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Monthly Archives: January 2012

Will You Be Ready

  “Will you be ready” by Deep Forest from Essence Of The Forest by Deep Forest “Can we let the sun still shine Or rip into 15 pieces, will you be ready When it comes Will you be ready when it takes your heart Will you know what to say Will you be ready?” “Will [...]

Time

  “Time” by Alan Parsons Project from The Turn Of A Friendly Card “Time, flowing like a river Time, beckoning me Who knows when we shall meet again If ever But time Keeps flowing like a river To the sea Goodbye my love, Maybe for forever Goodbye my love, The tide waits for me Who [...]

Killing Time

  “Time Canon” and “Killing Time” by Triumph from Thunder Seven   “Time and time and time again Time after time after time Round and round and round again Time never waits Time never ends All of your life All the time Goes on by By and by and by”   “Hanging out on the [...]

In Nomine Babalon, XI

XI Lady of lust on the back of the Beast, The lion, the serpent, the star of the east Rising and shining new light on Zion; I raise up the cup and adore Babalon! — In Nomine Babalon: 156 Adorations to the Scarlet Goddess   The Hermetic Library arts and letters pool is a project [...]

True Change

  “True Change” by Spirit Level from Home Cookin

Hermetic Hosting’s new party dress and dance card

There’s been a couple updates over at Hermetic Hosting recently. Last night I pushed a big update to the site, so there’s now information about my plans within plans, um … well, information about hosting plans, anyway. I also have been working on an update to the logo.   The new Hermetic Hosting logo   [...]

“And mark that of those jewels some are said to be moveable and transferable, because when displayed in our own lives and natures their influence becomes transferred and communicated to others and helps to uplift and sweeten the lives of our fellows; whilst some are immoveable because they are permanently fixed and planted in the roots of our own being, and are indeed the raw material which has been entrusted to us to work out of chaos and roughness into due and true form.”

The Deeper Symbolism of Freemasonry from The Meaning of Masonry by Walter Leslie Wilmshurst. “And mark that of those jewels some are said to be moveable and transferable, because when displayed in our own lives and natures their influence becomes transferred and communicated to others and helps to uplift and sweeten the lives of our [...]

Violet Tweedale’s first edition of The Secret Doctrine

Violet Tweedale, who was, among other things, a member of the Isis-Urania Temple in Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, once owned a first edition of H.P. Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine which is now on auction online at “The Secret Doctrine – First Edition 1888 Volumes I & II with Volume III & Index“. “A [...]

“It is a parable of the dual paths of life open to each one of us; on the one hand the path of selfishness, material desires and sensual indulgence, of intellectual blindness and moral stagnation; on the other the path of moral and spiritual progress, in pursuing which one may decorate and adorn the Lodge within him with the ornaments and jewels of grace and with the invaluable furniture of true knowledge, and which he may dedicate, in all his actions, to the service of God and of his fellow men.”

The Deeper Symbolism of Freemasonry from The Meaning of Masonry by Walter Leslie Wilmshurst. “It is a parable of the dual paths of life open to each one of us; on the one hand the path of selfishness, material desires and sensual indulgence, of intellectual blindness and moral stagnation; on the other the path of [...]

“The initiate placed in the N.E. corner is intended to see, then, that on the one side of him is the path that leads to the perpetual light of the East, into which he is encouraged to proceed, and that on the other is that of spiritual obscurity and ignorance into which it is possible for him to remain or relapse.”

The Deeper Symbolism of Freemasonry from The Meaning of Masonry by Walter Leslie Wilmshurst. “The initiate placed in the N.E. corner is intended to see, then, that on the one side of him is the path that leads to the perpetual light of the East, into which he is encouraged to proceed, and that on [...]

Final Litany / Urlicht / Crowned & Conquering Child

“Final Litany / Urlicht / Crowned & Conquering Child ” is a track added by Brave Mysteries in the Hermetic Library audio pool.   The Hermetic Library audio pool is an auditory scavenger hunt for sounds and music of a living Western Esoteric Tradition. Music and performance can be a form of ritual and magick. [...]

“In symbolical language, the N. always signifies the place of imperfection and un-development; in olden times the bodies of suicides, reprobates and unbaptized children were always buried in the north or sunless side of a churchyard. The seat of the junior members of the Craft is allotted to the north, for, symbolically, it represents the condition of the spiritually unenlightened man; the novice in whom the spiritual light latent within him has not yet risen above the horizon of consciousness and dispersed the clouds of material interests and the impulses of the lower and merely sensual life.”

The Deeper Symbolism of Freemasonry from The Meaning of Masonry by Walter Leslie Wilmshurst. “In symbolical language, the N. always signifies the place of imperfection and un-development; in olden times the bodies of suicides, reprobates and unbaptized children were always buried in the north or sunless side of a churchyard. The seat of the junior [...]

“Two paths are open to him at this stage, a path of light and a path of darkness; a path of good and a path of evil. The N.E. corner is the symbolical dividing place between the two.”

The Deeper Symbolism of Freemasonry from The Meaning of Masonry by Walter Leslie Wilmshurst. “Two paths are open to him at this stage, a path of light and a path of darkness; a path of good and a path of evil. The N.E. corner is the symbolical dividing place between the two.” [via]

“It is after investment with the apron that the initiate is placed in the N.E. corner. Thereby he is intended to learn that at his birth into this world the foundation-stone of his spiritual life was duly and truly laid and implanted within himself; and he is charged to develop it; to create a superstructure upon it.”

The Deeper Symbolism of Freemasonry from The Meaning of Masonry by Walter Leslie Wilmshurst. “It is after investment with the apron that the initiate is placed in the N.E. corner. Thereby he is intended to learn that at his birth into this world the foundation-stone of his spiritual life was duly and truly laid and [...]

Invoke the Ageless Witch

  “Invoke the Ageless Witch” by Wooden Stake [also, also] from Invoke the Ageless Witch 7″ (which appears collected on the Razorback release At the Stroke of Midnight) “Swearing vengeance as she’s tied to the stake The mask of Satan is nailed to her face Interred in the crypt where a cross is in her [...]

Ritual America

Ritual America Trailer – New Feral House Book! from Feral House on Vimeo.   “Just five or six decades ago as many as a third of all American males belonged to a fraternal order. The substance of so-called secret rituals could easily be purchased in cheap paperback books. The true secret of these fraternal orders [...]

“The real Lodge referred to throughout our rituals is our own individual personalities, and if we interpret our doctrine in the light of this fact we shall find that it reveals an entirely new aspect of the purpose of our Craft.”

The Deeper Symbolism of Freemasonry from The Meaning of Masonry by Walter Leslie Wilmshurst. “The real Lodge referred to throughout our rituals is our own individual personalities, and if we interpret our doctrine in the light of this fact we shall find that it reveals an entirely new aspect of the purpose of our Craft.” [...]

“‘Know ye not’ says the great initiate St. Paul, ‘that ye are the temples of the Most High; and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?’”

The Deeper Symbolism of Freemasonry from The Meaning of Masonry by Walter Leslie Wilmshurst. “‘Know ye not’ says the great initiate St. Paul, ‘that ye are the temples of the Most High; and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?’” [via]

“I cannot too strongly impress upon you, Brethren, the fact that, throughout our rituals and our lectures, the references made to the Lodge are not to the building in which we meet. That building itself is intended to be but a symbol, a veil of allegory concealing something else.”

The Deeper Symbolism of Freemasonry from The Meaning of Masonry by Walter Leslie Wilmshurst. “I cannot too strongly impress upon you, Brethren, the fact that, throughout our rituals and our lectures, the references made to the Lodge are not to the building in which we meet. That building itself is intended to be but a [...]

“And by these finally he will discern how that there is a mystical ‘ladder of many rounds or staves,’ i.e., that there are innumerable paths or methods by means of which men are led upwards to the spiritual Light encircling us all, and in which we live and move and have our being, but that of the three principal methods, the greatest of these, the one that comprehends them all and brings us nearest heaven, is Love, in the full exercise of which God-like virtue a Mason reaches the summit of his profession; that summit being God Himself, whose name is Love.”

The Deeper Symbolism of Freemasonry from The Meaning of Masonry by Walter Leslie Wilmshurst. “And by these finally he will discern how that there is a mystical ‘ladder of many rounds or staves,’ i.e., that there are innumerable paths or methods by means of which men are led upwards to the spiritual Light encircling us [...]