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The Treasure House of Images was composed by Captain, later Major General J. F. C. Fuller, one of Aleister Crowley''s most important disciples and a leading military theorist of the twentieth century. Fuller was the author of The Star in the West and a principal editor of The Equinox. The Treasure House of Images is an exquisite work containing hymns to the signs of the Zodiac and the Sun. In Crowley''s Confessions, he described it as some of the most remarkable prose ever written and an astonishing achievement in symbolism. This edition is enhanced by contributions from a number of modern magical writers including David Cherubim, whose introduction places the work in its historical context and discusses its symbolism and use as a manual of Pathworking. Nancy Wasserman offers expanded practical instructions for Astral Travel, and provides an example for designing an actual Pathworking. Lon Milo DuQuette''s foreword to this new edition places all this in context. Also included is Crowley''s masterpiece, Liber O vel Manus et Sagittae, in which specifics for developing the Body of Light are detailed.
This book, Attract and Use Healing Energy deals with not only physical healing, but healing every aspect of our lives. Dr. Regardie says it best: Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used, it can heal every affliction we have have. These are the methods by which the dynamic nature of the subconsious can be stimulated so that the human personality becomes transformed into a powerful magnet attracting to itself whatever it truly desires or is necessary to its welfare... Perhaps sickness is present. Or we need money. Or we have undesirable moral or mental traits or whatnot. We can elevate our minds by utilizing this energy, so that the desire of our heart automatically realizes itself with practically no effort at all...
The Philosopher s Stone presents text and analysis of three major alchemical works, approached symbolically, using the symbol systems and viewpoints of magic and psychology. The objective of alchemical study has been described poignantly by Dr. Israel Regardie. Like modern psychological methods, the alchemical formulae have as their goal the creation of a whole man, a fully integrated individual. Not only does alchemy envisage a person whose several constituents of consciousness are united, but with the characteristic thoroughness of all occult and magical methods, it proceeds a stage further. Alchemy aspires toward the development of a free and illuminated psyche. It is here that it parts company with orthodox psychology, and here that Dr. Regardie s insights shine. The clarity and elegance of the author s style, and the precision and depth of his thought, make The Philosopher s Stone an important and meaningful experience for every person who aspires to personal development and wholeness.
A birds eye view of the whole field of magic, covering divination, evocation, invocation, vision and initiation. Some of the practical tips on what used to be called Scrying in the Spirit Vision cannot be found elsewhere even in large and rarer texts, and the method of Tattva cards and the Qabalah are given with examples of results achieved. There are interesting explanations of the magical art in the light of Jungian psychology. Complete with full page plates of Tatvas for the serious reader/student to experiment with.
Join herb and his cast of interlocutors (which includes (the goddess) Sophia) as they investigate the way of the physical realm, the way of Mind, and in general, What is. Many timely issues confronting humans (and you k-now who you are) are teased about, including the underlying nature of that mysterious fluid type magical substance called electricity, the shaman Bostrom's simulation argument, and that most Dangerous of all undertakings whereupon the conspiracy of who Do you believe, issues associated with Being born into this world, ancient ideas associated with the Immortality of the soul, and the flexibility of time and the need for the divine are investigated ontologically. This Gnostic tour de force challenges today s trendy materialism by accepting the ontological necessity of other realm(s) besides the physical (implications in agreement with the quantum vacuum mechanisms of the modern physics). As an ontology of on What is is developed in detail, the machinations (and Hidden religion) of the cabal of maniac magicians (whom herb calls the sons of Beliel those sOb's) occasionally need take center stage, whereupon the sOb's dark magick of statecraft, usury, propaganda, and their Brain builders dream is criticized, and, most importantly, maybe, the difference between sorcery and theurgy is elucidated. Necessarily a book about the Computer, a book on Physics, a book on Mind, butt most aptly described as a freedom enchantment for those whom would be interested in light And life. (Sea, four example, the book dedication and oVerture, and then please begin your investigation, for indeed, every wo/man is a star).
Israel Regardie is one of the most important figures in the twentieth century development of what many have termed the Western esoteric tradition, which normally refers to the synthesis accomplished by MacGregor Mathers within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn during the 1890s. Among those who proceeded to explore and build among this tradition are Israel Regardie and Aleister Crowley. In this 1968 classic, Regardie prefaces and expands upon Crowley's discovery that drugs initiate and stimulate the mystical state, providing the reader with a backgroud to Crowley's The Herb Dangerous. The English poet and mystic, Aleister Crowley had produced a series of ten large magazine-like volumes with board covers entitled The Equinox. The intention was to publish a separate issue every Spring and Autumn for five years making ten numbers in all. Openly published in them were his superbly written essays on the psychology of hashish. These were his earliest overt admissions to the occasional use of hashish as a psychedelic agent. The first four issues of this periodical contained an important serial entitled The Herb Dangerous. The opening essay, The Pharmacy of Hashish, by an English chemist, E Whineray, was a clinical and chemical analysis of Cannabis Indica, whose first cousin is marijuana, Cannabis Sattiva. The second essay entitled The Psychology of Hashish was written by Oliver Haddo, one of the innumerable pseudonyms used by Aleister Crowley. It was succeeded in the third issue by The Poem of Hashish, written by Charles Baudelaire, and translated beautifully from the French by Crowley himself. The final installment of the serial consisted of selections from a fantastic piece of writing by H G Ludlow entitled The Hashish Eater. Easily a rival to de Quincy's Confessions of an Opium Eater, Ludlow's book was published by Harpers (New York, 1857). These four essays comprise the main body of this text.
This book fills a long-standing need in literature: Voodoo, Santeria, and Macumba as practiced today in cities throughout the Western world. It is not another history or sociological study, but a candid personal account by two who came to "the religion" from the outside. It includes descriptions of the phenomena triggered by Voodoo practice, divination techniques, spells and a method of self-initiation.
Neo-Something Doom Puzzle is a playfully evil and sometimes violent book. It tells the tales of several young hipsters and losers struggling for stability in a carnivorous universe. Neuroses and bad luck weave together the ambitious journeys of the multiple protagonists. Hopes and dreams are taken apart and perversely re-arranged in a universe full of manipulative bosses, occult horror, awkward romance, perverse desires, morbid absurdity, living symbolism, and adventure. Fast-paced prose and abstract story-structure add layers of meaning to an experiment in narrative form. Sam is a naive and neurotic young man who is bullied by his family. He has a ghost-limb and a dream to create video games. When he gets an internship at a video game studio his bosses take advantage of his lack of experience, using him to spy on each other. He learns they are in over their heads in occult pursuits, which becomes bad news for Sam. Meanwhile Sam''s deranged family won''t let him be. Ted is a drug-damaged introvert who tries to rescue old friends from a haunted mountain during a skydiving misadventure. He discovers a world full of monsters and magic where subtle meaning manifests itself as discrete entities, time plays strange tricks on lost wanderers, and personalities are mere toys for inexplicable forces. He also explores the nature of evolving relationships. Other characters pursue their own ambitions via violent orgies, dangerous job-hunts, and team-building exercises gone-awry. Alongside the hostility of capitalist predators these sad heroes also meet creatures from the void, manifestations of the universe''s unknowableness, and puzzles of cosmic power. This book depicts hipsters and young professionals who find their struggles and desires are just a thin veil over a gaping, mysterious horror show. It symbolizes the fleeting nature of human life contrasted with the ancient force of the raw universe which generates and dissolves all people. Strengths and weaknesses take on lives of their own as the characters are forced to learn the hard way. If somebody is pulling the strings that weave these stories together, it''s hard to see who, and harder still to see why.
"The Everyday Atheist," by Ronald F. Murphy, is an honest look at a growing skepticism within the previously unquestioned religious community. This book represents Mr. Murphy's first work in a series that will attempt to discuss the stark realities of taboo subjects from the unbiased perspective of the everyday reader. In his initial book he provides a clear account of why he adopted, questioned, and ultimately rejected religious faith. No matter what your faith, his plainly spoken and readable narrative addresses the unspoken thoughts that linger in us all, as we seek to answer the age old question "Is there a God?"
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