About the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (LBRP)
The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram is the most complete ritual ever devised for preparing the place for magical work. The ritual is used as a general means of opening and closing any ritual, meditation or exercise, banishing pernicious influences, evoking helpful spiritual reinforcement to the circle and strengthening the aura.
Now one thing needs to be made clear about the pentagram itself. It is a five-pointed star, and as such, it is not only a symbol of Man dominating and controlling the elements, but it is a symbol of Mars, attributed to Geburah or “Severity”, the fifth emanation upon the Kabalistic Tree of Life. It is therefore a symbol of energy, war, strife and conquest. It might also be borne in mind that the “five” is a symbol of the hand or womb of the Goddess filled with creative fire, the feminine power that manifests the Will. The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram is far more than merely a means of “getting rid” of things.
“Those who regard this ritual as a mere device to invoke or banish spirits, are unworthy to possess it. Properly understood, it is the Medicine of Metals and the Stone of the Wise.” (Samuel Weiser, “Notes on the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram”, Magick in Theory & Practice (1997), at 692.)
In all the details of the ritual, one must be careful not to lose sight of the Big Picture. The ritual, properly performed and with repeated and persistent practice, constructs a complete symbol in the aura or Sphere of Sensation of the practitioner. The idea of using a symbol of the Great Work in this manner is an exceedingly ancient one. In the East there is the holy mountain called Meru, which has its counterpart in Abiegnus of the Rosicrucian, or Western Mysteries. The building of the Temple. In times of remote antiquity, the names of cities and gods were interchangeable terms.
First of all, the practitioner must cleanse oneself of everything and anything that is not essential to the Great Work in hand. Next, integrating familiarity with the sacred scriptures (at source) through meditation, the practitioner cultivates a fiery aspiration and acceptance of the Path. All powers of the mind and imagination focus towards the construction of a suitable symbol of the Universe. The practitioner imagines standing in asana position at the center of that symbol. Once the distractions of body and mind are overcome, with concentration perfected through use of the sacred symbol, a miracle manifests within the properly constructed symbol as the prana circulates in the subtle body with the physical breath in the physical body. Various energy centers, rooms, chakras or sephiroth are activated in accordance to instruction. When the practitioner’s aspiration leads to That which is Above and Beyond, then an infinitely subtle transference of energy begins to take place.
It is worthwhile quoting once more from Crowley’s notes on the ritual, concerning this matter of the aura or Sphere of Sensation:
“Every man has a natural fortress within himself, the Soul impregnable. Besides this central citadel, man has also outworks, the Aura. This Aura is sensitive, and must be sensitive. Unless responsive to impressions, the Aura would cease to be a medium of communication from the non-Ego to the Ego. This Aura should be bright and resilient even in the case of the ordinary man. In the case of the Adept it is also radiant. In ill-health this Aura becomes weakened. It will be seen flabby, torn at the edges, cloudy, dull. It may even come near to destruction. It is the one duty of every person to see that his Aura is in good condition.” (Samuel Weiser, “Notes on the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram”, Magick in Theory & Practice (1997), at 690.)
It is not only that the mind of the practitioner becomes sensitized to dimensions that were not previously apparent, but that the energy of the universe itself, by degrees, becomes realized as the basis of the self. However, this is also a very dangerous point in the spiritual journey of the aspirant. All too often, this realization is taken to be a sign of Mastery, when in fact it is only the beginning.
The regular use of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram may at the very least provide a means of beginning this work of “building the Temple”. The careful placing of symbols in the aura may not only help to calm the mind and free oneself of unwanted influences, it may all the while transform the astral-etheric structure latent in the subtle body of the practitioner into a matrix of the Divine Image. We must at all costs avoid that same territory becoming a chaos of symbols and thought-forms that together do not add up to anything but confusion.
While on this subject, it is worth mentioning that there are very good reasons for choosing geometric forms, such as the pentagram. Geometry expresses, as do numbers, which are the basis of the Kaballah, spiritual ideas in their purest, simplest form. To argue against these expressions of simple beauty and truth is dishonesty. It is for precisely this reason that the pentagram, the “wizard’s foot” of old, was chosen as a means of obtaining supremacy over lying, deceitful spirits.
When you perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, you begin by aspiring to the highest concept you can imagine, by the vibration of Atah, “To Thou, Essence.” This is then affirmed on Earth with Malkuth, and in the balance of forces that rule the universe, Geburah and Gedulah. It is then affirmed in Eternity as Lay Olahm, Amen – “To the Ages of Ages, so be it.”
You have, with the Kaballistic Cross, placed yourself at the center of the Universe, having first brought the divine presence into your heart, mind and body. Thereafter, you go on to cleanse the four quarters of the Universe with pentagrams of fire, affirming Man as the mirror of the Divine Image and with the ability to control the elements through spirit, the topmost point. The deity names are sent thundering through to the Ends of the Universe and back again. Your Magical Universe is then defined by the marking of the circle of light, another reminder of Spirit, and of Kether, the Godhead, the Crown of the Tree of Life.
The drawing of the four pentagrams automatically invokes spirit, the fifth point, and so raises the microcosmic consciousness to the level of the macrocosm, having completely sealed the circle against the Outer Darkness, the World of unbalanced forces called Qliphoth. This Hebrew word means literally, “Shells”. (Those who court the favors of Venus should do well to remember that she is often depicted as riding upon one!)
Malkuth is shown divided into four sections of color on the Tree diagram: citrine yellow, russet brown, olive green and black, in the colors of the Queen Scale. (The four scales of colour are a Kabalistic idea, and pertain to the Four Worlds: Atziluth, Briah, Yetzirah and Assiah.) They have much relevance to the Tarot and other practical workings. The black part, representing the Dead End of Matter, the point of maximum inertia in the Universe, abuts onto the World of Shells, the husks or discarded astral remnants that souls departing the earth plane have left. This world is also inhabited by many other undesirable waste products of the Universe, including thought forms of a very low order.
Entering into a full discussion of the nature of the Astral Plane is beyond the scope of this essay. However, many “spirits” contacted by psychics and mediums, ouija board dabblers and ghost-hunting enthusiasts, are not, in fact, human souls. “Channeling” used to be called Mediumism and Spiritualism, or Spiritism. The Hermetic Art does not condemn these practices in themselves, but it insists that one know exactly what one is doing and why one is doing it.
Now, with the power of the pentagram and the Ineffable Name, you have sealed yourself off from the outer world, the profane world of ignorance and darkness, from the false and the unseemly. By this act you have called into operation the macrocosm, as the Greater Voice responding to the Lesser. Therefore, above you and below you, as if you stood in a vertical column, appears the six-rayed star of the cosmos, the hexagram of two interlaced triangles.
If you were to count all of the points of the pentagrams and hexagrams, you would have thirty-two, the total number of the Sephiroth plus the twenty-two paths of the Tree of Life. You stand in a Palace built for the Indwelling Glory, the Shekinah, the Soul of God. Light, spelled in Roman numerals as LVX, adds up to sixty-five, and so does the Divine Name of Malkuth Adonai (ADNI). Six is the macrocosm, the Divine Being, and five is the number of man in the Lower World. The union of these two is the object of the Great Work.
Thus, by cleansing and banishing your sphere, you leave a vacuum of sorts inside. This is not a good thing to do, for in nature anything left empty does not stay empty for long! So you continue, and by the clockwise direction of your movement you evoke the Archangels, guardians drawn from the Briatic World of Creation. Correspondingly, a spiritual brightness appears in the aura as the four elements are brought into perfect balance.
Your position at the center constitutes spirit. By adding from Above and Below to the four elemental directions in space, the six of the macrocosm is once more confirmed. Lastly, you repeat again the Kabalistic Cross which places the flame of the Eternal in your heart, the center of the Magical Universe.
This procedure, when well practiced, can be completed perfectly well in all of two minutes of your time!
As the Tetragrammaton is the name of Deity in four letters, Pentagrammaton is the name expressed in five letters.
Y.H.V.H. plus Shin (Spirit of the Primal Fire = 300, you may wish to check further correspondences) is written Y.H.Sh.V.H., Yeheshuah, which is why “Jesus”, or Yeheshuah, was the Son of Man and the Son of God in the Bible.
In Kaballah, Y.H.Sh.V.H. is the representation of the Holy Spirit of Man informing the four elements of Nature. Man is the Initiator of the Elemental Kingdom. The elements of the soul, the Nephesch, are redeemed by the Spiritual Fire, which is the formula of the recreation of the Divine World on earth, the Kingdom.
This rite is best performed daily to gain maximum benefits, most of which must be experienced to be quantified. Use this ritual to banish elemental energies and unwanted influences, before and after a larger magical working, and to balance your personal sphere (as well as your moods). Use your athame or other dagger, or the index finger of your dominant hand. Some sources cite that the wand may be used instead.
There are practitioners who complain that the LBRP and other rituals are too Christian in flavor. However, the point is not to identify with the imagery or the connotations of the names of God, because they are merely tools, albeit magical tools. Hence, it is unwise to take usage of such tools too personally.
Daily Chabad
A mentor, our sages tell us, must be like an angel. That’s a problem.
Having never seen an angel, you will always be in doubt: Perhaps the mentor you have chosen is not like an angel. How can you ever rely on your mentor while so unsure of his or her qualifications?
So we will clarify: The mentor must be a human angel.
An angel, because just as an angel has no body, no hatred, no jealousy and is not in competition with you, so the mentor must remain objective and uninfluenced by any personal benefit from the advice.
And yet a human being: With compassion, with a conscience, and with a passion for kind deeds.
Daily Meditation
I can immediately release stressful feelings, by focusing on each outward breath, and breathing each outward breath down the front of my body, and into my toes.
About Fear
Pāli Word a Day for June 27, 2015
pārimaṃ tīraṃ — the further shore, nibbāna
The Occult Forces of Sex and Sexual Union of Souls
Sex is the fountain of all life. However, let me warn you that this magnificent fountain is not something we humans should profane with our animal needs or wants, by treating the most beautiful act of sex similar to that of a dirty dog. But in our current world, many men and women seem to be doing just that by making this most beautiful fountain a possible poisoned Karmic well of death for the unsuspecting souls who treat this divine act like that of an animal.
The facts are that most people are completely ignorant to this “force” when it comes to the spiritual realm, their astral souls, and their animal bodies in the material world. The reason being is that most humans are not educated on these facts as they live their lives based on mostly pure materialism as they operate primarily from the seat of their animal selves, rather than from their divine selves which would be their souls.
These same people think of sex as purely a pleasure act where they feel good temporarily or reach a form of ecstasy, but they do not think beyond the joy we feel and or orgasm that it brings. This is a serious mistake that I have made myself more than once, and have lived through the resulting very bad Karma from these ill fated, and ignorantly chosen sexual unions.
When you have sex, you need to realize that the other persons soul becomes one with yours, and that some serious soul work may need to take place to release their astral connection to your astral self.
Think of these unseen forces that are like vampires that instead of feeding on your blood, feed on your energy which is your “life force.” It is almost akin to an exorcism that takes place when you are free from the other’s Astral influence. Some people can do this in days, weeks or months with the proper work, and some people who don’t understand this will take a year or more to get over one relationship. If you have multiple sexual relationships then you are creating multiple unions that will end up creating multiple vampires confusing you and making you a bit mad in the head. Hence, think about porn stars, prostitutes and strippers who always seem to have serious mental issues that never leave them and often plague them till death. Most of these people are going crazy not from the porn or the act of sex, but the many sexual unions with dark souls that never leave them. The same can be said about the girl or guy who sleeps with everyone in your school or town. They are always a bit weird and most of them end up dying or going absolutely crazy later in life.
This is really why many people take break ups with their partners or marriages so bad.
Here is an excerpt from the Occult Science in Medicine to help put this in perspective for you:
Popular medicine deals only with external effects and physical causes, occult science goes deeper, seeking for fundamental causes and final effects, which are of far greater importance than the passing manifestations taking place in the physical form. Thus, for instance, a promiscuous sexual intercourse not only causes venereal diseases; but as during that act a commingling of the inner natures takes place to a certain extent, a man cohabiting with a depraved woman takes on some of her characteristics and joins to a certain extent her future Karma and destiny to his own. The basis of the existence of human beings is what, for want of a better expression, has been called the Will (Spirit or Life), and as one body may colour or poison another, likewise a colouring, and perhaps poisoning, takes place by a blending of spirit during sexual intercourse; this “spiritual substance” being the essence of each human being.
“If a woman leaves her husband, she is then not free from him, nor he from her; for a marital union having once been established, remains a union for all eternity.” (” De Homunculis.”) (1)
The important thing to understand when it comes to yourself is that your body is comprised of two entities. One would be that of your material or animal body, and the other would be your astral soul which is your divine self. When you are born, these two separate entities go out into the physical world and are always somewhat at war with one another, with each trying to control your thoughts or actions in order to gain the upper hand in your daily affairs.
Think of it like you have an angel on one shoulder and a little devil on the other. The devil would be your animal self that encourages you to have as much sex as you please with whomever you please, and the angel would be your good side that hopes to find a soul mate to marry and start a family with whom you can make love with because you care deeply for this person.
Here is a quotation from H. P. Blavatsky to help explain this a bit further:
“The ‘harvest of life’ consists of the finest spiritual thoughts, of the memory of the noblest and most unselfish deeds of the personality, and the constant presence during its bliss after death of all those it loved with divine spiritual devotion. Remember the teaching: The human soul, lower Manas, is the only and direct mediator between the personality and the divine Ego. That which goes to make up on this earth the personality, miscalled individuality by the majority, is the sum of all its mental, physical, and spiritual characteristics, which, being impressed on the human soul, produces the man. Now, of all these characteristics, it is the purified thoughts alone which can be impressed on the higher immortal Ego. This is done by the human soul merging again, in its essence, into its parent source, commingling with its divine Ego during life, and reuniting itself entirely with it after the death of the physical man.”
Philo said that “God separated Adam into his two sexual component parts, one male, the other female—Eve—taken from his side. The longing for reunion which love inspired in the divided halves of the originally dual being, is the source of the sexual pleasure, which is the beginning of all transgressions.”
This is where many of our problems had started; when our astral souls had left the heavenly spirit world to inhabit the animal, plant and mineral world that we now know as the planet earth. This is where our species of animal, man kind or Homo erectus has been perpetually lost, as many of us are trying to find their way home or search for our soul mates. Our soul mates are our other astral halves thus resulting in a perfect union of souls. We are all Adam’s or Eve’s looking for our other halves, so we can then truly be scientifically soul complete, but the wrong choice of a mate may just end up in a destructive union that causes negative consequences and or an outcome for both parties involved. I am sure you may have had this experience yourself or have seen this first hand in your lifetime.
The male element represents the energy, action, warmth, and productive principle in nature. The female represents, the maternal which is passive and procreative, the union of the two is the subjective man’s universal soul. The whole reason we humans have sex is for this union and not purely for the pleasure of the act, but for the reproduction of “souls”which just so happens to use our animal bodies, which I sometimes refer to as space suits, for this propagation process. To put it simply, we humans are used by astral soul entities who wish to propagate our physical bodies to further their Karmic development.
Here is an excerpt from Harry Houdini in his book , The Esoteric that will help those of you out there understand the difference between the soul and animal body;
“The human body is subject to a double law of nature, male and female, and when the student will throw aside this outer material body, as his hypothesis,and learns to comprehend the difference between the objective and subjective man; the animal and the soul body, the outer and the inner being: to polarize either with the astral-magno or astral-force, he can have the might power of nature, and become the grandest of magicians. But the student must not rest here but press on. The student of soul-light finds the union of sex in its dual being is the universal form of God ; unselfish love the “universal force, and wisdom the guiding hand; marriage of the soul with spirit the universal result.
The bottom line is that, regardless if you are heterosexual or homosexual, the Occult Forces of Sex And The Sexual Union of Souls is not something that should be taken lightly or that which you should carelessly toy with. You need to understand that you have now entered into “soul union” with this other person’s soul because when we mate with another human, we are also mating with their soul.
If you care and love them from your heart,this is where you will find the divine spark that culminates from this union as you unite as one with them, and the magic can be very powerful. The reason is because this union of souls holds a special energy in a regenerating, as well as a generating force. The former, producing this union of souls which is astral and also physical, because in the material world we can all see, touch and feel the experience. The consequences of this act could turn out very bad if you simply cannot control these energies or Karma that may be a result of what you think is just “casual sex.”
Seeds for Meditation
“The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols.” – Carl Jung
The History of Horned Gnostic Gods and Godmen in Images
All throughout the course of recorded human and religious history, you’ll find various images a very famous people and god’s 
wearing horns. Often the horns are depicted as coming out of each sides of their skulls. If you look back during the Old Testament days prior to the coming of Jesus, you will find many ancient Hittite, Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Celtic gods, various military leaders and even Kings who can be found on statues, coins and on various tribal seals with two horns coming out of the sides of their heads.
Many modern Christians and other people influenced by Christian literature would most likely associate these horned deities with the devil and any people who wear horns would without a doubt be considered evil. But in ancient times, this was simply not the case.
The horns were the main symbol of the world wide Gnostic religion in which many of these Gods and people were its representatives. They were the intermediaries between God and or the spirit world and man.
As I’ve written many times in the past, these horns were never meant to be an evil symbol, but were assigned to various Gnostic luminaries as a symbol for their Gnosis. As Plato had once said, “all learning is remembering,” and the horns are actually representative of a Gnostic science that deals with the human body and brain being that of the hippocampus is also called the Amon’s horn. A section of the brain that is used for storing and retrieving all of our memories. I have written many article on this subject that you can check out such as Ammon’s Horn, Amon – King of Gods and Lord of Thrones and The Third Eye to name a few.
Examples of old God’s who would represent this ancient Gnostic religion would be the great Greek Pan.
In ancient Egypt, you can find horned gods like Amon Ra
And Jupiter Amon.
There were also horned women Gods who controlled the Gnosis of the state under a veil such as Hathor
And the Goddess of Magic and War, Isis wore the horns.
Even one the most famous Hebrew law givers that the world has ever known and we know as Moses is often depicted wearing horns on statues and in images such as just a few of the ones below that can be found all over the world.
You’ll also find powerful military leaders, emperor’s and Kings who were often characterized as wearing horns such as Alexander the Great
It is curious to also note that one of the most famous horned fallen god’s is known as Satan or the devil in the New Testament.
My question to you is that why is one of the most evil characters in the Christian new testament bible that we know the devil always wearing horns and carrying a pitchfork, but in ancient times horned wearing gods and men and pitchforks in the form of a trident were not only cool, it was the norm?
That question we will explore together in more detail in a future article. For now, I would like to share with you some of my research that I’ve collected over the years showing various gods and godmen who can be found wearing these horns that I speak of. I will try to place them in order from the most ancient to even modern times with U.S. President Barack Obama sporting the Gnostic horns.
Here are some of the oldest horned Gods and deities that have been found all around the world.
This is a horned God known to be associated with a people called the Elamites. It is a bronze statue of man with horns and upturned shoes just like the Hittites had worn and who also have horned Gods. It was is dated to around 3000 BC. The copper and bronze age of Crete extended to Mohenjo-daro has been assigned to 3000-2800 bc. The Elamites are said to have discovered the use of the wheel, both for vehicular and pottery purposes, earlier than the Babylonians.
From the Art Institute of Chicago – Cast in solid copper and executed with a remarkable degree of sophistication, this statuette is thought to represent a supernatural being that served as an intermediary between the physical world and the spiritual realm. It depicts a muscular, bearded male wearing a headdress of goat horns and ears, a raptor skin over his shoulders, a cylindrical belt around his trim waist, and ankle boots with long, curved toes.
His eyes are inlaid with bits of shell or stone; the now-missing pupils were probably made from a contrasting material. It is one of a pair of virtually identical figures (the other is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) that are unlike anything else that is known today. —Gallery label
Here is an incredibly crude image of the Hebrew God Yahweh. Do you notice the serpents or worms and how they are spotted in this old image? These are clues on how the supernatural world operates.
Ikenga (Igbo literal meaning “place of strength”) is a horned Alusi (deity) found among the Igbo people in southeastern Nigeria. It is one of the most popular symbols of the Igbo people, and the most common cultural artifact. The Gnostic Ikenga is a source of encoded knowledge unraveled through psychological principles.
Adherents of Odinani (the traditional folk religion of the Igbo people of south-eastern Nigeria) worship the Ikenga, a horned god of honest achievement, whose two horns symbolise self-will. Small wooden statues of him are made and praised as personal altars. Ikenga is mostly maintained, kept or owned by men and occasionally by women of high reputation and integrity in the society. It comprises someone’s Chi (personal god), his Ndichie (ancestors), aka Ikenga (right hand), ike (power) as well as spiritual activation through prayer and sacrifice.(Wikipedia)
Seeds for Meditation
If I feel confused, my Higher Self knows exactly what I need. To find out requires me being still and silent.
The Mentor
Just as some people refuse to see their faults, so there are those who insist on digging too deep, persecuting themselves over every fault and making unreasonable demands upon their lives. Eventually they collapse from exhaustion, or worse, kick back with resentment.
This is why no person should go it alone. Everyone needs a mentor, someone who can look objectively and say, “This is where you are right now. This is what you can expect from yourself right now.”
Daily Chabad
As a person behaves here below, so he is treated above.
Perhaps someone once tried to tell you about the ugly deeds of another. Perhaps you responded, “I’m not interested.” And you didn’t listen.
Then there will be a time when a heavenly being will wish to report on your doings here on earth. If you have had the guts to respond this way, the Creator will also say, “I’m not interested. I don’t want to even listen.”
Daily Meditation
When I am at peace, others around me become peaceful.
Thoth Hermes Trismegistus and his Ancient School of Mysteries
Thoth Hermes Trismegistus is portrayed by the Egyptians as the moon god with the body of a man, head of an ibis, and a crescent moon over his head. His symbol was the winged serpent staff. He was the god of wisdom, letters, and time. But he was not only known to the Egyptians. To the Sumerians he was Ningizzida; he may have been Enoch to the Jews, Odin to the Scandinavians, Wotan to the Teutons, and some even suggest Buddha.
Thoth Hermes Trismegistus is portrayed by the Egyptians as the moon god with the body of a man, head of an ibis, and a crescent moon over his head. His symbol was the winged serpent staff. He was the god of wisdom, letters, and time. But he was not only known to the Egyptians. To the Sumerians he was Ningizzida; he may have been Enoch to the Jews, Odin to the Scandinavians, Wotan to the Teutons, and some even suggest Buddha.
Before he was revered as a god, he was the first great Egyptian philosopher and founder of the Ancient Mystery Schools, receiving his wisdom while in meditative trances, writing over 40 books including (allegedly) the Emerald Tablet, The Book of Thoth and The Divine Pymander, with the Book of Thoth only being given to his enlightened initiates of the Mysteries.
A reconstruction of what the Emerald Tablet is believed to have looked like by the International Alchemy Guild. (Image source).
The topics he covered ranged from medicine, chemistry, law, art, music, rhetoric, magic, philosophy, geography, mathematics, anatomy, and oratory. To the Egyptians, his knowledge was so vast and all-encompassing that they first began to credit him as the communicator with the gods, eventually inducting him into the Egyptian pantheon.
Whether or not one agrees his is the hand that penned the books attributed to him, a quick perusal or in-depth study resounds in most readers, due to the similarity with Buddhism and Christianity. Perhaps the clearest examples are his teachings on reincarnation and the creation of the world.
Thoth, the ancient Egyptian god of wisdom, depicted with the body of a man, head of an ibis, and a crescent moon over his head. (Vladimiraz / Dreamstime.com)
Nothing is for certain about the Book of Thoth other than the fact that it was written in Egyptian Hieroglyphics. It was kept in a golden box in the inner sanctuary of the temple and only the highest initiate of the Hermetic Arcanum Mystery School had the key to it. It is said the book described the Key to Immortality, the process achieved through awakening certain areas of the brain, similar to the Buddhist monks’ practices. Gardner and other authors claimed the awakening of the brain was achieved through meditation, the use of a white powder, and the priestesses’ sacred essence.
The most powerful of the Mystery Schools was known as the Royal School of the Master Craftsmen at Karnak, founded by Pharaoh Thuthmosis III, though as with all the Mystery Schools, it is commonly believed that the true founders resided in Sumeria, emigrating to Egypt, which ties in to Sitchin’s claims that Enki and his sons (including Ningizzida) had Magan (Egypt) as their domain.
This school was also known as the Great White Brotherhood due to the members choice of raiment (white robes) and their dedication to producing the white powder known to the Mesopotamians as Shem-an-na, the High-Ward Fire Stone, or ‘white bread’ to the Egyptians. Pictures of it show it being offered to the Pharaohs, in the shape of a cone.
Man holding the Shem-an-na, white powder (subtleenergies.com)
Petrie discovered on the top of Mount Sinai, an Egyptian Temple which contained a bewildering discovery: laying some inches deep beneath heavy flagstones in a storeroom was a considerable supply of the finest pure white, unadulterated powder. Copper smelting and animal sacrifice were quickly ruled out.
Some of the mysterious powder was taken back to Britain for analysis and examination, but no results were ever published. The rest was left open to the elements after 3000 years to become a victim of the desert winds. What has become apparent, however, is that this powder was seemingly identical to the ancient Mesopotamian fire-stone or shem-an-na – the substance that was made into bread-cakes and used to feed the Babylonian kings and the pharaohs of Egypt. This, of course, explains the temple inscriptions denoting the importance of bread and light, while the white powder (the shem-an-na) has been identified with the sacred manna that Aaron placed in the Ark of the Covenant.
Petrie discovered a large quantity of pure white powder in a temple on top of Mount Sinai. ‘Ascent of the lower ranges of Mount Sinai’. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849. (Wikimedia Commons)
Eventually the Mystery Schools went into decline as new Dynasties emerged. The initiates left Egypt and brought the Book of Thoth to another land. Where it is now, no one knows, though supposedly the chain of succession of Grand Master since Thoth, has remained unbroken. The Rosicrucians are said to be descended from his school while the Freemasons are descended from the school founded by Solomon.
As for Thoth? He has remained revered by philosophers, occultists, alchemists and healers through the ages, though many of the texts accredited to him were lost in the Great Fire of the Library of Alexandria. Who know how different history might have been had the knowledge contained in that library not been lost?
Hermes Trismegistus (Thoth). Floor inlay in the Cathedral of Siena Russian, 1480s (Wikimedia Commons)
Featured image: A figure of Thoth carved on the back of the throne of the seated statue of Rameses II. (Wikimedia Commons)
References:
Ancient Mystic Order of Noble Knowledge – AncientMonks.com. Available from: http://www.ancientmonks.com/
Genesis of The Grail Kings – Laurence Gardner. Available from: http://www.graal.co.uk/genesis_lecture_full_5.php
The Great White Brotherhood – Wes Penre. Available from: http://www.illuminati-news.com/great-white-brotherhood.htm
By Katrina Sisowath, Author of the Dragon Court series.
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WEEK 26 – THE POWER OF PEOPLE
Dylann Roof did not get his sordid wish of starting a second civil war in the United States. Instead, when he decided to wipe out 9 beautiful black lives as they engaged in bible study in their church on June 17, he illuminated the fact that the first civil war never ended in the minds of whole generations of people.
But it is ending now as the old structures of hate, cruelty, and racism come tumbling down. The southern states are dominated by symbols of that war, which was based on slavery and the ‘classification’ of human beings – and modern day policies which continue to oppress and suppress black citizens. It is the class system at its worst, its very existence based on the practice of ‘divide and conquer’.
9 people were killed by a shard of hate that originated from that system. 9 is the number of endings, and this sad ending is…
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Meditation Moment
Phenomena arise in meditation, and like everything else fall and pass away. Some things I may want to cling to, but as I do, I am caught in craving. By being the witness I remain free, and boundless.
Daily Chabad
Even the wrong road eventually takes you closer to the truth.
Even closer.
Tarot Meditation: The Empress
You have chosen The Empress, the third card of the major arcana of the Tarot. This guided visualization enables you to focus on your creativity, and to express that creativity with greater abundance and prosperity in the world.
The Fool’s earthly mother, The Empress, represents the matriarchal figure. She is serene and confident, sensuous and beautiful. She is powerful and creative, nurturing and compassionate. She is the feminine counterpart of The Emperor.
The Empress symbolizes the archetypes of abundance, creativity, compassion, sensual awareness, and pleasure. The Empress signifies being in harmony with the natural world as well as enjoying the pleasures of life, and feeling good about life.
Look closely at the imagery of The Empress before you begin the guided meditation.
This guided visualization begins again with creating your own Peaceful Sanctuary. This is a place you can always come to, to find peace and calm in your life. You are welcomed into the embrace of The Empress as you relax and enter the world of the feminine archetype.
The Empress is a soft breeze issuing from the calm of the High Priestess. She is the light of the sun vitalizing growing things. She is the dance of inspiration; her touch is the life of the world. When pain burns and fear threatens, the Mother Empress balms and protects.
Look at the picture on the Empress card. Let your eyes see the bright sky of the morning. Listen to the sound of falling water. Feel the softness of the wind that stirs tall trees in rustling imitation of a waterfall. Feel the solid coolness of stone beneath you. Enjoy the warm garden of the Empress.
Close your eyes but hold the images and feelings of the Empress card close about you. Your are in a great forest of ancient trees. It’s the kind of place people sometimes fear to enter, yet you are at home. The air is refreshing. There are sounds of leaves brushing leaves, of water flowing, of branches moving at the caress of the cool and fragrant air. A great Tree is close to you. From the Tree a presence seems to grow. There is a vast invisible being dwelling in the tree. A breeze moves past the Tree to stir your hair. Mother blesses you.
In your preferred meditation posture, gently close your eyes and become aware of your body on the seat or the cushion. We will begin by bringing some life force energy into your body through your eyes. To do this, put the palms of your hands together and rub them briskly. Keep on doing this now until you feel the warmth circulating in your hands. When you feel warmth or tingling in your hands, gently place your palms over your eyes and keeping your eyes shut, feel that warmth and life force energy flowing from your hands into your eyes.
And, with your eyes still gently closed, place your hands in your lap in line with your abdomen at the level of your navel. Hold your hands together, with the back of the right hand resting in the palm of the left hand, and your thumbs gently touching. Have the hint of a smile on your face. Just being aware of the breath … being aware of the breath: the inflowing breath and the outflowing breath … breathing freely and easily, being aware of the breath as it flows through your nostrils. Just being aware of the breath, as it comes and as it goes, entering and leaving your body.
And still with your eyes gently closed, visualize yourself now walking down a path leading to your peaceful sanctuary. Imagine yourself looking down at the path as you imagine yourself walking along it … what sort of path is it? Is it a rough path, or a smooth path? What is the path made out of? As you continue to walk, look into the distance and see before you your peaceful sanctuary. Imagine what this peaceful sanctuary is like for you … it could be a warm cozy room … it could be some special place in nature that you love, like the beach, the forest, a lake or some other place. Hold that image of what you’d really like to be in in your mind. This is the place that you can always come to, this peaceful sanctuary … it’s a place where you can relax … where you can experience peace and calm, a place where you are always safe and protected.
As you enter your own special haven, look about you and acquaint yourself with your surroundings. What do you see here? Touch the things that you feel attracted to and that you love about this place. What scents and aromas can you smell that are uplifting to your senses in this special place. Listen to the sounds that are unique to your wonderous peaceful sanctuary. What are they?
See before you a special place a seat that you can sink into and feel cozy and relaxed. This can be any kind of seat in which you can sit with comfort and safety. Go now to your special seat and make yourself comfortable there.
Counting backwards now into an even deeper state of relaxation … knowing that you are in control at all times … hearing these words and letting them drift by …
TEN … going deeper … NINE, EIGHT … deeper and deeper … SEVEN, SIX … relaxing and deepening … FIVE, FOUR … very very deep … THREE, TWO … relaxing, deepening … relaxing, deepening … and ONE … feeling so relaxed, so very very relaxed in your peaceful sanctuary.
Now, let your thoughts float back in time, or to a time in your life when you were imbued with creative self-expression. It may be the recent past, or it may have been a time in your childhood. It could be something that you were making or doing that gave you a feeling of well-being and joy. Take yourself now back to that time when your being was filled with that excitement as you immersed yourself in that creativity. Keep on recording what you were doing creatively.
Let the memories and the feelings be there in your body again. Remember your aliveness, your exuberance and your delight in your creative pursuit.
Use all your senses to create that time … your sight, your hearing … how you touched, smelled or tasted what you were creating. There may be good feelings in your body and, if so, hold those good feelings in your body now. If there are not, the memories themselves will be exciting your aliveness from a very deep cellular memory.
Keep on allowing the wonder and awe of your creativity to be with you again.
Take in a long, slow deep breath, breathing the breath all the way down through your body, breathing in the excitement of creativity. And, as you breathe out, hold and embrace those good feelings in your body, and continue to breathe naturally.
Recall now the vision of the Empress, for she has entered your life as a symbol of creation. Visualize her in the tarot card sitting resplendent on a throne, her gown of pomegranates flowing down to the ground. In her hand, she holds a scepter symbolizing her power. Upon her head is a starry crown representing the twelve months of the year over which she presides.
The Empress is the symbol of the Great Mother who is pecunious and abundant. She is the Creator and Nurturer of life, whether it is in pregnancy or as she is depicted in the tarot card, surrounded by earthly gifts of crops, and trees, and water. Not only does The Empress symbolize procreative power, she is also a potent psychic bond to your own creative process.
Visualize now something that you would like to be engaged in creating. It could well be a child, the creation of life … or it may be a yearning to create something that you have wanted to do for a long, long time. Perhaps you have a desire to build something … perhaps you have the desire to make something … it could be to paint, to dance, to make music, to have a relationship, or something else. You may well be very clear about what you want to do, but then again, it may not be so easy for you because your creativity may have been stifled years ago. It may not have been given the fertile ground in which to grow and flourish and blossom … and deep within you lies boundless creativity waiting to awaken.
Whatever it is that you feel drawn to do, that your soul cries out to be fulfilled in some way … allow that image to come alive within you now.
Now, take in a long slow deep breath drawing in creative inspiration … and as you slowly breathe out, retain that inspiration within your whole being … and continue to breathe naturally.
When The Empress appears, she may be triggering in you a response to begin to realize your dreams, to no longer allow them to lie dormant. With her energy and her presence in your life, you can channel your creativity, explore its diversity and breadth.
Allow yourself now to make a commitment to your creative self-expression so that you can bring that into fruition.
Bathe in your creative dream and set into motion your intention to bring your ideas to living reality and manifestation now. Give yourself a little time to let your creation to unfold within you now.
Taking in a deep breath, breathing in the awe and wonder of your creativity … and as you breathe out, relax into a space of fulfillment and accomplishment … and continue to breathe naturally. Breathing naturally, see your creation unfolding before you, as if it has already happened.
As you awaken to your creativity more and more, create beauty, delight and joy in your surroundings and environment. Love, honor and respect the Great Mother by loving, honoring and respecting the Earth. Take time to be in nature, absorbing the peacefulness and tranquility that nature offers you.
Taking in another long, slow deep breath, breathing in the fullness of creation and you a part of it … and as you breathe out, deepen more and more into your own creative fullness … and continue to breathe naturally.
The presence of The Empress in your life may bring greater prosperity. This welcomed tarot card indicates creation, or birth of a creative project; domestic bliss; romance, and success in business.
Holding the image of The Empress in your mind, breathe in the archetypal qualities of this powerful woman … and as you breathe out, hold those qualities of prosperity, abundance and creativity as you go about your daily life … and continue to breathe naturally.
It is now time to leave your peaceful sanctuary. Visualize yourself now standing and exiting your safe place, and being back on the path once more. And walking back along the path, knowing you can come back here any time that you wish …
And counting from one to five …
ONE … becoming aware of yourself sitting on the chair or on the cushion on the floor … TWO … gently wiggling your fingers … THREE … slowly moving your head from side to side … FOUR … becoming aware of your feet and wiggling your toes … and FIVE … very slowly, very slowly, opening your eyes.
Take a deep and clearing breath and stretch your whole body, if that feels good for you.
Open Your Third Eye to Walk Like an Ancient Egyptian
The ancient Egyptians were master alchemists, scientists and gnostics. Their whole religion was 
based on these three heavenly human practices that they used to not only stay healthy and live as long as possible, but also to obtain true gnosis so that they could evolve their souls.
This my brothers and sisters is the basis of human evolution.
They knew the secret hidden powers of the body, blood and brain. This was the seat of their power that they used to grow such a vast empire in which they ruled for thousands of years.
The rule of the first true ancient gnostic Egyptians.
You can find evidence of their scientific beliefs and secrets encoded into their hymns and hieroglyphs. What I would like to do with this article is just create a simple visual of this ancient science compared with modern science in order to help activate your own third eye memory code, so that you too can discover your own gnostic past.
Activation sequence engaged to the third eye memories of the past. Let’s walk like an Egyptian!
Here is the symbol of the Eye of Ra. It was known to symbolize the life-giving powers, and its dangerous aspect was invoked in the protection of the pharaoh, of sacred places, and of ordinary people and their homes.
Now compare the Eye of Ra with a recent image of our brain’s hippocampus. The similarities are not a coincidence, but scientific evidence that this was the basis of their alchemical gnostic religion.
One of the Gods they had created to secretly encode this science into their religion, was the God known as Ammon or Ammon Ra(Amun, Amen, Jupiter Ammon etc.). The symbology of this God was specifically meant to place on his horns which is to symbolize what we call today the ammon’s horn and hippocampus.
Here are a couple of images of the Egyptian God Amon where you can see these facts for yourself.
Later Ammon became Jupiter-Amon of the Greco Egyptians. This I believe was because they had proclaimed Jupiter the as above life and light giver to the so below with the Ammon’s Horn playing a crucial role in our ability to become Gods ourselves like the God Jupiter. Co-Creators who use our Jupiter born phosphorus light abilities to connect to our third eye so that we obtain gnosis, enlightenment and become immortal stars whose lights shine over the world.
These images are of ancient statues of Jupiter Ammon, with the horns we call today the third eye.
You will even find the Phoenician Hebrew King and lawgiver, Moses was often depicted with these horns of Jupiter Ammon to signify his gnostic lineage.
The Eye of Ra is a source of heat and light, and it is associated with fire and flames. This is why many ancient statues and hieroglyphs often depicted a type of planetary disk that people often mistake for the sun on the God’s head. It is not the sun, but the planet Jupiterwho they knew as the king, creator and life-giver to all life on earth. As I mentioned above, this is why in later kingdoms, Ammon becomes Jupiter-Ammon.
This fire and flames spoken about by the Egyptians can be seen in this modern image of the hippocampus showing the firing action within our brains that is caused by the alchemical element known as phosphorus, and in Latin as Lucifer. You can clearly see that a majority of this firing action takes place in the hippocampus or the ammon’s horn.
The son of God, Horus was also often symbolized in statues and hieroglyphs with his third eye prominently displayed on the sides of his head along with the disk of Jupiter on his head. Also please notice the serpent which is really a worm.
Here is another image of Horus as a man God with the secret ammon horns.
The eye of Horus can also be easily compared to the hippocampus.
The sons of Ra (Jupiter) were the Pharaohs who also encoded this secret third eye gnostic religion into their own images. They did this so they would remember where they come from when they were reborn as reincarnated beings in a future life. Here are images of some famous Pharaohs, Kings, and Messiah’s of Jupiter sporting their gnostic hippocampus horns to symbolize their gnosis.
This is Menmaatre Seti I (or Sethos I as in Greek) who was a pharaoh of the New Kingdom Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt, the son of Ramesses I and Queen Sitre, and the father of Ramesses II.
Now here is the son of Ramesses II, Ramesses III (my reincarnation). He was the second Pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty and is considered to be the last great New Kingdom Pharaoh.
Alexander the Great
Roman Emperor, Messiah, and First Pope of this 6th Age, Imperator Caesar Divi FiliusAugustus Caesar.
The Roman politician, general and high priest of Jupiter, Marc Antony.
The current U.S. Commander and Chief, President Barack Obama sporting the gnostic horns.
Thanks for taking a walk in the past using my hippocampus to connect with my ancient ancestors who are me and I AM them. Back to the East we look to bathe our reincarnated souls in the gnostic light.
Now, let’s walk like an Egyptian……. – AMEN!
The Tetragrammaton In The Human Heart
The Tetragrammaton, or four-lettered Name of God, is here arranged as a tetractys within the inverted human heart. Beneath, the nameJehovah is shown transformed into Jehoshua by the interpolation of the radiant Hebrew letter סה, Shin.
The drawing as a whole represents the throne of God and His hierarchies within the heart of man.
In the first book of his Libri Apologetici, Jakob Böhme thus describes the meaning of the symbol: “For we men have one book in common which points to God. Each has it within himself, which is the priceless Name of God.
Its letters are the flames of His love, which He out of His heart in the priceless Name of Jesus has revealed in us. Read these letters in your hearts and spirits and you have books enough.
All the writings of the children of God direct you unto that one book, for therein lie all the treasures of wisdom. This book is Christ in you.”
From Böhme’s Libri Apologetici in the Secret Teachings of All Ages, by Manly P. Hall
Daily Chabad
There is an urge within us, at once both imbecilic and ingenious.
Imbecilic, because it will not look beyond its mud hole and move on.
Ingenious, because to defend its muddy fortress it will summon circumstance, DNA, unfit parents, incompetent teachers, society, evolution, creation, low self-esteem—a myriad of excuses to avoid making one step ahead.
Every excuse but the real one: Its instinctive obstinacy to remain in the mud hole it knows so well.
Grand Temple of Horus Behdety 