Crowley, Aleister

Aleister Crowley was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, on 12 October 1875. Crowley was a magician. At times he even admitted that it would not be inaccurate to call him a "black magician." He began his magical carrer with Golden Dawn magic and later progressed to a type of modified tantric sex magic as was associated with the higher grades of the Ordo Templi Orientis.

 Aleister Crowley possibly represents the path of "high magic" carried to its extreme. Examining the life of Aleister does provide a fascinating study to a man who devoted his life to a particular path. Crowley wanted to pursue a conversation with his "holy guardian angel" and with a wide variety of gods, godesses--and even demons.It would not be an understatement that Crowley was relentless in that pursuit.
 Crowley was also one of those amazing Victorian/Edwardian characters who could only have existed in the rarified pure-species form at that particular time in history. Aleister's motto was, "Do what thou wilt, shall be the whole of the law." He began his writings and letters with this phrase. He greeted visitors with it.
 Death had a way of tailing after Aleister, much as a swarm of bees tail after anyone with honey. Of course, people did die in those days before antibiotics and modern meds. People also committed suicide. Aleister was such a strong personality that lesser personalities gravitated to him like a magnet. Since he rarely accepted a role other than Top Dog himself, I suspect these are just the types of people that he himself wanted.
 Aleister himself died on 1 December 1947.bronchitis/pleurisy/heart failure. He had been staying at a quiet guesthouse in England. The following day his London doctor was found dead in his bathtub in Mayfair.Odd!

Crop circles

Beautiful in their complexity and symmetry, are crop circles a hoax, a sign from extra-terrestrials, some type of electo-magnetic or microwave source, or something yet undiscovered? There is no definitive answer but they are beautiful mysteries.

Adding to the mystery is the facts that many appear suddenly overnight, strange molecular level changes in the plants that are bent over, and many people have strange physical reactions when entering the circles. There seems certainly to be energies in these circles.
 Crop circles have been appearing around the world  for 30 years -and have appeared mainly in England but in 70 other countries. Two Englishmen  Bower and Chorley stated that they were the source of all the crop circles since 1978. Maybe they were the source of some of the crop circles, but all of them in many countries? Could these men have "exploded" the nodes of the plants-the nodes are not just bent, and could anyone have produced such elaborate crop circles in very short times in many instances?  Some thought makes the possibility that all the crop circles are hoaxes very unlikely.
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Devil

  The origin of term devil is from the Greek word for diabolos (accuser or slanderer. Lucifer or Satan is head of all the demons who were once angels but were expelled from heaven because of their pride and ego. In Revelation in the bible, the antiChrist or the devil was the Great Beast associated with number 666.

 Devils can take many forms both ugly and beautiful. Traditionally, the devil is viewed as having horns and a forked tail. The tail may have come from association of a trident with a demon The idea of the horns of a devil may have come from the Islamic tradition of a horned or fertility god. The animals: serpent, goat and the dragon have been attributed as his symbols. Also the pentagram, looking downward has been seen as a diabolical symbol.  The incubus and sucubus can appear beautiful to have relations with humans but they are really demons. Also a demon may possess a human and can only be expelled through an exorcism.
  There are occult groups that worship Satan and what he represents. Alester Crowley who lived from 1875 to 1947 may have been the founder of modern Satanism, the worship of the devil, through his writings, " The Book of the Law" and "The Equinox." The Church of Satan  was  founded, by Anton S. LaVey in 1966. The movies "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Devil's Rain" are centered around devil worship.

Egyptian 

 The rich tapestry that was the Egyptian civilization 3,000 years ago-the pyramids,the Sphinx, the Gods and Goddesses, the rituals of the Dead and the mumification, the stories, the writing, the mystery-lives on in all of our live in these modern times and in the influence on the Occult. Ra, Osiris, Isis, Thoth, Amon, Anubis, Hathor  -the names and the myths echo through the ages.

Fairies

  In the 1997 film, "Photographing Fairies", a man who suffers the loss of his bride before his wedding day, confronts the the nature of a new spiritual reality when he goes to the countryside to investigate a photograph of a girl holding a fairy in her hand. In the movie, he finds the girls and they are able to communicate with denizens that no other person sees, fairies. These fairies can cross the line from the reality of our current existence to the reality of an existence after death:

"What is absorbing about 'Photographing Fairies' is its fascinating play of ideas, one where the issue of the fairies soon blossoms out into a remarkable concept of a drug that speeds up perception, allowing the viewing of a world that exists alongside this one in which fairies are conduits into the afterlife."
 "Photographing Fairies" the movie, is based on a book about 2 girls in 1915 who were taken in photographs with tiny winged beings-the fairies- the Cottingley Fairies. These photographs are probably fakes, but spirtualists at the time like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed that there is a spirtitual world beyond our reality -and the messengers from that world are fairies.
 Shakespeare said, "There are more things between heaven and earth, Horatio, than ever dreamt of in your philosophy." An open mind must be behind eyes that can see into the invisible spiritual world which might just be inhabited by fairies.

Kabbalistic Tree of Life (Qabalah, Cabala) 

 The Tree of Life is just one small part of a Jewish mysticism which existed in verbal tradition for thousands of years. Kabbalah is still an important part of esoteric Judaism. At some much more recent time, Western occultists adopted the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. The great magical society in Victorian England, the Golden Dawn, had their members advance by grades which corresponded to the 10 spheres of the Tree. (These spheres are not physical places; rather they are states of consciousness.) . Levi was working with the Tree even before the GD because he is the one who placed tarot cards on the paths of the Tree.

The Tree contains 10 spheres (plus nunerous paths, leading from one sphere to the other- including hidden paths!) Each sphere has its own God-name,archangel, angel, mundane chakra (a planetary connection); possibly demons as well as angels.Each has its own color and scent. Each of the l0 spheres contains 4 worlds: These are:
Atziluth- the archetypal world. The Divine Name. Kether on the Tree. Element-Fire.
Briah -the creative world; the mental world. Archangels. Chokmah and Binah on the Tree. Element-water.
Yetzirah - Formative world. Angels Includes the spheres Chesed, Gevorah, Tipareth, Netzach, Hod, Yesod. Element- air.
Assiah -The active world. Malkuth on the Tree. Contains the "mundane chakras" i.e. the planets. Element is earth.
 One thought is that God originally made an imperfect universe, so needed the Tree of Life to balance things. The Tree does contain 6 sets of polarities: e.g. Netzach (Venus; too much emotion and feeling) vs. Hod (Mercury), an ordered, scientific space where logic prevails. Chesed (Jupiter) balances Gevorah (Mars.) The first one is too generous and giving; the second can be severe and withholding.
 Binah (Saturn) balances Chokmah (the Zodiac). Chokmah is sheer uncontrolled force; Binah receives the force and orders the force into form. But once there is form, time begins to exist. And once time exists...tick, tick, tick.you know the answer to that one!

Pentagram

  The pentagram (pentacle) is one of the four principal magickal symbols, the other three being the sword, the cup and the wand. Each of these symbols represents a suit in the minor arcana of the Tarot. Some tarot decks designate pentacles as "discs," stressing the concept of the wheel or cog: part of the machinery of the universe. Other decks prefer "coin." A coin, worth nothing in itself, bids its owner to make a value choice in spending the coin. Pentagrams represent the element of earth: our matter, mass, body.

Tarot

 A tarot deck typically has 78 cards. There are 22 Major Arcana cards. These have deep archetypal meaning, portraying the life journey and initiations to be encountered as one climbs from naïve innocence to true wisdom and magickianship.
 The rest of the deck is similar to our playing card deck, though containing much symbolism. Sixteen Court cards represent the King, Queen, Knight and Page of each of the 4 suits.

 These suits themselves are the four magickal tools, the cup, wand, pentacle and sword, corresponding to the 4 elements of water, fire, earth and air, respectively. Each suit also contains l0 numbered cards. The aces show the unfettered root element of water, fire, earth and air, progressing to the tens, which portray the full maturity of the suit, the theme of the suit carried to its logical consequence.
 The tarot cards have a connection with the Qabalistic Tree of Life. Aces have affinity with Kether on the Tree, traveling downward to the Tens. Tens relate to Malkuth, the l0th station on the Tree, the manifest world as we know it. Some decks also have astrological significators. Since there are hundreds of different decks, names and correspondences vary somewhat.

Yin-Yang

 The Yin-Yang come to us through early Chinese philosophy.
 The yin and yang represent the principles of opposites, yet union in those opposites.