Anna Riva (Dorothy Spencer) Books

Highly Recommended Reading:
Art of Divination (1995)

Candle Burning Magic (1980)

Devotions to the Saints (1982)

Golden Secrets of Mystic Oils (1990)

How to Conduct a Séance (1997)

Magic with Incense and Powders (1985)

Modern Witchcraft Spellbook (1973)

Powers of the Psalms (1982)

Prayer Book (1984)

Secrets of Magical Seals (1975)

Six Lessons in Crystal Gazing (1993)

Spellcraft, Hexcraft and Witchcraft (1977)

The Modern Herbal Spellbook (1974)

Voodoo Handbook of Cult Secrets (1974)

Voodoo Handbook of Cult Secrets (1996)

Your Lucky Numbers Forever (1992)

"GOTHIC MIST"

GOTHIC MIST

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stars in the eyes of cold columbine
pierrot and pierette waltzing together
they have their love now, but you aren't mine

even pooh has a teddy to sleep with
but it has gone from full to darkened moon,
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if you don't come and love me soon

i hold velvet to my body, cry salt oceans
send shadows and fog to creep and mist,
sing chanting spells to call you to me...
i'd sell my blood to feel your kiss


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(Mystic Raven)

Scarlet Sister Mary, Conjure Woman

Paganism: Suggested Reading

A Short List of Wicca - Witchcraft Suggested Reading: 1. Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham (November 1990) 2. Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft by Raymond Buckland (December 1986) 3. The Book of Spells II: Over 40 Charms and Magic Spells to Increase You Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Well-Being by Marian Green (September 2001) 4. Wicca: The Old Religion in the New Millennium by Vivianne Crowley (January 1996) 5. Solitary Witch: The Ultimate Book of Shadows for the New Generation by Silver Ravenwolf (February 2003).

A Brief List of Authors: Aleister Crowley, Alfred Métraux, Amber K, Anna Riva, Chief FAMA, DJ Conway, Doktor Snake, Doreen Valiente, Gavin and Yvonne Frost, Gerald Gardner, Heike Owusu, Irete Lazo, Isaac Bonewits, Israel Regardie, Janet and Stewart Farrar, Jeanine De Oya, K.A. Sahure, Laënnec Hurbon, Margaret Murray, Marie Laveau, Margot Adler, Migene Gonzalez Wippler, Milo Riguard, Moustafa Gadalla, Muata Ashby, Ra Un Nefer Amen, Raven Grimassi, Robert Tallant, Scott Cunningham, Silver Ravenwolf, Starhawk, Sybil Leek, and Vivianne Crowley. There are many writers and contributors to all aspects of African Traditional Religions, Wicca, Witchcraft, Paganism, Pagan Theology, and Ancient Egyptian Religion (Kemeticism).

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Working from home can be a lot of fun and so less stressful than trying to battle the traffic and get home in time for the kiddies arriving from school. Producing your very own candle designs to make some extra money or even turn into a small home based business is not so very difficult.

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What you will need to get started is the right instructions to make sure that you attack this hobby in the right way. Candle designs change according to decor changes, as do most other art forms and once you know the basic techniques to make candles, you won't find it too difficult to keep abreast of the latest trends and change your designs to suit

Embedding flowers and petals into wax is a lovely technique, as is adding foil. Ice candles can be so effective. White candles with red chunks in them look great for Christmas. When you think about it, the possibilities are endless. Learn the correct way how to make candles and you will feel confident and happy with your work right from the beginning.

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Party Plan
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aromatherapy candles

scented candles - popular scents

designer candles - glass containers

theme candles - Christmas, Halloween

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Ancient Egyptian: Suggested Reading

Temple of Kemetic Wicca Theological Seminary
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Ancient Egyptian – Suggested Reading

The Temple's Priesthood / Priestesshood training program is quite rigorous and does require a vast amount of reading, studying, comparative analysis, expository writing, presentation, and practicum:

1. A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses [1986] George Hart.
2. A Handbook of Egyptian Religion [1907] Adolf Erman, Königliche Museen zu Berlin.
3. An Egyptian Book of Shadows: Eight Seasonal Rites of Egyptian Paganism [2000] Jocelyn Almond, Keith Seddon.
4. Ancient Egypt and Black Africa [1996] Dr. Théophile Obenga.
5. Ancient Egypt: An Illustrated Reference to the Myths, Religions, Pyramids and Temples of the Land of the Pharaohs [2002] Lorna Oakes, Lucia Gahlin.
6. Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts: Spells 1-354 [2000] Dr. Raymond O. Faulkner.
7. Ancient Egyptian Divination and Magic [1998] Eleanor L. Harris.
8. Ancient Egyptian Magic [1980] Dr. Bob Brier.
9. Ancient Egyptian Magic [2003] Dr. Geraldine Pinch.
10. Ancient Egyptian Religion: An Interpretation [2000] Henri Frankfort.
11. Ancient Records of Egypt [1907] Dr. James H. Breasted.
12. Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Dead [1988] Normandi Ellis.
13. Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt [1996] Erik Hornung, John Baines.
14. Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian [1970] Dr. Raymond O. Faulkner.
15. Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt [1905] Dr. James H. Breasted.
16. Egypt of the Pharaohs: An Introduction [1964, 1972] Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner.
17. Egypt, Canaan & Israel in Ancient Times [1993] Dr. Donald B. Redford.
18. Egypt: Gods, Myths and Religion [2001] Lucia Gahlin.
19. Egypt: Three Essays on the History, Religion and Art of Ancient Egypt [1891] Martin Brimmer, Minna Timmins Chapman.
20. Egyptian Astronomy [1980] Edwin C. Krupp.
21. Egyptian Cosmology: The Animated Universe [1997, 2001] Moustafa Gadalla.
22. Egyptian Divinities: The All Who Are THE ONE [2001] Moustafa Gadalla.
23. Egyptian Grammar (Egyptology: Griffith Institute) [1957] Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner.
24. Egyptian Harmony: The Visual Music [2000] Moustafa Gadalla.
25. Egyptian Hieroglyphics: How to Read and Write Them [1989] Stephane Rossini.
26. Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life [1908] E.A. Wallis Budge.
27. Egyptian Love Spells and Rituals [2005] Claudia Dillaire.
28. Egyptian Magic [1908] E.A. Wallis Budge.
29. Egyptian Magic [1982] Florence Farr.
30. Egyptian Magick: Enter the Body of Light & Travel the Magickal Universe [1997] Gerald & Betty Schueler.
31. Egyptian Medicine and Its Curing [1948] Dr. Benjamin M. Duggar.
32. Egyptian Mystics: Seekers of the Way [2003] Moustafa Gadalla.
33. Egyptian Mythology [1968] Veronica Ions.
34. Egyptian Mythology [1997] Simon Goodenough.
35. Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt [2004] Dr. Geraldine Pinch.
36. Egyptian Paganism for Beginners [2004] Jocelyn Almond.
37. Egyptian Power Stamps [2003] Dr. Ronald L Bonewitz, Douglas Bloch.
38. Egyptian Reading Book [1948] Adriaan de Buck.
39. Egyptian Reading Book for Beginners [2003] E.A. Wallis Budge.
40. Egyptian Religion [1973] Siegfried Morenz.
41. Egyptian Religion: The Beliefs of Ancient Egypt Explored and Explained [2002] Lucia Gahlin.
42. Egyptian Rhythm: The Heavenly Melodies [2002] Moustafa Gadalla.
43. Egyptian Scarab Oracle [2001] DeTraci Regula, Kerigwen.
44. Egyptian Symbols [2008] Heike Owusu.
45. Egyptian Tarot Deck (Cards) [2001] Comte C. de Saint-Germain.
46. Egyptology Today [2008] Richard Wilkinson.
47. Egyptology: Search for the Tomb of Osiris [2004] Emily Sands, Dugald A. Steer, Helen Ward.
48. Exiled Egyptians: The Heart of Africa [1999] Moustafa Gadalla.
49. Feasts of Light: Celebrations for the Seasons of Life Based on the Egyptian Goddess Mysteries [1999] Normandi Ellis.
50. Fundamentals of Egyptian Grammar: Elements [2000] Leo Depuydt.
51. Genesis in Egypt: The Philosophy of Ancient Egyptian Creation Accounts [1988] Dr. James P. Allen.
52. Gods and Myths of Ancient Egypt [1986] Robert Armour.
53. Gods, Rites, Rituals and Religion of Ancient Egypt [2008] Lucia Gahlin.
54. Historical Deception: The Untold Story of Ancient Egypt [1999] Moustafa Gadalla.
55. History & Chronology of the Egyptian 18th Dynasty [1967] Dr. Donald B. Redford.
56. History of Ancient Egyptians [1908] Dr. James H. Breasted.
57. History of Egypt Chaldea Syria Babylonia and Assyria [1903, 1904] Gaston Maspero, Archibald Henry Sayce, M.L. McClure.
58. History of Egypt [1905] Dr. James H. Breasted.
59. How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs [1998, 2001] Mark Collier, Bill Manley.
60. Legends of Ancient Egypt [2000] Dr. Margaret A. Murray.
61. Metu Neter Volume 1: The Great Oracle of Tehuti and the Egyptian System of Spiritual Cultivation [1990] Ra Un Nefer Amen.
62. Middle Egyptian [2001, 2002] Dr. James P. Allen.
63. Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt [1959] R.T. Rundle Clark.
64. Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt [2001] Dr. Donald B. Redford.
65. Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt [2008] Barbara Mertz.
66. Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt [2003] Dr. Rosalie David.
67. Short History of the Egyptian People [1923] E.A. Wallis Budge.
68. Sixth and Seventh Book of Moses [1997] Egyptian Publishing Co.
69. Symbols of Egypt [2000] Heike Owusu.
70. Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt [2007] Barbara Mertz.
71. The Ancient Egyptian Prayerbook [2005} Tamara L. Siuda.
72. The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts [2005] Dr. James P. Allen.
73. The Ancient Egyptian Roots of Christianity [2007] Moustafa Gadalla.
74. The Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Texts [2007] Dr. Muata Ashby.
75. The Ancient Gods Speak: A Guide to Egyptian Religion [2002] Dr. Donald B. Redford.
76. The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt [2006] Dr. James P. Allen.
77. The Black Ancient Egyptians [2007] Dr. Muata Ashby.
78. The Book of Egyptian Ritual [2002] Jocelyn Almond.
79. The Calendars of Ancient Egypt [1950] Richard A. Parker.
80. The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt [2003] Richard H. Wilkinson.
81. The Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians [1999] Dr. Bob Brier, Hoyt Hobbs.
82. The Egyptian Book of Life [1988, 2004] Dr. Ramses Seleem.
83. The Egyptian Book of the Dead [2000] Dr. Raymond O. Faulkner.
84. The Egyptian Coffin Texts (volume 2. Texts of spells 76-163) [1947] Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner.
85. The Egyptian Coffin Texts [1954] Adriaan de Buck.
86. The Egyptian Demotic Language [2008] Leonardo Caldas Vieira.
87. The Egyptology Handbook [2005] Emily Sands, Dugald A. Steer.
88. The Glory of Ancient Egypt [1990] Dr. Bob Brier.
89. The Gods of Ancient Egypt [1998] Pascal Vernus, Erich Lessing, Jane Marie Todd.
90. The Gods of the Egyptians: Studies in Egyptian Mythology [1969] E.A. Wallis Budge.
91. The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt [2002, 2003] Ian Shaw.
92. The Sacred Tradition in Ancient Egypt: The Esoteric Wisdom Revealed [2000] Rosemary Clark.
93. The Search for God in Ancient Egypt [2001] Jan Assmann, David Lorton.
94. The Serpent Myths of Ancient Egypt [1873] William Ricketts Cooper.

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Eclectic Priests & Priestesses of Ma'at

Liber II: Liber Legis

Liber II
The Message of
The Master Therion
This Epistle first appeared in The Equinox III(1)

(Detroit: Universal, 1919).
The quotations are from Liber Legis-The Book of the Law.-H.B.

Copyright (c) Ordo Templi Orientis

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"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.''
"There is no Law beyond Do what thou wilt.''
"The word of the Law is Velhma.''
Velhma--Thelema--means Will.

The Key to this Message is this word-Will. The first obvious meaning of this Law is confirmed by antithesis; "The word of Sin is Restriction.''

Again: "Thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that and no other shall say nay. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.''

Take this carefully; it seems to imply a theory that if every man and every woman did his and her will--the true will--there would be no clashing. "Every man and every woman is a star,'' and each star moves in an appointed path without interference. There is plenty of room for all; it is only disorder that creates confusion.

From these considerations it should be clear that "Do what thou wilt'' does not mean "Do what you like.'' It is the apotheosis of Freedom; but it is also the strictest possible bond.

Do what thou wilt--then do nothing else. Let nothing deflect thee from that austere and holy task. Liberty is absolute to do thy will; but seek to do any other thing whatever, and instantly obstacles must arise. Every act that is not in definite course of that one orbit is erratic, an hindrance. Will must not be two, but one.

Note further that this will is not only to be pure, that is, single, as explained above, but also "unassuaged of purpose.'' This strange phrase must give us pause. It may mean that any purpose in the will would damp it; clearly the "lust of result'' is a thing from which it must be delivered.

But the phrase may also be interpreted as if it read "with purpose unassuaged''--i.e., with tireless energy. The conception is, therefore, of an eternal motion, infinite and unalterable. It is Nirvana, only dynamic instead of static--and this comes to the same thing in the end.

The obvious practical task of the magician is then to discover what his will really is, so that he may do it in this manner, and he can best accomplish this by the practices of Liber Thisarb (see Equinox I(7), p. 105) or such others as may from one time to another be appointed.

Thou must (1) Find out what is thy Will. (2) Do that Will with a) one-pointedness, (b) detachment, (c) peace.

Then, and then only, art thou in harmony with the Movement of Things, thy will part of, and therefore equal to, the Will of God. And since the will is but the dynamic aspect of the self, and since two different selves could not possess identical wills; then, if thy will be God's will, Thou art That.

There is but one other word to explain. Elsewhere it is written-- surely for our great comfort--"Love is the law, love under will.''

This is to be taken as meaning that while Will is the Law, the nature of that Will is Love. But this Love is as it were a by-product of that Will; it does not contradict or supersede that Will; and if apparent contradiction should arise in any crisis, it is the Will that will guide us aright. Lo, while in The Book of the Law is much of Love, there is no word of Sentimentality. Hate itself is almost like Love! "As brothers fight ye!'' All the manly races of the world understand this. The Love of Liber Legis is always bold, virile, even orgiastic. There is delicacy, but it is the delicacy of strength. Mighty and terrible and glorious as it is, however, it is but the pennon upon the sacred lance of Will, the damascened inscription upon the swords of the Knight-monks of Thelema.

Love is the law, love under will.

Source: http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/lib2.htm

Paradoxes

"This was the first of Lévi's books to be translated into English. The original French version was published in 1856. This translation (by an unknown hand) was first published in 1883 by the Theosophical Society, and re-issued in 1922, with additional extensive footnotes by 'an Eminent Occultist' (herein, E.O.). The identity of E.O. is unknown, but it is believed from the style and views expressed that it was none other than Helena P. Blavatsky."

Source:
Paradoxes of the Highest Science - by Éliphas Lévi; translated by Anonymous; comments by an Eminent Occultist (H.P. Blavatsky?); Adyar, Madras Theosophical Publishing House [1922].

http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/levi/phs/index.htm

From "The Aeneid"

The Aeneid

Book IV

Lines 331-361

by

Virgil

[ca. 19 B.C.E.]

“Dixerat. Ille Iovis monitis immota tenebat lumina, et obnixus curam sub corde premebat. Tandem pauca refert: ‘Ego te, quae plurima fando enumerare vales, numquam, regina, negabo promeritam; nec me meminisse pigebit Elissae, dum memor ipse mei, dum spiritus hos regit artus. Pro re pauca loquar. Neque ego hanc abscondere furto speravi---ne finge---fugam, nec coniugis umquam praetendi taedas, aut haec in foedera veni. Me si fata meis paterentur ducere vitam auspiciis et sponte mea componere curas, urbem Troianam primum dulcis que meorum reliquias colerem, Priami tecta alta manerent, et recidiva manu posuissem Pergama victis. Sed nunc Italiam magnam Gryneus Apollo, Italiam Lyciae iussere capessere sortes: hic amor, haec patria est. Si te Karthaginis arces, Phoenissam, Libycaeque aspectus detinet urbis, quae tandem, Ausonia Teucros considere terra, invidia est? Et nos fas extera quaerere regna. Me patris Anchisae, quotiens umentibus umbris nox operit terras, quotiens astra ignea surgunt, admonet in somnis et turbida terret imago; me puer Ascanius capitisque iniuria cari, quem regno Hesperiae fraudo et fatalibus arvis. Nunc etiam interpres divom, Iove missus ab ipso---testor utrumque caput---celeris mandata per aurasdetulit; ipse deum manifesto in lumine vidi intrantem muros, vocem que his auribus hausi. Desine meque tuis incendere teque querelis: Italiam non sponte sequor.’”

Lemegeton vel Clavicula Salomonis Regis

Preliminary Definition of Magic.
Lemegeton Vel Clavicula Salomonis Regis.

By
S.L. MacGregor Mathers and Aleister Crowley
[1904]

MAGIC is the Highest, most Absolute, and most Divine Knowledge of Natural Philosophy, 1 advanced in its works and wonderful operations by a right understanding of the inward and occult virtue of things; so that true Agents 2 being applied to proper Patients, 3 strange and admirable effects will thereby be produced. Whence magicians are profound and diligent searchers into Nature; they, because of their skill, know how to anticipate an effort, 4 the which to the vulgar shall seem to be a miracle.

Origen saith that the Magical Art doth not contain anything subsisting, but although it should, yet that it must not be Evil, or subject to contempt or scorn; and doth distinguish the Natural Magic from that which is Diabolical.

Apollonius Tyannaeus only exercised the Natural Magic, by the which he did perform wonderful things.

Philo Hebraeus saith that true Magic, by which we do arrive at the understanding of the Secret Works of Nature, is so far from being contemptible that the greatest Monarchs and Kings have studied it. Nay! among the Persians none might reign unless he was skilful in this GREAT ART.

p. 16

This Noble Science often degenerateth, from Natural becometh Diabolical, and from True Philosophy turneth unto Nigromancy. 1 The which is wholly to be charged upon its followers, who, abusing or not being capable of that High and Mystical Knowledge do immediately hearken unto the temptations of Sathan, and are misled by him into the Study of the Black Art. Hence it is that Magic lieth under disgrace, and they who seek after it are vulgarly esteemed Sorcerers.

The Fraternity of the Rosie Crusians thought it not fit to style themselves Magicians, but rather Philosophers. And they be not ignorant Empiricks, 2 but learned and experienced Physicians, whose remedies be not only Lawful but Divine.

THE BRIEF INTRODUCTORY DESCRIPTION.
(N.B. This is taken from several MS. Codices, of which the four principal variations are here composed together in parallel columns as an example of the close agreement of the various texts of the Lemegeton.

For in the whole work the differences in the wording of the various Codices are not sufficient to require the constant giving of parallel readings; but except in the more ancient examples there is much deterioration in the Seals and Sigils, so that in this latter respect the more recent exemplars are not entirely reliable.)

CLAVICULA SALOMONIS REGIS,
which containeth all the Names, Offices, and Orders of all the Spirits that ever he had converse with, with the

p. 17

[paragraph continues] Seals and Characters to each Spirit and the manner of calling them forth to visible appearance:

In 5 parts, viz.:

(1) THE FIRST PART is a Book of Evil Spirits, called GOETIA, showing how he bound up those Spirits, and used them in general things, whereby he obtained great fame.

(2) THE SECOND PART is a Book of Spirits, partly Evil and partly Good, which is named THEURGIA-GOETIA, all Aërial Spirits, etc.

(3) THE THIRD PART is of Spirits governing the Planetary Hours, and what Spirits belong to every degree, of the Signs, and Planets in the Signs. Called the PAULINE ART, etc.

(4) THE FOURTH PART of this Book is called ALMADEL or SOLOMON, which containeth those Spirits which govern the Four Altitudes, or the 360 Degrees of the Zodiac.

These two last Orders of Spirits are Good, and to be sought for by Divine seeking, etc., and are called THEURGIA.

(5) THE FIFTH PART is a Book of Orations and Prayers that Wise Solomon used upon the Altar in the Temple. The which is called ARS NOVA, which was revealed unto Solomon by that Holy Angel of God called MICHAEL; and he also received many brief Notes written with the Finger of God, which were declared to him by the said Angel with Claps of Thunder; without which Notes King Solomon had never obtained his great knowledge, for by them in a short time he knew all Arts and Sciences both Good and Bad; from these Notes it is called the NOTARY ART, etc.

p. 18

THE WHOLE LEMEGETON OR CLAVICULA.
Now this Book containeth all the Names, Orders, and Offices of all the Spirits with which Solomon ever conversed, the Seals and Characters belonging to each Spirit, and the manner of calling them forth to visible appearance:

Divided into 5 special Books or parts, viz.:

(1) THE FIRST BOOK, or PART, which is a Book concerning Spirits of Evil, and which is termed THE GOETIA OF SOLOMON, sheweth forth his manner of binding these Spirits for use in things divers. And hereby did he acquire great renown.

(2) THE SECOND BOOK is one which treateth of Spirits mingled of Good and Evil Natures, the which is entitled THE THEURGIA-GOETIA, or the Magical Wisdom of the Spirits Aërial, whereof some do abide, but certain do wander and abide not.

(3) THE THIRD BOOK, called ARS PAULINA, or THE ART PAULINE, treateth of the Spirits allotted unto every degree of the 360 Degrees of the Zodiac; and also of the Signs, and of the Planets in the Signs, as well as of the Hours.

(4) THE FOURTH BOOK, called ARS ALMADEL SALOMONIS, or THE ART ALMADEL OF SOLOMON, concerneth those Spirits which be set over the Quaternary of the Altitudes.

These two last mentioned Books, the ART PAULINE and the ART ALMADEL, do relate unto Good Spirits alone, whose knowledge is to be obtained through seeking unto the Divine. These two Books be also classed together under the Name of the First and Second Parts of the Book THEURGIA OF SOLOMON.

(5) THE FIFTH BOOK of the Lemegeton is one of

p. 19

[paragraph continues] Prayers and Orations. The which Solomon the Wise did use upon the Altar in the Temple. And the titles hereof be ARS NOVA, the NEW ART, and ARS NOTARIA, the NOTARY ART. The which was revealed to him by MICHAEL, that Holy Angel of God, in thunder and in lightning, and he further did receive by the aforesaid Angel certain Notes written by the Hand of God, without the which that Great King had never attained unto his great Wisdom, for thus he knew all things and all Sciences and Arts whether Good or Evil.

CLAVICULA SALOMONIS REGIS,
which containeth all the Names, Offices, and Orders of all the Spirits with. whom he ever held any converse; together with the Seals and Characters proper unto each Spirit, and the method of calling them forth to visible appearance:

In 5 parts, viz.:

(1) THE FIRST PART is a Book of Evil Spirits, called GOETIA, showing how he bound up those Spirits and used them in things general and several, whereby be obtained great fame.

(2) THE SECOND PART is a Book of Spirits, partly Evil and partly Good, which is called THEURGIA-GOETIA, all Aërial Spirits, etc.

(3) THE THIRD PART is of Spirits governing the Planetary Hours, and of what Spirits do belong to every Degree of the Signs, and of the Planets in the Signs. This is called the PAULINE ART, etc.

(4) THE FOURTH PART of this Book is called ALMADEL OF SOLOMON, the which containeth those Spirits which do govern the Four Altitudes, or the 360 Degrees of the Zodiac.

These two last Orders of Spirits are Good, and are

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called THEURGIA, and are to be sought for by Divine seeking, etc.

(5) THE FIFTH PART is a Book of Orations and Prayers which Wise Solomon did use upon the Altar in the Temple. The which is called ARS NOVA, the which was revealed to Solomon by that Holy Angel of God called Michael; and he also received many brief Notes written with the Finger of God, which were declared to him by the said Angel with Claps of Thunder; without which Notes King Solomon had never obtained his Great Wisdom, for by them in short time he gained Knowledge of all Arts and Sciences both Good and Bad; from these Notes it is called the NOTARY ART, etc.

THE BOOK OF EVIL SPIRITS.
THE KEY OF SOLOMON, which contains all the names, orders, and offices of all the Spirits that ever Solomon conversed with, together with the Seals and Characters belonging to each Spirit, and the manner of calling them forth to visible appearance:

In 4 parts.

(1) THE FIRST PART is a Book of Evil Spirits, called GOETIA, showing how he bound up those Spirits and used them in several things, whereby he obtained great fame.

(2) THE SECOND PART is a Book of Spirits, partly Good and partly Evil, which is named THEURGIA-GOETIA, all Aërial Spirits, etc.

(3) THE: THIRD PART is a Book governing the Planetary Houses, and what Spirits belong to every Degree of the Signs, and Planets in the Signs. Called the Pauline Art.

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(4) THE FOURTH PART is a Book called the ALMADEL OF SOLOMON, which contains Twenty Chief Spirits who govern the Four Altitudes, or the 360 Degrees of the Zodiac.

These two last Orders of Spirits are Good, and called THEURGIA, and are to be sought after by Divine seeking.

These Most Sacred Mysteries were revealed unto Solomon.

Now in this Book LEMEGETON is contained the whole Art of King Solomon. And although there be many other Books that are said to be his, yet none is to be compared hereunto, for this containeth them all. Though there be titles with several other Names of the Book, as THE BOOK HELISOL, which is the very same with this last Book of Lemegeton called ARS NOVA or ARS NOTARIA, etc.

These Books were first found in the Chaldee and Hebrew Tongues at Jerusalem by a Jewish Rabbi; and by him put into the Greek language and thence into the Latin, as it is said.

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Footnotes

15:1 This Preliminary Definition of Magic is found in very few Codices, and is probably later than the body of the work.

15:2 Or Actives.

15:3 Or Passives.

15:4 Or Effect.

16:1 Or the Black Art, as distinct from mere Necromancy, or Divination by the Dead.

16:2 Or Quacks and Pretenders. Vide note on p. 10.

Theosophy: "Isis Unveiled"

Theosophy: Isis Unveiled by H.P. Blavatsky

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CHAPTER IV.

"Nothing better than those MYSTERIES, by which, from a rough and fierce life, we are polished to gentleness (humanity, kindness), and softened."--CICERO: de Legibus, ii., 14.

"Descend, O Soma, with that stream with which thou lightest up the Sun. . . .

Soma, a Life Ocean spread through All, thou fillest creative the Sun with beams."--Rig-Veda, ii., 143.

". . . the beautiful Virgin ascends, with long hair, and she holds two ears in her hand, and sits on a seat and feeds a BOY as yet little, and suckles him and gives him food."--AVENAR.

IT is alleged that the Pentateuch was written by Moses, and yet it contains the account of his own death (Deuteronomy xxxiv. 6); and in Genesis (xiv. 14), the name Dan is given to a city, which Judges (xviii. 29), tells us was only called by that name at that late day, it having previously been known as Laish. Well might Josiah have rent his clothes when he had heard the words of the Book of the Law; for there was no more of Moses in it than there is of Jesus in the Gospel according to John.

We have one fair alternative to offer our theologians, leaving them to choose for themselves, and promising to abide by their decision. Only they will have to admit, either that Moses was an impostor, or that his books are forgeries, written at different times and by different persons; or, again, that they are full of fraudulent interpolations. In either case the work loses all claims to be considered divine Revelation. Here is the problem, which we quote from the Bible--the word of the God of Truth:

"And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name of JEHOVAH was I not known to them" (Exodus vi. 3), spake God unto Moses.

A very startling bit of information that, when, before arriving at the book of Exodus, we are told in Genesis (xxii. 14) that "Abraham called the name of that place"--where the patriarch had been preparing to cut the throat of his only-begotten son--"JEHOVAH-jireh"! (Jehovah sees.) Which is the inspired text?--both cannot be--which the forgery?

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Now, if both Abraham and Moses had not belonged to the same holy group, we might, perhaps, help theologians by suggesting to them a convenient means of escape out of this dilemma. They ought to call the reverend Jesuit Fathers--especially those who have been missionaries in India--to their rescue. The latter would not be for a moment disconcerted. They would coolly tell us that beyond doubt Abraham had heard the name of Jehovah and borrowed it from Moses. Do they not maintain that it was they who invented the Sanscrit, edited Manu, and composed the greater portion of the Vedas?

Marcion maintained, with the other Gnostics, the fallaciousness of the idea of an incarnate God, and therefore denied the corporeal reality of the living body of Christ. His entity was a mere illusion; it was not made of human flesh and blood, neither was it born of a human mother, for his divine nature could not be polluted with any contact with sinful flesh. * He accepted Paul as the only apostle preaching the pure gospel of truth, and accused the other disciples of "depraving the pure form of the gospel doctrines delivered to them by Jesus, mixing up matters of the Law with the words of the Saviour."

Finally we may add that modern biblical criticism, which unfortunately became really active and serious only toward the end of the last century, now generally admits that Marcion's text of the only gospel he knew anything about--that of Luke, is far superior and by far more correct than that of our present Synoptics. We find in Supernatural Religion the following (for every Christian) startling sentence: "We are, therefore, indebted to Marcion for the correct version even of 'the Lord's Prayer.' "

Excerpted from Isis Unveiled [1877], “Part Two.—Religion, Chapter IV" by H.P. Blavatsky
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