Consciousness is the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.
It has been defined as: subjectivity, awareness, sentience, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind.
Fraternitas Saturni (lat.: "Brotherhood of Saturn") is a German magical order, founded on Easter 1928 by Eugen Grosche aka Gregor A. Gregorius and 4 others... It is one of the oldest continuously running magical groups in Germany.. The lodge is, as Gregorius states, "concerned with the study of esotericism, mysticism, and magic in the cosmic sense".. Today its purpose is in working on the spiritual evolution of humanity by means of development and advancement of the individual being... This is to be attained by mental and ethical schooling of the personality and complete mastery of esotericism and occultism.. The FS adopts a system of 33 degrees to reach this goal. The lodge claims further no political or economical objectives. It propagates ideals of freedom, tolerance and fraternity...
The Fraternitas Saturni was founded in the wake of the so-called "Weida Conference" in 1925. It succeeded the "Collegium Pansophicum, Orient Berlin" (Pansophia Lodge), a Rosicrucian magical order founded by Heinrich Traenker, a notable German occultist of the time. The Weida Conference was meant to consolidate Aleister Crowley's claims to be the Outer Head of Ordo Templi Orientis and the expected World Teacher. The conference consisted of Crowley's entourage of Leah Hirsig, Dorothy Olsen, and Norman Mudd and the members of Heinrich Traenker's "Pansophia Lodge". Traenker had served as a X° National Grand Master of the German O.T.O. under Theodor Reuss up until Reuss's death. Also attending the conference were the notable film pioneer Albin Grau and Gregor A. Gregorius...
On Easter 1928, the Fraternitas Saturni was officially founded in Berlin...The emphasis of the FS lies more on astrological and Luciferian teachings, rather than on Qabalah and Tarot compared to other western magical orders founded in the early 20th century.. Because of its unique approach to modern occultism, the FS is considered by many modern authors to be the most influential German magical order..The Fraternitas Saturni became a legal organisation, registered as "Fraternitas Saturni, e.v." in 1957. The Fraternitas Saturni is, beside incorporating new attempts on magic, still working on its traditional roots and enhancing the concept of "Saturn-Magic" as the center of its work.. On its 75th anniversary (2003), the lodge incorporated another order of the so-called "Immanuel-succession", the "Grand-Lodge Gregor A. Gregorius".. This unification effectively doubled the size of its membership.. The Fraternitas Saturni has working lodges in Germany, Austria and Switzerland...
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Since ancient times, sages gazed at the stars, admiring their heavenly glow and attributing them godly powers, based on their effect on humans. Before the Great Flood, Saturn was regarded by all mankind as the supreme god and ruler of the kings. Occult researchers affirm that Saturn ruled the kingdom of Atlantis and became the divine ancestor of all earthly patriarchs and kings. The cult has been perpetuated through numerous gods during Antiquity: "Chronos, or Saturn, Dionysos, Hyperion, Atlas, Hercules, were all connected with 'a great Saturnian continent;' they were kings that ruled over countries on the western shores of the Mediterranean, Africa and Spain. "the world has worshiped Saturn for thousands of years it never stopped to this day. Saturn, "Lord of the Rings", is why we exchange rings at weddings or put halos on the heads of godly people. ..Saturn in Western Civilizations..
The Greeks and the Romans also worshiped Saturn "With the deposing of his father, Saturn became the ruler of the Universe for untold ages and he reigned with his sister, Ops, who also became his wife.It was prophesied that one day Saturn would lose power when one of his children would depose him. To prevent this from happening, each time Ops delivered a child Saturn would immediately swallow it. When her sixth child, Jupiter(Zeus), was born, Ops had him spirited away to the island of Crete. She then wrapped a stone in his swaddling clothes. Her deception was complete when Saturn swallowed it, thinking it was the child. When Jupiter was grown, he secured the job of cup-bearer to his father. With the help of Gaia, his grandmother, Jupiter fed his father a potion that caused him to vomit up Jupiter's five siblings, Vesta (Hestia), Ceres (Demeter), Juno (Hera), Pluto (Hades), and Neptune (Poseidon)."
Saturn In ancient times, has been called "The Greater Malefic" which was opposed to Jupiter, "The Greater Benefic". Saturn is esoterically associated with man's limitations, restrictions, death and decay. His Greek name was "Kronos", the ruler of time, time being the main factore inevitably leading to the death of mortals. representations of the "grim reaper" originate from the attributes of the god Saturn, who held the sickle with which he slain his father. To the initiate, the skeleton of death holding in bony fingers the reaper's scythe denotes Saturn (Kronos), the father of the gods, carrying the sickle with which he mutilated Ouranos, his own sire. great god PAN...the horned deity, represented Saturn in ancient paganism. This half-man half-goat creature is considered the ancestor of our modern depictions of Satan..
"A composite creature, the upper part--with exception of his horns--being human, and the lower part in the form of a goat.The pipes of Pan signify the natural harmony of the spheres, he is a symbol of Saturn because this planet is enthroned in Capricorn, whose emblem is a goat" -Manly P. Hall, Secret Teachings of All Ages .So Pan was depicted with horns due to the fact it represented Saturn, the ruler of the house of Capricorn which symbol is a goat:Pan was the controlling spirit of the lower worlds. He was portrayed roaming through the forests, penis erect, drunk and lascivious, frolicking with nymphs and piping his way through the wild. We might say he ruled the lower nature of man, its animal side, not unlike Satan.Despite acknowledging its association with Evil, secret societies find the veneration of Saturn necessary to obtain illumination. It is the necessary counterpart of the principle of Good. Masonic authors clearly associate Saturn with Satan: "Saturn is the opposite to Jupiter; his symbol is the cross above the sign of Luna (1711 ). He is the Satan, the Tempter, or rather the Tester. His function is to chastise and tame the unruly passions in the primitive man." -J.S. Ward, Freemasonry and the Ancient Gods .an extreme example of a secret society worshiping Saturn's is "Fraternitas Saturni". an occult organization based in Germany "The Fraternitas Saturni (FS), the Brotherhood of Saturn, is known to English readers through fragmentary descriptions which emphasize the sensational, sex-magical aspects of this lodge's work or else its darker, more Satanic, side.This is understandable in light of the fact that the FS was a most unabashedly Luciferian group in modern Western occultism, its practice of sexual occultism is the most elaborately detailed of any lodge. The FS is a unique blend of astrological cosmology, neo-Gnostic daemonology, sexual occultism, and Freemasonic principles.. This synthesis was originally the vision of one man, Gregor A. Gregorius"...
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The term Black Sun (Schwarze Sonne), also referred to as the Sonnenrad ("Sun Wheel"), is a symbol of esoteric and occult significance. Its design is based on a sun wheel incorporated in a floor of Wewelsburg Castle..The term Black Sun may originate with the mystical "Central Sun" in Helena Blavatsky's Theosophy.. This invisible or burnt out Sun symbolizes an opposing force or pole...
"Aleister Crowley's treatise on the making of a homunculus was couched in terms of a secret ritual for the IX° members of the O.T.O. It begins with the premis that the human ego reincarnates into a "new tenement" when the foetus is in its 3rd month of gestation.. One classical method involves removal of a woman's fertilized ovum and continuing the gestation ectopically. Crowley is characteristically vague about the details, however, throwing in a few alchemical allusions...
The modern magickal method is another thing entirely. Crowley advises selection of a female partner whose horoscope is suited to the nature of whatever homunculus is desired. The magician and his mate "copulate continuously" until impregnation results; then, the woman is withdrawn to a desolate place where appropriate incantations are vibrated (e.g. the banishing formulae of the Sephiroth) five to 7 times a day..The woman is "constantly educated by words and by books and by pictures of a nature consonant" to the spirit being evoked - the method of Liber Astarte (bhakti yoga). Delivery is somehow held up or pushed forward to assure the child an appropriate ascendant sign, and when the infant is born, it is immediately dedicated, purified, and consecrated to the incarnated spirit"..
But when Jack Parsons worked together with Ron L. Hubbard to make a so-called 'Moonchild' (Crowley's name for a homunculus), Crowley reacted with displeasure..Having been deserted by 2 women in a row, Parsons decided to have no more truck with human females, and to invoke an elemental in female form to serve his sexual and ritual purposes. He used the 'Calls' contained in the Enochian system of magic devised by Dr. John Dee during Elizabeth I's reign to summon the 'powers of the elemental tablets'..In this method, the name of the elemental to be invoked is written on a diagram of a truncated pyramid, and the correct Enochian Call is recited.. The elemental is supposed to respond instantly, so great is its desire to incarnate in human form. The (male) magician uses his erect penis like a magic wand as a source of power, and his semen as the physical basis from which the elemental can form a visible body...In India, it is a tradition amongst certain Tantric sects to anoint their phallic lingam images with Oil, Milk, and sometimes Semen...
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Magical mottoes are the magical nicknames, noms de plume, or pseudonyms taken by individuals in a number of magical organizations. These members were known and sometimes referred to in many publications by these mottoes. Members of these organizations typically adopted such a motto at their initiation into the neophyte grade of the organizations..
Magical mottoes are taken in order to separate the magician's magical identity from their mundane identity within the context of magical work.. Within the highly influential tradition of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the mottoes chosen were usually in a foreign language, often but not always Latin. The mottoes were sometimes called the initiate's "aspiration name," and most contain high-minded sentiments and often literary allusions..Members were free to change them upon receiving initiations into higher degrees of the organizations; William Butler Yeats began as Festina Lente (Latin: "Make haste slowly") and changed it later in his career with the Golden Dawn..
Within the Golden Dawn tradition, documents and instructions were typically issued under the initials of the magical mottoes of their authors. For example, the document Of Skrying and Travelling in the Spirit-Vision was written by Moina Bergson Mathers, and as such appears credited to "Soror V.N.R.", standing for her motto Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum.. And, The Tree of Life as Projected as a Solid Sphere is credited to "S.R.M.D.", indicating that its author was Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers. Within this tradition, users of magical mottoes typically referred to each other in their capacity as initiates as Frater (men) or Soror (women), Latin for "brother" and "sister" respectively, followed by the initials of their magical mottoes...
The Book of Lies (full title: Which is also Falsely Called BREAKS. The Wanderings or Falsifications of the One Thought of Frater Perdurabo, which Thought is itself Untrue. Liber CCCXXXIII [Book 333]) was written by English occultist and teacher Aleister Crowley (using the pen name of Frater Perdurabo) and first published in 1912 or 1913.. As Crowley describes it: "This book deals with many matters on all planes of the very highest importance. It is an official publication for Babes of the Abyss, but is recommended even to beginners as highly suggestive...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_motto en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Lies_(Crowley) sanctumzone.co.uk/forum/Recommended-Read...e-clever.html#120315 She is a living presence in their spiritual earthbound plain.. They are attracted to the one thing about her that is different from themselves - her lifeforce. It is very strong. It gives off its own illumination. It is a light that implies life and memory of love and home and earthly pleasures, something they desperately desire but can't have anymore. Right now, she's the closest thing to that, and that is a terrible distraction from the real LIGHT that has finally come for them. You understand me? These souls, who for whatever reason are not at rest, are also not aware that they have passed on.. They're not part of consciousness as we know it. They linger in a perpetual dreamstate, a nightmare from which they can not awake. Inside the spectral light is salvation, a window to the next plain...sanctumzone.co.uk/forum/demonstrations-d...html?start=20#143177
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In Magick (Book 4), Crowley asserted that Baphomet was a divine androgyne and "the hieroglyph of arcane perfection":. The Devil does not exist. It is a false name invented by the Black Brothers to imply a Unity in their ignorant muddle of dispersions. A devil who had unity would be a God... 'The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation. He is 'The Devil' of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is BAPHOMET, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection... He is therefore Life, and Love. But moreover his letter is ayin, the Eye, so that he is Light; and his Zodiacal image is Capricornus, that leaping goat whose attribute is Liberty...
At several places in the Delta, e.g. Hermopolis, Lycopolis, and Mendes, the god Pan and a goat were worshipped; Strabo, quoting (xvii. 1, 19) Pindar, says that in these places goats had intercourse with women, and Herodotus (ii. 46) instances a case which was said to have taken place in the open day. The Mendisians, according to this last writer, paid reverence to all goats, and more to the males than to the females, and particularly to one he-goat, on the death of which public mourning is observed throughout the whole Mendesian district; they call both Pan and the goat Mendes, and both were worshipped as gods of generation and fecundity. Diodorus (i. 88) compares the cult of the goat of Mendes with that of Priapus, and groups the god with the Pans and the Satyrs. The goat referred to by all these writers is the famous Mendean Ram, or Ram of Mendes, the cult of which was, according to Manetho, established by Kakau, the king of the IInd dynasty...
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The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
The term "horn" is also popularly applied to other hard and pointed features attached to the head of animals in various other families..Horned lizards (Phrynosoma): These lizards have horns on their heads which have a hard keratin covering over a bony core, like mammalian horns..Some insects (such as rhinoceros beetles) have horn-like structures on the head or thorax (or both).. Cutaneous horns are the only examples of horns growing on people..Some cultures use bovid horns as musical instruments, for example the shofar..The cornucopia (from Latin cornu copiae) or horn of plenty is a symbol of abundance and nourishment, commonly a large horn-shaped container overflowing with produce, flowers, nuts, other edibles, or wealth in some form...
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Order of the Golden Centurium...This lodge had nothing to do with regular Freemasonry. They didn’t have any actual degrees, ranks and levels of realisation. The advancement to apprentice, journeyman and master was only of symbolic character.. All secrets were given during the initiation. The other “grades” were not ranks, but only temple-stones which were provided with a number and name. Their intention was demonological oriented i.e. they tried, in alliance with allegedly existing negative spiritual forces to obtain personal advantages, influence, power and money for their members. For this reason they placed themselves under mars-daimon “Barzabel”, the old bull-god Astaroth, Belial and Asmodi as lodge-daimon who took place number 100 in the lodge.. At all times only 99 persons of the male gender could belong to this esoteric working-group or secret lodge. This lodge basically never appeared in the open...
Similar to the Russian Roulette (also practised by the order of assassins which also existed at the turn of the century (19th to the 20th century) in Central Europe), every 5 years (if at that point of time no other lodge member had died) a balloting for ”death candidate” took place on the evening (June 23rd) before John’s day.. This death candidate served as “lodge-sacrifice” for the services of the transcendental powers in which the lodge believed.. The dead-candidate was determined by the draw of a lot or a ballot. In the later case there were 98 white balls and 1 black ball in the ballot box... Whoever drew the dead-lot became, according to the constitution of the order, property of the supposed lodge daimon, i.e. he had to consume deadly poison during the lodge meeting..
The Grandmaster of this organisation that was part of a truly “macabre” and supersaturated society had the authority to order the balloting three times if “fate” demanded him draw the black ball. The fortune and capital of the “sacrificed” member came into the treasury of the lodge.. The lodge-seat, lodge-number and the serving imagospurius were assigned to the new member who was to be initiated on the same day. Allegedly the lodge mastered in theory and practice almost all black-magical techniques..Every member was bound to the lodge-daimon by oaths, blood-rituals and mental-pacts. The most important rituals were taken from the works of ceremonial magic “Heptameron”, Waite: Ceremonial Magic, Stroessner-Bachhausen: “Freimaurerei und Magie” ..Also combat-telepathy and the ray-apparatus Tepaphone were used...
"Our Order possesses the KEY which opens up all Masonicand Hermetic secrets, namely the teaching of sexual magic,and this teaching explains, without exception, all thesecrets of Freemasonry and all systems of religion."
Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice...From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favour fire.. But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice Is also great and would suffice..
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Charles Stansfeld Jones (1886–1950), aka Frater Achad, was an occultist and ceremonial magician. An early aspirant to A∴A∴ (the 20th to be admitted as a Probationer, in December 1909) who "claimed" the grade of Magister Templi as a Neophyte. He also became an O.T.O. initiate, serving as the principal organizer for that order in British Columbia, Canada. He worked under a variety of mottos and titles, including V.I.O. (Unus in Omnibus, "One in All," as an A∴A∴ Probationer), O.I.V.V.I.O., V.I.O.O.I.V., Parzival (as an Adeptus Minor and O.T.O. 9th Degree), and Tantalus Leucocephalus (as 10th Degree O.T.O.), but he is best known under his Neophyte motto Achad (Hebrew "unity", אחד), which he used as a byline in his various published writings...
Crowley and Jones frequently discussed the Ouija board and it is often mentioned in their unpublished letters..A Master of the Temple, Liber CLXXV (issued in The Equinox III:1, also known as the "Blue" Equinox) This text is the published form of Jones' earliest magical records.. "Stepping Out of the Old Aeon and into the New" (also in the "Blue" Equinox), a short homily on Thelema and solar consciousness...
The methods of the U.B. involved one-to-one correspondence, with an elaborate set of rules regarding strict secrecy of instructions, envelopes-within-envelopes, purple typewriter ribbons, and special paperclips. Aspirants were provided with typescript lectures ("sutras") on metaphysical topics, using idiosyncratic terms like "integrality" and "partitivity." A system of alms provided for funds to be remitted back up the same chain down which these instructions descended. Organizational titles and pseudonyms in the U.B. were generally taken from Sanskrit. Few U.B. writings have become accessible to non-members, but those that have, taken with Jones' writings in the U.B. vein, suggest that their doctrines involved a baroquely intellectualized form of sentimental monotheism...Annie Besant, as head of the Theosophical Society, strictly forbade cross-membership in the U.B. As Crowley became aware of the involvement of his followers, he likewise denounced the U.B., calling it a "swindle" in correspondence with Jones. Many of those who left the Theosophical Society for the U.B. under pressure from Besant later converted to Roman Catholicism...
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Considerations before the Threshold. First concerning the choice of a particular Deity. This matter is of no import, sobeit that thou choose one suited to thine own highest nature. Howsoever, this method is not so suitable for gods austere as Saturn, or intellectual as Thoth. But for such deities as in themselves partake in anywise of love it is a perfect mode...
Concerning the Mysterious Triangle. Now then as 3 cords separately may be broken by a child, while those same cords duly twisted may bind a giant, let the Philosophus learn to entwine these 3 methods of Magic into a Spell..To this end let him understand that as they are 1, because the end is one, so are they One because the method is One, even the method of turning the mind toward the particular Deity by love in every act..And lest thy twine slip, here is a little cord that wrappeth tightly round and round all, even the Mantram or Continuous Prayer...
Concerning the Mantram or Continuous Prayer. Let the Philosophus weave the Name of the Particular Deity into a sentence short and rhythmical, as, for Artemis: επελθον, επελθον, Αρτεμισ; or, for Shiva: Namo Shivaya namaha Aum; or, for Mary: Ave Maria; or for Pan, χαιρε Σωτηρ κοσμου, Ιω Παν, Ιω Παν; or, for Allah: Hua Allahu alazi lailaha illa Hua..Let him repeat this day and night without cessation mechanically in his brain, which is thus made ready for the advent of that Lord, and armed against all other...
Astarte (Ancient Greek: Ἀστάρτη, "Astártē") is the Greek name of the Mesopotamian (i.e. Assyrian, Akkadian, Babylonian) Semitic goddess Ishtar known throughout the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean from the early Bronze Age to Classical times.. It is one of a number of names associated with the chief goddess or female divinity of those peoples..Astarte was connected with fertility, sexuality, and war. Her symbols were the lion, the horse, the sphinx, the dove, and a star within a circle indicating the planet Venus. Pictorial representations often show her naked.. She has been known as the deified evening star...
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The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
Magic squares were known to Chinese mathematicians as early as 650 BCE,and to Arab mathematicians possibly as early as the 7th century CE, when the Arabs conquered northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent and learned Indian mathematics and astronomy, including other aspects of combinatorial mathematics.. The first magic squares of order 5 and 6 appear in an encyclopedia from Baghdad circa 983 CE, the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity (Rasa'il Ihkwan al-Safa); simpler magic squares were known to several earlier Arab mathematicians..Some of these squares were later used in conjunction with magic letters, as in (Shams Al-ma'arif), to assist Arab illusionists and magicians.. The first magic squares of order 5 and 6 known to have been devised by Arab mathematicians appear in an encyclopedia from Baghdad circa 983 AD, the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa ( Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity); simpler magic squares were known to several earlier Arab mathematicians.The 3x3 magic square has been a part of rituals in India since Vedic times, and still is today..
In about 1510 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa wrote De Occulta Philosophia, drawing on the Hermetic and magical works of Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola.. In its 1531 edition, he expounded on the magical virtues of the 7 magical squares of orders 3 to 9, each associated with one of the astrological planets, much in the same way as the older texts did...
Magic squares of order 3 through 9, assigned to the seven planets, and described as means to attract the influence of planets and their angels (or demons) during magical practices, can be found in several manuscripts all around Europe starting at least since the 15th century. Among the best known, the Liber de Angelis, a magical handbook written around 1440, is included in Cambridge Univ. Lib. MS Dd.xi.45.[13] The text of the Liber de Angelis is very close to that of De septem quadraturis planetarum seu quadrati magici, another handbook of planetary image magic contained in the Codex 793 of the Biblioteka Jagiellońska (Ms BJ 793).. For instance, the 3x3 square, that belongs to Saturn, has to be inscribed on a lead plate.. It will, in particular, help women during a difficult childbirth..Saturn=15...
Tavistock Square is a public square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden and was the scene of one of the 4 suicide bombings on 7 July 2005.. The bomb was detonated by 18-year-old terrorist Hasib Hussain on a double-decker bus bearing number 30 opposite the BMA building.. The explosion killed 13 commuters, plus Hussain himself..On the BMA building is a blue plaque commemorating that Charles Dickens once lived in Tavistock House on the site..A cherry tree was planted in 1967 in memory of the victims of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima..The world's 1st blue plaques were erected in London in the 19th century to mark the homes and workplaces of famous people..The Blue House is in fact a complex of buildings, built largely in the traditional Korean architectural style with some modern elements..A transit is the astronomical event that occurs when one celestial body appears to move across the face of another celestial body, hiding a small part of it, as seen by an observer at some particular vantage point..It's Alien, the 8th passenger...
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The Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani (OSMTH), also known as Knights Templar International, is a self-styled order founded in 1945 by Antonio Campello Pinto de Sousa Fontes (1878-1960), claiming to be a continuation of the self-styled l'Ordre du Temple founded in 1804 by Bernard-Raymond Fabré-Palaprat.. Fernando Campello Pinto Pereira de Sousa Fontes succeeded his father as the head of the order in 1960...
The rituals and traditions are currently based upon those of the historical Knights Templar, according to its website and their present leader, Grand Master Patrick Rea,there is no direct historical lineage between the 2 groups..OSMTH-KTI is registered in Geneva, Swiss Reg No: CH-660.1.972 777-4 and is in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations has over 5000 active members in Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, England & Wales, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Serbia and in the United States...
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (born Patricia Kennely; March 4, 1946) is an American author and journalist.. Her published works include rock criticism, a memoir, and 2 series of science fiction/fantasy and murder mystery novels.. Most of her books are part of her series, The Keltiad..there are 8 novels in the series..The books are set in a star system far from our own, where various Celtic peoples emigrated after the rise of Christianity and the purge of the Old Religion that followed..She is a Dame of the Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani, a High Priestess in a Celtic Pagan tradition and a member of Mensa..This, of course, drove the Bacchants wild, and they tore the trapped Pentheus down And ripped his body apart piece by piece, Pentheus' own mother ripping off his head...
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Patri cia was born in Brooklyn, New York, and reared on Long Island in the hamlet of North Babylon..
August Belmont, the noted 19th century financier, raised racing horses at his estate which is now Belmont Lake State Park.. There is still a flat circular plot of ground just south of the Southern State Parkway on the western side of Belmont Avenue where his trainers worked the horses when they were in New York for the racing season. Austin Corbin, who developed Coney Island in the 1870s before he became the manager of the Long Island Railroad, built his summer residence along the shores of Deer Lake. Col. M. Robert Guggenheim, an industrialist and brother to the founder of Newsday, also resided in the area of Parkdale Estates on the shores of what now known as Deer Lake...
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A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha or pentangle or a star pentagon) is the shape of a 5-pointed star drawn with 5 straight strokes...
Pentagrams were used as an important religious symbol by the Babylonians and by the Pythagoreans in ancient Greece.. Pentagrams are used today as a symbol of faith by many Neopagans, and may be found in jewelry incorporating the symbol.. Several faiths also associate the pentagram with magic. Christians in the past commonly used the pentagram to represent the five wounds of Jesus, and it has associations with Freemasonry...
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The core of everything in the universe is a vibration; energy.. The Law of Attraction states that these energies, including our thoughts, attract the same vibrations back to them in every circumstance whether we are aware of the happenings, or not...
The ATOM is a basic unit of matter that consists of a dense central nucleus surrounded by a CLOUD of negatively charged electrons - The atomic nucleus contains a mix of positively charged + protons and electrically neutral neutrons (except in the case of hydrogen-1, which is the only stable nuclide with no neutrons).. The electrons of an atom are bound to the nucleus by the electromagnetic force.. An atom containing an equal number of protons and electrons is electrically neutral, otherwise it is positively or negatively charged and is known as an ION...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
In ancient Greek religion, orgia (ὄργια, sing. ὄργιον, orgion) were ecstatic rites characteristic of the Greek and Hellenistic mystery religions. Unlike public religion, or the private religious practices of a household, the mysteries were open only to initiates, and were thus "secret". Some rites were held at night. Orgia were part of the Eleusinian Mysteries, the Dionysian Mysteries, and the cult of Cybele, which involved the castration of her priests in a frenzied trance. Because of their secret, nocturnal, and unscripted nature, the orgia were subject to prurient speculation and regarded with suspicion, particularly by the Romans, who attempted to suppress the Bacchanals in 186 BC. Orgia are popularly thought to have involved sex,but while sexuality and fertility were cultic concerns, the primary goal of the orgia was to achieve an ecstatic union with the divine..The "Roman orgy"-themed affair included period costumes and a mock slave auction, and was covered by Life magazine and various local news media...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
In 1912, the editors of Oriflamme announced.. Our order possesses the key which opens up all Masonic and Hermetic secrets, namely, the teachings of sexual magic, and this teaching explains, without exception, all the secrets of Freemasonry and all systems of religion..Moonchild is a novel written by the British occultist Aleister Crowley in 1917.. Its plot involves a magical war between a group of white magicians, led by Simon Iff, and a group of black magicians over an unborn child...
Jan 25 – An anti-prostitution drive in San Francisco occurs and police close about 200 prostitution houses \Feb 13 – Mata Hari is arrested in Paris for spying / March 8 - (N.S.) (February 23, O.S.) – The Russian February Revolution begins with the overthrow of the Tsar \ April 2 – WWI: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany / May 21 – Over 300 acres (73 blocks) are destroyed in the Great Atlanta fire of 1917 \ June 8 – A fire at the Speculator and Granite Mountain ore mine outside Butte, Montana kills at least 168 workers / July 31 – WWI: The Battle of Passchendaele: Allied offensive operations commence in Flanders \ August 18 – The Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 in Greece destroys 32% of the city, leaving 70,000 individuals homeless / Sept 23 – Leon Trotsky is elected Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet \ Oct 12 – WWI: The biggest loss of life in a single day for New Zealand. Over 800 men and 45 officers were killed at the First Battle of Passchendaele, roughly 1 in 1000 of the nation's population at the time - 13 – Miracle of the Sun at Fatima in Portugal / Nov 15 - In the United States, a "Night of Terror" results in the injury of several influential suffragettes - The Parliament of Finland again declares itself holder of sovereignty, effectively dissolving the 108-year-old union with Russia - 17 - WWI: Battle of Jerusalem (1917) begins with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force launching attacks against Ottoman forces in the Judean Hills - The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals is founded in the United Kingdom \ Dec – Annie Besant becomes president of the Indian National Congress - 6 Finland officially declares independence from Russia - Halifax Explosion: 2 freighters collide in Halifax Harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia and cause a huge explosion that kills at least 1,963 people, injures 9,000 and destroys part of the city (until the Trinity nuclear test, the biggest man made explosion in recorded history)...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
Ishtar (DINGIR INANNA; Sumerian) is the East Semitic Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex.. She is the counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna, and is the cognate for the Northwest Semitic Aramean goddess Astarte...
If thou openest not the gate to let me enter,
I will break the door, I will wrench the lock,
I will smash the door-posts, I will force the doors..
I will bring up the dead to eat the living.
And the dead will outnumber the living...
Besides the lions on her gate, her symbol is an 8-pointed star..In the Babylonian pantheon, she "was the divine personification of the planet Venus"..In the Japanese manga Red River, a young Japanese girl is transported to ancient Hattusa and is mistaken as Ishtar... appears in the Movies Blood Feast and Blood Diner, although she is referred to as an Egyptian god. The sequel to Blood Feast, Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat also features Ishtar, but it is explained that she is Babylonian, even though "everyone seems to think she's Egyptian..Hattusa was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age. It was found to be located near modern Boğazkale, Turkey, within the great loop of the Kızılırmak River ..A pair of sphinxes found at the southern gate in Hattusa was taken for restoration to Germany in 1917.. The better-preserved sphinx was returned to Istanbul in 1924 and was placed on display in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, whereas the other remained in Germany and had been on display at the Pergamon Museum since 1934..The 2-headed eagle can be found in the archaeological remains of the Sumerian civilization and through the Hittite civilization, dating from a period that ranges from the 20th century BC to the 7th century BC.. It originally dates from c. 3800 BC, and was the Sumerian symbol for the god of Lagash, Ninurta son of Enlil...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
If a chessboard were to have wheat placed upon each square such that 1 grain were placed on the 1st square, 2 on the 2nd, 4 on the 3rd, and so on (doubling the number of grains on each subsequent square), how many grains of Wheat would be on the chessboard at the finish...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
The EPA (environmental protection agency) and OSHA took air samples in the days following September 11th, they reported that they found no excessive levels of asbestos contrary to other findings....
With the anniversary of September 11th literally just around the corner, unanswered questions still remain for families who lost loved ones during the tragic event, as well as from families...
In 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a series of lower court rulings that restrict the United States Navy's use of sonar in submarine detection training exercises off...
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