyhow, billy-goat "and now, all o

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stic beast. so followeth he the forest ways, remembering his knightly oath, and through the hot and dripping days ploughs through the tangled undergrowth. sir palamede the saracen came on a forest pool at length, remote from any mart of men, where there disported in his strength the lone and lordly elephant. sir palamede his forehead beat "o amorous! o militant! o lord of this arboreal seat" thus worshipped he, and stalking stole into the presence: he emerged. the scent awakes the uneasy soul of that majestic one: upsurged 29 the monster from the oozy bed, and bounded through the crashing glades- but now a staring savage head lurks at him through the forest shades. this was a naked indian, who led within the city gate the fooled and disappointed man, already broken by his fate. here were t

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r aries, let us invoke the master of the battle. bro. aries["advances and kneels to" mars. mighty and terrible one, we beseech thee to lead us in the battle. here, by thy symbols, thy spear, the sword, and the drum, we pray thee to strengthen our arms and to defend our hearts. for we are thy chosen warriors, o thou master of the battle["silence" we now invoke thee, o ama-inanna, whom our brethren worshipped in the days of ancient babylon, great goddess of love and war, who made love and war to gilgames, the ruler of thine own city erech. we invoke thee, our mother, that thou entreat for us with the master of battles. sor. scorpio. to what end do we ask the aid of the lord mars? bro. aries. unto jupiter we have given the thunderbolt and the lightning- flash; for we seek to enthrone him in t

libation! pan. 333-333-333. let us banish the holy emanations from the one, lest our lady's sleep be stirred["he banishes the sephiroth by the appointed ritual" 114 bear the cup of libation! cancer. 333-333-333. brother taurus, the shrine is well guarded. taurus. the shrine is perfectly guarded. satyr. bear the cup of libation! cancer. 333-333-333. pan. hear me, lord of the stars! for thee i have worshipped ever with stains and sorrows and scars, with joyful, joyful endeavour. hear me, o lily-white goat! o crisp as a thicket of thorns, with a collar of gold for thy throat, a scarlet bow for thy horns! here, in the dusty air, i build thee a shrine of yew. all green is the garland i wear, but i feed it with blood for dew! after the orange bars that ribbed the green west dying are dead, o lor

ly, tender. o moon! ambrosial moon! arise on my desert of sorrow, that the magical eyes of me swoon with lust of rain to-morrow! ages and ages ago i stood on the bank of a river, holy and holy and holy, i know, for ever and ever and ever! 115 a priest in the mystical shrine, i muttered a redeless rune, till the waters were redder than wine in the blush of the harlot moon. i and my brother priests worshipped a wonderful woman with a body lithe as a beast's subtly, horribly human. deep in the pit of her eyes i saw the image of death, and i drew the water of sighs from the well of her lullaby breath. she sitteth veiled for ever, brooding over the waste. she hath stirred or spoken never. she is fiercely, manly chaste! what madness make me awake from the silence of utmost eld the grey cold slim

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ly my bones "it may be only a veil" he muttered, not wishing her to hear. but she heard "it is a veil" she said "but is there anything behind veils "look "only the sand "tear it down "there might be nothing behind "there is nothing behind. it is through that that you must pass "this veil is god. i am a holy nun in the trance called rampurana. i am canonised. my name is on every banner. my face is worshipped by every nation. i am a pure virgin; all the others are soiled. thought is worse than deed. all my thoughts are holy. i think. i think. i think. by the power of my thought i created the word; and by the word came the worlds. i am the creator. i will write my law upon tablets of jade and onyx" rolles bowed his head in silence "i am thought itself" she went on quietly "and all thought is

ALEX SANDERS THE KING OF THE WITCHES

smen to discover the healing power of herbs, or to recognize clouds as the forerunners ofrain, were elected magi, or wise men. from this it was but a short step to divining the future and to the formulation of spells to increase fertility or destroy enemies. as long ago as the stone age the wise man of the tribe was dressed in an animal skin; he was called 'devil, which meant 'little god, and was worshipped by his followers as the chief god's representative. the earliest record of this custom is a palaeolithic painting found in a cave in the ariege district of southern france. it depicts a man clad in a stag's skin, with antlers on his head-the horned god, a symbol of benevolent power in primitive times. another, a man disguised as a jackal, carved on slate, dates back to archaic egypt. in

, alex would then call his friends back to the ballroom where, with the lights now dimmed, he would set up an altar to worship the devil. letting the others suggest the eremony, he would drape a tapestry over the long table on which the food had been laid, and set it with bowls of flowers. then the devil dance would start, increasing in aband n until a girl climbed on the altar and lay down to be worshipped by the others. invariably her partner would join her and, urged on by the erotic gathering, they would consummate their passion to applause. alexjoined in the applause as much as the others, and tried to still the shame he felt in his misuse of witchcraft. when the guests had gone to bed he would bring out his athame, de cribe, a witch's circle and chant the invocations that might bnng

. but there is.a black market in some covens which accept foreign initiates who, fora consideration of 50 or more, get taught a travesty of the cult that is of no use .to them whatever. q: when they are initiated properly, which god do they worship when they return to their own country? a: thereis only one god, but they are told to call him by the name of their regional folk-hero who was probably worshipped by their ancestors. q: as well as the black market you ha.ve justmentioned,are there any other abuses of witchcraft practised in covens? a: too many. one coven initiates its members with the use of an artificial phallus. this is nothing new to witchcraft; it. was used centuries. ago during fertility rites when .witches swore they had relations with the devil-as they called.the coven eld

goddess !9. so she will gracefully retire in favour of a younger woman should the coven so decide in council. 20. for a true high priestess realizes thar .gracefully surrendering pride of place is one of the greatest virtues. 21. and that thereby she will return to that pride of place in another life. with greater power and beauty. 22. in the old days, when witchdom extended far. we were free and worshipped in all the greater temples. 23. but in these unhappy times we must celebrate our sacred mysteries in secret. 24. so be it ordained, that none but the wicca may see our mysteries, for our enemies are many and torture loosens the tongue of man. 25. so be it ordained that no coven shall know where th.e next coven bide. 26. or who its members be. save only the priest. and priestess and mess

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18. 19. so she will gracefully retire in favour of a younger woman should the coven so decide in council. for a true high priestess realizes that gracefully surrendering pride of place is one of the greatest virtues. 20. and that thereby she will return to that pride of place in another life, with greater power and beauty. 21. security in the old days, when witchdom extended far, we were free and worshipped in all the greater temples. 22. 23. but in these unhappy times we must celebrate our sacred mysteries in secret. so be it ordained that none but the wicca may see our mysteries, for our enemies are many and torture loosens the tongue of man. 24. 25. so be it ordained that no coven shall know where the next coven bide. 26. or who its members be, save only the priest and priestess and mes

et, 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 circle. as we have of old been taught that the point within the centre is the origin of all things, therefore should we adore it [kiss] therefore whom we adore we also invoke, by the power of the lifted lance.[touch phallu

ALICE A BAILEY10 FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

es of this unfolding plan in the steady growth of several ideas that are now dominant in the world. without going into detail or entering into lengthy expositions of the subject, the growth of the plan and of the racial response can be traced quite clearly in the development of the god idea. first, god was a far-away, anthropomorphic deity, unknown and unloved, but regarded with awe and fear, and worshipped as the deity expressing himself through the forces of nature. as time elapsed, this distant god drew a little nearer to his people, taking on a more human colouring until, in the jewish dispensation, we find him much like ourselves, but still the wrathful, ethical ruler, and still obeyed and feared. he approached still nearer as time went on; and before the advent of christianity men re

, we find him much like ourselves, but still the wrathful, ethical ruler, and still obeyed and feared. he approached still nearer as time went on; and before the advent of christianity men recognised him as the beloved krishna of the hindu faith, and as the buddha. then the christ came to the west. god himself was seen incarnate among men. the distant had become the near, and the one who had been worshipped in awe and wonder could now be known and loved. today god is coming closer still, and the new age will not only recognise the truth of the past revelations and testify to their validity and their progressive revelation of divinity, but to all this will be added the ultimate revelation of the presence of god in the human heart, of christ born in man, and of each human being manifesting

bly symbolised for us. in the rocky structure of the cave, the mineral kingdom appears. the fodder and the hay, naturally there, symbolise the vegetable kingdom. the ox and the ass represent the animal nature, but they represent also far more than that. the ox stood for that form of worship which should have been passing off the earth at the time christ came. there were still many to be found who worshipped the bull, which was the worship prevalent in the age when our sun was passing through the age of taurus, the bull, and which was preserved at that time in the mysteries of mithras and of egypt. the sign immediately preceding the christian era was that of aries, the ram or lamb, and this is symbolised for us in the sheepfolds which surrounded bethlehem- 45- from bethlehem to calvary copy

e of an actual and heroic man (or woman) who supplied a necessary impetus for the new departure, and gave his name to the resulting movement? or is it sufficient to suppose the automatic formation of such nodes or starting-points without the intervention of any special hero or genius, and to imagine that in each case the myth-making tendency of mankind created a legendary and inspiring figure and worshipped the same for a long period afterwards as a god "as i have said before, this is a question which, interesting as it is, is not really very important. the main thing being that the prophetic and creative spirit of mankind has from time to time evolved those figures as idealisations of its `heart's desire' and placed a halo round their heads. the long procession of them becomes a real piec

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he zodiac. yet, in the new testament, that recognition is clearly revealed and colours the presentation of the entire gospel story. it is found also in the old testament. what was the sin of the children of israel in the desert but a reversion to the old mithraic worship which distinguished the time when the sun was "in the sign of taurus, the bull" as it is technically called. they fell down and worshipped the golden calf and forgot the new teaching of the age of aries, the ram, into which they were entering, the teaching of the scapegoat which colours jewish history. the fact that christ was the teacher of the new period into which the sun was entering, the period of pisces, is forgotten, but is clearly evidenced in the fish symbology which runs consistently through all four gospels; the

sly presented to the world as the living scapegoat, bearing away the sins of the people, and thus originating the doctrine of the vicarious at-one-ment. it was st. paul who was responsible for this emphasis. a paralleling instance of a similar distortion was also of jewish origin and appeared in the early stages of the cycle of aries, the ram. we are told that the children of israel fell down and worshipped the golden calf, the symbol of taurus, the bull; this was the preceding astronomical cycle. these are astronomical cycles and not a presented astrology. in the early stages of aries, the teaching reverted to that of taurus and in the early stages of pisces, it reverted to that of aries and thus set the seal of retrogression upon the teaching which now controls so many orthodox christian

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

nitiate, the whole of his six principles merging into the seventh (s.d. iii. 142) the planet saturn references in the secret doctrine and a treatise on cosmic fire 1 "saturn, the father of the gods, has been transformed from eternal duration into the limited period (s.d. i. 451) 2 "jehovah was identified with saturn and vulcan (s.d. i. 632) 3 "in time the planet saturn became reviled by those who worshipped other gods (s.d. i. 631) 4 "saturn was connected with lemuria (s.d. ii. 812) 5 "venus, jupiter and saturn might be considered from the standpoint of the present time as the vehicles of the three super or major principles. mercury, the earth and mars are closely allied to these three but a hidden mystery lies here (c.f. 299) 6 "venus, the earth and saturn form at the present time a trian

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

party and for six months of the year (when i was not in scotland and under the influence of my aunt) to the other. i was torn between the beauties of ritual and the narrowness of dogma. missionary work was dinned into my consciousness by both groups. the world was divided into those who were christians and worked hard to save souls and those who were heathen and bowed down to images of stone and worshipped them. the buddha was a stone image; and it never dawned on me then that the images of the buddha were on a par with the statues and images of the christ in the christian churches with which i was so familiar on the continent of europe. i was in a complete fog. and then at the height of my unhappiness and in the very middle of my dilemma and questioning one of the masters of the wisdom c

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

ise went forth, though not to hercules, but unto those who dwelt upon the shores of the great sea. they listened and they heard. upon those shores dwelt the great queen, who reigned o'er all the women of the then known world. they were her vassals and her warriors bold. within her realm, of men not one was found. only the women, gathered round their queen. within the temple of the moon they daily worshipped and there they sacrificed to mars, the god of war [113] back from their annual visit to the haunts of men they came. within the temple precincts they awaited word from hippolyte, their queen, who stood upon the steps of the high altar, wearing the girdle given her by venus, queen of love. this girdle was a symbol, a symbol of unity achieved through struggle, conflict, strife, a symbol o

tibetan; they are superlatively beautiful and their mantric power seems destroyed by paraphrasing them. it is to be noted also that the labor was not described to hercules as in other cases. the word went out only to the country where the queen of the amazons ruled her woman's world, all men excluded. it was left for hercules to understand the nature of the labor, and he did not. also the amazons worshipped the moon (the form, and mars, the god of war; they too did not understand their true function, for mary is pictured with the moon under her feet, and in her arms the one to be known as the prince of peace. the two ways as always there is a choice for good or evil before the native of a sign, depending on his status of evolution and the degree of sensitivity. virgo is called the goddess

rist, astronomers tell us, the sun passed into the sign aries, the ram or lamb, and the jewish dispensation came into being. at that time, therefore, we have the inauguration of the jewish passover and the lamb sacrifice. it is interesting to note in this connection the true significance of the sin of the children of israel in the wilderness. we read that they made a golden calf and fell down and worshipped it, thus reverting in this act to ancient forms and sacrifices. their sin consisted in a reactionary attitude and in not grasping the significance of the new age which was upon them. again the astronomers tell us that, when christ was born in palestine, the date from which our christian dispensation starts, the sun passed in to the sign pisces, the fishes. we have, therefore, the emphas

APOCALYPSE MOSES

reat the lord that he have compassion on me and pity me, for i only have sinned" 3 and they left off driving him and adam cried aloud and wept saying "pardon me o lord, my deed" then the lord saith to the angels "why have ye ceased from driving adam from paradise? why do ye not cast him out? is it i who have done wrong? or is my judgment badly judged" 5 then the angels fell down on the ground and worshipped the lord saying "thou art just, o lord, and thou judges righteous judgment" chapter 28. 1 but the lord turned to adam and said 'i will not suffer thee henceforward to be in paradise" 2 and adam answered and said,grant me, o lord, of the tree of life that i may eat of it, before i be cast out" 3 then the lord spake to adam "thou shalt not take of it now, for i have commanded the cherubim

ir face 3 -and angels going before the chariot- and when they came to the place where your father adam was, the chariot halted and the seraphim. 4 and i beheld golden censers, between your father and the chariot, and all the angels with censers and frankincense came in haste to the incense-offering and blew upon it and the smoke of the incense veiled the firmaments. 5 and the angels fell down and worshipped god, crying aloud and saying, ja'el, holy one, have pardon, for he is thy image, and the work of thy holy hands' chapter 34. 1 and i eve beheld two great and fearful wonders standing in the presence of god and i wept for fear, and i cried aloud to my son seth and said, 2 'rise up, seth, from the body of thy father adam and come to me, and thou shalt see a spectacle which no man's eye ha

ARADIA GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES

work entirely by hisgood-will as slaves. but in the old italian lore the sorcerer or witch is all or nothing, and aims at limit-less will or power.of the ancient belief in the virtues of a perforated stone i need not speak. but it is to be remarkedthat in the invocation the witch goes forth in the earliest morning to seekfor verbena or verbain. theancient persian magi, or rather their daughters, worshipped the sun as it rose by waving freshlyplucked verbena, 32 which was one of the seven most powerful plants in magic. these persianpriestesses were naked while they thus worshipped, nudity being a symbol of truth and sincerity.the extinguishing the lights, nakedness, and the orgie, were regarded as symbolical of the bodybeing laid in the ground, the grain being planted, or of entering into

isdeeds!it is interesting to compare this unquestionably ancient classic invocation to lavernawith the onewhich is before given. the goddess was extensively known to the lower orders, and in plautus acook who has been robbed of his implements calls on her to revenge him.i call special attention to the fact that in this, as in a great number of italian witch-incantations, thedeity or spirit who is worshipped, be it dianaherself or laverna, is threatenedwith torment by ahigher power until he or she grants the favour demanded. this is quite classic, i.e, graeco-romanor oriental, in all of which sources the magician relies not on favour, aid, or power granted by eithergod or satan, but simply on what he has been able to wrench and wring, as it were, out of infinitenature or the primal source b

rayed to dianato set her free; when lo! she found the prison door unfas-tened, and easily escaped. then having obtained a pilgrims dress, she travelled far and wide,teaching and preaching the religion of old times, the religion of diana, the queen of the fairies andof the moon, the goddess of the poor and the oppressed.and the fame of her wisdom and beauty went forth over all the land, and people worshipped her,calling her la bella pellegrina. at last her mother, hearing of her, was in a greater rage than ever,and, in fine, after much trouble, succeeded in having her again arrested and cast into prison. andthen in evil temper indeed she asked her whether she would become a nun: to which she repliedthat it was not possible, because she had left the catholic church and become a worshipper of

ady who had saved her, coming to her secretly, said, if thou hast any desire, follow thegospel of diana, or what is called the gospel of the witches (il vangelo delle strege, who worshipthe moon.se la luna adoreraitutto tu otteraiif thou adorest luna, thenwhat thou desirst thou shalt obtain!then the beautiful girl went forth alone by night to the fields, and kneeling on a stone in an old ruin,she worshipped the moon and invoked dianathus: diana, bella diana!tu che della grande cadutami ai bene salvata!ti prego di farmi una altra grazia,di farmi far un bello sposalizio,una sposalizio ricco e compagnatoda molte signore..se questa grazia mi faraisempre il vangelo delle stregeio asseriro. page 41 n r r r r r it is a realisationof forbidden or secret love, with attraction to the dimly seen beau

BLACK WITCHCRAFT

rd is meaning night, but also the name of the demon of the storm. lilith is associated with the screech owl and other beasts of the wild, as it is where she went after she left heaven to wander the earth. she is considered one of the three assyrian demons being ardat lilit, lilit and lilu, but rather these may be just variations of her name. it is suggested by some hebrew scholars that lilith was worshipped by exiled jews from babylon as a goddess of the wilderness. 6 lilith as described in post-biblical literature is viewed as the queen of demons, she went to the caves near the red sea and copulated with fallen angels to beget other demons, she also taught (according to manichaean lore az) the fallen angels how to form bodies and have sexual relations to give life to other dragon children

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

human shoots were all of one complexion. the next seven began mixing. 40. then the fourth became tall with pride. we are the kings, it was said; we are the gods. 41. they took wives fair to look upon. wives from the mindless, the narrow-headed. they bred monsters. wicked demons, male and female, also khado (dakini, with little minds. 42. they built temples for the human body. male and female they worshipped. then the third eye acted no longer- xi. 43. they built huge cities. of rare earths and metals they built, and out of the fires vomited, out of the white stone of[[vol. 2, page] 21 the slokas of "dzyan" the mountains and of the black stone, they cut their own images in their size and likeness, and worshipped them. 44. they built great images nine yatis high, the size of their bodies. in

, but it is not so used in the original stanzas, where they have distinct appellations of their own, besides being called "fathers" and "progenitors* it is erroneous to take literally the worship of the human bodhisattvas, or manjusri. it is true that, exoterically, the mahayana school teaches adoration of these without distinction, and that huien-tsang speaks of some disciples of buddha as being worshipped. but esoterically it is not the disciple or the learned manjusri personally that received honours, but the divine bodhisattvas and dhyani buddhas that animated (amilakha, as the mongolians say) the human forms* the author of this work is augustus le plongeon. he and his wife are well known in the united states for their untiring labours in central america. it is they who discovered the

orn as sons of marichi (a son of brahma, and are the pitris of the gods (manu again, matsya and padma puranas and kulluka in the laws of the manavas, iii, 195* moreover, the vayu purana declares all the seven orders to have originally been the first gods, the vairajas, whom brahma "with the eye of yoga, beheld in the eternal spheres, and who are the gods of gods; and the matsya adds that the gods worshipped them; while the harivansa (s. 1, 935) distinguishes the virajas as one class of the pitris only- a statement corroborated in the secret teachings, which, however, identify the virajas with the elder agnishwattas* and the rajasas, or abhutarajasas, who are incorporeal without even an astral phantom. vishnu is said, in most of the mss, to have incarnated in and through them "in the raivat

an show, that it is the biblical pseudo-personages which are all borrowed from pagan myths, if myths they must be. it shows, at any rate, that berosus was well aware of the source of genesis, and that it bore the same cosmic astronomical character as the allegories of isis-osiris, and the ark, and other older "arkite" symbols. for, berosus says that "titea magna" was afterwards called aretia* and worshipped with the earth; and this[[footnote(s* aretia is the female form of artes (egyptian mars. thence the chaldean (and now hebrew) word[[hebrew (aretz "earth" the author of "beitrage zur kenntniss (art. under "artes" mars) quotes "addit cedrenus (salem i, 3: stella martis ab[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 144 the secret doctrine. identifies "titea" noah's consort, with rhea

thor of "beitrage zur kenntniss (art. under "artes" mars) quotes "addit cedrenus (salem i, 3: stella martis ab[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 2, page] 144 the secret doctrine. identifies "titea" noah's consort, with rhea, the mother of the titans, and with ida- both being goddesses who preside over the earth, and the mothers of the manus and manes (or tit-an-kabiri. and "titea-aretia" was worshipped as horchia, says the same berosus, and this is a title of vesta, goddess of the earth "sicanus deificavit aretiam, et nominavit eam lingua janigena horchiam (ibid. lib. v. fol. 64) scarce an ancient poet of historic or prehistoric days who failed to mention the sinking of the two continents- often called isles- in one form or another. hence the destruction, besides atlantis, of the phle

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s justified in giving out his own conclusions for historical facts. no doubt, the eminent orientalist has proved thoroughly to the world's satisfaction, that according to grimm's law of phonetic rules, odin and buddha are two different personages, quite distinct from each other, and he has shown it scientifically. when, however, he takes the opportunity of saying in the same breath that odin "was worshipped as the supreme deity during a period long anterior to the age of the veda and of homer (compar. theol, p. 318, he has not the slightest "historical basis" for it. he makes history and fact subservient to his[[footnote(s* so little acquainted are our greatest egyptologists with the funerary rites of the egyptians and the outward marks of the difference of sexes made on the mummies, that

cause of that supposed desire, and of all existence, remains for ever hidden, and its first emanations are the most complete abstractions mind can conceive. these abstractions must of necessity be postulated as the cause of the material universe which presents itself to the senses and intellect; and they underlie the secondary and subordinate powers of nature, which, anthropomorphized, have been worshipped as god and gods by the common herd of every age. it is impossible to conceive anything without a cause; the attempt to do so makes the mind a blank[[footnote(s* in clearer words "one has to acquire true self-consciousness in order to understand samvriti, or the 'origin of delusion" paramartha is the synonym of the sanskrit term svasam-vedana, or "the reflection which analyses itself" th

f the cause. adam kadmon or tetragrammaton is the logos in the kabala; therefore this triad answers in the latter to the highest triangle of kether, chochmah and binah, the last a female potency and at the same time the male jehovah, as partaking of the nature of chochmah, or the male wisdom* the secret doctrine teaches that the sun is a central star and not a planet. yet the ancients knew of and worshipped seven great gods, excluding the sun and earth. which was that "mystery god" they set apart? of course not uranus, discovered only by herschel in 1781. but could it not be known by another name? says the[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 1, page] 100 the secret doctrine. so to say, the adityas are, in their primitive most ancient meanings, the eight, and the twelve great gods of the

which earth is the lowest (see isis, vol. ii. p. 186) this connects the "stellar" and "lunar" spirits with the higher planetary angels and the saptarishis (the seven rishis of the stars) of the hindus- as subordinate angels (messengers) to these "rishis" the emanations, on the descending scale, of the former. such, in the opinion of the philosophical gnostics, were the god and the archangels now worshipped by the christians! the "fallen angels" and the legend of the "war in heaven" is thus purely pagan in its origin and comes from india via persia and chaldea. the only reference to it in the christian canon is found in revelations xii, as quoted a few pages back. thus "satan" once he ceases to be viewed in the superstitious, dogmatic, unphilosophical spirit of the churches, grows into the

" is little better than veiled materialism- the terminology alone being different. even so great a thinker as mr. herbert spencer speaks of the "unknowable" occasionally in terms that demonstrate the lethal influence of materialistic thought, which, like the deadly sirocco, has withered and blighted all current ontological speculation* from the early ages of the fourth race, when spirit alone was worshipped and the mystery was made manifest, down to the last palmy days of grecian art at the dawn of christianity- the hellenes alone had dared to raise publicly an altar to the unknown god. whatever st. paul may have had in his profound mind when declaring to the athenians that this "unknown" ignorantly worshipped by them, was the true god announced by himself- that deity was not "jehovah (see

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and the boat of shining steel. then i loved her; and, loosing my girdle, cast myself into the stream. 8. i gathered myself into the little boat, and for many days and nights did i love her, burning beautiful incense before her. 9. yea! i gave her of the flower of my youth. the equinox 72 10. but she stirred not; only by my kisses i defiled her so that she turned to blackness before me. 11. yet i worshipped her, and gave her of the flower of my youth. 12. also it came to pass, that thereby she sickened and corrupted before me. almost i cast myself into the stream. 13. then at the end appointed her body was whiter than the milk of the stars, and her lips red and warm as the sunset, and her life of a white heat like the heat of the midmost sun. 14. then rose she up from the abyss of ages of

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s of a new. this was certainly the case here. the god of the old religion was a horned god. so, apparently, was the christian's devil. obviously then, reasoned the church, the pagans were devil worshippers! this type of reasoning is used by the church even today. missionaries were particularly prone to label all primitive tribes upon whom they stumbled as devil-worshippers, just because the tribe worshipped a god or gods other than the christian one. it would not matter that the people were good, happy, often morally and ethically better living than the vast majority of christians. they had to be converted! the charge of devil-worship, so often leveled at witches, is ridiculous. the devil is a purely christian invention; there being no mention of him, as such, before the new testament. in

he time knowing that there was the indefinable, the incomprehensible, beyond him. jesus and mary were the intermediaries. so in witchcraft; those we know as the god and the goddess are our intermediaries. different traditions use different names, as already mentioned. these are the names used for the "understandable forms" of the supreme power; the ultimate deity. they are the deities honored and worshipped in the witchcraft rites. the god and goddess of witchcraft a general complaint about christianity by witches is that there is the worship of the male deity to the exclusion of the female. in fact this is one of the main reasons for people (women especially) leaving christianity and returning to the old religion. and yet it's a strange paradox that many if not the majority of witchcraft

ot mean that there is any claim to its liturgy being of direct descent from saxon origins. but, for example, names were needed for the deities. the main male and female deities of the saxons were woden and frig. unfortunately 'frig'has certain connotations today which would be misplaced! 1 therefore adopted the norse variant, freya. so woden and freya are the 'labels' used for the god and goddess worshipped by the seax-wica (earth religion news, yule 1973) the seax-wica does not claim to be a reconstruction of the original saxon craft such a task would be impossible. it is merely a workable tradition built on a saxon framework, and the deity names were chosen specifically and for the reasons given. any comment regarding their being "incorrect" is, then totally erroneous. knew they, they wo

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es of admonition and instruction. conjuring tales no doubt made a great impact on impressionable children. the reconstruction legislator william councill wrote that as a child he had been sent to live on a small plantation where he met "aunt phillis" a "noted conjure woman" who took him into her care "she exercised complete control over me.soul and body" he stated "i believed in her. i feared and worshipped her" in such biracial\ 19\ contexts, the vivid depictions of spirits, invisible powers, and other, malevolent forces from black folklore may have functioned as a means of control over youngsters. the former slave abram sells, for example, recalled how his grandfather, an elderly man, was assigned to care for the black and white children on a texas plantation "us sure have to mind him" h

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"kingship was lowered from heaven" 3200 bc writing in sumerian tablets 3100 bce pyramid texts [egy. 2953-2838 chinese emperor fu hsi, produced first w.v. of i ching 2700 bce the great pyramid of khufu is built in accordance with astronomical factors. 2494-2345 pyramid texts [egy. 2340 bc first imperial dynasty of egypt 2300 bc astarte, one of the ancient forms of the universal great goddess, was worshipped by the iranians in her form as anahita. her image was found in sumeria around 2300 bc. in the tibetan pantheon she is a manifestation of the sky goddess kaladugmo (mkhah.la.gdug.mo) or ma namkha (ma.nams.mkha) or 'mother sky. 2000 bc indo-aryans left proto-aryan homelands (eastern iranian steppes of ancient sogdiana, chorasmia, and bactria (yarshater: 1987..pg 685. indo-aryans crossed t

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y were in alliance with mysterious esoteric lodges in tibet and one of the so called unknown supermen, who was referred to as the king of fear. rudolph hess,11 hitler's deputy fuhrer until he made his ill-fated flight to england in 1941, was a dedicated occultist and a member, with hermann goering, of the edelweiss society, a black sect which believed in the nordic master race (melchedekans. hess worshipped hitler as the messiah, although how he could do this when the fiihrer was hardly blue eyed and blond haired, is not clear. hitler had the same problem in equating the two, but he would have found some ridiculous explanation for it, i'm sure. another hitler obsession was the so called spear of destiny, the weapon alleged to have been use to pierce the side of y'shua (jesus) at the crucif

shall set you free order of the rosicrucians and followed their mail order course on "how to control your mind waves. he learnt how to put himself into a trance by staring into his own eyes in a mirror. during these trances, he began to write incoherent threats of violence and assassination. he didn't remember doing this, but afterwards he recognised the handwriting as his own. sirhan apparently worshipped bobby kennedy, but, it is said, he felt betrayed when kennedy supported the deployment of 50 war planes to israel. sirhan had hated jews since he was bombed and shelled by the israelis as an arab boy in palestine in 1948, the story goes. after this perceived betrayal in the two weeks before he shot kennedy, sirhan's trance experiences became more and more extreme. he thought he saw kenn

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riday "black friday- and his blood was spilled to redeem the earth; he suffered death with nails and stakes; he was the father and son combined in an earthly body; he was put in a tomb, went down into the underworld, but three days later, on march 25th, his body was found to be gone from the tomb and he was resurrected as the "most high god; his body was symbolised as bread and eaten by those who worshipped him' jesus, yes? no, no. all of this was said about the saviour son of god called attis who was worshipped by the phrygians, one of the oldest races in asia minor, now turkey, well over a thousand years before the manufacture of "jesus. it is just one of countless symbolic deities of whom the same story was told millennia before christianity. others are accepted to have been myths and n

war with atlanteans before the deluge. plato wrote of this war and official historians have dismissed it because they say that greece did not exist that long ago. they are mistaken. the "classic greece" they ruled by the gods 41 focus upon was a later expression of that culture, not the first. the original greece existed before the cataclysms that sank atlantis. the atlantean colonists of greece worshipped a serpent goddess called athene or neith.48 the greek historians, jane harrison and robert graves, say that this deity was symbolised as a serpent, snake, sphinx, or goddess covered in snakes.49 there are some people- myself among them- who believe that the face on the sphinx on the giza plateau is a woman and not a man as officially claimed. wherever the reptilian bloodlines have locat

ateau is a woman and not a man as officially claimed. wherever the reptilian bloodlines have located, the worship of a serpent goddess has always been the centre of their rituals under names like athene, barati, isis, semiramis, el, artemis, diana, and hecate. other atlantean/lemurian colonists were known as the pelasgians("peoples of the sea, the danaans, and the female amazons.50 the pelasgians worshipped the serpent moon goddess dana, later diana (artemis, and the atlantean goat god called pan. they first landed on the peloponnese in greece and settled in arcadia, according to ancient greek records. arcadia has always been a sacred place to the illuminati bloodlines and was apparently a name for atlantis. the danaans left atlantis to settle in asia minor (now turkey, greece, and the isl

city of paris in the sixth century, which they named after prince paris, the son of king priam of troy. prince paris was one of the figures in the trojan war story, which the merovingians knew their bloodline had been involved in. the merovingians were committed to the worship of diana, one of the great goddess figures of the ancient world who was also known as artemis. this was the same goddess worshipped in atlantis. the city of troy, in asia minor, now turkey, is in the same region as ephesus, a place i have visited, which was the blood brothers 81 centre of artemis (diana) worship. the merovingians founded paris on major vortex points on the earth's energy grid and built underground chambers outside the original settlement to harness that energy in their rituals and sacrifices to the

f central america claimed genetic descent from the serpent gods, quetzalcoati and itzamna. in the mycenaean age in greece the kings were, in the words of author jane harrison "regarded as being in some sense a snake".13 cecrops, the first mycenaean king of athens, was depicted as a human with a serpent tail. another, erectheus, who founded the eleusinian mystery school, was the unholy alliance 95 worshipped as a live snake after his death and, according to legend, king kadmus shape-shifted into a live snake when he died.14 the symbolism of the serpent lineage of the ancient royal bloodlines can be found on every continent. iran is another example. the arab poet firdowsi, in his shahnemeh or book of kings, the legendary history of iran completed in ad1010, tells the story of the birth of za

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earth races, the white race has been their main vehiclefor taking over the planet and the royal draco at the top of their hierarchy are albinowhite. significantly, when you look at ancient accounts, many of their hybrid creationshad blond hair and blue eyes. a major change would seem to have taken place soonafter the v enus upheavals because the ubaid culture (5,000-5,000 bc, in what is nowiraq, worshipped gods who were depicted as lizard-humanoids while the sumerians(4,000-5,000 bc, who lived in the same area, depict their gods as very human. thischange, and the crossbreeding programme in the caucasus region, are fundamentallyconnected, im sure. the anunnaki-human crossbreed elite was described by thesumerians and there are many other accounts of the interbreeding of extraterrestrialsand

sh royal family and manyother presidents, prime ministers and members of royalty. fantastic? of course it is, butsince when did the truth not sound fantastic in a world of such denial and illusion?three of the principle elements of the babylonian religion were fire, serpents and thesun. i should explain their focus on the sun because it is a vital part of the story. most55of the global population worshipped the sun for its obvious gifts of heat and light and theeffect this had on their crops and well-being. however, within the hierarchy of the babylonbrotherhood and other elite groups which had the advanced knowledge, they focused onthe sun for other reasons too. they understood the true nature of the sun as amultidimensional consciousness which extends across the solar system on unseenfre

hintroduced the ancient sanskrit language to india and the stories and myths contained inthe hindu holy books, the v edas. l. a. waddell, in his outstanding research into thisaryan race, established that the father of the first historical aryan king of india (recordedin the maha-barata epic and indian buddhist history) was the last historical king of thehittites in asia minor.24 the indian aryans worshipped the sun as the father-god indra,and the hittite-phoenicians called their father-god bel by the name, indara.25 undermany names this same aryan people also settled in sumer, babylon, egypt and asiaminor, now turkey, and other near eastern countries, taking with them the same stories,myths, and religion. this is why, as we shall see in detail later, all the major religions tellthe same ta

the newton stone in thedumfries and galloway region, to be phoenician-hittite and dedicated to their sun god,bel or bil. the classic british symbol of britannia comes from the phoenician goddess,barati. look at how the phoenicians depicted barati and how the british depictbritannia in figure 12! one of the major centres of the aryan-hittite-phoenicians wascilicia in asia minor and here barati was worshipped as perathea and later diana. sodiana and britannia originatefrom the same source. baratiwas the queen/goddess figure ofthe phoenicians as barat was thegod/king. these are possiblynames for the babylonian deitiesnimrod and semiramis. theroyal elite clan of the aryanswere (are) called the barats andthis is why you find the termbarat or brihat in the ancientindian culture as you do withbri

se sun cycles, and the changing natureof the energy it projects, allows you to anticipate how human beings are most likely to79react to various events at different times. as with the texts that form the basis of thevarious religions, there are two levels of knowledge in sun worship. in the ancientworld, the hierarchy focused on the sun because they knew its effect at a deep level,while the masses worshipped the sun because its heat and light had an obvious andcrucial role in ensuring an abundant harvest. in the same way, an initiate of the esotericknowledge will read the bible differently to a christian or jewish believer. the initiatewill recognise the symbolism, the numerology and the esoteric codes, while the believertakes the text literally so the same text acts as a means of passing o

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and luciferans to facilitate conversion, pagan holy days became christian holy days. pagan temples were destroyed and became the sites of christian churches. the less demonic looking gods were converted into angels in god s armies as pagans were converted en masse to the new religion. the mass conversion of pagans to christianity was not entirely successful, however. in many countries, the people worshipped christ alongside the old gods. by the twelfth century there were a number of gnostic heresies which threatened the power of the church in rome. one gnostic sect was known as the luciferans. the luciferans believed that lucifer was the true god and yahweh was the devil. another gnostic sect, better known, was the knights templar. the knights templar fought in the crusades against the mus

greatest magicians and sorcerers of history (as well the prophets of all the major religions) were men. while women are most similar in nature to the dark goddess and may have a more natural affinity for magic (and certainly have practiced witchcraft through the ages, it is men chosen as lovers to the dark goddess who have been the most powerful magicians of legend. the greatest of these men were worshipped after their deaths as gods. the prophets of every major religion were magicians, practitioners of the black arts, and lovers of the dark goddess. from all that i have written in this and the preceding sections, you may realize that the rituals of the demonic bible contain several fallacies. i have said that the devil is female, not male. how then can a man become the devil incarnate if

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he force of the evil invisible power in him he develops and perfects himself in sin- denkard this presents a foundation of the self which is indeed different from the path of the good mind, or the mind of stasis. ganamino is essentially motion; movement through will, the will of god was misunderstood by right hand path religions as merely being good, loving, light and kind. rather the god they so worshipped in nature outside of themselves- is that which indeed causes destruction and rebirth, thus a balanced aspect of both dark and light. the religion of priests, who guided by their evil intellect devoid of wisdom, act among men as the servents of god, is only in appearance the wise religion of god. this through the evil intellect depopulates the world, ruins, and destroys mankind. and such

may create and manifest what you desire, and be careful as so you shall obtain that which you seek. the shadow is also the empowering essence of your mind, it is the darkest recesses and atavistic desires which may be explored and mastered. azazel (azazil) is known within muslim lore to have been the same as the angel of death, who was most feared in tribal cultures. various lore describes azazil worshipped god in the seventh hell for over one thousand years, ascending until he reached the earth. azazil arose through the seven hells and upon reaching earth he then sat at the gates of heaven, tormenting adam and eve. the bundahishn relates an original tale of azazel or ahriman- the evil spirit, on account of backward knowledge, was not aware of the existence of ohrmazd; and, afterwards, he

ve truth, thus aiding ones own initiation. according to saint augustine, saint clement, eusebius, lactantius, the abbe simonnet, and others, the entire lineage of cain were tainted. whilst god declared his will to seth by the mediation of angels, cain was gone from the sight of the lord and sought aid from the infernal one. the offspring of cain were deceived by the workings of satan so that they worshipped him. thus was diabolism born, and cain was equated as the first witch and satanist. nathaniel j. harris, witcha, a book of cunning here we are able to discern the mythology which holds cain as the first of witch blood, the fire and water embodiment of samael and lilith, that which has born cain as our 33 called algol, the sigil of the order of phosphorus, the authors current magical gui

ignificant challenge than any other daemon. rahab itself is a fallen spirit of timeless existence, as it wraps or folds in upon itself, thus a serpent which has mastered time, thus possesses a higher capacity beyond common human perception. a luciferian or satanic magician would use leviathan as the circle, and within the circle of self (the magician) does he or she transform themselves. and they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast -revelation 13:4 the definition of violence is something marked by extreme force, or a sudden and intense activity. thus as rahab better known as leviathan, is a force of change and movement. this draws a connection to the egyptian set, the god of darkness, chaos and storms. as the self develops and seeks to perceive new areas of its psyche-ecc

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ter expression or posture and mindset of a god or entity. the magician takes on the characteristics and powers of a god/entity by invoking (q.v) the god/entity through ritual. this was known in the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v, as assuming a god-form. gods: powerful, immortal, spiritual beings who command the lesser spirits and living creatures of the earth and the universe and are worshipped by humanity with prayers, offerings, sacrifices, and the erection of temples and images. g.d; golden dawn, the (hermetic order of: see hermetic order of the golden dawn, the. govi: a clay pot in voudoun (q.v) into which the soul of the dead relative that has been called back from under the waters of the sea is made to reside and respond to questions. great voice: silently. one vibratory

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r holy of holies as a friend, and who goes to learn instead of merely to observe and ridicule, and in another way to the "beef-fed zealot" who walks into the holy place in his dirty boots and gets stoned by the indignant worshippers. 8. in judging these things let us consider the form christianity would present if approached in the same way. unsympathetic observers would probably conclude that we worshipped a sheep, and the holy ghost would yield some spectacular interpretations. let us credit other people with using metaphors if we do not expect to be taken literally our-selves. the outer form of the ancient pagan faiths is no cruder than christianity in backward latin countries, where jesus christ is represented in topper and tails and the virgin mary in lace-edged pantaloons. the inner

consequently, any god who has an analogy with saturn will be referred to binah, as will any goddess who might be termed the primordial mother, the superior eve ,as distinguished from the inferior eve, the bride of microprosopos, malkuth. the supernal triangle of kether, chokmah) and binah always refers to the old gods, which every pantheon recognises as the predecessors of those forms of godhead worshipped by the current faith. thus rhea and kronos would be referred to binah and chokmah, and jupiter to chesed. all the corn goddesses refer to malkuth, and all the lunar goddesses to yesod. the war gods and destructive gods, or divine devils, refer to geburah, and the goddesses of love to netzach. the initiator gods of wisdom are referred to hod, and the sacrificed gods and redeemers to tiph

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

ner in which deity is referred to, we know to what sphere on the tree the particular mode of manifestation should be assigned. all references to the son always refer to tiphareth; all references to the father refer to kether; all references to the holy ghost refer to yesod; and very deep mysteries are concealed here, for the holy ghost is the aspect of the mystical qabala page 132 godhead that is worshipped in the occult lodges; the worship of pantheistic nature-forces and elemental operations take place under the presidency of god the father; and the regenerative ethical aspect of religion, which is the exoteric aspect for this epoch, is under the presidency of god the son in fiphareth. 21. the initiate, however, transcends his epoch, and aims at uniting all three modes of adoration in hi

hey seek to discern the spiritual nature and inner most essence of any form of life, are met by these images, the creations of the created" and will be deceived therehy, mistaking them for the abstract essence itself, which is not to be found upon any plane that yields images to psychic vision, but only upon those that are discerned by pure intuition. 9. when his mentality was still primitive man worshipped these images, by means of which he represented to himself the great natural forces so all-important to his material well heing, thus establishing a link with them, by means of which a channel was developed whereby the forces they represented were poured into his soul, thus stimulating the corresponding factor in his own nature and thereby developing it. the operations of this worship, e

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out some more particular reference to the nature of the darksome spirits who populated the submarine localities of which i have spoken. as i have said, these were the fomorians. the word implies 'dwellers under the sea, and they are perhaps best described as the gods of an ancient discredited pantheon, who were in opposition to the deities of light, as represented by the tuatha d danann, who were worshipped by a later race. they are alluded to as monstrous and misshapen forms, deformed and frequently equipped with but one leg or arm apiece, and with the heads of bulls, horses or goats. the chief of this band of demon-like creatures was that balor, the one-eyed, of whom more than one mention has already been made. they appear to have waged continual war against the tuatha d danann, by whom

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ee w. robertson smith, the religion of the semites, p. 395; and for other beliefs about the hair see tylor, primitive culture, vo1. ii, p. 364, and fraser, golden bough, pp. 193-208. 3 the story continues that isis then wrapped the pillar in fine linen and anointed it with oil, and restored it to the queen. plutarch adds that the piece of wood is, to this day, preserved in the temple of isis, and worshipped by the people of byblos. prof. robertson smith suggests (religion of the semites, p. 175) that the rite of draping and anointing a sacred stump supplies the answer to the unsolved question of the nature of the ritual practices connected with the ashera. that some sort of drapery belonged to the ashera is clear from 2 kings xxiii, 7. see also tylor, primitive culture, vol. ii, p. 150; an

n, and mental attributes. the funeral offerings of meat, cakes, ale, wine, unguents, etc, were intended for the ka; the scent of the burnt incense was grateful to it. the ka dwelt in the man's statue just as the ka of a god inhabited the statue of the god. in this respect the ka seems to be identical with the sekhem or image. in the remotest times the tombs had special chambers wherein the ka was worshipped and received offerings. the priesthood numbered among its body an order of men who bore the name of "priests of the ka and who performed services in honour of the ka in the "ka chapel. in the text of unas the deceased is said to be "happy with his ka"[2] in the next world, and his ka is joined unto his body in "the great dwelling [3] his body [1. the first scholar who seriously examined

niverse, and that neteru, usually rendered "gods" should be translated by some other word, but what that word should be it is almost impossible to say.[2] the belief in one god. from the attributes of god set forth in egyptian texts of all periods, dr. brugsch, de roug, and other eminent egyptologists have come to the opinion that the dwellers in the nile valley, from the earliest times, knew and worshipped one god, nameless, incomprehensible, and eternal. in 1860 de roug wrote-"the [1. the hieratic text of this story was published by pleyte and rossi, le papyrus de turin, 1869-1876, pll. 31-77, and 131-138; a french translation of it was published by m. lef bure, who first recognized the true character of the composition, in aeg. zeitschrift, 1883, p. 27 ff; and a german translation by wi

n his head disk and plumes.[1] nut the female principle of nu; she is depicted with the head of a snake surmounted by a disk, or with the head of a cat.[2] ptah was associated with the god khnemu in carrying out at the creation the mandates of thoth the divine intelligence; his name means the "opener" and he was identified by the greeks with greek h!'faistos, and by the latins with vulcan. he was worshipped at a very early date in memphis, which is called in egyptian texts "the house of the ka of ptah, and according to herodotus his temple there was founded by mena or menes.[3] he is called the "exceedingly great god, the beginning of being "the father of fathers and power of powers" and "he created his form [1. lanzone, dizionario, tav. 166, no. 2. for fuller descriptions of the gods and

chabas, un hymne osiris (in revue arch ologique, t. xiv, p. 65 ff; horrack, les lamentations d'isis et de nephthys, paris, 1866; the festival songs of isis and nephthys (in arch ologia, vol. lii, london, 1891, etc. 3 see lanzone, op. cit, tav. 306 ff] p. cxv isis, and his brother set. the visible emblem of the sun-god was at a very early date the hawk is, which was probably the first living thing worshipped by the early egyptians; already in the pyramid texts the hawk on a standard is used indiscriminately with# to represent the word "god" the principal forms of horus the sun-god, which probably represent the sun at various periods of the day and night, are--heru-ur( greek a?rwh`rei "horus the great; heru-merti "horus of the two eyes" i.e, of the sun and moon;[1] heru-nub "the golden horus

EMPERORS NEW RELIGION CHURCH OF SATAN

cult or otherwise revolves around the life of its founder, the church of satan s appeal to irrelevance is correct. the church of satan even turns the argument around, claiming that it is those who mention that anton lavey fabricated his past that have personality cult mentality in the words of michael rose (magister: another common avenue of attack is to charge that members of the church of satan worshipped dr. lavey. these dolts cannot distinguish worship from respect. they imagine that by criticizing dr. lavey they can diminish, or cause us to reject, the church of satan. they do not attack the philosophy; they attack the philosopher. this makes it quite clear that it is they who are the personality cultists [55] while it is true that an attack on the founder does not necessarily imply a

him from dying broke in a cold and run-down house. he must have been bitterly aware of this fact unless his sense of reality was severely distorted. in the satanic bible anton lavey states that man: is worshipping by proxy the man that invented god [original emphasis [6, p. 44. if lavey knew that he was a failure, one may speculate whether his motive behind the church of satan was a desire to be worshipped by proxy for a god that he invented. as explained in section 2, a new religion, in that respect he succeeded. the emperor s new religion copyright 2002 ole wolf page 22 of 30 the leader s false past and less than glorious demise is criticized with no ulterior motives, with motives of devotion to facts, etc. the leader is criticized because it will affect those church of satan followers

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id that at the same hour as the vampire disappeared for the second time, he was transported to sicily, where he became a school master. aristaeus is again heard of 340 years later in the town of metapontus, where he caused certain monuments to be raised that were to be seen in the time of herodotus. so many wonderful happenings inspired the sicilians with awe, that they raised a temple to him and worshipped him as a demigod. sources: herodotus. the histories of herodotus of halicarnassus. london: oxford university press, 1962. weyer, johannes. witches, devils, and doctors in the renaissance: johann weyer, de praestigiis. edited by george mora. binghamton, n.y: medieval and renaissance texts and studies, 1991. arithmancy divination by means of numbers (sometimes wrongly called arithmomancy

un-fish full of stars, the base of his feet are claws, the sole of his foot has no heel; his name is sassu-wunnu, a sea monster, a form of ea. ea was the great magician of the gods; his sway over the forces of nature was secured by the performance of magical rites, and his services were obtained by humankind, who performed requisite ceremonies and repeated appropriate spells. although he might be worshipped and propitiated in his temple at eridu, he could also be conjured in reed huts. the latter indeed appear to have been the oldest holy places. in the deluge myth, he makes a revelation in a dream to his human favorite, pirnapishtim, the babylonian noah, of the approaching disaster planned by the gods, by addressing the reed hut in which he slept: o, reed hut, hear; o, wall, understand. t

of the latter an image of divine revelation. this pantheos should be seated on a cube, and its footstool should be a single ball, or a ball and a triangular stool. in narratives of sorcery and magic (1851, thomas wright states: another charge in the accusation of the templars seems to have been to a great degree proved by the depositions of witnesses] the idol or head which they are said to have worshipped, but the real character or meaning of which we are totally unable to explain. many templars confessed to having seen this idol, but as they described it differently, we must suppose that it was not in all cases represented under the same form. some said it was a frightful head, with long beard and sparkling eyes; others said it was a man s skull; some described it as having three faces;

ect in large numbers and make use of incense, pictures, candles, and lamps to establish what are called incense tables. taoist priests are engaged to attend the ceremonies, and they also make use of mediums. the taoist writes a hand, stands like a graven image, thus signifying his willingness to have the demon come and take possession of him. afterward, the charm is burned and the demon spirit is worshipped and invoked, the priest, in the meanwhile going on with his chanting. after a while the medium spirit has descended, and asks what is wanted of him. then, whoever has requests to make, takes incense sticks, makes prostrations, and asks a response respecting some disease, or for protection from some calamity. in winter the same performances are carried on to a great extent by gambling co

at first sharer with zeus of the heavenly powers, but later an ominous shape of gloom, ruler and lover of the night and darkness, of the world of phantoms and ghouls. like the furies she wielded the whip and cord; she was followed by hell hounds, by writhing serpents, lamiae, strygae and empusae, and figures of terror and loathing. she presided over the dark mysteries of birth and death; she was worshipped at night in the flare of torches. she was the three-headed hecate of the crossroads where little round cakes or a lizard mask set about with candles were offered to her in propitiation, that none of the phantom mob might cross the threshold of man. love-magic and death-magic, the usual forms of sorcery, became common in greece as elsewhere. love philters and charms were eagerly sought

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ed him, who were initiated into his mysteries, passed under his divine protection, especially after death, when he would rescue their souls from the powers of darkness. in addition, when the earth failed in her life-sustaining powers, mithra would slay a divine bull and give to all abundant life and happiness. among mithra s worshipers were slaves and soldiers, high officials and dignitaries, who worshipped in temples, mithraeums as they were called, built underground or in caves and grottoes in the depths of dark forests, symbolizing the birthplace of their god. the rites in which they participated were of magical significance and an oath of silence was taken by all. in order to bring their lives into closer communion with the divinity of mithra, the neophytes had to pass through seven de

o mr. campbell, the medium or bhagat who becomes possessed is called jhad, or tree, apparently because he is a favourite dwelling-place for spirits. in the dakkhin it is believed that the spirit of the pregnant woman of churel lives in a tree, and the abors and padams of east bengal believe that spirits in trees kidnap children. many of these tree spirits appear in the folk-tales. thus, devadatta worshipped a tree which one day suddenly split in two and a nymph appeared who invited him to go inside the tree. in there was a heavenly palace of jewels and vidyatprabha, the maiden daughter of the king of the yakshas [supernatural beings; in another story the mendicant heard inside a tree the yaksha joking with his wife. sources: crooke, william. religion and folklore of northern india. humphre

classes. michelet took the position of the malleus maleficarum that women were innately drawn to witchcraft and made a positive good of it. medieval witchcraft, he declared in his 1862 book la sorciere, had been an egalitarian rural religion led by female priestesses.a view which was to resonate with later maverick writers on witchcraft such as charles leland and margaret murray. had the witches worshipped satan, as their accusers claimed? indeed they had, michelet wrote, for satan was merely the god of fertility and the patron deity of those persons condemned by kings and bishops and their henchmen. although he did little actual research for la sorciere, michelet succeed in introducing ideas that would be taken up by later generations of non-academic writers and by unconventional academi

) at the beginning of august, a harvest festival; samhain (hallowe en) a festival honoring the ancestors; brigid or oimelc, at the beginning of february, a feast of creativity and new beginnings; and beltane, at the beginning of may, celebrating the new growing season. new moons and full moons were times of magic-working as opposed to the celebration and attunement of the seasonal festivals. they worshipped in the nude, a practice indeed claimed of medieval witches. gardner and his first associations were naturists, people who advocated sunbathing for better health, and he and his first associates purchased land next to a naturist club north of london. while many neopagan witches today wear either ritual robes or other clothing, those who continue to meet nude or skyclad claim that the pra

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

rities: both jesus and elvis are called the king. jesus was the rock; elvis (at least according to go d f re y) i n vented rock. jesus was the son, and el v i s began his re c o rding career on the sun label. the name numbers for jesus and elvis both equal nine, she says. in fact, their namenumbers match exactly, letter for letter and number for number: jesus= 15363, elvis= 53613. their followers worshipped and a d o red them. both could heal and re a d minds, and both had powe rful enemies who sought to stop them. go d f rey claims that like jesus, elvis was jew i s h. she also notes that the bible frequently refers to the voice of god on many occasions. is there any voice more spectacular than elvis presley s? she asks. the psalms even predict that presley one day would disappear: i am s

ous, led him to believe that he had uncovered evidence of a lost civilization known as mu. he assumed mu to be atlantis. after his death, however, his friend james churchward, who had inherited le plungeon s papers, argued that mu, the motherland of man, had been in the south pacific, not in the atlantic. mu housed a white population of some sixty-four million souls who had built great cities and worshipped the sun. mu sank beneath the sea ten thousand years ago. churchward claimed to have learned about mu from tablets written in the dead naacal language. he had been given access to them, he said, while serving in india in the bengal lancers. churchward wrote about his findings in four books, beginning with the lost continent of mu (1926. his failure to produce any evidence that the naacal

s communication was with xeno. xeno and his companions were lightskinned and resembled human beings except for unusually sharp chins and noses. xeno explained that the ship and its crew came from a planet behind a planet visible from earth. their own planet, however, was always hidden from earthly view. they lived in a communal society without war, disease, or crime. they also had a religion that worshipped the supreme deity. during the tour padrick was shown a consultation room used for worship and invited to go inside. after he prayed there, padrick experienced a kind of religious awakening. during their interaction, he noticed that whenever he would ask xeno a question, xeno would hesitate for as long as half a minute before answering. patrick speculated that he was getting telepathic i

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

mall face waves 8- f e of ideas can arise from and return to nowhere like a dream, and in which all name and form emanate, manifest, and dissolve. in the qabalah, the lord hvhy is the immense i-ness that knows itself as pure being in the unmanifest supernal realm, and pervades everything from elohim down to the lowest creature in the lower worlds of manifestation. this supreme, unifying i-ness is worshipped in christianity as christos, in islam as allah, and in the tantras as the divine mother kali. it is worshipped in hinduism as ishvara, in tibetan buddhism as vajradhara or avalokiteshvara, in taoism as the divine mother kwan yin, and in the polynesian kahuna tradition as the goddess pele.9 an individual with this level of awareness directly perceives the innate identity of themselves an

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

he prophecy that the egyptian religion will come to an end, and the lament for its passing, which he interprets as a prophecy of the ending of idolatry by the coming of christianity. here too, therefore, hermes trismegistus is a prophet of the coming of christianity, but all credit for this is taken away by augustine's statement that he had this foreknowledge of the future from the demons whom he worshipped. hermes presages these things as the devil's confederate, suppressing the evidence of the christian name, and yet foretelling with a sorrowful intimation, that from it should proceed the wreck of all their idolatrous superstitions: for hermes was one of those who (as the apostle says "knowing god, glorified him not as god, nor were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and th

rather than ill, and have good rather than bad luck, and be delivered from tortures and punishments? to this origen replies: by these remarks celsus is trying to drag our souls down to the daemons, as though they had obtained charge over our bodies. he has such a low opinion of paying an undivided and indivisible honour to the god of the universe that he does not believe that the only god who is worshipped and splendidly honoured is sufficient to grant the man who honours him, in consequence of the actual worship he offers to him, a power which prevents the attacks of daemons against the righteous person. for he has never seen how, when the formula "in the name of jesus" is pronounced by true believers, it has healed not a few people from diseases and demonic possession and other distress

aring a saffron cloak, likewise a raven and the figure of the sun" this is the solar talisman in the de vita coelitus comparanda which we thought might be derived from picatrix.2 then, anointed with unguents made from solar materials he is to sing an orphic hymn to the sun, invoking him as the divine henad, as the mind, and as the soul. this is the neoplatonic triad under which the emperor julian worshipped the sun. as walker says the triad is not actually mentioned in the de vita coelitus comparanda. but it is alluded to by plotinus in that passage in the enneads on which ficino's work is a commentary, as the example of the hierarchy of the ideas.3 diacceto's solar rites thus bring out something which is implicit in the de vita coelitus comparanda and they probably reflect ficino's own pr

vita coelitus comparanda and they probably reflect ficino's own practices. if so, ficino's magic was a religious magic, a revival of the religion of the world. 1 francesco da diacceto, opera omnia, ed. bale, 1563, pp. 45-6; cf. walker, pp. 32-3. on diacceto, see kristeller, studies, pp. 287 ff. 2 see above, p. 71. in this passage, the talismanic image of the sun is almost reverting to a "statue, worshipped with rites as in the asclepius. 3 "the sun of that sphere. is an intellectual-principle, and immediately upon it follows the soul depending from i t. the soul borders also upon the sun of this sphere, and becomes the medium by which it is linked to the over-world; plotinus, ennead, iv, 3, xi; mckenna's translation, p. 270. 82 1(a) the zodiacal sign aries with its three decans. i (b) the

by the apostles. in the following rooms come the seven liberal arts, with astrology the most prominent, seven saints, and seven scenes from the life of the virgin. it is, so far, a perfectly orthodox programme. but very strange are the egyptian scenes in the room of the saints. the emblem of the borgia family was the bull, and the borgia bull becomes identified in this series with apis, the bull worshipped by the egyptians as the image of osiris, the sun god it is by a series of allusive shifts in meaning as the frescoes tell their story that the egyptian apis bull, or the sun, becomes identified with the borgia bull, or the pope as the sun. the egyptian series begins with the story of io, turned into a cow by 1 but it could also refer to ficino's criticisms of "bad" astrology in his comm

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m the flame that burns in every heart of man and in the core of every star. i am life, and the giver of life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death (daath) 7: i am the magician and the exorcist. i am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle "come unto me" is a foolish word: for it is i that go. 42: a feast for everyday in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! 8: who worshipped heru-par-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for i am the worshipper. 13: for why? because thou wast the knower, and me. 4: yet ye shall be known and i never 38: a feast for the 3 days of the writing of the book of the law. 19: is a god to live in a day? no! but the highest are of us. they shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us *76*:4638abk24algmor3yx2489rpstoval. what meanet

FRATER TENEBROUS CULTS OF CTHULHU

gram symbolize the four elements, plus that of spirit, the fifth or hidden element. combined, they balance the mono-elemental nature of the old ones, suggesting that the elder gods may exist on a higher plane the eye suggests the opening if the ajana chakra, or third eye, symbolizing the facility of astral vision. in one sense, the beings described above are designated gods in as much as they are worshipped by great numbers of other beings, both human and non-human. amongst these are the elder races, who inhabited the earth in prehistoric times, and from whose presence man s very existence derives. the first of these races to visit the earth was the old ones, who came down from the stars to build their black stone city on the continent of antarctica. they are described as having starfish-s

FREEMASONRY AND CATHOLICISM BY MAX HEINDEL

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

FREEMASONS SATANISM AND SYMBOLISM

nd occult symbols illustrated is a book in which dr. burns says "in a book on witchcraft, the complete book of witchcraft and demonology. the caption states that he is 'the horned god of the witches, symbol of sex incarnate [p. 51] and if you look at his right hand you will see baphomet making the sign of the devil's triad "baphomet is also known as the sabbatic goat, in whose form satan is to be worshipped at the witches' sabbath [frank gaynor, dictionary of mysticism, new york, philosophical library, 1953, p. 24] then, we discovered that baphomet is officially approved as a symbol of the church of satan [the occult emporium, winter, 1993-1994, p. 54] and that it is worn by the priest of satan [ibid, 1990-1991, p. 26] since albert pike linked baphomet with the goat of mendes, we will show

[also explained in did you know? vignettes in masonry from the royal arch mason magazine, missouri lodge of research, 1965, p. 132, wes cook, editor] if this has not become evident to you, the occultist, the paganist, worship sex. they also worship most everything in nature, which fulfills the biblical definition of a paganist in romans 1:25 "because they exchanged the truth of god for a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the creator" speaking of the sexual connotation of the hexagram, another witch revealed "when the male triangle penetrates the female triangle, it produces the six pointed crest of solomon or hexagram, the most wicked symbol in witchcraft [david j. meyer, dancing with demons: the music's real master] the hexagram is the sign used in the royal arch in

s, practiced astrology, and offered human sacrifices [dr. c. burns, masonic and occult symbols illustrated, p. 28] wonderful. this statement means that freemasonry practices both white magic and black magick witchcraft. the illuminati practices black magick witchcraft, and so will antichrist! albert pike then reveals that other mysteries' religions throughout the globe and at different times also worshipped the serpent, in various ways. for example [quotes below taken from morals and dogma, p. 496-500] 1 "the phoenicians represented the god nomu (kneph or amun-kneph) by a serpent" 2 "in egypt, a sun supported by two asps was the emblem of horhat the good genius; the serpent with the winged globe was placed over the doors and windows of the temples as a tutelary god [the word "tutelary" mea

d unto heaven, and god hath remembered her iniquities" this warning is from jesus christ himself, so you must take it very seriously, if you value your eternal soul. freemasonry proven to worship satan, its symbols venerate the sex act- study of symbols part 5 of 5 the book of romans gives us a perfect definition of the word "pagan" a pagan is someone "who changed the truth of god into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the creator, who is blessed for ever. amen [romans 1:25] pagans have worshipped animals, insects, birds, rivers, forests, trees, and many other things, but they all have one type of worship in common: they worship the sex act between man and woman. the worship both the man's penis and the woman's vulva. in reading their explanations for these symbols, y

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

e of knowledge which was the result of observation and experience, juster or more correct ideas came to prevail, and subsequently the great fructifying energy throughout the universe came to be regarded as a dual indivisible force--female and male. this force, or agency, constituted one god, which, as woman's functions in those ages were accounted of more importance than those of man, was oftener worshipped under the form of a female figure. neith, minerva, athene, and cybele, the most important deities of their respective countries, were adored as perceptive wisdom, or light, while ceres and others represented fertility. with the incoming of male dominion and supremacy, however, we observe the desire to annul the importance of the female and to enthrone one all-powerful male god whose chi

he year, notably during seed-time and harvest, to commemorate the benefits derived from the grain field and vineyard. doubtless the first deified object was gaia, the earth. as within the bosom of the earth was supposed to reside the fructifying, life-giving power, and as from it were received all the bounties of life, it was female. it was the universal mother, and to her as to no other divinity worshipped by mankind, was offered a spontaneity of devotion and a willing acknowledgment of dependence. thus far in the history of mankind no temples dedicated to an undefined and undefinable god had been raised. the children of mother earth met in the open air, without the precincts of any man-made shrine, and under the aerial canopy of heaven, acknowledged the bounties of the great deity and th

of the creative functions in human beings and in animals. the earth, including the power inherent in it by which the continuity of existence is maintained, and by which new forms are continuously called into life, embodied the idea of god; and, as this inner force was regarded as inherent in matter, or as a manifestation of it, in process of time earth and the heavens, body and spirit, came to be worshipped under the form of a mother and her child, this figure being the highest expression of a creator which the human mind was able to conceive. not only did this emblem represent fertility, or the fecundating energies of nature, but with the power to create were combined or correlated all the mental qualities and attributes of the two sexes. in fact the whole universe was contained in the mo

adam a life to last. till like ripe fruit thou drop into thy mother's lap"[4 [4] primitive culture, vol. i, p. 295. in the old religion the sky was the husband of the earth and the earth was mother of all the gods.[5] in the traditions of past ages the fact is clearly perceived that there was a time when the mother was not only the one recognized parent on earth, but that the female principle was worshipped as the more important creative force throughout nature [5] max muller, origin and growth of religion, p. 279. doubtless the worship of the female energy prevailed under the matriarchal system, and was practised at a time when women were the recognized heads of families and when they were regarded as the more important factors in human society. the fact has been shown in a previous work

ntrol of men, the latter, as they manipulated all the necessaries of life and the means of supplying them, began to regard themselves as superior beings, and later, to claim that as a factor in reproduction, or creation, the male was the more important. with this change the ideas of a deity also began to undergo a modification. the dual principle necessary to creation, and which had hitherto been worshipped as an indivisible unity, began gradually to separate into its individual elements, the male representing spirit, the moving or forming force in the generative processes, the female being matter--the instrument through which spirit works. spirit which is eternal had produced matter which is destructible. the fact will be observed that this doctrine prevails to a greater or less extent in

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nce of higher beings as guardians of their cities and sacred places, and they recognized spiritual and incorporeal person255 alities as presiding over seas, mountains and forest, and rulers of the elemental forces of the fire, earth, air, and water.therewere special groups of such spiritual elementals, and rulers of definite personality were believed in and addressed by names, and they were often worshipped and propitiated by ceremonies, offerings, libations and incense.theearliest work of an important christian character dealing with angels is thehierarchiacalestis attributed to dionysiustheareopagite dated in the 6th century,butit is of course a very fanciful book. his classification was much followed by later writers; he specifies nine classes, archangels, princes, powers, virtues, domi

thou bring forth mazzaroth in his season' this question is put by the lord god to job, speakingtohim from a whirlwind. in the revised version, this quotation becomes 'canst thou lead forth themazzarothin their season' in the margin we find 'themazzaroth'may be read 'the signs of the zodiac' this wordmazzarothis also found in ii kings xxiii, 5, where josiah224themagical masonexterminated those who worshipped and burnt incense to baal 'to the sun, the moon and to the planets and to all the host of heaven.'therevised version gives 'the twelve signs' as an alternative to 'the planets'.theauthors of the old septuagint bible did not know what the hebrew word mazzaroth meant, for they simply wrote the word in greekletters-mazouroth.the vulgate bible readsluciferumin the first quotation andduodeci

muzd formed the first human pair; these were tempted by ahriman (or arimanes) and fell, and so their descendants were ever after exposed to the malice of ahriman, the evil being, as the great tempter. this scheme of thought obviously led to the idea that a saving grace must be put into action, and the sun god mithra, who was at first by the zoroastrians considered only as one of the izeds, became worshipped as a god and as the saviour of mankind from the effects of its fall from grace. it has been suggested that the later mithraism was mazda worship, greatly influenced by chaldean astrological notions. the name mitra is the ancient sanskrit indian word for the sun, and it is said by c. w. king to be also the zend (iranian) word meaning the sun; the wordmitramalso meant 'friend. many studen

verse 18 'and 'he took the [abn] stone; they added, so the stonesallrolled together into one stone for the saint to rest his head upon (chullin, 91, 2.)note:the english bible gives 'one of the stones' inv.ii- instead of the hebrew words 'took of the stones. in leviticus, xxiv, we read that certain criminals were to bestonedto death, beyond the camp, notably any man who had cursed god.thechaldeans worshipped a mysterious stone called mniz255 ouris (see my edition of theoraclesofzoroaster)and offered sacrifices to it. the phoenicians worshipped sacred stone pillars which were called baetylia.thethebans of greece worshipped bacchus as a stone pillar, and tacitus in hishistory,book2,3,tells us that at paphos the goddess venus was represented by a conical stone.thegreeks used also to place pill

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ds and the 7 demons;andthesegods answer precisely to the 7 archangels .ofthe gnostics, hermetists, and, later on, of the christian scheme. they existed before the timeofchrist, and wereif not actually worshippedlooked upon as mediators. but at the incarna" tion of christ, thosewhobelieved that here was the prophesied fulfilment of the pleroma banished the 7 great gods from their position of being worshipped; the 7 being now included in one, as returning to the primitive unity. there is again another aspect of that. these 7 belong to the four planes: the archetypalplaneof atziluth;thephysic plane, or plane of briah; the planeofformation,yetzirah; and267267 the material plane .assiah-.this may be illustrated as follows: a sculptor desiring to make a great statue first conceives of it in his

, that this point is continually moving backward round the zodiac. whatever we take asourgiven sign which the sun occupies at the vernal equinox, atthatpoint of time 2,000 years later the sun will occupy the previous sign.thusabout 4,000 years before christ thesunat the vernal equinox was in the signoftaurus, and then we find the bull-god everywhere; and the bull was the sign which was everywhere worshipped,the bull-headed god of assyria, of egypt; and in the egyptian hieroglyphics there are many examples of the bull-headed god; and i think invariably you will find that these hieroglyphics either belong to the time of the hyksos or earlier, or else if they are of later date that they are obviously copies of earlier inscriptions. an egyptologist can tell without any possible reasonable doub

ns at the time of rameses, or especially in the later weak, degenerated ramesides, copied the hieroglyphics of their great predeces255 sors. well, the bull symbol in the course of time,andabout the period when moses was born, gives way to the symbol before it, aries. moving backward through the signs, the sun atthevernal equinox occupies the sign of aries, and then the lamb or the ram comes to be worshipped allover the world. and whenisay 'worship ,idonotmean literally, but that the lamb or ram symbol is taken as the glyph of the supreme god;and,the ram is also the symbol of thesun.and so, when the sun is rising at the vernal equinox in the sign of the ram, we have thelordon his own throne, so to speak, and that is one reason for what otherwise might be a very curious fact, that from that

ol-wehave endless glyphs. and there we pick up again the reminiscence of the last period of the kali yuga- the previous pisces' month,if!may use the expression- when the worshipofdagon first beganin phoenicia, or somewhere about there. probably it may not have been in phoenicia; it may have been in atlantis. the atlanteans were growing old at that time, but they were in existence still. dagon was worshipped in palestine and phoenicia when thesunwasstill in the signoftaurus. therefore it must have been,ifthe theory be true,arelicofthe formertime-the last time when the sun at the vernal equinox was in thatsign-and as a relic, corrupt and degraded.'now we are comingjustnow into thesignof"aquarius 'there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water. said christ; and now the meeting had come

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st ancient civilizations of the world. it was also one of the most oppressive. the magnificent monuments that still remain from ancient egypt the pyramids, sphinxes and obelisks were constructed by hundreds of thousands of slaves, worked to the point of death, under the whip and threat of starvation. the pharaohs, the absolute rulers of egypt, wanted themselves to be represented as gods and to be worshipped by the people. one of our sources of knowledge about ancient egypt is their own inscriptions. these were discovered in the nineteenth century and, after intense labor, the egyptian alphabet was deciphered, bringing to light much information about the country. but, because these inscriptions were written by official state historians, they are filled with biased accounts designed to prais

a god just as these people have gods" he said "you are indeed an ignorant people. what these people are doing is destined for destruction. what they are doing is purposeless (qur'an, 7: 138-139) despite moses' warnings, the israelites continued in such perversion, and when moses left them, to ascend alone to mt. sinai, it manifested it- fh the inside story on the kabbalah the statue that the jews worshipped when they departed from their true religion was, according to many researchers, was an egyptian idol made of gold in the form of a calf. self fully. taking advantage of moses' absence, a man by the name of samiri came forth. he fanned the sparks of the israelites' inclination towards idolatry, and persuaded them to fabricate the statue of a calf and worship it. moses returned to his peo

nced by the pagan peoples among whom them lived, and began to imitate them, replacing the religion chosen for them by god with the idolatry of foreign nations. when we investigate this matter in light of historical records, we see that the pagan cult that influenced the israelites was that of ancient egypt. an important evidence in support of this conclusion is that the golden calf the israelites worshipped, while moses was on mt. sinai, was actually a replica of the egyptian idols hathor and aphis. in his book, too long in the sun, the christian author richard rives writes: hathor and aphis, the cow and bull gods of egypt, were representatives of sun worship. their worship was just one stage in the long egyptian history of solar veneration. the golden calf at mount sinai is more than suff

rresponds to tendencies of paganism, in which every tribe worships its own god. in some books of the old testament (for example, joshua) commandments are given to commit horrible violence against non-jewish peoples. mass murder is commanded, with no regard for women, children or the elderly. this merciless savagery is totally against god's justice, and recalls the barbarism of pagan cultures, who worshipped a mythical god of war. these pagan ideas that were introduced into the torah must have an origin. there must have been jews who adopted, honored and cherished a tradition foreign to the torah, and changed the latter by adding into it ideas derived from the tradition they espoused. the origin of this tradition stretches back to the priests of ancient egypt (the magicians of pharaoh's reg

the moon was female.78 this means that the compass and square, the most well known symbol of masonry, is a symbol of arian paganism and which dates back to ancient egypt or before the advent of christianity. the moon and the sun, in the passage quoted from pike, are important symbols in masonic lodges, and are none other than a reflection of the false beliefs of those ancient pagan societies that worshipped the moon and the sun. dcd materialism revisited masonry's pagan philosophy so far, we have learned that masonry's origins lie in a pagan doctrine that stretches back to ancient egypt, and that it is there that the true meaning of its concepts and symbols are hidden. for this reason, masonry is in conflict with the monotheistic religions. it is humanist, materialist and evolutionist. the

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at period had become fundamentalist and literalist, they had lost the esoteric core of their tradition. in becoming so extreme they had created a destructive thought form which they were feeding. in gnostic literature these archons can so increase in power that they become dominions, forces which control whole groups of people even races and countries. so while the jewish people thought they were worshipped the iam, they were actually feeding a false god, an archon they had created from their own ignorance. this happens all too often and why the esoteric tradition is so imperative. without the guidance of gnosticism and esotericism, many will be caught within the web of exoteric (outer) religion. fundamentalism, cults, literalism, extremism are all products of incorrect readings of the spi

herself. it is important to realize that energies the zodiac like those of the planets are ambivalent, they receive and relay forces of both positive and negative nattier. in a more medieval context, they are said to possess both spirits and intelligences. the gnostic tradition has always been unsure of astrology and see the heavenly forces as energies which must be reckoned with, not gods to be worshipped. the present change of cycle is that movement from pisces to aquarius, while there is some variation in the dating it is generally accepted that aquarius will dawn around 2024 with some margin of error (astrologers fluctuate the dating of the age of aquarius from between the year 2000 to around 2100. at the change of each sign there is much transformation, for example, the change from a

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oo is a meaningful perception of the equinox of the gods, the energies of pisces are returning in the form of aquarius, jesus has re-appeared in the heraldic cycle in the sense that the christ or solar logos is undergoing transformation. these are intriguing religious interpretations of a very occult event. occult perceptions of the change aliester crowley is not an easy man to write about. he is worshipped by some and reviled by others, he is seen as either a master magician or an evil genius, a con man or a god. for the gnostic he is none of these things, he is just a man- nothing more, nothing less. the soul that inhabited the body of edward alexander crowley when he came to earth on the 12th october 1875 had spent many centuries preparing. by throwing off the restraints of convention

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rnal triad, in the understanding which transcends reason, in the wisdom which comes before understanding and in the crown which is the light of the supernals. we know that the shekinah, the cohabiting glory, dwelt in the inner sanctuary, but the first creation was made void. the holy place was made waste and the sons of the house of wisdom were taken away into the captivity of the senses. we have worshipped since then in a house made with hands, receiving a sacramental ministration by a derived light in a place of the cohabiting glory. and yet, amidst signs and symbols the tokens of the higher presence have never been wanting in our hearts. by the waters of babylon we have sat down and wept, but we have ever remembered zion, and that memorial is a witness testifying that we shall yet retur

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ited by p. a. means, hakluyt society, london, 1920. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 51 effect to speed up their ruthless advance into the inca heartland.3 the capital of the inca empire was the city of cuzco, a name meaning the earth s navel in the local quechua language.4 according to legend it was established by manco capac and mama occlo, two children of the sun. here, though the incas worshipped the sun god, whom they knew as inti, quite another deity was venerated as the most holy of all. this was viracocha, whose namesakes were said to have made the nazca lines and whose own name meant foam of the sea. 5 no doubt it is just a coincidence that the greek goddess aphrodite, who was born of the sea, received her name because of the foam [aphros] out of which she was formed .6 bes

t much about him is known for certain. no historian, however, is able to say how ancient was the cult of this deity before the spanish arrived to put a stop to it. this is because the cult seemed always to have been around; indeed, long before the incas incorporated him into their cosmogony and built a magnificent temple for him at cuzco, the evidence suggests that the high god viracocha had been worshipped by all the civilizations that had ever existed in the long history of peru. citadel of viracocha a few days after leaving nazca, santha and i arrived in cuzco and made our way to the site of the coricancha, the great temple dedicated to viracocha in the pre-colombian era. the coricancha was of course long gone. or, to be more exact, it was not so much gone as buried beneath layers of la

s of viracocha likened his appearance to that of the saint thomas.11 i examined a number of illustrated ecclesiastical manuscripts in which these two saints appeared; both were routinely depicted as lean, bearded white men, past middle age, wearing sandals and dressed in long, flowing cloaks. as we shall see, the records confirmed this was exactly the appearance ascribed to viracocha by those who worshipped him. whoever he was, therefore, he could not have been an american indian: they are relatively dark-skinned people with sparse facial hair.12 viracocha s bushy beard and pale complexion made him sound like a caucasian. back in the sixteenth century the incas had thought so too. indeed their legends and religious beliefs made them so certain of his physical type that they initially misto

by water in the sign matlactli atl (ten water. it was called apachiohualiztli (flood, deluge, the art of sorcery of the permanent rain. men were turned into fish. some say that only one couple escaped, protected by an old tree living near the water. others say that there were seven couples who hid in a cave until the flood was over and the waters had gone down. they repopulated the earth and were worshipped as gods in their nations. second sun, ehecoatl: duration 4010 years. those who lived then ate wild fruit known as acotzintli. this sun was destroyed by ehecoatl (wind serpent) and men were turned into monkeys. one man and one woman, standing on a rock, were saved from destruction. third sun, tleyquiyahuillo: duration 4081 years. men, the descendants of the couple who were saved from the

n it, or perhaps on a console above it, were two x-shaped crosses. i turned my attention to the other principal element of the sculpture, 13 the cities of ancient mexico, p. 37. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 134 the feathered serpent. on one level it did, indeed, depict exactly that: a plumed or feathered serpent, the age-old symbol of quetzalcoatl, whom the olmecs, therefore, must have worshipped (or at the very least recognized. scholars do not dispute this interpretation.14 it is generally accepted that quetzalcoatl s cult was immensely ancient, originating in prehistoric times in central america and thereafter receiving the devotion of many cultures during the historic period. the feathered serpent in this particular sculpture, however, had certain characteristics that set it

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eling will come to you that there is much more to 206 your inner being, your self, than this ego. zen buddhism teaches that the ego is a social fiction. in des this f ict ion is stripped away. the ego is not supreme, nor is it independent. crowley's golden eagle said to him "i am the great god adored of the holy ones. yet am i the accursed one, child of the elements and not their father" although worshipped by many, the ego is a creation of circumstantial events rather than a creator of events. children come into the world without a sense of ego. this very fact gives children their innocence and purity. the sense of ego must be acquired and developed in them as they grow in order to function properly in society. soon the ego beings to think that it is something very special in the scheme o

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, whose place is afterwards occupied by salida (well-being. since he appears alike as god of poetry, of measurement, of the span, of the boundary and of the dicethrow, all gifts, treasures, arts may be regarded as having proceeded from him. though a son of wuotan and yielding to him in power or influence, donar (thunar, thor) appears at times identical with him, and to some extent as an older god worshipped before wuotan. for, like jupiter, he is a father, he is grandfather of many nations, and, as grandfather, is a god of the hills, a god of the rocks, a hammer, sits in the forest, throned on the mountain top, and hurls his old stone weapon, the lightning's bolt. to him the oak was sacred, and his hammer's throw measured out land, as did afterwards wuotan's wand. he rather flies furiously

only once rendered by masc. vnhulpans, lu. 8, 33, and everywhere else by fem. unhujpons, mat. 7, 22. 9, 34. mk. 1, 32- 4-9.3,15. 5,12. 6,13. 9,38. 16,9. lu.4,41. 8,27.30-5-8. 9,1. 49. the inference is, that the notion of female demons was the favourite one with the goths, and very likely with other germans, for in hymn. 24, 3 the word for diabolus is the ohg. fem. unholdd if as heathens they had worshipped a goddess holda, how natural, in contrast with her mildness, to regard a malignant being as a female unholda! thus ulphilas's preference for the term goes far to prove a gothic worship of hul]?6; and the translation of diana by holdd and unjwidd (p. 267) is worth noting. again, the notion of malice and ill-will carries with it that of fierceness and wrath: so the devil is in as. se wrdd

vow consists in its being made to both dispensers of victory (pp. 134. 197-8) at once, the men falling, may be, to wuotan's share, the women, children and animals to zio's; none were to escape alive. had the vow been to one god alone, he would have been content with part of the spoils; that is why tacitus remarks that such a vow was ruin to the chatti. the passage proves that zio and wuotan were worshipped by chatti and hermunduri; the eoman conceptions of mars and mercury are out of the question. can it be, that the horses are named before the men, to shew which fell to zio, which to wuotan? ijeasts, we know, were sacrificed to mars, germ. 9. that it was the custom to devote those who fell in battle to the god, is witnessed by hervar. saga 454' hei&ekr fal (set apart) 05ni allanpann val

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shment and adoration? such a worship is simpler, freer and more dig nified than a senseless crouching before pictures and idols. all the elements are cleansing, healing, atoning, and the proof by ordeal rests mainly upon them; but man had to secure them in their purest form and at the most seasonable times. we will consider them one by one. 1. water.1 passages proving that the alamanns and franks worshipped rivers and fountains are cited at pp. 100-1 and in the appendix. 3 1 goth, vato, on. vatn, ohg. wazar, os. watar, as. water, dan. vand, slav. vodd, lith. wandu, lett, uhdens, gr. vdwp; then, corresp. inform to lat. aqua, but meaning fluvius, goth, ahva, ohg. aha, as. ed, on. a; the goth, vegs, ohg. wdc wages= fluctus, flow. 2 when here and elsewhere i use bp. burchard s coll. of decrees

or being, a river-sprite. the danube whirlpool and others still have separate legends of their own. plutarch (in his caesar, cap. 19) and clement of alex (stromat. 1, 305) assure us that the german prophetesses watched the eddies of rivers, and by their whirl and noise explored the future. the norse name for such a vortex is fors, dan. fos, and the isl. sog. 1, 226 expressly say, blotafti forsin (worshipped the. the legend of the river- sprite fossegrim was touched upon, p. 493; and in such a fors dwelt the dwarf andvari (seem. 180. fornald. sog. 1, 152. but animal sacrifices seem to have been specially due to the whirlpool (80/09, as the black lamb (or goat) to the fossegrim; arid the passages quoted from agathias on pp. 47, 100, about the alamanns offering horses to the rivers and ravine

turned round in it, till it gave out sparks. the act of catching the fire in a sieve, and so conveying it into the temple, is suggestive of a similar carrying of water in a sieve, of which there is some account to be given further on. plutarch (in numa 9) makes out that new fire was obtained not by friction, but by in tercepting the sun s rays in clay vessels destined for the pur pose. the greeks worshipped hestia as the pure hearth-flame itself.1 but lemnos, the island on which zeus had flung down the celestial fire-god hephaestus, 3 harboured a fire-worship of its own. once a year every fire was extinguished for nine days, till a ship brought some fresh from delos off the sacred hearth of apollo: for some days it drifts on the sea without being able to land, but as soon as it runs in, th

down the names of many famous horses (p. 392. bajart is described as intelligent, like alsvrsr; he is said to be still alive in ardennes forest, where you may hear him neigh every year on midsummer day (quatre fils aimon 180c. the track of schimming s shoe stands printed on the rock, vilk. saga cap. 37 (see suppl. the freyfaxi in vatnsdaelasaga was owned by a man named brandr, who is said to have worshipped it (at hann hefsi atrunas a faxa, and was therefore called faxabrandr. the unpublished saga of hrafnkell is known to me only from miiller s bibl. 1, 103, but he too had a horse freyfaxi (mispr. freirfara, which he had half given to freyr, vowing at the same time to slay the man who should mount it without his leave. i can give the passage from job. erici de philippia apud priscos boreal

mario a regina augliae ei misso, quod fastu superbiae quadriga bourn ferebat/ chapeaville 2, 69 (an. 1129. a chariot drawn by four white oxen in lorraine occurs in scheffer s haltaus, p. 251. in plutarch s marius cap. 23 is the well-known story of the cimbrians swearing over a brazen bull, by which the mecklenburgers account for the bull s head in their arms (mascov i, 13. at hvitabser the people worshipped an osc (fornald. sog. 1, 253, at upsal a cow (i, 254. 260-6. 270-2; see suppl. whilst among horses the stallion is more honoured than the mare, among neat the cow seems to take the lead. kine were yoked to the car of nerthus [and two milch- kine to the ark of jehovah. the bdda speaks of a cow named auffumbla, which plays a great part in the origin of men and gods (p. 559, and was no dou

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out beginning or end, bythyclemency and knowledge in all things,ihumbly desiretheeto allow a blessed ministering spirit to make manifest unto me in this crystal (or glass) all the desires of my heart so thatimay be answered to my satisfaction clearly and fully throughthyworthiness good lord, who livest and reignest, ever one god, world without end.0,holy, patient, merciful and great god and to be worshipped, the lord of all wisdom, clear and just,imost humbly and heartily desirethyholiness and clemency to be extended unto me inthypermitting a blessed spirit ever beforethythrone, to show me all thatirequire to see in this crystal (or glass) whichihold in my hand, thatimay, by looking into it, be able to ascertain the answers to my questions.ido now therefore, at this time, most humbly reque

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myths about these deities were cur- 6 handbook of egyptian mythology rent at this stage is hard to say. the unification of the country and the subsequent patronage of local cults by each king must have led to some kind of organization of the pantheon at this time. deities began to be grouped into pairs, groups, or hierarchies. the creation of relationships between deities who had previously been worshipped in isolation may have generated myths. among the earliest pairings of deities were the two ladies and the two lords. the two ladies were the goddesses nekhbet and wadjyt. in the symbolic language that had developed to express ideas about kingship, the two ladies represented upper and lower egypt and were identified with the white crown of the south and the red crown of the north. the tw

e innermost sanctuary that contained the introduction 21 cult statue was said to be built on the primeval mound, the very place in which the creator first brought forth life. each temple was dedicated to one main deity, but in the new kingdom it became common to group deities into divine families, with subsidiary temples for the chief deity s consort and child. so at karnak, for example, amun was worshipped as part of a triad, with mut as his consort and khonsu as his son. not all these groupings seem to have been based on existing myths, but some of them eventually generated myths to explain features of their cult. the relationships between deities could be expressed by moving divine statues between temples during religious festivals. these processions, in which the god was carried inside

or even that all myths evolved to explain existing rituals. extreme advocates of the latter school derived all the world s myths from prehistoric egyptian kingship rituals.114 equally controversial in recent times has been martin bernal s work on the egyptian contribution to greek mythology and culture.115 one offshoot of the feminist movement has been a new interest in goddesses, and isis is now worshipped again in many parts of the world. egyptian mythology has never been a key part of western literature in the way that greek mythology has. egyptian funerary religion and archaeology have provided more inspiration to writers than egyptian myths. the reanimated mummy is the image that has captured the modern imagination, but the deities of ancient egypt have appeared as peripheral characte

toneman (london, 1994, 212 213. 103. the moral given in aesop is that a change of fortune can make the strongest man need a weaker man s help (translation by s. a. handford, fables of aesop [london, 1954, 41; in the egyptian version the moral is it is beautiful to do good to him who does it in turn (translation by lichtheim, ancient egyptian literature 3: 159. 104. at this point, imhotep had been worshipped as a god for well over a thousand years, but he was still treated as a historical figure in literature. this suggests that the egyptians were not prone to confuse historical and mythical characters. 105. for a summary of this important text, see r. jasnow and k. t. zauzich, a book of thoth? in eyre, proceedings of the seventh international congress of egyptologists, 607 618. it has no c

were often shown accompanying the creator sun god. the power by which the thoughts and commands of the creator became reality was heka (magic. in coffin texts spell 261, the god heka claims to have been with the creator even in the primeval era. in the cosmogony of neith recorded in the roman period temple at esna, this goddess creates the whole world with seven magic words. when isis came to be worshipped as a creator deity during the same period, she was called the mistress of the word in the beginning. from at least as early as the new kingdom, the god ptah could represent the creative mind. then sia and hu were identified as the heart and tongue of ptah. this concept is expounded in the so-called memphite theology and in various hymns to ptah. the ancient egyptians believed that the h

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he secret name of this god and certain magical formulae, and by pronouncing them in the correct way at the proper time. the need for a consciousness of sin, and repentance, and a life of good works, were not then held to be indispensable for admission into the abode of the beatified. from the "book of gates" however, we learn that in the later dynastic period a belief was prevalent that those who worshipped the "great god" on earth, and made all the duly-appointed offerings, and turned not aside to "miserable little gods" and lived according to maat, i.e, uprightness and integrity, would receive a good reward because they had done these things. the texts in these books state that the beatified live for ever in the kingdom of osiris, and feed daily upon the heavenly wheat of righteousness t

o p. 6 improve the general condition of the country, and it seems as if they found it necessary to employ all their energies to maintain their position and the little real power in the country which they possessed. as this was the case, we need not wonder that all magnificence disappeared from funeral rites and ceremonies, and that the tombs of the period were small and unimportant. the gods were worshipped and the dead were buried as matters of course, but it goes without saying that kings, whose authority was not consolidated, and whose power was ineffective except in the immediate neighbourhood of the towns in which they lived, who were unable to wage wars in syria and sinai and to bring back much spoil, could neither establish colleges of priests nor endow new temples; for in ancient e

ey enjoy his rays, and when, as he leaves one division to enter another, the gate closes upon him, and shuts out his light, they set up dismal cries at his departure, and then sink down into inertness in the darkness which will swallow them up for twenty-four hours. it is possible that the dead here referred to represent the primitive inhabitants of the country, and the gods of the dead whom they worshipped when on earth, but there is no doubt that to these were joined the spirits of those who for some reason or other failed to advance beyond one or other of the divisions of the tuat. now, however, the time of evening has come, and the sun-god in the sektet boat, wherein he has travelled since noon, draws nigh, flooding the first division of the tuat with light. this division, or antechamb

od, and the latter on his left, just as saints and sinners are arraigned before god's throne in mediaeval pictures of the judgment. the good are divided into two classes "the heteptiu who praise ra" and the "maatiu who dwell in the tuat (vol. ii, p. 93. the heteptiu are thus called because they made "offerings( hetepet) to ra upon earth, and burned incense to him; they also sang praises to ra and worshipped him upon earth, and uttered hekau, or words of power, against apep, the p. 118 arch-foe of ra (vol. ii, p. 94. from this text we see that it was not enough for the followers of ra to praise him and give him gifts, but that they must also use magical words and formulae in order that ra's foe may be destroyed; and, because when they were upon earth they made offerings to the tuat-gods, no

a; it is p. 120 decreed that their arms shall never be untied again, that their bodies shall be cut to pieces, and that their souls shall cease to exist (vol. ii, p. 97. such are the things which take place in the second division of the tuat according to the book of gates, and, view them in whatever way we may, it is impossible not to conclude that the egyptians thought that those who praised and worshipped ra upon earth were rewarded with good things, whilst those who treated him lightly were punished. it is evident also that the offering up of propitiatory sacrifices and making of peace offerings were encouraged by the religion of osiris, as being good both for gods and men. next: chapter vii. third division of the tuat. i. the kingdom of khenti-amenti-osiris, according to the book am-tu

HEKAS

so sacrifice a cockerel at dawn to mark the liminal edge of night: a custom which has become a glyph of a certain arcanum in sabbatic lore. esbat- the witches' lesser rite of meeting where each initiate gives account of their recent work to the master and mistress of the circle; there is a persian word identical esbat, meaning 'to prove' or 'to give account. baphomet- the 'idol' said to have been worshipped by the templars. it's form was that of a goat's head with a torch between the horns and thus is identical to the sabbatic goat: an icon used in sabbatic cult to denote certain arcana. in arabic the word is analogous to aby-fi-hamat-'the black head of wisdom' or 'seat of knowledge' and constitutes a cipher of certain secret practices used in sects and tribes preserving a gnosis of ancien

HELENA BLAVATSKY NIGHTMARE TALES

mong herchildren, instead of losing in intensity by such division, it seemed to only grow the stronger. born with thepotentiality of the warmest family affection in me, the devotion for my sister was so great, that the thought ofburning that sacred fire of love before any idol, save that of herself and family, never entered my head. thiswas the only, church i recognized, the only church wherein i worshipped at the altar of holy family affection.in fact this large family of eleven persons, including her husband, was the only tie that attached me toeurope. twice, during a period of nine years, had i crossed the ocean with the sole object of seeing andpressing these dear ones to my heart. i had no other business in the west; and having performed this pleasantduty, i returned each time to japa

more out of curiosity than with the idea of any success. i was impatient to leave at once and recover ralph,but as my companion besought me to remain a little while longer, i reluctantly consented. the scene fadedaway and miss h- placed herself in turn by the side of the dervish "i will think of him" she whispered in my ear with the eager tone that young ladies generally assume whentalking of the worshipped him. there is a long stretch of sand and a blue sea with white waves dancing in the sun, and a great steamer isploughing her way along past a desolate shore, leaving a milky track behind her. the deck is full of life, themen are busy forward, the cook with white cap and apron is coming out of the galley, uniformed officers aremoving about, passengers fill the quarter-deck, lounging, fli

HELENA BLAVATSKY THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY

riests in the service of the "lords of the stars" was built. as to the origin of the science, it is known on the one hand that thebes claimed the honor of the invention of astrology; whereas, on the other hand, all are agreed that it was the chaldeans who taught that science to the other nations. now thebes antedated considerably, not only "ur of the chaldeans" but also nipur, where bel was first worshipped-sin, his son (the moon, being the presiding deity of ur, the land of the nativity of terah, the sabean and astrolater, and of abram, his son, the great astrologer of biblical tradition. all tends, therefore, to corroborate the egyptian claim. if later on the name of astrologer fell into disrepute in rome and elsewhere, it was owing to the frauds of those who wanted to make money of that

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

mulattoes, largely west indians or brava portuguese from the cape verde islands, gave a colouring of voodooism to the heterogeneous cult. but before many questions were asked, it became manifest that something far deeper and older than negro fetishism was involved. degraded and ignorant as they were, the creatures held with surprising consistency to the central idea of their loathsome faith. they worshipped, so they said, the great old ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. those old ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died. this was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exis

HP LOVECRAFT AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

sts to the last- what had they done that we would not have done in their place? god, what intelligence and persistence! what a facing of the incredible, just as those carven kinsmen and forbears had faced things only a little less incredible! radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star spawn- whatever they had been, they were men! they had crossed the icy peaks on whose templed slopes they had once worshipped and roamed among the tree ferns. they had found their dead city brooding under its curse, and had read its carven latter days as we had done. they had tried to reach their living fellows in fabled depths of blackness they had never seen- and what had they found? all this flashed in unison through the thoughts of danforth and me as we looked from those headless, slime-coated shapes to th

HP LOVECRAFT THE CALL OF CTHULHU

nd mulattos, largely west indians or brava portuguese from the cape verde islands, gave a colouring of voodooism to the heterogeneous cult. but before many questions were asked it became manifest that something far deeper and older than negro fetishism was involved. degraded and ignorant as they were, the creatures held with suprising consistency to the central idea of their loathsome faith. they worshipped, so they said, the great old ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. these old ones were gone now inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first man, who formed a cult which had never died. this was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist

HP LOVECRAFT THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH

s written on the brick cylinders of kadatheron that the beings of lb were in hue as green as the lake and the mists that rise above it; that they had bulging eyes, pouting, flabby lips, and curious ears, and were without voice. it is also written that they descended one night from the moon in a mist; they and the vast still lake and gray stone city lb. however this may be, it is certain that they worshipped a sea-green stone idol chiseled in the likeness of bokrug, the great water-lizard; before which they danced horribly when the moon was gibbous. and it is written in the papyrus of ilarnek, that they one day discovered fire, and thereafter kindled flames on many ceremonial occasions. but not much is written of these beings, because they lived in very ancient times, and man is young, and

ly the marshy shore, and where once had dwelt fifty million of men now crawled the detestable water-lizard. not even the mines of precious metal remained. doom had come to sarnath. but half buried in the rushes was spied a curious green idol; an exceedingly ancient idol chiseled in the likeness of bokrug, the great water-lizard. that idol, enshrined in the high temple at llarnek, was subsequently worshipped beneath the gibbous moon throughout the land of mnar. 1998-1999 william johns last modified: 12/18/1999 18:45:2the lurking fear by h.p. lovecraft written november 1922 published 1923 in home brew, 2, no. 6 (january 1923: 4-10; 3, no. 1 (february 1923: 18-23; 3, no. 2 (march 1923: 31-37, 44, 48; 3, no. 3 (april 1923: 35-42. i. the shadow on the chimney there was thunder in the air on the

HP LOVECRAFT THE NAMELESS CITY

too remote for calculation, though sandstorms had long effaced any carvings which may have been outside. very low and sand-choked were all the dark apertures near me, but i cleared one with my spade and crawled through it, carrying a torch to reveal whatever mysteries it might hold. when i was inside i saw that the cavern was indeed a temple, and beheld plain signs of the race that had lived and worshipped before the desert was a desert. primitive altars, pillars, and niches, all curiously low, were not absent; and though i saw no sculptures or frescoes, there were many singular stones clearly shaped into symbols by artificial means. the lowness of the chiselled chamber was very strange, for i could hardly kneel upright; but the area was so great that my torch showed only part of it at a

of these crawling creatures must have been vast, for they held first place among the wild designs on the frescoed walls and ceiling. with matchless skill had the artist drawn them in a world of their own, wherein they had cities and gardens fashioned to suit their dimensions; and i could not help but think that their pictured history was allegorical, perhaps shewing the progress of the race that worshipped them. these creatures, i said to myself, were to men of the nameless city what the she-wolf was to rome, or some totem-beast is to a tribe of indians. holding this view, i could trace roughly a wonderful epic of the nameless city; the tale of a mighty seacoast metropolis that ruled the world before africa rose out of the waves, and of its struggles as the sea shrank away, and the desert

HP LOVECRAFT THROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY

angle could turn the student of today into the child of yesterday; could turn randolph carter into that wizard, edmund carter who fled from salem to the hills behind arkham in 1692, or that pickman carter who in the year 2169 would use strange means in repelling the mongol hordes from australia; could turn a human carter into one of those earlier entities which had dwelt in primal hyperborea and worshipped black, plastic tsathoggua after flying down from kydiamil, the double planet that once revolved around arcturus; could turn a terrestrial carter to a remotely ancestral and doubtfully shaped dweller on kythamil itself, or a still remoter creature of trans-galactic stronti, or a four-dimensioned gaseous consciousness in an older space-time continuum, or a vegetable brain of the future on

IRISH WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY

olic people men who were heretics together with their abettors, some of whom asserted that jesus christ was a mere man and a sinner, and was justly crucified for his own sins; others after having done homage and offered sacrifice to demons, thought otherwise of p. 49 the sacrament of the body of christ than the catholic church teaches, saying that the same venerable sacrament is by no means to be worshipped; and also asserting that they are not bound to obey or believe the decrees, decretals, and apostolic mandates; in the meantime, consulting demons according to the rites of those sects among the gentiles and pagans, they despise the sacraments of the catholic church, and draw the faithful of christ after them by their superstitions" as no inquisitors of heresy have been appointed in irel

JENNINGS HARGRAVE ROSICRUCIANS RITES MYSTERIES

se pieces (genesis xv. 17. the first appearances of god, then, being in glory or, which is the same thing, in light or fire and he showing his acceptance of sacrifices in so many instances by consuming them with fire, hence it was that the eastern people, and particularly the persians, fell into the worship of fire itself, or rather they conceived fire to be the symbol of god s presence, and they worshipped god in, or by, fire. from the assyrians, or chaldeans, or persians, this worship was propagated southward among the egyptians, and westward among the greeks; and by them it was brought into italy. the greeks were wont to meet together to worship in their prytamia, and there they consulted for the public good; and there was a constant fire kept upon the altar, which was dignified by the

m that there is in the living light, which is the last exalted show of fluent or of inflamed brilliant matter, passing off beyond into the unknown and unseen world of celestial light (or occult fire, to which all the forms of things tend, and in which even idea itself passes from recognition as meaning, and evolves spiring up, as all flame does, to escape and to wing away. vesta, or the fire, was worshipped in circular temples, which were the images, or the miniatures, of the temple of the world, with its dome, or cope, of stars. it was in the atria of the temples, and in the presence of and before the above-mentioned lights, that the forms of ceremonial worship were always observed. it is certain that vesta was worshipped at troy; and neas brought her into italy: manibus vittas, vestamque

the true god, but was most like the shechinah, in which god appeared. and hence the custom arose of keeping up an unextinguished fire in the ancient temples. vesta is properly an oriental word, derived from the hebrew ca, as fire. thence the word astarte, in the phoenician dialect. the signification of the term is the same as the p r sbestoj, the ignis ternus, the perpetual fire itself. they that worshipped either vesta or vulcan, or the masterpower of nature which is known under those names, were properly fire-worshippers. god, then, being wont to appear in fire, and being conceived to dwell in fire, the notion spread universally, and was universally admitted. first, then, it was not at all out of the way to think of engaging in friendship with god by 58 the rosicrucians. the same means a

, like waters of the rock! truly, out of sparks can be displayed a whole acreage of fireworks. forests can be conceived of flame-palaces of the fire; grandest things soul-things last things all things! wonder no longer, then, if, rejected so long as an idolatry, the ancient persians, and their masters the magi, concluding that they saw all in this supernaturally magnificent element, fell down and worshipped it; making of it the visible representation of the very truest; but yet, in man s speculation, and in his philosophies, nay, in his commonest reason, impossible god: god being everywhere, and in us, and, indeed, us, in the god-lighted man; and 70 the rosicrucians. impossible to be contemplated or known outside, being all! lights and flames, and the torches, as it were, of fire (all fire

wholly false? passing through these mind-worlds, and coming out, as we may figure it, at the other side, penetrating into the secrets of things, they evaporated all powers, and resolved them finally into the last fire. beyond this, they found nothing; as into this they resolved all things. and then, on the throne of the visible, they placed this in the world, invisible fire: the sense-thing to be worshipped in the senses, as the last thing of them, and the king of them, that is, that which we know as the phenomenon, burning fire, the spiritual fire being impalpable, as having the visible only for its shadow; the ghostly fire not being even to be thought upon; thought being its medium of apprehension when it itself had slipped; the waves of apprehension of it only flowing back when it being

KASAK VEEDE UNDERSTANDING PLANETS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

the goddess of love and war (leick 1998: 96. as a male god, i.tar was described as bearded (tablet 61 of en ma anu enlil: gziqna zaqnat h (reiner 1995: 6. we have to remind here that ordinarily the gender of venus fs appearances has been treated by the opposites, according to the specification of the planet genders by ptolemy (tetrabiblos, parts 1.6 and 7. e.g. in southern arabia, a.tar/at ar was worshipped as ina araa nisanni d.ul.pa.e3 ilmarduk- aiari dud.al.tar- simani diku bab ilanipl- du fuzi dda-pi-nu- abi dma-ag-ru-u2- ululi dsag.me.gar- ti.riti dni-bi-ru- ara .amni drab-bu- kislimmi ulgam3- ebeti ullugal .aba i ulgal- adari ulkua de2-a- 23 the personified male aspect of venus as the morning star. southern arabia he was also worshipped, there uniting both the aspect of morning and e

KETAB E SIYAH

ben shakur performed many miracles through the power of lucifer during his life time. the legend says, ben shakur shall return to claim the souls of those that worship lucifer and the book. the legend says, the book was translated into the vulgar of ancient rome by an early pope named sylvester, who reigned during the council of nicaea in the early 4th century. the legend says, the book is still worshipped today in high circles within the papacy of rome. the legend says, the book was first seen by common men after a copy was taken during the sacking of rome by the vandals. the legend says, the book was worshipped throughout the ages by many secret societies, such as the templars and the priory de sion. the legend says, the book gives great power to its disciples, and men such as copernicu

pacy of rome. the legend says, the book was first seen by common men after a copy was taken during the sacking of rome by the vandals. the legend says, the book was worshipped throughout the ages by many secret societies, such as the templars and the priory de sion. the legend says, the book gives great power to its disciples, and men such as copernicus, galileo, nostradamus and isaac newton have worshipped it. the legend says, you must create a copy of the book with your own blood, when you are elected as a leader in one of these secret societies that still worship the book today. the legend says, that if you add even one word to this book, you shall be cursed by all the powers of lucifer mentioned within contestor ego omni audienti verba prophetiae libri huius si quis adposuerit ad haec

be purged by the prophet! then shall this knowledge go aright. 420 6. i am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. i am life, and the giver of life, yet therefore is theknowledge of me the knowledge of death. 7. i am the magician and the exorcist. i am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle "come unto me" is a foolish word: for it is i that go. 8. who worshipped heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for i am the worshipper. 9. remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass& are done; but there is that which remains. 10. o prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing. 11. i see thee hate the hand& the pen; but i am stronger. 12. because of me in thee which thou knewest not. 13. for why? beca

all call the abomination of desolation; count well its name& it shall be to you as 718. 20. why? because of the fall of because, that he is not there again. 21. set up my image in the east: thou shalt buy thee an image which i will show thee, especial, not unlike the one thou knowest. and it shall be suddenly easy for thee to do this. 22. the other images group around me to support me: let all be worshipped, for they shall cluster to exalt me. i am the visible object of worship; the others are secret; for the beast& his bride are they: and for the winners of the ordeal x. what is this? thou shalt know. 23. for perfume mix meal& honey& thick leavings of red wine: then oil of abramelin and olive oil, and afterward soften& smooth down with rich fresh blood. 24. the best blood is of the moon

he may elect now the way of heaven and raise to me a great church of worship. for i am not of a mind to game with thee, satan, and would crush thy following without remorse. thy name also shall be revealed to thy precious man, and he shall curse thee, for i shall show to him the fruit of thy evil genius. then satan addressed messiah in dark anger, saying, i shall not come to man as an idol to be worshipped, for man shall never bow to me as i would never to another. but mark me, messiah- man shall know the truth of lucifer nonetheless, and the name of satan shall eclipse thine. and have thou a care for the ways of man if thou wouldst greet him in his own likeness, for he may not welcome thy words to him. 457 then did satan betake himself again to hell, and messiah walked among men and spok

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

very realistically enacted. these splendid processions swept down the river between the thronging multitudes of worshippers, shedding the benediction of the gods as they passed by, and evoking tremendous enthusiasm and devotion in the people. 48. the ancient egyptians have often been accused of polytheism, but in reality they were no more guilty of the charge than are the hindus. all men knew and worshipped the one god, amen-ra, the gone without a second h, the centre of whose manifestation on the physical plane is the sun; but they worshipped him under different aspects and through different channels. in one of the hymns addressed to him it was said: 49. the gods adore thee, they greet thee, o thou the one dark truth, the heart of silence, the hidden mystery, the inner god seated within t

self-control- in other words, of helping the man to reach his highest mental, astral and physical aims; for the physical, astral and mental principles are a reflection (inverted, like that of a mountain in water) of the three principles of the higher triad. 720. saraswati is the patroness of learning and practical wisdom; lakshmi fulfils desires and makes life rich and full, and when she is truly worshipped she sanctifies all material prosperity; girija or parvati blesses the physical body and makes its powers holy. the e.a. has to bring his physical body to perfection, so the aid which he needs is precisely what is symbolized by girija fs will; the f.c, has to do the same for his astral body, with the help of lakshmi fs love; the m.m. repeats the process for the mental body, aided by sara

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

71. other deities 72. many other deities were reverenced in ancient egypt, in much the same way as numerous gods are adored to-day in india; and in every case the devotion addressed to the supreme obtained its response through the particular channel chosen by the worshipper. great angels of different orders and rays were appointed to represent these various qualities of the deity, and these were worshipped as gods in the older faiths. but so close is the union in these cases that devotion rendered to one of these was at the same time given to god himself. shri krishna, speaking as the supreme in the bhagavad gita says: even those who worship other gods with devotion, full of faith- they also worship me(*op. cit, ix, 23) 73. wherever devotion is offered through a particular form, we may be

religious and given to some devotion; listen therefore, and believe it to be true. thou shalt understand that i approached near unto hell, even to the gates of proserpine, and after that i was ravished throughout all the elements, i returned to my proper place: about midnight i saw the sun brightly shine, i saw likewise the gods celestial and the gods infernal, before whom i presented myself and worshipped them. behold now have i told thee, which although thou hast heard, yet it is necessary that thou conceal it; wherefore this only will i tell, which may be declared without offence for the understanding of the profane. 114. when morning came and that the solemnities were finished, i came forth sanctified with twelve stoles and in a religious habit, whereof i am not forbidden to speak, co

for the rulers, of the other states acknowledged him as their leader, although they were perfectly free to manage their own internal affairs. there was also, in the south of the island, an independent city with a few miles of territory attached to it. 211. all these kings were also ex-officio high priests, as in egypt, and the king s palace was always the principal temple of his state. the people worshipped a dual deity- father-mother- and these two were regarded as one, though some men offered their devotion more to the father-aspect, and some to the mother. the father, when spoken of separately, was called brito, and the mother diktynna. no statues were made of these deities, but great reverence was paid to their symbol, which was a double-headed axe (see plate i, 1, following p. 50) thi

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

because of its connection with certain black magic practices practices emphasized and characterized by hollywood and novelistic treatments it is commonly associated with satanism. vodoun postulates a complex and extensive pantheon of divinities, referred to as loas or myst res. a supreme being who created the world, termed gran met, is acknowledged, although he is too distant from the world to be worshipped. vodoun focuses instead on the more immediate divinities, serving the loa in return for favors for their devotees. in line with african tradition, ancestors are revered. within vodoun, the human being is pictured as being composed of five ingredients: n me, z toile, corps cadavre, gros bon ange, and ti bon ange. corps cadavre refers to the physical flesh. n me is the vital energy that a

LIBER 777

guard the canopic jars in which the internal organs of the deceased were preserved, and their g.d. attributions to the crossquarters probably derive from a single find of an egyptian tomb which had the four jars with the images of the gods disposed thus. transcriber s endnotes 53 col. xx. line 23: possibly a g.d. coptic spelling of ashtoreth (astarte, asherah) who according to budge (op. cit) was worshipped in egypt in the later dynastic period. line 25: a g.d. coptic spelling of aroueris. col. xxi. all this is derived from the famous speech in cap. 42 of the book of the dead. some minor errors have been corrected. the planets are referred to the face according to the attributions in agrippa (tom. ii cap. x; hence the duplication of left and right eye, ear and nostril. line 15: budge has h

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import, sobeit that thou choose one suited to thine own highest nature. howsoever, this method is not so suitable for gods austere as saturn, or intellectual as thoth. but for such deities as in themselves partake in anywise of love it is a perfect mode. 2. concerning the prime method of this magick art. let the devotee consider well that although christ and osiris be one, yet the former is to be worshipped with christian, and the latter with egyptian rites. and this, although the rites themselves are ceremonially equivalent. there should, however, be one symbol declaring the transcending of such limitations; and with regard to the deity also, there should be some one affirmation of his identity both with all other similar gods of all other nations, and with the supreme of whom all are but

rowley, as above] 3 the [marginal note added by crowley, as above] astarte vel liber berylli 2 inhabits it by virtue of the ceremonies; or so it is said, and we deny it not. let this image be the most beautiful and perfect which the devotee is able to procure; or if he be able to paint or to carve the same, it is all the better. as for deities with whose nature no image is compatible, let them be worshipped in an empty shrine. such are brahma, and allah. also some postcaptivity conceptions of jehovah. 5. further concerning the above. let this shrine be furnished appropriately as to its ornaments, according to the book 777. with ivy and pine-cones, that is to say, for bacchus, and let lay before him both grapes and wine. so also for ceres let there be corn, and cakes; or for diana moon-wort

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE

then i loved her; and, loosing my girdle, cast myself into the stream. 8. i gathered myself into the little boat, and for many days and nights did i love her, burning beautiful incense before her. 9. yea! i gave her of the flower of my youth. 10. but she stirred not; only by my kisses i defiled her so that she turned to blackness before me. liber cordis cincti serpente svb figvra ynda 7 11. yet i worshipped her, and gave her of the flower of my youth. 12. also it came to pass, that thereby she sickened and corrupted before me. almost i cast myself into the stream. 13. then at the end appointed her body was whiter than the milk of the stars, and her lips red and warm as the sunset, and her life of a white heat like the heat of the midmost sun. 14. then rose she up from the abyss of ages of

LIBER CXCVII STORY OF SIR PALAMEDES

stic beast. so followeth he the forest ways, remembering his knightly oath, and through the hot and dripping days ploughs through the tangled undergrowth. sir palamede the saracen came on a forest pool at length, remote from any mart of men, where there disported in his strength the lone and lordly elephant. sir palamede his forehead beat .o amorous! o militant! o lord of this arboreal seat. thus worshipped he, and stalking stole into the presence: he emerged. the scent awakes the uneasy soul of that majestic one: upsurged the monster from the oozy bed, and bounded through the crashing glades .but now a staring savage head lurks at him through the forest shades. sir palamedes, the saracen knight 25 this was a naked indian, who led within the city gate the fooled and disappointed man, alrea

LIBER LVII

alphabet, as and are of the greek, and a and z of the latin. hence the word azoth, not to be confused with azote (lifeless, azotos, the old name for nitrogen. azoth means the sum and essence of all, conceived as one. 406. wt, the letter tau (see 400, also hta .thou. note that aha (7, the divine name of venus (7) gives the initials of ani, hua, ateh.i, he, thou; three different aspects of a deity worshipped in three persons and in three ways: viz (1) with averted face (2) with prostration (3) with identification. 418. pertains principally to part ii, q.v. 419. tyf, the letter teth. 434. tld, the letter daleth. 440. ylt, the great dragon.56 441. tma, truth. note 441= 21 21. 21 is hyha, the god of kether, whose will is truth. 450. t, the great dragon. 463. dqch hfm, moses. wand, a rod of alm

LIBER LXVII THE SWORD OF SONG

be! i find some folks think me (for one) so great a fool that i disclaim indeed jehovah.s hate for shame that man to-day should not be weaned of worshipping so foul a fiend in presence of the living sun, and yet replace him oiled and cleaned by the egyptian pantheon, the same thing by another name. thus when of late egyptian gods evoked ecstatic periods in verse of mine, you thought i praised or worshipped them.i stand amazed. i merely wished to chant in verse some aspects of the universe, summed up these subtle forces finely, and sang of them (i think divinely) in name and form: a fault perhaps. reviewers are such funny chaps! i think that ordinary folk, though, understood the things i spoke. for gods, and devils too, i find are merely modes of my own mind! the poet needs enthusiasm! ves

him: though for himself had he cut off the grip, yet for others.well, let each man take his sword! the way went through a forest. now between two trees hung a man by one heel (love was that tree).5 crossed were his legs, and his arms behind his head, that hung ever downwards, the fingers locked .who art thou. quoth our father .he that came before thee .who am i .he that cometh after me. with that worshipped our father, and took a present of a great jewel from him, and went his ways. and he was bitterly a-cold, for that was the great water he had passed. but our father.s paps glittered with cold, black light, and likewise his navel. wherefore he was comforted. now came the sudden twittering of heart lest the firmament beneath him were not stable, and lo! he danceth up and down as a very cor

the demon was wroth and shrieked .thy mother to black hell! she is mine. so the old hag confessed straight that she had given her body for love to that fiend of the pit. but our father paid no heed thereto and bade the demon to do his will, so that he brought him herbs many, and good, with which our father planted a great grove that grew about him (for the sun was now waxen bitter hot) wherein he worshipped, offering in vessels of clay these seven offerings :2 the first offering, dust; the second offering, ashes; the third offering, sand; the fourth offering, bay-leaves; the fifth offering, gold; the sixth offering, dung; the seventh offering, poison. with the dust he gave a sickle to gather the harvest of that dust. with the ashes he gave a sceptre, that one might rule them aright. with t

LINDOW JOHN NORSE MYTHOLOGY A GUIDE TO THE GODS HEROES RITUALS AND BELIEFS

heir euhemerism, for go. is a word for pagan gods. subsequently in ynglinga saga he has two of the kings of the ynglingar set out to look for godheim, to the east in ggreater sweden. h njord ruled the swedes after odin. he was followed by frey, who made uppsalir (modern uppsala) the capital. his was a reign of peace and prosperity, the gpeace of frodi h according to snorri. because of this he was worshipped even more than other go. when snorri uses a word for pagan gods here, he must feel that the euhemerization of the asir had been completed. frey is the first of the ynglingar, and his successor, fjolnir, is the first king cataloged in thjodolf fs ynglinga tal. from this point, ynglinga saga follows ynglinga tal closely, and the strictly mythological section is at an end. however, the res

. most or all cults must have been of this nature, led by the chieftain when public ritual was enacted and by the head of household in the case of private ritual. many historians of religion have argued for a close connection between law, society, and religion, and this connection would be embodied in the men who presided over secular and sacred affairs. although tacitus says the germanic peoples worshipped in the open, the notion of pagan temples is common in many of the later sources. this probably marks both a change in paganism, perhaps as building techniques changed, and the influence of christian (and also pagan roman) worship. in the northern reaches of scandinavia, the sami people seem to have retained an open-air priestless paganism, and they were far from such influences. the edd

ve retained an open-air priestless paganism, and they were far from such influences. the eddic poems have references to the building of places of worship (e.g, the ghigh-timbered h altar and temple of voluspa, stanza 7, and there is one very explicit description of a pagan temple in eyrbyggja saga, which shows, if nothing else, where a thirteenth- century icelander thought his pagan ancestors had worshipped three centuries earlier. adam of bremen fs account of the pagan temple at uppsala, mentioned above, is difficult to discount, but it must be remembered that the end of the eleventh century, when adam was writing, was a time of enormous christian influence in sweden, and it is quite conceivable that the notion of a building reserved for religious purposes could have resulted from such in

eoples did not produce images of their gods. adam of bremen says the pagan temple at uppsala had idols of thor, wodan (odin, and fricco (frey. again, the difference lies in the millennium that passed between the times the two authors wrote, and probably also to some extent in 34 norse mythology the influence of other models. certainly medieval scandinavians believed that their pagan forebears had worshipped idols, for they routinely put idols in their historical writings. in the sagas of icelanders, the expression gthe gods h almost always refers to idols, and when icelanders translated the lives of the christian saints, they sometimes attached the names of their own pagan gods to the idols worshipped by the pagans whom the early saints encountered. the word used for pagan cult activity is

large temple at uppsala and established his principal residence there, gave it all that was owed him, lands, and money. then began the wealth of uppsala, and it has lasted ever since. in his days the peace of frodi began. at that time there was also prosperity throughout all lands. the swedes attributed that to frey. the more wealthy the people became through peace and prosperity, the more he was worshipped than the other gods. the passage goes on to say that frey married gerd the daughter of gymir, that their son was fjolnir (in the eddas this is an odin name, that frey fs other name was yngvi, and that for this reason his descendants are called the ynglingar. snorri next tells a curious story about frey fs death. after frey dies, his men place the corpse in a mound but do not reveal his

MACNULTY W KIRK KABBALAH AND FREEMASONRY

ernal organization, open only to men, which promulgates the principles of morality and seeks to advance the practice of brotherly love and charitable action among all persons not simply among masons. it is not a religion; but it is a society of religious men in that as it requires its members to believe in the existence of "a supreme being" the name of that being and the form in which it is to be worshipped is entirely the business of the individual mason. masons are obligated on the "volume of sacred law" and each mason takes his obligation on that particular volume of sacred writings which he holds to be sacred. while encouraging each brother to follow the teachings of his own religion, freemasonry is not concerned with the details of those religions; and sectarian religious discussion i

MANLY P HALL THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

hyry describes an egyptian custom of purifying the dead by removing the contents of the abdominal cavity, which they placed in a separate chest. he then reproduces the following oration which had been translated out of the egyptian tongue by euphantus "o sovereign sun, and all ye gods who impart life to men, receive me, and deliver me to the eternal gods as a cohabitant. for i have always piously worshipped those divinities which were pointed out to me by my parents as long as i lived in this age, and have likewise always honored those who procreated my body. and, with respect to other men, i have never slain any one, nor defrauded any one of what he deposited with me, nor have i committed any other atrocious deed. if, therefore, during my life i have acted erroneously, by eating or drinki

degree every seventy-two years. concerning the annual passage of the sun through the twelve houses of the heavens, robert hewitt brown, 32, makes the following statement "the sun, as he pursued his way among these 'living creatures' of the zodiac, was said, in allegorical language, either to assume the nature of or to triumph over the sign he entered. the sun thus became a bull in taurus, and was worshipped as such by the egyptians under the name of apis, and by the assyrians as bel, baal, or bul. in leo the sun became a lion-slayer, hercules, and an archer in sagittarius. in pisces, the fishes, he was a fish--dagon, or vishnu, the fish-god of the philistines and hindoos" a careful analysis of the religious systems of pagandom uncovers much evidence of the fact that its priests served the

rth of jesus christ than the return, and, as they expressed it, the new birth of the sun' it was on the same day that the birth of the invincible sun (natalis solis invicti, was celebrated at rome, as can be seen in the roman calendars, published in the reign of constantine and of julian (hymn to the sun, p. 155. this epithet 'invictus' is the same as the persians gave to this same god, whom they worshipped by the name of mithra, and whom they caused to be born in a grotto (justin. dial. cum trips. p. 305, just as he is represented as being born in a stable, under the name of christ, by the christians" concerning the catholic feast of the assumption and its parallel in astronomy, the same author adds "at the end of eight months, when the sun-god, having increased, traverses the eighth sign

m the three originate the seven, i. e, the height, the depth, the east, the west, the north, and the south, and the holy temple in the center sustaining them all. is not the holy temple in the center the great throne of the many-formed spirit of nature which is shown in the middle of the tablet? what are the seven triads but the seven powers that rule over the world? psellus writes 'the egyptians worshipped the triad of faith, truth, and love; and the seven fountains: the sun as ruler--the fountain of matter; then the fountain of the archangels; the fountain of the senses; of judgment; of lightning; of reflections; and of characters of unknown composition. they say that the highest material fountains are those of apollo, osiris, and mercury--the fountains of the centers of the elements 'th

and the scimitar may be interpreted to signify the crescent shape of either the moon or venus "the famous 'stone of cabar' kaaba, cabir, or kebir, at mecca" says jennings "which is so devoutly kissed by the faithful, is a talisman. it is said that the figure of venus is seen to this day engraved upon it with a crescent. this very caaba itself was at first an idolatrous temple, where the arabians worshipped al-uzza (god and issa, that is venus (see kenealy's enoch, the second messenger of god "the mussulmans" writes sir william jones "are already a sort of heterodox christians: they are christians, if locke reasons justly, because they firmly believe the immaculate conception, divine character, and miracles of the messiah; but they are heterodox, in denying vehemently his character of son

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un. simon. possibly a reference to the gnostic magician, simon magus. herne. witch name derived from early english version of the anglo-saxon god, odin or woden. a god of wisdom and storm, and also a guide of the dead, he leads his wild rout across the winter skies accompanied by the baying of his death hounds! gogmagog. prehistoric version of the god and goddess in giant form. andros. the god as worshipped in the weald. adonai or adonis. hebrew for "the lord" dying god, consort of astarte. sabaoth. another hebrew name for god. baphomet. horned deity allegedly worshipped by the templars, a christian order of fighting monks of the twelfth century. the name has been variously construed to mean "the father of the temple of universal peace among men" the initials of which phrase in latin spell

MEANING OF MASONRY

trine that four is the arithmetical symbol of everything which has manifested or physical form. spirit, which is unmanifest and not physical, is expressed by the number three and the triangle. but spirit which has so far projected itself as to become objective and wear a material form or body, is denoted by the number four and the quadrangle or square. hence the hebrew name of deity, as known and worshipped this outer world, was the great unspeakable name of four letters or tetragrammaton, whilst the cardinal points of space are also four, m of and every manifested thing is a compound of the four basic metaphysical elements called by the ancients fire, water, air and earth. the foursidedness of the lodge, therefore, is also a reminder that the human organism is compounded of those four ele

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nfold-ing itself and a brightness was about it and out of the midst thereof as the color of amber outof the midst of the fire (ezekiel 4:5)and it came to pass, as moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, andstood at the door of the tabernacle, and the lord talked with moses. and all the people sawthe cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped,every man in his tent door (exodus 33:9)then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the landwhither they went (john 6: 21) earths first deluge10atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation and from the ancient aryans and hindus we have:he boarded the aerial vehicle with khara which was decorated with jewels and the faces ofdemons and it moved

cients] proceeded on definite principles of fitness and in waysderived from the truth of nature. thus they reached perfection, approving only those thingswhich, if challenged, can be explained on the grounds of truth (vitruvius, 1st century bc,roman architect, engineer, writer)atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation149 epilogue: time to change the road youre on thus god must never be worshipped under roofs, only the sky-vault, and preferably amongsttrees. the temples are groves. the air as spirit naturally held men's souls between incarna-tions (ross nichols, high druid of england)the modern world is not at all cognizant of the splendid achievement of the ancient civiliza-tions of two lands at least, namely egypt and greece, in so relating their minds to the orderof nature tha

pulation195 appendix b: book abstracts the russiansin the russian legends, a golden ship sails across the heavenly sea; it breaks into fragments, which nei-ther princes nor people can put together again.serpent worshipalways associated with the finding of precious metals like gold and silver. associated with fortune andintellectual knowledge and with physical power. in peru, the god of riches was worshipped under theimage of a rattlesnake (p. 266)the peruvians chose as their arms two serpents with their tails interlaced (p. 267)the city of brassand then we have the legend of the city of brass or bronze. it relates to an ancient age and period inthe olden time.and talib and his party go on still further, and find the city of brass a weird, mysterious, lost city, ina desolate land; silent, a

kings whose rule stretched back at least 36,620 years.(see p. 38)dana/dianathe celtic and slavic goddess equivalent of diana. she was also a deity connected to mysteries andmagic.telchinesa brotherhood of grecian (danaan) priests, with magical and healing powers. this cult lived in the tau-rus mountains and in syria.pherylltthe order of bards that colonized britain. also known as the pharon. they worshipped the serpent god-dess keridwen. their capital was emyrs, the ambrosial city overlooking the irish sea. this was alsocalled dinas affaraon.cauldron of keridwenused for the preparation of psychedelic drugs from plants and used in the rituals.amaraka/americaderived from a word meaning serpent. it is the word for the priests of the south american native tribes,particularly the inca. it may b

ld be reinterpreted. enki, the wise hero of sumer, could be portrayed (in accordance with hisemblem) as a troublesome serpentan image which could incorporate lilith too, for she held the matri-lineal heritage of the kingdom: the malkhut, the sovereignty of the dragon.the nature of the brothersenki was more liberal minded, whereas enlil was severe. he was considered inviolable by his followersthat worshipped him out of fear of retribution.gardner writes on enlil..it was he who had instigated the semitic invasions which led to the confusion of tongues and thefall of sumer. it was he that brought about the devastating flood, and it was he who had leveled the citiesof sodom and gomorrahnot because of their wickedness, as related in genesisbut because of thewisdom and insight of their inhabitan

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ice (by a blood coloured cloth, stained with menstrual blood or otherwise) is the mark of lilith and cain, born unto the night within the mysteries of vampyrism. dress in vestments of the moon of the color of the red serpent, a blood red robe and a mask of the dead (in the form of a skull, the bare mysteries which time does not hide nor tell. the human skull is considered as a symbol of baphomet, worshipped by the knight's templar. the skull is also a powerful fetish which may hold the familiar shades of the dead, a projected tomb of bone which holds the gravesoil and sigilic alphabet of the self in shadow. the magister of the rite recites "behold, the vampyre queen awakens before me, she whose skull holds the mystery of the grave. from your soul comes many serpents, those who breed the fo

s. this is the meeting place of spirits, where the dead gather. the word hell derives from the angelo-saxon 'helan, meaning to 'cover' or conceal. the hebrew equivalent of hades-amentet is sheol, which is said to come from the root-word "to ask" and "demand. the primary inhabitants of sheol are "the congregation of the dead -prov. 21:16 anubis is the son of set and nephthys. this mortuary god was worshipped in such places as the abt, the papyrus swamps and the lycopolis (the city of wolves- jackals. in the funeral procession, anubis received the mummy, and lays his hands upon the body in initiation and protection. in the dreaming gnosis of wither the celestial/luciferian or infernal sabbat, one assumes anubis as the opener of the way, the god form of mortal (mundane) and vampyric (immortal

MORALS AND DOGMA

the brethren, by himself, and through the wardens, who are his ministers "thy sun" says isaiah to jerusalem "shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for the lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. thy people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever" such is the type of a free people. our northern ancestors worshipped this triune deity; odin, the almighty father; frea, his wife, emblem of universal matter; and thor, his son, the mediator. but above all these was the supreme god "the author of everything that existeth, the eternal, the ancient, the living and awful being, the searcher into concealed things, the being that never changeth" in the temple of eleusis (a sanctuary lighted only by a window i

aids her by depreciating her paper, so that he may accumulate fabulous amounts with little outlay. if his neighbor is distressed, he buys his property for a song. if he administers upon an estate, it turns out insolvent, and the orphans are paupers. if his bank explodes, he is found to have taken care of himself in time. society worships its paper-and-credit kings, as the old hindus and egyptians worshipped their worthless idols, and often the most obsequiously when in actual solid wealth they are the veriest paupers. no wonder men think there ought to be another world, in which the injustices of this may be atoned for, when they see the friends of ruined families begging the wealthy sharpers to give alms to prevent the orphaned victims from starving, until they may find ways of supporting

oa, and venice, commercial cities only, must acquire territory by force or fraud, and become states. alexander marches to the indus; tamerlane seeks universal empire; the saracens conquer spain and threaten vienna. the thirst for power is never satisfied. it is insatiable. neither men nor nations ever have power enough. when rome was the mistress of the world, the emperors caused themselves to be worshipped as gods. the church of rome claimed despotism over the soul, and over the whole life from the cradle to the grave. it gave and sold absolutions for past and future sins. it claimed to be infallible in matters of faith. it decimated europe to purge it of heretics. it decimated america to convert the mexicans and peruvians. it gave and took away thrones; and by excommunication and interdi

but accept their symbols as meaning that the soul is of a divine nature, originating in a sphere nearer the deity, and returning to that when freed from the enthrallment of the body; and that it can only return there when purified of all the sordidness and sin which have, as it were, become part of its substance, by its connection with the body. it is not strange that, thousands of years ago, men worshipped the sun, and that to-day that worship continues among the parsees. originally they looked beyond the orb to the invisible god, of whom the sun's light, seemingly identical with generation and life, was the manifestation and outflowing. long before the chald an shepherds watched it on their plains, it came up regularly, as it now does, in the morning, like a god, and again sank, like a k

generation and life, was the manifestation and outflowing. long before the chald an shepherds watched it on their plains, it came up regularly, as it now does, in the morning, like a god, and again sank, like a king retiring, in the west, to return again in due time in the same array of majesty. we worship immutability. it was that steadfast, immutable character of the sun that the men of baalbec worshipped. his light-giving and life-giving powers were secondary attributes. the one grand idea that compelled worship was the characteristic of god which they saw reflected in his light, and fancied they saw in its originality the changelessness of deity. he had seen thrones crumble, earthquakes shake the world and hurl down mountains. beyond olympus, beyond the pillars of hercules, he had gone

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

en in the course of this book; but i must here mention that the brother quoted in connection with the "wizard amalantrah, etc (samuel bar aiwaz) identifies them with anu and adad, the supreme mother and father deities of the sumerians. taken in connection with the aiwaz identifications, this is very striking indeed (this last sentence was added because a.c. was convinced that aiwass was the being worshipped under this name by the ancient sumerians) 2. the unveiling of the company of heaven. this verse is to be taken with the next. the 'company of heaven' is mankind, and its 'unveiling' is the assertion of the independent godhead of every man and every woman! further, as khabs (see verse 8) is "star, there is a further meaning: this book is to reveal the secret self of a man, i.e, to initia

acrifice, the dying god, the witness--m, t he hanged man. since aum was the word of krishna, the most ancient known form of the dying god (later cynically adopted in the roman catholic pantheon as "saint sebastian, it is a natural connotation of that magus's message. it may be difficult for a minor hindu initiate to absorb the idea that aum is, after all, an imperfect hieroglyph. krishna has been worshipped in india for ten thousand years. but the greatly daring reader may perhaps be willing to admit as a working hypothesis that, after ten thousand years, brutish mankind may have gone a little further in its study of the universe in which we live! at least some tantrists of high initiation and a few of the siva& kali worshippers perceive why the spiritual name of aleister crowley in the hi

es. he wants to console' them. in point of fact, however, he will enslave them, for he is unable to see their true nature at all. if he could see it, he would understand what hadit means by stating categorically "it is i that go" try to remember that your neighbour does not need your pity. he may, at the most, need your respect. because if you respect him, you stop meddling in his affairs! 8. who worshipped heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for i am the worshipper. again hadit (aiwass speaking for him, of course) lays down the law in no uncertain manner. he is heru-pa-kraath, and who worships him is doing ill, not only to himself or herself, but to mankind as a whole "i am the worshipper. harpocrates is also the dwarf-soul the secret self of every man, the serpent with the lion's hea

inclined to see some deeper significance in this passage. there has elsewhere been reference to the words "not "one "thou knowest. the word "easy" is moreover suggestive of some mystery; it is used in the same doubtfully intelligible sense in verse 40. the verse can be taken literally in the strictest sense. it depends on the reader. 22. the other images group around me to support me: let all be worshipped, for they shall cluster to exalt me. i am the visible object of worship; the others are secret; for the beast& his bride are they: and for the winners of the ordeal x.what is this? thou shalt know. there are to be no regular temples of nuit and hadit, for they are incommensurables and absolutes. our religion therefore, for the people, is the cult of the sun, who is our particular star o

at thelemic rites. as to public rites, the extant religions will remain untouched by us. strange as it may seem, there shall be no 'holy wars' or persecutions. any cult is allowable, provided it does not try to frighten people into conversion with threats of 'hell' or condemnation, and provided its faithful do not try to attack, punish, or pressure those of other creeds. see liber oz 'let all be worshipped, for they shall cluster to exalt me. the law is for all; the lord of the aeon is manifest in the images of all faiths. consequently, all cults of men will gravitate towards acceptance of the rights of man as expressed in liber oz, without any need of our intervention on this plane. as for thelemic rites, they shall never be open. the mass of the phoenix is individual, to be performed at

MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS E

in common type) are in class b. all commentaries 'by another (of which this is one) are here printed in italics, and belong in class c. let all our successors keep their commentaries in class c, except he who shall discover the meaning of the numbers& the words in al ii, i, introduction. before entering upon the many strange beliefs of the ancient greeks, and the extraordinary number of gods they worshipped, we must first consider what kind of beings these divinities were. in appearance, the gods were supposed to resemble mortals, whom, however, they far surpassed in beauty, grandeur, and strength; they were also more commanding in stature, height being considered by the greeks an attribute of beauty in man or woman. they resembled human beings in their feelings and habits, intermarrying a

t of mount olympus, each possessing his or her individual habitation, and all meeting together on festive occasions in the council-chamber of the gods, where their banquets were enlivened by the sweet strains of apollo's lyre, whilst the beautiful voices of the muses poured forth their rich melodies to his harmonious accompaniment. magnificent temples were erected to their honour, where they were worshipped with the greatest solemnity; rich gifts were presented to them, and animals, and indeed sometimes human beings, were sacrificed on their altars. in the study of grecian mythology we meet with some [9]curious, and what may at first sight appear unaccountable notions. thus we hear of terrible giants hurling rocks, upheaving mountains, and raising earthquakes which engulf whole armies; the

ted itself into a vast, overarching vault, which protected the firm and solid mass beneath. thus came into being the two first great primeval deities of the greeks, uranus and ge or gaa. uranus, the more refined deity, represented the light and air of heaven, possessing the distinguishing qualities of light, heat, purity, and omnipresence, whilst gaa, the firm, flat,[1] life-sustaining earth, was worshipped as the great all-nourishing mother. her many titles refer to her more or less in this character, and she appears to have been universally revered among the greeks, there being scarcely a city in greece which did not contain a temple erected in her honour; indeed gaa was held in such veneration that her name was always invoked whenever the gods took a solemn oath, made an emphatic declar

ighty powers who were also the offspring of chaos. these were erebus (darkness) and nyx (night, who formed a striking contrast to the cheerful light of heaven and the bright smiles of earth. erebus reigned in that mysterious world below where no ray of sunshine, no gleam of daylight, nor vestige of health-giving terrestrial life ever appeared. nyx, the sister of erebus, represented night, and was worshipped by the ancients with the greatest solemnity. uranus was also supposed to have been united to nyx, but only in his capacity as god of light, he being considered the source and fountain of all light, and their children were eos (aurora, the dawn, and hemera, the daylight. nyx again, on her side was also doubly united, having been married at some indefinite period to erebus. in addition to

seat of her worship, which was always of a very riotous character, was at crete. at her festivals, which took place at night, the wildest music of flutes, cymbals, and drums resounded, whilst joyful shouts and cries, accompanied by dancing and loud stamping of feet, filled the air. this divinity was introduced into crete by its first colonists from phrygia, in asia minor, in which country she was worshipped under the name of cybele. the people of crete adored her as the great mother, more especially in her signification as the sustainer of the vegetable world. seeing, however, that year by year, as winter appears, all her glory vanishes, her flowers fade, and her trees become leafless, they poetically expressed this process of nature under the figure of a lost love. she [19]was said to hav

NAGEL CARL AMAZING SECRETS OF OCCULT POWER

of wickedness is reaching a climax of excitement, he begins to work the magic, harnessing the sexual energy liberated by the lowering of inhibitions. once the initial ceremony is completed, a queen of the night (usually a recently initiated member of the coven) is elected to satisfy the sexual demands of the coven master. she is carried to the altar, laid down and surrounded by black candles, and worshipped by the more virile men of the coven. she is stroked, kissed and otherwise stimulated until her passions are aroused. only then is she brought before the coven master who copulates with her, until he is exhausted. the mark of the beast aleister crowley, an infamous black magician of the 1920s, was< dubbed by the daily express the wickedest man who ever lived and came to believe that he w

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

k. each trade exalted its tutelary deity. rich in imagination, the ancients were able to poeticize the actions of daily life and give their professional occupations a celestial aura. thus were born the mysteries of the different trades.1 the cult of the ancient builders must have been of a distinct scope, for the noblest object of their labor was the construction of temples in which the gods were worshipped. in addition, human dwellings had religious significance. rituals were an indispensable part of their construction. among the romans the home was the temple of the lares gods. this was true for all ancient peoples and still survives in the traditional societies of the east "the dwelling was not an object, a 'machine to inhabit: it was the universe that man built in imitation of god's ex

stonecutters, having then in charge philippe hubert and pierre jouanne in 1663" its coat of arms "was a compass, triangle, plumb line, hammer, and chisels" the ascension depicted on the coat of arms of the community of masons("an acension of the son of god, all in gold) compels us to accept the fact that it refers to the craft of masonry.12 certain craftmen in the building trade, such as roofers, worshipped saint anne. in fact, in the temple there was an altar dedicated to her. finally, saint john was worshipped by sculptors and carvers of stone and plaster whose brotherhood had its seat in the church of the holy sepulcher near saint merri. fairly recently, according to cocheris, this brotherhood celebrated saint john porte latine on may 6" because of their spiritual affinity and their rol

nt merri. fairly recently, according to cocheris, this brotherhood celebrated saint john porte latine on may 6" because of their spiritual affinity and their roles as guardians and patron saints of mason corporations in france 159 the templars as well as the hospitallers, the two saint johns john the baptist and john of the gospels, the announcer of and the witness to the light, respectively were worshipped together by all free and enfranchised craftsmen of the templar commandery. this is the reason for the tradition, in existence until the revolution, of erecting a huge bonfire on the eve of saint john the baptist's feast day in the large courtyard of the temple.14 the brotherhoods in the provinces in the north the brotherhoods were known as bannieres. in the midi region they were called

traveling through the region, as long as he is a worker of this trade, finds himself in need and gives his sworn oath that he lacks the wherewithal to meet his travel expenses, the sworn members will be bound to administer to 160 from the art of building to the art of thinking his wants for only one meal and to give him two sols and six deniers."15 the same patron saints found in paris were also worshipped by the brotherhoods of these provincial builders, with the addition of saint gregor, saint alpinien, saint martin, saint marin, saint etienne, saint barbara, and especially the apostle saint thomas, who is often depicted holding a square. purposes and traditions of the brotherhoods the purpose of the brotherhoods is defined as follows in an edict issued on march 1319 restoring a brother

varies according to version, but this is how it was recorded in the golden legend: the four crowned martyrs were severus, severianus, carpoforus, and victorinus, who, by the commandment of diocletian, were beaten with plummets of lead unto the death. the names of whom could not be found, but after a long time they were shown by divine revelation, and it was established that their memory should be worshipped under the names of five other martyrs, that is to wit claude, castor, symphorian, nicostratus, and simplician, which were martyred two years after the four crowned martyrs. and these martyrs knew all the craft of sculpture or of carving, and diocletian would have constrained them to carve an idol, but they would not carve it, nor consent to do sacrifice to the idols. and then by the com

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ra at heliopolis and ptah at memphis, and demonstrated by further monuments and political favors his public support of these gods. but finally, wearied of thebes and its ambitious priests, he departed to build a new capital, pi-rameses, in the eastern delta- where he could quietly worship the god dearest to him, with amon occupying a secondary prominence "the provincial cities where set had been worshipped from all eternity- among them ombos, tjebu, and sepermeru- gained new preeminence from the favor accorded by the ramesside leaders to the god of the eastern delta. above all, pi-rameses, the new capital, brilliantly restored the worship that set had formerly received in the avaris of the hyksos- serge sauneron, les pretres de l'ancienne egypte(#2aa) following the passing of the two seti

PHILIP NEIL MYTHS LEGENDS EXPLAINED

of ancient egypt are, like the hindu gods, aspects of the great divine essence, named in one account of the creation as nebertcher, lord to the uttermost limit. re, the sun god, represents the creative consciousness of this all-powerful god, and the rest of the gods, brought into being by re, represent other aspects. egyptian gods were also interrelated or merged: amun, the hidden, the chief god worshipped at karnak, was a god of the air, but as amun-re he was a sun god and as amun-min, a fertility god. known by various names, most of the gods could also be depicted in animal as well as human form. mother of the stars nut s union with her brother geb and the birth of her children, the stars (often shown as decoration on her clothing, infuriated her father shu, who cursed her so that she w

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

ariot, one of whose horses has been unhitched. since they weakened g-d fs power through their sin, it was not proper that they try to invoke that very power, g-d fs gevurah, to judge the egyptians. 18 this array may be seen, inter alia, in the standard editions of the zohar, volume 2, p. 270a. 19 tikunei zohar 55 (89a. 20 zohar 2:36a, based on isaiah 19:22. 21 shemot rabbah 43:8. 22 the egyptians worshipped the ram-headed god khnum as the creator. he was also one of the gods of the nile. there was also an egyptian bull-god, apis, an incarnation of the creation-god ptah. gthe priests at memphis kept a real bull that was thoguht be the god fs living image. the bull lived in luxurious accomodations near the temple of ptah, and at regular festivals the egyptian upper classes were allowed to co

. he thus embodies the upside down order caused by sin. pharaoh was the image of the snake; he was gthe great serpent. h ezekiel prophesied against pharaoh: gthus said g-d: ebehold, i am against you, pharaoh, king of egypt, the great serpent that crouches inside its rivers, who has said, gmy river is mine, and i have made myself. h f h6 the river of egypt, the nile, was also the god the egyptians worshipped. the nile provided egypt with water to irrigate its crops by overflowing regularly. it thus represented the immutable laws of nature, whereas the irregularity of rain encourages reliance upon g-d. thus, pharaoh became synonymous with his river, his god, his philosophy of denying g-d fs active involvement in life. therefore g-d was angry with pharaoh, and he exacted retribution from him

hat was introduced into the human psyche when the primordial snake raped eve. by accepting the torah, the jewish people were cured of this primordial psychospiritual disability, and remained in this condition until the sin of the golden calf. evidently, the jewish people fs acceptance of the torah affected the world at large as well, enabling jethro, the arch-idolator (our sages state that he had worshipped every type of idol, to join the jewish people. the arizal will now discuss the evolution of the primordial sin. 5 ibid. 16:2. 6 genesis 4:10. 7 numbers 16:33. 8 bava batra 74a. 9 zevachim 116a. 10 proverbs 30:5. 11 shabbat 146a. the arizal on parashat yitro (2) 305 in the beginning, the first damage occurred when the moon accused [g-d. gg-d made the two great luminaries.the greater ligh

r hapesukim 395 parashat vayakhel last week fs torah portion, ki tisa, described the infamous incident of the golden calf. the arizal sees the beginning of this week fs torah portion as referring back to that incident and describing the means by which the jewish people could restore their spiritual status to what it was before the sin. we are taught that although the majority of the jewish people worshipped the golden calf, the instigators of this incident were not the jews themselves, but the gmixed multitude h which accompanied them out of egypt.1 these were the first converts to the jewish people. when a non-jew seeks to convert and be accepted as part of the jewish people, the rabbi or rabbinical court overseeing this process has to make sure his motives are pure and that he is not see

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

he utterance. ntger than thyself. look for him, id he will not know thee unless-;lg ht in thee andfill thedull void: and unwearied, standingaside--if to strike one blow amiss. but if< forth ee. rthyd bra in will reel, referred to as the "sine qua non" of able, by a kind of process of induction, powerful healing creative energy (and in the absence of verbal "orgone" and, in his opinion, it is what worshipped as "god" a jungian may upon individual interpretation. or release of libido. but the magician calls with proper training and dedication, the aid of an outside person regardie had a phenomenal ability efficiently. however, once in 1982 middle pillar technique twice daily result would eventually occur. if this and prolonged rhythmic deep "hierophant"and trust that one's personal intention

ally, that not the least vestige of misunderstanding or misconception may remain as to the objects of this divine theurgy, let me reproduce one last quotation from this same ritual. referring to the supemals and the temple that in old time was built on high, the speech adds "the holy place was made waste and the sons of the house of wisdom were taken away into the captivity of the senses. we have worshipped since then in a house made with hands, receiving a sacramental ministration by a derived light in place of the cohabiting glory. and yet, amidst signs and symbols the tokens of the higher presence have never been wanting in our hearts. by the waters of babylon we have sat down and wept, but we have ever remembered zion 'and that memorial is a witness testifying that we shall yet retum w

nal triad- in the understanding which transcends reason, in the wisdom which comes before understanding and in the crown which is the light of the supernals. we know that the shekinah, the co-habiting glory, dwelt in the inner sanctuary, but the first creation was made void. the holy place was made waste and the sons of the house of wisdom were taken away into the captivity of the senses. we have worshipped since then in a house made with hands, receiving a sacramental ministration by a derived light in place of the co-habiting glory. and yet, amidst signs and symbols the tokens of the higher presence have never been wanting in our hearts. by the waters of babylon we have sat down and wept, but we have ever remembered zion, and that memorial is a witness teswng that we shall yet return wit

hephi, however, has other symbology and other attributes. for by reason of the fertilising qualities of the nile and of the fad that what is brought down by the nile as refuse from the land of the sacred lakes is, to egypt, its life and the source of its fertility, so there arises a correspondence between the nile and the lower intestines, and both are under the care of ahephi (hapi) who thus was worshipped as nilus, and in this connection he has for his symbol, a head-dress of lotus flowers. now, further, the alimentary system is under the special guardianship of isis and nephthys. isis who conquers by the power of wisdom and the forces of nature, guards ameshet. and nephthys who hides that which is secret, guards ahephi- whence also, until recent days, in the fulness of time, the sacred

RELIGIOUS TENANTS OF THE YEZIDI

might i called it the white [fountain] and i am he to whom the lord of heaven said: thou art the ruler and governor of the universe. and i am he who manifested some of my wonders, and some of my virtues are seen in the things that exist. and i am he to whom the flinty mountains bow, they are under me, and ask to do my pleasure. and i am he before whose majesty the wild beasts wept; they came and worshipped and kissed my feet. i am adi of the mark, fr. 2 a wanderer, the all-merciful has distinguished me with names. and my seat and throne are the wide-spread earth. in the depth of my knowledge there is no god but me. these things are subservient to my power. how, then, can ye deny me, o mine enemies? do not deny me, o men, but yield, that in the day of the resurrection you may be happy in m

RITE OF THE OPPOSER

e lunar month. the prayer of the design: as my words punctuate the silence, and the silence my words- so doth their resonance align and magnify power sufficient to reify their intent. as i begin- so doth the design which at my words shall become! my words encipher me and create reality; as i speak so these words ensorcel possibilities. that which i shall become will transcend aught that hath been worshipped. i will become other than that which hath been named. chaos is the primogenitor of my forms- from whence come my manifestations. existence itself will be eclipsed by my shadow. chance is my circle without circumference; fate is my centre without position. magick is my force: energy beyond limitation. my body is transition: from now unto now. my words encipher me and create possibilities

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

being read by the uninstructed among believers. taken literally and understood materially, such books could be only an inconceivable tissue of absurdities and scandals, as the school of voltaire has demonstrated but too well. it is the same with all the ancient dogmas, the brilliant theogonies and poetic legends. to say that ancient greece believed in the love-adventures of jupiter, or that egypt worshipped the cynocephalus and sparrow-hawk, is to exhibit as much ignorance and bad faith as would be shown by maintaining that christians adore a triple god, composed of an old man, an executed criminal and a dove. the ignorance of symbols is invariably calumnious. for this reason we should be on our guard first and foremost against the derision of that which we do not know, when its enunciatio

r glory of the church, which persecuted templars, burnt magicians, excommunicated freemasons, etc. let us state boldly and precisely that all inferior initiates of the occult science and profaners of the great arcanum, not only did in the past but do now, and will ever, adore what is signified by this alarming symbol. yes, in our profound conviction, the grand masters of the order of the templars worshipped the baphomet, and caused it to be worshipped by their initiates; yes, there existed in the past, and there may be still in the present, assemblies which are presided over by this figure, seated on a throne and having a flaming torch between the horns. but the adorers of this sign do not consider, as do we, that it is a representation of the devil: on the contrary, for them it is that of

dissipated! behold the sphinx of mediaeval terrors unveiled and cast from his throne! quomodo cedidisti, lucifer! the dread baphomet henceforth, like all monstrous idols, enigmas of antique science and its dreams, is only an innocent and even pious hieroglyph. how should man adore the beast, since he exercises a sovereign power over it? let us affirm, for the honour of humanity, that it has never worshipped dogs and goats any more than lambs or pigeons. in the hieroglyphic orders, why not a goat as much as a lamb? on the sacred stones of gnostic christians of the basilidean sect there are representations of christ under the diverse figures of kabalistic animals. sometimes a bird, at others a lion, and again a serpent with the head of lion or bull; but in all cases he bears invariably the s

RUBY TABLET OF SET

thern italy. the hellenic greek cultures are most notable for exalting the intellect. for making the universe an intelligible tool and/or puzzle for mankind to explore, understand, and use. they did not conceive mankind as having a "mission" from the gods, though the gods could influence human fortunes for good or ill. to the extent that the greeks put humanity at the "center" of importance, they worshipped its body (as in athletics and the olympic games) and its mind (as in the sophistic and philosophical schools of athens. the cretan (minoan) political system, a bureaucratic monarchy most significant for its peacefulness, included no evident slavery, standing military, or marked class distinctions. women appear to have been politically equal with men. the minoan culture was destroyed ca

scendental he idolized, no matter whether there was question of personified or unpersonified conceptions of god. anything man was unable to understand or to comprehend was imputed to the powers above such as his intuitive virtue admitted them. in this way, all the deities of mankind, good and evil ones (demons) have been born. as time went on, gods, angels, demiurges, demons, and ghosts have been worshipped irrespective of their having ever been alive in reality or their having existed in fancy only. with the development of mankind, the idea of god was shrinking especially at the time when, with the aid of the sciences, were explained phenomena ascribed before to the gods. a lot of books would have to be written if one wished to enter into details of the various ideas of god in the history

mine is the only way. or if he does not say it, he things it. these things, it is true, transcend our reason; religion is the something in us greater than our reason, and being greater it gives greater satisfaction. to save ourselves we must lose ourselves; though not irrationally, if reason is transcended. if it be true that we have lived for many lives before, in ways how many must we not have worshipped god or failed to do so? how often have we condemned the way we praised before! intolerant in one faith, equally intolerant in another, condemning our past selves! what, then, think ye of christ? must he not be a master of religion, wise beyond our highest ideals of wisdom? does he condemn his worshippers because their ways are diverse; does he condemn those who worship his brethren, who

sociated with the neters 6 are interpreted in a highly metaphorical and allegorical manner. perhaps it is also important to note the distinction between esoteric and exoteric interpretations of philosophical and magical imagery. in other words, the understanding of the sages and priests of ancient initiatory societies- those initiated into the inner temple- and that of the masses of followers who worshipped at the outer temple 7 were at great variance. classification: v2- 201.a1- 1 author: burton p. gillis iii date: december 14, xxi1 revision: march 24, xxii html revision: dec 15, 1997 ce subject: satanism reading list: 6 as heraclitus (the "riddler" or "dark philosopher) observed, the many are incapable of understanding religious symbolism on a non-literal level, and thus worship statues

the son and the events of his earthly life we find plagiarisms of various cults such as that of mithras. in god the holy ghost is every concept the mystic could desire, sufficiently ambiguous to allow unlimited explanation and devotion. surely the philosophers and gnostics could be kept busy. the pantheon of deities would not be complete without the legendary saints. these were not supposed to be worshipped, as they were not divine. it was claimed that they had all lived exemplary lives, and were worthy of veneration. there was a saint for every day of the year, and for almost any function you could think of except sex. the blessed virgin mary was not supposed to be divine either, but some of her feasts are holy days of "obligation" wherein the catholic was supposed to attend mass. if one

SALMANRUSHDIE THESATANICVERSES

nerations, breeding eugenically, that their seed might one day take root somewhere in a brave new world beneath a yellow sun. he corrected himself: not the mother but the father ship, because there he was, after all, the great man, abbu, dad. thirteen-year--old salahuddin, setting aside recent doubts and grievances, 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

came running at him, naked from head to foot, her black hair flowing to her ankles from her head. nearing him, she halted, and recited in her terrible voice of sulphur and hellfire "have you heard of lat, and manat, and uzza, the third, the other? they are the exalted birds" but khalid interrupted her, saying "uzza, those are the devil's verses, and you the devil's daughter, a creature not to be worshipped, but denied" so he drew his sword and cut her down. and he returned to mahound in his tent and said what he had seen. and the prophet said "now may we come into jahilia" and they arose, and came into the city, and possessed it in the name of the most high, the destroyer of men. o o o how many idols in the house of the black stone? don't forget: three hundred and sixty. sun-god, eagle, r

efore him, mumbling their life-saving sentences _there is no god but al-lah, mahound whispers to khalid. somebody has not come to kneel before him; somebody long awaited "salman" the prophet wishes to know "has he been found "not yet. he's hiding; but it won't be long" there is a distraction. a veiled woman kneels before him, kissing his feet "you must stop" he enjoins "it is only god who must be worshipped" but what foot-kissery this is! toe by toe, joint by joint, the woman licks, kisses, sucks. and mahound, unnerved, repeats "stop. this is incorrect" now, however, the woman is attending to the soles of his feet, cupping her hands beneath his heel. he kicks out, in his confusion, and catches her in the throat. she falls, coughs, then prostrates herself before him, and says firmly "there

she went, and the lamp that had been snuffed out burst once more into a great and gentle light, and the messenger murmured "still, i thank thee, al--lat, for this gift" not long afterwards he died. ayesha went out into the next room, where the other wives and disciples were waiting with heavy hearts, and they began mightily to lament: but ayesha wiped her eyes, and said "if there be any here who worshipped the messenger, let them grieve, for mahound is dead; but if there be any here who worship god, then let them rejoice, for he is surely alive" it was the end of the dream. vii the angel azraeel 1 it all boiled down to love, reflected saladin chamcha in his den: love, the refractory bird of meilhac and hal vy's libretto for _carmen- one of the prize specimens, this, in the allegorical avi

SATANGEL

d a philosophic view of life tinged with regret. mersilde (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of lucifer. can transport thee instantaneously wheresoever may be desired. minos (dante s inferno, canto v. who assigns the sinners to their tortures. has a long tail, which he wraps about himself. moloch (greek transcription of hebrew molek, punic root mlk, meaning offering, sacifice) a canaanite god worshipped by the early semites, to whom sacrifices of burnt children were made outside jurusalem (2 kings 23:10. his face and hands are smeared with the blood of infants, the chief of the army of hell. arch-demon corresponding to kether. the name has been compared with the punic root mlk, meaning offering and sacrifice. morail (grimorium verum. a subordinate spirit of lucifer. has power to make e

SATANIC BIBLE

- greek synonym for satan, the arch fiend asmodeus- hebrew devil of sensuality and luxury, originally "creature of judgement" astaroth- phoenician goddess of lasciviousness, equivalent of babylonian ishtar azazel (hebrew) taught man to make weapons of war, introduced cosmetics baalberith- canaanite lord of the covenant who was later made a devil balaam- hebrew devil of avarice and greed baphomet- worshipped by the templars as symbolic of satan bast- egyptian goddess of pleasure represented by the cat beelzebub (hebrew) lord of the flies, taken from symbolism of the scarab behemoth- hebrew personification of satan in the form of an elephant beherit- syriac name for satan bil- celtic god of hell chemosh- national god of moabites, later a devil cimeries- rides a black horse and rules africa c

mormo (greek) king of the ghouls, consort of hecate naamah- hebrew female devil of seduction nergal- babylonian god of hades nihasa- american indian devil nija- polish god of the underworld o-yama- japanese name for satan pan- greek god of lust, later relegated to devildom pluto- greek god of the underworld proserpine- greek queen of the underworld pwcca- welsh name for satan rimmon- syrian devil worshipped at damascus sabazios- phrygian origin, identified with dionysos, snake worship saitan- enochian equivalent of satan sammael (hebrew "venom of god" samnu- central asian devil sedit- american indian devil sekhmet- egyptian goddess of vengeance set- egyptian devil shaitan- arabic name for satan shiva (hindu) the destroyer supay- inca god of the underworld t'an-mo- chinese counterpart to th

SATANIC RITUALS

and thrown into the dnieper in 988, when prince vladimir of kiev decided to convert to byzantine orthodoxy. volos suffered the indignity of being turned into a barnyard watchman and simple shepherd, and was assigned the new name of st vlas. volkh, the werewolf king, was the personification of sorcery, and was called upon by pagan russians to defend their land in times of need. the cult of kupala worshipped the magical powers of water. the fern, sacred to the followers of kupala, like the peacock of the yezidis, possessed power over riches, beautiful women and wisdom. the cult of larilo refused to die out even as late as the eighteenth century, when the bishop of voronezh abolished its practices, which included organized festivities and "satanic games" iarilo, the russian equivalent of pan

r own business, and maintaining the courage of their convictions-despite wholesale massacres of their men, women, and children at the hands of the self-rightous- the yezidis have finally been granted a sickeningly charitable form of acknowledgment from theologians. it is now patronizingly asserted that the yezidis were "actually noble and highly moral people" and therefore could not actually have worshipped the devil! it is difficult to assess this as anything other than the most blatant form of selective inattention! each time an important yezidi ritual was to take place, a brazen figure of a peacock (called a sanjak) was removed from a secret hiding place by a priest and carried to the temple. it was placed on a pedestal around which a running spring of water played into a small pool thi

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an-made heaven. though clearly, their paintings and murals, stained-glass figures and statues are devoid of any true spiritual life or essence as their constitution is purely material. yet, they are paid homage and servitude whole-heartedly by their creators/idolaters. there s no denying that images and idols have replaced that unseen and unknown god which is supposed to be eternally existing and worshipped solely the spirit of god. this irrational practice of xian worship is understandably confused because without their professed true knowledge, xian man does not know, nor does he understand the proper way to worship his mythological god. thus he continues to employ true xian creationism, violating inapplicable commandments supposedly mandated by his creation the false and imperceptible g

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

uslims. heretic: a person whose beliefs oppose his or her religion s official doctrines, or defining principles. ho-no-che-no-keh: the invisible agents, or lesser spirits, of the iroquois. holocaust: the systematic slaughter of jews by the nazi regime in germany before and during world war ii (1939 45. householders: laypeople; jains who are not monks or nuns. idol: a statue or other image that is worshipped as a god. imbolc: neo-pagan holiday generally held on february 2 to mark the lengthening of the days and the emergence of the world from winter. immaculate conception: the principle of the roman catholic church that mary, the mother of jesus, was conceived with a soul free from original sin. incarnation: in christianity, the belief that god took on bodily form through jesus, making jesu

assures many that there is something more beyond the physical life. chris lisle/corbis. 6 world religions: almanac what is religion? and knossos in ancient crete (c. 1500 bce. one early example that may indicate an early fertility goddess is the 25,000-year-old venus of willendorf, a small limestone statue discovered in austria in 1908. in these cultures it is believed that the mother goddess was worshipped for her role in promoting the fertility of both the land and the people. over time, the mother goddess was largely displaced by patriarchal, or male-dominated, pantheons, perhaps as a result of a better understanding of man s part in reproduction. the ancient minoan civilization has left a graphic and very beautiful record of its female goddess in wall paintings in archaeological ruins

is wrong. though an organized religion, the carvaka sect comes close to the modern sense of atheism. development in the west in the east (the countries of china, japan, india, and others in southeast asia, early atheistic thought was actually religious atheism. in the west, however, such thought came from outside of religion and was secular (worldly or nonreligious) in nature. the ancient greeks worshipped a number of gods, with zeus the leader among them. he was not a creator-god, but he did uphold the moral order, or the right and proper way of existence. the greek pantheon, the set of all their gods and goddesses, was attacked as early as the sixth century bce by the greek philosopher xenophanes (570 475 bce. he thought that a group of hard-drinking and loose-living deities like the gr

oms. if atoms were eternal, democritus reasoned, then the universe had always existed and would always continue to exist, and, as a result, there was no need for a creator. another early greek philosopher, anaxagoras (c. 500 c. 428 bce, was exiled from the greek city of athens for stating that the stars, planets, and the sun were material objects and not heavenly bodies, or god-like spirits to be worshipped. another thinker, protagoras (c. 485 420 bce, was banned from athens for saying that he had no way to know if gods existed or not, which is the central idea of agnosticism. ancient greece also provides an example of a movement that could be consistent with modern atheism. the epicureans, or followers of the philosopher epicurus (c. 340 c. 270 bce, believed in a material universe, like t

ently, causing disastrous flooding. because of this, the mesopotamians felt that nature was dangerous and far beyond the control of mere humans. the earliest mesopotamian deities thus represented different aspects of nature and were honored in hopes of winning their favor. world religions: almanac 39 ancient religions of egypt and mesopotamia for instance, anu, the god of the sky, might have been worshipped to keep violent storms from damaging the crops. hursag, the goddess of mountains and foothills, would be invoked by priests to stop an invasion of barbarian tribes. deities were often represented as human beings and some symbolic natural object. once given human form, a process called anthropomorphism, the gods were then grouped in families. mesopotamian gods were worshipped in temple c

SETH IN THE MAGICKAL TEXTS

can be found "some curious traces of a cult of this seth-typhon presiding over judeo-gnostic rituals in which adam plays the leading part" he then says "that this cult came to be actually codified is attested by the existence of egyptian figurines of the god seth c" after having given a short description of these figurines, doresse concludes "there is no doubt about the identification of the god worshipped in this guise, as one of the great figures of gnosticism: the pedestal is engraved with the name aberamentho, which denoted jesus (p. 105. finally, in order "to show what relations already existed between gnosticism and the more confused magical literature in which this fantastic demon appears, doresse refers to an incantation known as the stele of jeou the painter, where the headless g

SIFRA DETZNIYUTHA

orah b reshith 3:22; ladder of jacob; kav (bk, line of light (luria. 157 the birds are the sefiroth, see 3rd mundaka 1:1, atharva veda: two birds, united always and known by the same name, closely clinging to the same tree, one of them eats the sweet fruit, the other looks without eating. seated on the same tree, the jiva moans, bewildered by his impotence, but when he beholds the other, the lord worshipped by all and his glory, he then becomes free from grief. 158 seven lower sefiroth, see zohar i: 31a and 186a, also zohar hadash 3a. 159 song of songs 2:8. 160 three columns. the tantras speak of three gunas (qualities--sattva, rajas, and tamas. 161 torah b reshith 5:24. 162 proverbs 22:6. the youth is metatron. see books of enoch; job32:6; zohar i: 223b, 37b. 163 ol (li, lit. upon, name o

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ear to the secret of the sublime goetia (or the magic that lies within nature, as electricity within the cloud 'he who pours water into the muddy well, does but disturb the mud("iamb. de vit. pythag "what do you tend to "this: that you have faculties that may attain to surpassing power, that may rank you among those enchanters who, greater than the magian, leave behind them an enduring influence, worshipped wherever beauty is comprehended, wherever the soul is sensible of a higher world than that in which matter struggles for crude and incomplete existence "but to make available those faculties, need i be a prophet to tell you that you must learn to concentre upon great objects all your desires? the heart must rest, that the mind may be active. at present you wander from aim to aim. as the

emeure! la harpe "le comte de warwick" act 3, sc. 5 (who? thou abandon me! where goest thou? no! stay, stay) letter from viola to zanoni "it has come to this! i am the first to part! i, the unfaithful one, bid thee farewell forever. when thine eyes fall upon this writing thou wilt know me as one of the dead. for thou that wert, and still art my life, i am lost to thee! o lover! o husband! o still worshipped and adored! if thou hast ever loved me, if thou canst still pity, seek not to discover the steps that fly thee. if thy charms can detect and tract me, spare me, spare our child! zanoni, i will rear it to love thee, to call thee father! zanoni, its young lips shall pray for thee! ah, spare thy child, for infants are the saints of earth, and their mediation may be heard on high! shall i t

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cred. the bull was a type of the strength and procreative power of the god of reproduction in nature, and the cow was the type of his female counterpart; every sacred animal and living thing possessed some quality or attribute which was ascribed to some god, and as each god was only a form of ra, the quality or attribute ascribed to him was that of the sun-god himself. the educated egyptian never worshipped an animal as an animal, but only as an incarnation of a god, and the reverence paid to animals in egypt was in no way different from that paid to the king, who was regarded as "divine" and as an incarnation of ra the sun-god, who was the visible symbol of the creator. the relation of the king to ra was identical with that of ra to god. the p. 233 [paragraph continues] hebrews, greeks, a

as identical with that of ra to god. the p. 233 [paragraph continues] hebrews, greeks, and romans never understood the logical conception which underlay the reverence with which the egyptians regarded certain animals, and as a result they grossly misrepresented their religion. the ignorant people, no doubt, often mistook the symbol for what it symbolized, but it is wrong to say that the egyptians worshipped animals in the ordinary sense of the word, and this fact cannot be too strongly insisted on. holding the views he did about transformations there was nothing absurd in the reverence which the egyptian paid to animals. when a sacred animal died the god whom it represented sought out another animal of the same species in which to renew his incarnation, and the dead body of the animal, ina

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e letters which bring him down [2 [1. the allusion is to the swine of gadara. 2. the three characters are apparently the numbers 644] 53. and i solomon, on hearing this, glorified god, and condemned his legion to carry wood from the thicket. and i condemned the lion-shaped one himself to saw up the wood small with his teeth, for burning in the unquenchable furnace for the temple of god. 54. and i worshipped the lord god of israel, and bade another demon come forward. and there came before me a dragon, three-headed, of fearful hue. and i questioned him "who art thou" and he answered me "i am a caltrop-like spirit [1, whose activity in three lines. but i blind children in women's wombs, and twirl their ears round. and i make them deaf [2] and mute. and i have again in my third head means of

the firmament of heaven, and fly about among the stars. and we hear the sentences which go forth upon the souls of men, and forthwith we come, and whether by force of influence, or by fire, or by sword, or by some accident, we veil our act of destruction; and if a man does not die by some untimely disaster or by violence, then we demons transform ourselves in such a way as to appear to men and be worshipped in our human nature" 114. i therefore, having heard this, glorified the lord god, and again i questioned the demon, saying "tell me how ye can ascend into heaven, being demons, and amidst the stars and holy angels intermingle" and he answered "just as things are fulfilled in heaven, so also on earth (are fulfilled) the types [1] of all of them. for there are principalities, authorities

SORCERIES OF ZOS

spare's experience is of exceptional interest by reason of its close approximation to a form of dream-control into which he was initiated many years earlier by witch paterson. the word ku has several meanings in chinese, but in this particular case it denotes a peculiar form of sorcery involving elements which spare had already incorporated in his conception of the new sexuality. the adepts of ku worshipped a serpent goddess in the form of a woman dedicated to the cult. during an elaborate ritual she would become possessed, with the result that she threw off, or emanated, multiple forms of the goddess as sentient shadows endowed with all the charms possessed by her human representative. these shadow-women, impelled by some subtle law of attraction, gravitated to one or other of the devotee

SPENSER THE CULT OF THE ALL SEEING EYE 1960

, as the dark and baleful moon of witchcraft to the full bright orb of magical radiance and enchantment exemplified for spare by 'witch' paterson who changed from the hag to the virgin before his eyes. see images and oracles of austin osman spare, 19ca introduction the cult of the all-seeing eye has existed under many names and guises for thousands of years. through the ages its high priests have worshipped before unhallowed altars dedicated to the adoration of a nameless deity. an unknown god. the identity of this deity has been concealed behind an elaborate system of veiled allegories and secret symbols. followers of this pseudomystical, humanistic, occult system of beliefs affirm, without proof, that it is based on an unbroken oral tradition handed down from an ancient priesthood in egy

its stark setting in that room is in itself a symbol of idolatry "stone worship was perhaps the earliest form of fetichism. eussebius cites porphyry as saying that the ancients represented the deity by a black stone, because his nature is obscure and inscrutable. the reader here will be reminded of the black stone, hadsjar el aswad, placed in the south-west corner of the kaaba at mecca, which was worshipped by the ancient arabians. the druids, it is well known, had no other images of their gods but cubical or sometimes columnar stones. to use the language of dudley, the pillar or stone 'was adapted as a symbol of strength and firmness. a symbol, also, of the divine power, and, by a ready inference, a symbol or idol of the deity himself. the god hermes [mercury] was represented without hand

uration on april 30, 1789, still hangs in its appointed place over the president's pew in the north aisle of st. paul's chapel at broadway and fulton street, new york city, where it may he seen by visitors any day of the week. a 5cent picture postcard of the painting is sold in the chapel. st. paul's chapel is the oldest public building on manhattan island, erected in 1766. here george washington worshipped for two years (see washington's diary, 1789 and 1790, seated directly under the beautiful and inspiring painting of our national coat of arms hanging on the wall behind his pew. the religious heritage of our nation could hardly have been expressed in a more felicitous fashion than it was in the symbolism of this painting. the glory of golden light is by far the most prominent feature of

by a hieroglyphic containing the black half-sphere seen in the meditation room murai) set murdered his brother and cut his body into fourteen pieces. isis recovered all the mangled pieces, with the exception of the privities of her husband, which had been thrown into the sea. horus defeated set and osiris was proclaimed to he a resurrected god. his body, encased in fourteen different statues, was worshipped with divine honors. that part of the body not recovered was rendered homage during festivals called phallica, which were introduced into europe by the athenians. the entire system of phallic worship in the ancient world originated in this festival held in honor of osiris.57 the number fourteen has a special occult meaning in the symbolism of modern-day secret societies as the "14. days

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he forces active within them. they have attained a gnosis, and consciously create something divine, something beyond themselves. the initiates looked upon the well-known gods and myths, created by the people in an activity transcending the given world of nature, in the same way. they aspired to understand the laws governing the world of gods and myths. where they found the figure of some divinity worshipped by the people, or a myth being told, they looked for a higher truth.71 let us take an example. the athenians had been forced by king minos of crete to deliver up to him every eight years seven boys and seven maidens. these were thrown to the minotaur, a horrible monster, to be devoured. when it came to the third time for the mournful tribute to be paid, theseus, the king s son, went wit

able, human beings can participate in the divine nature. the festivals at eleusis were an eloquent confession of the belief in the immortality of the human soul. the conviction was expressed in the imagery of the myth about persephone. but alongside demeter and persephone at eleusis, the god dionysus was honored. if demeter stood for the divine origin of the eternal within humanity, dionysus was worshipped as the divine presence in the world, which assumes an endless variety of forms. he is the god poured out into cosmic existence, torn apart in order to be reborn spiritually. he rightly takes his place beside demeter in the festivals.85 chapter 5 the egyptian and other eastern mysteries the egyptian mysteries: becoming osiris the so-called egyptian book of the dead, 86 now restored to us

with the deceased in order to furnish guidance when they were released from the mortal state. by means of this literary work we can explore the most intimate ideas of the egyptians concerning the eternal world and cosmogony. the ideas of the gods that we find there remind us constantly of those familiar from the greek mysteries. osiris is a god who gradually came to be popular and was universally worshipped in egypt, eclipsing the other local the egyptian and other eastern mysteries 87 divinities and subsuming the attributes of the other gods into himself. but whatever the ordinary people of egypt thought about the nature of osiris, in the book of the dead we have evidence of a priestly doctrine, according to which osiris was to be found within the human soul. that emerges from everything

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

s the elite, consider most americans to be mere sheep who must be kept from discovering "the black cauldron of dirty secrets" hidden to them.8 the mysterious secret of which manly p. hall, 33 writes, surely falls into this category of dirty secrets kept squirreled away in the black cauldron. the dirtiest secret found inside that black cauldron the mysterious secret is this: that the unknown "god" worshipped by the masons and called by such hazy, nebulous names as the great architect of the universe and by codenames such as abaddon, mahabone, and jahbuhlun, is actually none other than satan, or lucifer. that is the greatest of secrets that the illuminati must shield from view. the illuminated (so-called "enlightened) man who knows this darkest of secrets is taught by his superiors and comes

nly attempts to cast lucifer, pseudonym for the devil, in the mold of a good angel, ostensibly sent here on earth only to assist man and introduce man to the "better angels" the one about whom naught may be said in her eye-opening book, the initiation of the world, occultist vera stanley alder reinforces this pretense of the elite. she remarks that it is "deity" without a name that is admired and worshipped. furthermore, this mysterious deity is esoterically described by her as the "one about whom naught may be said" ironically, alder does have a lot to say regarding the "one about whom naught may be said" in fact, she praises this unnamed god as a being of immense "wonder and magnitude" she suggests, too, that the one the elite worship may properly be referred to as the "absolute" alder a

eph smith as he lay dying on the floor of an illinois jail on a variety of criminal charges. lying bleeding and desperate, smith's raspy voice could be heard crying out the plaintive, masonic wail, calling on masons to help a brother in dire trouble "is there no help for the widow's son" joseph smith no doubt could not believe that he, a man who claimed to be god's chosen prophet but who secretly worshipped lucifer; he, a man of such superior intellect and endowed with the occult gift of spiritual enlightenment, was about to meet his maker, a victim of a vigilante mob who despised him. jack parsons, american rocket scientist, founder of california's jet propulsion laboratory, and a priest of the o.t.o, was, like mormon joseph smith, a premier servant of satan and a rebel against god. he ev

be heaped upon his, the candidate's, head.6 so we see that the mason's newfound "god" jahbuhlun (jah-baal-on, is a rigid taskmaster who does not look kindly on traitors and blabbers. it was the canaanite god baal, of course, to whom the backslidden jews and pagans sacrificed their children in the fire. you'll recall that the prophet elijah brought the message of god's judgement against those who worshipped bloodthirsty baal, who, in reality, is merely an idolatrous representation of satan. yes, baal is the devil. to attempt in vain to combine the name of the true god with that of false gods like baal and on is particularly evil and grievous to the true god in heaven. yet, the mason does exactly this with jahbuhlun and then compounds his grave error by adopting as one of his chief logos th

ble "and the lord said unto moses, put now thine hand into thy bosom; and he put his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold his hand was leprous as snow" leprous, indeed, is the hand of the mason who vainly seeks to hide and coverup his fides oath of allegiance to jahbuhlun, his sacred god. but, believe me, there is no relationship of the mason to moses, a prophet of god who loyally worshipped the true i am, the god who reigns for all eternity in heaven. hidden hand of the men of jahbuhlun 59 60 codex magica george washington in a masonic pose. around his neck is the emblem of the moon goddess, feminine complement to the sun god, osiris, secretly worshipped in occult freemasonry. this emblem, combined with the diamond-shaped device just above it, indicates that washington had

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ephi, however, has other symbolism and other attributes. for by reason of the fertilizing qualities of the nile and of the fact that what is brought down by the nile as refuse from the land of the sacred lakes is, to egypt, its life and the source of its fertility, so there arises a correspondence between the nile and the lower intestines, and both are under the care of ahephi (hapi) who thus was worshipped as nilus, and in this connection he has for his symbol, a headdress of lotus flowers. now further, the alimentary system is under the special guardianship of isis and nephthys. isis who conquers by the power of wisdom and the forces of nature, guards ameshett. and nephthys, who hides that which is secret, guards ahephi- whence also, until recent days, in the fullness of time, the sacred

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of ancient greece was a sophisticated kind of nature worship wherein natural elements and phenomena were transformed into divine beings who lived atop mount olympus. if the judeo-christian tradition proclaimed that humans were fashioned in the image of god, their creator, then it must be said that the gods of ancient greece were created in the image of humans, their creators. like the humans who worshipped them, the olympians lived in communities and had families, friends, and enemies and were controlled by the same emotions, lusts, and loves. the pantheon of the gods of ancient greece were not cloaked in the mysterious, unfathomable qualities of the deities of the east, but possessed the same vices and virtues as the humans who sought their assistance. although the olympians could manife

d virtues as the humans who sought their assistance. although the olympians could manifest as all-powerful entities especially when a rival god wasn t interfering none of them were omnipotent. although they were capable of exhibiting wisdom, none of them were omniscient. and they often found themselves as subject to the whims of fate as the humans who prayed for their guidance. the olympians were worshipped by the greeks most often in small family groups. there existed no highly organized or formally educated priesthood, no strict doctrines, no theologians to interpret the meaning of ambiguous scriptural passages. the followers of the state religion could worship the god or gods of their choosing and believed that they could gain their favor by performing simple ritual acts and sacrifices

leasant things. thus shall he do in his fortress with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory; and he shall cause them to rule over many and shall divide the land for gain (daniel 11:36. st. paul, writing in 2 thessalonians 2:3, had a similar vision concerning the arrogant and evil king: the man of sin who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called god or that is worshipped; so that he as god sits in the temple of god, displaying himself as if being god for the mystery of lawlessness is already at work in the world: only he who now restrains (the coming of the antichrist) will do so. and then shall that wicked [one] be revealed, whom the lord will consume with the spirit of his mouth. destroying him whose coming is in harmony with the working of satan with

greater than they possessed. tibetan buddhism borrows its demons from hinduism and adds a number of indigenous entities, who are ambivalent toward the inhabitants of the himalayas, sometimes appearing as fierce and malevolent creatures, other times manifesting as teachers of enlightenment. various scriptures state firmly that regardless of their strength, power, and majesty, angels are not to be worshipped, and religious teachers advise that true heavenly beings will immediately discourage any humans from attempting to bow their knees to them. on the other hand, the fallen angels, the demons, are motivated by their own selfish goals and delight in corrupting humans. they encourage mortals to express greed and to seek the acquisition of material, rather than spiritual, treasures. as a gene

woman. new york: barnes& noble books, 1993. walker, barbara g. the woman s encyclopedia of myths and secrets. san francisco: harper& row, 1983. greek mystery schools the origin and substance of the state religion of ancient greece was a sophisticated kind of nature worship wherein natural elements and phenomena were transformed into divine beings who lived atop mount olympus. like the humans who worshipped them, the olympians lived in communities and had families, friends, and enemies and were controlled by the same emotions, lusts, and loves. the pantheon of the gods of ancient greece were not cloaked in the mysterious, unfathomable qualities of the deities of the east, but possessed the same vices and virtues as the humans who sought their assistance. although the olympians could manife

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lkulaku; and in greek, brukolakas. native american tribes tell of bear-people, wolf-people, fox-people, and so forth, and state that in the beginning of things, humans were as animals and animals as humans. stories of women who gave birth to werecreatures are common among the north american tribal myths. early cultures throughout the americas, europe, asia, and africa formed totem clans and often worshipped minor deities that were half-human, half-animal. norse legends tell about hairy, humanlike beings that live in the underworld caves and come out at night to feast on the flesh of unfortunate surface dwellers. to the people of the middle ages, there was little question that such creatures as werewolves truly existed, and the inquisition was certain to include these demonic entities in th

le, regardless of educational level or ethnicity. while numerous studies have demonstrated that positive attitudes and certain religious practices, such as prayer and meditation, can reduce stress, superstitions that have become ingrained in someone s belief system can become extremely harmful. cats perhaps no animal has inspired as much superstition as the cat. throughout history, cats have been worshipped as gods by certain cultures and abhorred as demons by others. in european folklore, the black cat is the traditional companion of witches. because of this old belief, 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 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends 189 superstitions are a kind of white magic. the black cat has become an o

said to have nine lives. the egyptians did not fear the cat, but rather reverenced it, and they elevated cats far above the role of domestic pet. to the egyptians, the cat was transformed from mouse catcher to supreme deity, the sayer of great words. the egyptian word for cat was mau, which is at once an imitation of the animal s call and the nearly universal human cry for mother. cats came to be worshipped with such intensity that the wanton killing of a cat was punishable by death. because the old egyptians had a great fear of the dark, they observed with awe that the cat, a creature of the night, walked the shadowed streets with confidence. carefully considering the import of the cat s midnight vigils, the egyptian sages decided that the cat was solely responsible for preventing the wor

ed: when joseph bonaparte (1768 1844, king of naples, visited saratoga springs in 1825, he complained just before he fainted 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 190 superstitions, strange customs, taboos, and urban legends if a black cat crosses one s path, it is also considered a sign of bad things to happen. throughouthistory, cats have been worshipped as gods by certain cultures. that he sensed a cat s presence. although his hosts assured his majesty that no such animal was anywhere present, a persistent search revealed a kitten hiding in a sideboard. besides a glance that can bring on terror, folklore also empowers the cat s eyes with the ability to see in the dark. since all other creatures can see only in the daylight, to see at n

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lip fs territories. then philip found the mysterious esquire de floyran, who claimed to have been a member of the knights templar. floyran said that the order had deceived the church and the people for more than a hundred years. what had begun as a pious service to pilgrims and defenders of the cross against the infidels had degenerated into a monstrous blood cult. principal among the demons they worshipped was baphomet, the three-headed god of the assassins, a heretical muslim sect. floyran swore that he had seen initiates into the order spitting upon crucifixes, participating in vile rites, even sacrificing babies to demons. there has never been any conclusive evidence to prove whether de floyran was a true member of the knights templar who had a personal grudge against the order or if h

unnoticed by either scholars or the general public. however, a little over 20 years later, dr. margaret alice murray (1863.1963, an egyptologist on staff at the university college in london, began researching the thesis that witchcraft was actually the remnant of an ancient pre-christian fertility religion that had nothing to do with the christian concept of a devil that the witches had allegedly worshipped and brought upon them the wrath of the church during the time of the burning, the inquisition. although murray fs work underscored the research of leland, she seemed to have been unaware of his groundbreaking studies. however, it was her book, the witch cult in western europe (1962, that established a doctrine that would be maintained for many years.wiccans were members of an ancient pr

folk simply went underground with their worship of diana, or made the motions of giving reverence to the virgin mary, while secretly directing their true devotion to the goddess. gchristianization forced the old religionists underground in the twelfth century, but the sculptors paid tribute to their goddesses demeter and persephone by creating the madonna and female jesus. in ancient times people worshipped at the temple of demeter in enna, sicily, where they celebrated her daughter persephone fs resurrection from the underworld to become goddess of souls and immortality. to this day the sicilians worship the female deity more than the male, and every city has its sainted patroness. h sources: grimassi, raven. encyclopedia of wicca& witchcraft. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 2000

romptly crowned king of the may. in triumph he held aloft green branches decorated with beautiful may flowers and sang an old folk song, the essence of which seems to have been, gi have won, i bring you summer! h later, as the custom evolved, a young tree was cut down and decorated with ribbons and flowers. this tree was set up triumphantly in the village and everyone danced around it. the druids worshipped the tree, and it is possible that the maypole originated with them. but long before the time of charles i (1600. 1649) in england the tree had given way to the pole. huge poles were planted in the ground and decorated with green branches and flowers. long streamers were attached to the top, and each dancer held on proudly to his or her end of the ribbon. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e

n from yale university found the site now known as machu picchu hidden at 8,000 feet in altitude between two mountains, huayana picchu( gyoung mountain h) and machu picchu( gancient mountain h) in peru. the ridge overlooks a sacred river and valley called urubamba. the most accepted view of machu picchu is that it was a religious sanctuary that served high priests and gvirgins of the sun h (incas worshipped the sun. even though many mysteries abound about machu picchu, many researchers have been inspired to call it gthe eighth wonder of the ancient world. h everyone has his or her own special and private place of mystery, power, and wonder. this chapter shall explore those sites.both sacred and secular.that have fascinated and inspired men and women for thousands of years. m delving deeper

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the latter, the indian appears to be the earlier.though it is not possible to give an exact date to the early legends of the aegean, it is evident that there alsothe horned god flourished throughout the bronze and iron ages.the best known, on account of the dramatic legends attached to his cult, was the minoan bull, the minotaur,of crete. he was in human form with a bull's head and horns, and was worshipped with sacred dances andhuman sacrifices. he was said to be the offspring of a foreign "bull" and the cretan queen, who at themarriage appeared in the guise of a cow, in other words, she was robed and masked as an animal like thedancing god of ari350ge. the representations of the combat between theseus and the minotaur show the latteras entirely human, with a bull's mask (plate iv. i. the

serve and worship him".such a mass of evidence shows that till the end of the seventeenth century the old religion still counted largenumbers of members. the issue has been confused, perhaps purposely, by the use of the word devil in itschristian connotation, for the name of the god, and by stigmatising the worshippers as witches. theconsequence is that the pagan people are now regarded as having worshipped the principle of evil, though inreality they were merely following the cult of a non-christian deity.the first recorded instance of the continuance of the worship of the horned god in britain is in 1303, whenthe bishop of coventry was accused before the pope of doing homage to the devil in the form of a sheep.[19]the fact that a man in so high a position as a bishop could be accused of

present day, weresolemnised with the greatest reverence. homage to the master was always paid at the beginning of all thesacred functions, and this often included the offering of a burning candle. at poictiers in 1574[1] the devilwas in the form of "a large black goat who spoke like a person, and to whom the witches rendered homageholding a lighted candle. boguet says in 1598[2] that the witches worshipped a goat "and for greater homagethey offer to him candles which give a flame of a blue colour. sometimes he holds a black image which he the god of the witcheschapter v. religious and magical ceremonies47makes the witches kiss, and when kissing it they offer a candle or a wisp of burning straw. the somersetwitches in 1664[3] said that when they met the man in black at the sabbath "they al

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enough for the qabalists; but it is neither a person nor a distinguished power of even the forces of nature. the devil is dispersion, or the slumber of the intelligence. it is madness and falsehood. thus are explained the nightmares of the middle ages; thus, too, are explained the bizarre symbols of some initiates, those of the templars, for example, who are much less to be 203 blamed for having worshipped baphomet, than for allowing its image to be perceived by the profane. baphomet, pantheistic figure of the universal agent, is nothing else than the bearded devil of the alchemists. one knows that the members of the highest grades in the old hermetic masonry attributed to a bearded demon the accomplishment of the great work. at this word, the vulgar hastened to cross themselves, and to h

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

t, mix with her curls, and catch the hands that float like water-lilies on the wave.*1. chance bowed herself across the sunny bars, and watched where through the silence of the lawn came charicles, the darling of the dawn, slowly, and to his steps took little heed; he came towards the pool, his god-wrought reed shrilling dim visions of things glorious, and saw the maiden, that disported thus, and worshipped c*2 *1. the tale of archais, vol. i, p. 7 *2. ibid. vol. i, p. 8. as percy, ga moment, and he flashed towards her side. h he clasps her to his breast, kisses her, is dismayed: her perfect eyelids drooped, her warm cheek paled, a tear stole over it *the tale of archais, vol. i, p. 8. he is tender, pitiful, this is no angela. my perfect love, o love! for strange and dread delights consume

and that the only possible system to follow will as usual lie directly between these extremes, and in this case, in the region of use. if now, supposing at one end of our pole we find lust seated crimson as a rose, then at the other we shall find chastity white as a lily. this system of extremes has during the world fs history exerted an overwhelming force on the will of man. beholding a satyr he worshipped a virgin; feeling the ills of the flesh, he conceived the bliss of the soul. this diametric opposition, verging ever towards the extreme circumference of utility, has given and is giving birth to numerous world-wide systems and philosophies. the taboos of the south seas, the restrictions laid on widow-remarriage in india, the purdah of the mussulman, the veil of the vestal, the numerous

dred more; other thousands still be told, other hundreds o fer and o fer. and propertius to the wayward cynthia: cynthia fs unsnaring eyes my bondage tied: ah wretch! no loves, till then, had touched my breast, love bent to earth these looks of steadfast pride, and on my neck his foot triumphant press fd. so it is to-day. conventionalism is passing along its way chaotic and disordered. mutinus is worshipped at every street corner, and the goat of mendes slavers over the revellers as they wend their way home with their gitons and messalinas. gthe decay of a people, as well as a family, begins with the preponderance of selfishness, h*1. so says max nordau; and similarly paul carus writes, gwe know of no decline of any nation on earth, unless it was preceded by an intellectual and moral rotte

hereafter. the old bottle what is religion? in its primitive form, metatarsals; in its ultimate, metaphysics. our ancestors would walk through the lightning and thunder of the uncivilized day, with a string of charmed knuckle-bones slung round their throats; whilst we in our turn walk through the drizzle and fog of the present decivilized night, with a rosary of ideals twined round our minds: one worshipped a bogey, the other a bogus. o! sancta simplicitas: homo indeed is sapiens! have we progressed? not one whit. worship is at all times and everywhere one and the same, an insult to the offerer and the receiver alike; sacrifice, the egotism of usurers; prayer, the misdirected energy of idiots; ceremony but an excuse for vice; and dogma but a legitimized imposition. such is religion! why, t

lood towards that flaming pentacle which flares on the dim horizon of hope. all is night, yet all is expectation; herculean is the task, yet the heart is that of a titan. blake saw that gprisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion, h and so does crowley. both in their sagacity perceive that the one great crime is that of exclusiveness. the christian failing to see this, worshipped the masculine power of wisdom and neglected the feminine power of intelligence, his god was as the god of most religions a veritable he-god, therein lay his fault; the only philosophy perhaps that grasped the truth was that of the qabala. the microprosopus was neither masculine nor feminine, but androgynous; and it was left for william postel to utter one of the greatest world truths wh

THE ABYSS AND TABAET

lzebub or beelzebuth actually can be derived from baal zebub, baal meaning lord and zebub which holds reference in hebrew as hostility, thus baal zebub is the lord of hostility or they enemy, a title of the opposer. dominus muscarum is also a translation of the title of beelzebub, meaning lord of flies and relates to the adversary being in part a spirit of the air. baal-zebub as the name of a god worshipped in the philistine city of ekron around 850 b.c. and was considered a controller of flies and perhaps plague. if the initiate of the luciferian path looks deep within the history of the adversary, little of christianity may be needed. the adversary is no christian creation, nor does it need the concept of god as so many have decried. in the west, all gods and demons have been transformed

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ribed as "those p. 92 who are at peace, the worshippers of ra" and the second twelve as "the righteous who are in the tuat" these beings are thus described by the accompanying text- p. 93 click to view nine of the gods who adore ra and are at peace. click to view (left) five of the righteous gods of the tuat (right) three of the gods who adore ra and are at peace. p. 94 "these [are they who] have worshipped (or, praised) ra upon earth, who uttered words of power against apep, who made their offerings unto him, and who burnt( literally, made) incense to their gods on their own behalf, after their offerings. they have gained possession of their cool waters, and they receive their meat, and they eat of their offerings in the gateway of him whose name is hidden. their meat is by the gateway, a

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thy knights having found the word i will affix it in its proper place (done. all give sign of adoration. soft musick) m.w.s: glory unto thee, begetter, transmitter, transmuter (sign of adoration) all: we adore thee, evoe! we adore thee, iao! m.w.s: glory unto thee, who art hidden in the pyramid (sign of adoration) all: we adore thee, evoe! we adore thee, iao! m.w.s: glory unto thee, whom men have worshipped in all form (sign of adoration) all: we adore thee, evoe! we adore thee, iao! m.w.s: iacchus, pan, khem, amoun, shiva, priapus, jahweh (sign of adoration) all: we adore thee, evoe! we adore thee, iao! m.w.s: glory unto thee, whose true name may not be spoken (sign of adoration) all: we adore thee, evoe! we adore thee, iao! m.w.s: glory unto thee, master of magick, lord of life (sign of

ith this key all these rituals become intelligible, luminous, radiant; without it they are dark, the just scorn of the ignorant. search and see. ii in this book we have no need to speak of local and tribal gods, of animistic personifications of partial phenomena, and the like. but of universal gods, as these: the fire; an image of sol, and a fable of the phallus. the moon; an image of kteis, only worshipped with sol in his aspect as an extension of the phallus. the mountain; reverenced as the home of the gods, the visible place of the rising of sol, and as by shape symbolical of the phallus. some mountains are female, from shape or tradition. the ancestor; revered as an incarnation of the phallus. the yoni or kteis; revered as the house of the phallus, and his complement. the snake; revere

eir hearts, and, loving light, to bear the lamp of virtue beneath the cloak of secrecy. and these at certain seasons went at night by ways open or hidden to heaths and mountains, and there dancing together, and with strange suppers and spells diverse, did call forth him, whom the enemy called ignorantly satan, and was in truth the great god pan, or bacchus, or even that baphomet whom the templars worshipped secretly, and yet worship as in the vi all illustrious knights of the holy order of kadosch, all dame companions of the holy grail are taught to do, or babalon the beautiful, or even zeus apollo of the greeks. and each when first inducted to the revel was made partner of that incarnate one by the consummation of the rite of marriage. consider of this. file//c /documents%20and%20settings

sy. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael/my.%20secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/note9.html [12/28/2001 2:09:27 pm] sroto_notes 10. l vi s attitude to the templars was a curious one; on the one hand he abused them as heretics, on the other he praised them as bearers of the light of the grail. it seems likely that he had his own peculiar interpretation of the mysterious baphomet allegedly worshipped by the templars, for he wrote of this deity that all the initiates of the occult sciences. have adored, do adore, and always will adore what is signified by this frightful symbol. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael/my..20secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/note10.html [12/28/2001 2:09:30 pm] sroto_notes 11. for both a brief outline of tantrism and some details of kellner s poss

THE HOLY BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION

ten [shekels] weight of gold; 24:23 and said, whose daughter [art] thou? tell me, i pray thee: is there room [in] thy father s house for us to lodge in? 24:24 and she said unto him, i [am] the daughter of bethuel the son of milcah, which she bare unto nahor. 24:25 she said moreover unto him, we have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in. 24:26 and the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the lord. 24:27 and he said, blessed [be] the lord god of my master abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: i [being] in the way, the lord led me to the house of my master s brethren. 24:28 and the damsel ran, and told [them of] her mother s house these things. 24:29 and rebekah had a brother, and his name [was] laban: and laban ran out unto the man, u

ste, and let down her pitcher from her [shoulder] and said, drink, and i will give thy camels drink also: so i drank, and she made the camels drink also. 24:47 and i asked her, and said, whose daughter [art] thou? and she said, the daughter of bethuel, nahor s son, whom milcah bare unto him: and i put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands. 24:48 and i bowed down my head, and worshipped the lord, and blessed the lord god of my master abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master s brother s daughter unto his son. 24:49 and now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that i may turn to the right hand, or to the left. 24:50 then laban and bethuel answered and said, the thing proceedeth from the lord: we cannot speak u

e: and if not, tell me; that i may turn to the right hand, or to the left. 24:50 then laban and bethuel answered and said, the thing proceedeth from the lord: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good. 24:51 behold, rebekah [is] before thee, take [her] and go, and let her be thy master s son s wife, as the lord hath spoken. 24:52 and it came to pass, that, when abraham s servant heard their words, he worshipped the lord [bowing himself] to the earth. 24:53 and the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave [them] to rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things. 24:54 and they did eat and drink, he and the men that [were] with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in page 13 genesis the morning, and he said, send me away un

ded him. 4:29 and moses and aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of israel: 4:30 and aaron spake all the words which the lord had spoken unto moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. 4:31 and the people believed: and when they heard that the lord had visited the children of israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped. 5:1 and afterward moses and aaron went in, and told pharaoh, thus saith the lord god of israel, let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. 5:2 and pharaoh said, who [is] the lord, that i should obey his voice to let israel go? i know not the lord, neither will i let israel go. 5:3 and they said, the god of the hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray th

give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. 12:26 and it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, what mean ye by this service? 12:27 that ye shall say, it [is] the sacrifice of the lord s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of israel in egypt, when he smote the egyptians, and delivered our houses. and the people bowed the head and worshipped. 12:28 and the children of israel went away, and did as the lord had commanded moses and aaron, so did they. 12:29 and it came to pass, that at midnight the lord smote all the firstborn in the land of egypt, from the firstborn of pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that [was] in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. 12:30 and pharaoh rose up in the n

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aiseth to great honours in warlike affaires. his character. och governeth solar things; he giveth 600 yeares, with perfect health; he bestoweth great wisdom, giveth the most excellent spirits, teacheth perfect medicines: he converteth all things into most pure gold and precious stones: he giveth 14 gold, and a purse springing with gold. he that is dignified with his character, he maketh him to be worshipped as a deity, by the kings of the whole world. the character. he hath under him 36536 legions: he administreth all things alone: and all his spirits serve him by centuries. hagith governeth venereous things. he that is dignified with his character, he maketh very fair, and to be adorned with all beauty. he converteth copper into gold, in a moment, and gold into copper: he giveth spirits w

to the divine power. the fourth is, to be remote and cleer from all manner of superstition; for this is superstition, to attribute divinity in this place to things, wherein there is nothing at all divine; or to chuse or frame to our selves, to worship god with some kinde of worship which he hath not commanded: such are the magical ceremonies of satan, whereby he impudently offereth himself to be worshipped as god. the fifth thing to be eschewed, is all worship of idols, which bindeth any divine power to idols or other things of their own proper motion, where they are not placed by the creator, or by the order of nature: which things many false and wicked magitians faign. sixthly, all the deceitful imitations and affections of the devil are also to be avoided, whereby he imitateth the powe

TWO ESSAYS ON THE WORSHIP OF PRIAPUS

the characteristic properties of animals and plants were not only regarded as representations, but as actual emanations of the divine power, consubstantial with his own essence.1 for this reason, the symbols were treated with greater respect and veneration than if they had been merely signs and characters of convention. plutarch says, that most of the egyptian priests held the bull apis, who was worshipped with so much ceremony, to be only an image of the spirit of osiris.2 this i take to have been the real meaning of all the animal worship of the egyptians, about which so much has been written, and so little discovered. those animals or plants, in which any particular attribute of the deity seemed to predominate, became the symbols of that attribute, and were accordingly worshipped as th

in all modern religions, that men are superstitious in proportion as they are ignorant, and that those who know least of the principles of religion are the most earnest and fervent in the practice of its exterior rites and ceremonies. we may suppose from analogy, that this was the case with the egyptians. the learned and rational merely respected and revered the sacred animals, whilst the vulgar worshipped and adored them. the greatest part of the former being, as is natural to suppose, destroyed by the persecution of the persians, this worship and adoration became general; different cities adopting different animals as their tutelar deities, in the same manner as the catholics now put themselves under the protection of different saints and martyrs. like 1 lib. xvii. 2 herodot. lib. iii

x is equally varied; the greek medals having sometimes a bull, and sometimes a cow,3 which, strabo tells us, was employed as the symbol of venus, the passive generative power, at momemphis, in egypt.4 both the bull and the cow are 1 div. leg. book i. c. 4. 2 see plate vii. 3 see plate iv, fig. 1, 2, 3, and plate iii, fig 4, engraved from medals belonging to me. 4 lib. xvii. 34 on the worship also worshipped at present by the hindoos, as symbols of the male and female, or generative and nutritive, powers of the deity. the cow is in almost all their pagodas; but the bull is revered with superior solemnity and devotion. at tanjour is a monument of their piety to him, which even the inflexible perseverance, and habitual industry of the natives of that country, could scarcely have erected witho

ns.1 the greeks sometimes made their taurine bacchus, or bull, with a human face, to express both sexes, which they signified by the initial of the epithet difuej placed under him.2 over him they frequently put the radiated asterisk, which represents the sun, to show the deity, whose attribute he was intended to express.3 hence we may perceive the reason why the germans, who, according to c sar,4 worshipped the sun, carried a brazen bull, as the image of their god, when they invaded the roman dominions in the time of marius;5 and even the chosen people of providence, when they made unto themselves an image of the god who was to conduct them through the desert, and cast out the ungodly, from before them, made it in the shape of a young bull, or calf.6 the greeks, as they advanced in the cul

hat the sigma and vau are letters, the one of which was partially, and the other generally omitted by the greeks, in the refinement of 1 macrob. sat. xvii. 2 sat. i. c. 22. of priapus 37 their pronunciation and orthography which took place after the emigration of the latian and etruscan colonies. the chorus in the ajax of sophocles address pan by the title of aliplagktoj,1 probably because he was worshipped on the shores of the sea; water being reckoned the best and most prolific of the subordinate elements,2 upon which the spirit of god, according to moses, or the plastic nature, according to the platonics, operating, produced life and motion on earth. hence the ocean is said by homer to be the source of all things;3 and hence the use of water in baptism, which was to regenerate, and, in

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s of nature. the souls of departed pharaohs, along with the souls of living aztec priests, climbed pyramids to achieve a direct communion with the divine. the pyramid, no matter where in the world it is found or what shape it takes, is a stairway to heaven where human consciousness ascends and divine consciousness descends. it is a modification of the conical hilltops upon which human beings have worshipped and worked magic from time immemorial. the triangle is a two-dimensional representation of the cone, and this is one of its most important symbolic aspects. for example, in ritual evocation the evil spir- it is made to come into perceptual existence inside a triangle. the triangle acts as a prison for the spirit, but just as importantly is the lens whereby the spirit is enabled to manif

eatened by war, military might and those who direct it ascend to a position of greatest power and impor- tance. in ancient times, wars were directed and fought by men. after these military rulers had seized control, they were naturally reluctant to give it up. they pro- ceeded to fashion gods in their own image. archeological evidence suggests that many stone age societies were ruled by women and worshipped a female supreme deity. fertility fetishes with exaggerated female attributes, such as the famous venus of willendorf, have been unearthed at numerous sites of ancient human habitation. cultures devoted to the goddess tend to be stable and agrarian, inward-seeking and secretive in their rites. they build no empires, but are subject to the empire-building of more aggressive neighbors. cu

and is a great evil when it is committed by those who should know better. human beings shame themselves when they wor- ship idols of brass or wood, but they also shame themselves when they bend their knees before any god with a name or a shape. indeed, there is no difference between the two offenses-only a matter of degree. god-forms gain or lose in power depending on how they are looked upon and worshipped by their people. many gods who at one time were principal deities have, through conquest, become absorbed into the pantheons of other races and have descended in status. for example, the god ptah was supreme in the city of memphis in the early days of egypt, but when the pharaohs of the nile moved their palaces southward to thebes, ptah lost much of his authority. god-forms were created

that exist and have always existed, but which, when given a symbol-name, can be manipulated by mankind for questionable ends. the god-forms of any culture reveal its health or sickness. culturally, this is not a happy age in which to live. the great moloch of the present, who may be christened mekanos, is a cold, remorseless god of concrete and steel and wire and glass. his image is embodied and worshipped in the gleaming, sterile skyscrapers of every modern city. he is even more powerful and insidious because he has not yet been overtly recognized as a god. he is a god of oil and smoke and darkness who cares nothing for the sorrows of humanity. in magic, the common way of utilizing the power of the gods is by putting them on, like a cloak or mantle, over the perceived self. this is calle

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

(exod. 3:14-51, and it is explicitly stated that prior to this revelation to moses the name was not known among the hebrews "and i appeared unto abraham, unto isaac, and unto jacob, by the name of god almighty (shaddai; but by my name jehovah (ihvh) was i not known to them (exod. 6:3. this has led to speculation that the name originally belonged to the resident deity of the holy mountain who was worshipped by the tribes that dwelt in the region south of palestine. in receiving the name, moses also took on the authority of the god of the mountain and conveyed its power to his people. that is why he married a daughter of the priest of midian (exod. 3: l b t h e tribe of midian grazed their flocks in the land of the sacred mountain and worshipped its god with sacrifices. that is why he led t

vene; hence the hebrews and cabalists most skillful in the divine names, can work nothing after christ by those old names, as their fathers have done long since; and now it is by experience confirmed, that no devil nor power of hell, which vex and trouble men, can resist this name, but will they, nil1 they, bow the knee and obey, when the name jesu by a due pronunciation is proposed to them to be worshipped (three books of occult philosophy 3.12) 50 tetragrammaton when agrippa writes of "knowledge going before" he is referring to the age-old belief, held by the ancient egyptians and others, that knowledge of the true name of a spirit gives command over that spirit. when agrippa writes of invoking the name of jesus "in the holy spirit" he means the elevation and focus of the mind that comes

ho made adam solely for the purpose of delivering sacrifices and worship, and then when adam became aware of his own divine spark and began to think for himself, turned against his creation like a petulant child. little wonder they saw the serpent in eden as an emissary of the true god, who is much higher and more detached than yaldabaoth (as they called the god of moses. that is why the gnostics worshipped the serpent. the serpent was the symbol of freedom and transcendent wisdom, twin birthrights of all human beings, withheld from adam by jealous yaldabaoth. in gnostic myth, the soul of the world voluntarily allows herself to be degraded and abused by the vindictive malice of the inferior yaldabaoth in order to bring about the restoration of human souls to their rightful place in the hea

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e called wise ones and adopted a goat as their tribal symbol. the goat had a torch between the horns which incidentally later became a symbol for the devil in spain. the torch simply represented illumination and wisdom, that the tribe (goat) was the head of wisdom. long afterabu el-atahiyya died some of his tribe migrated to spain. much of the illustrious past of the knights templar was that they worshipped a head, which was called baphomet. the name according to shah21 is a corruption of the arabic abufihamat which means father of understanding. in sufic terminology, ras el fahmat (head of knowledge) is a point meaning the mentation of man after the process of refinement, a transmuted consciousness. in a left hand path perspective, the witch or sorcerer by calling baphomet or cain within

descended from the sky to impart to isis the words of power that were to raise her dead child horus to life [fn#73] i.e, the fluid of life of the sun, and the fluid of life of the moon. the sun and the moon were the visible, material symbols of the sun god [fn#74] the attributes of this god are not well defined. he was a god of the eastern delta, and was associated with the cities where temu was worshipped. the legend of horus of behutet and the winged disk. xii. in the three hundred and sixty-third year of ra-heru-khuti, who liveth for ever and forever, his majesty was in ta-kens,[fn#75] and his soldiers were with him [the enemy] did not conspire (auu) against their lord, and the land [is called] uauatet unto this day. and ra set out on an expedition in his boat, and his followers were w

fully pa-asar-neb-tetut, the busiris of the greeks; busiris= pa-asar "house of osiris" par excellence. the variant tataut also occurs [fn#120] an allusion, perhaps, to the town sekhem, the capital of the second nome (letopolites) of lower egypt [fn#121] i.e, lord whose praises are sung [fn#122] letopolites [fn#123] heliopolis [fn#124] i.e, a famous sanctuary in the letopolite nome where ptah was worshipped [fn#125] the region of the first cataract, where the nile was believed to rise [fn#126] memphis [fn#127] herakleopolis, the hbw xanes of isaiah [fn#128] a name of herakleopolis [fn#129] khemenu or hermopolis, the city of thoth [fn#130] these gods were: nu and nut; hehu and hehut; kekui and kekuit; kerh and kerhet [fn#131] the capital of set, the eleventh nome of upper egypt; the chief l

known, and asked that the which supported the roof might be given to her. having taken the down, she cut it open easily, and having taken out what she wanted, she wrapped up the remainder of the trunk in fine linen, and having poured perfumed oil over it, she delivered it again into the hands of the and . now, this piece of wood is to this day preserved in the , and by the of byblos. when this was done, threw herself upon the chest, and made at the same time such loud and terrible cries of lamentation over it, that the younger of the 's who heard her was frightened out of his life. but the of them she took with her, and sail with the chest for . now, it being morning the river phaedrus sent forth a keen and chill