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10 Civilizations That Disappeared Under Mysterious Circumstances. Masonic E-Book Library. Note: Many of the e-books in this library are several hundred pages long and include illustrations.

Masonic E-Book Library

It takes a minimum of a high-speed DSL or cable modem to download many of them. i.e. Mackey's Masonry Defined takes 3 minutes just to download the text. A Message from our Librarian. Online Scans of Rare & Antique Metaphysical Books. Esoteric Archives. Rare Metaphysical Books - The VOICE OF ISIS. Religion And The Esoteric... Bill Heidrick's Cross References. Affect of the Moon's Eight Phases on Your Personal Reality.

Internet Sacred Text Archive Home. Institute for Hermetic Studies. Abrahadabra: Some Thoughts on the WordAlchemy, It’s Not For the Middle Ages AnymoreAntimony: Gateway to the Mineral WorldAssumption of the GodformThe Body of Light in the Western Esoteric TraditionCan You Imagine?

Institute for Hermetic Studies

The Chamber of ReflectionThe Coming Storm, Part One: Peak Oil and YouThe Coming Storm, Part Two: The Options ReviewedThe Coming Storm, Part Three: A Call for Hermetic Renewal – The New RenaissanceEsotericism and FreemasonryAn Exercise from the Vault of CRCThe Flashing SwordFollow Up to the Lucid Dreaming ProjectHermeticism, Democracy and ResponsibilityThe Hermetic QabalaThe History of Alchemy in AmericaHow Long Does it Take? Abrahadabra: Some Thoughts on the Word The sacred word of magic! This essay reviews the historical, esoteric, and symbolic meaning of this word and how it relates to ‘The Lost Word’ of alchemists, Freemasons, and Rosicrucians.

Can You Imagine? Imagine if Traditional Western Esotericism was an academic subject for study in every university or college? Zentips. The Dalai Lama’s 18 Rules For Living. May 6, 2011 | 42 Comments » | Topics: Life, List At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama apparently issued eighteen rules for living.

Since word travels slowly in the digital age these have only just reached me. Here they are. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. Via OwenKelly. 7 Kundalini Yoga Postures to Clear the Chakras. “Men of great knowledge actually found out about the chakras – their workings, their petals, their sounds, their infinity, their co-relationship, their powers.

7 Kundalini Yoga Postures to Clear the Chakras

They found that the life of a human is totally based on these chakras. They developed into a whole science. This total science gave birth to Kundalini Yoga. That is how Kundalini Yoga was born.” – Yogi Bhajan The human body is a complex system encompassing vast energy systems that are not immediately perceptible with our limited eyes.

Asana,or postures, are positions of the body used to activate and direct energy to open both a physical and an energetic position in the body. 1) First Chakra, the Root Chakra (Muladhara): Foundations, fear, survival Asana: Crow Pose 2) Second Chakra, the Sacral Chakra (Svadisthana): Creation, desire, relationships. Radionics Subtle Energy and Vibrational Medicine. The resistance. Merkabah mysticism. Etymology[edit]

Merkabah mysticism

Seraph. A seraph (/ˈsɛr.əf/; pl. seraphs or seraphim /ˈsɛr.ə.fɪm/; Hebrew: שְׂרָפִים śərāfîm, singular שָׂרָף śārāf; Latin: seraphi[m], singular seraph[us]; Greek: σεραφείμ) is a type of celestial or heavenly being in the Abrahamic religions.

Seraph

Origins and development[edit] The word seraphim, literally "burning ones", transliterates a Hebrew plural noun; translation yields seraphs. The Snowflake and the Flower. Amazing Metropolis Discovered in Africa is 200,000 years old! By Dan Eden for viewzone.

Amazing Metropolis Discovered in Africa is 200,000 years old!

They have always been there. People noticed them before. But no one could remember who made them -- or why? Until just recently, no one even knew how many there were. Now they are everywhere -- thousands -- no, hundreds of thousands of them! Tree of Life. Zohar: Genesis: Chapter IX. Sacred Texts Judaism Index Previous Next WHEN the Holy One wished to form man and said: "Let us make man in our image.

Zohar: Genesis: Chapter IX.

" He intended to set him over the angelic hosts who should be subject to his commands. The revolting angels, however, protested and said: "What is man that he merits Thy regards? (Ps. viii. 5); he will most certainly sin against Thee and disobey Thy commandments. " Said the Holy One unto them: "If ye were on earth below you would become more wicked and culpable than he.25a-26b And so it happened, for as it is written, as soon as "they beheld the daughters of men that they were fair, they took them wives of all which they chose" (Gen. vi. 2). Therefore, the Holy One hurled them into the abysmal darkness, where they abide unto this day. p. 131.

Sephirot. Sephirot (/sfɪˈroʊt/, /ˈsfɪroʊt/; Hebrew: סְפִירוֹת‎ Səphîrôṯ), meaning emanations, are the 10 attributes/emanations in Kabbalah, through which Ein Sof (The Infinite) reveals himself and continuously creates both the physical realm and the chain of higher metaphysical realms (Seder hishtalshelus).

Sephirot

The term is alternatively transliterated into English as Sefirot/Sefiroth, singular Sephirah/Sefirah etc. Kabbala 101. Athenian "Snake Goddess" Now Identified As Demeter, Not Athena. By Stephanie Pappas | LiveScience.com – 11 hrs ago SEATTLE - A mysterious "snake goddess" painted on terracotta and discovered in Athens may actually be Demeter, the Greek goddess of the harvest.

Athenian "Snake Goddess" Now Identified As Demeter, Not Athena

Once linked to the worship of the dead, the goddess is flanked by two snakes on a slab of terracotta about the size of a piece of notebook paper. She has her hands up above her head, which has given her the nickname "the touchdown goddess" thanks to the resemblance of the pose to a referee's signal. The goddess is painted in red, yellow and blue-green on a tile, with only her head molded outward in three dimensions.

This unusual piece of art was found amid a jumble of gravel and other terracotta fragments in 1932 in what was once the Athenian agora, or public square. Goddess Demeter - in the Christian Form. We've seen this in other cases of ancient goddesses (particularly) incorporated into the Christian pantheon (although Church Fathers would never describe it that way!)

Goddess Demeter - in the Christian Form

As "saints. "  From Barbara G. Minoan Snake Goddess. By Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee, Ph.D. The Snake Goddess was one of the Minoan divinities associated closely with the snake cult. She is called also Household Goddess due to her attribute of the snake, which is connected with welfare of the Minoan house. But the snake is also symbol of the underworld deity, so the Snake Goddess is related to chthonic aspects too. The first, who identified this Minoan Goddess and who described her domestic and chthonic role and her cult, was A. Evans. The Continuing Story of Goddess. In the high Swiss Alps, in small caves just below the level of the glaciers, there were discovered in the 1920’s, crudely constructed stone cabinets containing neatly arranged cave bear skulls and bones, along with other implements and fire ashes.

These little shrines clearly showed that some sort of ceremony or worship had taken place. During what was called the Riss-Vurm Glaciation, these caves were completely covered with ice and no one could have gone there.