“The gnostic disposition is open, an unanswered question that continually blooms into fullness of new and unique variation. ”
-David Chaim Smith
(Blazing Dew of Stars)
A personal hero and patron saint of the Clerkhouse. David was kind enough to mail me an inscribed copy of his book. Here’s to you Dave!
(View/Download)Who is Satan in the New Testament, and what is the evil that he represents? In this groundbreaking book, Elaine Pagels, Princeton’s distinguished historian of religion, traces the evolution of Satan from its origins in the Hebrew Bible, where Satan is at first merely obstructive, to the New Testament, where Satan becomes the Prince of Darkness, the bitter enemy of God and man, evil incarnate. In The Origin of Satan, Pagels shows that the four Christian gospels tell two very different stories. The first is the story of Jesus’ moral genius: his lessons of love, forgiveness, and redemption. The second tells of the bitter conflict between the followers of Jesus and their fellow Jews, a conflict in which the writers of the four gospels condemned as creatures of Satan those Jews who refused to worship Jesus as the Messiah. Writing during and just after the Jewish war against Rome, the evangelists invoked Satan to portray their Jewish enemies as God’s enemies too. As Pagels then shows, the church later turned this satanic indictment against its Roman enemies, declaring that pagans and infidels were also creatures of Satan, and against its own dissenters, calling them heretics and ascribing their heterodox views to satanic influences.
The Goetia (Lemegeton) is perhaps the most famous grimoire after the Key of Solomon. This volume contains a transcription of a hitherto unpublished manuscript of the Lemegeton includes four whole grimoires: Liber Malorum Spituum seu Goetia Theurgia-Goetia Ars Paulina (Books 1 & 2) Ars Almadel This manuscript was owned by Dr. Thomas Rudd, a practicing scholar-magician of the early seventeenth century who knew Dr. John Dee. There are many editions of the Goetia, of which the most definitive is that of Joseph Peterson, but this volume shows how the Goetia was actually used by practicing magicians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, before the knowledge of practical magic faded into obscurity. For example, to evoke the seventy-two demons of the Geotia, or the many other spirits listed here, requires more knowledge than is included in the grimoires themselves. It was well-known in times past that invocatio and ligatio, or binding, was a key part of evocation, but in the modern editions of the Goetia this key technique is expressed in just one word “Shemhamphorash,” and its use is not explained. This volume explains how the 72 angels of the Shemhamphorash are used to bind the spirits, and the correct procedure for safely invoking them using dual seals with the necessary angel seal and Psalm. Also, for the first time, the exact form and use of the breastplate and Brass Vessel is explained.
“All that exists, in whatever mode this may be, necessarily participates in
universal principles, and nothing exists except by participation in these
principles, which are the eternal and immutable essences contained in the permanent actuality of the Divine Intellect. Consequently, it can be said that all things, however contingent they may be in themselves, express or represent these principles in their own way and according to their order of existence, for otherwise they would be purely and simply nothingness. Thus, from one order to another, all things are linked together and correspond, to come together in total and universal harmony, for: harmony is nothing other than the reflection of principial unity in the manifested world; and it is this correspondence which is the veritable basis of symbolism.”
-Rene Guenon
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Autoriti spirituelle et pouvoir temporel
In
Symbols of Sacred Science (Fundamental Symbols, The Universal Language)
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Guénon
, a master of precise, even ‘mathematical’ metaphysical exposition, reveals himself as a consummate exegete of myth and symbolism as well, superior in many ways to Mircea Eliade, and comparable perhaps only to his respected friend Ananda K. Coomaraswamy.
This extraordinary text unveils the cosmological meanings of root symbols organized under such general headings as: The Center of the World, Cyclic Manifestation, Symbolic Weapons, Axial Symbolism and the Symbolism of Passage, The Symbolism of Building, and The Symbolism of the Heart. Far more than a simple catalog of myths and symbols from many traditions, Symbols of the Sacred Science lays the foundation for a universal esoteric symbology.
In this work, Guénon demonstrates the fundamental unity-across all cultures and ages-of the images with which the Absolute clothes itself in its cosmic self-revelation.
René Guénon
(November 15, 1886 – January 7, 1951), also known as
Shaykh `Abd al-Wahid Yahya
, was a French author and intellectual who remains an influential figure in the domain of metaphysics, having written on topics ranging from metaphysics, “sacred science” and traditional studies to symbolism and initiation. In his writings, he proposes either “to expose directly some aspects of Eastern metaphysical doctrines”, these doctrines being defined by him as of “universal character”, or “to adapt these same doctrines for Western readers while keeping strictly faithful to their spirit”; he only endorsed the act of “handing down” these Eastern doctrines, while reiterating their “non-individual character”. He wrote and published in French and his works have been translated into more than twenty languages.
First published in 1983, it’s been called “guide book of ‘how to get from here to there’ “. Essentially, an amalgam of Timothy Leary’s 8-circuit model of consciousness, Gurdjieff’s self-observation exercises, Alfred Korzybski’s general semantics, Aleister Crowley’s magical theorems, Sociobiology, Yoga, relativity, and quantum mechanics amongst other approaches to understanding the world around us.
The book, which examines many aspects of social mind control and mental imprinting, provides mind exercises at the end of every chapter, with the goal of giving the reader more control over how one’s mind works. The book also discusses the effect of certain psychoactive substances and how these affect the brain, tantric breathing techniques, and other methods and holistic approaches to expanding consciousness.
Thanks to Noise vs. Signal for contributing several R.A.W. works as well as many others to the P.C. library collection.
The Book of Pleasure contains a unique method of obtaining control of the subconscious energies latent in the human mind in the form of primal atavisms. It is evident that if such energy can be tapped and channelled, it can be directed to creative or destructive ends on a scale infinitely beyond anything achievable by the mind in the more limited state that characterizes “waking” consciousness. But the subconscious does not yield to conscious suggestion for it is founded on sensation, not upon thought, hence a tactual and visual means must be employed if it is to be penetrated and permeated with the vitalizing current of will or desire. The process must be symbolically enacted, and its intent not consciously formulated, for “unless desire is subconscious, it is not fulfilled”. A method had to be found of by-passing the conscious mind and planting the desire directly in the soil of the subconsciousness. To this end Spare evolved his own system of sentient symbols which took on a secret meaning and which constituted a “sacred” alphabet of desire of which “each letter in its pictorial aspect relates to a Sex principle”. From this alphabet it is possible to construct the words of a mysterious language of sensation that reifies the imagery of appetence. Spare believed that the hieroglyphics of ancient peoples such as the Egyptian and Amerindian are the remains of an occult language. That the Egyptians practised a form of sorcery involving a process similar to that of Spare’s formula of atavistic resurgence is suggested by the fact that the hieroglyphics are usually in zoomorphic form. It is known that the priests of antiquity assumed animal-headed masks when performing rituals designed to produce magical effects; also, that when dormant forces were awakened, the magician was shaken to the very depths of his being as he manifested the atavisms that his spells had invoked. The convulsions of Tibetan “oracles”; the strange phenomena of spirit possession common to most peoples of antiquity are proof of Spare’s theory; proof also that some cosmic forces then possesses the human vehicle and enables the magician to perform superhuman feats.
Zalewski has given us a clear and PRACTICAL sourcebook for the theory and practice of creating talismans/seals for use in magic.The rites and instructions contained herein, as the author asserts, are the very techniques used by the adepts of the original Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn.
1. Origin of Talismans …………………………………………………………7 2. How to Overcome Unfavourable Aspects ……………24 3. Words of Power ………………………………………………………………………28 4. Talismans of the Five Elements ……………………………32 5. A Practical Example …………………………………………………………40 6. How to Charge the Talisman ………………………………………47 Appendixes ……………………………………………………………………………………………51 Bibliography ………………………………………………………………………………………63
This classic reference work has provided magicians—from novice to adept— with invaluable techniques which assist in the development of one’s personal, magical practice.
“Frater U∴ D∴ writes from a background of extensive practical achievement and theoretical knowledge to present a book of magical techniques for those who dare to use them.”
—Peter J. Carroll, author of Liber Null & Psychonaut
A completely comprehensive survey of historical use of talismans, seals, sigils and amulets across every major culture- supplemented by useable practical instruction for bringing them to life.
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The Kabbalah Unveiled explores three important books of the Zohar or “Splendor”: “The Book of Concealed Mystery,” the book of equilibrium or balance, concerning the central point, at which rest succeeds motion; “The Greater Holy Assembly”; and “The Lesser Holy Assembly.” Together, these three books examine the gradual development of the creative deity, and of creation itself.
The Tarot: Its Occult Significance, Use in Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play, Etc.
“Yet this is a true fact. This Egyptian book, the sole remains of their superb libraries, exists to our day; it is even so common that no savant has designed to trouble himself about it, no one before myself having suspected its illustrious origin. This book is composed of seventy-seven leaves or illustrations, or rather of seventy-eight, divided into five classes, which each present objects as various as they are amusing and instructive. In one word, this book is the PACK OF TAROT CARDS.”
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Samuel Liddell Mathers, was a British occultist. He is primarily known as one of the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a ceremonial magic order of which offshoots still exist today.
A morning contemplation sent from David Chaim Smith:
“Yud is the fountain. Its roots are rooted, its streams connected, and its drops are based in the tikkun of the circle. The circle surrounds that which encompasses, encircling that which stands. The circle is derived from alef (01), and alef from yud (10).” -Fountain of Wisdom
How does the bond between alef (01) and yud (10) open the contemplation of En Sof ? How is their bond called into realization? That which binds the essential creative dynamism (yud) to its own wholeness (alef) is sourceless, timeless, and placeless….yet it stands as the seal of all possibilities. Its home is the homelessness of the awakening ground, which longs to dissolve itself in itself as it stands in the silence of that dissolution. In the midst of that silence, the lightning flash of manifestation appears without warning. Is it a disruption between a timid subject and the boldness of its object, or permeable space which is antithetical to holding itself prisoner?
Contemplative practice can begin with the love of silence. You can begin by calling to it internally. Just longing silently allows it to merge with your intention, like water pouring into water. If you hold the opening at its mouth, you will notice a change taking place immediately. Abide in its sense of dissolving, and hold its spread as it consumes whatever arises.
Love of silence is a kind of hunger or thirst. It goes profoundly deep. The urgency to bind with it is the fire that intensifies gnostic aspiration. Through great sensitivity and sincerity, the silence can hear and whisper back, embracing you into the motion of its secret winds. Don’t think, allow its resonance to unfold through its layers. Listen with the whole of your being. Concentrate on the impact of its direct rawness through the internal chatter made about it. The swifter one cuts through, the deeper the love will be, and the more profound the bond.
This strange love tenderizes being with its poignancy as it thrusts through rolling fields in endless succession. Love of silence becomes the silence when this love suffuses itself with its own longing. Then the parade of its own projections is eclipsed.
It bears repeating:
Love of silence becomes the silence when this love suffuses itself with its own longing. And meaning eclipses the parade of its own projections.
What eclipses of the parade of projections is the lightning flash of silence appearing. It manifests beyond interruption. Quite the contrary, there is no-thing which can be interrupted about it. This is the seal of the paradox.
The tikkun of the circle is the annihilation of the klipot of temporality and dimensionality. It is the rectification of the primordial tzimtzum. Its voice is the root of essence. Its breath is the stream of energy. And its speech is the drop of wisdom gnosis. It is the hidden freedom of the circle, brought out from the lie that it is a prison.
Descartes and Bertrand Russell come skipping into the field wearing prison uniforms to stamp their feet and pound the walls. They try to prove that a man can only reach certain predetermined destinations. On the level at which they stand it certainly appears so. However that is beside the point. The contemplative path inquires about the changeless essential nature of things, not their passing circumstances. On the level of circumstance one will definitely seem to be held captive at various times in various places. But if mind turns to its essential nature there is no (En) end (Sof).
And what about this endless parade of circumstances, and its suggestion of this or that apparent reality or unreality? Isn’t this exactly the effect of the klipah of the tzimtzum reflex which seduces and cajoles the mind into confinement? Will you honor this imprisoning fog with your attention to the point that it will obstruct its sacred and profound essential nature? Do you not get to choose what you will do with your own mind? Is that choice not a stepping-off point into the choiceless heart of the primordial paradox? If the mind of a prisoner is consumed in its own intrinsic freedom, is this really a prisoner at all? As Rebbe Nachman states: “You are wherever your thoughts are” (Likutey Moharan 1:21).
The Heart of the Master is a visionary text written at Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, the site of ancient Carthage. It heralds the arising of the Beast 666 as the Prophet of a New Aeon governed by Horus, the God of Force and Fire. The work delineates the spiritual forerunners of the New Aeon who were sent out at historical intervals to guide humanity’s spiritual evolution.
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The One Year Manual: Twelve Steps To Spiritual Enlightenment (1976) is based on Israel Regardie’s experience of being a member of the Stella Matutina, an offshoot of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. However, the activities of the Order took place within the context of 20th century society and some members, such as Regardie, also had an active interest in psychology and psychoanalysis. Twelve Steps can be described as a simplified introduction to the Golden Dawn system. Regardie also published several more in-depth works on magic including The Golden Dawn (1971), The Tree of Life (1969) and A Garden of Pomegranates (1932).
There are 12 practices specified in Regardie’s manual: Body Awareness, Relaxation, Rhythmic Breathing, Mind Awareness, Concentration, the Will, the Rose Cross Ritual, the Middle Pillar Ritual, Symbol of Devotion, the Presence of God, Unity, and Prayer.
Some occultists have called the One year manual and the practices described therein, to be a great way to spend the probation-year of Crowley’s A.’.A.’. system.
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