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h (beauty/ harmony) netzach (victory) hod (splendor) yesod (foundation) malkuth (kingdom) occultists in the hermetic order of the golden dawn use the qabalistic tree of life as a matrix or grid for comparing the archetypal images of different mythologies that could be adapted to ceremonial magic. for example, the merciful father (chesed) has parallels in other pantheons, namely odin (scandinavia) zeus (greece) jupiter (rome) and ra (egypt) this system of comparison became known as mythological correspondences. it has become common in the occult tradition to link the ten sephiroth of the tree of life with the twenty-two paths between the sephiroth that also correspond to the major arcana of the tarot. definitions qbl: hebrew word meaning "from mouth to ear" thereby signifying a secret oral

via the process of mythological correspondences, is associated with such deities as the virgin mary, rhea, isis, and demeter. chesed: the fourth emanation on the tree of life. occultists identify chesed as the ruler, but not creator, of the manifested universe. he is characterized as stable, wise, and merciful by contrast with his more dynamic opposite, geburah. chesed is associated with the gods zeus and jupiter. geburah: the fifth emanation on the tree of life. geburah is often associated with mars, the roman god of war, and represents severity and justice. the destructive forces of the sphere of geburah are intended to have a purging, cleansing effect on the universe. geburah represents the creator god who applies discipline and precision in governing the cosmos and removes unwanted or

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conf. ceedm. 265, 16. this idea of a seat in the sky, from which god looks on the earth, is not yet extinct among our people. the sitting on the right hand is in the bible, but not the looking down. the formulas 'qui haut siet et de loing mire, qui haut siet et loins voit (supra, p. 23) are not cases in point, for men everywhere have thought of the deity as throned on high and seeing far around. zeus also sits on ida, and looks on at mortal men; he rules from ida's top "isijdev fiesiav, even as helios, the eye of the sun, surveys and discerns all things, ii. 3, 277. but a widely-circulated marcheu tells us of a mortal man, whom st. peter admitted into heaven, and who, led on by curiosity, ended by climbing into the chair of the lord, from, which 07ie can look down and see all that is done

ollo's arrows scatter])estilence. the gauls also imagined that apollo drove away diseases (apollinem morbos depellere, caes. b. g. 6, 17; and wodan's magic alone can cure balder's lamed horse. the raven on the god's shoulder exactly fits apollo, and still more plainly the circumstance that osinn invented the poetic art, and saga is his divine daughter, just as the greek muses, though daughters of zeus, are under apollo's protection, and in his train. on the other hand, writing and the alphabet were not invented by apollo, but by hermes. tlie egyptian priests placed hermes at the head of all inventions (lamblich. de myst. aegypt. 8, 1, and theuth or thoth is said to have first discovered letters (plato's phaedr. 1, 96, bekker, while, ace. to hygin. fab. 143, hermes learnt them by watching t

ed with valjan, eligere; whence it is easy to conceive and 1 when osinn is called thundr in the songs of the edda, sair, and we saw him hml the cudgel, as thorr does the hammer- as zeus also is rplros, from which tpiroyiveta is more easily explained than by her birth from his head (see suppl* ielfric's glosses 56% altanus: woden. altanus, like summanus, an epithet of jove, the altissimus; else altanus, as the name of a wind, might also have to do with the storm of the' wiitende heer* the greek fiivos would be well adapted to unite the meanings of courage, fury (mut, wut, wis

him, renovations, rejuvenescences of him. this explains how certain characteristics come to be assigned, now to this, now to that particular god, and why one or another of them, according to the difference of nation, comes to be invested with supreme power. thus our wuotan resembles hermes and mercury, but he stands higher than these two; contrariwise, the german donar (thunor, thorr) is a weaker zeus or jupiter, what was added to the one, had to be subtracted from the other; as for ziu wodan. 165 (tiw, tyr, he hardly does more than administer one of wuotan's offices, yet is identical in name with the first and highest god of the greeks and eomans: and so all these god-phenomena keep meeting and crossing one another. the hellenic hermes is pictured as a youth, the teutonic wuotan as a patr

asti 2, 69. metam. 1, 170. claudian's stilicho 2, 439; and latin poets of the mid. ages are not at all unwilling to apply the name to the christian god (c.r7.,dracontius de deo 1, 1. satisfact. 149. yen. fortunat. p. 212-9. 258. and expressions in the lingua vulgaris coincide with this: celui qui fait toner, qui fait courre la nue (p. 23-4. an inscription, jovi tonanti, in gruter 21, 6. the greek zeus who sends thunder and lightning kepavv6) is styled kepavveco. zeu? ektvire, i. 8, 75. 170. 17, 595. jio^ tu7ro9, ii. 15, 379.2 and because he sends them down from the 1 in a poem made up of the first lines of hymns and songs: ach gott vop himmel sieh darein, iind werfe einen donnerstein ^s ist gewislieh an der zeit, dass schwelgerei und iippigkeit zerschmettert werden mansetodt! sonst schrein

inen donnerstein ^s ist gewislieh an der zeit, dass schwelgerei und iippigkeit zerschmettert werden mansetodt! sonst schrein wir bald aus tiefer noth. 2 one might be tempted to connect the etruscan tina= jupiter with tonans and donar; it belongs more immediately to zrjv (v. inira, zio. tiiunae. 169 height of heaven, he also bears the name akpw, and is. pictured dwelling on the mountain-top (akpi. zeus is enthroned on olympus, on atlios, lycaeus, casius, and other mountains of greece and asia minor. and here i must lay stress on the fact, that the thundering god is conceived as emphatically a fatherly one, as jupiter and diespiter, as far and tatl. for it is in close connexion with this, that the mountains sacred to him also received in many parts such names as etzcl, altvatcr, grossvatcr t

n used of more than one of them; but that we have a right to claim it specially for donar and ms mother, is shewn by perun, 1 matt. 8, 1. mk 5, 5. 11. 9, 2. 11, 1. lu. 3, 5. 4, 29. 9, 37. 19, 29. 37. 1 cor. 13, 2. bairgahei (17 opeivrj) in lu. 1, 39, 65; never the simple bairgs. thunae. 173 perkun, and v>-ill be confirmed presently by the meaning of mount and rock which lies in the word hamar. as zeus is called ivdkplo, so is his daughter pallas akpia, and his mother opearepa td, fxdrep avrov ai6 (sophocl. philoct. 389; the myth transfers from him to his mother and daughter. of donar's another our very miirchen have things to tell (pentam. 5, 4; and beyond a doubt, the stories of the devil and his bath and his grandmother are but a vulgarization of heathen notions about the thundergod. las

s. heathendom probably addressed the petition for rain to the thundergod, instead of to elias and mary^ yet i cannot call to mind a single passage, even in on. legend, where thorr is said to have bestowed rain when it was ashed for; we are only told that he sends stormy weather when he is angry, olafs tryggv. saga 1, 302-6 (see suppl. but we may fairly take into account his general resemblance to zeus and jupiter (who are expressly vetto;,p)luvius, ii. 12, 25: ve zev; crwe^e, and the prevalence of votis imbrem vocare among all the neighbouring nations (see suppl. a description by petronius cap. 44, of a eoman procession for rain, agrees closely with that given above from the mid. ages: antea stolatae ibant nudis pedibus in clivum, passis capillis, mentibus puris, et joveiii aquam exorabant

e called pitkne, which conies near the finnic piilcdinen= thunder, perhaps even thunder; hiipel's esth. diet, however gives both pikkcnne and pikne simply as thunder (impersonal. the einns usually give their thundergod the name ukko only, the esthonians that of turris as well, evidently from the norse thorr (see suppl^ as the fertility of the land depends on thunderstorms and rains, pitkdinen and zeus appear as the oldest divinity of agricultural nations, to whose bounty they look for the thriving of their cornfields and fruits (see suppl. adam of bremen too attributes thunder and lightning to tlior expressly in connexion with dominion over weather and fruits: thor, inquiunt, praesidet in aere, qui tonitrua et fulmina, ventos imbresque, serena et frugcs guhernat. here then the worship of t

ion, that the crushing rock-splitting force of the thiuiderbolt prepares the hard stony soil. this is most happily expounded of the hrungnir and orvandill saj/as: in some of the others it seems not to answer so well. thunar. 177 showers, and his sacred tree supj^lies the nutritious acorn. thor's niinni was drunk to the prosperity of cornfields. the german thundergod was no doubt represented, like zeus and jupiter, with a long heard. a danish rhyme still calls him' thor med sit lange skidg (f. magnusen's lex. 957. but the on. sagas everywhere define him more narrowly as red-learded, of course in allusion to the fiery phenomenon of lightning: when the god is angry, he blows in his red beard, and thunder peals through the clouds. in the fornm. sog. 2, 182 and 10, 329 he is a tall, handsome, r

e, how frauenlob ms. 2, 214^ expresses himself about god the father: der smit uz oberlande warf sinen hamer in mine schoz. the hammer, as a divine tool, was considered sacred, brides and the bodies of the dead were consecrated with it, ssem. 74^ sn. 49. 66; men blessed with the sign of the hammer^ as christians did with the sign of the cross, and a stroke of lightning was long regarded in the^ as zeus's lightning was by the curetes or cyclopes^ that in ancient statues of the thundergod the hammer had not been forgotten, seems to be proved by pretty late evidence, e.g. the statue of a dorper mentioned in connexion with the giants (ch. xviii, quotation from fergut. and in the as. solomon and saturn, thunor wields ajiery axe (ch. xxv, mus^ in the old germ, law, the throwing of a hammer ratifi

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ith the sun, represents michael, the great archangel, the ruler of solar fire. the serpents which leap in the rainbow are symbols of the fiery seraphim. the trumpet represents the influence of the spirit descending from binah, while the banner with the cross refers to the four rivers of paradise and the letters of the holy name. he also is axieros, the first of the samothracian kabiri, as well as zeus and osiris. the left hand figure below, rising from the earth is samael, the ruler of volcanic fire. he is also axiokersos, the 2nd kabir, pluto and typhon. the right hand figure below is anadl, the ruler of the astral light. she is also axiokersa, the third kabir, ceres and proserpina, isis and nephthys. she is therefore represented in a duplicate form and rising from the water. around both

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they might never be parted again and so is goddess of fidelity. as ostara, goddess of spring, she was known among the anglo-saxons and is remembered in the festival of easter as a fertility goddess and bringer of new beginnings. in her role as valfreya, the lady of the battlefield, frigg recalls the northern tradition of warrior goddesses and offers courage to women. hera hera, the wife-sister of zeus, is a the supreme greek goddess of protection, marriage and childbirth whose sacred bird is the peacock. she is a powerful deity of fidelity and is called upon by women seeking revenge upon unfaithful partners. hestia hestia is the greek goddess of the hearth and home, all family matters and peace within the home. she is a benign, gentle goddess and so can be invoked for matters involving chi

would chant 'agni, the divine ministrant of the sacrifice, the great bestower of treasure. may one obtain through agni, wealth and welfare' agni is still important as the god of domestic and ritual fire and for spells for the increase of wealth, material goods, creativity and domestic protection. hephaestus hephaestus, greek god of fire and metal-work, was thrown from mount olympus by his father zeus because he took the part of his mother hera in a quarrel; as a result of the fall, he became lame. he created armour, weapons and jewels for the gods in his workshop beneath the volcanic mount etna, in sicily, and as a reward was given aphrodite as his unwilling bride. he was among the least charismatic of the gods, but his roman counterpart, vulcan, fashioned jupiter's thunderbolts. hephaest

in the middle east from where his cult originated. he is effective in all rituals for craftsmanship, for the acquisition of wealth and treasures, for the development of skills and precision and for controlled power for a particular purpose. deities of healing aesculapius aesculapius was a healer, son of apollo and the mortal corona, who lived during the eleventh century bc, and became a god after zeus killed him with a thunderbolt for raising the dead. the first shrine dedicated to aesculapius was built in athens in the fifth century bc by sophocles. other shrines followed in rapid succession, the most famous at epidaurus, which became a major healing centre. many were sited at sacred wells and springs. these shrines were dedicated to healing and dreams, and were the principle vehicle for

e wealthy would come to socialise and take the waters. sulis is potent for all healing water rituals. because curse tablets as well as offerings have been retrieved from the waters, she is also associated with justice through karma and the banishing of sorrows. deities of wisdom as well as wisdom, these gods and goddesses are for knowledge, truth and justice. athena athena, or athene, daughter of zeus, is goddess of wise counsel, both in peace and war, of intelligence, reason, negotiation and all forms of the arts and literature. the owl is her sacred bird and the olive her symbol representing peace, healing and nourishment. hathor hathor is the ancient egyptian goddess of truth, wisdom, joy, love, music, art and dance and protectress of women. she is said to bring husbands or wives to tho

ndance or success and good fortune. it rules marriage, permanent relationships (both business and personal, fidelity, loyalty and male potency in both the human and animal kingdom. ironically, jupiter can lead to excesses, including greed, addictions and obsessions, so it can also be used for banishing these. jupiter, known as the sky father, was the supreme roman god, ruler of the universe. like zeus, his greek counterpart, jupiter controlled the thunderbolts, which were carried by his eagle, the noblest of the birds. however, he ruled not despotically, but as the chief of a triumvirate of gods: the other two were juno, his consort, and minerva, goddess of wisdom, who made up the feminine principle of deeper, more instinctual wisdom. use the hour of jupiter to profit from an opportunity t

scry, which means 'to perceive dimly. shamanism: possibly the oldest spiritual practice in the world, continued today in communities as far apart as india, australia, japan and china, siberia and mongolia, in africa, among the bedouins in the middle east and in north, central and south america. sky-clad: naked. sky gods: the powerful patriarchal gods of the classical and viking world, for example zeus of the greeks, jupiter of the romans, odin of the vikings and thunor of the anglo-saxons. they gained supremacy over the earth mother who appears as their wife-consort, full of human foibles. solstice: one of the main astronomical points of the year. the summer solstice (21 june, or 21 december in the southern hemisphere) marks the sun at its height and greatest power. the winter solstice (21

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bra "alhim, therefore, represents rather the formula of consecration than that of a complete ceremony. it is the breath of benediction, yet so potent that it can give life to clay and light to darkness. in consecrating a weapon "aleph" is the whirling force of the thunderbolt, the lightning which flameth out of the east even 24 into the west. this is the gift of the wielding of the thunderbolt of zeus or indra, the god of air "lamed" is the oxgoad, the driving force; and it is also the balance, representing the truth and love of the magician. it is the loving care which he bestows upon perfecting his instruments, and the equilibration of that fierce force which initiates the ceremony<aeon of horus; they are indeed the key of the

tent. analysed qabalistically, the word is found to possess similar properties. a is the negative, and also the unity which concentrates it into a positive form. a is the holy spirit who begets god in flesh upon the virgin, according to the formula familiar to students of "the golden bough. a is also the "babe in the egg" thus produced. the quality of a is thus bisexual. it is the original being- zeus arrhenothelus, bacchus diphues, or baphomet. u or v is the manifested son himself. its number is 6. it refers therefore, to the dual nature of the logos as divine and human; the interlacing of the upright and averse triangles in the hexagram. it is the first number of the sun, whose last number<sun being 6, a square 6x6 contains 36 squares. we arrange the numbers from 1 to 36 in this squ

s exist, and seek the knowledge and conversation of his own holy guardian angel with the same ardour as that of frater perdurabo when he abandoned all: love, wealth, rank, fame, to seek him. nay, this he must do or condemn himself to be 262 torn asunder by the maenads of his insensate impulses; he hath no safety save he himself be bacchus! bacchus, divine and human! bacchus, begotten on semele of zeus, the adulterous lord of thunder ravishing, brutally, his virginal victim! bacchus, babe hidden from hate in the most holy of holies, the secret of thy sire, in the channel of the star-spate, whereof one serpent is thy soul! bacchus, twyformed, man-woman, bacchus, whose innocence tames the tiger, while yet thy horns drip blood upon thy mouth, and sharpen the merriment of wine to the madness of

ith its passion. in this sacrament being wholly at one with that element, let the adept utter the charge "hear me, and make, etc. with strong sense that this unity with that quarter of the universe confers upon him the fullest freedom and privilege appurtenant thereto. let the adept take note of the wording of the charge. the "firmament" is the ruach, the "mental plane; it is the realm of shu, or zeus, where revolves the wheel of the gunas, the three forms<correspond to the sulphur, mercury, and salt of alchemy; to sattvas, rajas, and tamas in the hindu system; and are rather modes of action than actual qualities even when conceived as latent. they are the apparatus of communication between the planes; as such, they are conventions. there is no absolute validity in any means of menta

on with the angel implies (1) the death of his old mind save in so far as his unconscious elements preserve its memory when they absorb it, and (2) the death of his unconscious elements themselves. but their death is rather a going forth to renew their life through love. he then, by conscious comprehension of them separately and together, becomes the "angel" of his angel, as hermes is the word of zeus, whose own voice is thunder. thus in this section the adept utters articulately so far as words may, what his angel is to himself. he says this, with his scin-laeca wholly withdrawn into his physical body, constraining his angel to indwell his heart "line 1 "i am he" asserts the destruction of the sense of separateness between self and self. it affirms existence, but of the third person only

ris: 29 :khephra (as scarab in tarot :vishnu (matsya avatar: trump: 30 :ra and many others :surya (as sun :31 :thoum-aesh-neith, mau, ka :agni (tejas) yama (as god of: beshunt, horus, tarpesheth: last judgment: 32 :sebek, mako :brahama :32 "bis :satem, ahapshi, nephthys:(prithivi: ameshet :31 "bis :asar:(akasa: 310& 311 table i: xxxiv: xxxv :key scale: some greek gods: some roman gods: 0 :pan: 1 :zeus, iacchus :jupiter: 2 :athena, uranus :janus: 3 :cybele, demeter, rhea, here :juno, cybele, saturn, hecate: 4 :poseidon :jupiter: 5 :ares, hades :mars: 6 :iacchus, apollo, adonis :apollo: 7 :aphrodite, nike :venus: 8 :hermes :mercury: 9 :zeus (as air, diana of :diana (as moon: ephesus (as phallic stone: 10 :persephone (adonis, psyche :ceres :11 :zeus :jupiter: 12 :hermes :mercury: 13 :artemis

sus (as phallic stone: 10 :persephone (adonis, psyche :ceres :11 :zeus :jupiter: 12 :hermes :mercury: 13 :artemis, hecate :diana: 14 :aphrodite :venus: 15 :athena :mars, minerva: 16:(here :venus: 17 :castor& pollux, apollo the :casto& pollux (janus: diviner: 18 :apollo the charioteer :mercury: 19 :demeter (borne by lions :venus (repressing the fire of: vulcan: 20:(attis:(attis) ceres, adonis: 21 :zeus :jupiter (pluto: 22 :themis, minos, aeacus, and :vulcan: rhadamanthus :23 :poseidon :neptune: 24 :ares :mars: 25 :apollo, artemis (hunters :diana (as archer: 26 :pan, priapus (erect hermes :pan, vesta, bacchus, priapus: and bacchus: 27 :ares :mars: 28:(athena, ganymede :juno: 29 :poseidon :neptune: 30 :helios, apollo :apollo :31 :hades :vulcan, pluto: 32:(athena :saturn :32 "bis:(demeter :cer

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the same reason; he is a person, a macrocosmic individual (we do not know about his birth and so on; magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 289 but that is because he is, so to speak, a private god; he only appears to the world at all through some reference to him by his client; for instance, the genius or augoeides of socrates. let us see how this works in practice. consider zeus, jupiter, amon- ra, indra, etc, we can think of them as the same identical people known and described by greeks, romans, egyptians and hindus; they differ as mont cervin differs from monte silvio and the matterhorn (they are bound to appear different, because the mountain does not look the same from zermatt as it does from domodossola, or even as seen by a french-swiss and a german-swiss) in

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ook, are sufficiently dealt with later on. in these cases the references in the index should be turned up "a'.a" the great white brotherhood which is giving this method of attainment to the world "see" equinox i "adeptus minor" a grade of adeptship "see" equinox iii "aethyrs "see" equinox v and vii "aima" the great fertile mother nature "ama" the great mother not yet fertile "amoun" the god amen= zeus= jupiter, etc, etc "ankh" the symbol of "life" a form of the rosy cross "see" equinox iii "apophis" the serpent-god who slew osiris "see" equinox iii "babalon, our lady "see" equinox v, the vision and voice, 14th aethyr "babe of the abyss "see" equinox viii, temple of solomon "bhagavadgita" scared hymn of india, translated by sir edwin arnold in the "song celestial "binah" understanding, the

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e thyrsus-rod, and a cluster of grapes or a wineskin, while a tiger leaps up by his side. this form is suggested in the taro card, where 'the fool' is shown with a long wand and carrying a sack; his coat is motley. tigers and crocodiles follow him, thus linking this image with that of harpocrates. almost identical symbols are those of the secret god of the templars, the bi-sexual baphomet, and of zeus arrhenothelus, equally bi-sexual, the father-mother of all in one person (he is shown in this full form in the tarot trump xv "the devil) now zeus being lord of air, we are reminded that aleph is the letter of air. as air we find the "wandering fool" pure wanton breath, yet creative. wind was supposed of old to impregnate the vulture, which therefore was chosen to symbolize the mother-goddess

the "wandering fool" pure wanton breath, yet creative. wind was supposed of old to impregnate the vulture, which therefore was chosen to symbolize the mother-goddess. he is the wandering knight or prince of fairy tales who marries the king's daughter. this legend is derived from certain customs among exogamic tribes, for which see "the golden bough. thus one europa, semele and others claimed that zeus- air<<zeus obtained air for his kingdom in the partition with hades, who took fire, and poseidon, who took water. shu is the egyptian god of the firmament. there is a great difficulty here, etymologically. zeus is connected with iao, abrasax, and the dental sibilant gods of the great mysteries, with the south and hadit, ada, set, saturn, adonai, attis, adonis; he is even the "jesus, slain wit

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f their swords is like the breaking forth of a tremendous 87 storm of lightning. the least of their spears is like a great water-spout. on their shields are the eyes of tetragrammaton, winged with flame- white, red, black, yellow and blue. on their flanks are vast squadrons of elephants, and behind them is their meteor- artillery. they that sit upon the elephants are armed with the thunderbolt of zeus. now in all that host there is no motion. yet they are not resting upon their arms, but tense and vigilant. and between them and me is the god shu, whom before i did not see, because his force filleth the whole aethyr. and indeed he is not visible in his form. nor does he come to the seer through any of the senses; he is understood, rather than expressed. i perceive that all this army is defe

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rphic conception" but what odds? once the right thought comes it will transcend any and all conceptions. the objection is as silly as the objection to illustrating geometry by diagrams, on the ground that printed lines are thick and so on. this is the imbecility of the "protestant" objection to images. what fools these mortals be! the greeks, too, after exhausting all their sublimest thoughts of zeus and hades and poseidon, found that they could not find a fitting image of the all, the supreme so they just carved a goat-man, saying: let this represent pan! also in the holiest place of the most secret temple there is an empty shrine. but whoso goes there in the first instance thinks; there is no god. he who goes there at the end, when he has adored all the other deities, knoweth that no g

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we must return to our first point, namely_ the meaning and value of ceremonial magic. ceremonial magic, as a means to attainment, has in common with all other methods, western or eastern, one supreme object in view_ identification with the godhead; and it matters not if the aspirant be theist or atheist, pantheist or autotheist, christian or jew, or whether he name the goal of his attainment god, zeus, christ, matter, nature, spirit, heaven, 135 reason, nirvana, asgard, no-thing or no-god, so long as he "has" a goal in view, and a goal he is striving to attain. without a goal, he is but a human ship without port or destination; and, without striving, work, will to attain, he is but a human derelict, rudderless and mastless, tossed hither and thither by the billows of lunacy, eventually to

ty. but first he must travel the circumference of the circle; and, when mystically he has discovered that the goal is the starting- point, and where he entered that circle there also will it break and open out, so that the adytum of its centre becomes as an arch in its outer wall, then indeed will he be worthy of the name of magus. the keystone to this arch some have called god, some brahma, some zeus, some allah, some even iao the god of the sounding name; but in truth, o seeker, it is thy-self_ this higher dimension in which the inner becomes the outer, and in which the single eye alone can see the throbbing heart, master of the entangled skein of veins. let us for example's sake call this attainment by the common name of god (self as opposed to self. and as we have seen the path of unio

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pes! god! god! evoe! dwell! abide! agave. i feel the wings of love, of mystery; they waft soft streams of night air to my heated breast and brow. maenads. he comes! he comes! agave. silence, o girls, and peace! the god's most holy presence asks the hymn, the solemn hymn, the hymn of agony, lest, in the air of glory that surrounds the child of semele, we lose the earth and corporal presence of the zeus-begot. autonoe. yea, sisters, raise the chant of riot! lift your wine-sweet voices, move your wine-stained limbs in joyful invocation! maenads. ay, we sing. agave. hail, child of semele! to her as unto thee be reverence, be deity, be immortality! shame! treachery of the spouse of the olympian house, hera! thy grim device against the sweet carouse! lo! in red roar and flame did zeus descend! w

semele! to her as unto thee be reverence, be deity, be immortality! shame! treachery of the spouse of the olympian house, hera! thy grim device against the sweet carouse! lo! in red roar and flame did zeus descend! what claim to feel the immortal fire had then the theban dame! 37 caught in that fiery wave, her love and life she gave with one last kissing cry the unborn child to save. and thou, o zeus, the sire of bromius- hunter dire- didst snatch the unborn babe from that olympian fire: in thine own thigh most holy that offspring melancholy didst hide, didst feed, on light, ambrosia, and moly. ay! and with serpent hair and limbs divinely fair didst thou, dionysus, leap forth to the nectar air! ay! thus the dreams of fate we dare commemorate, twining in lovesome curls the spoil of mate an

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ery human being has to solve. father-spirit and mother-matter meet together in man, and the work of the- 14- the labours of hercules disciple is to withdraw himself from the bonds of the mother and thus respond to the love of the father [18] this duality is also brought out in the fact that he was one of twins. we read that one twin was born of an earthly father, and that the other was the son of zeus. this is the great realization that comes to every developed and self-aware human being. he finds himself conscious of two aspects which meet in his nature. there is the well developed and highly organized personality through which he habitually expresses himself (mental, emotional and physical, with all three parts coordinated into an integrated unit. then there is the spiritual nature, with

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nd pollux. jupiter endows them with a marvellous gift and privilege. they are semi-immortal; they live and die, each in turn, and every alternate day[[eteremeroi. as the tyndaridae, the twin brothers are an astronomical symbol, and stand for day and night; their two wives, phoebe and hilasira, the daughters of apollo or the sun, personifying the dawn and the twilight* again, in the allegory where zeus is shown as the father of the two heroes- born from the egg to which leda gives birth- the myth is entirely theogonical. it relates to that group of cosmic allegories in which the world is described as born from an egg. for leda assumes in it the shape of a white swan when uniting herself to the divine swan* leda is the mythical bird, then, to which, in the traditions of various peoples of th

the dioscuri (of apollodorus iii. 10, 7; but become the highly significant symbol of the dual man, the mortal and the immortal. not only this, but as will now be seen, they are also the symbol of the third race, and its transformation from the animal man into a god-man with only an animal body. pindar shows leda uniting herself in the same night to her husband and also to the father of the gods- zeus. thus castor is the son of the mortal, pollux the progeny of the immortal. in the allegory made up for the occasion, it is said that in a riot of vengeance against the apherides* pollux kills lynceus "of all mortals he whose sight is the most penetrating- but castor is wounded by idas "he who sees and knows" zeus puts an end to the fight by hurling his thunderbolt and killing the last two com

etc, p. 652* nem, x, 80 et seq. theocras, xxiv, 131* xxxiv, v. 5; theocritus, xxii, 1* apollodorus, iii. ii, 1* castor's tomb was shown in sparta, in days of old, says pausanias (iii, 13, 1; and plutarch says that he was called at argos the demi-mortal or demi-hero[[mizarchagetas (see plutarch, quaestiones graecae, 23[[vol. 2, page] 123 the allegory of castor and pollux. his despair he calls upon zeus to slay him also "thou canst not die altogether" answers the master of the gods "thou art of a divine race" but he gives him the choice: pollux will either remain immortal, living eternally in olympus; or, if he would share his brother's fate in all things, he must pass half his existence underground, and the other half in the golden heavenly abodes. this semi-immortality, which is also to be

l learn to sift their records. he has to assure himself, compasses and rule in hand, that the picture writing he is examining fits, to a line, certain fixed geometrical figures which are the hidden keys to such records, before he ventures on an interpretation "but there are myths which speak for themselves. in this class we may include the double-sexed first creators of every cosmogony. the greek zeus-zen (aether, and chthonia (the chaotic earth) and metis (water, his wives; osiris and isis- latona- the former god also representing aether, the first emanation of the supreme deity, amun, the primeval source of light; the goddess earth and water again; mithras, the rock-born god, the symbol of the male mundane fire, or the personified primordial light, and mithra, the fire goddess, at once h

of old was not the same as it is now. it was androgynous, the form and name partaking of, and being common to both the male and female. their bodies were round, and the manner of their running[[footnote(s* see extracts from that essay in "the theosophist" of february, 1883[[vol. 2, page] 134 the secret doctrine. circular* they were terrible in force and strength and had prodigious ambition. hence zeus divided each of them into two, making them weaker; apollo, under his direction, closed up the skin" meshia and meshiane were but a single individual with the old persians "they also taught that man was the product of the tree of life, growing in androgynous pairs, till they were separated at a subsequent modification of the human form" in the toleduth (generation) of adam, the verse "god crea

ah, intelligence, or jehovah, the demiurge, called understanding in the proverbs of solomon, ch. vii. unto men wisdom (divine occult wisdom) crieth "oh, ye simple, understand wisdom; and ye fools, be of an understanding heart" it is spirit and matter, the nous and the psyche; of the latter of which st. james says that it is "earthly, sensual, and devilish[[vol. 2, page] 135 the virgin third race "zeus is a male, zeus is an immortal maid" the egyptian ammon was the goddess neith, in his other half. jupiter has female breasts, venus is bearded in some of her statues, and ila, the goddess, is also su-dyumna, the god, as vaivasvata's progeny "the name adam" says professor a. wilder "or man, itself implies this double form of existence. it is identical with athamas, or thomas (tamil tam, which

osm. then the race becomes (4) the androgyne, or hermaphrodite. this process of men-bearing explains, perhaps, why aristophanes* describes the nature of the old race as androgynous, the form of every individual being rounded "having the back and sides as in a circle" whose "manner of running was circular. terrible in force and strength and with prodigious ambition" therefore, to make them weaker "zeus divided them (in the third root-race) into two, and apollo (the sun, under his direction, closed up the skin" the madagascans (the island belonged to lemuria) have a tradition about the first man, who lived at first without eating, and, having indulged in food, a swelling appeared in his leg; this bursting, there emerged from it a female, who became the mother of their race. truly "we have ou

agas- beings wiser than serpents- are the "sons of will and yoga" born before the complete separation of the sexes "matured in the man-bearing eggs* produced by the power (kriyasakti) of the holy sages" of the early third race[[footnote(s* an allegorical reference to the "sacred animals" of the zodiac and other heavenly bodies. some kabalists see in them the prototypes of the animals* in "hesiod" zeus creates his third race of men out of ash-trees. in the "popol vuh" the third race of men is created out of the tree tzita and the marrow of the reed called sibac. but sibac means "egg" in the mystery language of the artufas (or initiation caves. in a report sent in 1812 to the cortes by don baptista pino it is said "all the pueblos have their artufas- so the natives call subterranean rooms wi

, of wisdom, hence the patron of all the egyptian initiates, as bel-merodach (or bel-belitanus) became later with the chaldeans* hermes, or rather thot, was a generic name. abul teda shows in "historia anti-islamitica" five hermes, and the names of hermes, nebo, thot were given respectively in various countries to great initiates. thus nebo, the son of merodach and zarpanitu (whom herodotus calls zeus-belos, gave his name to all the great prophets, seers and initiates. they were all "serpents of wisdom" as connected with the sun astronomically, and with wisdom spiritually[[vol. 2, page] 211 two schools of magic. hermes, to whom hermes trismegistus attributes the invention of magic* the "invention of magic" a strange term to use, as though the unveiling of the eternal and actual mysteries o

. it is the natural deduction from the dead letter text of chapter iii. of genesis. hence the allegory of prometheus, who steals the divine fire so as to allow men to proceed consciously on the path of spiritual evolution, thus transforming the most perfect of animals on earth into a potential god, and making him free to "take the kingdom of heaven by violence" hence also, the curse pronounced by zeus against prometheus, and by jehovah-il-da-baoth against his "rebellious son" satan. the cold, pure snows of the caucasian mountain and the neverdying, singeing fire and flames of an extinguishable hell. two poles, yet the same idea; the dual aspect of a refined torture: a fire producer- the personified emblem of[[phosphoros] of the astral fire and light in the anima mundi (that element of whic

or the great cosmic deep) by confining them in the bosom of the earth, tythea, so kronos at this second stage of creation destroyed his children from rhea- by devouring them. this is an allusion to the fruitless efforts of earth or nature alone to create real human men (see our stanzas iii- x, et seq, and also berosus' account of primeval creation) time swallows its own fruitless work. then comes zeus- jupiter, who dethrones his father in his turn* jupiter the titan, is prometheus, in one sense* and varies from zeus, the great[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] orientalist says "the attributes ascribed to varuna (in the vedas) impart to his character a moral elevation and sanctity far surpassing that attributed to any other vedic deity" but to understand correctly the reas

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female aspect, he becomes kwan-yin, the goddess of mercy, called the "divine voice* the latter is the patron deity of thibet and of the island of puto in china, where both deities have a number of monasteries (see part ii. kwan-shai-yin and kwan-yin[[footnote(s* hence all the higher gods of antiquity are all "sons of the mother" before they become those of the "father" the logoi, like jupiter or zeus, son of kronos-saturn "infinite time (or kala, in their origin were represented as male-female. zeus is said to be the "beautiful virgin" and venus is made bearded. apollo is originally bisexual, so is brahma-vach in manu and the puranas. osiris is interchangeable with isis, and horus is of both sexes. finally st. john's vision in revelation, that of the logos, who is now connected with jesus

hermes-fire, the elmes-fire of the ancient germans; the lightning of cybele; the burning torch of apollo; the flame on the altar of pan; the inextinguishable fire in the temple on the acropolis, and in that of vesta; the fire-flame of pluto's helm; the brilliant sparks on the hats of the dioscuri, on the gorgon head, the helm of pallas, and the staff of mercury; the egyptian phtha-ra; the grecian zeus cataibates (the descending) of pausanias; the pentacostal fire-tongues; the burning bush of moses; the pillar of fire of the exodus, and the "burning lamp" of abram, the eternal fire of the "bottomless pit; the delphic oracular vapours; the sidereal light of the rosicrucians; the akasa of the hindu adepts; the astral light of eliphas levi; the nerve-aura and the fluid of the magnetists; the o

that when the wind (spirit) became enamoured of its own principles (the chaos, an intimate union took place, which connection was called pothos, and from this sprang the seed of all. and the chaos knew not its own production, for it was senseless; but from its embrace with the wind was generated mot, or the ilus (mud* from this proceeded the spores of creation and the generation of the universe "zeus-zen (aether, and chthonia (the chaotic earth) and metis (the water, his wives; osiris and isis-latona- the former god also representing ether- the first emanation of the supreme deity, amun, the primeval source of light; the goddess earth and water again; mithras* the rock-born god, the symbol of the male mundane-fire, or the personified primordial light, and mithra, the firegoddess, at once

that god" says porphyry, in[[peri apoches empsuchon "who is above all things, neither external speech ought to be addressed, nor yet that which is inward" hesiod begins his theogony with "chaos of all things was the first produced* thus allowing the inference that its cause or producer must be passed over in reverential silence. homer in his poems ascends no higher than night, whom he represents zeus as reverencing. according to all the ancient theologists, and to the doctrines of pythagoras and plato, zeus, or the[[footnote(s* see "magazine" for april, 1797[[etoi men protista chaos genet; geneto] being considered in antiquity as meaning "was generated" and not simply was (see "taylor's introd. to the parmenides of plato" p. 260[[vol. 1, page] 426 the secret doctrine. immediate artificer

have in them the idea of that all-father, the original cause of all "he is scarcely more than mentioned in the poems" not because, as he thinks, before the preaching of the gospel, the idea "could not rise to distinct conceptions of the eternal" but on account of its great esoteric character. therefore, all the creative gods, or personal deities, begin at the secondary stage of cosmic evolution. zeus is born in, and out of kronos- time. so is brahma the production and emanation of kala "eternity and time" kala being one of the names of vishnu. hence we find odin, the father of the gods and of the ases, as brahma is the father of the gods and of the asuras, and hence also the androgyne character of all the chief creative gods, from the second monad of the greeks down to the sephiroth adam

hem, better even than those which are called visible. there are then gods, superior to all appearances; after them come the gods whose principle is spiritual; these gods being sensible, in conformity with their double origin, manifest all things by a sensible nature, each of them illuminating his works one by another* the supreme being of heaven, or of all that is comprehended under this name, is zeus, for it is by heaven that zeus gives life to all things. the supreme being of the sun is light, for it is by the disk of the sun that we receive the benefit of the light. the thirty-six horoscopes of the fixed stars have for supreme being or prince, him whose name is pantomorphos, or having all forms, because he gives divine forms to divers types. the seven planets, or wandering spheres, have

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ence wrapped veil on veil about me, trapped by the siren night, whose words the sevenfold sacrament 189 were the river and the birds. so close it swaddled me, and bound my being to the pure profound of its own stealthy intimacy, had artemis come panting by, silver-shod with bow and quiver hunting along the reedy river, and called me to the chase, i should have neither heard nor understood. or had zeus his dangerous daughter, aphrodite, from the water risen all shining, her soft arms open, all her spells and charms melted to one lure divine of her red mouth pressed to mine, i had neither heard nor seen nor felt the idalian. between my soul and all it knowledge of the universe of light and love, thought, being, nature, time and space, the mother.s heart, the father.s face, all that was agony

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they might never be parted again and so is goddess of fidelity. as ostara, goddess of spring, she was known among the anglo-saxons and is remembered in the festival of easter as a fertility goddess and bringer of new beginnings. in her role as valfreya, the lady of the battlefield, frigg recalls the northern tradition of warrior goddesses and offers courage to women. hera hera, the wife-sister of zeus, is a the supreme greek goddess of protection, marriage and childbirth whose sacred bird is the peacock. she is a powerful deity of fidelity and is called upon by women seeking revenge upon unfaithful partners. hestia hestia is the greek goddess of the hearth and home, all family matters and peace within the home. she is a benign, gentle goddess and so can be invoked for matters involving chi

would chant 'agni, the divine ministrant of the sacrifice, the great bestower of treasure. may one obtain through agni, wealth and welfare' agni is still important as the god of domestic and ritual fire and for spells for the increase of wealth, material goods, creativity and domestic protection. hephaestus hephaestus, greek god of fire and metal-work, was thrown from mount olympus by his father zeus because he took the part of his mother hera in a quarrel; as a result of the fall, he became lame. he created armour, weapons and jewels for the gods in his workshop beneath the volcanic mount etna, in sicily, and as a reward was given aphrodite as his unwilling bride. he was among the least charismatic of the gods, but his roman counterpart, vulcan, fashioned jupiter's thunderbolts. hephaest

in the middle east from where his cult originated. he is effective in all rituals for craftsmanship, for the acquisition of wealth and treasures, for the development of skills and precision and for controlled power for a particular purpose. deities of healing aesculapius aesculapius was a healer, son of apollo and the mortal corona, who lived during the eleventh century bc, and became a god after zeus killed him with a thunderbolt for raising the dead. the first shrine dedicated to aesculapius was built in athens in the fifth century bc by sophocles. other shrines followed in rapid succession, the most famous at epidaurus, which became a major healing centre. many were sited at sacred wells and springs. these shrines were dedicated to healing and dreams, and were the principle vehicle for

e wealthy would come to socialise and take the waters. sulis is potent for all healing water rituals. because curse tablets as well as offerings have been retrieved from the waters, she is also associated with justice through karma and the banishing of sorrows. deities of wisdom as well as wisdom, these gods and goddesses are for knowledge, truth and justice. athena athena, or athene, daughter of zeus, is goddess of wise counsel, both in peace and war, of intelligence, reason, negotiation and all forms of the arts and literature. the owl is her sacred bird and the olive her symbol representing peace, healing and nourishment. hathor hathor is the ancient egyptian goddess of truth, wisdom, joy, love, music, art and dance and protectress of women. she is said to bring husbands or wives to tho

ndance or success and good fortune. it rules marriage, permanent relationships (both business and personal, fidelity, loyalty and male potency in both the human and animal kingdom. ironically, jupiter can lead to excesses, including greed, addictions and obsessions, so it can also be used for banishing these. jupiter, known as the sky father, was the supreme roman god, ruler of the universe. like zeus, his greek counterpart, jupiter controlled the thunderbolts, which were carried by his eagle, the noblest of the birds. however, he ruled not despotically, but as the chief of a triumvirate of gods: the other two were juno, his consort, and minerva, goddess of wisdom, who made up the feminine principle of deeper, more instinctual wisdom. use the hour of jupiter to profit from an opportunity t

perceive dimly. shamanism: possibly the oldest spiritual practice in the world, continued today in seite 180 wicca01.txt communities as far apart as india, australia, japan and china, siberia and mongolia, in africa, among the bedouins in the middle east and in north, central and south america. sky-clad: naked. sky gods: the powerful patriarchal gods of the classical and viking world, for example zeus of the greeks, jupiter of the romans, odin of the vikings and thunor of the anglo-saxons.they gained supremacy over the earth mother who appears as their wife-consort, full of human foibles. solstice: one of the main astronomical points of the year. the summer solstice (21 june, or 21 december in the southern hemisphere) marks the sun at its height and greatest power. the winter solstice (21

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were of the bronze age, replacing the neolithic period. both were known as sea emperors of the mediterranean. both were said to have introduced civilisation. both built a labyrinth. both died on a sea voyage to the west. both used seal impressions on clay and both used a linear script of sumerian type, or very similar. both had the same physical "aryan" appearance. minos was said to be the son of zeus, menes was descended from zagg (zeus. minos was a votary and priest of zeus; menes was a votary and high priest of zagg. minos was a giver of 54 children of the matrix figure 11: the aegean/mediterranean region has always been highly significant to the llluminati. the island of crete was the centre of the advanced minoan civilisation- another colony of the sumer-egyptian empire atlantis revis

from zagg (zeus. minos was a votary and priest of zeus; menes was a votary and high priest of zagg. minos was a giver of 54 children of the matrix figure 11: the aegean/mediterranean region has always been highly significant to the llluminati. the island of crete was the centre of the advanced minoan civilisation- another colony of the sumer-egyptian empire atlantis revisited 55 laws direct from zeus (another story constantly repeated around the world and used for the make-believe moses) and menes established laws said to have come from zagg. the son of minos was a bull-man or minotaur. the son of menes was known as "the strong wild bull".21 can even the most padlocked of academic minds still go on ignoring the fact that menes was minos? i suspect they can. in doing so they hold together

les on the battlefield at troy. aeneas says that he descends from "divine and immortal stock" through both his mother and his father. this connection between divine immortality and the anunnaki under their various names constantly recurs in ancient accounts. aeneas says that his mother is the goddess, aphrodite, and his father is anchises, and he can trace his lineage back to dardanus, the son of zeus and legendary founder of the trojan race (trojan race= reptilian-nordic hybrids, the aryans or "master race. other accounts say that dardanus is the offspring of the union of zeus and electra and his origins are in samothrace, the sacred aegean island dedicated to goddess worship, from where he migrates to troad (troy) in the period of the great flood. one of the outstanding characteristics w

and "elves, etc. appeared was reptilian. elf or elven is still one of the illuminati code names for the reptilian bloodlines. the tales of non-human "gods" living within mountains or having their subterranean complexes entered through mountains is likely to be the origin of the endless myths about "holy" or "sacred" mountains. mount olympus, the home of the greek pantheon of gods, is one example. zeus, their king of the gods, was said to come down from the mountain to seed children with human women. meetings between the mythical moses and his god were often associated with mountains. i will investigate these ancient and modern connections between modern "extraterrestrials" and the folklore "fairies" later in the book.27 the anunnaki wars the sumerian tablets, according to translators like

ired by the lemurian and sumerian legends and accounts, describe indra as tall, fair, invincible, and armed with a bolt. this is how eindri or thor is described in the edda and waddell concluded from considerable research that the european god, thor, and the hindu god, indra, were the same person, and that this guy was also the first "aryan" king of sumer. the vedas connect indra to the greek god zeus, also known as jupiter. some sanskrit scholars regarded indra as the same as jupiter and suggested that he was a heroic human king who had led the early aryans or "nordics" to victory against the "serpent cult. waddell produces a stream of evidence to show that the hindu god, indra, and the european, thor, after whom we get thursday or "thors-day, are the same person or deity. he also says th

nt and catholic, thus clearly 206 children of th matrix showing that the christian religion is but a modification of oriental sun worship, attributed to zoroaster. the christians read the same letters 'ihs' in the greek text as 'jes' and the roman christian priesthood added the terminus 'us" here are some of the other pre-christian deities of whom the "jesus" story was told: apollo, hercules, and zeus of greece; adad and marduk of assyria; buddha sakia and indra of india and tibet; salivahana of southern india and bermuda; osiris and horus of egypt; odin, balder, and frey of scandinavia; crite of chaldea; zoroaster of persia; baal (bel) and taut of phoenicia; bali of afghanistan; jao of nepal; wittoba of bilingonese; xamolxis of thrace; zoar of the bonzes; chu chulainn of ireland; deva tat

transformed into the birthday of jesus" the defining moment in christian history came in ad325 when constantine called together 318 bishops of the "christian" church to his palace at nicaea (now iznik in turkey) for the infamous council of nicaea. i say "christian, but in fact there were representatives of the sun and moon cults of apollo, osiris and isis, demeter/ceres, dionysus/bacchus, jupiter/zeus, and, of course, sol invictus. so jesus was naturally given the birthday of december 25th; the birthday of the sun. nicaea was the moment when jesus and christ were brought together for the first time in the way of the other "anointed" sun gods. the council was convened to end the conflict and squabbling between the followers of st paul's "jesus, a supernatural god, and those who questioned t

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y or troia is tripoli, the name of thecapital of libya today and home to that brotherhood frontman, colonel gaddafi. onceagain, troy relates to the extraterrestrial full-bloods and crossbreeds, hence the constantobsession with that name by the brotherhood. in the iliad epic, believed to have beenwritten by the greek poet, homer, it states that troy was founded by dardanus, the sonof the greek god zeus, who was a titan- the reptilian bloodline. zeus was depicted asboth an eagle and a serpent. he was said to have been born in arcadia, in sparta, andafter the trojan war many spartans migrated into what is now france. terms like newtroy, therefore, relate to centres for these same bloodlines.most people dont realise that london was founded as the new troy. after thedestruction of troy around 1

rning star. jesus was the christ. horuswas the krst. jesus was tempted on a mountain by satan. horus was tempted on amountain by set.23jesus is said to be the judge of the dead. he has some competition there. this wasalso said of the earlier nimrod, khrishna, buddha, ormuzd, osiris, aeacus and others.jesus is the alpha and omega, the first and the last. so was khrishna, buddha, lao-kiun, bacchus, zeus and others. jesus is claimed to have performed miracles such ashealing the sick and raising people from the dead. so did khrishna, buddha, zoroaster,bochia, horus, osiris, serapis, marduk, bacchus, hermes and others. jesus was bornof royal blood. so was buddha, rama, fo-hi, horus, hercules, bacchus, perseus andothers. jesus was born to a virgin. so was khrishna, buddha, lao-kiun or tsze,confu

edding. it is again symbolic of the sun and the earth, the god andgoddess. in the land of canaan every spring, they celebrated sexual and fertility ritesunder the title, the marriage festival of canaan.42 it was at the symbolic wedding atcana in the gospels that jesus turns the water into wine. it is the suns warmth and theearths water which grow the grapes to make wine. bacchus, the greek son of zeus andthe virgin semele, was said to have turned water into wine. also there were esseneritual terms related to water and wine. the essenes, therapeutae and gnostics wereseriously into hidden meanings and the jesus stories are a mass of interweavedallegories related to the sun, astronomy, astrology, bloodlines, secret knowledge and therituals and names used by the mystery schools. the new testam

son is supposed to have survived. i think that pierre plantard, however,has misled the authors of holy blood, holy grail in many ways, and the idea that themerovingian bloodlines are the bloodline of jesus is without foundation. this isnothing to do with jesus. the reason you find so many references to arcadia in relationto rennes-le-chateau is because arcadia in sparta was the legendary home of zeus andthe titans- the reptilian bloodlines of troy. that is the origin of these bloodlines, notjesus, who did not even exist. pierre plantard, who knows the truth, but doesnt wantyou to know, was born in 1920 and, with the approval of the german oppressors, heedited a magazine in nazi-occupied france in 1942 called conquest for a youngknighthood.17 it was the journal of a paris based masonic-chi

ld overthrow him. chronos was the most powerful of the titans, the greek name forthe giants who resulted from the interbreeding of the reptilians with the human,daughters of men. greek myth symbolically referred to them as children of the unionbetween heaven (extraterrestrials) and earth (humans. chronos was the father of zeuswho survived because his mother hid him from her child-killing husband. zeus laterwaged a victorious war against his father and other titans and then ruled as the king ofgods over a dynasty awash with child sacrifice. as you connect the different peoplesacross the generations, so you find the same themes of human sacrifice. the cannanite-hebrews were seriously into the sacrifice of humans and animals, much as their spindoctors have tried to deny it over the years. the

rground bloodlinestreams of secret groups and initiations. francio, the founder of the franks, claimed to bea descendant of noah and his ancestors once resided in ancient troy of wooden horsefame. the french city of troyes, where the templars were officially formed, was namedby the sicambrian franks after their former home. the iliad says that troy was foundedby dardanus, the son of the greek god zeus, who was depicted as both an eagle and aserpent. zeus was born in arcadia in sparta, it is said, and the spartans migrated intofrance. these are the bloodlines we are talking about here, not those of jesus.the city of paris was established by the sicambrian franks in the 6th century afterthey became known as the merovingians. it was named after prince paris, the son ofking priam of troy. it w

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cognition of being gods and begin to act in a manner that reflects the wisdom, enlightenment, beauty, power, and majesty which is within us. it is not required of us that we become pure or blessed, or that we become all-loving and charitable. these concepts are christian corruptions. we must become, like the gods of the ancient world, unique, powerful, and glorious beings an apollo, an artemis, a zeus, or an aphrodite. i say that such beings as these cannot be judged for they are governed each by their own laws alone. they set their own values and move in their own spheres. i have said that man has already become a god, but this knowledge is not yet fully realized and will not be fully realized until the end of the aeon. the law of the aeon of lucifer is will to come into being as a god. o

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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 "evil" the definitions of good or evil change from nation to nation and from century to century. god is defined by that which is "static" and unchanging. that which is "dynamic, a pot

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s the spiritual experience assigned to kether that of divine union, of which it is said that those who experience it enter into the light and come not forth again. 20. in order to contact chokmah we must experience the rush of the dynamic cosmic energy in its pure form; an energy so tremendous that mortal man is fused into disruption by it. it is recorded that when semele, mother of dionysos, saw zeus her divine lover in his god-form as the thunderer, she was blasted and burnt, and gave birth to her divine son prematurely. the spiritual experience assigned to kether is the vision of god face to face; and god (jehovah) said to moses "thou canst not look upon my face and live" 21. but although the sight of the divine father blasts mortals as with fire, the divine son comes familiarly among t

d gave birth to her divine son prematurely. the spiritual experience assigned to kether is the vision of god face to face; and god (jehovah) said to moses "thou canst not look upon my face and live" 21. but although the sight of the divine father blasts mortals as with fire, the divine son comes familiarly among them and can be invoked by the appropriate ntes-bacchanalia in the case of the son of zeus, and the eucharist in the case of the son of jehovah. thus we see that there is a lower form of manifestation, which "shews us the father" but that this rite owes its validity solely to the fact that it derives its illuminating intelligence, its jnner robe of glory, from the father, chokmah. ii 22. the grade of initiation corresponding to chokmah is said to be that of magus, and the magical w

ah-force invoked through the divine fourlettered name comes from the macrocosmic yod to the microcosmic yod, and is then sublimated. unless the subconscious mind is free from dissociations and repressions, and all the parts of the many sided nature of man are co-ordinated and synchronised, reactions and pathological symptoms are the result of that down-rush. this does not mean that the invoker of zeus is necessarily a worshipper of priapus, but it does mean that no man can sublimate a dissociation. when the channel is free from obstructions the down-rushing force can swing round the nadir and become an up-rushing force which can be directed to any sphere or turned into any channel that is desired; but, like it or not, it will be a down-rushing force before it is an up-rushing one, and unle

ng point that the thirty-second path, which leads from malkuth to yesod and is the first path trodden by the soul striving upwards, is assigned to saturn. he is the god of the most ancient form of matter. the greek myth of chronos, which is simply the greek name for the same principle, looks upon him as one of the old gods; that is to say, the gods that made the gods. he was the father of jupiter-zeus, who was saved from him by a cunning device of his mother, for saturn had an unpleasant habit of eating his chiidren. in this myth we get again the idea of the bringer into life as the giver of death. as we have already noted, saturn with his reaping-hook readily becomes death with his scythe. it is very interesting to note the reentrant curves of these chains of associated ideas in connectio

o your soul if you contemplate these ideas. it is probable to the point of certainty that the illumination given in the mysteries included the elucidation of the metaphysics of these myths. 61. persephone, diana, aphrodite, hera, all exchange their symbols, functions, characteristics, and even subordinate titles in a bewildering manner in greek myths and art. likewise do priapos, pan, apollo, and zeus. the best we can say of them is that all the goddesses are great mothers and all the gods are givers of life; the difference between them lying not in function but in he level upon which they function. a distinction is drawn between the celestial venus and the goddess of earthly love of the same name; the discerning can see an equal distinction, and an equal underlying identity, between zeus

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gical society, since their teachings served as the basis for modern science. this being so, modern society may justly be described as satanic, because it is the gift of semjaza, or coronzon, to the daughters of man. whether or not technology is a good thing or a bad thing is another question, but we enjoy the fruits of the legacy of the fallen watchers. just as prometheus was severely punished by zeus for daring to give the gift of fire to mankind, so were the watchers punished by god, who instructs the archangel michael "go bind semjaza and his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with them in all their uncleanness [i.e. during their menstrual cycle. and when their sons have slain one another, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved

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, a disciple of the late swami sivananda saraswati of rishikesh, himalayas, india. address: yasodhara ashram, box 9, kootenay bay, bc, canada v0b 1x0. asclepius (or aesculapius) in greek mythology, the son of apollo and coronis who was instructed in the arts of healing by the centaur chiron. asclepius married epione, who begat hygeia (health. so successful was asclepius in the art of healing that zeus was fearful that he would make mankind immortal, so he killed him with a thunderbolt. apollo retaliated by attacking the cyclopes who had forged the thunderbolt, and zeus was eventually prevailed upon to admit asclepius to the ranks of the gods. the worship of asclepius centered in epidaurus, and the cock was offered to him in sacrifice. the serpent and the dog were sacred to him, and his sym

ned that the replies were always couched in enigmatical language when kings and states consulted the oracle on weighty matters that might have done harm if made public, but that private persons always received direct answers in the plainest terms. herodotus told of a successful test of the oracles by croesus, king of lydia. he dispatched envoys to the best six oracles: delphi, dodona, branchidae, zeus ammon, trophonius, and amphiaraus. the envoys were instructed to ask on the hundredth day of their departure what croesus was doing at home in sardis at a particular moment. four oracles entirely failed. delphi was perfectly right. herodotus quoted the reply: i can count the sands, and i can measure the ocean; i have ears for the silent, and know what the dumb man meaneth; lo! on my sense the

days of the year is marked lucky or unlucky, and we know from other papyri why certain days were lucky or unlucky, and why others were only partly so. in the life of alexander the great by pseudo-callisthenes it is noted that the egyptians were skilled in the art of casting horoscopes. nectanebus had a tablet made of gold and silver and acacia wood, with three belts attached to it, just for that. zeus was on the outer belt with the 36 decani surrounding him; representations of the 12 signs of the zodiac were on the second; and the third the sun and moon were on the third. he set the tablet on a tripod, and emptied out of a small box with models of the seven stars that were in the belts, and put eight precious stones into the middle belt. he arranged these in the places where he figured the

tes of the possibility that a corpse might be reanimated. the book also contains powerful writing with an overall theme of the moral limits of science and technology. the subtitle refers to the question of whether science has the right to usurp the divine function of creation (prometheus was a mythological greek who stole fire from heaven and thereafter suffered a horrible punishment from the god zeus) the book was also popular as a modern myth of the dangers of the industrial era and the many unplanned horrors created by human inventions manufactured to be a boon to the race. mary wollstonecraft wrote a first draft of the story of frankenstein in the company of percy shelley, lord byron, john polidori, and claire clairmont when the group spent a week taking opium while vacationing at the

rature, sculpture, and history. the nature that surrounded them gave rise to their imaginations. the mountains and valleys, mysterious caves and fissures, vapors and springs of volcanic origin, and sacred groves were all, according to their character, dedicated to the gods. parnassus was the abode of the sun-god apollo; the lovely vale of aphaca that of adonis; the oak-groves of dodona favored of zeus; and the gloomy caves with their roar of subterranean waters the oracle of trophonius. innumerable instances of magical wonder-working are found in the stories of greek deities and heroes. the power of transformation is shown in a multitude of cases, among them that of bacchus who, by waving a spear, could change the oars of a ship into serpents and the masts into heavy-clustered vines. he co

of laurel branches, while at the festival of the septerion every ninth year a bower of laurel was erected in the forecourt of the temple. one writer has left strange details, such as the rule that the sacred fire within the temple must only be fed with firwood, and although a woman was chosen as the medium of the prophetic utterance, no woman might question the oracle. the oracle of the pelasgic zeus at dodona was the oldest of all. it answered by signs rather than inspired speech, by means of lots and the falling of water, or by the wind-moved clanging of brazen-bowls, two hollow columns standing side by side. the three priestesses or peliades (meaning doves) were given titles signifying the diviner of the future; the friend of man, virtue; and the virgin-ruler of man, chastity. for 2,00

eams of the sun. homer told the tale of circe the enchantress, with her magic philters and magic songs, but made no mention of medea, the arch-sorceress of later times. around her name the later beliefs clustered. all the evil arts were attributed to her. she became the witch par excellence, her infamy increasing from age to age. the same was true of hecate, the moon-goddess, at first sharer with zeus of the heavenly powers, but later an ominous shape of gloom, ruler and lover of the night and darkness, of the world of phantoms and ghouls. like the furies she wielded the whip and cord; she was followed by hell hounds, by writhing serpents, lamiae, strygae and empusae, and figures of terror and loathing. she presided over the dark mysteries of birth and death; she was worshipped at night in

came the central point of the mysteries, the viewing of certain holy and secret symbols; next, a crowning of garlands, signifying the happiness that arises from friendship with the divine. the festival also embodied a scenic representation of the story of demeter, the greece encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 664 rape of persephone, the sorrow of the mother, her complaints before zeus, and the final reconciliation. women played a great part in this, the reason being that as they themselves produce, so by sympathetic magic their influence was conveyed to the corn, as when crying aloud for rain they looked upward to the skies, then down to the earth with cries of conceive! these priestesses were crowned with poppies and corn, symbolical attributes of the deity they implored

et.com/yil/higher/heavens gate/index.html. june 14, 2000. hewes, hayden, and brad steiger. ufo missionaries extraordinary. new york: pocket books, 1976. rev. ed. as: inside heaven s gate; the ufo cult leaders tell their story in their own words. new york signet, 1997. wessinger, catherine. how the millennium comes violently. new york: seven bridges press, 2000. hecate a greek goddess, daughter of zeus and demeter, but of uncertain origin. she appears to have been one of the original titans, who ruled the heavens, earth, and sea and could bestow gifts on mortals as they pleased. later she was confused with other goddesses until she became known as a mystic goddess having all the magic powers of nature at her command. magicians and witches sought her aid, and sacrifices of dogs, honey, and f

al. london: a. barker, 1955. price, harry, and r. s. lambert. the haunting of cashen s gap. n.p, 1936. pleasants, helene, ed. biographical dictionary of parapsychology. new york: helix press, 1964. lamia in ancient greek folklore, lamia was a shape-shifting monster that sucked blood and ate flesh, similar to stories of the succubus and vampire. lamia, the daughter of belus and libya, was loved by zeus and punished by hera. because hera took lamia s children away, lamia took her revenge on the children of men and women, since she had no power over gods. lamia became transformed into a class of demonic being in greek lore, the lamiai. according to folk beliefs, the lamiai might be in the form of a beautiful woman, a snake with a woman s head, or a monster with deformed lower limbs and the po

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a temple built at the foot of an oak in honor of jupiter, whose priestess she had been in thebes. herodotus added that this priestess was called a dove, because her language could not be understood. the dodonic and african oracles were probably connected. herodotus stated that the manner of prophecy in dodona was the same as that in thebes, egypt. diana was worshiped in dodona in conjunction with zeus, and a female figure was associated with amun in the libyan ammonium. according to some authors, there was an intoxicating spring at dodona and later other materials were employed to produce the prophetic spirit. several copper bowls and bells were placed on a column beside the statute of a boy. when the wind blew a chain attached to a rod or scourge with three bones struck the metallic bowls

aeschylus calls it, was an oak, with evergreen leaves and edible acorns that the greeks and romans believed to be the first sustenance of mankind. the pelasgi regarded this tree as the tree of life. in this tree the god was supposed to reside and the rustling of its leaves and the voices of birds showed his presence. when the questioners entered, the oak rustled and the peliades said, thus speaks zeus. incense was burned beneath it. according to the legend, sacred doves continually inhabited the tree, like the marsoor oracle at tiora mattiene, where a sacred hawk predicted the future from the top of a wooden pillar. at the foot of the oak, a cold spring gushed and supposedly the inspired priestesses prophesied from this murmur. according to legend, when lighted torches were thrust into thi

oracle at tiora mattiene, where a sacred hawk predicted the future from the top of a wooden pillar. at the foot of the oak, a cold spring gushed and supposedly the inspired priestesses prophesied from this murmur. according to legend, when lighted torches were thrust into this fountain they would be extinguished and would rekindle without assistance. ernst von lasaulx in das pelasgische orakel d. zeus zu dodona speculated: that extinction and rekindling has, perhaps, the mystical signification that the usual sober life of the senses must be extinguished, that the prophetic spirit dormant in the soul may be aroused. the torch of human existence must expire, that a divine one may be lighted; the human must die that the divine may be born; the destruction of individuality is the awakening of

ssessed jurisdiction over the supreme war chiefs. sources: bouche-leclercq, a. histoire de la divination dans l antiquite. paris, 1879. reprint, new york: arno press, 1975. dempsey, t. the delphic oracles. oxford: b. h. blackwell, 1918. halliday, w. r. greek divination. london: macmillan, 1913. reprint, chicago: argonaut, 1967. parke, herbert w. greek oracles. london: hutchinson, 1967. oracles of zeus. oxford: blackwell, 1967. parke, herbert w, and donals ernest wilson wormell. the delphic oracles. oxford: blackwell, 1956. oram, arthur t(albot (1916) british accountant and statistician who conducted research on card guessing. he was born june 27, 1916, at devizes, wiltshire, england, and worked both for the civil service and industry. his interest in parapsychology led to his joining and e

ot been limited to prescientific cultures. early in the twentieth century, the leader of the group later known as the jehovah s witnesses suggested that one of the stars of the pleiades was actually the throne of the lord god jehovah. in ancient greece, the seven prominent stars were named after the seven daughters of atlas and pleione. atlas, a titan who warred against the gods, was condemned by zeus to hold up the heavens on his shoulders. his daughters were named alcyone, asterope, celaeno, electra, maia, merope, and taygete. each has her own story from the mythological cycles. pleiades, largely a concern for the astronomical community in recent centuries, broke into the news in 1975 when eduard albert billy meier, the leader of a small metaphysical study group in his native switzerland

nown planets, the existence of different as yet undiscovered planets was proposed. such speculation was encouraged by the discovery of uranus and neptune and heralded the discovery of pluto (1930) and chiron (1977, a comet originally believed to be a planet. uranian astrology was unique in suggesting the existence of no less than eight hypothetical planets that were given the names cupido, hades, zeus, kronos, apollon, admetos, vulcanos, and poseidon. each of these planets was assigned its particular role in the chart. uranian astrology enjoyed its greatest success in germanspeaking countries during the first half of the twentieth century. it also gave birth to cosmobiology, an astrological system started by reinhold ebertin, one of witte s students. it has had little success outside of ge

faber, 1911. olivier, edith. four victorian ladies of wiltshire. london: faber& faber, 1945. parrott, ian. the music of an adventure. london: regency press, 1966. richard s garden revisited. journal of the society for psychical research 41, 712 (june 1962. sturge-whiting, j. r. the mystery of versailles: a complete solution. london: rider, 1938. vervain a sacred herb used to cleanse the table of zeus before a feast in ancient greece. in rome it was also strewn on the altars of jupiter, and water containing vervain was also sprinkled in houses to cast out evil spirits. among the druids particularly it was employed in connection with many forms of superstition. they gathered it at daybreak, before the sun had risen. later sorcerers followed the same usage, and demonologists believed that in

e, the wolf lost its positive associations and became the outlaw animal many still consider it today. thus the vrkolaka became the werewolf. werewolf itself is an old english term meaning shape-shifter, probably derived from older germanic roots. the oldest account of a man changing into a wolf came from greek writings. lycaon (from whom the term lycanthropy is derived) was changed into a wolf by zeus, whom the unfortunate lycaon had displeased. the nature of the werewolf there were two kinds of werewolves: voluntary and involuntary. the voluntary were, as has been said, persons who, because of their taste for human flesh, had withdrawn from association with other people. they possessed a reputation for the magic power to transform themselves into the animal shape at will. this they effect

ted medical establishment; another was that the persecuted witches represented traces of a secret pagan religion. michelet s advocacy of a mother goddess religion helped reinforce a new current in nineteenth-century scholarship: that there had once been a universal matriarchal period of goddessworship, later buried by a patriarchal paganism typified by the well-known greco-roman pantheon: jupiter/zeus, hera/juno, and so on. the notion of a universal ancient matriarchy appealed to thinkers as different as karl marx and sigmund freud, both of whom incorporated parts of it in their theories of communism and psychoanalysis respectively. it also influenced the first wave of women s rights advocates, such as the american feminist matilda joslyn gage, who published her own version of the anti-cle

e discovered in 1930 and named pluto. after the war, witte gathered a group of astrologers, especially friedrich sieggrun (1877.1951, to assist in developing his insights. the results were an innovative system of astrology that came to be known as uranian astrology or the hamburg school, after witte s hometown. as the system developed, witte postulated first three additional planets, named hades, zeus, and kronos, and then four additional imaginary planets. criticism of the additional planets, unknown to anyone except witte and his associates, was balanced by the good reports of satisfied clients. witte also introduced the idea of midpoints, another imaginary addition to the horoscope. as the name implies, a midpoint is a point halfway between any two planets in the chart. the combined inf

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happy at your cosy side; i ll warm myself against your lion s-hide. twould hurt to soar up, i d but go astray. propound some riddles or charades to play. a sphinx express yourself; that too will be a riddle. see if your inmost essence you can rede: what both the pious and the wicked need: for those a breastplate for ascetic fencing, for these a comrade crazy pranks advancing, both but the joy of zeus enhancing" first griffin [snarling] i don t like him. second griffin [snarling more loudly] what is it he wants here? both. the nasty wretch belongs not in our sphere! mephistopheles [brutally. you think perhaps the guest s nails do not scratch and with your sharp claws cannot match? just try it! a sphinx [gently] here you might forever stay, but from our midst you ll drive yourself away. at

ender; may the good thy favour gain! nereus great is the gain to win a twofold treasure: pity to show and in the show take pleasure. dorides. father, laudst thou our endeavour, grant us joy deserved, in truth; let us hold them fast forever to the deathless breast of youth. nereus you may delight in your fair capture. fashion to men the youthful crew; not mine to lend an endless rapture, that only zeus can grant to you. the wave that surges and that rocks you, allows to love no constant stand, and when this fancy fades and mocks you, then set them quietly on land. dorides. your love; sweet boys, doth us inspire, yet sadly we needs must sever; eternal the troth that we desire, but gods will suffer it never. the youths. we re sailor-boys of gallant mood, pray further kindly tend us! we ve nev

s for beauty s person; and on this very threshold now they stand in gloomy threatening presence at my side. for rarely did my husband cast a glance at me there in the hollow ship, nor spake he heartening word. as if he brooded mischief, facing me he sat. but now when drawing near eurotas deep-bayed shore the foremost ships scarce touched their beaks against the land in greeting, he spake as if by zeus himself inspired: here will my warriors in due order disembark; i ll muster them drawn up along the ocean-strand, but thou, proceed, go up eurotas holy stream along its fruit-abounding shore, and ever on, guiding the coursers on the moist, bejewelled mead, until what time thou comest to the beauteous plain where lacedeamon once a wide and fruitful field, by solemn mountains close-engirdled, h

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

t ether boldly, wantonly fluttering. so too did he, the agilest, that to thieves and to tricksters and all seekers of gain he d be ever a favouring genius. this straightway he makes manifest through most clever devices. swift the trident of ocean s lord steals he, and slyly from ares self steals the sword from the scabbard, arrow and bow from phoebus too, also the tongs from hephaestus, even from zeus the father s bolt would have had, but was frightened by fire. eros too he overcomes in a leg-tripping wrestling match, and when cypris caresses him, steals from her bosom the girdle. a charming, purely melodious music of stringed instruments resounds from the cave. all become attentive and soon seem to be deeply stirred. henceforth to the pause indicated, there is full musical accompaniment

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to claim the homage and adoration of a large portion of the inhabitants of the globe. and so difficult was it, even after the male element had declared itself supreme, to conceive of a creative force independently of the female principle, that oftentimes, during the earlier ages of their attempted separation, great confusion and obscurity are observed in determining the positions of male deities. zeus who in later times came to be worshipped as male was formerly represented as "the great dyke, the terrible virgin who breathes out on crime, anger, and death" grote refers to numerous writers as authority for the statement that dionysos, who usually appears in greece as masculine, and who was doubtless the jehovah of the jews, was indigenous in thrace, phrygia, and lydia as the great mother c

y. the phrygian attis and the syrian adonis, as represented in monuments of ancient art, are androgynous personifications of the same attributes. according to the testimony of the geographer dionysius, the worship of bacchus was formerly carried on in the british islands in exactly the same manner as it had been in an earlier age in thrace and on the banks of the ganges. in referring to the idean zeus in crete, to demeter at eleusis, to the cabairi in samothrace, and dionysos at delphi and thebes, grote observes "that they were all to a great degree analogous, is shown by the way in which they necessarily run together and become confused in the minds of various authors" concerning sadi, sadim, or shaddai, higgins remarks "parkhurst tells us it means all-bountiful--the pourer forth of bless

n all the earlier forms of worship. asshur had no distinct temple, but as her position was at the head of the pantheon, all the shrines throughout assyria were supposed to have been open to her worship. according to bunsen, in the sidonian tyrian district, there were originally three great gods, at the head of which appears astarte--a woman who represents pure reason or intelligence; then follows zeus, demarius, and adorus. without doubt this triad represents a monad deity similar in character to the one observed in egypt and other countries. in the minds of all well-informed persons, there is no longer any doubt that in abraham's time the canaanites worshipped the same gods as did the persians and all the other nations about them- namely, elohim, the dual or triune creative force in natur

deity is the god of "glory" and of "giving" titles which during the earlier ages of human existence belonged to the queen of heaven, the celestial mother. the representation of the god amun or amun-ra, which superseded the triune deity, kneph, sate, and anouk at thebes, and from which in assyria doubtless proceeded the trinity, amun, bel-nimrod, and hea, is supposed to be identical with the greek zeus, which means the sun. this god is represented by a female figure seated on a throne. it is crowned with two long feathers, and in the right hand is observed the cross, the emblem of life. manetho, the celebrated egyptian historian, declares that the name of this god signifies "concealed" there can be little doubt that the titles of the ancient deity--the destroyer or regenerator, or, in other

sal hermaphrodite--the creative principle throughout nature, which was originally worshipped as female. the actual signification of the word haya is "life" in ancient arabia it was applied to a group of kinsmen. the rev. mr. davis is of the opinion that noe or noah was the same as deon and that both were hu or hea the mighty, whose chariot was drawn by solar rays. this god was in fact the same as zeus, bacchus, and all the rest of the sun and water deities. it has been observed that, according to the ancient cosmogonies, within water was contained the life principle, and as a woman presided over it, or was the only being or entity present, she must have been the self-existent creator. from this woman sprang all creation. according to the account in genesis, the spirit of god moved on the f

is represented as male, the female being concealed beneath convenient symbols. the trinity of the goths was male; yet as odin could not create independently of the female energy he is provided with a wife, frigga, to whom "all fair things belonged, and who had priestesses among the early german tribes" frigga when worshipped alone was both female and male. according to one german tradition, tiw (zeus, which in its earliest conception was female, was the parent of the first man. this man begat three sons who became the fathers of the three deutsch tribes. ish (or ash) was the parent of the franks and allemans; ing was the progenitor of the swedes, angles, and saxons; and er, or erman, was the eponymous leader of the tribes called by the romans hermiones. the kosmogony of the chinese is sim

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kimah, and the constel255 lation orion, as kesib, are found mentioned in jobix.9. orion appears to have been also a name applied to nimrod the mighty hunter ruler. amos v. 8 speaks of the seven stars, and orion.thename arcturus, called ash and aish, is believed by some to be stars of ursa major, and not the star now so called. in job xxxviii. 32, arcturus and his sons are referred to. jupiter, as zeus, either as pagan god, or as a planet, is referred to in acts xiv. 12; and in 2 maccabee vi. 2, we read that antiochus senttothe jews a message that the holy temple was to be dedicated to jupiter olympus.176themagical masonin judges v. 20 we read:'thestars in their courses fought against sisera; which seems to imply an astrologic ideal of stellar influence over the fates of men. lucifer, the m

e greeks and romans were very superstitious, they consulted diviners, oracles or priests" upon all the events of the state, the home and the individual, and paid heavily for these privileges.theoracles the oracles of the ancient greeks and romans were considered to be revelations made by the gods to men: the wordoraculummeant the place of divination and also the inspired message. it was said that zeus the supreme god did but rarely commu255 nicate, but sent his commands through apollo and other minor gods to the mouth of the oracles. the most famous oracle was that in the temple of apollo at delphi, at first called pytho. before the golden statue of apollo burned a perpetual fire of fir wood; there was also an altar of incense where laurel wood was burned. within the temple was a natural c

all in greek and the oldest were in verse; the messages always tended to inculcate religious conduct and to encourage the worship of the. gods. the real control ofthis oracle is believed to have been ill the hands of five priests selected from the noble families or: delphi; it lost its great fame about 400b.c.,butwas still consulted even down to 200a.d.other famous oracular shrines were those of zeus at olympia and dodona; of apollo at delos, and the cave of trophoniusin bceotia, pausanias gives a full account of his visit to thelast;'mentioned oracle. there were also at a later date several notable roman oracles, of which mention may be made of those of faunus. fortuna, and of mars, where a bird, a woodpecker, is saidtohave delivered the messages.thesibyls the sibyls were a group of prop

their future conduct and so guarded them from misfortune. the second wasorama,in which the things dreamed of were actually anticipations of events which were about to followinthe common life of the dreamer of his family.thethird was calledallegorikos,because in these dreams, future events were represented by symbols; one thing seen meaning another thing thus revealed.thegreeks referred dreams to zeus, to the god of the earth, and to the manes; also to hekate and to the moon.thegod of sleepwas called upnos, or as we now say, hypnos, the somnus of the romans. somnus and mors, sleep and death, were called the sons ofnox-night;they dwelled in subterranean darkness. dreams also were the sons of night; their abode, the cave of sleep, had two gates, one ofivory whence came forth false and flatte

before going to his sleep, for mercury presided over a man's sleeping hours (homer in hymn xiv. some persons also carried out this200themagical masonprocedure in their own homes.theeating of fish was said to make dreams obscure and meaningless or deceptive. when a dream seemed to be of doubtful meaning, a soothsayer calledmanteiswas consulted, who said he must appeal according to circumstances to zeus, apollo hestia or to herakles, forlightuponthe matter, and then he gave an explanation 'themagic of chaldea professed and practised the artofinterpretation of dreams, and so indeed did the priests of almost' allthegreat religions of asia. a belief in dreams as havingconcealedbutdiscoverable meaning has existed down topresentday-itis a notion that very few persons are quite, without.thecontinu

orn for drinking or a cornucopia; initiates stand around, a radiated cup hangs upon a pole, and several animals are also drawn in the upper part of the scene.resemblances of freemasonry to mithra 251thetauroctonic sculpture at osterburken is considered the best example extant. in some sculptures these scenes are supplemented by zodiacal figures, by kronos or time, by atlas, oceanus, the fates and zeus with his thunderbolt. at one period the goddess anaitis (astarte, aphrodite) was associated with mithras in sculptures.theancient persian work namedbundahish,which gives a theory of cosmogony after the zoroastrian ideals throws some light upon these mythical scenes. it narrates that the first creation of ormuzd was of goshurun, the heavenly bull, that this bull was killed by the evil ahriman

common lives' sophocles, 400b.c.,wrote'ohthrice blessed are the mortals who contemplating the mysteries have descended into hades, for such will therebea future happy existence; other men will find death only suffering' pindar, 450b.c.,wrote 'happy is he who has seen these things in the mysteries before leaving this world, for he realises the end and the beginning oflife, as they are ordained by zeus' according to plato, aboutb.c.350, the sacred mysteries of greece were intended to lead men more directly back to the principles from which they had descended, and to the path of perfect conduct, from which the sons of men buried in the body was so liable to wander. he said:'itis very difficult to commune with the great father of all, and when achieved it was impossible and futile to discover

greater mysteries and pass a whole year of unblemished conduct.itis probable that the theme of the lesser mysteries of eleusis was the story of the goddess demeter, and of her daughter persephone. demeter, whose name is a form of gemeter, or earth mother, was by the romans later called ceres. she was fabled as the daughter of kronos and rhea, having as sisters hestia (vesta) andjuno,and brothers zeus (jupiter, neptune, and pluto. demeter was goddess of earth and agriculture and the bestower of harvests. demeter by jupiter had a daughter persephone (proserpine) who became very notable, was kore, the maiden. she was carried off to hades by pluto and became the queen of the underworld. according to the fable, pluto, whose reign in hades was more undisputed even than that of jupiter on olympu

maiden. she was carried off to hades by pluto and became the queen of the underworld. according to the fable, pluto, whose reign in hades was more undisputed even than that of jupiter on olympus, was in the habit of roving over the earth in search of the souls of men who die, when he met the maiden playing alone in the fields among the flowersin the vale of enna. having obtained the permission of zeus (jupiter) her father, he promptly carried her off- the famous rape of proserpine- to his home in the underworld, and married her. demeter returning to the meadows found her dearly beloved daughter to be missing, and neither gods nor men could tell heran essay ontheancient mysteries 279where she had gone, nor who had taken her away. in the utmost alarm and anxiety for nine days does demeter se

home in the underworld, and married her. demeter returning to the meadows found her dearly beloved daughter to be missing, and neither gods nor men could tell heran essay ontheancient mysteries 279where she had gone, nor who had taken her away. in the utmost alarm and anxiety for nine days does demeter seek the kore, when atlastshe istoldby helios (thesun)ofhersad fate. incensed at the conduct of zeus, the chief god of heaven, she leaves olympus and wanders disconsolate over the earth. she reaches the country of eleusis, and is cared for by keleus the king. in return she protects and teaches his son, demophon, or triptolemus, the agricultural arts of peace. zeus is at last induced to interfere, because, by the anger of demeter, the harvests of the earth have ceased, and pluto is forced by

although the distance was 22 kilometres, about 131/ 2miles, the penalty being a fine of 1,000 drachmre. the wife of lycrugus was said to have been the first to incur the penalty. no person attending the festival could be arrested during its continuance for any previous offence, and no petition could be received at the mysteries.thedionysia,or mystic attic ceremonies in honour of dionysus, son of zeus and semele, a god who became the bacchus of the romans, were in their origin religious observ255 ances, but were at last degraded into mere popular holiday festivals of drink and immorality. they were held four times a year. while the eleusinia were representations of the story of proserpine and ceres, of human life and death, and of animal and vegetative life, the dionysia were at their orig

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hesun on his own throne, symbolising the male principleslain..the lamb slain before the foundation of the .184 the sorcerer and his apprenticeworld, showing, too, the moon, his mate- is the glyph of the whole period, the supreme glyph. the lamb of god is the glyph, one supreme glyphofthechristian church all over the world now just as much as the pascal lamb in the time of moses, the ram symbol of zeus, the ram of phryxos helle, and the ram of many another mythology of the same date. this is also the meaning of the horned moses. many people have asked, and some have asked in vain, unless from an occultist, what the horns of moses mean? it is easy to say that we are told there was a glory on his face when he came down from the mount, so that a veil had to be placed on his face. that may be o

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ram under the presidency of the name hwchy is formulated in two ways in the hexagonal center. these letters should be painted in the white color of on the black background on which the entire pentagram symbol is painted. the top portion of the pentagram is symbolized by the scepter of hermes, the letter c, and the rays which issue forth from the five corner angles of the pentagram. the scepter of zeus, or jupiter, is emblematic of the left side, while the scepter of neptune and poseidon is emblematic of the right side of the pentagram. beyond the bottom two feet of the pentagram are the scepter of pluto, dis, orphaus hades in the o angle, and the scepter of demeter or ceres in the l angle. the letters of the pentagrammaton are drawn in their appropriate colors over the white rays which iss

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ed than the one that followed it. and each, at the appointed hour, had been swallowed up in a geological cataclysm. the first and most ancient creation had been mankind s golden race who had lived like the gods, free from care, without trouble or woe. with ageless limbs they revelled at their banquets. when they died it was as men overcome by sleep. with the passing of time, and at the command of zeus, this golden race eventually sank into the depths of the earth. it was succeeded by the silver race which was supplanted by the bronze race, which was replaced by the race of heroes, which was followed by the iron race our own the fifth and most recent creation.34 it is the fate of the bronze race that is of particular interest to us here. described in the myths as having the strength of gian

the silver race which was supplanted by the bronze race, which was replaced by the race of heroes, which was followed by the iron race our own the fifth and most recent creation.34 it is the fate of the bronze race that is of particular interest to us here. described in the myths as having the strength of giants, and mighty hands on their mighty limbs ,35 these formidable men were exterminated by zeus, king of the gods, as a punishment for the misdeeds of prometheus, the rebellious titan who had presented humanity with the gift of fire.36 the mechanism the vengeful deity used to sweep the earth clean was an overwhelming flood. in the most widespread version of the story prometheus impregnated a human female. she bore him a son named deucalion, who ruled over the country of phthia, in thess

titan who had presented humanity with the gift of fire.36 the mechanism the vengeful deity used to sweep the earth clean was an overwhelming flood. in the most widespread version of the story prometheus impregnated a human female. she bore him a son named deucalion, who ruled over the country of phthia, in thessaly, and took to wife pyrrha, the red-blonde, daughter of epimetheus and pandora. when zeus reached his fateful decision to destroy the bronze race, deucalion, forewarned by prometheus, made a wooden box, stored in it all that was necessary, 33 new larousse encyclopaedia of mythology, pp. 460, 466. 34 c. kerenyi, the gods of the greeks, thames& hudson, london, 1974, pp. 226-9. 35 ibid. 36 world mythology, pp. 130-1. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 193 and climbed into it wit

t mountains. it also happened at this time that the mountains of thessaly were split asunder, and the whole country as far as the isthmus and the peloponnese became a single sheet of water. deucalion and pyrrha floated over this sea in their box for nine days and nights, finally landing on mount parnassus. there, after the rains had ceased, they disembarked and sacrificed to the gods. in response zeus sent hermes to deucalion with permission to ask for whatever he wished. he wished for human beings. zeus then bade him take stones and throw them over his shoulder. the stones deucalion threw became men, and those that pyrrha threw became women.37 as the hebrews looked back on noah, so the greeks of ancient historical times looked back upon deucalion as the ancestor of their nation and as the

ion of greek myths more than 3000 years old, should not surprise us, because the great mill of icelandic legend appears there also (and does so, moreover, in familiar circumstances. it is the last night before the decisive confrontation. odysseus, bent on revenge, has landed in ithaca and is hiding under the magic spell of the goddess athena, which protects him from recognition. odysseus prays to zeus to send him an encouraging sign before the great ordeal: straightaway zeus thundered from shining olympus. and goodly odysseus was glad. moreover, a woman, a grinder at the mill, uttered a voice of omen from within the house hard by, where stood the mills of the shepherd of the people. at these handmills twelve women in all plied their task, making meal of barley and of wheat the marrow of me

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on in iiq i will be echoed inside yourself as you struggle to remain conscious in this lofty region. you will feel a strong sense of duality, like a psychic tug-of-war throughout the holy city. you may even have a vision of the egyptian 242 god, shu whose task is to maintain the separation of the sky (spirit) and the earth (matter. in ikh, shu would be in his highest aspect, equivalent to the god zeus, the'"orderer of all things" you will have the feeling of being on the highest peak of a mountain in a vast mountain range. as you move through this aethyr you wi l l see fortresses, bastions, stockades, bulwarks and entrenchments. crowley saw nine huge towers of iron along the upper frontier of the aethyr. whatever you actually see, the idea of elaborate defenses against hostile invading for

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ide resemble that of hermes to calypso, when she is commanded to let odysseus go. but such wanderings of heroes and encounters with wise women and giants seem to be a common epic property prevailing everywhere, while the very absence here of all the other main motives of the greek myth excludes the supposition of borrowing. we may surely give their due weight to the many resemblances of wuotan to zeus and apollo, of zio to zeus and ares, we may recognise nerthus in demeter, fx-igg and freyja in hera and aphrodite, wieland in hephaestus and daedalus, without the whole swarm of grecian gods needing therefore to be transported to our soil, or all that this produced having to be looked for in greece. must' honum hlo hugr i briosti' have somehow got into the edda from homer's iyexaaae se ol<^i\

ods needing therefore to be transported to our soil, or all that this produced having to be looked for in greece. must' honum hlo hugr i briosti' have somehow got into the edda from homer's iyexaaae se ol<^i\ov r/rop? the distinction, drawn in homer as well as the edda, between the speech of gods and of men may signify something to us, and yet be no harder to explain than the identity of zio with zeus, or of z6vvenus and venustus are made intelligible by the on. v nn and vtenstr, and even by the 0. sax. superlative wanumo. what is true of the greek and roman mythologies, that with all their similarity they are yet far from identical, has to be asserted with still more emphasis of the relation between the roman and german, inasmuch as greek lit

pleasing fancy, that of the gods in person walking the earth unrecognised, and dropping in at the houses of mortals. even the odyssey 17, 485-7 alludes to such wanderings, in which is found the loftiest consecration of hospitality: a man will be loth to turn away a stranger, under whose guise a celestial god may be visiting him. a greek myth with details appears in the story of orion: three gods, zeus, poseidon, hermes (some say zeus, ares, hermes= donar, zio, wuotan) take lodging with hyrieus, and after being feasted, give him leave to ask a favour; he wishes for a son, and they create him one much in the same way as kvasir was engendered (p. 902, conf. 1025n. ovid s fasti 5, 495 535. hyginus 195 relates the same fable of the thracian byrseus. in the beautiful legend of philemon and bauci

h as the norwegian tale in asbiorn. no. 21, conf. p. 423. as bearing upon their subsequent transference, it must not be overlooked that in fornm. sog. 9, 56. 175 osinn on horseback calls one evening at a blacksmith's, and has his horse shod; his identity with hermes becomes quite startling in these myths. at other times however it is thorr with his heavy hammer (p. 180) that seeks a lodging, like zeus, and when -he stays the night at the peasant's, loki accompanies thorr (sn. 49; then again heimdallr, calling himself rigr, traverses the world, and founds the families of man. the finnish legend makes wiiinamoinen, ilmarinen and lemminkainen travel (rune 23, quite on a par with o^inn, loki, and hoenir. if now we look from these heathen myths to those in a christian dress and of a later time

e suppl. a thing of such high importance cannot have originated with man himself, it must be regarded as the gift of heaven. invention and utterance are put in the heart by the gods, the minstrel is god-inspired: oecrm; aoihi, od. 1, 328. 8, 498. aothyi deatrea-ir, ii. 2, 600. deaitl'i aotso9 6 k6v repirrjaiv aelhwv, od. 17, 385. gods of the highest rank are wardens and patrons of the art divine, zeus and apollo among the greeks, with us wuotan 1' tehessa isiin iloa' kalew. 22, 236. 29, 227, the father (the god wainiimoinen) was making (waking) joy= he sang' io kiiwi ilo ilolle' 22, 215, joy came to joy= the song resounded, struck up. 902 poetet. and bragr, wainamoinen witli tlie finns. saga was wuotan's daughter (p. 310, as the muse was zeus's; freyja loved the minnesong: mienni lika'si v

154' seems also to take its name from her. in ssem. 4p socqvaheckr is described as a place where cool waters rush: there od"inn and sarja day by day drink gladly out of golden cups. this is the drink of immortality, and at the same time of poesy. 8aga may be taken as wife or as daughter of osinn; in either case she is identical with him as god of poetry. with the greeks the musa was a daughter of zeus, but we often hear of three or nine muses, who resemble our wise women, norns and schopferins (shapers of destiny, and dwell 1 o'sinn himself; whose bhndness fits in with that of the ancient poets. the loss of ejes strengtheue the memory, it ieuds the capacity aud impulse to sing. saga. 911 beside springs or wells^ the cool flood well befits tlie swanwives, daughters of wish. 8aga can be no o

zings. to the sensuous mythologies lying in the great middle it is ill-adapted. an all-pervading idealistic distinction between a good and an evil spirit, ormuzd and ahriman^ is known neither to the indian and greek theologies, nor to the teutonic. before the might of the one all-governing god the kakodeemon's power fades away. then out of this unity there grow up trilogies (brahma, vishnu, siva; zeus, poseidon, pluto; wuotan, donar, fro; har, lafnhar, thri'si, dodecalogies, and the plenitude of pantheism. but it is to my mind a fundamental feature of polytheism, that the good and beneficent principle in the divine preponderates; only some isolated deities, subordinate to the whole, incline to the evil or hurtful, like the norse loki, whose nature even then is more on a par with that of he

aphfrresis of the first syllable in deofol, diufal, pretty much as eblis is derived from diabolus. names taken from his figure. 993 ii. many names of the devil turn upon his outward form. the most striking feature is his lame foot: hence the liinhende teiifel((liable boiteux, hinke-hein (limping-leg; the fall from heaven to the abyss of hell seems to have lamed him, like hephsestus hurled down by zeus (p. 24 1^ he further resembles that god and the lame smith wieland (volundr p. 370) by his skill in working metals and in building, as also by his dwelling in a sooty hell. here the antithesis to clear shining white deity demands a dingy black hue, as the dark elves were opposed to the light. we may therefore balance the white baltac (p. 228, the radiant berhta (p. 272) against the gloomy pow

s it because she passes over field and meadow, or spins magic threads (conf. p. 1099. who knows but that the popular saying, when it snows' the old ivives are shaking their coats out (de aule wiver schiiddet den pels ut, strodtm. p. 336, is, properly understood, identical with that on p. 268 'dame eolle is making her bed? goddess, valkyr, witch: the regular gi'adation of such myths. to the greeks zeus himself was still vecpekrjyepera, to the serbs the vila gathers clouds. in scandinavia too, hail and hurricane proceed from those half-goddesses thorger&r and irpa, not as injurious to bewitching of crops. 1089 crops^ but perilous to armies ;i su. 175 makes a sorceress bear the very name el, procclla (see suppl. but sometimes the aim of sorcery is not so much to destroy the produce^ as to get

o-s (p. 903-5, flies away in eagle's shape' ominnis hegri' being a circumlocution for the divine bird. hegri stands for hegri, hregri, as. hragra, ohg. heigiro, hreigiro, e'pwsto, one large bird instead of another. when osinn swilled the drink he had longed for, and enjoyed the favour of the fair giantess, he was fettered in eagle's feathers, i.e. put on the form of an eagle. how like the myth of zeus, when, transformed into an eagle, he carries off ganymede, and makes him pour out nectar for him (see suppl^ the romans framed a system of augury of their own, not based on the flight of wildfowl, but on the domestic breed of poultry. the greeks practised an uxekrpvoixavreia by laying dogged him all day long to the single circumstance, that early in the morning a snake had crawled across ids

i, 171. 208. the bridal bed must have only dry tvood, but off living trees^ other fancies about the bridal bed 486-7. no picked up feathers, no hen's feathers should be put in a bed 281. 346. 593. choosing of days prevailed among the jews (levit. 19, 26. deut. 18, 10, greeks, and probably all heathens. hesiod distinguishes between mother-days and stepmother-days, he goes over all the good days of zeus, and all the bad "epya k 'h/x. 765 (710) seq. even if our names for the days of the week were imported from abroad (p. 127, yet native superstitions may have been mixt up with them from a very early time' nullus observet' so preached eligius' qua die domum exeat, vel qua die revertatur, nullus ad inchoandum opus diem aut lunam attendat' hincmar 1, 656' sunt et qui observant dies in motione it

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e universal teutonic) view of the world s origin out of component parts of the human body: it must therefore be of remote antiquity. the story lasts in india to this day, that brahma was slain by the other gods, and the sky made out of his skull: there is some analogy to this in the greek notion of atlas supporting on his head the vault of heaven. according to one of the orphic poets, the body of zeus is understood to be the earth, his bones the mountains, and his eyes the sun and moon.2 cochin- chinese traditions tell, how buddha made the world out of the giant banio s body, of his skull the sky, of his eyes the sun and moon, of his flesh the earth, of his bones rocks and hills, and of his hair trees and plants. similar macrocosms are met with in japan and ceylon; kalmuk poems describe ho

ke a difference of rank exist between the offspring of yimvs hand and those of his foot; a birth from the foot must mean a lower one. there is even a caribbean myth in which luguo, the sky, descends to the earth, and the first parents of mankind come forth from his navel and thigh, in which he had made an incision.2 reading of these miraculous births, who can help thinking of athena coming out of zeus s head (tpitoyeveta, and dionysus out of his thigh (fju^poppa^ri? as the latter was called &ijj,r)ta&gt;p (two-mothered, so the unexplained fable of the nine mothers of heimdallr (p. 234) seems to rest on some similar ground (see suppl. from these earlier creations of gods and giants the edda and, as the sequel will shew, the indian religion distinguish the crea tion of the first human pa

er is unconn. with populus a poplar. buch an e quercu aut saxo natus, who cannot name his own father, is vulceeation. 573 been fairy tales about it, which children told each other in con fidential chat (oapi^efjievai, airb spyo? rjs* airb irerprj, ii. 22, 126.1 a\\a tit /aol ravra irepl spvv rj irepl irerptjv; hes. theog. 35. in marked unison with the myth of askr is the statement of hesiod, that zeus formed the third or brazen race out of ashtrees (etc fjbe\iav, op. 147; and if the allusion be to the stout ashen shafts of the heroes, why, isco or askr may have bran dished them too. one remembers too those wood-wives and fays, who, like the greek meliads and dryads, had their sole power of living bound up with some particular oak or ash, and, unlike the tree-born man, had never got wholly

, fair and false, was formed out of earth and flood (p. 571. it is difficult to arrive at the exact point of view in the hesiodic poems. in the theogony, there ascend out of chaos first graia (earth) the giantess, then erebus (corresp. to niflheim) and night; but gaia by herself brought forth uranus (sky) and seas and mountains, then other children by uranus, the last of them kronus the father of zeus and ancestor of all the gods. as the edda has a buri and borr before 03inn, so do uranus and kronus here come before zeus; with zeus and 03inn begins the race of gods proper, and poseidon and hades complete the fra ternal trio, like vili and ye. the enmity of gods and titans is therefore that of ases and giants; at the same time, there is just as much resemblance in the expulsion of the titan

me time, their origin from the ash would admit of their being placed beside the first- created men of the edda. the agreement of the myths would be more striking if we might bestow the name of stone race on the third, and shift that of brazen, together with the creation from the ash, to the fourth; stones being the natural arms of giants. apollodorus however informs us it was the brazen race that zeus intended to destroy in the great flood from which deucalion and pyrrha were saved, and this fits in with the scandinavian overthrow of giants. the creation of askr and embla has its parallel in the stone-throwing of the greek myth, and the race of heroes might also be called stone-created (see suppl. it will be proper, before concluding, to cast a glance at the story of tlie deluge: its diffu

of armenia.2 coins of apamea, a city in phrygia, show an ark floating on the water, with a man and woman in it; on it sits a bird, another comes flying with a twig in its claws. close by stand the same human pair on firm land, holding up their right hands. beside the ark appear the letters nfl (noah, and this apamea is distinguished by the by-name of /a/3o&gt;to. 3 according to greek legend, zeus had determined to destroy mankind; at the prompting of prometheus, deucalion built an ark, which received him and pyrrha his wife. zeus then sent a mighty rain, so that hellas was flooded, and the people perished. nine days and nights deucalion floated on the waters, then landed on parnassus, and offered sacrifice to zeus; we have seen how this couple created a new generation by casting stone

s sisythes or sisuthros to be sesothris, sothis, seth; and noah to be dionysos, and a symbol of water. 2 buttm. p. 45 seq, who connects it with okeanos and ogenos. 3 it is remarkable, that in a beautiful simile, therefore without names or places, homer depicts a kind of deluge, ii. 16, 384: cbs 5 vwb xcuxcttti tracra kexalvrj fiefipide "xq&v ij/j,ar otrwpo y, ore xa^porarov x^ i $8w/&gt; zeus, ore 77 p dvdpecrcrt /careercrd/u.ei os xaxetttji y, o? f3iri elv dyopfj cr/coxtas kpivucrt $eytucrras, k 5e 5uc?7i&gt; exao-wm, de&v 8iriv ovk. fuvvdei se" re py even as crouches the darkening land, overcrowed by the tempest, all on a summer s day, when jove doth the down-rushing water suddenly pour, and wreak his wrath on the proud men, men of might, who sit dealing a crooked doom

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

explain; does it come under the ohgr. fasa, fason (graff 3, 705? in on( fas* is superbia, arrogantia; the name seems to express the overbearing nature of a giant. mermeut, which occurs nowhere else, perhaps means the sea-mutterer? schm. 2, 552. 653 has maudern, inutern, murmurare. these demi-gods and giants stand related to donar the supreme director of clouds and weather, as ^eolus or boreas to zeus. and from zeus it was that the favourable wished-for wind proceeded: aios ovpos, od. 5, 176. wuotan (the all-pervading, 1 sup. i, 282. praetorius s weltbeschr. 1, 429: at bamberg, when a violent wind was raging, an old woman snatched up her mealsack, and emptied it out of window into the air, with the words: dear wind, don t be so wild; take that home to your child! she meant to appease the h

ic land. in later times i find no mention of this cloud-ship, except in h. sachs, who in his schwank of the lappenhauser ii. 4, 89c re lates how they made a ship of feathers and straw, and carried it up the hill, with the view of launching out in it when the mist 640 elements. should fall. fischer in garg. 96a introduces quite unconnectedly the nelelschiffs segel of philoxenus (the guestfriend or zeus) in a passage that has nothing in rabelais answering to it. in the latter part of the mid. ages there went a story of the wind-selling inhabitants of vinland, which i give from a work composed towards 1360 by glanvil or bartholomaeus anglicus, deproprietatibus rerum 15, 172: gens (vinlandiae) estbarbara, agrestis et saeva, magicis artibus occupata. unde et navigantibus per eorum litora, vel a

black cow, sup. i, 887. a slovenic name for the rainbow is mavra= black cow [eng. the b. c. has trodden on his foot, of sorrow, esp. bereavement] 666 teees and animals. as. hryfter, hroser, but wlio can tell whether rinde cortex was not once aspirated too? evpatrrj, the name of one quarter of the earth, must surely also mean earth (evpela the broad, and on p. 338 i made a guess that euro-pa, whom zeus courted in the shape of a bull, must herself have been thought of as a cow, like lo; it was not the earth took name from her, but she from the earth. on the worship of cows and oxen by the indians, egypt ians and eomans, i refer to a. w. schlegel s learned treatise.1 the israelites also made a burnt-offering of a red heifer (goth, kalbo) upon which never came yoke/ numb. 19, 2 (see suppl. the

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ian art and shows the god, in his usual appearance, barely touching the queen s hand (see figure 20. the queen gives birth to the future ruler surrounded by deities who will nurse and protect the child and its spirit-double, the ka. this royal birth scene may be based on mythical prototypes, but it predates all the known depictions of the birth of infant gods. greek myth has equivalent stories of zeus s disguising himself to seduce mortal women, but their focus is on very human emotions of lust and jealousy. the seductions by zeus are set in a mythical age of heroes, and the god s behavior may be criticized. in egypt, such stories were a solemn part of the myth of divine kingship and were told about living people. each egyptian king was the son of the supreme creator god amun-ra but also h

library. most members of the ptolemy family never learned the egyptian language, but they were conscious that they were ruling a multicultural society and that they needed the support of influential egyptians. as a symbol of cultural fusion, the ptolemies established the cult of a new god, serapis, who combined features of the egyptian deities apis and osiris with aspects of greek deities such as zeus and dionysus. many of the ptolemies were crowned in the temple of ptah at memphis, and they often contributed to the cost of religious ceremonies in the ancient capital. ptolemaic kings and queens were happy to identify themselves with egyptian deities and to rule in their names. they encouraged the egyptians to worship them as divine rulers. the memphis decree of king ptolemy v (205 180 bce)

al red beer at a festival celebrating the pacification of the solar eye. see a. spalinger, a religious calendar year, revue d egyptologie 44 (1993: 161 184. 30. manetho, aegyptiaca, trans. and ed. w. g. wadell (london, 1940. 96 handbook of egyptian mythology 31. see appendix: primary sources under ismailia naos. some egyptologists believe that this unusual text was influenced by the greek myth of zeus s overthrow of chronos. this may be so, but the fact that the story was inscribed on a shrine in the holiest part of a temple shows that the designers of the temple considered it important and meaningful. 32. according to papyrus salt 825, osiris was slain by geb and then brought back to life. 33. e. otto, for example, wrote that osiris is from the beginning a dead god to whom poetic thought

n when he made a pilgrimage to the remote temple of amun at siwa oasis. according to some classical writers, alexander and his companions were in danger of dying in the desert when two serpents appeared to lead them safely to siwa. the oracle of amun at siwa was believed to be infallible. the greeks wove it into their own mythology, claiming that the heroes perseus and heracles had consulted amun/zeus there. see also aten; atum; birds; boats; khepri; min; mut; ogdoad of hermopolis; ra references and further reading: j. assmann. egyptian solar religion in the new kingdom: re, amun, and the crisis of polytheism. translated by anthony alcock. london and new york: 1995. g. hart. amun. in a dictionary of egyptian gods and goddesses. london and boston: 1986, 4 17. deities, themes, and concepts 1

eces in retaliation for seth s mutilation of the body of osiris and the eye of horus. the actual ritual involved the sacrifice and dismemberment of a wild ass in front of a cult state of osiris. by the greco-roman period, seth was vilified in most temples. the greeks identified seth with the monster typhon, who rebelled against the gods and had deities, themes, and concepts 193 to be destroyed by zeus. seth-typhon was invoked in spells to kill the magician s enemies as he had killed his own brother, osiris, or to separate lovers as he had separated osiris and isis. see also anat; anubis; anti; apophis; astarte; cattle; eyes of horus; hippopotamus goddesses; horus; isis; moon; nephthys; osiris; thoth references and further reading: j. g. griffiths. the conflict of horus and seth from egypti

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e symbolical polytheism of thebrahmans that varuna became poseidon or neptune- which he is now. in the vedas he isthe most ancient of the gods, identical with ouranos of the greek, that is to say apersonification of the celestial space and the infinite gods, the creator and ruler of heaven andearth, the king, the father and the master of the world, of gods and of men. hesiod's uranusand the greek zeus are one. nightmare talesthe blue lotus21 "alas" he wailed, every morning while performing his puja to the lesser gods "alas! what avails it to be thegreatest king on earth when god denies me an heir of my blood. when i am dead and placed on the funeralpyre, who will fulfil the pious duties of a son, and shatter my lifeless skull to liberate my soul from its earthlytrammels? what strange hand

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e false idea that we are all immortal, been demonstrated to the world in its true light, humanity would have been bettered by its propagation. let me repeat to you again. pythagoras, plato, timaeus of locris, and the old alexandrian school, derived the soul of man (or his higher principles and attributes) from the universal world soul, the latter being, according to their teachings, aether (pater-zeus. therefore, neither of these principles can be unalloyed essence of the pythagorean monas, or our atma-buddhi, because the anima mundi is but the effect, the subjective emanation or rather radiation of the former. both the human spirit (or the individuality, the reincarnating spiritual ego, and buddhi, the spiritual soul, are preexistent. but, while the former exists as a distinct entity, an

e aristotelian sense. the first logos is "the light of the world" the second, and the third, its gradually deepening shadows. adept (lat. adeptus) in occultism, one who has reached the stage of initiation and become a master in the science of esoteric philosophy. aether (gr) with the ancients, the divine luminiferous substance which pervades the whole universe; the "garment" of the supreme deity, zeus, or jupiter. with the moderns, ether, for the meaning of which, in physics and chemistry, see webster's dictionary, or some other. in esotericism, aether is the third principle of the kosmic septenary, matter (earth) being the lowest, and akasha, the highest. agathon (gr) plato's supreme deity, lit "the good" our alaya or the soul of the world. agnostic a word first used by professor huxley

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of the atlantic, helped by the discordian tactic of declaring that everyone is a genuine pope. more people are getting into the idea of a religion based on the celebration of confusion and madness. the central greek myth that eris figures prominently in is the ever-continuing soap opera of mount olympus- home of the gods; the episode which inadvertently brought about the trojan war. it seems that zeus was throwing a party and did not want to invite eris because of her reputation as a troublemaker. infuriated by the snub, eris fashioned a golden apple incribed with the word kallisti( to the prettiest one) and tossed it into the hall where all the guests were. three of the invited goddesses, athena, hera, and aphrodite, each claimed the apple for themselves and started fighting and throwing

t want to invite eris because of her reputation as a troublemaker. infuriated by the snub, eris fashioned a golden apple incribed with the word kallisti( to the prettiest one) and tossed it into the hall where all the guests were. three of the invited goddesses, athena, hera, and aphrodite, each claimed the apple for themselves and started fighting and throwing food around. to settle the dispute, zeus ordered all three to submit to the judgement of a mortal over just who was the prettiest one, and said mortal was paris, son of the king of troy. zeus sent all three to paris, via hermes, but each goddess tried to 25 oven-ready chaos outwit the others by sneaking out early and offering a bribe to paris. athena offered paris victory in battle, hera, great wealth, while aphrodite merely loosene

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ittle rose-crowned fauns and the antique satyrs. in thy yearning hast thou divined what no mortal, saving only a few whom the world rejects, remembereth: that the gods were never dead, but only sleeping the sleep and dreaming the dreams of gods in lotos-filled hesperian gardens beyond the golden sunset. and now draweth nigh the time of their awakening, when coldness and ugliness shall perish, and zeus sit once more on olympus. already the sea about paphos trembleth into a foam which only ancient skies have looked on before, and at night on helicon the shepherds hear strange murmurings and half-remembered notes. woods and fields are tremulous at twilight with the shimmering of white saltant forms, and immemorial ocean yields up curious sights beneath thin moons. the gods are patient, and ha

e through ages sent to earth to show that they are not dead. for poets are the dreams of gods, and in each and every age someone hath sung unknowingly the message and the promise from the lotosgardens beyond the sunset. then in his arms hermes bore the dreaming maiden through the skies. gentle breezes from the tower of aiolas wafted them high above warm, scented seas, till suddenly they came upon zeus, holding court upon double-headed parnassus, his golden throne flanked by apollo and the muses on the right hand, and by ivy-wreathed dionysus and pleasure-flushed bacchae on the left hand. so much of splendour marcia had never seen before, either awake or in dreams, but its radiance did her no injury, as would have the radiance of lofty olympus; for in this lesser court the father of gods ha

t aurora mourns by the nile for her slain memnon. to the feet of the thunderer flew the rosy-fingered goddess and, kneeling, cried "master, it is time i unlocked the gates of the east. and phoebus, handing his lyre to calliope, his bride among the muses, prepared to depart for the jewelled and column-raised palace of the sun, where fretted the steeds already harnessed to the golden car of day. so zeus descended from his caryen throne and placed his hand upon the head of marcia, saying "daughter, the dawn is nigh, and it is well that thou shouldst return before the awakening of mortals to thy home. weep not at the bleakness of thy life, for the shadow of false faiths will soon be gone and the gods shall once more walk among men. search thou unceasingly for our messenger, for in him wilt tho

eturn before the awakening of mortals to thy home. weep not at the bleakness of thy life, for the shadow of false faiths will soon be gone and the gods shall once more walk among men. search thou unceasingly for our messenger, for in him wilt thou find peace and comfort. by his word shall thy steps be guided to happiness, and in his dreams of beauty shall thy spirit find that which it craveth. as zeus ceased, the young hermes gently seized the maiden and bore her up toward the fading stars, up and westward over unseen seas* many years have passed since marcia dreamt of the gods and of their parnassus conclave. tonight she sits in the same spacious drawing-room, but she is not alone. gone is the old spirit of unrest, for beside her is one whose name is luminous with celebrity: the young poe

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ich a monad is the head" admits the reverend dr. maurice "for from this triad, in the bosoms, are all things governed" sajrs a chaldaean oracle" the ph5, pur, and phlox, of sanchoniathon* are light, fire, and flame, three manifestations of the sun who is one. bel-saturn, jupiter-bel, and bel or baal-chom are the chaldaean trini- ty" the babylonian bel was regarded in the triune aspect of belitan, zeus-belua [the mediator] and baal-chom who is apollo cbomaeus "this was the triune aspect of the 'highest god' who is, according to berosus, either el [the hebrew, bel, belitan, mithra, or zeroana, and has the name t^p 'the father* the brahmft, vishnu, and siva" corresponding to power, wisdom, and justice, which answer in their turn to spirit, matter, time, and the past, present, and future, can

re was a tradition of a place called nysa, and a cave where he was reared. beth-san or scythopolis in palestine once bad that designation; so had a spot on mount parnassus. but diodorus declares that nysa was between phoenicia and egypt; euripides states that dionysoa came to greece from india; and diodorus" adds his testimony "osiris was brought up in nysa, in arabia the happy; he was the son of zeus, and was namcxl from his father [nominative zeus, genitive dioa\ and the place dio-npaoa" the zeus or jove of nysa. this identity of name or title is very significant. in greece dionysos was second only to zeus, and pindar says "so fmthci zeiu govemi all thiiigi^ uki bacchtu he governs tjao" but outside of greece bacchus was the all-powerful "zagreus, the highest of gods" moses seems to have

nster of christos, the perfect emanation, and both arc 549. he u the imitersal and spiritiul germ of au things &s0. adumbraho kabb. ckt, pp. e> 7. digitizecoy google compabison with hindtl myths 227 children or emanations of sophia, the purely spiritual and intellectual daughter of bythos, the'depui. for the elder sopliia is shekhinah, the face of god "god's shekhinah, which is his image "the son zeus-belus, or sol-mithra, b an image of the father, an emanation from the supreme light" says movers "he passed for creator "i^ilosophers say the first air is anima mundi. but the garment (shekhinah) is higher than the first air, since it is joined more closely to the ain-soph, the boundless" thus sophia is shekhinah, and sophia- achamoth the anima mundi, the astral light of the kabalists, which

ost r^ona of brahmfl are surrounded by the sun, moon, and pluiets, the 'seven stellara seven impostor-daemons who deceive the sons vx adam. the name of one is sol; of another spiritu* venereua, astro; of the third ntim, mercurius, a false measiak, the name of a fourth is sin, luna; the fifth is kivan (kiun, satumus; the sixth, bel, zeus; the seventh, nerig, mars^ then there are "seven imea procreated" seven good steliars "which are from kebar-zivo, and are those bright ones who shine in their own form and splendor that pours from on high. at the gate of the house of lifh the throne is fitly placed for the lord^ splendor. and there are three habitations" the habita- tions of the trimhrti, the hinda trinity, are placed beneath

st latin name for god "as male he is surjnter, or ju, the father -puri being sanskrit for father; as feminine, ju-no or ju, the comforter hij being the phoenician word for rest and comfort* professor max mtluer shows that although dyaue, sky, does not occur as a masculine in the ordinary sanskrit, yet it does occur in the veda "and thus beara witness to the early aryan worship of dyaus, the greek zeus("the veda' in ckipt, etc, i, p. 78. to grasp the real and primitive sense of the term lao, and the reason for its becoming the designation of the most mysterious of all deities, we must search for its origin in the figurative phraseology of all the primi- tive people. we must first of all go to the most ancient sources for our information. in one of the 00^ of bermet, for instance, we find hi

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the phoenician cabiri and the greek dioscuri, the curetes, corybantes, telchini, were originally of the same nature, and are only different in trifling particulars. all these symbols represent electric and magnetic pheno92 the rosicrucians. mena, and that under the ancient name of twin-fires, hermaphrodite fire. the dioscuri is a phrase equivalent to the sons of heaven: if, as herodotus asserts, zeus originally represented the whole circle of heaven. according to the ancient opinion of heraclitus, the contest of opposing forces is the origin of new bodies, and the reconcilement of these contending principles is called combustion. this is, according to montfaugon, sketched in the minutest detail in the engravings of the ancient phoenician cabiri. from india into egypt was imported this spi

it stands for the virgin of thesea. blue also, in regard to the heraldicmetals, sol is the sun, the procreative or producing power (gold; and luna, the moon, astarte( receptive, or female power, is the metal argent (or silver* the colour azure, or blue,mystically signifies the deep, or the world usurped, or won, out of chaos (chronos, saturn, or time; and it is represented by the planet jupiter (zeus, as lord of theworlds* these are the two chiefmetals of the alchemists, and the two chief mystic symbols of the rosicrucians red is blazoned by the old priestly heralds, or augurs, by the name of the planet mars vert (or verd, and argent, silver (hermes, or thoth, ortaut, orluna, orastarte, indifferently, are represented by the planetvenus and by themoon. persian fire-tower. chapter the twent

, are the crux-ansata of the egyptians. this emblem is also found in india. according to ruffinus and sozomen, it imports the time that is to come. it is a magical symbol. fig. 27 is the imperial mound, and cross-sigma surmounting it. figs. 28, 29, are symbols of venus (aphrodite, the deity of the syrians and phoenicians. they are phallic emblems. fig. 30 is the phallus proper. it is the sigma of zeus, mithras, baalim, bacchus. figures numbered 31, osiris: these various figures signify also jupiter-ammon. the rectangular marks denote the scandinavian tuisco, thoth (mercurius, or hermes. fig. 35 is the indian form of the same idea. the figure marked 36 is to be found on the breast of one of the mummies in the museum of the london university. fig. 36. phallus and lotus. fig. 37. fig. 38. fig

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parta and corinth and the other cities of greece. 329. hera was a real personage likewise, but very different from pallas athene. she was one of the many incarnations or forms of the feminine aspect of the first ray, and was thought of as the queen of heaven; she corresponds most closely to the indian goddess parvati, the shakti or power of shiva, imaged as his consort, as hera was the consort of zeus. 330. dionysus was the logos himself, just as osiris had been in egypt, though in a somewhat different aspect; and the legend of his death and resurrection corresponded closely with that of osiris, and was taught with the same signification in the mysteries of greece. phoebus apollo, the god of the sun and of music, whose symbol was the lyre, seems originally to have been orpheus; so that in

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. san francisco, ca: city lights books, 1985. hades in the contemporary period hades has become interchangeable with hell. however, the name originally referred to the greek god of the underworld and king of the dead. later hades became, by extension, the name of the land of the dead itself. hades was the son of rhea and chronos. after defeating the titans (the older gods, hades and his brothers, zeus and poseidon, divided the world among themselves. poseidon received the seas, zeus the sky, and hades the underworld. hades was considered so unfortunate that even the mention of his name was regarded as unlucky, and mythological tales about the god of the underworld are scant. the foundation for greek classical religion was set in the homeric poems, the iliad and the odyssey, which themselve

etation deity. her daughter, kore, was carried off by hades, ruler of the dead.demeter, not knowing where kore was, searched through many lands for her, growing ever more despondent. she finally arrived at eleusis, on the attica coast not far from athens, and refused to allow anything to flower or bear fruit. the devastation produced by the barren landscape was so terrible that the gods persuaded zeus to retrieve kore from the underworld. hermes was sent to accomplish the task and hades relented, but not before persuading kore to eat a pomegranate, symbolic of marriage and a promise of return. this trickery forced zeus into a compromise, by which kore would have to spend one-third (or one-half, depending on the source) of each year in the underworld, the part of the year when demeter is on

lished manuscript the book of the black flame the feminine aspect of deity is something that is, for the most part, lost to the western religious tradition. american satanism is no exception to this general rule. historically, different world cultures have vilified both females and goddesses, especially chthonic goddesses. foot binding, witch burning, and suttee are the legacies of such cultures. zeus the rapist, the celibate jesus, and female bodhisattvas transformed into men are all mythic-religious examples of male dominance and power reflected in the religious realm. the temple of lylyth stands in contrast to this tradition. the temple of lylyth recaptures the ancient tradition of shekenah the feminine aspect of god from jewish cabalah (called shakti in shaivite nagism).this part of th

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r 30 agni [tejas, yama [as god of last judgement] light k 31 surya (as) fire k 32 brahma quiescence r 32 bis [prithivi] earth k 31 bis [akasa] breathing r table i (continued) 9 xxiv. certain of the hindu and buddhist results. xxv- xxxii. xxxiii. some scandinavian gods. xxxiv. some greek gods. 0 nerodha-samapatti, nirvikalpa-samadhi, shiva darshana. pan. z1z1 unity with brahma, atma darshana wotan zeus, iacchus 2. odin athena, uranus[[hermes] 3. frigga cybele, demeter, rhea, her[[psych, kronos] 4. wotan poseidon[[zeus] 5. thor ares, hades 6 vishvarupa-darshana. iacchus, apollo, adonis[[dionysus, bacchus] 7. freya aphrodit, nik 8. odin, loki hermes 9. zeus (as d, diana of epheus (as phallic stone[[and[[eros] 1010 vision of the higher self, the various dhyanas or jhanas. persephone [adonis, p

ranus[[hermes] 3. frigga cybele, demeter, rhea, her[[psych, kronos] 4. wotan poseidon[[zeus] 5. thor ares, hades 6 vishvarupa-darshana. iacchus, apollo, adonis[[dionysus, bacchus] 7. freya aphrodit, nik 8. odin, loki hermes 9. zeus (as d, diana of epheus (as phallic stone[[and[[eros] 1010 vision of the higher self, the various dhyanas or jhanas. persephone [adonis, psych 11 vaya-bhawana valkyries zeus 12. hermes 13 vision of chandra. artemis, hekat 14 success in bhaktioga freya aphrodit 15. athena 16 success in hathayoga, asana and prana-yama [her] 17. castor and pollux, apollo the diviner[[eros] 18. apollo the charioteer 19. demeter [borne by lions] 20 [attis] 21. zeus 22. themis, minos, aeacus and rhadamanthus 23 apo-bhawana. poseidon 24. ares[[apollo the pythean, thanatos] 25. apollo, a

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orphic conception..but what odds? once the right thought comes it will transcend any and all conceptions. the objection is as silly as the objection to illustrating geometry by diagrams, on the ground that printed lines are thick.and so on. this is the imbecility of the .protestant. objection to images. what fools these mortals be! the greeks, too, after exhausting all their sublimest thoughts of zeus and hades and poseidon, found that they could not find a fitting image of the all, the supreme.so they just carved a goat-man, saying: let this represent pan! also in the holiest place of the most secret temple there is an empty shrine. but whoso goes there in the first instance thinks; there is no god. he who goes there at the end, when he has adored all the other deities, knoweth that no go

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, with strong sense that this unity with that quarter of the universe confers upon him the fullest freedom and privilege appurtenant thereto* having experience of success in the practices of liber dxxxvi, gbatracofrenobookosmomacia. h liber samekh svb figvra dccc 16 let the adept take note of the wording of the charge. the gfirmament h is the ruach, the gmental plane h: it is the realm of shu, or zeus, where revolves the wheel of the gunas, the three forms* of being. the athyr is the gakasa h, the gspirit, h the athyr of physics, which is the framework on which all forms are founded; it receives, records and transmits all impulses without itself suffering mutation thereby. the gearth h is the sphere wherein the operation of these gfundamental h and athyric forces appears to perception. gun

ion with the angel implies (1) the death of his old mind save insofar as his unconscious elements preserve its memory when they absorb it, and (2) the death of his unconscious elements themselves. but their death is rather a going forth to renew their life through love. he then, by conscious comprehension of them separately and together, becomes the gangel h of his angel, as hermes is the word of zeus, whose own voice is thunder. thus in this section the adept utters articulately, so far as words may, what his angel is to himself. he says this, with his scin-laca wholly withdrawn into his physical body; constraining his angel to indwell his heart. line 1 gi am he h asserts the destruction of the sense of separateness between self and self. it affirms existence, but of the third person only

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s fantastic to medieval historians as they seem to us) that look very much like some of the myths about thor that later were to be told by the nordic peoples. the idea that gods derive from humans whose actions are reinterpreted and deified by later generations is called geuhemerism, h after the greek philosopher euhemeros (fl. 300 b.c.e, whose claim to have discovered an inscription showing that zeus was a mortal king elevated to deity was generalized into a theory that has had considerable currency down into modern times. snorri fs euhemerism in the prologue to his edda continues with odin, whose gift of prophecy informs him that his future lies to the north. he sets off from tyrkland with a large band of followers, young and old, men and women, and they brought many precious things with

ciated with the dead (the einherjar) and visits the abode of the dead (in baldrs draumar. mercury was associated with commerce, to be sure, but he was also changeable (whence our word gmercurial h in that meaning, as odin certainly was. odin therefore got the day of mercury, old english wodnesdag, our wednesday. dies jovis carried in it the name of jupiter, the head of the roman pantheon, heir to zeus in the greek pantheon. one of his accouterments was a thunderbolt that he heaved across the sky, and this may have contributed to the choice of the translation of his day into that of the thunderer, thor, giving us thursday. dies veneris bore the name of venus, goddess of love. the deity the germanic peoples chose to render her name was at that time *frija, and that gives us friday *frija was

stability and innovation of the oral tradition that carried the mythology forward from the migration period to the high middle ages, from somewhere near the northern border of the roman empire to the scandinavian outpost on iceland. we see that ty lr has lost 202 norse mythology most of the glory implied by the etymology of his name, which derives from the same indo-european root as the names of zeus and jupiter and of our word gdeity h (compare latin deus; his predecessor may once have been a far greater warrior than ty lr seems to be in the extant mythology. we surmise that the original odin is seen in his fickle and cunning aspects, not in his role as lord of hosts and ruler of the pantheon. similarly, we surmise that the predecessor of thor might possibly once have been the head of th

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without true knowledge--were presented to the mysteries unclothed, being first: given the skin of an animal and later a consecrated robe to symbolize the philosophical teachings received by the initiate. during the course of initiation the candidate click to enlarge ceres, the patron of the mysteries. from a mural painting in pompeii. ceres, or demeter, was the daughter of kronos and rhea, and by zeus the mother of persephone. some believe her to be the goddess of the earth, but more correctly she is the deity protecting agriculture in general and corn in particular. the poppy is sacred to ceres and she is often shown carrying or ornamented by a garland of these flowers. in the mysteries, ceres represented riding in a chariot drawn by winged serpents. p. 31 click to enlarge the processiona

and death over his kinsmen without the assent of a majority of the ten. plato concludes his description by declaring that it was this great empire which attacked the hellenic states. this did not occur, however, until their power and glory had lured the atlantean kings from the pathway of wisdom and virtue. filled with false ambition, the rulers of atlantis determined to conquer the entire world. zeus, perceiving the wickedness of the atlanteans, gathered the gods into his holy habitation and addressed them. here plato's narrative comes to an abrupt end, for the critias was never finished. in the tim us is a further description of atlantis, supposedly given to solon by an egyptian priest and which concludes as follows "but afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a

ting rays. all the kingdoms of earth were but copies of the kingdoms of heaven, and the kingdoms of heaven were best symbolized by the solar kingdom, in which the sun was the supreme ruler, the planets his privy council, and all nature the subjects of his empire. many deities have been associated with the sun. the greeks believed that apollo, bacchus, dionysos, sabazius, hercules, jason, ulysses, zeus, uranus, and vulcan partook of either the visible or invisible attributes of the sun. the norwegians regarded balder the beautiful as a solar deity, and odin is often connected with the celestial orb, especially because of his one eye. among the egyptians, osiris, ra, anubis, hermes, and even the mysterious ammon himself had points of resemblance with the solar disc. isis was the mother of th

ion was accomplished--a mentally deranged man named herostratus. it was later rebuilt, but the symbolism was lost. the original temple, designed as a miniature of the universe, was dedicated to the moon, the occult symbol of generation. 3. upon his exile from athens, phidias--the greatest of all the greek sculptors--went to olympia in the province of elis and there designed his colossal statue of zeus, chief of the gods of greece. there is not even an accurate description of this masterpiece now in existence; only a few old coins give an inadequate idea of its general appearance. the body of the god was overlaid with ivory and the robes were of beaten gold. in one hand he is supposed to have held a globe supporting a figure of the goddess of victory, in the other a scepter surmounted by an

ods of greece. there is not even an accurate description of this masterpiece now in existence; only a few old coins give an inadequate idea of its general appearance. the body of the god was overlaid with ivory and the robes were of beaten gold. in one hand he is supposed to have held a globe supporting a figure of the goddess of victory, in the other a scepter surmounted by an eagle. the head of zeus was archaic, heavily bearded, and crowned with an olive wreath. the statue was seated upon an elaborately decorated throne. as its name implies, the monument was dedicated to the spirit of the planet jupiter--one of the seven logi who bow before the lord of the sun. 4. eliphas levi includes the temple of solomon among the seven wonders of the world, giving it the place occupied by the pharos

ing from the central trunk represent the infinity of universal effects dependent upon a single cause. the tree has also been accepted as symbolic of the microcosm, that is, man. according to the esoteric doctrine, man first exists potentially within the body of the world-tree and later blossoms forth into objective manifestation upon its branches. according to an early greek mystery myth, the god zeus fabricated the third race of men from ash trees. the serpent so often shown wound around the trunk of the tree usually signifies the mind--the power of thought--and is the eternal tempter or urge which leads all rational creatures to the ultimate discovery of reality and thus overthrows the rule of the gods. the serpent hidden in the foliage of the universal tree represents the cosmic mind; a

udinous problems. nor only was the tabernacle itself patterned according to egyptian mysticism; its utensils were also of ancient and accepted form. the ark click to enlarge the ancient of days. from montfaucon's antiquities. it is in this form that jehovah is generally pictured by the qabbalists. the drawing is intended to represent the demiurgus of the greeks and gnostics, called by the greeks "zeus" the immortal mortal, and by the hebrews "ihvh" p. 134 of the covenant itself was an adaptation of the egyptian ark, even to the kneeling figures upon its lid. bas-reliefs on the temple of phil show egyptian priests carrying their ark--which closely resembled the ark of the jews--upon their shoulders by means of staves like those described in exodus. the following description of the tabernacl

rious ways the manner of their death has been designedly concealed, but it is possible that most of them were crucified upon a cross or tree. the first friend of man, the immortal prometheus, was crucified on the pinnacle of mount caucasus, and a vulture was placed over his liver to torment him throughout eternity by clawing and rending his flesh with its talons. prometheus disobeyed the edict of zeus by bringing fire and immortality to man, so for man he suffered until the coming of hercules released him from his ages of torment. concerning the crucifixion of the persian mithras, j. p. lundy has written "dupuis tells us that mithra was put to death by crucifixion, and rose again on the 25th of march. in the persian mysteries the body of a young man, apparently dead, was exhibited, which w

one. as symbolic of the divisions of time, the elders adore the timeless and enduring spirit in the midst of them. p. 186 relationship of the various parts of the alpha and omega to the seven sacred planets of the ancients. to quote "the logos-figure described is a composite picture of the seven sacred planets: he has the snowy-white hair of kronos('father time, the blazing eyes of 'wide-seeing' zeus, the sword of arcs, the shining face of helios, and the chiton and girdle of aphrodite; his feet are of mercury, the metal sacred to hermes, and his voice is like the murmur of the ocean's waves (the 'many waters, alluding to selene, the moon-goddess of the four seasons and of the waters" the seven stars carried by this immense being in his right hand are the governors of the world; the flami

nd lives of such outstanding impeccability that even after the lapse of ages the teachings of these individuals constitute the present spiritual, intellectual, and ethical standards of the race. the initiates of the various mystery schools of past ages form a veritable golden chain of supermen and superwomen connecting heaven and earth. they are the links of that homeric "golden chain" with which zeus boasted he could bind the several parts of the universe to the pinnacle of olympus. the sons and daughters of isis are indeed an illustrious line--founders of sciences and philosophies, patrons of arts and crafts, supporting by the transcendency of their divinely given power the structures of world religions erected to do them homage. founders of doctrines which have molded the lives of uncou

MEANING OF MASONRY

ed with great ceremony and elaboration at the eleusinia, and of which it may be useful to speak briefly. it told how the maiden persephone strayed away from arcadla (heaven) and her mother demeter, to pluck flowers in the meads of enna, and how the soil there opened and caused her to fall through into the lower dark world of hades ruled over by pluto. the despair of her mother at the loss reached zeus, the chief of the gods, with the result that he relieved the position by ordaining that, if the girl had not eaten of the fruit of hades, she should forthwith be restored to her mother for ever, but that if she had so eaten she must abide a third of each year with pluto and return to demeter for the other two thirds. it proved that persephone had unfortunately eaten a pomegranate in the lower

sires end in dissatisfaction and bitterness, and" enna (signifying darkness and bitterness) is the same word as still meets us in gehenna. one may, however, profit by one's mistakes. it is they which breed wisdom, and it is the riches of wisdom and experience that are signified by pluto, the god of riches, into whose kingdom persephone falls. she might have returned thence to her mother for ever, zeus decreed, had she not still further injured herself by eating of the fruit of the lower world, but having done so her restoration can only be partial and temporary. this alludes to the soul's still further self-soilure and degradation by lusting after the inferior pleasures of this lower plane, which, as the pomegranate symbolizes, is many seeded with illusions and vanities. until these false

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ore. it is after all, the vampire which is able to shape shift into such a wolf like beast covered in gray or black fur, gleaming red or yellow eyes and enormous, cruel fangs. the wolf form can be assumed in one of two external shapes, being a large hunting wolf or a giant man-wolf form, which proves to be a mental and physical terror. one of the first werewolves, lycon, was turned into a wolf by zeus in a form of punishment for a crime. in scandinavia, werewolves were regarded as great warriors who fought for their land and family honor. the werewolf was not one in the actual form of a wolf, however, but a norseman covered in the skin of a bear or wolf. they would attain a mental-shamanistic balance of beast and with a mind sigil of odin and wotan ascend to the battle which would last to

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

of the gods olympus shook as he moved, the earth groaned;and from the lightening of his bolt, as well as from the eyes and breath of his antagonist, firewas bursting over the dark sea. the ocean boiled; towering waves beat upon all promonto-atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation41 the world falls dead ries of the coast; the ground quaked; hades, lord of the dead, trembled; and even zeus him-self, for a time, was unstrung.and let us not neglect the accounts from egypt, later bastion of the sons of the ser-pents. from the egyptian ipuwer papyrus of 1780 bc, we read: the land- to its whole extent confusion and terrible noise. for nine days there was no exitfrom the palace and no one could see the face of his fellow. towns were destroyed by mightytides..upper egypt suffered deva

ians did indeed serve their masters well. theywere part alien, part reptile, with no human dna at all.some, like their creators, looked entirely humanoid. otherswere distinctly reptoid. they operated from the limbicmode of consciousness and possessed the physical endur-ance and strength, not to mention the guile, of the humbleearth reptile. from these beings, we inherit the term cold-blooded evil.zeus and typhonatlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation61 reptilians, priestesses, and strange genes the euphemism that has come down to describe a female reserved for crossing withpart alien being was virgin. the offspring of these relations were referred to as beingof virgin birth. other terms which implied genetics are blood (as in blood of thelamb, seed (as in seed of david, and im

merset zodiac, whichbecomes as it were, the capstone of the giza pyramid.horse powera term that goes all the way back to the worship of poseidon, the virile, aggressive, male earth shakerwhose symbol was the horse. a forgotten city called posideium, also known as mina, lies in to the northof lebanon in the turkish hatay. poseidons symbol was also the trident. this later became the thunder-bolt of zeus.moses and the burning bushjehovah announces himself as the god of thy father. it was not until the time of the prophet amos thatjehovah is raised to the level of the universal lord and creator god. jeremiah and ezekiel also followedsuit.the sakhraa sacred stone of the israelites that was contained in their temple of solomon. but, it was an object ofveneration long prior to this time. the ashl

e universe. we have been lead to think that the slaughter of humanbeings in the name of god is a divine 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 o

n the rhine.phoeniciaphoenicia was in reality a small group of gods that ruled a semitic people. these gods, according toinscriptions styled themselves as the royal race.tara= tyre= tyronetara is believed to be the burial site of queen tea, wife of king milesius of ireland.as we have said before the gods generally took to the hills not far from the rivers nor from the seas.olympus was the home of zeus, the capotiline hill was the home of jupiter. sinai was the home of jealor jehovah (p. 12)illinois state of the union, named after an indian tribethe ari, aries, or harriesthere is another word of vast importance in the scheme of things throughout the world in prehistorictimes. this is the word ari, the name of the number two men, who ranked below the gods, yet above thepeople (p. 15)the arie

latis maintained a garrison of 400,000 men, whence he repaired every summerfrom memphis, where he principally dwelt.the hyskos overlordship lasted for 511 years when they were driven away after a long and bitter war.(p. 62)set as an evil comettyphon was another name for set, the evil brother of osiris, whom he murderedwho breathed fire,lightening, and destructive winds, and was hurled to earth by zeus or horus. set was figured as a hugecelestial serpent with a hundred writhing heads and various fearsome voices, all of which imageryappendix b: book abstracts258atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation pointed to the comet, a fearful god who rained down rocks and stones, and hence the myth of thedragons bones sown by cadmus (p. 63)mizpahcentral emblem of israel, as the place of th

metaphysical version of theappendix c: suggested areas of research274atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation atlantis story in critias, where he describes the lost continent as the kingdom of poseidon, the godof the sea. this atlantis was a noble, sophisticated society that reigned in peace for centuries, untilits people became complacent and greedy. angered by their fall from grace, zeus chose to punishthem by destroying atlantis. although plato was the first to use the term atlantis, there are ante-cedents to the legend. in an egyptian legend which solon probably heard while traveling in egypt,and which was passed down to plato years later, the island nation of keftiu, home of one of the fourpillars that held up the sky, was said to be a glorious advanced civilization which

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the flood began to subside, utnapishtim released a dove, as noah did, to see if there was dry land nearby. and like noah from the bible, the boat finally rested on a mountain. in chinese mythology, gong the serpent-looking water god, wanted to expand his sphere of influence and so contrived to flood the world. gong nearly succeeded but was stopped by the righteous god zurong. in greek mythology, zeus is enraged by the evil mankind was partaking in and so therefore plotted to destroy everything on earth in a great flood. but wily prometheus warned a man named deucalion, who builds a chest and survives the flood. in persian mythology, the benevolent god ahura mazda tells a man named yima that a terrible winter of frost and snow is upon him. ahura mazda commands yima to build an underground

er than adam (the first human. occultists will also freely refer to satan as ahriman (angra mainyu. ahriman is an ancient persian god who, according to legend, is wholly wicked and at war with his righteous brother ahura mazda. this ahriman resides in a gloomy underworld, and leads many demons. and then you have hades, from greek mythology. hades is the ruler of the underworld, and the brother of zeus. after a conflict where hades, poseidon, and zeus team up to defeat the titans (the older gods, these younger gods divided creation into three; zeus would rule heaven, poseidon would rule the sea, and hades would rule the underworld, which was the land of the dead. although the greek traditions do not mention a conflict between the two brothers zeus and hades, satanists do. i suspect that thi

ack magicians, to this day, revere azazel and the rest as heroes for bringing the flame of magic and transformation to humanity. this story of god s enemy who, against the wishes of god, gives fire to mankind is also echoed in greek mythology. black magicians often equate azazel from the book of enoch, with lucifer and the greek god prometheus. the reason is that prometheus, against the wishes of zeus (god, stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity. zeus, the furious god of mount olympus, punishes prometheus by binding him to a rock, and commanding an eagle to peck away at this liver, which regenerated every day. prometheus is depicted as incredibly intelligent, deceptive, and rebellious; prometheus, azazel, lucifer, the torch-bearer, the light bringer. the flame, or torch of the ol

ympus, punishes prometheus by binding him to a rock, and commanding an eagle to peck away at this liver, which regenerated every day. prometheus is depicted as incredibly intelligent, deceptive, and rebellious; prometheus, azazel, lucifer, the torch-bearer, the light bringer. the flame, or torch of the olympics, and it s corresponding tradition, is a commemoration of prometheus theft of fire from zeus. the statue of liberty, whose likeness is based on the goddess ishtar, who was said to have fallen with azazel, also bears the torch of illumination. this flame is a direct reference to magical knowledge and self-deification through magical means. it is important not to mistake this azazel, and those who were with him, for the traveling civilizer spoke of earlier. the fallen angels of eden ta

ther 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, or set, is the god of the setting sun and so therefore his symbol is that of a black sun, as opposed to his righteous brother who is associated with rising sun. it is far f

associated with rising sun. it is far from uncommon for occultists to associate the sun with jesus and osiris; it is equally common for them to associate jesus with osiris. in mythology, just look for a guy with the crazy brother, and you ll usually find jehovah. of coarse most christians would find it hard to believe that they are engaged in the--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 15 worship of zeus and osiris; maybe even take offense to such a statement. their god, the god of israel, could never be compared to the greek god zeus. we re talking about god here, not a promiscuous cartoon character who throws lightning-bolts! but your own bible does indeed spell out the truth of the matter. in the book of revelation [9:11] we read; and they [the locusts] had a king over them, which is the a

ntheon. is it likely that apollo is the only greek god that actually exists? probably not. what s more likely is that many( if not all) characters from the bible have corresponding names in greek mythology. but even though the characters correspond, the perspective of villains and heroes appears to have been inverted; as though retold through the eyes of a modern day satanist. in greek mythology, zeus is the tyrant lord of mount olympus, who is promiscuous, jealous, and a rapist. whereas prometheus, who is azazel and lucifer, is the creator and champion of mankind, highly intelligent, and can easily deceive zeus. i can t believe it s not fiction: zeus and hades heracles (2001) clash of the titans (2010) hidden history [1.6] mythology isn t the only vector by which we can reconstruct histor

hology 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 with the children of jehovah; zeus is also said to have plenty offspring. modern

nd she spawned a race of wicked giants and demons. in babylonian legend, tiamat was called the monster of chaos, and waged war against the gods. finally marduk defeated tiamat, split her in two, and used her flesh to create the world. this battle between the angels and the older gods goes unmentioned in the biblical genesis account, but remains in the greek tradition. according to greek mythology zeus, along with his brothers poseidon and hades, defeated the older gods, called the titans, and banished them to tartarus (the greek underworld. these titans, who were the offspring of gaia (tiamat, once ruled the earth; their brutish nature corrupting and spoiling the planet. this race even attempted to make slaves and sport out of the angelic race, but jehovah and satan cast down the titans. i

ated the older gods, called the titans, and banished them to tartarus (the greek underworld. these titans, who were the offspring of gaia (tiamat, once ruled the earth; their brutish nature corrupting and spoiling the planet. this race even attempted to make slaves and sport out of the angelic race, but jehovah and satan cast down the titans. it is also worth mentioning that prometheus sided with zeus (the olympians) in the war of the titans. although the greek mythology does not mention it, eventually a flaming rock was hurled to the earth from space, killing this race of terrible beasts, and casting their souls to tartarus. it is important to bare in mind that there were 2 wars, or en-masse desertions, in heaven. the first between the angels--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 77 and th

able and evil even by the worst magicians. this spirit is regarded as a devouring demon who seeks to steal the life-force and sanity from all who cross his path. this entity s reputation for inducing insanity is legendary, for he is truly the embodiment of dispersion and chaos. his greed for collecting and retaining souls is insatiable. hades is often depicted as more intelligent than his brother zeus. this god waits in the abyss for the magician who seeks union with his guardian angel, so that in order to be transformed, the magician must master choronzon. the abode of coronzon is a dark place where those long dead gesture and stumble aimlessly; a place where hope is not to be found. hades sided with zeus and the other olympians in the war against the titans. in the night before a major b

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duced by bayonets, and principles are struck dumb by cannonshot; while the monks mingle with the troopers, and the church militant and jubilant, catholic or puritan, sings te deums for victories over rebellion. the military power, not subordinate to the civil power, again the hammer or mace of force, independent of the rule, is an armed tyranny, born full-grown, as athene sprung from the brain of zeus. it spawns a dynasty, and begins with c sar to rot into vitellius and commodus. at the present day it inclines to _begin_ where formerly dynasties _ended. constantly the people put forth immense strength, only to end in immense weakness. the force of the people is exhausted in indefinitely prolonging things long since dead; in governing mankind by embalming old dead tyrannies of faith; restor

d the sab ans worshipping the light-god _seemed_ to worship the sun, in whom they saw the manifestation of the deity. the moon was the symbol of the passive capacity of nature to produce, the female, of which the life-giving power and energy was the male. it was the symbol of isis, astarte, and artemis, or diana. the"_master of life" was the supreme deity, above both, and manifested through both; zeus, the son of saturn, become king of the gods; horus, son of osiris and isis, become the master of life; dionusos or bacchus, like mithras, become the author of light and life and truth* the master of light and life, the sun and the moon, are symbolized in every lodge by the master and wardens: and this makes it the duty of the master to dispense light to the brethren, by himself, and through t

rs, all men except a few, in most countries, are born to be mere beasts of burden, co-laborers with the horse and the ox. profoundly ignorant, even in "civilized" lands, they think and reason like the animals by the side of which they toil. for them, god, soul, spirit, immortality, are mere words, without any real meaning. the god of nineteen-twentieths of the christian world is only bel, moloch, zeus, or at best osiris, mithras, or adona, under another name, worshipped with the old pagan ceremonies and ritualistic formulas. it is the statue of olympian jove, worshipped as the father, in the christian church that was a pagan temple; it is the statue of venus, become the virgin mary. for the most part, men do not in their hearts believe that god is either just or merciful. they fear and shr

nown to the vulgar. no sage, in either country, or in greece or rome, believed the popular creed. to them the gods and the idols of the gods were symbols, and symbols of great and mysterious truths. the vulgar imagined the attention of the gods to be continually centred upon the earth and man. the grecian divinities inhabited olympus, an insignificant mountain of the earth. there was the court of zeus, to which neptune came from the sea, and pluto and persephon from the glooms of tartarus in the unfathomable depths of the earth's bosom. god came down from heaven and on sinai dictated laws for the hebrews to his servant moses. the stars were the guardians of mortals whose fates and fortunes were to be read in their movements, conjunctions, and oppositions. the moon was the bride and sister

mysteries orpheus is said to have founded, was the god of nature, or of the moisture which is the life of nature, who prepares in darkness the return of life and vegetation, or who is himself the light and change evolving their varieties. he was theologically one with hermes, prometheus, and poseidon. in the egean islands he is butes, dardanus, himeros, or imbros. in crete he appears as iasius or zeus, whose worship remaining unveiled by the usual forms of mystery, betrayed to profane curiosity the symbols, which, if irreverently contemplated, were sure to be misunderstood. in asia he is the long-stoled bassareus coalescing with the sabazius of the phrygian corybantes: the same with the mystic iacchus, nursling or son of ceres, and with the dismembered zagreus, son of persephon. in symboli

hbor; let him give way to no vicious excess, lest he make dull and heavy the organs of the spirit. far from the mystic dance of the thiasos be the impure the evil speaker, the seditious citizen, the selfish hunter after gain, the traitor; all those, in short, whose practices are more akin to the riot of titans than to the regulated life of the orphici, or the curetan order of the priests of id an zeus" the votary, elevated beyond the sphere of his ordinary faculties, and unable to account for the agitation which overpowered him, seemed to become divine in proportion as he ceased to be human; to be a d mon or god. already, in imagination, the initiated were numbered among the beatified. they alone enjoyed the true life, the sun's true lustre, while they hymned their god beneath the mystic g

d or regenerated under the genial influence of their dances "they whom proserpina guides in her mysteries" it was said "who imbibed her instruction and spiritual nourishment, rest from their labors and know strife no more. happy they who witness and comprehend these sacred ceremonies! they are made to know the meaning of the riddle of existence by observing its aim and termination as appointed by zeus; they partake a benefit more valuable and enduring than the grain bestowed by ceres; for they are exalted in the scale of intellectual existence, and obtain sweet hopes to console them at their death" no doubt the ceremonies of initiation were originally few and simple. as the great truths of the primitive revelation faded out of the memories of the masses of the people, and wickedness became

e were consecrated to astarte; to whom hiram, josephus says, had builded a temple, and who wore on her head a helmet bearing the image of a bull. and the throne of solomon, with bulls adorning its arms, and supported on lions, like those of horus in egypt and of the sun at tyre; likewise referred to the vernal equinox and summer solstice. those who in thrace adored the sun, under the name of saba-zeus, the grecian bakchos, builded to him, says macrobius, a temple on mount zelmisso, its round form representing the world and the sun. a circular aperture in the roof admitted the light, and introduced the image of the sun into the body of the sanctuary, where he seemed to blaze as in the heights of heaven, and to dissipate the darkness within that temple which was a representative symbol of th

blic festivals, and in simple or complicated mysteries, varying in ceremonial in various places, as was natural, because his worship had come thither from different countries and at different periods. the people who celebrated the complicated mysteries were ignorant of the meaning of many words which they used, and of many emblems which they revered. in the sabazian feasts, for example [from saba-zeus an oriental name of this deity, the words evoi, saboi, were used, which are in nowise greek; and a serpent of gold was thrown into the bosom of the initiate, in allusion to the fable that jupiter had, in the form of a serpent, had connection with proserpina, and begotten bakchos, the bull; whence the enigmatical saying, repeated to the initiates, that a bull engendered a dragon or serpent, an

h proserpina, and begotten bakchos, the bull; whence the enigmatical saying, repeated to the initiates, that a bull engendered a dragon or serpent, and the serpent in turn engendered the bull, who became bakchos: the meaning of which was, that the bull [taurus, which then opened the vernal equinox, and the sun in which sign, figuratively represented by the sign itself, was bakchos, dionusos, saba-zeus, osiris, etc, and the serpent, another constellation, occupied such relative positions in the heavens, that when one rose the other set, and _vice versa. the serpent was a familiar symbol in the mysteries of bakchos. the initiates grasped them with their hands, as orphiucus does on the celestial globe, and the orpheo-telestes, or purifier of candidates did the same, crying, as demosthenes tau

the mysteries, and the means of making themselves known, and received the name of epopts; were fully instructed in the nature and attributes of the divinity, and the doctrine of a future state; and made acquainted with the unity and attributes of the grand architect of the universe, and the true meaning of the fables in regard to the gods of paganism: the great truth being often proclaimed, that "zeus is the primitive source of all things; there is one god; one power, and one rule over all" and after full explanation of the many symbols and emblems that surrounded them, they were dismissed with the barbarous words [greek] and [greek? pa, corruptions of the sanscrit words, kanska aom pakscha; meaning _object of our wishes, god, silence, or _worship the deity in silence. among the emblems us

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e thyrsus-rod, and a cluster of grapes or a wineskin, while a tiger leaps up by his side. this form is suggested in the taro card, where 'the fool' is shown with a long wand and carrying a sack; his coat is motley. tigers and crocodiles follow him, thus linking this image with that of harpocrates. almost identical symbols are those of the secret god of the templars, the bi-sexual baphomet, and of zeus arrhenothelus, equally bi-sexual, the father-mother of all in one person (he is shown in this full form in the tarot trump xv "the devil) now, zeus being lord of air, we are reminded that aleph is the letter of air. as air, we find the "wandering fool" pure wanton breath, yet creative. wind was supposed of old to impregnate the vulture, which therefore was chosen to symbolize the mother-godde

, we find the "wandering fool" pure wanton breath, yet creative. wind was supposed of old to impregnate the vulture, which therefore was chosen to symbolize the mother-goddess. he is the wandering knight of fairy tales who marries the kings daughter. this legend is derived from certain customs among exogamic tribes, for which see the golden bough. thus, once europa, semele and others claimed that zeus--air [inserted footnote* zeus obtained air for his kingdom in the partition with hades, who took fire, and poseidon, who took water. shu is the egyptian god of the firmament. there is a great difficulty here, etymologically. zeus is connected with iao, abrasax, and the dental sibilant gods of the great mysteries, with the south and hadit, adad, set, saturn, adonai, attis, adonis; he is even t

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ely defeated them, sending such as resisted his all-conquering arm down into the lowest depths of tartarus. second dynasty. cronus (saturn. cronus was the god of time in its sense of eternal duration. he married rhea, daughter of uranus and gaa, a very important divinity, to whom a special chapter will be devoted hereafter. their page 13 children were, three sons: aides (pluto, poseidon (neptune, zeus (jupiter, and three daughters: hestia (vesta, demeter (ceres, and hera (juno. cronus, having an uneasy conscience, was afraid that his children might one day rise up against his authority, and thus verify the prediction of his father [15]uranus. in order, therefore, to render the prophecy impossible of fulfilment, cronus swallowed each child as soon as it was born,[3] greatly to the sorrow an

a, demeter (ceres, and hera (juno. cronus, having an uneasy conscience, was afraid that his children might one day rise up against his authority, and thus verify the prediction of his father [15]uranus. in order, therefore, to render the prophecy impossible of fulfilment, cronus swallowed each child as soon as it was born,[3] greatly to the sorrow and indignation of his wife rhea. when it came to zeus, the sixth and last, rhea resolved to try and save this one child at least, to love and cherish, and appealed to her parents, uranus and gaa, for counsel and assistance. by their advice she wrapped a stone in baby-clothes, and cronus, in eager haste, swallowed it, without noticing the deception. the child thus saved, eventually, as we shall see, dethroned his father cronus, became supreme god

advice she wrapped a stone in baby-clothes, and cronus, in eager haste, swallowed it, without noticing the deception. the child thus saved, eventually, as we shall see, dethroned his father cronus, became supreme god in his stead, and was universally venerated as the great national god of the greeks. page 14 page 15 anxious to preserve the secret of his existence from cronus, rhea sent the infant zeus secretly to crete, where he was nourished, protected, and educated. a sacred goat, called amalthea, supplied the place of his mother, by providing him with milk; nymphs, called melissae, fed him with honey, and eagles and doves brought him nectar and ambrosia.[4] he was kept concealed in a cave in the heart of mount ida, and the curetes, or priests of rhea, by beating their shields together

lk; nymphs, called melissae, fed him with honey, and eagles and doves brought him nectar and ambrosia.[4] he was kept concealed in a cave in the heart of mount ida, and the curetes, or priests of rhea, by beating their shields together, kept up a constant noise at the entrance, which drowned the cries of the child and frightened away all intruders. under the watchful care of the nymphs the infant zeus throve rapidly, developing great physical powers, combined with [16]extraordinary wisdom and intelligence. grown to manhood, he determined to compel his father to restore his brothers and sisters to the light of day, and is said to have been assisted in this difficult task by the goddess metis, who artfully persuaded cronus to drink a potion, which caused him to give back the children he had

l powers, combined with [16]extraordinary wisdom and intelligence. grown to manhood, he determined to compel his father to restore his brothers and sisters to the light of day, and is said to have been assisted in this difficult task by the goddess metis, who artfully persuaded cronus to drink a potion, which caused him to give back the children he had swallowed. the stone which had counterfeited zeus was placed at delphi, where it was long exhibited as a sacred relic. cronus was so enraged at being circumvented that war between the father and son became inevitable. the rival forces ranged themselves on two separate high mountains in thessaly; zeus, with his brothers and sisters, took his stand on mount olympus, where he was joined by oceanus, and others of the titans, who had forsaken cro

. the rival forces ranged themselves on two separate high mountains in thessaly; zeus, with his brothers and sisters, took his stand on mount olympus, where he was joined by oceanus, and others of the titans, who had forsaken cronus on account of his oppressions. cronus and his brother-titans took possession of mount othrys, and prepared for battle. the struggle was long and fierce, and at length zeus, finding that he was no nearer victory than before, bethought himself of the existence of the imprisoned giants, and knowing that they would be able to render him most powerful assistance, he hastened to liberate them. he also called to his aid the cyclops (sons of poseidon and amphitrite,[5] who had only one eye each in the middle of their foreheads, and were called brontes (thunder, sterope

ds, and were called brontes (thunder, steropes (lightning, and pyracmon (fire-anvil. they promptly responded to his summons for help, and brought with them tremendous thunderbolts which the hecatoncheires, with their hundred hands, hurled down upon the enemy, at the same time raising mighty earthquakes, which swallowed up and destroyed all who opposed them. aided by these new and powerful allies, zeus page 16 now made a furious onslaught on his enemies, and so tremendous was the encounter that all nature is said to have throbbed in accord with this mighty effort of the celestial deities. the sea rose mountains high, and its angry billows [17]hissed and foamed; the earth shook to its foundations, the heavens sent forth rolling thunder, and flash after flash of death-bringing lightning, whil

to have throbbed in accord with this mighty effort of the celestial deities. the sea rose mountains high, and its angry billows [17]hissed and foamed; the earth shook to its foundations, the heavens sent forth rolling thunder, and flash after flash of death-bringing lightning, whilst a blinding mist enveloped cronus and his allies. and now the fortunes of war began to turn, and victory smiled on zeus. cronus and his army were completely overthrown, his brothers despatched to the gloomy depths of the lower world, and cronus himself was banished from his kingdom and deprived for ever of the supreme power, which now became vested in his son zeus. this war was called the titanomachia, and is most graphically described by the old classic poets. page 17 page 18 with the defeat of cronus and his

raphically described by the old classic poets. page 17 page 18 with the defeat of cronus and his banishment from his dominions, his career as a ruling greek divinity entirely ceases. but being, like all the gods, immortal, he was supposed to be still in existence, though possessing no longer either influence or authority, his place being filled to a certain extent by his descendant and successor, zeus. cronus is often represented as an old man leaning on a scythe, with an hour-glass in his hand. the hour-glass symbolizes the fast-fleeting moments as they succeed each other unceasingly; the scythe is emblematical of time, which mows down all before it. saturn. the romans, according to their custom of identifying their deities with those of the greek gods whose attributes were similar to the

ingly; the scythe is emblematical of time, which mows down all before it. saturn. the romans, according to their custom of identifying their deities with those of the greek gods whose attributes were similar to their own, declared cronus to be identical with their old agricultural divinity saturn. they believed that after his defeat in the [18]titanomachia and his banishment from his dominions by zeus, he took refuge with janus, king of italy, who received the exiled deity with great kindness, and even shared his throne with him. their united reign became so thoroughly peaceful and happy, and was distinguished by such uninterrupted prosperity, that it was called the golden age. saturn is usually represented bearing a sickle in the one hand and a wheat-sheaf in the other. a temple was erect

roughly peaceful and happy, and was distinguished by such uninterrupted prosperity, that it was called the golden age. saturn is usually represented bearing a sickle in the one hand and a wheat-sheaf in the other. a temple was erected to him at the foot of the capitoline hill, in which were deposited the public treasury and the laws of the state. rhea (ops. rhea, the wife of cronus, and mother of zeus and the other great gods of olympus, personified the earth, and was regarded as the great mother and unceasing producer of all plant-life. she was also believed to exercise unbounded sway over the animal creation, more especially over the lion, the noble king of beasts. rhea is generally represented wearing a crown of turrets or towers and page 19 seated on a throne, with lions crouching at h

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io: ginger, mustard, and onions. sagittarius: sesame seed and nutmeg. capricorn: dates and wintergreen. aquarius: bananas and rye. pisces: mint and oranges. the word aphrodisiac is derived from aphrodite, the love goddess of the ancient greeks whom the romans called venus. of all the goddesses of ancient greece and rome, none was more widely venerated than the goddess of love was. every god -even zeus himself- wanted the beautiful, golden aphrodite as his wife, but she was too proud and rejected them all. one of her children was eros, the winged god of love. the black candle of love< the occult practitioners of ages past were the matchmakers of their day. almost without exception, every small village had its resident wise woman dispensing love spells and philters of varied kinds to those i

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such as the norse cataclysm called ragnarok, so many record a time, within this creation, when the gods grew angry with humankind, and attempted to destroy them with a flood. the biblical story of the deluge is one of many such accounts, and owes much to the sumerian/babylonian account in the epic of gilgamesh, in which the noah figure is named utnapishtim (see p. 19. the ancient greeks told how zeus tried to destroy mankind with a flood, but prometheus (see p. 24) warned deucalion and pyrrha. manu was saved from the hindu deluge vishnu in the form his fish avatar, matsya (see p. 110. flood myths can be found in peru and in china, among the australian aboriginals and in many native american cultures, including the mandan myth of lone man (see p. 94. even in the 19th century, folklorists c

e rest of humanity. all the metal in the mountains of the world will melt, and each man and woman will pass through the stream of molten metal and emerge purified. to the good, the stream will feel like a bath of warm milk; to the evil, it will be agony, as their sins are burned away. the new world will be immortal and everlasting, and free of taint. gods of olympus 22 hades hades (see pp. 28 29, zeus brother, was the god of the underworld. he was married to persephone (see above. cronos and rhea this couple may depict zeus parents, cronos and rhea, who were banished to tartarus in the underworld. cronos, whose name means time, castrated his father uranus with a sickle. t he gods of the ancient greeks lived at the top of mount olympus, the highest peak in greece. later their home was conce

hed to tartarus in the underworld. cronos, whose name means time, castrated his father uranus with a sickle. t he gods of the ancient greeks lived at the top of mount olympus, the highest peak in greece. later their home was conceived of as a heaven in the skies. from olympus, the gods loved, quarrelled, watched the world, and helped and hindered mortals according to their whims. presided over by zeus (roman jupiter, ruler of heaven and earth, there were many gods and immortals of whom 12 are usually regarded as the most important: aphrodite (venus, apollo (apollo, ares (mars, artemis (diana, athena (minerva, demeter (ceres, dionysus (bacchus, hephaestus (vulcan, hera (juno, hermes (mercury, hestia (vesta, and poseidon (neptune. hades (pluto, zeus brother, ruled the underworld. these olymp

lcan, hera (juno, hermes (mercury, hestia (vesta, and poseidon (neptune. hades (pluto, zeus brother, ruled the underworld. these olympian gods succeeded earlier generations of gods. gaia (mother earth) was the first goddess, and bore the race of titans by her son uranus. the titans, led by cronos (saturn, seized power from uranus; and in turn were defeated by their own children, led by cronos son zeus. after the defeat of the titans, zeus and his brothers poseidon and hades drew lots for the governance of the sky, the sea, and the underworld. eros eros, the god of love, represented as a child or a youth, is usually said to be aphrodite s son. he is shown here as winged cherub, carrying his arrows of desire. aphrodite aphrodite (see pp. 26 27, the goddess of sexual love, was born from the f

love, was born from the foam after cronos cast his father s genitals into the sea. she had power over everyone except hestia, athena, and artemis. poseidon poseidon was the god of the sea. he is shown here astride a fish, carrying his three-pronged trident. poseidon is particularly noted for his persecution of the hero odysseus (see pp. 64 65. persephone persephone was the daughter of demeter and zeus. she was seized by hades to be his bride in the underworld (see pp. 28 29. hestia hestia, zeus sister, was goddess of the hearth and a sworn virgin. she was more important to the romans than the greeks and was venerated as vesta, and served by the vestal virgins. gods of olympus athena athena, zeus daughter by the nymph metis, was goddess of war and wisdom. her approach was very different fro

underworld (see pp. 28 29. hestia hestia, zeus sister, was goddess of the hearth and a sworn virgin. she was more important to the romans than the greeks and was venerated as vesta, and served by the vestal virgins. gods of olympus athena athena, zeus daughter by the nymph metis, was goddess of war and wisdom. her approach was very different from that of the brutal war-god ares. she was born from zeus head and is usually shown wearing armour. ares ares, the god of war (see p. 27) was the only son of zeus and hera. his militant agression was often pitched against the strategy of athena (see above. aphrodite was his lover. zeus is the first, zeus is the last, the god with the dazzling lightning. zeus is the head, zeus is the middle, of zeus all things have their end. zeus is the foundation o

ing armour. ares ares, the god of war (see p. 27) was the only son of zeus and hera. his militant agression was often pitched against the strategy of athena (see above. aphrodite was his lover. zeus is the first, zeus is the last, the god with the dazzling lightning. zeus is the head, zeus is the middle, of zeus all things have their end. zeus is the foundation of the earth and of the starry sky. zeus is male, zeus is an immortal woman. zeus is the breath of all things. an orphic hymn to zeus zeus zeus, originally a sky god, was the supreme ruler of heaven and earth. he was married to hera but had many other sexual liaisons. zeus brandishes thunderbolts, his chief weapons, made for him by the cyclopes the gods of olympus by giulio romano (c. 1499 1546) this 16th-century ceiling painting sh

s, made for him by the cyclopes the gods of olympus by giulio romano (c. 1499 1546) this 16th-century ceiling painting shows the gods and some of the immortals of mount olympus. it would have been painted to suggest the power and glory of the patron. artemis artemis (see pp. 36 37) was apollo s twin sister and the goddess of hunting and archery. all wild animals were in her care. demeter demeter, zeus sister, was the greek earth-goddess. her brother zeus fathered her daughter, persephone. her search for persephone formed the basis of the mysteries of eleusis (see p. 29. dionysus dionysus (see pp. 58 59, god of ecstasy and wine, was the child of zeus by a mortal, semele. he is shown with goat s legs and horns. hercules hercules (see pp. 50 51) was a son of zeus by a mortal. hera hated him

. her search for persephone formed the basis of the mysteries of eleusis (see p. 29. dionysus dionysus (see pp. 58 59, god of ecstasy and wine, was the child of zeus by a mortal, semele. he is shown with goat s legs and horns. hercules hercules (see pp. 50 51) was a son of zeus by a mortal. hera hated him. he earned immortality by performing 12 impossible tasks. when he went to olympus he married zeus daughter hebe. hermes hermes was the messenger of the gods and zeus son by maia, daughter of the titan atlas. he is wearing his winged hat and carrying his herald s staff, the caduceus. ganymede ganymede was a young prince of troy; zeus was so overwhelmed by his beauty that he descended in eagle form and snatched the beautiful youth to be his cup-bearer on olympus. hera, queen of the gods her

aughter hebe. hermes hermes was the messenger of the gods and zeus son by maia, daughter of the titan atlas. he is wearing his winged hat and carrying his herald s staff, the caduceus. ganymede ganymede was a young prince of troy; zeus was so overwhelmed by his beauty that he descended in eagle form and snatched the beautiful youth to be his cup-bearer on olympus. hera, queen of the gods hera was zeus wife and sister. in one account it was she, not her mother rhea, who saved zeus from being swallowed by their father cronos (see above. she was the goddess of marriage, and many of the stories about her centre on her jealousy of zeus many affairs. saturn by francisco de goya (1746 1828) apollo apollo (see pp. 38 39) and his sister artemis were zeus children by the titaness leto. he was god of

28) apollo apollo (see pp. 38 39) and his sister artemis were zeus children by the titaness leto. he was god of prophecy, divination, and the arts, especially music, and also a sun-god, although he was not the sun itself this was represented by the god helios. hephaestus hephaestus, the lame blacksmith god (see pp. 26 27, was the son of hera produced without a mate, although some sources say that zeus was his father. he was married to aphrodite. pan the goat-god pan (see pp. 42 43, the son of hermes, was the god of pastures and wild places. he was very lustful and is typically shown, as here, carrying off a nymph. four winds the winds, zephyrus (see pp. 35 5, eurus, notus, and boreas (see p. 43) and the stars were the children of the titan astraeus, and eos, the dawn. hear us blessed godde

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back on them, and their confidence is impaired. bunk. real black magicians fear not the words of the mystics, nor do they give a fig for karma as they create their own realities day by day. then as they grow in stature (power) they create their own heavens out in the astral realms and become their own savioe prometheus prometheus was one of the titans who was given the task of creating mankind by zeus. he felt great compassion for his creations and stole fire from heaven and cheated the gods in the apportionments of the sacrifice to aide them. this incurred the wrath of zeus who had him chained to mount caucasus and sent the gigantic kaukasian eagle to feed on his ever-regenerating liver. many generations later herakles freed him from this torture. parents (1) iapetos& klymene (theogony 50

shaft through his middle, and set on him a long- winged eagle, which used to eat his immortal liver; but by night the liver grew as much again everyway as the long-winged bird devoured in the whole day. that bird herakles, the valiant son of shapely-ankled alkmene, slew; and delivered the son of iapetos from the cruel plague, and released him from his affliction- not without the will of olympian zeus who reigns on high, that the glory of herakles the theban-born might be yet greater than it was before over the plenteous earth. this, then, he regarded, and honoured his famous son; though he was angry, he ceased from the wrath which he had before because prometheus matched himself in wit with the almighty son of kronos. for when the gods and mortal men had a dispute at mekone, even then pro

before over the plenteous earth. this, then, he regarded, and honoured his famous son; though he was angry, he ceased from the wrath which he had before because prometheus matched himself in wit with the almighty son of kronos. for when the gods and mortal men had a dispute at mekone, even then prometheus was forward to cut up a great ox and set portions before them, trying to befool the mind of zeus. before the rest he set flesh and inner parts thick with fat upon the hide, covering them with an ox paunch; but for zeus he put the white bones dressed up with cunning art and covered with shining fat. then the father of men and of gods said to him `son of iapetos, most glorious of all lords, good sir, how unfairly you have divided the portions' so said zeus whose wisdom is everlasting, rebu

to him `son of iapetos, most glorious of all lords, good sir, how unfairly you have divided the portions' so said zeus whose wisdom is everlasting, rebuking him. but wily prometheus answered him, smiling softly and not forgetting his cunning trick `zeus, most glorious and greatest of the eternal gods, take which ever of these portions your heart within you bids' so he said, thinking trickery. but zeus, whose wisdom is everlasting, saw and failed not to perceive the trick, and in his heart he thought mischief against mortal men which also was to be fulfilled. with both hands he took up the white fat and was angry at heart, and wrath came to his spirit when he saw the white ox-bones craftily tricked out: and because of this the tribes of men upon earth burn white bones to the deathless gods

lasting, saw and failed not to perceive the trick, and in his heart he thought mischief against mortal men which also was to be fulfilled. with both hands he took up the white fat and was angry at heart, and wrath came to his spirit when he saw the white ox-bones craftily tricked out: and because of this the tribes of men upon earth burn white bones to the deathless gods upon fragrant altars. but zeus who drives the clouds was greatly vexed and said to him `son of iapetos, clever above all! so, sir, you have not yet forgotten your cunning arts' so spake zeus in anger, whose wisdom is everlasting; and from that time he was always mindful of the trick, and would not give the power of unwearying fire to the melian race of mortal men who live on the earth. but the noble son of iapetus outwitte

above all! so, sir, you have not yet forgotten your cunning arts' so spake zeus in anger, whose wisdom is everlasting; and from that time he was always mindful of the trick, and would not give the power of unwearying fire to the melian race of mortal men who live on the earth. but the noble son of iapetus outwitted him and stole the far-seen gleam of unwearying fire in a hollow fennel stalk. and zeus who thunders on high was stung in spirit, and his dear heart was angered when he saw amongst men the far-seen ray of fire. forthwith he made an evil thing for men as the price of fire; for the very famous limping god formed of earth the likeness of a shy maiden as the son of kronos willed. so it is not possible to deceive or go beyond the will of zeus; for not even the son of iapetos, kindly

etheus, escaped his heavy anger, but of necessity strong bands confined him, although he knew many a wile -theogony 507f "for the gods keep hidden from men the means of life [crops. else you would easily do work enough in a day to supply you for a full year even without working; soon would you put away your rudder over the smoke, and the fields worked by ox and sturdy mule would run to waste. but zeus in the anger of his heart hid it, because prometheus the crafty deceived him; therefore he planned sorrow and mischief against men. he hid fire; but that the noble son of iapetos stole again for men from zeus the counsellor in a hollow fennel-stalk, so that zeus who delights in thunder did not see it. but afterwards zeus who gathers the clouds said to him in anger `son of iapetos, surpassing

it the voice and strength of human kind, and fashion a sweet, lovely maiden-shape, like to the immortal goddesses in face [pandora. but when he had finished the sheer, hopeless snare [pandora, the first woman, created by the gods, the father sent [hermes. to take it to epimetheus as a gift. and epimetheus did not think on what prometheus had said to him, bidding him never take a gift of olympian zeus, but to send it back for fear it might prove to be something harmful to men. but he took the gift, and afterwards, when the evil thing was already his, he understood -works& days 42-89 "deukalion was the son of prometheus and pronoia, hesiod states in the first catalogue -the catalogues of women& eoiae frag 1 (from scholiast on apollonius rhodius arg. iii.1086 "against the wise prometheus bit

ing harmful to men. but he took the gift, and afterwards, when the evil thing was already his, he understood -works& days 42-89 "deukalion was the son of prometheus and pronoia, hesiod states in the first catalogue -the catalogues of women& eoiae frag 1 (from scholiast on apollonius rhodius arg. iii.1086 "against the wise prometheus bitter-wroth the sea-maids [nereides] were, remembering how that zeus, moved by his prophecies, unto peleus gave thetis to wife, a most unwilling bride. then cried in wrath to these kymothoe 'o that the pestilent prophet [prometheus] had endured all pangs he merited, when, deep-burrowing, the eagle tare his liver aye renewed -quintus smyrnaeus 5.334 "and there [depicted on the shield of eurypylos son of herakles, at the world's end, were kaukasos' long glens, w

the eagle tare his liver unconsumed- he seemed to groan -quintus smyrnaeus 10.190 "after creating men prometheus is said to have stolen fire and revealed it to men. the gods were angered by this and sent two evils on the earth, women and disease; such is the account given by sappho and hesiod -greek lyric i sappho frag 207 (from servius on virgil "the story goes that prometheus stole the fire and zeus in a rage rewarded those who reported the theft with a drug to ward off old age -greek lyric iii ibycus frag 342 (from aelian, on the nature of animals) that is why melanippides says that thetis was pregnant by zeus when she was given in marriage to peleus because of the remarks of prometheus or themis [that she would bear a son greater than his father. greek lyric v melanippides frag 765 (fr

e of animals) that is why melanippides says that thetis was pregnant by zeus when she was given in marriage to peleus because of the remarks of prometheus or themis [that she would bear a son greater than his father. greek lyric v melanippides frag 765 (from scholiast on homer s iliad "the titanes had children. atlas (who holds the sky on his shoulders, prometheus, epimetheus, and menoitios (whom zeus struck with a thunderbolt in the titane battle and confined to tartaros, were all sons of iapetos and asia -apollodorus 1.8 -9 "when it came time for the birth, prometheus (or hephaistos, according to some) by the river tiron struck the head of zeus with and ax, and from his crown athene sprang up, clad in her armor -apollodorus 1.20 "prometheus, after forming men from water and earth, gave t

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ith the sun, represents michael, the great archangel, the ruler of solar fire. the serpents which leap in the rainbow are symbols of the fiery seraphim. the trumpet represents the influence of the spirit descending from binah, while the banner with the cross refers to the four rivers of paradise and the letters of the holy name. he is also axieros, the first of the samothracian kabiri, as well as zeus and osiris. the left hand figure below, rising from the earth is samael, the ruler of volcanic fire. he is also axiokersos, the second kabir, pluto and typhon. the right hand figure below is anael, the ruler of astral light. she is also axiokersa, the third kabir, ceres and persephone, isis and nephthys. she is, therefore, represented in duplicate form, and rising from the waters. around both

i vibrated all the names repeatedly, and asked to see the meaning of the square. i was told that it was the astral region of storm and rain clouds with wind. i saw elementals in grey or pearly robes floating on the white fleecy clouds (note: i get them greyer and less defined.-d.d.c.f) on dark thunder clouds were forms in dark lurid grey raiment, bearing thunderbolts like the images attributed to zeus; many eagle-headed forms among them. presently i saw one with a crown. i asked him to show me, and he took me by the hand and we traversed an enormous distance <322> beyond the earth which became invisible. then we soared upwards still in the midst of the same surroundings, till i saw the sun of that region, shining brightly, but clouds frequently drifting across it, while the clouds were now

RUBY TABLET OF SET

n effigy d. sex magic imagery 3. the failure of psychology rests in its inability to deal with a. the psyche b. religion c. ongoing change d. death 4. what is the primary reason that most humans cannot evolve? a. lack of opportunity b. they do not want to evolve. c. they are hopelessly stupid. d. their 'gods' forbid evolution. 5. who is 'the lord of magickal speech' a. satan b. osiris c. thoth d. zeus 6. true reality is found a. in ancient writings b. in the tarot c. in the physical sciences d. within 7. the 'tree of life' of the qbl is a. a map of the universe b. a code to understanding the book of genesis c. the hebrew version of the egyptian 'ankh' d. none of the above 8. the lingam and the yoni are a. celtic words meaning air and fire b. male and female organs c. principles of reincarn

which binds all forms of nature together" this binding of the forms is a subtle hint into what trump iii's bedrock is working toward displaying. if we remember the empress as the mother, we have part of the initial puzzle solved. the feminine form, starting at the basics of not only trump iii, but also trump ii (the priestess, shows woman as the "many-throned, many-minded, many-wiled, daughter of zeus" and therein is another door left ajar to help understanding the tarot's capabilities. the mother image provides a secure inner environment from which the higher aspects can be launched with only minimal intrusions from the outside world [do not read this as a mother-hen situation, but rather as a secure and self-founded inner universe] such a security may be what the 6th century indian philo

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ortal-kind are constantly being drawn to one side or the other. originally the devil was the shadow side of god, his dark aspect. mal ak was the term employed for that aspect of god that was able to communicate with mortal kind. it was this concept that was translated into the concept of the angel. only the shadow was able to communicate because the light is too great for a human to bear, as with zeus. as the hebrew religion evolved, so did this shadow, until it broke away from god and became a separate power having its own free will. however, with this separation came the natural dualistic attribution of god s other characteristics, so that the shadow also becomes his destructive and malign aspect, whilst the light becomes everything good. in the book of jubilee, compiled approximately a

SCHLAGER NEIL WORLD RELIGIONS REFERENCE LIBRARY

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

ng of a city and the countryside around it) had its own set of important gods and goddesses and its own way to worship and honor them. eventually most greeks identified a pantheon (a group of all gods and goddesses) of twelve major deities. the greeks called this set of twelve gods and goddesses the olympian gods, because they supposedly lived on mount olympus in northern greece. they were led by zeus and his wife hera. the worship of these twelve deities was connected to the political life of the city-state, and all citizens were expected to participate in public worship as part of their duty to the state. the romans, who greatly admired greek culture, later identified their own deities with powers similar to the greek gods. many of the myths and other stories known about the greek gods a

e, and hesiod, who lived in about the eighth century bce. homer s famous epic poems the iliad and the odyssey give order to the chaos of all the separate myths that existed at the time. an epic poem is a long narrative poem that relays the story of heroic deeds. homer explained the family relationships between the various gods, gave each one a title and a specific power or responsibility, such as zeus, as the supreme god; poseidon, the god of sea; or ares, the god of war. he also gave them very human qualities. homer is held responsible for raising twelve gods over the others and giving them mount olympus as their living place. this phase of greek religion is called homeric, after the poet. while homer s gods could sometimes be cruel or selfish, they all demonstrated a basic moral code, or

eco-roman religion was polytheistic, believing in many gods. the twelve main gods formed a pantheon, or group. all the gods could involve themselves in human affairs and often acted very much like humans. followers. all greek and roman citizens were obliged to follow the religion. this symbolized their obedience and loyalty to the state. name of god. the main god in the ancient greek religion was zeus, who was known to romans as jupiter. symbols. images of the gods were often displayed in paintings and sculptures. the gods often carried objects that represented them and their powers. for instance, the arrow was a symbol of artemis, goddess of the hunt. worship. ritual sacrifices were a common element of greco-roman religion. daily prayers were offered privately in the home. dress. worshipp

bout him associate him with the olympian gods, and dionysius was a later addition to the pantheon: plotinus s idea of emanation, his belief that people wanted to return to the divine mind, can be seen in the christian story of the fall, when adam and eve were tempted into sin and were forced out of the garden of eden. public domain. 220 world religions: almanac greco-roman religion and philosophy zeus was a sky god, but he also represented order. he maintained order in the universe and in the home, protected strangers who arrived asking for hospitality, punished people who broke their sworn word, and served as god of intellectual thought. zeus s wife hera was the goddess of marriage, childbirth, and women. she was also sacred to herders of cattle; homer often called her ox-eyed hera. aphro

ing of ancient chinese philosophy than with other early greek philosophy. many scholars have pointed out heraclitus s links with eastern religions. for example, the idea of permanent flux or change is similar to the buddhist concept of impermanence. the logos is often equated with the dao, or the way, in daoist belief. world religions: almanac 221 greco-roman religion and philosophy directly from zeus s forehead. because she was the protector and defender of athens, she is often depicted as armed. artemis, the goddess of hunting and wild places, was also a moon goddess. she was apollo s twin sister, and young men and girls held her sacred because she was a virgin. hermes was the messenger of the gods. apollo was the sun god and the god of music and prophesy, or predictions on the future. h

is pantheon and gave many of them different names. the roman gods were, in the same order, jupiter, juno, venus, mars, minerva, diana, mercury, apollo, vulcan, neptune, vesta, ceres, pluto, and bacchus (in parts of the roman empire, the emperor was also worshipped as a god) these gods, along with many minor deities who came to earth to do the bidding of the gods, controlled the fate of humankind. zeus also appeared in human form, or even in animal form at times, to father children by mortal women. some of his sons became the heroes of greek legend. 222 world religions: almanac greco-roman religion and philosophy protecting and serving the gods for both the greeks and the romans, worship of the olympian gods was both a civic responsibility and a personal choice. although the gods could be a

. for the greeks, the original gods emerged from chaos and brought order to the universe. the earth goddess, gaia, and the sky god, uranus, had children, including rhea and chronos. uranus, however, was afraid of his children s power, and he kept them locked in a cave until finally chronos challenged him and reestablished order in the universe. rhea and chronos then repeated the pattern: they had zeus, hestia, hera, demeter, poseidon, and hades. chronos, like his father before him, was afraid of his children and swallowed them as they were born. his mother hid the infant zeus, who later killed his father, cut his brothers and sisters out of the corpse, and then became king of all the gods, creating order from the madness of chronos s actions. world religions: almanac 223 greco-roman religi

ors. they were meant to be sung during religious rites. hesiod furthered the process of collecting the myths and defining the gods with his theogony, which supplies more information about the relationships between the gods and goddesses. also, in his works and days, he provides a history of what he called the five ages of humans, from the golden age, ruled by the god chronos, to the silver age of zeus, the warlike bronze age, the heroic age of the trojan war, and ending with hesiod s own time, the iron age. virgil and ovid provided a similar service for the romans. in his aeneid, virgil transforms the sometimes bickering and petty couple zeus and hera into the thundering and all-powerful roman god jupiter and the angry juno. ovid, in his fifteen-volume metamorphoses, supplies a 228 world r

taching to them. athena, the patroness of athens, carried a shield, or aegis, representing her role as a divine protector of the city. the arrow was the symbol for the greek gods apollo and artemis, as well as for eros, god of love; for the romans the arrow was the symbol of cupid, god of love. the arrow was also used on roman coins to represent the god mithra. the lightning bolt was a symbol for zeus and his roman equivalent, jupiter. it would be thrown by these sky gods to punish, water, or fertilize the earth or its creatures. the greeks also adapted the egyptian sphinx, the lion with a person s head. the sign or symbol of the sun was also worshipped by the greeks and romans as a life-giving source. this could be simply a circle or a stylized sun with rays. the frog was a symbol for fer

nd dramatic contests were held at the theater named for him. a spring festival, it represented rebirth and new life. additionally, there were larger festivals held at various locations throughout greece that honored the major gods and attracted people from not just one city-state, but from all over greece. the largest and best known of these was the games at olympia that celebrated the major god, zeus. these have evolved into the modern-day olympic games. there were other similar religious athletic contests. the pythian games were held at delphi and were dedicated to apollo. these included musical competitions in addition to athletic ones. the isthmian games were held at corinth and dedicated to poseidon. each of these festivals included sacrifices and prayers to the gods. initially, the n

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ZANONI A ROSICRUCIAN TALE

reduce the simple name of zanoni, which a century before had been borne by an inoffensive naturalist of bologna (the author of two works on botany and rare plants, to the radicals of the extinct language. zan was unquestionably the chaldean appellation for the sun. even the greeks, who mutilated every oriental name, had retained the right one in this case, as the cretan inscription on the tomb of zeus (ode megas keitai zan "cyril contra julian (here lies great jove) significantly showed. as to the rest, the zan, or zaun, was, with the sidonians, no uncommon prefix to on. adonis was but another name for zanonas, whose worship in sidon hesychius records. to this profound and unanswerable derivation mervale listened with great attention, and observed that he now ventured to announce an erudit

SIR WALLIS BUDGE EGYPTIAN MAGIC

at didst create the earth and bones, and all flesh and all spirit, that didst establish the sea and that shakest the heavens, that didst divide the light from the darkness, the great regulative mind, that disposest everything, eye of the world, spirit of spirits, god of gods, the lord of spirits, the immoveable aeon, iaoouei, hear my voice. i call upon thee, the ruler of the gods, high-thundering zeus, zeus, king, adonai, lord, iaoouee. i am he that invokes thee in the syrian tongue, the great god, zaalaer, iphphou, do thou not disregard the hebrew appellation ablanathanalb, abrasiloa. for i am silthakhooukh, lailam, blasaloth, iao, ieo, nebouth, sabiothar, both, arbathiao, iaoth, sabaoth, patoure, zagoure, baroukh adonai, eloai, iabraam, barbarauo, nau, siph" etc. the spell ends with the

s an amulet. from the life of alexander the great by pseudo-callisthenes 3 we learn that the egyptians were skilled in the art of casting nativities, and that knowing the exact moment of the birth of a man they proceeded to construct his horoscope. nectanebus employed for the purpose a tablet made of gold and silver and acacia wood, to which were fitted three belts. upon the p. 229 outer belt was zeus with the thirty-six decani surrounding him; upon the second the twelve signs of the zodiac were represented; and upon the third the sun and moon. 1 he set the tablet upon a tripod, and then emptied out of a small box upon it models of the seven stars 2 that were in the belts, and put into the middle belt eight precious stones; these he arranged in the places wherein he supposed the planets wh

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gods, were felt to need explaining. and so we come to still higher beings than the daimons and the gods: this belonged to the essential content of mysteriosophy. the ordinary people pictured the gods and spirits in forms whose content was borrowed from the sense-world. the mysteries and mysteriosophy 17 but to one who had looked upon eternity, how dubious must these immortal gods now appear! can zeus as he was publicly represented be an eternal god, bearing as he does all the features of perishable existence? it was clear to the mystai that a person s idea of the gods did not come in the manner of other ideas, like those of things around one, which constrain one to represent them in a particular way. by contrast, people s ideas of divinity are unconstrained, even willful. attention reveal

just for itself and in itself, but for the world. from the mystery point of view, life far transcends the limits of individual existence, making intelligible that glimpse of the eternal conveyed by the verses of pindar: the mysteries and pre-socratic philosophy 35 blessed is he who has seen these things, and then is laid in the hollow earth. he knows life s end; he knows the beginning ordained by zeus.39 we understand too those characteristic proud gestures of the philosophers such as heraclitus, who could justly say that much had been revealed to them, since they attributed their knowledge not to the transitory self but to the immortal daimon within them. it was a pride necessarily impressed also with the seal of humility and modesty. that is shown by the words: all knowledge of transisto

which the images of the gods are derived and form that power itself into divine images, so that behind the world of the gods we shape an image of the divine mother. this is none other than the archetypal power of the human soul. thus mythology places the goddesses alongside the male gods. our interpretation of this may be exemplified in a study of the myths about dionysus. dionysus is the son of zeus and a mortal mother, semele. but the mother is killed by lightning. zeus, however, snatches the still unformed child and allows it to grow within his own thigh where it lies concealed. hera, the mother of the gods, stirs up the enmity of the titans against dionysus, and they tear the child limb from limb. but pallas athene rescues the still-beating heart and brings it to zeus. out of it he en

e formation of myths. special interest attaches from this point of view to the saga of prometheus. prometheus and epimetheus are sons of the titan iapetus. the titans are the children of the oldest generation of the gods, uranus (heaven) and gaia (earth. kronos, the youngest of the titans, usurped his father s throne and seized the rulership of the world. he was overthrown in his turn by his son, zeus, along with the other titans; zeus then became the supreme among the gods. in the titanomachy, prometheus sided with zeus, and it was on his advice that zeus banished the titans to the underworld. nevertheless the titan disposition still lived on in prometheus he was only half a friend to zeus. when zeus was about to destroy humankind on account of their hubris, prometheus took up their cause

us sided with zeus, and it was on his advice that zeus banished the titans to the underworld. nevertheless the titan disposition still lived on in prometheus he was only half a friend to zeus. when zeus was about to destroy humankind on account of their hubris, prometheus took up their cause and taught them numbers, writing, and that other prerequisite of culture, the use of fire.82 this provoked zeus rage against prometheus. hephaestus, a son of myth and mysteriosophy 77 zeus, was commissioned to make a female form of great beauty, which all the gods adorned with every possible gift. she was named pandora( all-gifted. the messenger of the gods, hermes, brought her to prometheus brother, epimetheus, to whom she gave a casket as a gift from the gods. epimetheus accepted the gift, despite th

e gods. epimetheus accepted the gift, despite the fact that prometheus had warned him on no account to accept a gift from the gods. when the casket was opened, out flew every possible human affliction. only hope remained inside, because pandora quickly shut the lid, and hope exists still as a dubious gift from heaven. as for prometheus, on account of his relationship to humanity he was chained at zeus command to a crag in the caucasus mountains. an eagle continually gnaws his liver, which perpetually grows again. he is to pass his days in agonizing loneliness, until one of the gods freely sacrifices himself, that is, dedicates himself to death. prometheus meanwhile bears his suffering with unflinching patience, for he knows that zeus will be dethroned by the son of a mortal woman unless he

n eagle continually gnaws his liver, which perpetually grows again. he is to pass his days in agonizing loneliness, until one of the gods freely sacrifices himself, that is, dedicates himself to death. prometheus meanwhile bears his suffering with unflinching patience, for he knows that zeus will be dethroned by the son of a mortal woman unless he himself becomes her husband. it was important for zeus to know this mystery; he sent the messenger-god hermes to prometheus to inquire about it, but prometheus refused to say anything. at this point the sagas of heracles and of prometheus are connected: in the course of his wanderings, heracles reaches the caucasus. he slays the eagle that gnawed at prometheus liver. and the centaur chiron, who cannot die, though he suffers from an incurable woun

thereupon reconciled with the gods. 78 christianity as mystical fact the titans here are the force of will, a force of nature (kronos) originating from the primal spirit of things (uranus. they are not an abstraction personified as forces of will, but actual beings of will. prometheus is one of them, which indicates his nature, but he is not wholly a titan; he belongs in some ways on the side of zeus, that is, the spiritual power that assumed cosmic rule when the unbridled force kronos had been quelled. prometheus is a representative of those worlds from which humanity draws its forward-striving will, which is half nature-force, and half spiritual force. the will inclines toward both good and evil. indeed its destiny is fixed by its tendency either toward the spiritual or toward the peris

toward both good and evil. indeed its destiny is fixed by its tendency either toward the spiritual or toward the perishable; and this destiny is the destiny of human beings themselves: chained to the perishable, gnawed by the eagle, we must suffer. our ultimate goal can be reached only when we withdraw into solitude to seek our destiny. but we have a secret. it consists in this: the divine power zeus must be married to a mortal, that is, a consciousness bound to a physical human body, so as to beget a son human wisdom, the logos, who will set free the god. in this way consciousness achieves immortality. but the secret must not be betrayed until the coming of a mystes heracles who overcomes the power that threatens him constantly with death. the centaur, a creature that is half animal, hal

odysseus has to accomplish the passage between scylla and charybdis the novice vacillates between spirit and sense, not yet able to realize the full value of the spiritual, though the sense-world has lost its former meaning. a shipwreck ends the lives of all odysseus companions; he alone escapes, being befriended by the nymph calypso who cares for him for seven years. eventually, at the behest of zeus, she permits him to return to his homeland. here the mystai attain to a level where all their fellow aspirants fall short, and only one, odysseus, is found worthy. the one who is worthy enjoys for a time seven years in accordance with the number-symbolism of the mysteries the tranquility of a gradual initiation-process. before reaching home, however, odysseus is brought to the island of phaea

an soul. the lesser mysteries took place in february, the greater mysteries in september. initiation into the mysteries took place in connection with these festivals. the climax of the initiatory proceedings was a symbolic enactment of the human and cosmic drama on the site. the temples at eleusis were dedicated to the goddess demeter. she is a daughter of kronos, and before his marriage to hera, zeus had by her a daughter, persephone. once while persephone was out playing, pluto, the god of the underworld, carried her off. demeter went wandering through the world lamenting and seeking for her. at eleusis she sat down on a stone, and there she was found by the daughters of celeus, a governor of eleusis. in the form of an old woman, she was taken into the service of the family of celeus, as

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eumolpedie. the eleusinian drama reenacted the myth of the rape, abduction, and marriage of kore (persephone) by hades, god of the underworld, and her separation from her mother, demeter, the goddess of grain and vegetation. when, in her despair, demeter refuses to allow the earth to bear fruit and brings about a time of blight and starvation that threatens to extinguish both humans and the gods, zeus recalls persephone from hades. filled with joy at the reunion with her daughter, demeter once again allows the earth to bear fruit. persephone, however, will now divide the days of each year between her husband, hades, in the underworld, and her mother, ensuring a bountiful harvest. essentially, the rites imitated the agricultural cycles of planting the seed, nurturing its growth, and harvest

law preserves the human soul from such infamy. m delving deeper gordon, stuart. the encyclopedia of myths and legends. london: headline house, 1993. orphic mysteries orpheus may have been an actual historic figure, a man capable of charming both man and beast with his music, but god or human, he modified the dionysian rites by removing their orgiastic elements. dionysus zagreus, the horned son of zeus (king of the gods) and persephone (daughter of zeus and demeter, was the great god of the orphic mysteries, who was devoured by the evil titans while zeus was otherwise distracted. athena managed to save dionysus zagreus s heart while the enraged zeus destroyed the titans with his thunderbolts. zeus gave the heart of his beloved son to the earth goddess semele who dissolved it in a potion, dr

o memphis, where he spent the next 20 years studying in the egyptian mystery schools. when he returned to greece, he was known only by the name that he had received in the initiation rites, orpheus of arpha, the one who heals with light. orpheus next changed the cult of bacchus/ dionysus and set about restructuring the spiritual soul of greece, recreating the mysteries by blending the religion of zeus with that of dionysus. orpheus taught that dionysis zagreus, the horned son of zeus and persephone, the great god of the orphic mysteries, was devoured by the evil titans while zeus was otherwise distracted. athena managed to save dionysus zagreus s heart while the enraged zeus destroyed the titans with his thunderbolts. zeus gave the heart of his beloved son to the earth goddess semele who d

heus had t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mystery religions and cults 267 thegods apollo and dionysus were two representations or revelations of the same divinity. descended into hell, the underworld, and braved its challenges and subdued the demons of the pit. the disciples of the orphic/dionysus schools were promised the celestial fire of zeus, the light retrieved by orpheus, that enabled their souls to triumph over death. these things would all be enacted in the mystery play that depicted orpheus descending into hades and observing persephone, the queen of the dead, being awakened by dionysus and being reborn in his arms, thus perpetuating the cycle of rebirth and death, past and future, blending into a timeless immortality. while

sinian drama reenacted the myth of the rape, abduction, and marriage of persephone (kore) by hades, god of the underworld, and her separation from her mother, demeter (ceres, the goddess of grain and vegetation. when, in her despair, demeter refuses to allow the earth to bear fruit and causes a time of blight and starvation that threatens to bring about the extinction of both humans and the gods, zeus recalls persephone from hades. filled with joy at the reunion with her daughter, demeter once again allows the earth to bear fruit. persephone, however, will now divide her time between her husband hades in the underworld and her mother on earth, ensuring a bountiful harvest. essentially, the rites imitated the agricultural cycles of planting the seed, nurturing its growth, and harvesting the

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greco-macedonian control, and then in 133 b.c.e. it became part of the roman province of asia. lydia was across the agean sea from greece. a legendary king of lydia was named tantalis: his name sounds similar to atlantis, and he shared many mythic attributes among lydians that the god atlas had among greeks. like atlas, tantalis was a leader of the titans, the group of gods who were overthrown by zeus. in greek mythology, zeus punished atlas by banishing him to the west and made to hold up the sky. a similar fate was shared by tantalis in myths of anatolia (an old name for the region in asia minor that includes turkey. according to that myth, tantalis ruled over a fabulously wealthy city he founded on mt. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n

ufu (cheops. the oldest of the seven wonders and the only surviving one, constructed about 2630 b.c.e. the hanging gardens of babylon. part of the palace of king nebuchadnezzar ii and built about 600 b.c.e, it featured a series of terraces with stone arches. the terraces were filled with plants, and an elaborate tunnel and pulley system brought water from the nearby euphrates river. the statue of zeus. dated to the mid-fifth century b.c.e. and credited to the greek sculptor phidias, it was located at the temple of zeus at olympia, greece. the temple of artemis at ephesus in greece. erected in 356 b.c.e. in a marshy area where several earlier temples had stood, it was destroyed by the goths in 262. the mausoleum of halicarnassus. built around 353 b.c.e, it was a marble tomb for king mausolu

THE GOD OF THE WITCHES

ages. st. paul, in the first epistle to the corinthians, expressed thesame opinion when he wrote "the things which the gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils and not togod. ye cannot drink the cup of the lord and the cup of devils; ye cannot be partakers of the lord's table andthe table of devils. the author of the book of revelation is equally definite when he calls the magnificentaltar of zeus at pergamos "the throne of satan "i know thy works and where thou dwellest, even wheresatan's throne is. in 1613 sebastian michaelis spoke with no uncertain voice "the gods of the turks andthe gods of the gentiles are all devils. in india, hindus, mahommedans and christians unite in calling thedeities of the aboriginal tribes "devils. the gentle peaceable yezidis of modern mesopotamia, whose

theseus and the minotaur show the latteras entirely human, with a bull's mask (plate iv. i. theseus is sometimes represented with the flowing locks ofthe cretan athlete; this suggests that the slaying may have been a cretan custom, the man representing theminotaur being killed in a battle in which, masked as he was, he could be no match for his antagonist. frazerhas pointed out that minos went to zeus every nine years, and has suggested that this was a euphemism forthe sacrifice of each ruler at the end of that term of years. in the theseus legend the interval of time wasseven years, but the rest of the story so closely resembles other accounts of the sacrifice by. combat that itcannot be disregarded; theseus did not put an end to the custom, he merely relieved athens from sending theyearl

THE GOLDEN ESSENCE

but also not yet fully realized divine beings. the lightbringing son, the master, was the teacher of craft to man, the culture- inventor, who also bestowed the capacity for the word- or language- on man. the christian idea was that this endowment was against the will of the father god- and some pagan mythologies present a similar portrait; the best example is how prometheus had to steal fire from zeus and the gods to give it to mankind, and how he suffered for that, much in the manner that the serpent/enlightener of the eden story suffered. what most people don t realize is that the suffering element comes not purely from the divine reality, but from a mixture of the human experience of the fire along with what the son represented. to begin with, the cunning fire is dangerous, just like ph

THE MAGICIAN S KABBALAH

of the siddhis. the tree of crowns in ritual, the kether of each sephiroth can be represented by the headdress worn by the participant. i offer here a list of those i have allocated, but it is by no means exhaustive, and would obviously also be dependent on the symbology adopted by the ritual participant: kether: a circlet of gold, or ritual crown. the parsley crown of the nemean games, sacred to zeus. chockmah: the twin feathers, or crown of thoth. binah: the crimson cap of concealment. chesed: the cardinals hat, or emperors crown. the pine crown of the isthmian games, sacred to poseidon. geburah: the war helm, or martial crown. the judges wig. tiphareth: the solar crown, cowl, or the wimple. the crown of thorns. the roman crown of roses. netzach: the laurel wreath of victory. hod: the ca

acred to poseidon. geburah: the war helm, or martial crown. the judges wig. tiphareth: the solar crown, cowl, or the wimple. the crown of thorns. the roman crown of roses. netzach: the laurel wreath of victory. hod: the caduceus crown or the mortar board. yesod: crowns of disguise; wigs and masques. the lunar crown. malkuth: the skull cap. the crown of wild olives of the olympian games, sacred to zeus. the wreath. crown of flowers, or ears of corn or wheat. shamanic headdress composed of earth attributes. figure 4 shows the attributions of the egyptian crowns to the sephiroth and would be suitable for appropriate ritual utilisation. chapter five; chockmah, the quarry of devotion chockmah, meaning "wisdom, is the second sephirah in the "lightning flash" descent of the tree of life, and take

the grand driving force of the universe, and is often received as "love, grace or mercy in mystical experience. the experience of rapture (from the latin, rapere, meaning to 'carry away) is appropriate to chesed, and is again denoted by the solitary "hermit" tarot card which connects chesed to the tiphareth (awareness) of the contemplative. thus the myths of rape by the gods, for example leda and zeus as a swan (the bird of kether) depict the various ways in which our awareness is taken away from us when we truly contact the divine, transcendent level of the universe. the mystical passion, the height of all human devotion, is also applicable here. utilising the experience of chesed, the adept is aware of the underlying, and here only just accessible, patterns and archetypes, behind the app

are also based in a more holistic model, where systems theory replaces reductionism, and events are seen in the light of their relationships to the rest of the system, and not as isolated functions. the deities of yesod relate to varying characteristics of the sephirah itself. thus: air: the middle pillar having attributed to it the element of air, yesod is the realm of skygods such as the greek zeus. foundation: by its meaning and placement on the tree, yesod as foundation has such gods as ganesha and shu, like atlas, supporting the world, or heavens. the grade-sign of the golden dawn for this sephirah is that of shu supporting the firmament. moon: as its primary symbol is that of the moon, yesod has attributed to it such lunar deities as diana. also, in its generative aspect (merging to

THE MIDDLE PILLAR

anspersonal self whch 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 processe

lture's spiritual system and another is an inexact science at best. the associations given here are only one of several that are possible. a list of deity correspondences sephirah egypfian greek roman celtic norse hindu kether chokmah binah chesed geburah tiphareth netzach hod yesod malkuth nudjer ptah thoth isis- amoun horus- osiris ra hathor- anubis khnum shu khonsu geb aither- uranus rhea hera zeus ares- apollo- aphrodite- hermes- artemis- demeter aether- coelus juno- jupiter mars- sol- venus- mercury- diana- ceres dagda- lugh danu- llyr morrigan- angus mac og brigit- ogma- cerridwen- cemunnos ymir- odin frigga- frey thor t y balder- freya- loki bragi nanna- nerthus brahman- vishnu mahasakti- indra shiva- krishna surya lakshmi pamati hunuman- chandra soma ganesha daath nephthys hypnos j

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

ose for its simplicity and sweetness: sing, little bird, it is dawn; cry! with the day the woods ring; now in the blush of the morn, sing! love doth enchain me and cling, love, of the breeze that is born, love, with the breeze that takes wing. love that is lighter than scorn, love that is strong as a king, love, through the gate that is horn, sing *the tale of archais, vol. i, p. 14. the anger of zeus is aroused. aphrodite bids charicles flee, but his passion is too great, he defies the powers (they are only gods; would he have succeeded had they been grundy) the curse of zeus is reversed: his form did change, and, writhing from her clasp, fled hissing outward, a more hateful asp than india breeds to-day. ctill day dropped her blue pinions, and the night drew on, and sable clouds banked ou

ormation, and then seeking charicles, appears first as an old hag, soon to change again into her own brilliant form, thus symbolizing the joy she brought him from out the hideousness of his fate; for during the day he should assume the form of the divinest of divine maidens, and only at the passionate hour of noon, crawl away before the full glory of the sun a wriggling serpent. she bids him seek zeus, and leaves the rest to him. gto the lascivious shade of ida fs deep recesses h he wends his way: so fair, her image in the brook might make a passionless old god his hunger slake by plunging in the waters, though he knew his drowning body drowned her image too *the tale of archais, vol. i, p. 21. there he, or now she, meets the great god wandering through the green trees and the cool groves

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

ll, and the god once again becomes incarnated in the form of a divine man *eros (c) descending upon god (hwhy, transforms god into (hwchy) christ. so the morning past and found them linked inexorably fast each in the other fs arms. their lips are wed to drink the breezes from the fountainhead of lovers f breath *the tale of archais, vol. i, p. 22. then all her senses leap to the melodious song of zeus, a divine lyric; the following are two of its seven beautiful verses: o lamp of love! the hissing spray shall jet thee with desire and foaming fire, and fire from thee shall move her spirit to devour, and fuse and mingle us in one transcendent hour. godhead is less than mortal love, the garland of the spheres, than those sweet tears that yield no bitterness to the luxurious cries that love sh

ns the difficulty by assumed knowledge a priori [rendering hume fs position now impregnable, thanks to ethnology, etc, etc; and then kant asks, ghow is pure mathematics possible h [again falling into the fallacy of supposing his own brain to be without a history, it is curious to note that kant fs a priori is but a recasting of the old myth of pallas, wisdom, springing fullarmed from the brain of zeus, and like the legend is a strangely false assertion] thus, into the trap kant sets out to rescue hume from, he himself falls, by asserting that: git is only by means of the form of sensuous intuition that we can intuite things a priori, but in this way we intuite the objects only as they appear to our senses, not as they may be in themselves (p. 29 [thus kant himself proves the noumenon, the

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ourney. as the end of summer is in libra, the cardinal sign of air, the gods of water partake also of the airy nature, and similarly, the earthy gods have their natures intermixed with fire, since the end of winter announces the fiery sign of aries, whose mysteries are those of spring and called the greater mysteries, wherein the slain god is celebrated by his name iao, jupiter, jehovah, iacchis, zeus, shu, jesus, osiris, etc. the ignorance of the vulgar and the corruption of the records have aided time s work of confusing the doctrines, so that the natures of distinct gods have suffered the accretion of alien elements till their simplicity has almost baffled restoration. this infernal rite, of which you are now an initiate, is founded on the apparent tragedy of the fall of the year, seen

ng together, and with strange suppers and spells diverse, did call forth him, whom the enemy called ignorantly satan, and was in truth the great god pan, or bacchus, or even that baphomet whom the templars worshipped secretly, and yet worship as in the vi all illustrious knights of the holy order of kadosch, all dame companions of the holy grail are taught to do, or babalon the beautiful, or even zeus apollo of the greeks. and each when first inducted to the revel was made partner of that incarnate one by the consummation of the rite of marriage. consider of this. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p3c2.html (4 of 12 [12/28/2001 2:05:25 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. vi of classical fables the ancients of every nation report their heroes

oes to have been born of the marriage of gods with mortals. as, romulus and remus begotten of the god mars upon a vestal virgin, hercules of jove, buddha of vishnu in the form of a white elephant with six tusks, jesus of jehovah upon a virgin, and many another. even true gods were born of mortal mothers, as dionysius of semele. also they recount many loves of heaven for earth, diana for endymion, zeus for leda, danae, europa, and the rest; even hades issued from his gloomy kingdom to ravish the maid persephone. there are also loves of gods for nymphs, bacchus for the ariadne, zeus for io, pan for syrinx; there is no end of these. and satyrs, fawns, centaurs, dryads, a thousand gracious tribes, leap lightly and lustfully through their legends. again we have the loves of fairies for mankind

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

to upset the laws of nature. god might do xxii new millennium magic so at his pleasure, but man had no right to ape him. such effrontery must be pun- ished. magicians must be cast down for their sin. satan was thrown from heaven for seeking to become like god. adam and eve were turned out of the garden for essentially the same reason. prometheus was bound to a rock in the caucasus when he defied zeus and brought fire down from heaven. christ was crucified for proclaiming himself the son of god. the magus is a direct descendant of this august company. he or she seeks to be the master of fate and the captain of the soul. yet the magus does not defy god, as the church wrongly believed, but recognizes the godhead within the self. it is significant that the persecution of magic increased in di

ng. mankind could not conceive of the division into east and west until it had perceived the polarity of north and south. the cross is much older than christianity, indeed as old as time, for it is a uni- versal symbol that conveys an unchanging meaning to all peoples, whatever the outward interpretation that may be forced upon it. the pattern the titan prometheus took when bound to the pillar by zeus was a cross. the teutonic god woden, or odin, crucified himself on the eternal ash yggdrasill in order to peer into the mysteries of the timeless realm where magic is born. in other cultures the same mystical message is conveyed in slightly different forms. the sioux indians used to suspend their braves by their pectoral muscles so that they might receive illumination through suffering. in th

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

astral entity with whom it is possible to converse and interact, and as a landscape that contains and houses the entity, and reflects in its details the nature of the entity. the shamanic ordeal of woden the god most closely associated with runes is woden (the norse god odin, the one-eyed god of magic who became viewed as the father of the gods in the northern pantheon, on a similar footing with zeus in the greek pantheon. in his earlier germanic incarnation, he was a shaman who wrested the runes from the roots of yggdrasil, the world tree, during a soul flight that was induced by a trial of physical endurance. the nature of his trial, and its reward, are described in a portion of the poem havamal from the poetic edda, as translated by henry adams bellows. 139. i ween that i hung /on the

WALLIS BUDGE E A LEGENDS OF THE EGYPTIAN GODS

ation to, and are of a nature quite different from, that of their divine donors. for 'tis not the abundance of their gold and silver, nor the command of the thunder, but wisdom and knowledge which constitute the power and happiness of those heavenly beings. it is therefore well observed by homer (iliad, xiii. 354, and indeed with more propriety than be usually talks of the gods, when, speaking of zeus and poseidon, he tells us that both were descended from the same parents, and born in the same region, but that zeus was the elder and knew most; plainly intimating thereby that the empire of the former was more august and honourable than that of his brother, as by means of his age he was his superior, and more advanced in wisdom and science. nay 'tis my opinion, i own, that even the blessedn

. to this purpose, likewise, is that inscription which they have engraved upon the base of the statue of athene[fn#282] at sais, whom they identify with isis "i am everything that has been, that is, and that shall be: and my veil no man hath raised" in like manner the word "amoun" or as it is expressed in the greek language "ammon" which is generally looked upon as the proper name of the egyptian zeus, is interpreted by manetho[fn#283] the sebennite[fn#284] to signify "concealment" or "something which is hidden"[fn#285] hecataeus of abdera indeed tells us that the egyptians make use of this term when they call out to one another. if this be so, then their invoking amoun is the same thing as calling upon the supreme being, whom they believe to be "hidden" and "concealed" in the universal na

WICCA EIGHT SABBATS OF WITCHCRAFT

lly considered the more important of the two, though may day runs a close second. indeed, in some areas- notably wales- it is considered the great holiday. may day ushers in the fifth month of the modern calendar year, the month of may. this month is named in honor of the goddess maia, originally a greek mountain nymph, later identified as the most beautiful of the seven sisters, the pleiades. by zeus, she is also the mother of hermes, god of magic. maia's parents were atlas and pleione, a sea nymph. eight sabbats of witchcraft get any book for free on: www.abika.com 17 the old celtic name for may day is beltane (in its most popular anglicized form, which is derived from the irish gaelic 'bealtaine' or the scottish gaelic 'bealtuinn, meaning 'bel-fire, the fire of the celtic god of light (

WICCA WITCHCRAFT TODAY

think that voodoo was not solely african in origin but had been compounded in america out of european witchcraft and african mythology; and when i visited the villa of the mysteries at pompeii i realised the great resemblance to the cult. apparently these people were using the witches' processes. i know, of course, that ancient and modern writers have agreed that the greek mysteries of dionysus, zeus, orpheus, zagreus and eleusis were similar; therefore since each mystery had different rites and myths but was the same, this must mean that they had some inner secret. in his learned work the villa of the mysteries, professor vittorio macchioro has this to say on the subject 'the mystery is a special form of religion which existed amongst all ancient peoples, and among primitive peoples stil

ntent. the mystery religions had an enormous influence on the greek conscience, enabling it to comprehend the value of the christian message 'orphism was the most important of these deriving its name from its alleged founder. it was a particular form of that orgiastic and ecstatic religion which originated in the worship of dionysus and consisted in living over again his myth. zagreus, the son of zeus and kore (persephone, is slain at hera's instigation by the titans who tear him to pieces and devour him except for his heart which athene saves and of which is born, as the son of zeus and semele, the second dionysus. palingenesis here consisted in dying and being reborn again in zagreus. mankind had birth from the ashes of the titans smitten by the thunderbolt of zeus in punishment for thei

on earth, to know the teachings of the brotherhood within the cult, how to attain reunion with their loved ones who had passed on, how to be reincarnated in this way, and, probably, in ways of persuading the gods to favour them and grant their requests; in other words, magic. each of the ancient mysteries at cabrai, samothrace and eleusis had a different myth and was dedicated to a different god, zeus, dionysus, orpheus or another, and performed different ceremonies; but since the classical writers say the mysteries were all the same, the teachings behind the myths may well have been identical. the tribal rites of most primitive peoples include purification, tests of fortitude, instruction in tribal lore, sexual knowledge, charms, religious and magical knowledge, and often a ritual of deat

babies is ridiculous; it was only invented to scare people into having their babies baptised and paying the fees. it is impossible for large numbers of unbaptised babies to disappear without the police asked questions. the sabbath i asked my friends what was the real meaning of the sabbath and they don't know. they know that books say that it is from sabazius, who was identified with dionysus and zeus, also said to be the same as the jewish oreb, lord god of sabaoth. plutarch in synus, vol. iv, 6, says that the jews worship dionysus and that their sabbath was so named after sabazius, which was one of his forms. my friends agree that the cult of dionysus had some connection with their own. this is clear from some of the rituals. they have also read that the first jews who settled in rome we

WILLIAM WESCOTT NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES

hebrew numerals note a, i, q=1, 10, 100. and in greek a, i, r, a=1, 10, 100, 1000. according to the canon, of 1897, anonymous work, 32. a vesica piscis (the figure formed by the intersection of two equal circles) whose dimensions are 26 and 15, is a symbol of the hidden rule or canon by which natural laws were represented to initiates in the secret wisdom of the ancient mysteries. the greek gods zeus, jupiter and apollo, the sun god, have the same numerical relation. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott# 33. part four numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott chapter four the individual numerals the monad, one, 1 he number one or the monad has been defined by the mathematician theon of smyrna as the principal and eleme

rew shbo, seven, or satisfied, abundance, being septos, holy, divine, and motherless, and a virgin. from nicomachus we learn that it was called minerva, being unmarried and virginal, begotten neither by a mother, i.e, even number, nor from a father, i.e, odd number. but proceeding from the summit of the father of all things, the monad; even as minerva sprang all armed from the forehead of jove or zeus. hence also obrimopatre, or daughter of a mighty father, and glaucopis, shining-eyed, and ametor and ageleia, she that carries off the spoil. and fortune, for it decides mortal affairs. and voice, for there are seven tones in every voice, human and instrumental. because they are emitted by the seven planets, and form the music of the spheres. also tritogenia, because there are 3 parts of the

1. pyramids of egypt. 2. the hanging gardens of babylon, for semiramis. 3. tomb of mausolus, king of caria, at halicarnassus, built by artemisia, his queen. 4. temple of diana at ephesus, 552 b.c. ctesiphon was the chief architect. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 5. colossus of rhodes, an image of the sun god, apollo, of brass, 290 b.c. 76. 6. statue of zeus, at athens, by phidias. 7. pharos of egypt, built by ptolemy philadelphus, of white marble, 283 b.c; or the palace of cyrus which is sometimes substituted. sapta rishi, seven sages. sapta kula, 7 castes; sapta loka, seven worlds; sapta para, 7 cities; sapta dwipa, seven holy islands; sapta arania, 7 deserts; sapta parna, 7 human principles; sapta samudra, seven holy seas; sapta vruksha, 7 hol

adepts; these are chiah, neshamah, ruach and nephesh, which correspond to the symbolical worlds of atziluth, briah, yetzirah and assiah. there is an occult reference in the seven stars in the head of taurus called the pleiades, six present and one hidden said to be daughters of atlas, who, pursued by numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott orion, were changed by zeus in mercy into pigeons (peleia. the missing one is merope, who married the mortal sisyphus and hides herself for shame. seven was the number of the rabbis who left the greater holy assembly; ten had formed it, three had passed away from the sod, svd, mystery. see the greater holy assembly and lesser holy assembly, or the ha idra rabba quadisha and ha idra suta quadisha. 80. athanasius kircher

. wounds of jesus. 6. is the number of sin. 7. gifts of the spirit, rev. i. 12; and jesus 7 times spoke on the cross. 8. beatitudes. 9. orders of angels. 10. commandments. 11. apostles besides judas. numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott 12. original apostolic college. 13. college completed by st. paul. the nine muses of ancient greece were called daughters of zeus and mnemosyne (memory, and were calliope, poetry; clio, history; melpomene, tragedy; euterpe, music; erato, love, inspiration and pantomime; terpsichore, dancing; urania, astronomy; thalia, comedy and polyhymnia, eloquence. the novensiles are the nine sabine gods: viz. hercules, romulus, aesculapius, bacchus, aeneas, vesta, santa, fortuna and fides. the sabines became merged with the romans a

following associations of birds, animals and flowers with heavenly bodies has the authority of the greco-roman mythology- numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott table of biiirds, aniiimals and flowers greek latin bird animal vegetable pallas minerva owl she-goat olive aphrodite venus dove he-goat myrtle helios sol cock bull laurel hermes mercury ibis dog hazel zeus jupiter eagle hart horsechestnut demeter ceres sparrow sow apple hephaistos vulcan goose ass box aries mars magpie wolf dog-wood artemis diana daw hind palm hestia vesta heron lion pine hera juno peacock sheep thorn poseidon neptune swan horse elm the astrologers associated colors with the twelve signs of the zodiac, thus- numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes t

is; at memphis, osiris; he is also attis; adonis at byblos; and ammon in libya; also typhon, mithras and pluto; his numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott holy name is of 3 letters, which number 608. in chaldee and hebrew 608 is cham, or ham (chm, which also means, heat. in greek y.h.s. from u.h.s =400+8+200=608. tyre, trch, is also an example of 608. 120. 612. zeus. 613. the words of moses our rabbi, mshh rbinu; and lord god of israel, ihvh alhi ishrl, both number by gematria 613. the 613 precepts of the jewish law were delivered to moses. david, it is said, reduced them to eleven (11, and isaiah to six (6, and later to two (2. habakkuk to one (1, viz, the just shall live by faith. 613 also refers to the holy garment which had 600 fringes, eight (8) thr

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