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Esoteric Orders and Their Work

Vigilant — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:25:04 +0000

Examines how and why esoteric schools have restricted admission to their secret societies and orders, and shrouded their practices in mystery. The knowledge guarded by these schools–passed down through the ages, and revised from time to time by by great teachers–is a secret science that studies the causes that lie behind observable phenomena.

“In all ages and among all races there has existed a tradition concerning certain esoteric schools or fraternities, wherein a secret wisdom unknown to the generality of mankind might be learnt, and to which admission was obtained by means of an initiation in which tests and ritual played their part. Whoever is familiar with the literature of folklore and anthropology knows that this belief exists among primitive peoples, from the Eskimos of the Arctic Circle to the Digger Indians of Tierra del Fuego. Whoever has also studied history knows that it has prevailed from the first dawn of human culture Today, in the centres of the civilized world, this belief is still alive; and although it may be ridiculed by the orthodox-minded, an unprejudiced observer cannot fail to note that some of the noblest of men have been among its advocates, and that the greatest creative intelligences have, almost without exception, borne witness to a source of inspiration in the Unseen.”

Contents

Introduction

I. Esotericism, Occultism, and Mysticism
II. The Origin of the Mysteries
III. The Three Great Traditions
IV. The Paths of the Western Tradition
V. The Evolution and Functions of the Masters
VI. The Training and Work of an Initiate
VII. The Occult Schools
VIII. Orders, Fraternities, and Groups
IX. The Use and Power of Ritual
X. Oaths and Obligations
XI. The Right and Left-Hand Paths
XII. Seeking the Master
XIII. The Choice of an Occult School
XIV. The Path of Initiation

Mysteria – History of the Secret Doctrines and Mystic Rites of Ancient Religions and Medieval and Modern Secret Orders

Vigilant — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 02:05:06 +0000

The Mysteries of the Ancient Grecian religions; the cryptic teachings and occult interpretations of the popular religious beliefs communicated to disciples by the priests in the temples of ancient Egypt, Assyria, and India: the interesting, half fabulous, half historical episode of Pythagoras and the Pythagorean League in Magna Graecia; the mystic, ascetic, and semi-monastic communities of the Therapeutae and the Essenes in Palestine a century before the birth of Jesus Christ; the later developments of Mysticism in the time of the Roman Empire, as seen in the history of Apollonius of Tyana and in Isis worship, Mithras worship, worship of the Great Mother, etc.; the secret creed and rites of the Knights Templar and the usages of the lodges of the Stonemasons in the Middle Age; the constitution and procedure of the Femgerichte of Westphalia in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; the origin and history and the aims of Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, Illuminism, and a swarm of honest and fraudulent secret organizations in modern’ times: all these topics have before been made subject-matter of numerous learned tractates or of popular compends; but hitherto these doctrines, rites, associations, have not beea studied in their unity, in their mutual relation. One service which the author of this work renders to the student of this particular phase of human psychology the longing for mystery and secret associations is that he develops this relationship, thus enabling the reader to get a clearer understanding of the whole subject.

But the author does very much more than to coordinate the facts of mystic associations. He is both a scholar and an artist. Having amassed whatever information regarding the Mysteries and allied phenomena is accessible in universal literature, he handles his materials with the skill of a consummate master of style and of the art of popular exposition. The result is a history of the ancient Mysteries and of their counterparts and imitations in later times, as authentic as the most painstaking research could make it, yet possessing all the charm and grace of a literary masterpiece.

Contents
PART FIRST. MYSTERIES OF THE EAST AND OF BARBAROUS NATIONS.

1. Introduction
2. The Gods
3- Egypt
4. The Higher Development of Egyptian Religion
5. A Reformation in the Land of Nile
6. The Egyptian Realm of the Dead
7. The Secret Teaching of the Priests of Nileland
8. Babylon and Ninive
9. Zoroaster and the Persians
10. B’rahmans andl :Buddhists
11. Secret Leagues of Barbarous Peoples

PART SECOND. THE GRECIAN MYSTERIES AND THE ROMAN BACCHANALIA. .
1. Hellas
2. Hellenic Divine Worship
3. The Hellenic Mysteries
4. Th’e Eleusinian Mysteries
5. The Mysteries of Samothrace
6. The Mysteries of Crete
7. The Dionysia
8. The Roman Bacchanalia
9. Debased Mysteries from the East

PART THIRD. THE PYTHAGOREAN LEAGUE AND OTHER SECRET ASSOCIATIONS.
1 . Pythagoras
2. The Pythagoreans
3. The Orphici
4. Mysterious Personages of Ancient Times

PART FOURTH SON OF MAN. SON OF GOD.
1. Hellenism and Judaism
2. The Essenes
3. Christianism
4. Jesus
5. The Early Christians
6. The New Testament
7. The Elements of the Church

PART FIFTH. A PSEUDO-MESSIAH. A LYING PROPHET.
1. Apollonius of Tyana
2. Alexander, the False Prophet

PART SIXTH. THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.
1. The Middle Age
2. The Templars
3. The Secrets of the Templars
4. The Downfall of the Knights Templar

PART SEVENTH. THE FEMGERICHTE.
1. Courts of Justice in the Middle Age
2. The Secret Tribunal
3. The End of the Feme

PART EIGHTH. STONEMASONS’ LODGES OF THE MIDDLE AGE.
1. Medieval Architecture
2. The Stonemasons’ Lodges of Germany
3. French Craftsmen
4. The English Stonemasons
ASTROLOGERS AND ALCHEMISTS

PART NINTH. RISE AND CONSTITUTION OF FREEMASONRY.
1. Rise of Freemasonry
2. Constitution of the Order
3. The Lodge

PART TENTH. SECRET SOCIETIES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
1. Miscellaneous Secret Societies
2. Obscurantist Influences
3. The ”High Degrees” Swindle
4. Apostles of Nonsense
5. The Swedish Rite.
6. The New Rosicrusians

PART ELEVENTH. THE ILLUMINATI.
1. The Illuminati
2. Imitations of Illuminism

PART TWELFTH. SECRET SOCIETIES OF VARIOUS KINDS.
1. Societies of Wits
2. Imitations of Ancient Mystic Leagues
3. Imitations of Freemasonry

Azoth or the Star in the East

Vigilant — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:10:53 +0000

One of Waite’s earlier books written when he was immersed in spiritual alchemy.

Embracing the First Matter of the Magnum Opus, the Evolution of Aphrodite-Urania, the Supernatural Generation of the Son of the Sun, and the Alchemical Transfiguration of Humanity. This was an earlier book of Waite’s, written when he was young and immersed in the study of alchemy. Contents: The Sublimating Principle of Alchemy; Symbolism of Israfel and Lucasta; The Agnostic Standpoint; Mysticism; Mysticism a Practical Science; Transcendental Science and Religion; Mystical Philosophy of Nature; Evolution and Mysticism; The Outward Man; Hermetic Doctrine and Development; Perfection of Humanity; Steps in the Way of Attainment; Religion of Evolution; Grounds of Spiritual Practice; The Holy Assembly; Catholic Doctrine of Theosophy and Mysticism; Five Nuptials of Ideal Being; The New Birth; The First Sublimation; Interior Sublimation; The Obscure Night; Evolution of the Interior Life.

The Perennial Philosophy

Vigilant — Sat, 15 May 2010 03:58:50 +0000

An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the “divine reality” common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley, author of A Brave New World.

“The Perennial Philosophy,” Aldous Huxley writes, “may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions.”

With great wit and stunning intellect—drawing on a diverse array of faiths, including Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christian mysticism, and Islam—Huxley examines the spiritual beliefs of various religious traditions and explains how they are united by a common human yearning to experience the divine. The Perennial Philosophy includes selections from Meister Eckhart, Rumi, and Lao Tzu, as well as the Bhagavad Gita, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Diamond Sutra, and Upanishads, among many others.

Contents
Introduction page
I That Art Thou
II The Nature of the Ground
III Personality, Sanctity, Divine Incarnation
IV God in the World
V Charity
VI Mortification, Non-Attachment, Right Livelihood
VII Truth
VIII Religion and Temperament
IX Self-Knowledge
X Grace and Free Will
XI Good and Evil
XII Time and Eternity
XIII Salvation, Deliverance, Enlightenment
XIV Immortality and Survival
XV Silence
XVI Prayer
XVII Suffering
XVIII Faith
XIX God is not mocked
XX Tantum religiopotuit suadere malorum page
XXI Idolatry
XXII Emotionalism
XXIII The Miraculous
XXIV Ritual, Symbol, Sacrament
XXV Spiritual Exercises
XXVII Perseverance and Regularity
XXVIII Contemplation, Action and Social Utility
Bibliography

The Magical Message According to IÔANNÊS (St. John the Divine)

Vigilant — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:41:24 +0000

Commonly called the Gospel according to St. John. Are you ready for the esoteric message of the Gospel never before so clearly revealed? Contents: The Seen and the Unseen; The Four Evangels; The Drama of the Soul; Explanatory Note; The Magical Message according to Ioannes; The Prodigal Son; The Birth from Above; Index. St. John the mystic, calls to you. Listen to this inspiring message of faith, hope, love, and mystical achievement.

That the teaching of Iêsous was largely allegorical is clearly apparent from the subject matter of the four Evangels, as well as from such express statements as that in Matthew xiii. 34: ” ALL these things Iêsous spoke to the people in parables, and without a parable he did not speak [anything] to them.” That the teaching had an inner and concealed meaning, divulged only to the few who were worthy to receive it, is evident from many passages in the New Testament; and it was so held by all the early Christian sects, and plainly admitted by the patristic writers. But, in addition to this allegorical teaching, certain rules of right-conduct are given, which constitute, not a mere arbitrary code of ethics, but one based upon the laws of man’s inner nature, his relation to Deity, to Nature, and to his fellow-beings. It is only by living according to these rules of right-conduct that the will of the man comes into harmony with the will of The God ; and in Iôannês (vii. 17) the final test is laid down : ” If any one wills to do his will, he shall have knowledge about the teaching, whether it is from The God.”

Table of Contents

Preface
The Seen and the Unseen
The Four Evangels
The Drama of the Soul
Explanatory Note
The Magical Message According to Iôannês
Appendix I., The Prodigal Son
Appendix II., The Birth from Above .
Index of Notes

The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception

Vigilant — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:42:06 +0000

The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception or Mystic Christianity is a Rosicrucian text, written by the famous mystic and occultist Max Heindel. The first edition was printed in November 1909, it has little changed since then and it is considered to be Max Heindel’s magnum opus. It is a reference work in the Christian mysticism practice and in the Occult study literature, containing the fundamentals of Esoteric Christianity from a Rosicrucian perspective. The Cosmo contains a comprehensive outline of the evolutionary process of man and the universe, correlating science with religion. It is, till current days, the basic book for the philosophy courses of the school, the Rosicrucian Fellowship, founded by the author between 1909 and 1911.

The author talks about the true man and his journey through involution, evolution and epigenesis, presenting practical methods to help the development of latent potentials in each one of us and how to transmute our latency into dynamic powers in order to achieve, according to the author, direct knowledge and conscientious work in the inner planes.

It deals with many esoteric topics and also metaphysics, physiology and cosmology (the visible and invisible worlds, human evolution, death and rebirth, nutrition, esoteric training, …). It contains a history of the evolution of the human spirit and related bodies (from before awareness, through various incarnations of our planet on various planes, and into the future development) and of animal, vegetable and mineral life waves (each, of the myriad of life forms and types of consciousness on this physical plane, experiencing their own points in evolution). It also presents an esoteric interpretation about the mission of Christ and an occult analysis of Biblical texts which include the fall of man, the Law of Cause and Consequence and Bible and rebirth, and many other themes which were further developed in the subsequent books, lectures and lessons given by the author at the time (1910s) in the United States.

Table Of Contents
PART I.
Man’s Present Constitution and Method of Development.
Frontispiece, The Lord’s Prayer.
A Word to the Wise
The Four Kingdoms
Introduction
Chapter I. The Visible and Invisible Worlds
Chemical Region of the Physical World
Etheric Region of the Physical World
The Desire World
The World of Thought
Chapter II. The Four Kingdoms
Chapter III. Man and the Method of Evolution.
Activities of Life; Memory antl Soul-growth
The Constitution of the Seven-fold Man
The Borderland
The First Heaven
The Second Heaven
The Third Heaven
Preparations for Rebirth
Birth of the Dense Body
Birth of the Vital Body and Growth
Birth of the Desire Body and Puberty
Birth of the Mind and Majority
The Blood; the Vehicle of the Ego
Chapter IV. Rebirth and the Law of Consequence
Wine as a Factor in Evolution
A Remarkable Story

PART II.
COSMOGENESIS AND ANTHROPOGENESIS.
Chapter V. The Relation of Man to God
Chapter VI. The Scheme of Evolution.
The Beginning
The Seven Worlds
The Seven Periods
Chapter VII. The Path of Evolution
Revolutions and Cosmic Nights
Chapter VIII. The Work of Evolution.
Ariadnes Thread
The Saturn Period
Recapitulation
The Sun Period
The Moon Period 213
Chapter IX. Stragglers and Newcomers
Classes of Beings at the Beginning of the Moon Period

Chapter X. The Earth Period
Saturn Revolution of the Earth Period
Sun Revolution of the Earth Period
Moon Revolution of the Earth Period
Rest Periods Between Revolutions
The Fourth Revolution of the Earth Period

Chapter XI. Genesis and Evolution of Our Solar System
Chaos’
The Birth of the Planets

Chapter XII. Evolution on the Earth.
The Polarian Epoch
The Hyperborean Epoch
The Moon ; the Eighth Sphere
The Lemurian Epoch
Birth of the Individual
Separation of the Sexes
Influence of Mars
The Races and Their Leaders
Influence of Mercury
The Lemurian Race
The Fall of Man
The Lucifer Spirits
The Atlantean Epoch
The Aryan Epoch ‘
The Sixteen Paths to Destruction
Chapter XIII. Back to the Bible
Chapter XIV. Occult Analysis of Genesis.
Limitations of the Bible
In the Beginning
The Nebular Theory
The Creative Hierarchies
The Saturn Period
The Sun Period, the Moon Period
The Earth Period
Jehovah and His Mission
Involution, Evolution and Epigenesis
A Living Soul
Adam’s Rib
Guardian Angels
Mixing Blood in Marriage
The Fall of Man

PART III
Man’s Future Development and Initiation

The Evolution of Religion
Jesus and Christ -Jesus
Not Peace but a Sword
The Star of Bethlehem
The Heart an Anomaly
The Mystery of Golgotha
The Cleansing Blood
Chapter XV. Christ and His Mission.

Chapter XVI. Future Development and Initiation.
The Seven Days of Creation
Radiates, Mollusks, Articulates and Vertebrates
Spirals within Spirals.
Alchemy and Soulgrowth
The Creative Word
Chapter XVII. The Method of Acquiring First-Hand Knowledge.
The First Stops
Western Methods for Western People
The Science of Nutrition
Table of Food- Values
The Law of Assimilation
Live and Let Live
The Lord ‘s Prayer
The Vow of Celibacy
The Pituitary Body and the Pineal Gland
Esoteric Training
How the Inner Vehicle is Built
Concentration
Meditation
Observation
Discrimination
Contemplation
Adoration
Chapter XVIII. The Constitution of the Earth and Volcanic
Eruptions
The Number of the Beast

Chapter XIX. Christian Rosenkreuz and the Order of Rosicrucians
Initiation
The Rosicrucian Fellowship
Rays from the Rose Cross
Symbolism of Rose Cross
Index
The Healing Power

The History of Initiation

Vigilant — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:14:20 +0000

In Twelve Lectures Comprising a Detailed Account of the Rites and Ceremonies, Doctrines and Discipline of all the Secret and Mysterious Institutions of the Ancient World. Contents: General Introduction; History of Initiation in Hindostan; Philosophy of the Eastern Mysteries; Initiation in Persia; History of Initiation in Greece; Ceremonies of Initiation into the Mysteries of Bacchus; Places of Initiation into the Celtic Mysteries; Ceremonies of Initiation in Britain; Symbols and Doctrines of the Druids; History of Initiation into the Gothic Mysteries; Doctrines and Morality; History of Initiation in America; Corollary.

“The excellent Preston says, with much justice, ” Many are deluded by the vague supposition, that our mysteries are merely nominal ; that the practices established amongst us are frivolous ; and that our ceremonies may be adopted or waived at pleasure. On this false basis we find too many of the Brethren hurrying through all the degrees of the Order, without adverting to the propriety of one step they pursue, or possessing a single qualification to entitle them to advancement. Passing through the usual formalities, they consider themselves authorized to rank as Masters of the Art, solicit and accept offices, and even assume the government of the Lodge, equally unacquainted with the rules of the Institution that they pretend to support, and the nature of the trust which they are bound to perform. The consequence is obvious; anarchy and confusion ensue, and the substance is lost in the shadow. Hence men, who are eminent for ability, rank, and fortune, frequently view the honours of Masonry with indifference ; and, when their patronage is solicited, either accept office with reluctance, or reject them with disdain.”

Table of Contents

General Introduction

History of Initiation in Hindostan

Philosophy of the Eastern Mysteries

Initiation in Persia

History of Initiation in Greece

Ceremonies of Initiation Into the Mysteries of Bacchus

Places of Initiation into the Celtic Mysteries

Ceremonies of Initiation in Britain

Symbols and Doctrines of the Druids

History of Initiation into the Gothic Mysteries

Doctrines and Morality

History of Initiation in America

The Apocalypse Unsealed

Vigilant — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:59:33 +0000

The purpose of this book is to show that the Apocalypse is a manual of spiritual development and not, as conventionally interpreted, a cryptic history or prophecy. In the following pages the reader will find the complete solution of the Apocalyptic enigma, with ample proof of the correctness of that solution. As the subject dealt with in the work is, however, familiar to only a comparatively few special students of the sacred science, which to the many has ever been a sealed book, the exposition here given is put in the form of an elementary treatise. If it were written for the few, it would have been expanded to great bulk; but as it is intended for the many, the author has kept within the limits of a small volume, avoiding everything mystical, scholastic and controversial, using plain, concise language, and employing technical terms only when they are required by the nature of the subject.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter I – The key of the Gnosis
Chapter II – The path of power
Chapter III – The riddles of „Revelation“
Chapter IV – The drama of self-conquest

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Vigilant — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:41:20 +0000

This massive volume was originally published in 1531, and occultists have been drawing on it ever since. Now, Llewellyn is proud to produce the first complete reprint of the original English translation in the last 500 years. Donald Tyson edited this work and removed the hundreds of errors that appeared in the original translation. He also fully annotated the work, to make it understandable—and usable—by people today.

·Discover what the Renaissance scholar knew about astrology, medicine, history, herbs, geography, animals, angels, devils, Witches, charms, the weather, and a host of other subjects
·Gain immediate reference to a vast amount of arcane, but completely annotated, magical material
·Find corrected drawings of seals, sigils, and magic squares, and correctly represented geomantic figures
·Explore the practical Kabbalah, geomancy, the magic squares, the elements, the humors, and the Soul of the World
·Consult the new Biographical dictionary for background on each of the hundreds of writers and historical figures referred to by Agrippa
·Consult the new Geographical Dictionary for data on referenced rivers, mountains, nations, cities—many of which now carry different names.

The Three Books of Occult Philosophy is the most complete repository of pagan and Neoplatonic magic ever compiled. This book is packed with material you will not find elsewhere, including copious extracts on magic from obscure or lost works by Pythagoras, Ptolemy, Plato, Aristotle, and many others. Tyson’s detailed annotations clarify difficult references and provide origins of quotations, even expanding upon them in many cases, in order to make Agrippa’s work more accessible to the modern reader.

The Three Books of Occult Philosophy is the ultimate “how-to” for magical workings. It describes how to work all manner of divinations and natural and ceremonial magic in such clear and useful detail that it is still the guide for modern techniques. The extensive new supplementary material makes this wisdom practical for use today.

The Three Books of Occult Philosophy is an essential reference tool for all students of the occult.

Zip file contains 3 books.

Book 1

Introduction	Agrippa to the reader.
	Agrippa to Trithemius.
	Trithemius to Agrippa.
Chap. 1.	How Magicians Collect vertues from the Three-fold World, is Declared in these Three Books.
Chap. 2.	What Magic is, What are the Parts thereof, and How the Professors thereof must be Qualified.
Chap. 3.	Of the Four Elements, their Qualities, and Mutual Mixtions.
Chap. 4.	Of a Three-fold Consideration of the Elements.
Chap. 5.	Of the Wonderful Natures of Fire and Earth.
Chap. 6.	Of the Wonderful Natures of Water, Air and Winds.
Chap. 7.	Of the Kinds of Compounds, what Relation they stand in to the Elements, and what Relation there is betwixt the Elements themselves and the Soul, Senses and Dispositions of Men.
Chap. 8.	How the Elements are in the Heavens, in Stars, in Devils, in Angels, and lastly in God himself.
Chap. 9.	Of the vertues of things Natural, depending immediately upon Elements.
Chap. 10.	Of the Occult vertues of Things
Chap. 11.	How Occult vertues are Infused into the several kinds of Things by Ideas, thrugh the Help of the Soul of the World, and Rays of the Stars; and what Things abound most with this vertue.
Chap. 12.	How it is that Particular vertues are Infused into Particular Individuals, even of the same Species.
Chap. 13.	Whence the Occult vertues of Things Proceed.
Chap. 14.	Of the Spirit of the World, What It Is, and how by way of medium It Unites occult vertues to their Subjects.
Chap. 15.	How we must Find Out and Examine the vertues of Things by way of Similitude.
Chap. 16.	How the Operations of several vertues Pass from one thing into another, and are Communicated one to the other.
Chap. 17.	How by Enmity and Friendship the vertues of things are to be Tried and Found Out.
Chap. 18.	Of the Inclinations of Enmities.
Chap. 19.	How the vertues of Things are to be Tried and Found Out, which are in them Specifically, or in any one Individual by way of Special gift.
Chap. 20.	The Natural vertues are in some Things throughout their Whole Substance, and in other Things in certain Parts and Members.
Chap. 21.	Of the vertues of Things which are in them only in their Life Time, and Such as Remain in them even After their Death.
Chap. 22.	How Inferior Things are Subjected to Superior Bodies, and how the Bodies, the Actions, and Dispositions of Men are Ascribed to Stars and Signs.
Chap. 23.	How we shall Know what Stars natural Things are Under, and what Things are under the Sun, which are called Solary.
Chap. 24.	What Things are Lunary, or Under the Power of the Moon.
Chap. 25.	What Things are Saturnine, or Under the Power of Saturn.
Chap. 26.	What Things are Under the Power of Jupiter, and are called Jovial.
Chap. 27.	What Things are Under the Power of Mars, and are called Martial.
Chap. 28.	What things are Under the Power of Venus, and are called Venereal.
Chap. 29.	Things are Under the Power of Mercury, and are called Mercurial.
Chap. 30.	That the Whole Sublunary World, and those Things which are in It, are Distributed to Planets.
Chap. 31.	How Provinces and Kingdoms are Distributed to Planets.
Chap. 32.	What Things are Under the Signs, the Fixed Stars, and their Images.
Chap. 33.	Of the Seals and Characters of Natural Things.
Chap. 34.	How, by Natural Things and their vertues, We may Draw Forth and Attract the Influences and vertues of Celestial Bodies.
Chap. 35.	Of the Mixtions of Natural Things, one with another, and their Benefits.
Chap. 36.	Of the Union of Mixt Things, and the Introduction of a More Noble Form, and the Senses of Life.
Chap. 37.	How, by some certain Natural and Artificial Preparations, We may Attract certain Celestial and Vital Gifts.
Chap. 38.	Chapter xxxviii. How we may Draw not only Celestial and Vital but also certain Intellectual and Divine Gifts from Above.
Chap. 39.	That we may, by some certain Matters of the World, Stir Up the Gods of the World and their Ministering Spirits.
Chap. 40.	Of Bindings; what Sort they are of, and in what Ways they are wont to be Done.
Chap. 41.	Of Sorceries, and their Power.
Chap. 42.	Of the Wonderful vertues of some kinds of Sorceries.
Chap. 43.	Of Perfumes or Suffumigations; their Manner and Power.
Chap. 44.	The Composition of some Fumes appropriated to the Planets.
Chap. 45.	Chapter xlv. Of Collyries, Unctions, Love-Medicines, and their vertues.
Chap. 46.	Of natural Alligations and Suspensions.
Chap. 47.	Of Magical Rings and their Composition.
Chap. 48.	Of the vertue of Places, and what Places are Suitable to every Star.
Chap. 49.	Of Light, Colors, Candles and Lamps, and to what Stars, Houses and Elements several Colors are Ascribed.
Chap. 50.	Of Fascination, and the Art thereof.
Chap. 51.	Of certain Observations, Producing wonderful vertues.
Chap. 52.	Of the Countenance and Gesture, the Habit and the Figure of the Body, and to what Stars any of these do Answer — whence Physiognomy, and Metoposcopy, and Chiromancy, Arts of Divination, have their Grounds.
Chap. 53.	Of Divination, and the Kinds thereof.
Chap. 54.	Of divers certain Animals, and other things, which have a Signification in Auguries.
Chap. 55.	How Auspicas are Verified by the Light of Natural Instinct, and of some Rules of Finding of It Out.
Chap. 56.	Of the Soothsayings of Flashes and Lightnings, and how Monstrous and Prodigious Things are to be Interpreted.
Chap. 57.	Of Geomancy, Hydromancy, Aeromancy, and Pyromancy, Four Divinations of Elements.
Chap. 58.	Of the Reviving of the Dead, and of Sleeping or Hibernating (wanting victuals) Many Years together.
Chap. 59.	Of Divination by Dreams.
Chap. 60.	Of Madness, and Divinations which are made when men are awake, and of the power of a Melancholy Humor, by which Spirits are sometimes induced into Men’s Bodies.
Chap. 61.	Of the Forming of Man, of the External Senses, also those Inward, and the Mind; and of the Threefold Appetite of the Soul, and Passions of the Will.
Chap. 62.	Of the Passions of the Mind, their Original Source, Differences, and Kinds.
Chap. 63.	How the Passions of the Mind change the proper Body by changing its Accidents and moving the Spirit.
Chap. 64.	How the Passions of the Mind change the Body by way of Imitation from some Resemblance; of the Transforming and Translating of Men, and what Force the Imaginative Power hath, not only over the Body but the Soul.
Chap. 65.	How the Passions of the Mind can Work of themselves upon Another’s Body.
Chap. 66.	That the Passions of the Mind are Helped by a Celestial Season, and how Necessary the Constancy of the Mind is in every Work.
Chap. 67.	How the Mind of Man may be Joined with the Mind of the Stars, and Intelligences of the Celestials, and, together with them, Impress certain wonderful vertues upon inferior Things.
Chap. 68.	How our Mind can Change and Bind inferior Things to the Ends which we Desire.
Chap. 69.	Of Speech, and the Occult vertue of Words.
Chap. 70.	Of the vertue of Proper Names.
Chap. 71.	Of many Words joined together, as in Sentences and Verses, and of the vertues and Astrictions of Charms.
Chap. 72.	Of the wonderful Power of Enchantments.
Chap. 73.	Of the vertue of Writing, and of Making Imprecations, and Inscriptions.
Chap. 74.	Of the Proportion, Correspondency, and Reduction of Letters to the Celestial Signs and Planets, According to various Tongue, and a Table thereof.

Book 2

Dedication.
Chap. i.	Of the necessity of Mathematicall learning, and of the many wonderfull works which are done by Mathematicall Arts only.
Chap. ii.	Of Numbers, and their power, and vertue.
Chap. iii.	How great vertues Numbers have, as well in Naturall things, as in Supernaturall.
Chap. iv.	Of Unity, and the Scale thereof
Chap. v.	Of the Number of Two, and the Scale thereof.
Chap. vi.	Of the Number of three, and the Scale thereof.
Chap. vii.	Of the Number of Four, and the Scale thereof.
Chap. viii.	Of the Number Five, and the Scale thereof.
Chap. ix.	Of the Number six, and the Scale thereof.
Chap. x.	Of the Number Seaven, and the Scale thereof.
Chap. xi.	Of the Number of Eight, and the Scale thereof.
Chap. xii.	Of the Number of Nine, and the Scale thereof.
Chap. xiii.	Of the Number Ten, and the Scale thereof.
Chap. xiv.	Of the Number eleven, and the number twelve; with a double Scale of the Number twelve Cabilisticall, and Orphicall.
Chap. xv.	Of the Numbers which are above twelve, and of their powers, and vertues.
Chap. xvi.	Of the notes of numbers, placed in certain gesturings.
Chap. xvii.	Of the various notes of numbers observed amongst the Romans.
Chap. xviii.	Of the notes or figures of the Græcians.
Chap. xix.	Of the notes of the Hebrews, and Caldeans, and certain other notes of Magicians.
Chap. xx.	What numbers are attributed to letters; and of divining by the same.
Chap. xxi.	What numbers are consecrated to the Gods, and which are ascribed, and to what Elements.
Chap. xxii.	Of the tables of the Planets, their vertues, forms, and what Divine names, Intelligencies, and Spirits are set over them.
Chap. xxiii.	Of Geometrical Figures and Bodies, by what vertue they are powerful in Magick, and which are agreeable to each Element, and the Heaven.
Chap. xxiv.	Of Musicall Harmony, of the force and power thereof.
Chap. xxv.	Of Sound, and Harmony, and whence their wonderfulness in operation.
Chap. xxvi.	Concerning the agreement of them with the Celestial bodies, and what harmony and sound is correspondent of every Star.
Chap. xxvii.	Of the proportion, measure, and Harmony of mans body.
Chap. xxviii.	Of the Composition and Harmony of the humane soul.
Chap. xxix.	Of the Observation of Celestials, necessary in every Magical Work.
Chap. xxx.	When Planets are of most powerful influence.
Chap. xxxi.	Of the Observation of the fixt Stars, and of their Natures.
Chap. xxxii.	Of the Sun, and Moon, and their Magicall considerations.
Chap. xxxiii.	Of the twenty eight Mansions of the Moon, and their vertues.
Chap. xxxiv.	Of the true motion of the heavenly bodies to be observed in the eight sphere, and of the ground of Planetary hours.
Chap. xxxv.	How some artificiall things as Images, Seals, and such like, may obtain some vertue from the Celestial bodies.
Chap. xxxvi.	Of the Images of the Zodiack, what vertues they being ingraven, receive from the stars.
Chap. xxxvii.	Of the Images of the Faces, and of those Images which are without the Zodiack.
Chap. xxxviii.	Of the Images of Saturn.
Chap. xxxix.	Of the Images of Jupiter.
Chap. xl.	Of the Images of Mars.
Chap. xli.	Of the Images of the Sun.
Chap. xlii.	Of the Images of Venus.
Chap. xliii.	Of the Images of Mercury.
Chap. xliv.	Of the Images of the Moon.
Chap. xlv.	Of the Images of the head and Tayle of the Dragon of the Moon.
Chap. xlvi.	Of the Images of the Mansions of the Moon.
Chap. xlvii.	Of the Images of the fixed Behenian Stars.
Chap. xlviii.	Of Geomanticall Figures, which are the middle betwixt Images and Characters.
Chap. xlix.	Of Images, the figure whereof is not after the likeness of any Celestiall figure, but after the likness of that which the mind of the worker desires.
Chap. l.	Of certain Celestial observations and the practise of some Images.
Chap. li.	Of Characters which are made after the rule and imitation of Celstial, and how with the table thereof they are deduced out of Geomantical figures.
Chap. lii.	Of Characters which are drawn from things themselves by a certain likeness.
Chap. liii.	That no Divination without Astrology is perfect.
Chap. liv.	Of Lottery, when, and whence the vertue of Divining is incident to it.
Chap. lv.	Of the soul of the World, and of the Celestials, according to the traditions of the Poets, and Philosophers.
Chap. lvi.	The same is confirmed by reason.
Chap. lvii.	That the soul of the world, and the Celestiall souls are rationall, and partake of Divine understanding.
Chap. lviii.	Of the names of the Celestials, and their rule over this inferiour world, viz. Man.
Chap. lix.	Of the seven governers of the world, the Planets, and of their various names serving to Magicall speeches.
Chap. lx.	That humane imprecations do naturally impress their powers upon externall things; And how mans mind through each degree of dependencies ascends into the intelligible world, and becomes like to the more sublime spirits, and Intelligencies.

Book 3

Chapter i:	Of the necessity, power, and profit of Religion.
Chapter ii:	Of concealing of those things which are secret in religion.
Chapter iii:	What dignification is required, that one may be a true magician and a worker of miracles.
Chapter iv:	Of the two helps of Ceremonial magic, religion and superstition.
Chapter v:	Of the three guides of Religion, which bring us to the path of truth.
Chapter vi:	How by these guides the soul of man ascendeth up into the Divine nature, and is made a worker of Miracles.
Chapter vii:	That the knowledge of the true God is necessary for a Magician, and what the old Magicians and Philosophers have thought concerning God.
Chapter viii:	What the Ancient Philosophers have thought concerning the Divine Trinity.
Chapter ix:	What the true and most Orthodox faith is concerning God and the most holy Trinity.
Chapter x:	Of Divine emanations, which the Hebrews call Numerations, others attributes; The gentiles gods and Deities; and of the ten Sephiroths and ten most sacred names of God which rule them, and the interpretation of them.
Chapter xi:	Of the Divine names, and their power and vertue.
Chapter xii:	Of the influence of the divine names through all the middle causes into these inferior things.
Chapter xiii:	Of the members of God, and of their influence on our members.
Chapter xiv:	Of the Gods of the gentiles, and souls of the Celestiall bodies, and what places were consecrated in times past, and to what Deities.
Chapter xv:	What our Theologians think concerning the Celestiall souls.
Chapter xvi:	Of Intelligences and spirits, and of the threefold kind of them, and of their diverse names, and of Infernall and subterraneall spirits.
Chapter xvii:	Of these according to the opinion of the Theologians.
Chapter xviii:	Of the orders of evil spirits, and of their fall, and divers natures.
Chapter xix:	Of the bodies of the Devils.
Chapter xx:	Of the annoyance of evil spirits, and the preservation we have by good spirits.
Chapter xxi:	Of obeying a proper Genius, and of the searching out the nature thereof.
Chapter xxii:	That there is a threefold keeper of man, and from whence each of them proceed.
Chapter xxiii:	Of the tongue of Angels, and of their speaking amongst themselves, and with us.
Chapter xxiv:	Of the names of Spirits, and their various imposition; and of the Spirits that are set over the Stars, Signs, Corners of the Heaven, and the Elements.
Chapter xxv:	How the Hebrew Mecubals draw forth the sacred names of Angels out of the sacred writ, and of the seventie two Angels, which bear the name of God, with the Tables of Ziruph, and the Commutations of letters, and numbers.
Chapter xxvi:	Of finding out of the names of spirits, and Genius’s from the disposition of Celestiall bodies.
Chapter xxvii:	Of the calculating Art of such names by the tradition of Cabalists.
Chapter xxviii:	How sometimes names of Spirits are taken from those things over which they are set.
Chapter xxix:	Of the Characters and Seals of spirits.
Chapter xxx:	Another manner of making Characters, delivered by Cabalists.
Chapter xxxi:	There is yet another fashion of Characters, and concerning marks of spirits which are received by revelation.
Chapter xxxii:	How good spirits may be called up by us, and how evil spirits may be overcome by us.
Chapter xxxiii:	Of the bonds of spirits, and of their adjurations, and castings out.
Chapter xxxiv:	Of the Animasticall order, and the Heros.
Chapter xxxv:	Of the Mortall and Terrestrial Gods.
Chapter xxxvi:	Of Man, how he was created after the Image of God.
Chapter xxxvii:	Of mans soul and through what means it is joyned [joined] to the body.
Chapter xxxviii:	What Divine gifts man receiveth from above, from the severall Orders of the Intelligences and the heavens.
Chapter xxxix:	How the superior Influences, seing they are good by nature, are depraved in these inferior thing, and are made causes of evil.
Chapter xl:	That on every man a divine character is imprinted, by the vertue of which man can attain the working of miracles.
Chapter xli:	What concerning man after death, diverse Opinions.
Chapter xlii:	By what wayes the Magicians and Necromancers do think they can call forth the souls of the dead.
Chapter xliii:	Of the power of mans soul, in the mind, reason and imagination.
Chapter xliv:	Of the degrees of souls, and their destruction, or Immortality.
Chapter xlv:	Of Soothsaying, and Phrensie [phrensy].
Chapter xlvi:	Of the first kind of phrensie [phrensy] from the Muses.
Chapter xlvii:	Of the second kinde from Dionysius [Dionysus].
Chapter xlviii:	Of the third kind of phrensie [phrensy] from Apollo.
Chapter xlix:	Of the fourth kinde of Phrensie [phrensy], from Venus.
Chapter l:	Of rapture, and extasie [ecstasy], and soothsayings, which happen to them which are taken with the falling sickness, or with a swoune [swoon], or to them in an agonie [agony].
Chapter li:	Of Prophetical Dreams.
Chapter lii:	Of Lots and marks possessing the sure power of Oracles.
Chapter liii:	How he that will receive Oracles must dispose himself.
Chapter liv:	Of cleanness, and how to be observed.
Chapter lv:	Of abstinence, fastings, chastity, solitariness, the tranquillity and ascent of the mind.
Chapter lvi:	Of Penitency, and Almes.
Chapter lvii:	Of those things which being outwardly administred conduce to Expiation.
Chapter lviii:	Of Adorations, and vowes.
Chapter lix:	Of sacrifices and oblations, and their kinds and manners.
Chapter lx:	What imprecations, and rites the ancients were wont to use in sacrifices, and oblations.
Chapter lxi:	How these things must be performed, as to God, so as to inferiour dieties [deities].
Chapter lxii:	Of Consecrations, and their manner.
Chapter lxiii:	What things may be called holy, what consecrated, and how these become so betwixt us and the Dieties [deities]; and of sacred times.
Chapter lxiv:	Of certain Religious observations, ceremonies, and rites of perfumings, unctions, and such like.
Chapter lxv:	The Conclusion of the whole Work.
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Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis

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“Godfrey Higgins was convinced that a high civilization had flourished prior to all historical records. He believed that there had existed then a most ancient and universal religion from which all later creeds and doctrines sprang.” His research lasted over 20 years. “He attempted to establish the existence of a prehistoric universal religion and to trace its development into contemporary times. He believed this religion possessed accurate knowledge of universal and cosmic phenomena and held neither priesthood nor institution as intermediary in man’s communion with the Divine.” This highly sought after book is extremely rare. Two volumes.

Partial Contents

Probable Origin of Numbers and Letters; Etymology and its Use; Origin of the Adoration of the Bull, Phallic and Vernal Festivals; Age of the World; First God of the Ancients, The Sun, Metempsychosis, Moral Evil, Buddha, Genesis; The Sun the first object of Adoration of all Nations; Two Ancient Ethiopias, Great Black Nation in Asia, Hindoos and Egyptians similar; Ancient Persians, First Books of Genesis, Disingenuous conduct in the Translators of the Bible, Abraham acknowledged more than one God; Jewish Trinity; Ancient Jewish Cabala, Sephiroths and Emanations; Melchizedek, Zoroaster, Zendavesta, All ancient Religions astrological; Character of the Old Testament; Orphic and Mithraitic Trinity, Mithra, Opinions of Herodotus, Porphyry, Strabo, Julian, Times of Pythagoras and Zoroaster, The Vedas describe the Persian Religion; The word OM; The Christian Trinity, Its Origin, Philo’s Trinity of the Jews; Life of Cristna; Crucifixion of Cristna, Immaculate Conception, from the History of Pythagoras; Buddha the Sun in Taurus, as Cristna was the Sun in Aries, Names and Meaning of the word Buddha; Isaiah’s Prophecy known to the Egyptians and the Celts of Gaul, Mystical meaning of the Letter M, Oriental Astronomical Systems; Cross the meaning of it, Monograms of Christ and Osiris, Lama of Tibet, Indra crucified, Jesuits’ Account of Tibet; Hercules and Samson the same; Baal, Etymology of the world Bal; Yajna or Passover; Secret Doctrines, Bull-headed and Ram -headed Gods; Disputed Chapters of Matthew and Luke; Flood of Noah, Text of Genesis, Origin of the Delta of Egypt; Adoration of the Virgin and Child; Ionians, Argonauts, Linga and Yoni; The Lotus; The Loadstone, Helen Athena; Ship of Egypt and Greece; Aphrodite and Diana, Thales; Cassandra, Babylonian Mythos, Constantine and Helena, Astrology; Rome, Jewish Pentateuch; Judaism shown by Eusebius to be older than Abraham, Hellenism; Mount of Solomon, Mount of the Cabala, Mount Olympus; Religions of Afghans and Rajpouts; Arabians of India; Jews hate the Female Principle, Jews and Egyptians, Observations on the Jews; Origin of the Sanscrit; Amazons; Cyclopes, all Ancient History Fable or nigma, Freemasons in Mundore; Serpent of Genesis; Observations on Homer, the Iliad, and the neid; Fish Avatar, Fish Acrostic; Observations on Templars, Chair of St. Peter, Gospel of St. Joachim, Masons; Freemasons of York and India.