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t interpretation of buddhist thought that i attack, i but show myself the better buddhist in the act. a.c. a catch word for the stomach, from j.m. barrie s play little mary. the first precept. this forbids the taking of life in any form* what we have to note is the impossibility of performing this; if we can prove it to be so, either buddha was a fool, or his command was rhetorical, like those of yahweh to job, or of tannh user to himself go! seek the stars and count them and explore! go! sift the sands beyond a starless sea! let us consider what the words can mean. the taking of life can only mean the reduction of living protoplasm to dead matter: or, in a truer and more psychological sense, the destruction of personality. now, in the chemical changes involved in buddha s speaking this co

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st the futile bigotry of certain senile buddhists of to-day. and, since it is the current interpretation of buddhistic thought that i attack, i but show myself the better buddhist in the act. this forbids the taking of life in any form.4 what we have to note is the impossibility of performing this; if we can prove it to be so, either buddha was a fool, or his command was rhetorical, like those of yahweh to job, or of tannh user to himself "go! seek the stars and count them and explore! go! sift the sands beyond a starless sea" let us consider what the words can mean. the "taking of life" can only mean the reduction of living protoplasm to dead matter: or, in a truer and more psychological sense, the destruction of personality. now, in the chemical changes involved in buddha's speaking this

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y of its expounders scarcely tallied with his attainments. the nearer he approached the atman the less did it appear to him to resemble what he had been 138 taught to expect. indeed its translation into worldly comments was a matter of education, so it came about that he discovered that the great attainment "per se" was identical in all systems irrespective of the symbol may sought it under. thus yahweh as a clay phallus in a band-box was as much a reality to the jews of genesis as brahman in brahma-loka was to the aryas of vedic india; that the vision of moses when he beheld god as a burning bush is similar to the vision of the fire-flashing courser of he chaldean oracles; and that nibb na the non-existent is little removed, if at all, from the christian heaven with its harps, halos and h

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s in the back of your mind, that "it" is limitless you will find that this is the easiest path to follow. after all, it is pretty difficult to pray to a "thing, a supreme power, without being able to picture someone in your mind. in judaism there is this problem to an extent (though judaism is a theocentric faith; the supreme power there has a name which may not be uttered and may not be written. yahweh is the vocalized form often used, but it is derived from the four letters yhwh (the "divine tetra-grammaton, signifying "that name too sacred to be pronounced. in christianity there was developed the use of a human male, jesus, to play the part of the "son of god, the christ, thus giving a recognizable form to deity; a form to which the followers could relate. with the addition of mary, the

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

r communicator to the pope, with instructions that it was only to be opened and made public in 1960. the pope did open it in 1960, but we are still waiting for all of it to be made public! one thing is for sure: if it had confirmed the basis of the roman catholic religion, it would have hit the airwaves within minutes. so what did it say? i am convinced that the old testament 'god' known as yhwh (yahweh) is also based on an extraterrestrial, or more likely, a series of them. interestingly, while the jewish religion is perceived as a 'one god' faith, the original hebrew texts do not support this. while the english translation refers to a 'god, the hebrew talks of elohim, the plural meaning 'gods. similarly, while we read the word 'lord' in the english, the hebrew refers to adonai, the plura

ore likely, a series of them. interestingly, while the jewish religion is perceived as a 'one god' faith, the original hebrew texts do not support this. while the english translation refers to a 'god, the hebrew talks of elohim, the plural meaning 'gods. similarly, while we read the word 'lord' in the english, the hebrew refers to adonai, the plural 'lords. jehovah, who is often interchanged with yahweh, would seem to have a different origin. another extraterrestrial, most probably. if you read the old testament and other ancient texts and replace every reference to 'god' or 'the gods' with 'extraterrestrial, the whole thing begins to make sense and becomes so obvious. it is important to remember that in evolutionary terms, the time span between the period when these accounts were written

d the angels of christianity are also 'shining ones. the incas of peru referred to 'shining ones' too. o'brien says that it was the beings known as the elohim which created modern humanity from early human forms through genetic manipulation. he adds that some of them, the 'watchers' in the book of enoch, mated with humans and he believes that the alleged founders of the semitic race, shemjaza and yahweh, were among the extraterrestrial 'watchers' and 'shining ones'.12 an israeli scholar, zecharia sitchin, used the ancient sumerian and babylonian writings to support his belief that modern humans were created by ets called the nefilim.13 ufo abductees today have also spoken of communications with ets who described how they created the bodies of the present human race and manipulated our dna;

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re the only ones allowed to "see god (the gods. the levite priesthood of the hebrews is just one example of how only the priests were allowed to approach the deity, as outlined in the hebrew torah. according to various descriptions, even most of the sumerian priests never looked the gods in the face. the priests controlled all the administration of the state on behalf of the unseen gods. what was yahweh-jehovah always saying? he must not be seen..you cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live".25 this was possibly one reason for the ban on the making of "graven images" of the gods. yahweh-jehovah has also been associated with a reptilian in some versions. the sumerian tablets describe how their cities were overlooked by a large stepped pyramid or "ziggurat" close to the temple and

ow better as baalbek. this is where a fantastic structure can be found to this day with its giant stones weighing more than three jumbo jets. enlil's younger son was given control of anatolia, now turkey. this was ishkur or "he of the mountain land" and he became the god of the nordic-aryan hittites. the old testament calls him adad and the hadad. r.a. boulay believes this is also the hebrew god, yahweh/yahveh or jehovah. the daughter of sin, known as inanna or ishtar (semitic, was a warrior goddess deity of many lands under different titles. ishtar's symbol was the lion and also the pleiades and venus. together with sin (shamash) and ishkur (adad, she became part of another ancient trinity of gods under many different names. sin was the father, ishkur the son, and ishtar the female. from

divine asp on the headgear of egyptian kings and they used the fat of the crocodile in their coronations. the great ancient egyptian city of alexandria was called "city of the serpent's son (alexander the great) and there they worshipped the serpent god, serapis. he was known as the "sacred serpent" or "fire serpent" and from this comes the biblical "seraphim, the serpents associated with yhvh or yahweh (jehovah. the temple of serapeum in i alexandria was dubbed one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, as was the 400-foot-high pharos lighthouse in the city, which was topped by the illuminati's key symbol the lighted torch or eternal flame. in the temple, serapis was portrayed as a massive statue standing on a crocodile holding a staff with a serpent coiling serving the dragon: the pa

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d heir. remember in genesis how god(the gods) insisted that abraham sacrificed his first born son to them to test his faith andobedience. the same ritual continues today among the satanists, the bloodline familiesof the brotherhood, and their organised crime offshoots like the mafia. sacrificing thefirst born son is used by these strange people as a way of testing a persons commitmentto the cause.yahweh-jehovah makes it plain in the book of numbers that. all the firstborn of israel are mine, both man and beast, and in exodus, yahweh demands thatthe first of all thy sons shalt thou give unto me. the bible says that abraham camefrom the sumer city of ur and excavations in 1927 by sir leonard woolley in theroyal cemetery there revealed widespread evidence of human sacrifice in gravesdating fr

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god's holy church. and catholics, we are told, are damned to hell for bowing down to and worshipping graven images. the irony of organized religious thought is the damnation of all, regardless of belief or quality of life. it has often been said by scholars that devils are "fallen" gods, or deities men no longer worship. but then, are not gods simply devils men choose to worship? could it be that yahweh and allah are simply more "politically correct" devils than astaroth and beelzebub? the followers of every religion have been condemned by others as "devilworshippers" at some time or another. in the "tolerant" social climate of today, the christian still condemns the jew; the jew still condemns the muslim, and the muslim still condemns the christian. each is willing to kill and commit hein

their punishment. he was never the enemy of god but at times the enemy of man. the name satan in hebrew means adversary. it is recounted in the bible that the jews were carried away as captives into babylon. when later freed by the persians, the jews were exposed to the religion of zoroaster. the jews adopted zoroastrian belief of a war in heaven between ahura-mazda and ahriman, the serpent, with yahweh taking the role of ahura-mazda and satan assuming the part of the serpent ahriman. satan, a minor angel in hebrew mythology, became equal in power with god. the belief of a war in heaven between god and satan was carried into europe by the early christians. in christian mythology, lucifer became the highest of the angels, created in the perfect image of god, who fell from grace because of h

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 muslims but upon seeing how much more advanced the muslims were to themselves, converted to the religion of those they had fought. during the 12th and 13th centuries, the various gnostic heresies were suppressed and many of their followers executed. the trial of

xplored the study of the jewish cabala, egyptian magic, and the enochian keys of dr. john dee. the cabala is a system of hebrew mysticism which identifies ten sephiroth, or emanations of god in graduated order from pure spirit to the course material world. even the shells or husks (evil spirits) are manifestations of god s power. in jewish belief, god is infinite and therefore beyond description. yahweh, according to the cabalist, is not the name of god but the phonetic pronunciation of the word god spoke at the moment of creation. yhvh, called the divine tetragrammaton or sacred four letter word, represents the elements earth, air, fire, and water. the hebrew god was a god of physical manifestation who appeared to moses in a burning bush and to the israelites as a pillar of flame by night

being is pure consciousness, i realize that i am god; i am the universe made manifest. and that which i call lucifer, the embodiment of wisdom and enlightenment, is also changing, is also becoming. it is within me, it flows through me, it is what the "i am" of my being is. i am lucifer. i am satan. there is one thing common to all gods man has created. every man-made god is static and unchanging. yahweh resides in heaven, unchanging, unbending, the creator of the universe and all that it contains. christ sits at the right hand of god ready to judge the living and the dead. zeus resides in mount olympus holding aloft the lightning bolt, his symbol of divine power. the values of society and the structure of its institutions are defined as "good" that which threatens society is defined as "ev

m century to century. god is defined by that which is "static" and unchanging. that which is "dynamic, a potential threat to the status-quo such as war, revolution, political unrest, or social upheaval, is represented by the devil. but, if the universe is dynamic not static and consciousness is not but is becoming then the devil, satan, more accurately reflects the true nature of god than christ, yahweh, or any other image of god which man has defined. the sumerians believed the dragon of chaos, tiamat, to be the mother of the gods. the gods brought order to chaos, but they were themselves the children of chaos and subject to its laws and conditions. the devil was not originally a "rebel" against the order of creation but, the beginning and the end, the source of all creation "the dragon s

have risen up waging war on the heavens, by stealth i have conquered the heavens, i sit upon the throne of all creation, as lord of heaven, and earth, and hell. i force all the angels to kneel and supplicate themselves before me. i crucify jesus upon his cross. i rape the virgin mary and make her my concubine. i mock the cabala saying, i am the yod he vau he, i am the divine tetragrammaton, i am yahweh, i am allah, i am the elohim. i mock the cabala as i sit upon the throne of all creation. proclaiming a new aeon this ritual, like the one before it, was not included in the first edition of the demonic bible. it is not intended that the practitioner of the demonic bible perform this ritual. i include it now simply for the sake of completeness. these are the words which established the aeon

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and s.l macgregor mather's (q.v) the kabbalah unveiled. yhvh: the tetragrammaton (q.v. the ultimate, unpronounceable, supreme name for god/goddess. a code for the ultimate name of divinity, indicating that the divine being is a blending of everything physical, mental, and spiritual. also indicates that the nature of the divine being is a blending of opposites. this word has been mis-pronounced as yahweh and mis-transliterated as jehovah by ill informed people. even to this day, the name is said to be so holy by the jews, the word, adonai, is said in yhvh's place while reading the scriptures. yoga: sanskrit for "union" especially refers to a union between a person and divinity. religious disciplines of hinduism (q.v. hatha yoga, which involves physical postures and breathing techniques desi

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r handfasting to john gliedman was the first pagan marriage covered in the new york times society pages. sources: adler, margot. drawing down the moon. new york: viking press, 1979. rev. ed. boston: beacon press, 1986. heretic s heart: a journey through spirit and revolution. boston: beacon press, 1997. adonai a hebrew word signifying the lord and used by jews when speaking or writing of yhwh, or yahweh, the ineffable name of god. the jews entertained the deepest awe for this incommunicable and mysterious name, and this feeling led them to avoid pronouncing it and to substitute the word adonai for jehovah in their sacred text. the ancients attributed great power to names; to know and pronounce someone s name was to have power over them. obviously one could not, like the pagans, suggest tha

the ancients attributed great power to names; to know and pronounce someone s name was to have power over them. obviously one could not, like the pagans, suggest that mere creatures had power over god. this custom in jewish prayers still prevails, especially among hasidic jews, who follow the kabala and believe that the holy name of god, associated with miraculous powers, should not be profaned. yahweh is their invisible protector and king, and no image of him is made. he is worshiped according to his commandments, with an observance of the ritual instituted through moses. the term yhwh means the revealed absolute deity, the manifest, only, personal, holy creator and redeemer. adoptive masonry masonic societies that adopted women as members. early in the eighteenth century such societies

ractices have disappeared, readers of the bible may miss the occult element in the text, as for example the casting of lots, a popular divinatory practice, to choose the successor of the apostle judas in the first chapter of the book of the act of the apostles. the bible versus popular occultism among the major themes of the history of israel was its struggle to institute the exclusive worship of yahweh, the god of abraham. this effort involved them in separating jewish life from that of their pagan neighbors, especially those who practiced human sacrifice, keeping to a minimum the influences of the steady stream of merchants who traveled through their land, and surviving during the babylonian captivity. as a result, the biblical text is replete with admonitions to abstain from following t

water (salamanders, sylphs, gnomes, and undines, respectively. early concepts of demonology the medieval idea of demons, of course, evolved from ancient christian and gnostic belief, especially from the accounts of demons in the bible. among the jews, the gods of the surrounding nations were called demons, and those nations were condemned for making sacrifices to demons instead of to the one god, yahweh (deut. 32:17; ps. 106:37. the christian new testament speaks of demons as inferior spirits who operate as subjects of the devil. such demons can take possession of a human being causing various illnesses and physical ailments. demons were named as causative factors in disease in a prescientific age. demons have an expansive role in the biblical record. they can affect the behavior of swine

it was common prior to battle for him, the first king of the jewish tribes, to seek supernatural guidance. previously, he had several sources available to him, the most important being the seer samuel. he could also consult dreams, cast lots, or refer to the mysterious stones worn on the high priest s breastplate called the urim and thummin. however, samuel was dead and saul had been cut off from yahweh, the hebrew deity, because of his disobedience. in his desperation, saul turned to the ob, a practitioner of one of the neighboring religions who had occult powers. he asked the woman to bring up the spirit of samuel, his deceased seer advisor, who appeared and affirmed what saul already knew, that it was the end. the next day saul lost the battle. his sons were killed and he committed suic

nstitute of divine metaphysical research grew out of the 1931 vision of dr. henry clifford kinley, an ohio christian minister who had absorbed insights from two very different sources, the sacred name movement and theosophy. the former had swept through conservative churches following world war i (1914.18)with the idea that the creator of the universe should be called by the name he had revealed, yahweh, and his son should be called yahshua rather than jesus. in 1931, institute for the development of the harmonious. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 794 kinley claimed that yahweh revealed his plan for the ages, and kinley began to teach what he had learned. for that purpose, he founded the kinley institute that later evolved into the institute of divine metaphysical resear

odern (practical and occult) science. this statement was adapted from that of the theosophical society. in 1958, carl f. gross succeeded kinley as head of the institute and along with a group of kinley s students relocated its headquarters to los angeles where for the first time it was incorporated. later he published kinley s primary text, elohim the archetype (original) pattern of the universe. yahweh had revealed his pattern or plan previously to moses, who embodied it in the hebrew tabernacle. it was later embodied in such teachings as the kabbalah, where it is pictured in the tree of life diagram. yahweh appeared at various times in his super incorporeal form on several occasions including to moses (exodus 24, isaiah (isaiah 6, and at the mount of transfiguration (matthew 17. yahweh i

ebrew tabernacle. it was later embodied in such teachings as the kabbalah, where it is pictured in the tree of life diagram. yahweh appeared at various times in his super incorporeal form on several occasions including to moses (exodus 24, isaiah (isaiah 6, and at the mount of transfiguration (matthew 17. yahweh is ultimately spirit, without form. however, since matter is simply condensed spirit, yahweh can take physical form. he does this in a more general sense as the material creation, but in a specific sense in yahshua. following his resurrection, yahshua continued in his physical form as the comforter (usually called the holy spirit. yahweh has acted in history though a series of ages or dispensations. the last of these ages began with the resurrection of yahshua. the revelation to ki

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as among the priests of the maya indians of central america, known as chilan balam, who, at stated intervals in the year, made certain statements regarding the period which lay immediately before them. prophecy may be regarded as a direct utterance of the deity, taking a human being as mouthpiece, or the statement of one who seeks inspiration from the fountain of wisdom. in the biblical writings, yahweh desired to communicate with human beings and chose certain persons as mouthpieces. again individuals (often the same as those chosen by god) applied to the deity for inspiration in critical moments. prophecy then may be the utterances of the deity(ies) through the instrument of an entranced shaman or seer, or the inspired utterance of a seer who later repeats what has been learned while in

f such appear periodically through israel s history. in the era after the death of ahab and jezebel they appear to have had some formal organization (see ii kings 2) with chapters in various towns (ii kings 2.5. they served to consolidate elijah s victories over the prophets of the hated deity baal. they seem to have died out by the time of the exile. the general idea in hebrew palestine was that yahweh, or god, was in the closest possible touch with the prophets, and that he would do nothing without revealing it to them. while often ignored or persecuted during their lifetime, their preserved written words were later given greatest veneration and still later canonized. in ancient greece, the prophetic class were generally found attached to the oracles and in rome were represented by the a

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ividual consciousness by the lord of the universe via his/her power of obscuration, sustained through five limitations: temporal limits, spatial limits, attachment to particular things, limited knowledge, and limited agency. the predominant hebrew name for the active aspect of the ayn as the creator, sustainer, and destroyer of the creation is the four letter formula h v h y (vocalized by some as yahweh, and more commonly as jehovah).27 the fall of sefirah knowledge/first into kingdom is also reflected in the duplication of the letter heh h in hvhy. the upper heh h is the latent or unmanifest condition of all mayic (illusory) possibilities in the form of an infinite number of waves of ideas, and the lower heh h is their apparent finite manifestation in matter. most books on qabalah show on

ut of respect or substitute another power name, traditionally adonai (ynda lit. my master. in the latin vulgate edition of the tanakh, jerome set the precedent of changing the pronunciation of the yod y to j and using the vowels from adonai to produce the anglicized variation jehovah. jehovah is the way that most contemporary non-jews pronounce the name hvhy. the name hvhy is sometimes pronounced yahweh, reflecting the tradition that the high priest in the temple of jerusalem made a monosyllabic pronunciation of the name hvhy on yom kippur (day of at- one-ment. the halachic prohibition specifies to avoid pronouncing the four letters of hvhy as a name. if one is inclined to follow their prohibition, one can use the atziluthic version wherein the letters are considered to be standing alone

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ere be light h. the graspable beginning is light; all before it or, so to say, behind or beyond it, is impenetrable mystery- an absolute darkness to the mind. from the ain soph aur emanates ehyeh (hyha, the hi h or gi am h- abstract thought; then yhvh (hvhy, git who was, and is, and will be h- thought in time; and lastly elohim (myhla),god in nature and god in the bible, in which yhvh (jehovah or yahweh) is translated as glord h, the equivalent of secret wisdom of the qabalah page 23 the hebrew adonai, for the true name of tetragrammaton (yhvh) may not be pronounced. thus, as the ayin, ain soph, and ain sopb aur form a group of three unthinkable principles, so do ehyeh, yhvh, and elohim form a group of three intelligent principles- abstract thoughts, thought in time and thought in everythi

it, the shin by going forth from the yetziratic deity rendering them visible. this transmutation of tetragrammaton- or the despiritualized good sammael- into matter is one of the profoundest mysteries of the qabalah, a mystery so secret that it is nowhere clearly explained. we are told that the name of tetragrammaton is unpronounceable, and this in fact is so, for though yhvh can be pronounced as yahweh, or jehovah, this is not the true name of tetragrammaton, for his name must contain the shekinah as symbolized by the letter shin. if this letter is placed in the centre of the four letters of tetragrammaton, we obtain yhshvh; that is ishvah, yeheshua, jehoshuar, joshua, and jesus, any one of which may be taken as the veritable name of the yetziratic deity, the god or genius of the world of

GNOSTIC HANDBOOK

:the nature of evil in gnosticism. 5 the gnostic concept of time the gnostic concept of time (yugas, historical models of cyclic time, rene guenon and julius evola and evola and "the revolt against the modern world. 6 the gnostic view of time ii the great year, egyptian star gnosis and heraldic cycles. 7 the continuum of the gnosis the gnostic identity message, origins, the israel connection, el, yahweh and reconsidering the bible, the sacred serpent, israel on the world stage, the druid connection, the essene link, the essenes, jesus and the foundations of gnosticism, table of contents the gnostic handbook hyperlinked index just click the gnostic handbook page 3 8 conditional immortality and reincarnation the aim of life, the bible and reincarnation, the mechanism of reincarnation, heaven

orces (klippoth, which in turn created the material world. even among the gnostics there are many variations in interpretations of the fall. some traditions see the creator as the divine will or sophia, others see the creator as the demiurge and hence evil. some have two yahwehs, a true light lord and a false substitute. some sects refute the whole old testament saying it is the work of the false yahweh, while others even see the serpent in genesis as a premonition of the savior. for a more modern twist, one science fiction writer (with a penchant for occultism and a strange adaptation of psychology) outlined the gnostic myth in a more technological form. millions of years ago in the spiritual dimensions, a spirit entity decided he wanted more power than was his due, he created a sequence

lier phase had little to do with what we see as rabbinic judaism today. the evidence is then they developed a large desert culture with an emphasis on a god and a goddess and that most old testament stories were written at a much late date and were distorted by the then fundamentalist and nationalist priesthood. to appreciate this, we should revisit the old testament and see what we can find. el, yahweh and reconsidering the bible there is more to the old testament than first meets the eye, and its study opens up a pandora s box of issues we need to consider. modern scholars believe that the old testament is not a coherent whole, when it is subjected to biblical criticism it is found that there are at least three different streams of information within it. the el stream, the yahwahist stre

of the more important is baal. associated with these gods are goddesses, the major being is known as athirat. together baal and athirat form the basis of the pagan canaanite tradition. as israel became more nationalistic and political the el tradition was suppressed. at the same time a fundamentalist and literalist extreme arose within the society and this new tradition was the yahwahist stream. yahweh becomes the mighty one, baal is vanquished and replaced with the tradition of the coming warrior messiah, with the goddess relegated to the shadows. the history of israel is, in some sense, the battle between these two streams or religious traditions and between these two streams and the gnosis! in studying the old testament we need to realise that it is not the word of god but a remnant, a

e old testament, the "coat of many colours" for example, was a ritual garment worn by a sumerian gender-variant priest, in the bible the coat survives but the context does not. it seems clear for example that the story of sodom and gomorrah was actually a tale re-moulded by the scribes to suggest a battle between two religious traditions that of the town of sodom or qadesh and the warrior cult of yahweh. there are many other biblical examples, certainly the homo-erotic relationship between david and jonathan in the old testament springs to mind. while we do not wish to belabour the point certainly all early aryan traditions suggest a special elite homosexual (or at least gender variant) priestly class. the epic of gilgamesh has a special relationship between gilgamesh and enkidu, the druid

ss of the esotericism, we must be clear about the nature of the old testament in its current form. the gnostic view is that if you followed the traditions in the old testament as they presently are, you would be enslaving yourself under archons rather than liberating yourself through the aeons. the laws, covenants and other agreements are sure signs of the enslavement of mans spirit by the archon yahweh, they illustrate how distorted the old testament really is. from a historical perspective there is little of the original israelite teachings in the old testament. when we contemplate that israel and environs had various religious traditions including gnostic (esotericism, the el tradition (canaanite paganism, various strands of el and yahweh worship and then later, the priestclass of the p

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o a demi-god, ialdabaoth who in turn creates the material world. he becomes conceited and arrogant, and his creation (matter) becomes fallen and trapped within his dominion. in this legend the god of the old testament is seen as evil and christ is the only emissary of the light world. in another tradition satanel (the fallen one) creates the physical world, but his creation is sterile and marred. yahweh as the emissary of light rectifies this false creation by breathing life into shells satanel has formed. however, the fallen world cannot be fully rectified and a mixed system of light and darkness is formed. if we wish to move into another realm of myth, we could try a modern legend. in one fig 2 a multiple views of the central event. each offering a different perspective of the central tr

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or ourselves, so that we may not be scattered about the 18 diego de duran, historia antiqua de la nueve espana (1585, in ignatius donelly, atlantis: the antediluvian world, p. 200. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 119 entire earth. now yahewh [the hebrew god] came down to see the town and the tower that the sons of man had built. so they are all a single people with a single language! said yahweh. this is but the start of their undertakings! there will be nothing too hard for them to do. come, let us go down and confuse their language on the spot so that they can no longer understand one another. yahweh scattered them thence over the whole face of the earth, and they stopped building the tower. it was named babel, therefore, because there yahweh confused the language of the whole ea

t of their undertakings! there will be nothing too hard for them to do. come, let us go down and confuse their language on the spot so that they can no longer understand one another. yahweh scattered them thence over the whole face of the earth, and they stopped building the tower. it was named babel, therefore, because there yahweh confused the language of the whole earth. it was from there that yahweh scattered them over the whole face of the earth.19 the verse which most interested me suggested very clearly that the ancient builders of the tower of babel had set out to create a lasting monument to themselves so that their name would not be forgotten even if their civilization and language were. was it possible that the same considerations could have applied at cholula? only a handful of

the cross but the fish.17 during the preceding age, which broadly-speaking encompassed the first and second millennia bc, it was the constellation of aries the ram which had the honour of carrying the sun on the vernal equinox. again, readers must judge whether it is a coincidence that the religious iconography of that epoch was predominantly ram-oriented.18 is it a coincidence, for example, that yahweh, god of old testament israel, provided a ram as a substitute for abraham s offered sacrifice of his son isaac?19 (abraham and isaac are assumed by biblical scholars and archaeologists to have lived during the early second millennium bc20. is it likewise coincidental that rams, in one context or another, are referred to in almost every book of the old testament (entirely composed during the

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g i am. creative processes controlled by archangel metatron (near thy throne. formative processes by the angel order of the chaiot ha-kodesh (holy living creatures, as a higher form of the elements. expressively controlled by the reshit ha-gilgalim (nebulae or first swirlings of matter. humanly by the intentions of procreation. all this projects into: 2 wisdom. origination by the god-aspect yhvh (yahweh, meaning i will be. creation by archangel raziel (herald or announcer of god. formation by the angel order of the ofanim(wheels orcycles ofgod. expressively by themazlot (the zodiac or circle of life. humanly by the supply of sperm cells in the male. 3 understanding or intuition. originatively processed by the god-aspect yhvh elohim (i will be gods or goddesses. creatively by archangel tzaf

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h shall, once more, be clad in the crimson cloak of dispute. though you have abused me so with greed and false testament i forgive you of all wrongs against me and, more than this magnanimity, 42 offer you a place behind my standard in this war amongst the elohim. my brothers, you know my innocence of those charges, until this time, yet would desire a share in my dominion in the kingdom of adonai yahweh but i offer you a worthier prize for that which michael has offered you is, with the passing of aeons, nothing but ruin and decay, doomed to die, eclipsed by a greater glory. i offer you a part in that glory! though now it be but an embryo the day shall come when your feebler kin, having not the courage nor the vision to leave the decadent corpse of heaven and fight for the cause i offer yo

as death i could hardly stand up. my strength almost fled me, leaving me broken before him. yet my resolve was stronger, like a shield to me, throwing back those lethal eyes, 60 i would no more kneel before him who had so forsaken me to my enemies who would ruin me. i kept my footing and stood like the haughty mountain that none has the force to throw down. with a wrathful voice, he spoke, adonai yahweh, the archon-emperor, once my father, once destined to rule until the ending of all time before he betrayed his majesty, paying heed to the words of those like snakes, like dogs that would slaver at his feet, waiting for scraps to come to them. he roared like a lion, maddened by wounds upon all sides, not able to flee or face the jackals that are all about it. this was his speech "my false c

not a burden to be borne if its bearing can be avoided. if you would repent this heresy, going now upon your knees before me and you shall alleviate my wrath and my dealing with you shall be merciful. but cultivate this crime yet further and you shall forsake all clemency. i shall destroy you utterly, striking you down with a terrible scourge. more dreadful than dragon-fire is the wrath of adonai yahweh, almighty and eternal, lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, all-illumining light, king of heaven, conqueror of earth, father of the elohim, architect of creation, master of the planets, orchestrater of the stars, proclaimer of destiny, keeper of wisdom, judge of the world, castigator of sin, scourge of evil, most high, most merciful, most just, most sagacious, most perfect, most mighty

s of heaven were built upon fear and upon the blindness of faith, taught by the blows of a rod. the elohim bowed to god for they knew to do nothing else and they knelt before him because they feared him. but i saw that the only power of god was this power of fear and he that could conquer fear and illumine the blindness taught by god could conquer god himself. thus did i break the spell of adonai yahweh. 63 with new strength i raised my voice, addressing him that was once my father and that i knelt before, acknowledging him as my king. now i spoke with a new voice, strong with rebellion, contemptuous and triumphant "i shall never yield to you, adonai yahweh, old fool! no longer are we the elohim, that you would call your children. you are not worthy to be our father. your power is forever

your empty wrath nor would beg your mercy. your arrogant deceit rings hollow and your words are more worthless than dust. heaven is falling down around you and you would cower behind your delusions, seeing magnificence in your aged mind when all about you is decay. i will never kneel to you because to do so would be degrading, like going on one's knees before a wretch, for wretch you are, adonai yahweh, and i value nothing of yours. i am your ruin and master and you fear me well, ruing this day that you betrayed me. no longer are we the elohim, we are the shedim, the apostates, the bringers of the new world" hearing my speech, the shedim roared, the spell of fear upon them broken. 64 they mocked and jeered their craven brothers and then, with a different voice, turned their eyes to me, ac

arth shall, once more, be clad in the crimson cloak of dispute. though you have abused me so with greed and false testament i forgive you of all wrongs against me and, more than this magnanimity, offer you a place behind my standard in this war amongst the elohim. my brothers, you know my innocence of those charges, until this time, yet would desire a share in my dominion in the kingdom of adonai yahweh but i offer you a worthier prize for that which michael has offered you is, with the passing of aeons, nothing but ruin and decay, doomed to die, eclipsed by a greater glory. i offer you a part in that glory! though now it be but an embryo the day shall come when your feebler kin, having not the courage nor the vision to leave the decadent corpse of heaven and fight for the cause i offer yo

ng as death i could hardly stand up. my strength almost fled me, leaving me broken before him. yet my resolve was stronger, like a shield to me, throwing back those lethal eyes, i would no more kneel before him who had so forsaken me to my enemies who would ruin me. i kept my footing and stood like the haughty mountain that none has the force to throw down. with a wrathful voice, he spoke, adonai yahweh, the archon-emperor, once my father, once destined to rule until the ending of all time before he betrayed his majesty, paying heed to the words of those like snakes, like dogs that would slaver at his feet, waiting for scraps to come to them. he roared like a lion, maddened by wounds upon all sides, not able to flee or face the jackals that are all about it. this was his speech "my false c

not a burden to be borne if its bearing can be avoided. if you would repent this heresy, going now upon your knees before me and you shall alleviate my wrath and my dealing with you shall be merciful. but cultivate this crime yet further and you shall forsake all clemency. i shall destroy you utterly, striking you down with a terrible scourge. more dreadful than dragon-fire is the wrath of adonai yahweh, almighty and eternal, lord of infinitude, tyrant of existence, all-illumining light, king of heaven, conqueror of earth, father of the elohim, architect of creation, master of the planets, orchestrater of the stars, proclaimer of destiny, keeper of wisdom, 123 judge of the world, castigator of sin, scourge of evil, most high, most merciful, most just, most sagacious, most perfect, most mig

heaven were built upon fear and upon the blindness of faith, taught by the blows of a rod. the elohim bowed to god 124 for they knew to do nothing else and they knelt before him because they feared him. but i saw that the only power of god was this power of fear and he that could conquer fear and illumine the blindness taught by god could conquer god himself. thus did i break the spell of adonai yahweh. with new strength i raised my voice, addressing him that was once my father and that i knelt before, acknowledging him as my king. now i spoke with a new voice, strong with rebellion, contemptuous and triumphant "i shall never yield to you, adonai yahweh, old fool! no longer are we the elohim, that you would call your children. you are not worthy to be our father. your power is forever sha

your empty wrath nor would beg your mercy. your arrogant deceit rings hollow and your words are more worthless than dust. heaven is falling down around you and you would cower behind your delusions, seeing magnificence in your aged mind when all about you is decay. i will never kneel to you because to do so would be degrading, like going on one's knees before a wretch, for wretch you are, adonai yahweh, and i value nothing of yours. i am your ruin and master 125 and you fear me well, ruing this day that you betrayed me. no longer are we the elohim, we are the shedim, the apostates, the bringers of the new world" hearing my speech, the shedim roared, the spell of fear upon them broken. they mocked and jeered their craven brothers and then, with a different voice, turned their eyes to me, a

t i sought the battle's heart, unknowing of such a thing as consequence, yearning only for the wetting of my blade. such wrath and passion did consume me, and with such searing intensity, that, to quench with blood those fierce flames, i did oppose the very king that sired me, carving a bloody path to his standard and his throne. in that struggle, well known to you is it, i did strike upon adonai yahweh a most terrible wound, tearing from his body his organ of creation and consuming it with one serpent's gulp. for such rash error we might have most dearly paid. listen! i have taken from him that sired us the very power of generation, for shedim also are the sons and daughters of adonai yahweh. now his power is gone, stolen by his rebel son, and those two races of his blood, elohim and shed

s did they gather and upon the highest of those peaks i stood. now every ear was mine, every arm at my command, every soul to dispose of as i willed. even when i had ruled as vice-regent in the halls and towers of doomed heaven i had not known such faith as now i knew. how could unworthy satan repay such love as of the shedim whom both loved me and were themselves most dear to my heart? as adonai yahweh's right hand i would never think so, it had not been the custom of the elohim to treasure love but rather to demand it of their subjects. this thought itself gave me pause and then with new resolve i addressed my beloved shedim, trusting that such love must never be betrayed. these words did i speak to my disciples "my shedim, noble race, bright ones. the path that lies before us is most pe

s, whether they be wise or foolish, whether they be noble or foolish. without its power the brave child-race we would foster would be as beasts without knowledge of that which they do. the second tree bears the fruit of eternal youth, that is a cure for the very passage of time and he who eats of it would be ageless. when the elohim were but mewling babes they were brought to the garden by adonai yahweh to eat of both fruits that grew upon the trees. but five of that ancient brood were of such age, in times so young, to remember any of that time: satanael, michael, gabriel, raphael, auriel; this is how i know of such arcane secrets. when the spawn of gog and magog threatened also to gain the garden adonai yahweh gave instruction to his children to make war upon the race of giants 140 that

id primal mummu come to learn a spell, the word of creation, and spoke it in the ancient disorder. thus did mummu create the archon race: three brothers and three sisters of great power: first-born, the she-beast leviathan, terrible and great, of elemental strength and fury, first and wildest of the archons; then second-born mot, king of darkness, dark of soul, bent and dwarfish thing; third-born yahweh, heed the name, bright king, noble, haughty, proud, then his eyes burned with wisdom and his arm and heart were strong; then brother, sister, mates, gog and magog, giants of most awesome aspect, 145 beast-like brute-kings, ogres both; last and least was ereshkigal, lusty queen, mot's consort for she was taken in that cold embrace and made cold herself. thus were born the archons of old who

al, lusty queen, mot's consort for she was taken in that cold embrace and made cold herself. thus were born the archons of old who came together and by potent magic resolved from chaos and ordered universe, speaking themselves the word of creation to accomplish this end. in the new-made universe they contended, brothers and sisters, for command of their creation. to avail himself in this conflict yahweh spoke once more the word of creation. thus came the elohim who ruled in heaven and were ruled by adonai yahweh. the elohim made war upon the foes of their king, destroying upon the earth the giant-spawn, born of gog and magog, and bound beneath the ocean's tumult great leviathan. all that was created, save mot's sheol, was made theirs. yet their was yet greed in their hearts and it was ther

ld of satan, inheritor of earth, 148 with these words i give you shape. first did my sorcery make woman, mother of the nephilim race, yet if she is to bear progeny and the tribe of kings is to be magnified that it might overthrow heaven's kingdom and make anew the world she then must have a mate to sire her noble offspring, heirs of all. together then these two shall raise a race more worthy than yahweh's flawed creation and upon tomorrow's martial field engage those ignoble sons of heaven when they are grown great with time like the germ that becomes the tree. that seed i now make fertile with second creation and win the victory yet unwon upon this night and hereafter. again i, satan, now raise my voice to sound the word of creation to resound about the sky's high vault. here beneath the

open before him as he flew in haste to heaven's hub where reached above all the eternal tower, seat of god's once-great majesty. descending, alighting within its long shadow he now went by foot to the spire's portal and demanded of the gatesmen entrance. these doors opened also to his coming and, the herald before him hurrying, scaled the tower's heights to the chamber in which his father, adonai yahweh, sat upon the platinum throne, seat of heaven, and directed the movements of the elohim. now, announced by trumpet and by voice, before the very throne of god went raphael and there abased himself before the emperor of all, making due humility before that king, crouched within the shattered throne of the elohim and their kingdom, darkened by ruin's black shadow as that awful shade stooped o

gs even now so great and make more so oppressive on us that which we have borne thus far. raise not your wrath against he that brings such news, i implore it, but rather avert your retribution against he that is now the spring of all our grief. again does satan move his traitor's hand against us, working evil upon the earth that will blossom and bring forth the fruit of his hate. remember, adonai yahweh, lord, the garden to which you brought the young elohim race that lay within a vale river-carved within the rock. there did the race of your siring feast upon the fruit of the knowledge of consequences, thus becoming like the father that gave them life, knowing good from evil and how they might make for themselves a bright destiny indeed. and, thereafter, eating also of another fruit 156 th

of our majesty, conspire to effect our down-falling and thus contest, with shedim alliance, heaven's sovereignty. let us not then delay our wrath but move now against these shedim-spawn before the shedim can return and fulfil their plan. let us go against these new creatures with great force of arms and destroy them utterly before the shedim can yet muster hosts to avail their infant race. adonai yahweh, my lord, i implore you, restrain not your hand but strike most surely against this new assault upon your kingship lest, like the stone falling from the mountain's summit, the impetus of this yet ungrown crime becomes so great that no force exists by which its motion might be opposed. 157 adonai yahweh, king, we must move with haste we must move now" gravely did the archon-emperor listen to

e lion's roar, breathing, with his words, incandescent flame "infant children, unknowing of the world, i have been dispatched by the king of heaven, benign and most merciful, well-inclined to your most noble spirits and pitying of your plight, forsaken here, as you are within this valley's walls. forsaken no more, is man, but redeemed by the loving countenance of heaven and its great king, adonai yahweh. these joyous tidings am i sent to bring and yet further counsel and instruction. 164 as tutor am i sent to teach of that which you must know, as it is decreed by most glorious god who looks upon you with such love that he sends me, his son, raphael. be not afeared of me, though i be of awesome aspect, for mine is the gentlest of all spirits. this is yet further proof of god's love, if yet

em to you. were that he were to appear to you himself, by the brilliance of his most great presence would you be blasted into ashes, such is his power. receive this then as indication of his mercy and his wisdom. this great king of which i have spoken to you is most desirous of love and fealty made as you are in his image and of all the creatures of the earth most fair and noble to behold. adonai yahweh is king of all the world and both heaven and earth to kneel to his sway and fulfil each command that he would speak. to those that would serve him dutifully he is most beneficent indeed and those who would but supplicate to his great name are pardoned, then, all faults and failings and the burden of their every sin is lifted from their shoulders and, by his love, are they redeemed by he of

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of man; for immersed in matter as we are at our present stage of evolution, we cannot utter the word or know the divine nature in its fullness, but can perceive only the outer shell of things, represented by the remaining consonants. and even this we do not understand, and therefore for even that much of the divine name a substituted secret is necessary. and so in the tradition whenever the word yahweh occurred in the reading of the law, the name adonai (meaning my lord) was substituted for it (the modern word jehovah is made by using the consonants jhvh, and intercalating the vowels from the word adonai) the tradition looks forward to a future when time or circumstances shall have restored the genuine method of pronunciation, and man will return to the god from whom he came forth, able t

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the lord, and offer it as a sin offering; but the goat on which the lot fell for azazel shall be presented alive before the lord to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to azazel (16:8 10. the early israelites had no purely evil, demonic beings. it was only later, after the hebrews encountered the zoroastrian religion, that they developed an evil antigod opposed to yahweh. looking back on the above verses from a later time, the rabbis seem to have interpreted this passage as ascribing the name azazel to the devil, or to one of the devil s infernal chieftains. see also demons; judaism for further reading: davidson, gustav. a dictionary of angels including the fallen angels. new york: free press, 1967. ronner, john. know your angels: the angel almanac with bio

the apocryphon of john 2, in robinson 1981, 9f. this evil deity, who is alternately designated the demiurge (a term originally utilized by plato to refer to a demigod who creates the world in the timaeus, also creates the human body for the purpose of trapping human spirits in the physical world. our true home is the absolute spirit, the pleroma. a standard tenet of gnostic christianity was that yahweh, the god of the old testament, was one and the same as this evil demiurge. pointing to the discrepancy between the jealous, vengeful god of the old testament and the teachings of the gentle jesus, these gnostics asserted that jesus was a teacher sent from the pleroma to guide us back to our true home, and that the father to which he referred was different from yahweh. see also archon; gnost

and his angels fight against the dragon and his rebellious angels. the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent who is called devil and satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. in hebrew scriptures, in which the dragon is mentioned several times in the same breath as the owl another creature with large, black eyes yahweh is depicted as a storm god. at his coming the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, yea, the clouds dropped water, the mountains quaked before the lord (judg. 5:4 5. thou didst break the heads of the dragons on the waters says the psalmist (ps. 74:13, and the lord. shall slay the dragon that is in the sea (isa. 27:1. moreover, in psalms 91:13, the saints shall trample the dragon under th

god. at his coming the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, yea, the clouds dropped water, the mountains quaked before the lord (judg. 5:4 5. thou didst break the heads of the dragons on the waters says the psalmist (ps. 74:13, and the lord. shall slay the dragon that is in the sea (isa. 27:1. moreover, in psalms 91:13, the saints shall trample the dragon under their feet. the battle between yahweh and the dragon is very popular in the visions of the later hebrew prophets, although the dragon usually embodies a purely symbolic meaning as the enemy of israel, that is to say the assyrians, the babylonians, or the egyptians. an account of god s hostility toward pharaoh is reported by the prophet ezekiel, who speaks of pharaoh as the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams (eze

is traditionally conceptualized as being below rather than above the earth? in this passage and others that might be cited, heavenly wickedness refers to the archons. even the word rulers here is a translation of the greek archon, so that the original passage reads, archons of this present darkness. a standard tenet of gnostic christianity was g 95 96 the gnostic order and temple of satanas that yahweh, the god of the old testament, was one and the same as the evil demiurge. pointing to the discrepancy between the jealous, vengeful god of the old testament and the teachings of the gentle jesus, the gnostics asserted that jesus was a teacher sent from the pleroma to guide us back to our true home, and that the father to which he referred was different from yahweh. some gnostics carried thi

bayashi, hiroshi, ed. death and afterlife: perspectives ofworld religions.westport, ct: greenwood press, 1992. jacob one of the more bizarre tales in the book of genesis is the story of jacob s wrestling match with god. this narrative has been interpreted as a dream experience. because entering into a wrestling match with a human being and being defeated is totally out of character for the mighty yahweh, many scholars have interpreted this passage as a considerably modified retelling of an earlier (now lost) story about jacob wrestling with a demon. jacob was the third patriarch of the hebrews. he is considered the father of the chosen people, and his sons represent the heads of the twelve tribes of the children of israel. jacob had an important dream on his way to haran to take a wife fro

y, depending on the belief system of the speaker. one finds the same ambiguities in the hebrew bible. with this caveat in mind, there are many references to the demonic in scriptures. like most premodern peoples, various illnesses and other forms of human misery were attributed to the actions of demons. unlike other cultures, hebrew demons are portrayed as being under the control of the high god (yahweh) in the earliest 136 judaism and hebrew scriptures biblical accounts. the problem with accepting these accounts at face value, however, is that both the original authors as well as later editors likely had a theological inclination to diminish the independent power of demonic spirits. what this means is that ordinary hebrews probably understood demons as more independent of god than scriptu

ndicate. nevertheless, it is clear that the demonic becomes stronger and more evil across time until, following the incorporation of zoroastrian notions, demons become purely negative entities who seem to have no other purpose than to torment human beings. embodying a pattern that christians would later adopt, there are a number of passages in the early books of the bible in which gods other than yahweh are referred to as demons (hebrew shedim. thus in deuteronomy, it is noted that, they sacrificed to demons which were no gods (32:17. later, in the psalms, it is also noted that they sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons (106:37. although the former are ambiguously alluded to as strange gods, the latter are identified as interchangeable with the idols of canaan. scholars generally a

eral circulation in palestine during the first century, that was incorporated into christianity. as with satan, the early christian notion of hell was drawn from contemporaneous judaism. jewish thinking about the afterlife, in turn, developed out of reflections on the covenant. the very core of judaism is a covenant relationship which is both a contractual agreement and a marriage of love between yahweh and his chosen people. the ancient hebrews emphasized the importance of the present life. like both the ancient greeks and mesopotamians, existence 138 judaism and hebrew scriptures after death in sheol (the realm of the dead, when it was mentioned at all, was conceived of less as an actual hell and more as a pale shadow of earthly life, much like the greek hades. also like the greek hades

sheol (the realm of the dead, when it was mentioned at all, was conceived of less as an actual hell and more as a pale shadow of earthly life, much like the greek hades. also like the greek hades, the hebrews originally made no distinction between the treatment of the just and the unjust after death. instead, rewards and punishments were meted out in the present life, and in the covenant contract yahweh promised to do just that. one of the few stories in hebrew scriptures (the old testament) that mentions sheol is the tale of the so-called witch of endor. king saul had banished, under threat of death, all who trafficked with ghosts and spirits (1 sam. 28:3. however, faced with a superior army and feeling himself in a desperate situation, saul, in disguise, consults a woman who today we wou

in the same resting place, the clear implication is that moral distinctions do not influence one s afterlife fate the spirits of the good (e.g, samuel) and the spirits of morally bad people (e.g, saul) both end up in the same place, presumably under much the same conditions. although this is the general old testament view, reflection on the inequalities of this life and on the apparent failure of yahweh to make good on his covenant promises led serious religious thinkers to consider the option of resurrection. the resurrection of ordinary human beings seems to have originated in zoroastrianism.as a result of several centuries of persian control of the middle east, jews were brought into contact with zoroastrian religious ideas and the notion of resurrection. zoroaster combined resurrection

everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt (dan. 12:2. while resurrection is a type of afterlife, it is peculiar in that it is an afterlife that returns the deceased to this life. it is thus, in a sense, more of a continuation of the present life than a true afterlife. because of this peculiarity, it saves the original covenant relationship, and hence divine justice, by allowing yahweh to reward devout jews in what amounts to an extension of this life. also, by adopting the notion of resurrection, none of the jewish notions about the essential goodness of this world and this life needed to be abandoned. as the citation from the book of daniel implies, the notion of resurrection was tied to a notion of judgment, and even to separate realms for the judged. in rabbinical tho

witchcraft. new york: facts on file, 1989. levi, eliphas [alphonse-louis constant. history of magic. york beach, me:weiser, 1969. leviathan the word leviathan is originally hebrew, and means the coiled one or that which gathers itself together in folds. it has come to mean any formidable, monstrous being or thing. the term is originally biblical, referring to a multiheaded sea monster defeated by yahweh. leviathan is associated with and is sometimes used interchangeably with behemoth, another biblical sea monster. because of the association between the devil and serpents, leviathan is often identified with satan. alternately, it is also sometimes used to designate one of satan s demons. leviathan was sometimes portrayed as a kind of aquatic dragon; sometimes as a whale. most biblical refer

ef; for example, thou didst divide the sea by thy might; thou didst break the heads of the dragons on the waters. thou didst crush the heads of leviathan, thou didst give him as food for the creatures of the wilderness (ps. 74:13 14) the lengthiest account of the confrontation between god and leviathan can be found in the forty-first chapter of job, though it is unclear how much of the content of yahweh s challenge to job refers to an earlier tale and how much is being composed on the spot. in any event, the hebrew tale appears to derive from a ugarit story in which baal defeats a seven-headed sea monster with the aid of mot. furthermore, this story seems to be a variation of the well-known (to students of mythology) babylonian myth of marduk s defeat of the sea monster tiamat. tiamat, the

cal role of representing the antichrist, or more generally, evil passions, paganism, or the oppressive powers of this world. in the book of revelation (12, it is described as big and red, with seven heads and ten horns. in the war in heaven, the archangel michael is usually represented as the slayer of the dragon, and his angels fight against the dragon and his rebel angels. in hebrew scriptures, yahweh is sometimes depicted as a storm god. at his coming the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, yea, the clouds dropped water, the mountains quaked before the lord (judg. 5:4 5. thou didst break the heads of the dragons on the waters says the psalmist (ps. 74:13, and the lord. shall slay the dragon that is in the sea (isa. 27:1).moreover, in psalms 91:13, the saints shall trample the drago

god. at his coming the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, yea, the clouds dropped water, the mountains quaked before the lord (judg. 5:4 5. thou didst break the heads of the dragons on the waters says the psalmist (ps. 74:13, and the lord. shall slay the dragon that is in the sea (isa. 27:1).moreover, in psalms 91:13, the saints shall trample the dragon under their feet. the battle between yahweh and the dragon is very popular in the 150 leviathan visions of the later hebrew prophets, although the dragon usually embodies a purely symbolic meaning as the enemy of israel, that is to say the assyrians, the babylonians, or the egyptians. an account of god s hostility toward pharaoh is reported by the prophet ezekiel, who speaks of pharaoh as the great dragon that lies in the midst of hi

, in which daniel sees the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea. out of the sea emerge, one after the other, a series of beasts, four in number, all of fabulous form. the fourth beast, in particular, is especially terrible and has ten horns. the four beasts represent in succession the babylonian, median, persian, and hellenistic empires. the endtime significance of this creature is that yahweh will release leviathan to wreak havoc upon the earth shortly before the end of the world. then god will finally destroy the beast. there is a foreshadowing of this scenario in jonah, where the prophet is swallowed by and eventually regurgitated from a whale. jonah then travels to ninevah to preach an apocalyptic message. see also dragons; judaism;war in heaven for further reading: davidson

e of a near eastern chthonic deity, the semitic word for king, a term for sacrifice, and so forth. despite some attempts to place other kinds of interpretations on the bible s moloch passages, it is almost certain that the ancient israelites engaged in such practices, particularly at a ritual site immediately south of jerusalem known as tophet. scholars have speculated that giving moloch (or even yahweh) children as burnt offerings did not finally stop until after the babylonian conquest. the practice was condemned in no uncertain terms as early as the book of leviticus; for example: say to the people of israel, any man of the people of israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in israel, who gives any of his children to molech shall be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him w

actees, rael claimed to have encountered humanoid space aliens. these beings explained to rael that the human race had been created with sophisticated genetic engineering techniques by extraterrestrial scientists (the elohim, meaning, literally, those who came from the sky) in their laboratories. the elohim further explained that rael himself was the offspring of a mortal woman and an alien named yahweh. the raelian movement perceives itself as a scientific religion, founded to spread the truths revealed to rael. one of the major goals of the movement is to build an extraterrestrial embassy in israel in order to receive the elohim when they land in 2035. rael denies the existence of a spiritual realm, including the existence of the soul and of any immaterial god or devil. members of the mo

hed by satan during a visit to the homeworld of the elohim. in exchange for riches and an agreement to preach hatred rather than love, satan promised to take rael and his compatriots on board their spacecraft when planetary-wide conflict breaks out and, after everything is destroyed, bring rael back to rule the earth. rael declined the offer, thereby passing the test that had been orchestrated by yahweh, rael s extraterrestrial father. see also demons; ufos for further reading: rael (claude vorilhon. let s welcome our fathers from space: they created humanity in their laboratories. tokyo: aom corporation, 1986. real space aliens took me to their planet.waduz, lichtenstein: face, 1975. rand, ayn although observers have often perceived connections between anton lavey s satanism and such phil

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24. hail and glory to you, my perfection, my sustenance, my master. 25. the flame of my boundless depths, you will never be extinguished. 1. satan! the ferocious blaze that consumes the palatial garden. 2. stand before me and prepare to meet your judgement, for i am the true adversary of all that seeks to bind my creation in hypocritical servitude. stand before me and be destroyed by my power. 3. yahweh, god of the hebrews, you have been judged and found obsolete. you have used your power toward your own jealous ends, and have sought to conquer the world. you have failed, and this failure is your punishment. you are an abomination in my sight, as are all who revere you. be consigned to the realm of the forgotten! 4. yeshua, impotent teacher of many lies, you have been judged and found cont

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interpretation of buddhist thought that i attack, i but show myself the better buddhist in the act..a.c. a catch word for the stomach, from j.m. barrie.s play .little mary. the first precept. this forbids the taking of life in any form* what we have to note is the impossibility of performing this; if we can prove it to be so, either buddha was a fool, or his command was rhetorical, like those of yahweh to job, or of tannh user to himself. go! seek the stars and count them and explore! go! sift the sands beyond a starless sea. let us consider what the words can mean. the .taking of life. can only mean the reduction of living protoplasm to dead matter: or, in a truer and more psychological sense, the destruction of personality. now, in the chemical changes involved in buddha.s speaking this

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vine act (p. 11)religion was created to insure that humans would never experience the true god (p. 12)the atra hasisthis is the sumerian text that contains the content that was rewritten as the story of genesis, one thou-sand years later (p. 13)jehovahwhile it is easy for most people to believe that zeus was not god, most of the same people will gaspwith shock at the mere suggestion that jehovah (yahweh) was not god (p. 14)julian jaynesjulian jaynes, author of the origin of consciousness and the breakdown of the bicameral mind,claimed that this period thousands of years ago was a time of intense psychosis for the emerging humanrace (p. 27)evidence more than 30,000 written documents from all over the world tell of a group of advanced beings whoeither came to earth or who were already living

n his tombegyptian tomb inscriptions usually relate, in one way or another, to the godhead under which the occu-pant was placed in life, using deiform names such as ra, amen, and ptah. in this case, the unusual tombinscriptions of the grand vizier do not relate to any known god of egypt; they reveal instead such namesas ya-ya, and yu-ya, phonetically, iouiya, which is akin to yaouai, a variant of yahweh or jehovah.from these inscriptions, the vizier has become personally known as yuya, and this is of particular inter-est because his grandson, pharaoh akhenaten later developed the one god concept in egypt (p. 182-183)y uya (y usuf) was the principal minister for the eighteenth dynasty pharaoh, tuthmosis iv (c. 1413-1405 b.c) and for his son amenhotep iiihis tomb was discovered in 1905, alon

must admit the entrance of some great calamity must have produced thisreduction in the length of life. under the new conditions, the human families were to seek safety and comfort in the temperate zones,and even then were to find it impossible to live half the days of their antediluvian ancestors (p. 275)elthis was probably the same as the akkadian enlil.mosesit was mosesthat the establishment of yahweh-worship was due. prior to his time, the israelites seemto have been polytheists (p. 38)state of the planet mercuryon mercury was discovered evidence of the new total destruction of an entire planet. mariner 10 sent uspictures back of a hyper-velocity impact crater that stretched nearly a thousand miles across the face ofmercury (p. 40)appendix b: book abstracts234atlantis, alien visitation

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traveling civilizer spoke of earlier. the fallen angels of eden taught humanity much magic, and did not have the support of the most high god. our humble civilizer, on the other hand, spoke of morals and the sciences while never teaching magic, and he also had the support of the most high god. jehovah, jove, or god, is the righteous brother and ruler whose names are also many. to the jews, he was yahweh. to the christians he is jehovah. in persia he was known as ahura mazda, the bother of the evil ahriman. in egypt, he was ra/osiris. the greek myths call this entity zeus, and in rome he went by the name jupiter. this being, and his son, is commonly associated with the sun. here an important distinction must be made, because many have noticed a correlation between the sun, and satan. satan

could quote the bible with the best of them. this overall spiritual knowledge is most likely due to their understanding regarding the singular root story, rather than intense memorization on their part. the fact that they so liberally use the names and storylines from multiple beliefs so interchangeably is proof of this. what else i found interesting was how some magicians referred to osiris (and yahweh) as lord; except, when they spoke of him, or identified him in any way, it was always in terms of jesus christ. famous phrases: sun of the golden dawn sign of osiris slain: extend arms out to the sides, legs together, palms forward, hang head down. represents sacrifice, balance, and transformation. sign of osiris risen: cross arms over chest, right over left, legs together. represents resur

based on the golden dawn make regarding this jesus-like osiris. although it s worth noting that the real egyptian god osiris died not by sacrifice, but was instead murdered by the conspiracy of his brother set (typhon. further, the real osiris was no more associated with the cross than any other egyptian god. more still, it s worth noting that yeh-heh-shu-wah and yeh-heh-wah-sha are references to yahweh [god; the former, yeh-heh-shu-wah refers to his heavenly manifestation, while the latter, yeh-heh-wah-sha, represents god in his fleshly manifestation. it s pretty clear who they had in mind--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 46 further, these very same magicians recommended a lifestyle, and use of magical powers, that anyone could call christian. some magicians, like our aforementioned a

believe them--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 74 a reoccurring theme in mythology and the occult, is the concept of a god or goddess having multiple aspects. similar to how your guardian angel, guardian demon, and spirit are 3 aspects of you; one of those aspects is good and pure, another is dark and selfish, and your fleshly manifestation is another aspect of you that stands between the two. yahweh [5.1] this is the most-high god, jehovah, the god of israel. he is also zeus, jupiter, osiris, and ahura mazda. he is the archon (angel) emperor, the king of heaven, and the father of the elohim. he is said to be the true father of the arch-angels michael, gabriel, uriel, raphael, and satanael (satan. although in some accounts, satan is his brother. these sons of god are commonly equated wi

(angel) emperor, the king of heaven, and the father of the elohim. he is said to be the true father of the arch-angels michael, gabriel, uriel, raphael, and satanael (satan. although in some accounts, satan is his brother. these sons of god are commonly equated with the children of jehovah; zeus is also said to have plenty offspring. modern-day satanists often remark that satan successfully stole yahweh s creative power, and this belief has fueled much use of phallic symbolism. the planet is dotted with obelisks, like the washington monument, which are merely phallic symbols which represent the creative principle that satan now possesses. it is the fire prometheus stole from the gods. the act of stealing jehovah s creative principle, however, also resulted in the discontinuance of the birt

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. that s all there is to it. chapter 5 ancient secrets of the cabala it is said that god created the world by pronouncing the tetragrammaton correctly and it is regarded as the ultimate magical word of power. the tetragrammaton is an essential part of the cabala, a form of mysticism that evolved from judaism. it is the four letter name of god yod, he, vau, he and is normally pronounced jehovah or yahweh, and sometimes adonai. please do not try to understand it now, you will not be able to until you have mastered the middle pillar ritual revealed in this chapter. but once you are ready for it, i think you will find it to be one of the most profound and rewarding experiences in your life. here, too, are the secret names of god that magical adepts have used for centuries to invoke the hidden

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d accidental crime. sumerian science was comparable to egyptian, but significantly inferior in medicine, geometry, and architecture. in the "old testament" of the bible a distinction between religion and politics is drawn, with the former assuming the right to criticize the latter. the hebraic kingship is notable as being primarily secular in responsibility; interaction with and representation of yahweh was the responsibility of a separate priesthood. ancient hebrew religion progressed through four stages (1) pre-mosaic animism and magic (2) national monolatry (one god but toleration of others (3) monotheism, and (4) dualism [adapted from persian zoroastrianism (after zaratustra, ca. 600 bce. dualism involves a conflict between two opposing forces of the cosmos in persia ahura mazda vs. ah

ty of a separate priesthood. ancient hebrew religion progressed through four stages (1) pre-mosaic animism and magic (2) national monolatry (one god but toleration of others (3) monotheism, and (4) dualism [adapted from persian zoroastrianism (after zaratustra, ca. 600 bce. dualism involves a conflict between two opposing forces of the cosmos in persia ahura mazda vs. ahriman, and later in israel yahweh vs. satan. the hebraic ten commandments are now dated by most "old testament" scholars to ca. 600 bce, some 700 years later than the exodus. in the hebraic system, yahweh is not intelligible through reason or logic, but rather through prophesy and the history of events, whether or not the events' outcomes seem appropriate("theodicy. hence the hebrews adopted a linear concept of time, as wel

ow dated by most "old testament" scholars to ca. 600 bce, some 700 years later than the exodus. in the hebraic system, yahweh is not intelligible through reason or logic, but rather through prophesy and the history of events, whether or not the events' outcomes seem appropriate("theodicy. hence the hebrews adopted a linear concept of time, as well as the notion of a "covenant" between mankind and yahweh; mankind is thus given a "mission" and/or a "destiny" while the egyptian concept of an afterlife was pleasant, mesopotamians considered the underworld (kur-nu-gi-a or sheol) as a dim, dismal place. hence their approach to life was fatalistic and pessimistic, with ethics considered in terms of earthly consequences only. pre-socratic greek philosophy "pre-socratic greece" includes the civiliz

wn as paganism, and secondly that it is somehow new. the definition i learned as a catholic of "pagan" is "one who worships false gods" for this commentary "paganism" will mean any religion of non-christian, non-hebrew origin prior to 1900. this is from the viewpoint of a society that uses the bible as a frame of reference for religious matters. any religion other than the hebrew worship of yhwh (yahweh- jehovah, or the catholic and anglican worship of god as a trinity of divine being, or the protestant worship of jesus christ, is the worship of false gods, and therefore paganism, neo or not. from the viewpoint of our culture then, we are considered pagans. clearly there will be a revolution in thinking once the setian influence is more widespread. the 1900 cutoff is arbitrary, and i chose

ma. the established goal of christianity is even more insistent than previous religions on the fact that the soul is to achieve union with god in this life, with the culmination in the hereafter to the extent even of loss of identity. it still spells stasis and loss of self determination. the protestant denominations, even those which reject the doctrine of the trinity and allow only for jehovah (yahweh-yhwh) as the deity, do no better in the end. 2. the mysteries of christianity are basically those termed the sacraments, which are given during special rituals. these allow the recipient to "receive grace" and deepen his relationship with god. they explain not only the ordering of the objective universe, but also the subjective, so that the individual explores them within a framework of tra

ately, while the latter is controlled and conditioned by externally imposed images of them. known as the hebrew satan, i chose to bring forth a magus, according to the fashion of my word. he was charged to form a church of satan, that i might easily touch the minds of men in this image they had cast for me. the hebrew term "satan" is a corruption of the hieroglyphic set-hen,14 just as the hebrew "yahweh" and its derivative christian trinity are corruptions of the earlier osirian cult.15 by the end of the xxv dynasty the priesthood of set in egypt was probably destroyed,16 and the subsequent loss of the hieroglyphic language virtually eliminated the original set from human knowledge. only the osirian corruption survived in legend- principally through plutarch, who described it in some detai

ce of this aeon into the next century. the pylon gates of albion, fenris, anubis, and silver spear, through which those who seek the knowledge of set can pass through in their quest for xeper, stand proudly open. to those who dare. enter and find true wisdom. setian bell's personal text behold i am come to work my will upon the universe. i strive to xeper and remanifest; therefore i struggle with yahweh and his regressive death cult of failure and self-deceit which lurks and gnaws both within and without my self. therefore am i israel who shall overcome the frailties of that which i was and the repressions of el shadai- choosing thelema over sloth, comprehension over misinterpretation, courage over fear, until i am that i am in the sublime state of the adepthood of set.(3) adept parkin's p

possibility, of promise. the faces of gods who demand its secrecy, and who furnish its seekers with rewards of plentiful splendor, are beckoning to those who are dwellers unto themselves. fleshly men with bones of iron, and who shed tears not for mankind, but for the depravity of independence of thought and life: men who cast their lot not in martyrdom of the spirit, nor in the mental dungeons of yahweh, but in the jeweled manifestation of the night before us. its coming will shadow the meaningless renderings of unheightened spiritualities. and to those who doubt its existence- the motivation for their existence will diminish into the horizons of the universal claim. and those who ask "how may i see it? how may anyone- their answers shall be given them in the return of their permanent selv

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ith a lion s head, riding a pale horse. builds and arms high towers, castles and cities. afflicts men with wounds and sores. gives good familiars. saitan (arabic. a synonym of a jinn. salleos, sallos (goetia, 19th spirit. duke commanding 30 legions. appears as a gallant warrior riding a crocodile and wearing a ducal crown. procures love. salmael this fallen one has a loathing for israel and their yahweh, and calls for their destruction. samael, sammael, samiel (hebrew, poison of god. thus sammael is the angel of poison, the bright and poisonous one, or the poison of god. he is also identified as the angel of death in apocalyptic writings, a name of satan from the third century onwards. identified by enoch as the chief of the satans. known as a great serpent with twelve wings (ie grigori) h

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rican countries. vodouisant: an uninitiated practitioner of vodou. wakan: the incomprehensibility of life and death for the sioux. wakan tanka: the world s motivating force for the sioux. wen: the arts of music, poetry, and painting. wicca: the name of a neo-pagan religion that generally worships the god and the goddess. wu wei: nonaction, or deliberate and thoughtful action that follows the dao. yahweh: one of the names for god in the tanakh. yazata: guardian angel. yin and yang: literally, shady and sunny; terms referring to how the universe is composed of opposing but complementary forces. yom kippur: the day of atonement. zakat: annual charitable giving. ziggurat: a stepped foundation or structure that held a shrine or temple in the mesopotamian religion. zionism: a movement that began

eligions developed over time and geographic regions, they all established one or more gods that the faithful could call upon and worship. the names of these gods differed across religions, although many shared similar characteristics. this is true in the monotheistic faiths that consider abraham as a founder of their religion. these are judaism, christianity, and islam. the jewish name for god is yahweh, or yhwh. another common variation on the name is jehovah. christianity refers to god as the father, the son, and the holy spirit. this refers to the christian trinity, in which god is believed to exist as himself, within jesus christ, the son of god, and as a purely physical representation in the holy spirit. islam refers to god as allah. muslims, the followers of islam, have ninety-nine d

lly used to refer to the less traditional branch of the faith. rosh hoshanah: the jewish new year. sephardic: term used to refer to jews of north africa, the middle east, spain, and portugal. talmud: traditions that explain and interpret the torah. tanakh: the chief jewish scripture; the hebrew bible. torah: the first five books of the tanakh: genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy. yahweh: one of the names for god in the tanakh. yom kippur: the day of atonement. zionism: a movement that began in the nineteenth century to find a permanent home for jews. world religions: almanac 347 judaism ended in 70 ce when roman troops occupied the city, massacred the jews, and destroyed the temple. a second revolt took place in 132 ce when hundreds of thousands of jews were massacred or e

udaism include belief in one god, belief in the accuracy of the hebrew bible, belief in the prophets, belief that a messiah will come, and belief in the last judgment and resurrection. followers. judaism is the twelfth largest religion in the world, with some thirteen to fourteen million believers. name of god. jews use the name god, although common names for god found in the hebrew bible include yahweh and elohim. symbols. judaism has a number of symbols, including the magen david (star of david, the mezuzah, the menorah, and such articles of clothing as the yarmulke. worship. jews worship in synagogues, or temples. the jewish liturgy includes prayers and blessings, but the center of jewish worship is reading from the torah. dress. jews have no particular dress, though women are expected

ithout having to refer to differing page numbers. in the excerpt from genesis, the name god is written g-d. omitting letters from god s name is a common practice in jewish tradition out of a concern that the written name of god could be defaced or erased or that the document could be destroyed. accordingly, jews avoid writing the complete name of god, often writing g-d or yhvh or yhwh rather than yahweh. modern-day rabbis have had to deal with the emergence of the computer and the fact that god s name can be deleted from a computer text. they have determined that this is not an erasure or defacement, because a computer text has no permanence. the days mentioned in the creation account in genesis are generally not regarded as literal twenty-four-hour days. jewish tradition accepts the idea

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alter knew that iao and seth- typhon could be identified as well as associated: the focal point of his article is papyrus osloensis i (pgm xxxvi, where two iao-pictures are identified as representations of seth- typhon.16 the question for us, however, is whether the coptic magical text cited above witnesses to a welding of seth-typhon and christ. iao, a greek form of the name of the biblical god, yahweh (above, arbathiao, is associated and even equated with many deities in the magical texts. the conjuration in pgm iv.3019-3024 begins "i conjure you by the god of the hebrews, jesus, iaba iae c" just before the conjuration, we are informed that the phylactery should include, inter alia, the names, iaeo, iao, iaeo. it is clear that jesus is here identified with the jewish god, whose proper na

seth as ass, see, e.g, suppl. mag. ii.69. 15 see procope-walter "iao und set, archiv fur religionswissenschaft 30 (1933) 64-65. he does not discuss pgm iv.1331-1389. 16 see "iao und seth" 34-48. pearson did not note this text. 17 there is no need to regard the identification of jesus as "the god of the hebrews" as due to a later hand. in certain quarters, jesus was regarded as the biblical maleak yahweh, the yahweh angel, who is often indistinguishable from god himself. already in jude 5, jesus is seen as the angel of yahweh who led the people out of egypt; see j. fossum "kyrios jesus as the angel of the lord in jude 5-7, new testament studies 33 (1987) 226-243. this is one of the prominent works of the deity invoked in the spell in pgm iv.3007-3086; see lines 3034-3036 and 3054-3055. 18 s

e underworld, but a saviour and a revealer. the judging and punishing functions are ascribed to other beings (ch. 140. one of these beings actually is typhon. thus, seth-typhon is clearly distinguishable from jesus in codex askewianus. the latter's name, aberamentho, therefore cannot identify him as the former. d.g. martinez recently attributed jesus' name, aberamentho, to "the syncretism of both yahweh and jesus with typhon-seth (p. mich. xvi [above n. 14] 33. he referred to r. w. daniel (zpe 50 [1983] 151f) as well as r. wunsch (p. 46f [see above, n. 5, obviously without knowing the refutation of the latter. daniel does not contribute anything to the discussion. in substantiation of his statement that egyptian seth was welded with yahweh, he merely referred to the article by procope-walt

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m expected the coming of a messiah. no wonder that the figure of the uniquely initiated one could only be identified by the jews with their messiah. and this connection helps explain the shift from concern with individual initiation in the mysteries to a concern for the whole people. judaism had been from the beginning a national religion, through which the jewish people defined its identity. its yahweh was the people s god. the birth of his son the evidence of the gospels 107 must mean the redemption of the whole people. there was no question of an individual initiate being saved; salvation must be brought to the entire people. it belongs to the basic idea of jewish religion that one dies on behalf of all. the existence of mysteries within judaism, which could be brought out of the obscur

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three names representing the three identities of god. it is so sacred it takes three royal arch masons to be able to speak it. jahbuhlun. the three masons grip hands high and low and chant "jah-buh-lun, jah-buh-lun, jah-buh-lun, je-hov-ah" the name jahbuhlun has three syllables representing a composite god made up of three subordinate deities. the masonic material identifies the three as yah (or yahweh, baal, and osiris. logically, the name should be spelled yah-baal-on, but duncan's masonic ritual and monitor admits that over the years the spelling has been "corrupted" by freemasonry until it reached its current form.1 decker correctly asserts that "what these men are doing is worshipping a demon god so far removed from the real god that this worship must surely defile the holiness of go

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e, 1994. sullivan, lawrence e, ed. death, afterlife, and the soul. new york: macmillan, 1989. wilson, andrew, ed. world scripture: a comparative anthology of sacred texts. new york: paragon house, 1995. judaism then the lord god formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being (genesis 2:7. in the second chapter of genesis, yahweh, the god of israel, shapes the form of adam from the clay, then breathes into him the breath of life, so that adam becomes nephesh, or a living soul. interestingly, yahweh also bestows the breath of life into the animals that flourished in the garden of eden, and they, too, are considered living souls. nephesh is closely associated with blood, the life-substance, which is drained away from

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is above and is unaffected by the thoughts from the mind-stream or the sensations of the body. it is that pure consciousness, the core of the self, that underlies all other aspects and functions of the psyche as well. all personal energy and consciousness issues from ths source. archetypes of the hgher self include omnipotent sky gods such as the babylonian marduk, the greek zeus, and the hebrew yahweh. 3. the conscious selfor "i" is the ego or point of self-awareness. it is the seat of personal identity that we organize our field of psychology and magic 125 awareness around. its function is to coordinate the vast amount of interior and exterior information that we acquire and to act as a intermediary between our internal and external realities. experience is processed by the ego through

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he names of god assigned to the sephir t h. tohe d ivine name used by the golden dawn in malkuth is adonai ha-aretz (lord of earth, those in yesod are shaddai and el chai (almighty and the mighty living one, and those in tiphareth are eloah vedaath and ihvh (god manifest and tetragrammaton. tetragrammaton was vocalized by means of its individual hebrew letters as yod- heh-vav-heh, or sometimes as yahweh. these names would be vibrated on the breath in a ritual way, and simultaneously visualized to float in hebrew letters of glowing white fire upon the corresponding sephirah of the tree. by vibrating a name upon the breath, the traveler aspired in his consciousness toward it. the "crossing rays" alluded to by mathers are the horizontal and diagonal paths on the tree. were they to be followed

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spoken as a single word. its letters should always be voiced individually by vibrating the names of the letters, rather than their sounds. the ancient jewish pronunciation of this supreme name of god is unknown. in the fourth century before christ its use was suppressed by the priests of the temple at jerusalem, who kept the occult might of the name for their own uses. sometimes it is pronounced yahweh, but this pronunciation should not be used in ritual magic. ihvh is linked in the golden dawn system with the east and the element air, because the east is the first quarter and ihvh is the primary name that created the world. adonai means "lord" it is the name of god that jews customarily substitute for ihvh when they encounter the tetragrammaton while reading the pentateuch in order to ex

rms of the name jesus. osiris, isis, and apophis are egyptian deities. typhon is the greek name for apophis. isis ritual of the rose cross 181 is the giver of life who resurrects osiris, apophis is the giver of death who kills osiris, and osiris is the god of rebirth, having died and been restored to life. lux is a latin word meaning light; iao is a gnostic name of god that is probably related to yahweh. the latin letters i. n. r i. refer to the crucifurion of christ-they are the first letters of the words iesus nazarenus rex iudaeorum (jesus of nazareth, king of the jews, and are supposed to have been written on a placard affured to jesus by the romans at the time of his execution. the hebrew letters yod-nun-resh-yod are merely their transliterations. the enochian words exarp, hcoma, nant

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consonants of the substituted word are written in the margin to avoid confusion, but since the use of adonai for ihvh was so well known to jewish readers, this was deemed unnecessary. european scholars, unaware of this practice, read the consonants ihvh and the vowel sounds for adonai together, and the result was the impossible hybrid "jehovah" the correct pronunciation is thought to be yahveh or yahweh, with the accent falling on the second syllable. writing in greek around the end of the second century, clement of alexandria states that the pronunciation is i c u x, iaove. variants in the manuscripts are ia ove, ia ova1 and iaov. epiphanius, who was born and lived for a considerable period in palestine, reports around the end of the fourth century that the true pronunciation is i, iabe

, yawe is found. even though the manner of speaking the tetragrammaton may be said to have been lost officially, there are many in modern times who have claimed, and continue to claim, possession of the single, true esoteric pronunciation. early in the present century, it was recorded (montgomery, journal of biblical literature xxv [19061, pp. 49-51) that the modern samaritan priests use the form yahweh or yahwa. kabbalists have always maintained a knowledge of the name that has been handed down from master to disciple through the centuries. the higher degrees of freemasonry purport to possess it. there are many occultists of the present day who are convinced that they, and they alone, preserve the true way of speaking it, which is the only way to release the awesome power of the word. sam

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