Symbols play a big part in our lives, but we often take them for granted. To illustrate the meaning of symbols this book uses the example of the American flag, and explains what the symbols found on the flag really mean. The important point is that without an understanding of American history we'd not know how to interpret the symbols on our flag. The same holds true for all symbols. Lacking enough background information causes us, many times, to miss their full meaning.
The Lost Key is a book for Freemasons, and explains the meanings of their symbols. Masons are members of a longstanding fraternal order that functions along the lines of a mystical brotherhood. A number of rituals are performed as one progresses up the ranks, usually in the form of an initiation. Often times Masons themselves do not know what the symbols within these rituals truly mean while they are being performed -- so therefore do not fully understand what they are really doing and the true purpose of the initiation.There are thirty-three degrees, or levels, in Freemasonry. This particular book covers the symbols found within the first three degrees of Freemasonry, making this an excellent guidebook for the beginning Mason, as well as providing a more complete understanding for those in the higher levels who administer or oversee their rituals.In recent years statistics show that Freemasonry has begun to lose some of its members. The older books like The Lost Key have gone out of print and younger Masons may not have fully understood the purpose of their initiations -- at least enough to hold their interest. The symbols found within Freemasonry operate on a number of different levels. Now that The Lost Key has been "found" and is back in print once again, it may help to enrich an organization that traditionally attracts high-standing members of communities across North America and the rest of the world.
Here is Light! This book is the CLASSIC EXPOSITION OF ENGLISH FREEMASONRY. Originally published in 1825, just twelve years after the organization of the United Grand Lodge of England, this works boasts the most complete collection of early versions of the English masonic rituals available under a single cover. Contains early versions of the three Craft degrees, the Royal Arch, Knight Templar Druids, Mark Man, Mark Master, Architect, Grand Architect, Scotch Master or Superintendent, Secret Master, Perfect Master, Intimate Secretary, Intendant of the Buildings, Past Master, Excellent Masons, Super-Excellent Masons, Nine Elected Knights, Elect of Nine, Peregnon, Elect of Fifteen, Priestly Order of Israel, Irish Master, Noahites or Prussian Knights, Red Cross Sword of Babylon, Knights of the Sword of the East, Red Cross of Rome and Constantine, Knights of the White Eagle or Pelican, Knights of the Eagle and Rosicrucian or Ne Plus Ultra. Illuminating study for Masons and nonmembers.
About 330 pages.
1943. Interpretation of the symbolism of the Masonic Lodge. Contains considerations of the sources of these symbols. Underlying the ceremonies practiced by the Freemasons of the present day, there is a system of philosophy which is based on the lofty conception of the Most High God as a Being who indwells the Light, and is Himself "light." Those who are in fellowship with Him, enjoy His light, even in the dark. If, therefore, we would grasp the meaning and purpose of what is said and done in the Lodge, we must keep this fundamental thought uppermost in our mind. In His light shall we see light.
Franz Hartmann - Secret Symbols of the RosicruciansAn excellent source book for this "occult" understanding of Christ can be found in Franz Hartmann's Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians. The introduction of this book, which contains older plates of alchemical images and diagrams, is peerless. The Rosicrucian Order is a legendary esoteric order with its roots in the western mystery tradition. This hermetic order is viewed among earlier and many modern Rosicrucianists as a "College of Invisibles" from the inner worlds, composed of great Adepts, aiming to give assistance in humanity's spiritual development. The "Brethren of the Rose Cross" is perceived by students of metaphysics as an important part or even the source of the hermetic-Christian tradition of the western alchemy treatises period subsequent to the publication of Dante's The Divine Comedy (1308-1321).
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http://rapidshare.com/files/58186802/Franz_Hartmann_-__Secret_Symbols_of_the_Rosicrucians.pdf
Cornelius Agrippa - Occult Philosophy 1 (1509 AD)Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) is the most influential writer of Renaissance esoterica, and indeed all of Western occultism. Without doubt, his book de occulta philosophia should be at the top of any required reading list for those interested in Western magic and esoteric traditions.
CONTENTS: Introduction
Agrippa to the reader.
Agrippa to Trithemius.
Trithemius to Agrippa.
Chap. 1. How Magicians Collect vertues from the Three-fold World, is Declared in these Three Books.
Chap. 2. What Magic is, What are the Parts thereof, and How the Professors thereof must be Qualified.
Chap. 3. Of the Four Elements, their Qualities, and Mutual Mixtions.
Chap. 4. Of a Three-fold Consideration of the Elements.
Chap. 5. Of the Wonderful Natures of Fire and Earth.
Chap. 6. Of the Wonderful Natures of Water, Air and Winds.
Chap. 7. Of the Kinds of Compounds, what Relation they stand in to the Elements, and what Relation there is betwixt the Elements themselves and the Soul, Senses and Dispositions of Men.
Chap. 8. How the Elements are in the Heavens, in Stars, in Devils, in Angels, and lastly in God himself.
Chap. 9. Of the vertues of things Natural, depending immediately upon Elements.
Chap. 10. Of the Occult vertues of Things
Chap. 11. How Occult vertues are Infused into the several kinds of Things by Ideas, thrugh the Help of the Soul of the World, and Rays of the Stars; and what Things abound most with this vertue.
Chap. 12. How it is that Particular vertues are Infused into Particular Individuals, even of the same Species.
Chap. 13. Whence the Occult vertues of Things Proceed.
Chap. 14. Of the Spirit of the World, What It Is, and how by way of medium It Unites occult vertues to their Subjects.
Chap. 15. How we must Find Out and Examine the vertues of Things
by way of Similitude.
Chap. 16. How the Operations of several vertues Pass from one thing into another, and are Communicated one to the other.
Chap. 17. How by Enmity and Friendship the vertues of things are to be Tried and Found Out.
Chap. 18. Of the Inclinations of Enmities.
Chap. 19. How the vertues of Things are to be Tried and Found Out, which are in them Specifically, or in any one Individual by way of Special gift.
Chap. 20. The Natural vertues are in some Things throughout their Whole Substance, and in other Things in certain Parts and Members.
Chap. 21. Of the vertues of Things which are in them only in their Life Time, and Such as Remain in them even After their Death.
Chap. 22. How Inferior Things are Subjected to Superior Bodies, and how the Bodies, the Actions, and Dispositions of Men are Ascribed to Stars and Signs.
Chap. 23. How we shall Know what Stars natural Things are Under, and what Things are under the Sun, which are called Solary.
Chap. 24. What Things are Lunary, or Under the Power of the Moon.
Chap. 25. What Things are Saturnine, or Under the Power of Saturn.
Chap. 26. What Things are Under the Power of Jupiter, and are called Jovial.
Chap. 27. What Things are Under the Power of Mars, and are called Martial.
Chap. 28. What things are Under the Power of Venus, and are called Venereal.
Chap. 29. Things are Under the Power of Mercury, and are called Mercurial.
Chap. 30. That the Whole Sublunary World, and those Things which are in It, are Distributed to Planets.
Chap. 31. How Provinces and Kingdoms are Distributed to Planets.
Chap. 32. What Things are Under the Signs, the Fixed Stars, and their Images.
Chap. 33. Of the Seals and Characters of Natural Things.
Chap. 34. How, by Natural Things and their vertues, We may Draw Forth and Attract the Influences and vertues of Celestial Bodies.
Chap. 35. Of the Mixtions of Natural Things, one with another, and their Benefits.
Chap. 36. Of the Union of Mixt Things, and the Introduction of a More Noble Form, and the Senses of Life.
Chap. 37. How, by some certain Natural and Artificial Preparations, We may Attract certain Celestial and Vital Gifts.
Chap. 38. Chapter xxxviii. How we may Draw not only Celestial and Vital but also certain Intellectual and Divine Gifts from Above.
Chap. 39. That we may, by some certain Matters of the World, Stir Up the Gods of the World and their Ministering Spirits.
Chap. 40. Of Bindings; what Sort they are of, and in what Ways they are wont to be Done.
Chap. 41. Of Sorceries, and their Power.
Chap. 42. Of the Wonderful vertues of some kinds of Sorceries.
Chap. 43. Of Perfumes or Suffumigations; their Manner and Power.
Chap. 44. The Composition of some Fumes appropriated to the Planets.
Chap. 45. Chapter xlv. Of Collyries, Unctions, Love-Medicines, and their vertues.
Chap. 46. Of natural Alligations and Suspensions.
Chap. 47. Of Magical Rings and their Composition.
Chap. 48. Of the vertue of Places, and what Places are Suitable to every Star.
Chap. 49. Of Light, Colors, Candles and Lamps, and to what Stars, Houses and Elements several Colors are Ascribed.
Chap. 50. Of Fascination, and the Art thereof.
Chap. 51. Of certain Observations, Producing wonderful vertues.
Chap. 52. Of the Countenance and Gesture, the Habit and the Figure of the Body, and to what Stars any of these do Answer -- whence Physiognomy, and Metoposcopy, and Chiromancy, Arts of Divination, have their Grounds.
Chap. 53. Of Divination, and the Kinds thereof.
Chap. 54. Of divers certain Animals, and other things, which have a Signification in Auguries.
Chap. 55. How Auspicas are Verified by the Light of Natural Instinct, and of some Rules of Finding of It Out.
Chap. 56. Of the Soothsayings of Flashes and Lightnings, and how Monstrous and Prodigious Things are to be Interpreted.
Chap. 57. Of Geomancy, Hydromancy, Aeromancy, and Pyromancy, Four Divinations of Elements.
Chap. 58. Of the Reviving of the Dead, and of Sleeping or Hibernating (wanting victuals) Many Years together.
Chap. 59. Of Divination by Dreams.
Chap. 60. Of Madness, and Divinations which are made when men are awake, and of the power of a Melancholy Humor, by which Spirits are sometimes induced into Men's Bodies.
Chap. 61. Of the Forming of Man, of the External Senses, also those Inward, and the Mind; and of the Threefold Appetite of the Soul, and Passions of the Will.
Chap. 62. Of the Passions of the Mind, their Original Source, Differences, and Kinds.
Chap. 63. How the Passions of the Mind change the proper Body by changing its Accidents and moving the Spirit.
Chap. 64. How the Passions of the Mind change the Body by way of Imitation from some Resemblance; of the Transforming and Translating of Men, and what Force the Imaginative Power hath, not only over the Body but the Soul.
Chap. 65. How the Passions of the Mind can Work of themselves upon Another's Body.
Chap. 66. That the Passions of the Mind are Helped by a Celestial Season, and how Necessary the Constancy of the Mind is in every Work.
Chap. 67. How the Mind of Man may be Joined with the Mind of the Stars, and Intelligences of the Celestials, and, together with them, Impress certain wonderful vertues upon inferior Things.
Chap. 68. How our Mind can Change and Bind inferior Things to the Ends which we Desire.
Chap. 69. Of Speech, and the Occult vertue of Words.
Chap. 70. Of the vertue of Proper Names.
Chap. 71. Of many Words joined together, as in Sentences and Verses, and of the vertues and Astrictions of Charms.
Chap. 72. Of the wonderful Power of Enchantments.
Chap. 73. Of the vertue of Writing, and of Making Imprecations, and Inscriptions.
Chap. 74. Of the Proportion, Correspondency, and Reduction of Letters to the Celestial Signs and Planets, According to various Tongue, and a Table thereof.
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/58187632/Cornelius_Agrippa_-_Occult_Philosophy_1.pdf
Eliphas Levi - Doctrine Of Transcendental Magic (1855)Behind the veil of all the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations, under the seal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of Nineveh or Thebes, on the crumbling stones of old temples and on the blackened visage of the Assyrian or Egyptian sphinx, in the monstrous or marvelous paintings which interpret to the faithful of India the inspired pages of the Vedas, in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy, in the ceremonies practised at reception by all secret societies, there are found indications of a doctrine which is everywhere the same and everywhere carefully concealed.
About 120 pages.
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/58189123/Eliphas_Levi_-_Doctrine_Of_Transcendental_Magic.pdf
These books promulgate the insigthful view of the most ridiculed, controversial knowldege that has been supressed for aeons. Author of this post (me) is certain that information provided in these works, can and will open the Door of Perception of reader, whether or not, a individual is opposed to its teachings. Though, this is not yet The Great Work of Ages. One must persist in desolving the fog and clouds of ignorance and awaken him(her)Self to a point where allknowing state is reached. The path to witch individual is pertaining is of his(hers) own design and is coincident only to that particular individual or entity.
Light, Life and Truth!
Konx om Pax!
Light in extension!
David Cunningham - Creating Magickal EntitiesCreating Magickal Entities is a comprehensive reference manual that presents step-by-step instructions for creating entities through astral manipulation that will change your life. This manual, written by three practicing occultists, reveals magickal and alchemical methods, many which have been lost and suppressed through the ages, in a refreshingly modern way that magickal practitioners of any tradition can understand.
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/58393477/David_Cunningham_-_Creating_Magickal_Entities.pdf
Hargrave Jennings - Rosicrucians: Their Rites and MysteriesWith chapters on the Ancient Fire and Serpent-Worshippers, and Explanations of the Mystic Symbols Represented in the Monuments and Talismans of the Primeval Philosophers. Contents: Critics of the Rosicrucians Criticized; Singular Adventure in Staffordshire; Insufficiency of Worldly Objects; The Hermetic Philosophers; An Historical Adventure; The Hermetic Brethren; Mythic History of the Fleur-De-Lis; Sacred Fire; Fire-Theolosophy of the Persians; Ideas of the Rosicrucians as to the Character of Fire; Monuments Raised to Fire-Worship in all Countries; Druidical Stones and Their Worship; Inquiry as to the Possibility of Miracle; Can Evidence be Depended Upon?-Examination of Hume's Reasoning; Footsteps of the Rosicrucians Amidst Architectural Objects; The Round Towers of Ireland; Prismatic Investiture of the Microcosm; Cabalistic Interpretations by the Gnostics; Mystic Christian Figures and Talismans; The "Rosy Cross" in Indian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Mediæval Monuments; Myth of the Scorpion, or the Snake, in its Many Disguises; Ominous Character of the Colour "White" to English Royalty; The Beliefs of the Rosicrucians-Meaning of Lights and of Commemorative Flambeaux in all Worship; The Great Pyramid; History of the Tower or Steeple; Presence of the Rosicrucians in Heathen and Christian Architecture; Rosicrucians Amidst Ancient Mysteries and in the Orders of Knighthood; Rosicrucianism in Strange Symbols; Connection Between the Templars and Gnosticism; Rosicrucian Origin of the Order of the Garter; Rosicrucian Supposed Means of Magic Through Signs, Signals, and Figures; Astro-Theosophical System of the Rosicrucians-The Alchemic Magisterium.
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/58395470/Hargrave_Jennings_-_The_Rosicrucians__Their_Rites_and_Mysteries_.pdf
Kenneth Grant - The Magick RevivalKenneth Grant is a British occultist and head of the Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis.Grant claims to be the true successor to Aleister Crowley and his order to be the true OTO. He was a great admirer and close friend of Austin Osman Spare and did much to bring his name into western occult society.
Many of his ideas, such as the use of H. P. Lovecraft's mythology, are highly disputed. In his first book Grant takes a more or less straightforward historical approach. He declares that the Thelemic Current as embodied in the sexual Magick of Aleister Crowley is the latest manifestation of what he calls the "Draconian Tradition" of Ancient Egypt. It was this that inspired the Tantric sects of India, and Grant intimates that the ultimate origin of all this lies with a matriarchal pre-Dynastic culture in Africa. Now considering that next to nothing is known about the historical origins of Tantra (scholars can't even determine if Hindu or Buddhist texts are older) Grant's assertions are about as good as anyone's. Unfortunately he offers no real support for all of this; we are apparently required to accept this as the Gospel Utterance of an Initiated Teacher. The book can certainly not be called scholarly; Grant rarely identifies his sources, even for direct quotes, and when he does it is often not helpful. He refers often to an unpublished "Initiated Tantric Comment" as substanciating his theories (which mostly seem to deal with the Magical virtues of vaginal secretions,) but we are given no idea as to its authorship or authority. One long quote, referring as it does to modern Western medical practices, makes it clear that this "Comment" is of recent composition, but I see no reason to regard it as more than a reasonably valid interpretation of Tantric ritual. Grant claims it is the One-True-Recieved-From-On-High doctrine.
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/58396017/Kenneth_Grant_-_The_Magick_Revival.pdf
