cosmology
Stellar Determinism
The rule of the stars and planetary powers over mortal destiny — the astrological governors whose spheres bind souls to birth, error, and death; in Sethian gnosis the 'error of the stars' that the savior exposes, and from which the incorruptible generation alone is free. Distinct from cosmic_sympathy (a doctrine of universal affinity) in being a bondage-to-powers claim, and from archons (the rulers as personal beings) in concerning the astral machinery itself.
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The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 3 (part 1)
“EXPLANATION OF FULL-PAGE PLATES PLATE I FRONTISPIECE--The witch has shot a peasant in the foot with a magic hazel wand.
The victim takes off his shoe when he feels his foot beginning to swell.
If the peasant yields to the witch the spell…”
The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 7 (part 1)
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The Distinction between White and Black Magic Having considered the possible standpoints from which the Rituals may be regarded, we come now to the distinctions that are made between them, and, first and foremost, to that which has be…”
The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 8 (part 3)
“It is a noticeable fact that in this work the first section is entitled Clavis , and if we may regard the Sepher Raziel as antedating the Claviculæ , it explains why a Key was attributed to Solomon.
The Clavis in question is, however, conc…”
The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 9 (part 3)
“The missing books are those of Microcosmical Magic, or Spiritual Wisdom; Olympic Magic, that is, the evocation of the Spirits of Olympus; Hesiodiacal and Homeric Magic, being the operations of Caco-daimones ; Roman or Sibylline Magic, conce…”
The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 9 (part 4)
“The sources of occult wisdom, it proceeds, are, firstly, in God; secondly, in spiritual essences--that is to say, the Angelical Hierarchy; thirdly, in corporeal creatures, the reference being probably to the signatura rerum of Paracelsus; f…”
The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 11 (part 3)
“While it thus ensures against evil, it gives happiness in domestic matters and in the enterprises which contribute to prosperity and to the pleasures of a contented life.
The proviso is that [paragraph continues] "the instructions must be…”
The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 16 (part 4)
“These will suffer citation, but the success of the Pauline experiments generally will depend ( a .) upon the construction of the seals attributed to the twenty-four ruling hours of the day and night, which seals must exhibit the proper astr…”
The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 17 (part 3)
“The two first Angels of the First Altitude can only be called on the first and second Sunday in March; the third and fourth on the Sundays in April; the fifth after the sun has entered Gemini in May.
And so of the rest in succession.…”
The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 18 (part 2)
“Refinements of this kind were evidently outside the magic of the fifteenth century.
In the following citation I shall depart from my usual custom of translating at first hand, and make use, with some needful prunings, of the version of Rob…”
The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 19 (part 2)
“As a counterpoise, a century later his bust was placed in the town-hall of Padua.
His undoubted works, which are frankly unreadable, betray no acquaintance with the occult sciences beyond a belief in astrology, which in those days was cath…”
The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 43 (part 2)
“Sun Moon Mars It will be seen from this table that there is a recurring rule of the planets in unbroken succession through the whole week, after which the sequence recommences in the same order, each planet ruling the first and the eighth o…”
The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 44 (part 2)
“Fit the knife with a handle of white wood cut at a single stroke with a new sword or knife, and on this handle engrave the following characters:-- Click to view Fumigate as before, and with this knife do all things needful to the Art, the c…”
The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 51
“§ 9. Concerning the Time of Operation When the sacrifice of the Art or its substitute has once been completed, the operator is in possession of all the materials that he will require ex hypothesi for the performance of Goëtic works as descr…”
The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 62 (part 1)
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Concerning the Rite of Conjuration, from the Lemegeton In communicating with the seventy-two spirits, the age of the Moon should be observed, for it is affirmed on the authority of Solomon that all days are profitable save the second,…”
The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 72 (part 1)
“CHAPTER VIII Miscellaneous and Minor Processes § 1.
Concerning Works of Hatred and Destruction THE following process appears in several manuscript copies of the Key of Solomon , but has been omitted by the English editor of that work, as o…”
The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 74 (part 2)
“You shall reply: I am watering my plant .
He will then say: Give me that bottle; I will water it myself .
You will answer by refusing, and he will again ask you, but you will persist in declining, until he shall stretch forth his hand and…”
The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 80 (part 3)
“Then, cutting down the carcase from the tree, they shall lay its head towards the east; in the space that this following conjuration is repeating, they shall set a chafing-dish of fire at its right hand, into which they shall pour a little…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 11. The Psychic Element In Mental Disturbance-d
“The older faiths knew this, but popular Christianity, which has no roots in tradition, has forgotten it.
Protestant Christianity threw away its occult aspect at the Reformation.
All the pagan pantheons have gross aspects of divinities as…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 2 (part 3)
“Introduction : To our Lady Readers--Astronomy and Astrology--Intuition--Fortune-telling by the Tarot in Seven Lessons 301 1 st Lesson --Simplification of the Rules of Fortune-telling by the Tarot 305 2 nd Lesson --Minor Arcana--Significatio…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 31 (part 1)
“THE DEVIL.
THE DEVIL.
15.
ס 15th Hebrew letter (Samech).
ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE FIFTEENTH CARD OF THE TAROT.
The Samech expresses the same hieroglyphic sign as the Zain (7th arcanum), that is to say, an arrow; a weapon of any k…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 31 (part 2)
“AFFINITIES SIGNIFCATIONS Primitive Hieroglyphic: Serpent Astronomy: Sagittarius Month: November Hebrew letter: Samech (simple) DESTINY Chance __________ FATALITY Result of the fall of Adam-Eve OBSERVATIONS NAHASH The Dragon of the Threshold…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XV (part 2)
“The twenty-first card of the Tarot is a figure-principle of the same nature as the prism which we have just studied, and a few examples of the various methods in which it can be applied will fully enlighten us upon this point.
We have seen…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XVI (part 2)
“Creative Decan .
Yod .
TWO.
2nd Decan or Passive Decan of the Month.
Forming or Preserving Decan .
He .
THREE.
3rd Decan or Equilibrist Decan .
Vau .
FOUR.
Transition between the third Decan of the actual series, to the first Deca…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XVI (part 4)
“The Tarot is a deduction of the sideral book of Henoch , who is Henochia; it is modelled from the astral wheel of Athor , which is As-taroth , resembling the Indian ot-tara , the polar bear or arc-tura of the north; it is the major force (…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XVI (part 7)
“It is impossible for us to retrace through the darkness of the middle ages the origin of the twenty-two significative figures known as atouts , in the pack of seventy-eight cards by which the Gypsies claim to reveal the secrets of fate.
St…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XX (part 1)
“CHAPTER XX.
THE DIVINING TAROT IN SEVEN LESSONS.
Introduction : To our Lady Readers--Astronomy--and Astrology--Intuition--Fortune-telling by the Tarot in Seven Lessons.
1 st Lesson : Simplification of the Rules of Fortune-telling by the…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Chapter XX (part 2)
“As the determining Fatality and the human Will usually unite, almost unconsciously, we see that the astrological Horoscope can predict two-thirds of the events.
Later on reliable data were lost, and men commenced to read fortunes by chance…”
The Tarot of the Bohemians (Papus) | Page 54
“FOURTH LESSON. BASIS OF THE APPLICATION OF THESE DATA. ARRANGEMENT OF THE CARDS. WE are now in a position to handle the Tarot as a means of divination. But before we attempt to read it, we must settle how to arrange the cards upon the table…”
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 7 (part 8)
“And the numbers of these three words, Hoa Atah Ani, are 12, 406, and 61, which are resumed in the key numbers of 3, 10, and 7, by the Qabalah of the Nine Chambers, which is a form of the exegetical rule of Temura." It is useless to attempt…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 8 (part 9)
“Upon the walls of our most private apartments, where we think the eye of intrusion is altogether shut out, and our retirement can never be profaned, there exist the vestiges of all our acts, silhouettes of whatever we have done."** Drs.
Je…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 9 (part 10)
“From Meru, the abode of gods, to Eden, the distance is very small, and from the Hindu Serpents to the Ophite Cherubim, the third out of the seven of which was the Dragon, the separation is still smaller, for both watched the entrance to the…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 12 (part 4)
“Now the Monadic, or rather Cosmic, Essence (if such a term be permitted) in the mineral, vegetable, and animal, though the same throughout the series of cycles from the lowest elemental up to the Deva Kingdom, yet differs in the scale of pr…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 42 (part 3)
“and, while it rests in Devachan, is referred to as "the Three Witnesses to Karma." Atma (our seventh principle) being identical with the universal Spirit, and man being one with it in his essence, what is then the Monad proper?
It is that…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 42 (part 5)
“16); "The righteous will shine in the kingdom of their Father" (not our Father) (Matt.
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43) "Know ye not ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
(I Cor.
iii.
16); "I ascend to my Father," etc., etc.
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 42 (part 6)
“should have selected a god against whose commandments Jesus was the first one to rise in rebellion.
The Planetary origin of the Monad (Soul) and of its faculties was taught by the Gnostics.
On its way to the Earth, as on its way back from…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 47 (part 3)
“The first of these is the law of evolution, or, to phrase it for our purpose, the law of correlated successiveness or organized history in the individual , illustrated in the changing phases of every single maturing system of results.
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Gospel of Judas | Jesus Criticizes the Disciples
“One day he was with his disciples in Judea. He found them sitting together practicing their piety. When he [came up to] his disciples 34 sitting together praying over the bread, [he] laughed. The disciples said to him, "Master, why are you…”
Gospel of Judas | Another Generation
“The next morning, he appeared to his disciples. [And] they said to him, "Master, where did [you] go and what did you do when you left us?" Jesus said to them, "I went to another great and holy generation." His disciples said to him, "Lord,…”
Gospel of Judas | The Disciples' Vision
“Another day Jesus came up to them. They said to him, "Master, we've seen you in a dream, because we had great [dreams last] night." But Jesus said, "Why […] hidden yourselves?" 38 And they [said, "We saw] a great [house, with a great] altar…”
Gospel of Judas | Jesus and Judas
“And when Jesus [said] these things, he left, [taking] Judas Iscariot with him. He said to him, "The water on the exalted mountain is [from] 43 […] it didn't come to [water … the well] of the tree of [the fruit …] of this realm […] after a t…”
Gospel of Judas | Jesus Reveals Everything to Judas-a
“Jesus said, "[Come] and I'll teach you about the [mysteries that no] human [will] see, because there exists a great and boundless realm whose horizons no angelic generation has seen, [in] which is a [great] invisible Spirit, which no [angel…”
Gospel of Judas | Jesus Reveals Everything to Judas-b
“"And the twelve rulers spoke with the twelve angels: 'Let each of you 52 […] and let them […] generation [… five] angels: The first [is Yaoth], who's called 'the Good One.' The second is Harmathoth, [the eye of fire].
The [third] is Galila…”
Gospel of Judas | The Betrayal
“Jesus said, "Truly I say [to you], this baptism 56 [which they've received in] my name […] will destroy the whole generation of the earthly Adam. Tomorrow they'll torture the one who bears me. Truly I [say] to you, no hand of a mortal human…”