Lucifer Rising
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"To possess planets and stars is an incontestable triumph. But to possess them by the million, to teem with stars which are so many eyes trained upon the world each night as if tracking our dreams, is to wield excessive power, to display a very suspect splendor. Something in this immensity turns and meshes its gears with a regularity so precise as to be disquieting; and exactly for whom - or against whom - this mechanism deploys its flaming wheelworks, we do not know." Jacques Lacarriere, The Gnostics "Sometimes the luminaries and the other planets meet together in a place that has such great power for producing human beings that it impresses a human form even upon seed of an entirely different kind, and in opposition to the formative power inherent in that seed. . . . This is the reason why, even in stones hardened by vapours, there is impressed upon the material the shape of a man or that of some other species of nature. . . ." Albertus Magnus, De Mineralibus "If communication transports essentially through space, transmission essentially transports through time. Communication prompts an instantaneous response between parties, by synchronizing and connecting them like a thread: a communicative network runs its course between contemporaries (sender and receiver present to one another simultaneously at either end of the line). Transmission takes its course through time (diachronically), developing and changing as it goes. A thread plus a drama, it links the living to the dead, most often when the senders are physically absent." Regis Debray, Transmitting Culture "For behind the concrete forces of revolution ... beyond that invisible secret circle which perhaps directs them all, is there not yet another force, still more potent ... In looking back over the centuries at the dark episodes that have marked the history of the human race ... strange and horrible cults, waves of witchcraft, blasphemies, and desecrations, how is it possible to ignore the existence of an Occult Power at work in the world?" Nesta Webster, Secret Societies and Subversive Movements "To distinguish between subjective and objective phenomena is a delicate task, especially when it is recalled that all experience philosophically speaking is subjective; we ought, more strictly speaking, to distinguish between the experience which begins and ends with the self, and that which receives its stimulus from the not-self; and we have also to remember that any given experience not only may, but is bound to have both elements in its composition, for the objective must always be interpreted in terms of the subjective in order to be comprehensible." Dion Fortune, The Cosmic Doctrine "Transpersonal psychology recognizes spiritual and cosmic aspects of human consciousness, and the potential for the evolution of consciousness. It builds on the ideas of Carl Jung, who stressed the importance of the unconscious, mysterious, mystical, nonrational, and creative elements of consciousness and proposed the existence of a collective unconscious to which all mankind has access. A wideranging school of thought, transpersonal psychology recognizes realms of experience beyond the physiological, biographical, and individual, and takes into account cosmic, spiritual, past-life, and prenatal experiences, as well as shamanistic phenomena, altered states of consciousness, myths and archetypes, etc." Sarah Belle Dougherty, "New Light on Human Nature" Program Description This program examines through the lens of transpersonal psychology the cosmic, cultural, material and spiritual forces that have battled to shape the human mind and collective will from antiquity to the present. Lecturers will advance through review of electronic documents and textual propositions a rigorous inquiry into the occult roots of archetypes, the gnostic vision of planetary forces, the metaphysics of human destiny, and the magical energies that overshadow organizations in the world today. Archetypes "The English word archetype derives from a Greek word that is prominent in the writing of religious thinkers during the Hellenistic period. In modern times the term has been used to refer to fundamental structures in man's psyche as well as in his religious life. In either sense, an archetype is a pattern that determines human experience (whether on a conscious or an unconscious level) and makes itself felt as something both vital and holy." Beverley Moon, from: Encyclopedia of Religion "All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes." C.G. Jung from" "The Structure of the Psyche" (1927). In CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. P.342 "First let us define an archetype as an underlying principal that is upholding the Universe.” from: Celestial Bodies Cosmic Laws, Sirius, and the Parliament of Planets According to A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis, the archetype is: "The inherited part of the PSYCHE; structuring patterns of psychological performance linked to INSTINCT; a hypothetical entity irrepresentable in itself and evident only through its manifestations." "The archetype is made of image and emotion; the image presents the meaning of the emotion, and the emotion gives the image its dynamic energy." John Perry "Think of archetypes as being like magnets with an invisible energy field....The archetype's invisible power (energy field) is revealed by what (or who) gets caught in their energy field -i.e. the archetypal images and behavior." from: "Archetypes - A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words" "The blood is indeed the archetypal organ of liquid flow. As a liquid it has all organic formation potentially within it. As "blood" it is the expression of the spiritual being according to the idea of whom the various organs are moulded and assembled to form a total organism - the body in which this being may live. If therefore blood is an expression of the being ruling over it, may we not ask if there is a similar higher being of whom water, the "blood of the earth" is the physical expression." Theodor Schwenk, from Sensitive Chaos "...archetypes are elemental forces which play a vital role in the creation of the world and of the human mind itself. The ancients called them elemental spirits." from: "Archetypes As Defined By Carl Jung" "Every Greek philosopher from Thales to Plato struggled to define the primordial "stuff" of the extra-temporal Arkhi. For Thales, Arkhi was water..." Michael Staples from: "The Significance of "In" and the Interactive Field" "Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archetype is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it flowed the deeper the channel, and the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return." Carl G. Jung, from Psychological Reflections "Archetypes, according to Jung, are "active living dispositions, ideas in the Platonic sense, that preform and continually influence our thoughts and feelings and actions." They are not inherited ideas, but rather, as Jung says elsewhere, "inherited possibilities of ideas." John Granrose, from "The Archetype of the Magician" "All archetypes are contaminated with each other." Marie-Louise von Franz, from: On Divination and Synchronicity "Mother" is an archetype." Michael McMullin, from: "Astrology as a New Model of Reality" "The mother archetype..dervives from the basic human experience of holding and being held. At first we experience this holding as physical - in the mother's arms. But infants are also in need of a larger "holding environment" to help them learn how to hold and handle their own experience." John Welwood, from: Toward a Psychology of Awakening The archetype is "eternally present. It acts as a magnetic field which directs the unconscious behavior of the personality through the pattern of behavior set up by the instincts." "Soul Oriented Interpretation" "There is a large class of psychological archetypes that are theriomorphic... Some of these relate to signs of the Zodiac..." Michael McMullin, from "Astrology as a New Model of Reality" "Archetypes are complexes of experience that come upon us like fate..." C.G. Jung from "Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious" (1935). In CW 9, Part I: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. P. 62 "Archetypal principles always take on individual meanings and forms of expression, which are partly determined by a person's life history, social context, and immediate situation." John Welwood, from Toward a Psychology of Awakening "The three Crown Archetypes of Nature are Isis, Serapis and Orpheus. These three form the Triune for the planetary mutability of Earth. All other Earth archetypes interrelate through these. Most archetypes of this sphere were originally begun through a living experience." Raphiem, on "Thoth/Adam-Kadmon/DNA" "'Archetype' is Jung's word for the psychological image of a god, and when an archetype is activated, we speak of its impact as numinous. In other words, numinosity is the charge of energy in whatever we experience as divine or demonic. If you want to know what is numinous to you, consider what you find fascinating, compelling, thrilling, mysterious, horrifying, gripping, tremendous, terrifying, dreadful, or awesome. Think about the things with which you are preoccupied in spite of yourself." Janet O. Dallett, from: The Not-Yet-Transformed God "How often we want to make God conceivable, expressible, visible, perceptible to worldly senses. How much we want to worship idols...The divine liturgy, however, does not allow us to do anything of the sort. It destroys our idols of God and raises up before us His saving Image, the Word "who is the image of the invisible God" (Colossians 1:15), the archetype of our true, hidden Godmade being." Archimandrite Vasileios, from Abbot of Stavronikita, Hymn of Entry Archetypes "are expressions of the underlying energy patterns which shape life itself....and although an archetype has no form, it communicates itself to us through many symbols of a nature so vast that the conscious ego backs off in awe." Liz Greene, from: Relating "Archetypes defy all logic. They are based on human physiological urges revealed in fantasies and generally communicated only in symbols. Throughout the history of our species, community design has enabled the male archetype of human civilization to unite with the female archetype symbolizing water and land. This does not speak to a conscious layer of the psyche. In fact, such images appear despite our consciousness, as silent right-brain symbolic logic attempts to override left-brain verbal rationalizing." from "Shaman I Am" "...we understand the erotic power of the soul, at its deepest level, to be our thirst for the depths of our own being. That thirst can only be slaked when we achieve the goal for which we were made: union with our Archetype, with God - what the Orthodox tradition calls "deification." Archimandrite George Capsanis, from The Eros of Repentence "...it is not a question of a crude materialistic form of extraversion but of whether the spiritual world, indeed the archetypes themselves, are to be thought of as psychological, as components of the psyche, or whether they are projected (as a psychologist would say) and thought of as inhabitants of spiritual worlds outside and independent of the psyche." Michael McMullin, from: "Astrology as a New Model of Reality" Archetypes, declares Jung "are the infallible causes of neurotic and even psychotic disorders, behaving exactly like neglected or maltreated physical organs or organic functional systems." C.G. Jung from: "The Psychology of the Child Archetype" (1940). In CW 9, Part I: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. P. 266 "Jung thought that there was a unitary reality—the unus mundus—that underlay both psyche and matter, and speculated that the primary archetypes of this unitary reality were the simple counting numbers." Robin Robertson from "Number as Archetype" "On an archetypal level, there is a connection between mother, mandala, and ground - which are some of the ways in which the archetypal principle of holding operates." John Welwood, from: Toward a Psychology of Awakening "As in terrestrial music so also in the celestial there are harmonies and discords, and these all impinge upon the seed atom and aid in building the archetype. " Max Heindel on "Archetypes" "Sooner or later nuclear physics and the psychology of the unconscious will draw closer together as both of them, independently of one another and from opposite directions, push forward into transcendental territory, the one with the concept of the atom, the other with that of the archetype". C.G. Jung Aion (1951). CW 9: Part II: P. 412 "Indeed, elementary particles are to physics what dream figures and archetypes are to psychology." Arnold Mindell, from Quantum Mind "On the other hand, what really brings about death is the collapse of the archetype of the dense body." Max Heindel from: Questions & Answers Vol. II, p.337 "In my experience, when an archetype is constellated, it creates a perceptible field of psychological energy, analogous to a magnetic field in the physical sphere. I have long maintained that a field of this sort might "attract" psychological and physical occurrences belonging to a particular pattern, much as a magnet attracts iron filings that make its field visible. As a matter of fact, contemporary mathematicians and physicists seem to be speaking from a similar intuition when they use the word "attractor," describing the fact that a particular motion always settles into a specific pattern; and when chaos theory employs the term "strange attractors" for uniquely individual patterns that are complex and unpredictatable, but nonetheless orderly." Janet O. Dallett, from The Not-Yet-Transformed God "Each archetype is like a mass of dynamic energy, and in a schizophrenic, for instance, such a load can explode the ego complex if the tension is great. That shows empirically how high the tension of the archetype can become, for it can even destroy the whole conscious personality. In a tense situation it is extremely probable that in the unconscious an archetype is constellated; that is the moment to use the oracle because only at such a time is it likely to function and give an answer that makes sense. Thus the archetype is, in a way, a factor of psychological probability." Maria-Louise von Franz, On Divination and Synchronicity "Once we re-learn to perceive things symbolically, or re-awaken intuition, "apprehension by means of the archetype", the world can only be magically transformed for us..." Michael McMullin, from "Astrology as a New Model of Reality" "The Self is an archetype that carries the numinosity of the image of God. It is often used as a synonym for the God within." Janet O. Dallet, from: The Not-Yet-Transformed God "An archetype...is the perfect Cosmic blueprint for all human beings...equated...with the "Logos" or eternal "image of God..." John Rossner, from: In Search of the Primordial Tradition "The error of the angels, the recklessness and clumsiness of those who sought to reproduce a model of the luminous archetype that sprang from the intellect of the true God, resulted in a veritable abortion being practiced upon matter that was still virgin and in a state of pure gestation. For what they created was not a man but a shapeless worm, a foetus still unfit for life, and one cannot help wondering why the true God decided to keep it alive." Jacques Lacarriere, from: The Gnostics In the teaching of Mani, "we come across a concept fundamental to Christianity: that of the "Lamb, slain from the foundation of the world (cosmos)," as it is expressed in Rev. 13: 8. The archetypal idea presented here is that the Son of Man/ Son of God sacrifices himself and allows himself to be slain by the powers of Darkness, to accomplish the judgment and eventual dissolution of the Darkness. The light (blood) of the Lamb (Rev. 5: 9, 7: 14) is for the nourishment of the Sons of Light while at the same time, it is a poison for the Sons of Darkness. Jesus, in his role as Son of the First Man, reenacted the sacrifice of Archetypal Man when he permitted himself to be captured, crucified and slain by the powers of evil. The Book of Revelation is careful to point out that this process of "slaying" or self- sacrifice has been going on since the origin of the physical cosmos." Joseph P. Macchio, from: The Orthodox Suppression of Original Christianity "Once the exploration of the unconscious has led the conscious mind to an experience of the archetype, the individual is confronted with the abysmal contradictions of human nature, and this confrontation in turn leads to the possibility of a direct experience of light and darkness, of Christ and the devil...There are factors to be considered which are not under our control. Experience of the opposites has nothing whatever to do with intellectual insight or with empathy. It is more what we would call fate." C.G. Jung "Just as there is an archetype of the human being in the heavens (we find such archtypes in Greek classical art), so there are caricatures of the human in the subterranean sphere. And just as our angel, standing above us, represents, one could say, our archetype, so it is that the Ahrimanic double, on the other hand is our caricature." Valentin Tomberg, from Inner Development "It is stated in the Bible that Joseph was a carpenter, but the Greek word is tekton, which means "builder." In Mystic Masonry God is called the Grand Architect. ARCHE is the Greek word signifying primordial substance, and a tekton is a builder. Thus God is the great Master Builder, who out of primordial substance fashioned the world as an evolutionary field for various grades of beings..." Max Heindel, from Ancient & Modern Initiations, p.70 "These seven stages then are the seven pillars of the temple of humanity, the temple of the ideal human being. And to these pillars lead steps that actually represent the states of consciousness in which the seven fundamental tones of existence can be experienced. For existence is a symphony consisting of these seven fundamental, or archetypal tones. They are the tones of the washing of the feet, the scourging, the crowning with thorns, the carrying of the cross, the crucifixion, the entombment, and the resurrection." Valentin Tomberg, from Inner Development "In the Kabbalah, Tifereth, one of the ten Sefiroth or Divine Emanations, is the chest of Adam Kadmon, the Archetypal, Primordial Man, and houses Understanding, or Binah, the heart." Joseph P. Macchio, from: The Orthodox Suppression of Original Christianity "...the perfect magus has the power to 'give a soul to an image' and make statues alive. In so doing, he imparts to them something which he has gained as a result of having completed the mystical ascent and attained to the Archetype itself." Wouter J. Hanegraaff, from "Sympathy for the Devil: Renaissance Magic and the Ambivalence of Idols" In Jung's writings, says John J. Costello, "The occult...was replaced by the less dangerous word unknown. His use of mystical was reduced drastically and this whole area found a new language in his psychological terminology of the archetype." John J Costello from: "Introductory Lectures on the Relationship between Analytical Psychology and Religion" "The genuine "occult" can now be understood scientifically to be time-release packages of advanced technical information entrusted to us in "crash courses" in civilization until we could break its code." Neil Freer, from: "From Godspell to God Games" "Collectively, archetypes have been compared to a blueprint or a genetic code which presents predetermined plans for the structure and function and development of each aspect of human life. We might wonder whether some or all of the archetypes are biologically based in the genes themselves, with one archetype per gene; if so, then our awareness of archetypes is founded on our intuitive awareness of our own genetic structure." James Harvey Stout on Archetypes "Slowly a classic disassociational process developed due to separation in time and we began to sublimate the flesh and blood Nefilim into cosmic absolutes and their personalities into mythic archetypes. Looking back over the history of our species the traumatic transition we have gone through might well be characterized as the creation of the concept of a cosmic God by us, through a series of psychological mutational phases." Neil Freer, from: "From Godspell to God Games" "It would seem that the divinity and archetypal nature of the alphabet along with the formal nature of the grammar and syntax will result in the elements recombining to form sensible and necessary combinations in a way not unlike current theories of the evolution of life out of basic amino acids. Frater NunTzaddi 950 from: "Sense and Nonsense: An Examination of the Rational Foundations of Occultism & the Function of Ritual" "When confronting the power of archetypes and the mythological images they bring to individual consciousness, one can hardly pronounce moral judgments. One can only try, as best one can, to maintain uneasy peace between the conscious psychology, rooted in the body's sexuality, and the transexual unconscious energy symbolized by the outer planets." Liz Greene, from Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet "What shall we say of Hitler, Stalin or Cesare Borgia? They are probably embodiments in human form of something like a plague, personifications of the Black Death, of the archetype Pluto." Michael McMullin, from "Astrology as a New Model of Reality" "The archetype of “the secret chiefs” (or supermen) whose very presence proves harmful or unsettling to the ordinary man, extends to our present day, whether in the guise of gods, angels, faeries, extraterrestrial visitors, super-powered mutants, or Jedi Knights. Beyond the more garish manifestations, however, the nature of these beings—or forces—is that they are both omnipresent and occult: that they constitute nothing less than the hidden order of the Universe, by definition only accessible to those who have attained the necessary “grade,” and thereby become “worthy of”—or capable of withstanding—contact. This is, of course, a self-fulfilling mystery, an unassailable argument for the existence of such beings, seeing as their “reality” is actually confirmed by their obscurity. The fact that we have no evidence of them proves that they exist!" from: Celestial Bodies Cosmic Laws, Sirius, and the Parliament of Planets Archons "...any of a number of world-governing powers that were created with the material world by a subordinate deity called the Demiurge (Creator)...Archons were viewed as maleficent forces. They numbered 7 or 12 and were identified with the seven planets of antiquity or with the signs of the zodiac." from: Britannica Micropedia vol 1 "This basic gnostic myth is that the creator described in Genesis is not the true god, but an inferior Demiurge. The Demiurge has many sort of ministers, or archons, and together they are responsible for this miserable world. Though imprisoned in this "abortion of matter," humanity carries within itself the leftover sparks of the precosmic "pleroma" that existed before the Demiurge and his creation. Human beings are thus totally superior to the ecosystem—not stewards, but strangers in a strange land. Our body and the soul ("psyche") cloak this spiritual "spark" and must be rent for us to rediscover our true being." Erik Davis, from "Snakes & Ladders" "Hebraic cosmology had already described the planets not as dead stars but as living beings, as archangels whose brilliance was supposedly a celebration of the glory of the All-Powerful. Gnosticism retains this vision but reverses its meaning: these living planets, these blazing archangels shine forth above us in celebration of their own glory. It is as usurpers that they occupy their domain of the lower heavens and rule over their damned creation." Jacques Lacarriere, from: The Gnostics "History, written by the archons, and organised religion, also controlled by them, have elevated this evil bloodthirsty tribal god to the highest level, while suppressing the truth about the existence of the True God. Religions are all false renditions of Gnostic truths, and have been the basis of wars, suffering, torture, and enslavement of the human spirit – instead of liberating it. Over time, the biblical designation YHVH, or Yahweh, has come to mean "God"." Dr. J.S. Chiappalone, from "The Kingdom of Zion: Exposing the Worldwide Conspiracy of Evil" "Like Yahweh, the seven archons created the law. The Gnostics believed these powers created constraint, evil, darkness, death, deception and wickedness. The demiurge was evil because he wanted to impose an untrue religion. He also wanted to impose his judgment upon humans because he thought he could judge good and evil. Gnostics thought the archons were inferior demonic beings. Their Old Testament names were Iao, Sabaoth, Adonai, Elohim, and El Shaddi. They intervened to separate humanity from God, and the universe became a prison controlled by the archons. Archons barred the passage of souls who were seeking to ascend to God after death, who were attempting to escape the world." Robert Siblerud, from Keepers of the Secrets: Unveiling the Mystical Societies "The creation of physical, material man by the archons, and what might be considered subsequent "nth derivative" creations of "homo sapiens" by the Nephilim and the propagation of an ungodly race by the Watchers, thus rendered man subject to not only the laws of mortality but to inbred emotions of rebellion and lust and animal-like behaviour that could only be eradicated by "spiritual surgery" as it were, by man's submission to the path of initiation whereby he is restored to his original, inner Divine Nature." Joseph P. Macchio, from: The Orthodox Suppression of Original Christianity "Each Aeon has its Archon, or ruler, created by internal tensions in the Aeons. In other systems, ultimate reality itself is the First Archon and from this a number of Archons, usually seven, the Hebdomad, evolved by a process called Ennoia. Ennoia means that each Archon creates another, lower Archon by projecting its thoughts into the lower planes consciously or unconsciously, creating an inferior image of itself ("And God created man in His image")" Anders Sandberg from The Gnostics "The Gnostics believed the Catholic Church was an arm of Satan because it did not teach the truth. Catholic teachings were introduced by the archons, claimed the Gnostics, who were the wicked rulers of the world that led men astray. Robert Siblerud, from Keepers of the Secrets: Unveiling the Mystical Societies. "According to the Valentinian school of theology (which inherited its teaching from Paul), the Aeon of this cosmos refers to a usurper god, called the demiurge (Greek: artificer or fabricator). The word "Aeon" has many meanings in Greek, including age, space, or a spiritual being governing a vast space or dimension either in the heavens (Pleroma) or below. Here it is used to refer to a spiritual being (Aeon), whom Paul also calls the "Archon of the power of the air." Archon is the Greek word for ruler, and "the power of the air" is identified with the devil by Valentinian theologians. Paul therefore must be referring to the Ruler or usurper god who has had dominion over the physical cosmos (as opposed to the spiritual universe— called by Paul the Pleroma or fullness). This ruler, according to Valentinian theology, created the "devil" from the passion of grief which was transformed into the cosmic element of air. The "power of the air," then, is the devil who is the spirit working in the children of disobedience. The element air has commonly been identified with the mind." Joseph P. Macchio, from: The Orthodox Suppression of Original Christianity "Were I to persuade anyone that the real soul is not a unit, but that the passions of the erring are occasioned by the compulsion of the accreted natures, no common excuse then would the worthless of mankind have for saying, 'I was compelled, I was carried away, I did it without wishing to do so, I acted unwillingly'; whereas it was the man himself who led his desire towards evil and refused to battle with the constraints of the accretions. Our duty is to show ourselves rulers over the inferior creation within us, gaining mastery by means of the rational principle." Isodoros, from "Concerning the Overgrown Soul" ""Paradoxically, it is through a very real need to understand and to explain the nature and destiny of the world we live in rational terms that the Gnostics, using the hypotheses of their era as a springboard, came to stray into the realm of mythological systems." Jacques Lacarriere, from: The Gnostics "If we picture earth at the center of the universe, the soul has acquired these energies on its downward (or inward) journey from the celestial regions through the planetary spheres. It emerges into earth life via the womb, full of potentials and tendencies that are delineated by its natal horoscope. Through life it works with these potentials, hopefully refining them so that they emerge as virtues. If this is accomplished, the soul when it leaves the body at death is light and unencumbered, and well able to rise upward (or outward) to the place of its origin. If instead the energies have coagulated in vices, then the upward journey will be difficult and the soul may even remain trapped in the earth's atmosphere, a torment to itself and a bane to its fellows." Joscelyn Godwin, from: Annals of the Invisible College "This scenario is the archetypal pattern of Christian-Gnostic salvation: redemption from ignorance perpetrated by the archons through their attempt to bind men permanently to a genetically and otherwise manipulated physical matrix, an envelope of matter and consciousness tainted with rebellion and the lust of the archons." Joseph P. Macchio, from: The Orthodox Suppression of Original Christianity "From our point of view this makes seven planetary archons, a complete octave, comprising the solar system and visible to the naked eye. These all correspond to functions of our life on earth, within the categories of space and time as we know them, and this octave defines the wave-lengths within which we function, comparable to the spectrum of visible light." Michael McMullin, from Astrology as a New Model of Reality "Simon Magus, a Samaritan whose enigmatic teachings were replete with a rare luminosity, was singled out by the early church as its chief enemy. His foremost disciple and fellow Samaritan, Menander, "also attained the pinnacle of the magical art", according to Irenaeus. His authentic magic or soul-wisdom promised self-conscious immortality to those who could pass through the spiritual baptism which washes away attachment to every angel and principality below the unknowable First Power." Elton Hall, from "Basilides" "In an age when the Church Fathers were seeking to suppress and conceal all evidence regarding the existence of the archons, demons, giants, fallen angels and other manifestations of evil, Mani was revealing the conspiracy of Darkness to his followers, for he taught nothing less than the counterfeit creation of mankind (a kind of man) by evil creative powers." Joseph P. Macchio, from: The Orthodox Suppression of Original Christianity "Humans are generally ignorant of the divine spark resident within them. This ignorance is fostered in human nature by the influence of the false creator and his Archons, who together are intent upon keeping men and women ignorant of their true nature and destiny. Anything that causes us to remain attached to earthly things serves to keep us in enslavement to these lower cosmic rulers. Death releases the divine spark from its lowly prison, but if there has not been a substantial work of Gnosis undertaken by the soul prior to death, it becomes likely that the divine spark will be hurled back into, and then re-embodied within, the pangs and slavery of the physical world. " Stephan A. Hoeller, from The Gnostic World View: A Brief Summary of Gnosticism "There is no reason to reject the New Testament or the early esoteric Christian schools concerning their teachings on the cause and continued presence of planetary evil. .... this very teaching on evil, had it been accepted by Christians in the later centuries, would have removed much of the mystery as to why the people of earth have been unable to challenge evil successfully... these very same forces of evil have seen to it that all references to the race of evil (whether they be fallen angels, archons, or Nephilim) have been either removed, suppressed or destroyed outright. ... In general, this evil is the result of either fallen, inferior or usurper deities, angels or rulers. It is very probable that the Christian- Gnostics believed that these powers not only inhabited certain of the planetary spheres but other frequencies, wavelengths or dimensions of matter not readily detectable by ordinary humans. Further, there is every reason to suspect that the schools of Christian- Gnostics were aware of the existence of beings navigating in not only the physical dimension but in other, more subtle frequencies. These beings were most often termed rulers or archons, and were created by or ruled by a chief Archon known by various names such as Ildabaoth, Sacklas, Satan, Sammael, etc. That these beings possessed the power of creating bodies is evident from the texts in question; that they believed themselves to be creators or "gods" is also evident. As a result of their fallen state, they are hostile to humanity and attempt to prevent mankind from attaining to spiritual liberation." Joseph P. Macchio, from: The Orthodox Suppression of Original Christianity "It was an age-old legend that there were seven watchers who were tried in the judgment, found not faithful, and overthrown. Now in the Ritual there appear the seven mortal sins "that lie in wait at the balance where all hearts are weighed, to arrest the further progress of the soul" (Ch. 71). These seven natural instincts of the mortal self constituted the seven-headed serpent that lay in wait at the "bight of Amenta," to devour the infant and innocent god-soul. The present exegesis receives striking corroboration in the statement of the Ritual that this place of ambuscade is "at the balance where all hearts are weighed." For assuredly it is in the incarnate state only that the soul could meet the seven enemies whose very existence is in the animal body and the carnal nature. The seven early mindless rulers were to be displaced by the twelve archons seated on the twelve thrones of judgment." Alvin Boyd Kuhn, from: The Lost Light "The esoteric teaching of the Christian-Gnostics and that of Mani concerned the creation of dense bodies by evil archons and their originating of sexual intercourse to keep the soul chained to those bodies through procreation. It was a misuse and abuse of this doctrine that caused the Church Fathers to so detest sex and woman, whom they considered a lure for man. They neglected to teach the laity that the establishment of sexual intercourse in lower bodies was the work not of woman but of archons/ fallen ones and that there existed a form of procreation in the archetypal universe and on the "etheric" earth (paradise) which man once inhabited quite different from the present method as we now know it. The other aspect of this teaching they suppressed was the doctrine that when man and woman come together in love and not in lust (which was the trademark of the Watchers and archons) and when "God hath joined them together" (i. e., when their union is infused with the spiritual element) they can bring forth sons and daughters of God into incarnation." Joseph P. Macchio, from: The Orthodox Suppression of Original Christianity "Jeane Dixon experienced a vision one day while meditating in St. Matthew’s Cathedral and in that vision she was presented with information regarding the astrological signs and the twelve Apostles with a matching correspondence from each Apostle to each sign. It is interesting information because it links the archetypes found in the signs together with the personality types of both the signs and the Apostles." Dr. Katherine O'Connell, from "Astrology and the Bible" "A sect termed the Paulicans emerged in Armenia from the seventh to the twelfth centuries and promulgated gnostic and Manichaen doctrines. Another sect, known as the Bogomiles (the friends of God), thrived from the tenth to eleventh centuries in Thrace and elsewhere. The doctrines of these various sects were similar to the teachings of Mani, and, like Manichaen Christianity, they taught the existence on earth and in other spheres of fallen angels, archons, etc., which had penetrated to the highest levels of Church and State." Joseph P. Macchio, from: The Orthodox Suppression of Original Christianity "Numerous Gnostics believed Jesus was only the temporary habitation of Christ, the Savior, who descended upon Jesus at his baptism and separated from him again before the crucifixion....The text, The Second Treatise of the Great Seth, taught that it was not Christ who suffered, but Simon of Cyrene. Simon was transformed by Christ so that he thought to be Jesus, and Jesus actually took the form of Simon. Jesus stood by, and the text said, he laughed during the crucifixion. He ascended to the Father and mocked the Jews and the archons." Robert Siblerud, from Keepers of the Secrets: Unveiling the Mystical Societies "No biblical personae make their exit on their own. The Eternal One moreover provides for each of us a guardian angel, as well as, for each nation, an archon (Greek for "ruler"), who acts as a guide assigned to its every move. Saint Michael, of all archangels the most frequently called on, was Israel's guardian, and he traditionally passes for being that of France." Regis Debray, from Transmitting Culture "It is quite obvious that compared to Gnostic cogitations Genesis and the Gospels are dazzingly clear and simple. What then is concealed behind this complexity, these perpetual subtleties which transform history into a chain of absurd tragedies, a series of obscure causes and effects, amid a vast array of Archons and Powers, Entities without number? Was it necessary to stage so many coup de theatre, to indulge in so much weeping and gnashing of teeth, so many falls and so much repentance, such contrivance and perversity on the part of the Archons and the Aeons, in order to make this eminently simple statement: real life is elsewhere? Jacques Lacarriere, from: The Gnostics "Evil archons and minions in the guises of doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, scientists, sceptics and so on, are labelling people, whose awareness is starting to expand to hitherto unexpected dimensions, as I had prophesied, in a derogatory and demeaning manner. Their futile attempt is trying to harness people's minds once again as in past days. But they will fail." J.S. Chiappalone, from "Notes on the Teachings" Egregore "EGREGORE: An engergized astral form produced consciously or unconsciously by human agency. In particular, (a) a strongly characterized form, usually an archetypal image, produced by the imaginative and emotional energies of a religious or magical group collectively, or (b) an astral shape of any kind, deliberately formulated by a magician to carry a specific force. The Aurum Solis Egregore: from a Greek word meaning "watcher." A thought-form created by will and visualization. A group egregore is the distinctive energy of a specific group of magicians who are working together, creating and building the same thought-form or energy-form. from: Golden Dawn Glossary "Any symbolic pattern that has served as a focus for human emotion and energy will build up an egergor of its own over time, and the more energy that is put into such a pattern, the more potent the egregor that will form around it. The gods and goddesses of every religion, past and present, are at the centers of vast egregors charged with specific kinds of power. This power is defined by, and contacted through, the traditional symbolism of the deity in question." John Michael Greer, from: Inside a Magical Lodge "The egregor is always an invisible and spiritual being, which is coupled with a physical entity. When several people on the earth unite around a common idea, they give birth to an egregora... this being is then going to become independent and have its own life which will be capable of influencing human beings and history. This is a terrifying secret which was carefully hidden inside the ancient mysteries. They called it: "The art of creating Gods". Then there was the war of the Gods...Man became a pawn in the hands of the egregors. He became the slave of the beings which he himself had created; and now he is obliged to feed them with his blood and his life." Olivier Manitara, from: "The Egregor of the Dove and the Triumph of Free Peace" "What is an egregore? It is the psychic and astral entity of a group. All members of a group, a family, a club, a political party, a religion or even a country, are psychically included in the egregore of the organization to which they belong. Of course, each of us belongs to several egregores at once. Therefore, each individual who is involved in a group receives the influences of the egregores, that is the astral counterpart of the group, in his psyche. This process is unconscious. The resulting drawbacks are, first, some perturbating psychic influences in the majority of cases, and second, a restriction of inner freedom. It is impossible to free oneself from certain egregores, for example the egregores of the country you live in. However, we should free ourselves from all egregores which are not essential. An egregore actually grows by drawing support from the members which constitute it who, in turn, through their repeated actions vivify it, somehow helping it to maintain its power." The Philosophers of Nature, Inc. from "Fundamentals of Esoteric Knowledge: Lesson" 1 "ARTIFICIAL GROUP ELEMENTAL - a large energy field hovering over the heads of individuals in a gathering which has a strong influence on each individual; 1. Energy field is composed of thought energy coming from individuals; field is formed and sustained because of the unity of thoughts and emotions; all minds are focused on one subject, one goal, one concept, or one attitude brought about telepathically by the tone and pitch of the words of the leader or music; elemental becomes recharged as the meeting progresses if the group keeps this unity of emotion and thought; 2. Elemental has an independent existence outside the consciousness of the thinkers and is capable of influencing each person individually to react emotionally in a manner one could not or would not be capable of individually away from the group; 3. Elemental disperses as rapidly as it is formed when the group is dismissed as the crowd no longer has continuity of existence; 4. e.g., individuals at a concert frequently weep because the oneness, joy and awe become overwhelming; young adults at a rock festival scream and tear off clothing because the music is choreographed to tune into these levels of the brain and the massness of feelings thrust them into this: soldiers attend military drills frequently in the sameness of uniform; this, along with the saluting and music reinforces their patriotism; destructive-brainwashing cult members meet daily or bi-daily to engage in repetitious verbiage and phrase shouting to keep the cult-programming" at an emotional peak. [cf. ELEMENTAL, MASS HYPNOSIS, DESTRUCTIVE-BRAINWASHING CULTS]." The Donning International Encyclopedic Psychic Dictionary by June G. Beltzer, Ph.D. According to Eliphas Levi egregores refer to "the powers of nature and the cosmos." He writes: "These colossal forces have sometimes taken a shape and have appeared in the guise of giants: these are the egregors of the Book of Enoch." L.S. Bernstein, from "Egregor" "The egregors that are created unconsciously, and in fits of passion, live only to destroy, giving birth to instincts of power and domination inside their members. They are the true cause of war and of the conflicts pitting everyone against everyone else." Olivier Manitara, from: "The Egregor of the Dove and the Triumph of Free Peace" "That deep level of racial and archetypal egregores...is termed the Collective Unconscious..." Denning and O. Phillips, from: "The Magical Philosophy" "These entities of a non-material nature emerge from the psychic essence of great collectives (tribes, states, parties, communities)." Mikhail Epstein, from "Daniil Andreev and the Russian Mysticism of Femininity" "Levi later claims, discussing the planets; "...governed by those genii which were termed the celestial watchers, or egregors, by the ancients." L.S. Bernstein, from "Egregor" "Originally, it was human beings who, in union with certain spiritual powers, generated the egregors of science, of medicine, and of Canada or any other country. But, then, they lost control of them; and these egregors directed them in such a way as to make them become unconscious and passive. As soon as an egregor causes blood to flow in any manner whatsoever it soils its inner light with an instinctive power and becomes a negative force of domination." Olivier Manitara, from "The Egregor of the Dove and the Triumph of Free Peace" "The Kabbalah names 72...national angelic regents, which the Hebrews call Elohim; the metaphysical technical term Egregors is also used for them. Derived from the Greek word egreoros, it means "watcher" or "guardian." The office of a Watcher is to protect from outside pressures a region or ethnic group assigned to its care. The region is always measured off from another posing a threat of some sort to it. A given group of persons (the group of those being protected) is "tied" to a certain area of jurisdiction....Here, too, we meet the "riddle of the founding of cities and states...." What is more, both the ancient Romans, and quite recently the Chinese, have recognized the existence of guardian spirits set over cities. Indeed, one author reports as follows on the occult was wages on enemy cities by ancient Rome: "The Romans, when besieging a city, made a habit of carefullly enquiring the name of the city and of its guardian spirit. When they knew these, they would summon the guardian spirit of the city and its inhabitants, and conquer it." Willy Schrodter, from: Commentaries on The Occult Philosophy of Agrippa "An apostalic succession of power," suggests John Michael Greer in Inside a Magical Lodge, is "a basic function of the egregor." "In the Invisible, beyond the physical perception of man, exist artificial beings-generated by devotion, enthusiasm and fanaticism - that one names egregores. These are the souls of great spiritual currents, good and evil. The Mystical Church, Heavenly Jerusalem, the Body of Christ and all these synonymous names are the epithets that one commonly gives to the egregore of Catholicism. Freemasonry, Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism are egregores. Great political idealogies are other egregores." Robert Ambelain, from La Kabbale pratique, Paris, 1951, p. 175, as quoted in Meditations on the Tarot "Worship me!" cries the Egregora. "I am the son of God; you are nothing but a worthless and sinful creature, damned from birth and destined to hell were it not for my sacrifice; and without me you will never reach heaven!" Marcelo Ramos Motta, from "Letter to a Brazilian Mason Unexpurgated" "Because if one classifies the Mystical Church, the Body of Christ, Freemasonry and Buddhism as egregores, i.e. as "artificial beings generated by devotion, enthusiasm and fanaticism," why not consider God also as an egregore?" from Meditations on the Tarot "Satan is not an actual discarnate, sentient being, but is more than just a symbol. Satan is, at the very least, today's most powerful magic(k)al egregore." Diane Vera, from "Intro to Satanism" "After sixteen hundred years of vitalization by multitudes of worshippers, and the absorption of the empty shells of priests, nuns, friars and fanatics who allowed themselves to be vampirized by it, the Egregora does exist in the so-called "astral plane"; and it is a demon that is to say, an illusory entity, It is not a true Microcosm, but a gestalt of vitalized shells, a focus for everything that is negative, defeatist, maudlin, bigoted, introverted in human nature - a morass completely hostile to progress and to the spiritual evolution of mankind." Marcelo Ramos Motta, from "Letter to a Brazilian Mason Unexpurgated" "Both in individuals and in groups, both on Earth and in other realms “structures of sin” are examples...of... ‘egregores’. Although some of their effects are physically manifest, any reality they have is spiritual. For example, as G-d's creation the ever-growing Church is the spotless Bride of Christ, but the institutional Church's historically developing shadow (using that term in Jung's sense) is an egregore and, to the extent that it obstructs the growth of Christ's Bride, a sinful one at that - a structure of sin." Colin James Hamer "Most frighteningly for [Pope] John Paul [II], he had come up against the irremovable presence of a malign strength in his own Vatican and in certain bishops’ chanceries. It was what knowledgeable Churchmen called the ‘superforce.’ Rumors, always difficult to verify, tied its installation to the beginning of Pope Paul VI’s reign in 1963. Indeed Paul had alluded somberly to ‘the smoke of Satan which has entered the Sanctuary’. . . an oblique reference to an enthronement ceremony by Satanists in the Vatican. Besides, the incidence of Satanic pedophilia — rites and practices — was already documented among certain bishops and priests as widely dispersed as Turin, in Italy, and South Carolina, in the United States. The cultic acts of Satanic pedophilia are considered by professionals to be the culmination of the Fallen Archangel’s rites." Malachi Martin, from: The Keys of This Blood A metabeing specializes or tailors the generic constructs and data structures of general and specific intelligences to its environment. That is, it defines a shared worldview; it names emotions and responses; it provides models by which its individual participants can understand themselves and their world. In so doing, the metabeing performs a function too large and complex to be done by an individual in a single incarnation. However, the worldview provided by the metabeing can overconstrain the evolving individual." Deb Bodeau, from "Metabeings and Individuals: Aids and Obstacles to Growth" "Once .. the Archetypal Ideal [has been] injected into the group mind of the race by being realized and lived by a consciousness forming part of that group-mind, it is caught up by the race and forms part of its subconsciousness, gradually permeating it, destroying ideas that are antagonistic to it and coalescing with ideas which are sympathetic; thereby changing the whole tone of the group-mind of the race. We say race advisedly, for the whole scheme is racial, being worked out by group-minds, and the racial factor cannot be ignored in any matter of occult work or initiation." Dion Fortune, from Esoteric Orders and Their Work "Many Haitians believe that the country's underdevelopment is the result of neglect of voudouns who led the Blacks to independence. The neglect is a sin at the national level. According to Henri-Claude Innocent in an article published in Le Nouvelliste (October 18, 1995), the Makaya cult was the power behind the revolution of the slaves at Saint-Domingue (Haiti)...The Makaya is the violent, demonic version of "left hand Vodou"... Following the Bakongo rituals (or Petro), they created an egergor or conglomerate of dark-matter entities (chain of Vodou spirits)...That egregor demanded human and animal sacrifices or a lot of blood...According to Innocent, the Mayaka team offered a slavemaster on the sacrificial altar to the Petro-Congo egregor. The conglomerate of dark entities was supposed to be dissolved after Independence by a special national ritual of thanksgiving, but it was not done and continues to produce havoc and mayhem among Haitians. Innocent recalls in his article an esoteric rule or Akhenaten Law by which the quantum connection of multiple dark-matter entities or axionic forces is modulated into a stronger and stronger destructive force as time goes on." Reginald Crosely, M.D., from The Vodou Quantum Leap "Under the sway of a single strong emotion, the crowd gives birth to a rudimentary form of egregor. That collective personality, made up of emotional energy and very little else, has little intelligence but a great deal of strength, and it increases that strength by a simple feedback loop. It reflects the emotional energy that gave it birth back into the consciousness of the people in the crowd - the individuals who are at once its creators, its component parts, and, in extreme cases, its victims. This feedback effect is central to the whole phenomenon, and plays a critical role in the way egregors are used in magical lodge work."John Michael Greer, from Inside a Magical Lodge "Marxism-Leninism itself is only an ideological superstructure, a product of intellectual imagination, on the basis of the will having arranged - or re-arranged - social, political and cultural things in a certain manner. And this method of production of ideological superstructures on the basis of the will is precisely what we understand by the collective generation of a demon or egregore." from: Meditations on the Tarot "In 1805, the emperor Dessalines sacrificed French men and mulattos to the bloodthirsty egregor, under the pretext of preventing a return of French military power to the island after the 1804 Independence...The simplified vision of the Marxist-Leninist of class struggle cannot by itself explain the complexities of the Haitian political arena....Dessalines...later died of a violent death and became a Zandoric loa of the Ogou types. The vodoun of the egregor were not always present to protect Dessalines against the machinations of his enemies, although potentially a fractal element of those entities is supposed to be with him at all times. It seems that the fraction was unable to generate the high-energy vibratory state that would make him invulnerable." Reginald Crossely, M.D., from The Vodou Quantum Leap "...Dion Fortune explained that the idea was to contact the spiritual influences ruling the British race, using the symbol of a cross surmounted by a rose and surrounded by golden rays of light. This particular symbol had been common to the medieval Rosicrucians and to modern occult groups, such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn...By 1949 the Fraternity of the Inner Light was involved in magical rituals to invoke the guardian angels of the British Isles who were visualized robed and armed patrolling the shore of the country to prevent the German Invasion." Michael Howard, from The Occult Conspiracy "When congregations gather in their temples, they create eidoses of prayer, which assemble into a collective egregor-eidos of a deity. When millions of people worship it, the material deity eidos acquires tremendous energy at the lepton level of matter. There arises feedback: a believer not only supplies the deity with energy, but receives genuine assistance from it upon supplication." "Quantum Mechanics and Some Surprises of Creation" "An egregore has the characteristic of having an effectiveness greater than the mere sum of its individual members. It continuously interacts with its members, influencing them and being influenced by them. The interaction works positively by stimulating and assisting its members but only as long as they behave and act in line with its original aim. It will stimulate both individually and collectively all those faculties in the group which will permit the realization of the objectives of its original program. If this process is continued a long time the egregore will take on a kind of life of its own, and can become so strong that even if all its members should die, it would continue to exist on the inner dimensions and can be contacted even centuries later by a group of people prepared to live the lives of the original founders, particularly if they are willing to provide the initial input of energy to get it going again." Gaetan Delaforge "Spirits are not genetically created. It is possible that you can create what is known as an 'egregore' on the astral plane. An Egregore is made of your own substance, and is always connected to you. The longer an egregore exists, the more it learns and becomes powerful. If you have created one, you'll have to destroy it as soon as possible. For example...I can create an egregore of astral "human-like" appearance, and have it sent out to watch my friends and keep them safe. But if an egregore does not always have instructions...it makes its own." from "astral children" "After the overthrow of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1986, it was rumored that the overdue service of thanksgiving at the national level to disband the egregor conglomerate of bloodthirsty vodouns was going to be held, but the military was opposed to it. Thus, the country is still in the grip of the Simbi-Makaya aggregate of chthonian dark-matter entities. The egregor is opposed to any foreign initiative in Haiti that would benefit the majority, because it sees any outside intervention as a colonialist invention." Reginald Crossely, M.D., from The Vodou Quantum Leap "An egregor is an angel, sometimes called watcher; in Hebrew the word is ir, and the concept appears in The Book of Enoch.... Thus, Irim, the city of the Nephilim is again linked with the Book of Enoch, since the Nephilim, according to that Book, were the sons of the Irim (the egregors.)....Although the Irim, the egregors, are angels on both sides of the camp - fallen angels as well as faithful ones." L.S. Bernstein, from "Egregor" [In prior species of humanity], "consciousness had not become individualized, but humanity was overshadowed by its group-soul in the same way that the lower types of animals are overshadowed to this day. The esoteric psychology of the group-soul affords a vast field of study and is too involved to enter into in the present pages; it must suffice to say that the operations of such a group-soul may be recognized in the intelligence of the ant and the bee and in the migrations of the birds." Dion Fortune, from Esoteric Orders and Their Work "A termite mound functions systemically in the same sort of primitive way as does a totalitarian community or heirarchy or state. Everything goes along fine as long as the queen keeps breeding, as long as the chemical cyber messages keep getting through, and as long as the whole structure isn't ruined by a flash flood. It can even cope with the occasional aardvark attack. Not only do termite mounds illustrate the concept of a lifeform with an existence and intelligence discrete from and superior to that of the individuals who make it up, they also form the central focus of an inter-dependent wider ecosystem in which the aardvarks are also a component. The discrete superior intelligence associated with the termite mound has many of the characteristics of the class of abstract or metaphysical entity known as an Egregor." Frater Choronzon from "Chaos and Gaia" "The practice of common rituals and common magical disciplines, in turn, tends to create a pattern of subtle energies - an egregor, in magical terminology - which is both a source of power for lodge members and a guiding presence capable of influencing the lodge and its members in many ways." John Michael Greer, from Inside a Magical Lodge "According to Proclus, Julian helped the Emperor Marcus Aurelius in his campaign against the Dacians by means of a consecrated human head made of clay; when turned against the enemy, it sent out flashes of lightning which drove the barbarians away in a panic." Wouter J. Hanegraaff, from "Sympathy for the Devil: Renaissance Magic and the Ambivalence of Idols" "Generally speaking, the word "governor" in Dee's context is translated into Hebrew as "Sar" (the letter "shin" vowelled as "sin" and the letter "reish"), when it is retranslated it would be "arch" like "archangels (Greek "archon" also translated as 'Prince')."L.S. Bernstein, from "Egregor" "One has to guard against accusing the beings of the hierarchies of evil to their detriment of having played the role of Molochs, these being only creatures of the perverse collective human will and imagination. These are egergores, engendred by collective perversity, just as there exist the "demons" or "evil spirits" engendered by individuals." from Meditations on the Tarot "An Egregore is an artificial being, a created spirit or Golem, which exists to perform the Theurgist's will. These creatures contain a modicum of intelligence, but are not truly free or alive. If the Theurgist dies, the Egregore also dies. It is best for the Theurgist to set a time for the Egregore to cease to function in any event. Sometimes, Egregores are commanded to enter objects, at which time they become somewhat like talismans. An Egregore is constructed in a similar fashion, of course, to a talisman. The temple is constructed, then the Theurgist visualizes a growing ball of energy forming with each exhalation between his or her palms. When the ball becomes very large, it is colored with visualization, and sometimes with an appropriate tool or symbol, and also given a name." Pat Dunn Jr, from "Thaumaturgy" "By calling up "bogus" ancestors from Moses via Solomon to Dr. Faustus and St. Germain, the magician not only reinvents his own history, he also is summoning up the egregore of these "entities" (along with all their powers and inhibitions of course) - or, to put into Mr. Sheldrake`s terminology, their morphic fields. Fra.: U.D., from "Notes on the role of the historical Egregore in modern Magic" "Lilith is a primal egregore of the dark anima. She is unfettered sexual dominance and power." Jospeh Max.555 and Lilith Darkchilde.777, from "The Invocation of Lilith" "...an egregor is by its nature limited to Yetzirah, or the Lunar Astral..." from: "An oratory on the astral?" "Many of the traditions of other cultures are guarded by egregors far more potent that those of the strongest Western lodge organizations, and those egregors - as with those of lodges - are deeply linked to specific patterns of organization and intitiation." John Michael Greer, from: Inside a Magical Lodge "The egregore is a group spirit that serves to remind the initiate of his or her goals. It informs and guides the individual and it protects the living chain of brotherhood. The living chain of brotherhood is entered into when a Setian performs a rite of their own creation intended to protect and enhance the Temple of Set. The egregore protects the brotherhood by letting them know their enemies are there. A symbolic representation of the egregore is used to maintain a link to the Prince of Darkness." Sir Ormsond IV°, from: "Saturnian Principles" "The representation of the egregore as bust recalls the ancient literary tradition of animated statues or Salome, who wanted the head of John the Baptist, probably to master his visionary powers.....The classic prototype of such an egregore is Baphomet, the alleged egregore of the Templars, who was (as the Roman Emperor of the Gods) likewise worshipped in the form of a bust. In the secret statutes of the Templars, Baphomet was besought with the introduction to the Qu'ran and dismissed with the 24th chapter of the Book of Sirach." - P. R. Koenig, from "Too Hot to Handle" "The Sufi Saint, Mansour Al-Hallaj, is almost identical to the the Masonic egregor, Hiram Abif, in respect to the circumstances of his death.... In masonry, the Two-Headed Eagle is a cognate of Baphomet, a chimera-like composite animal that represents the Universal Force of matter. In some Gnostic Systems this would be the Demiurgios, or "Lord of this World." Malgwyn, from: "Yesidism, Zoroastrianism in Western Secret Societies" "Individual Lodges will have their individual Egregores... Commonwealth 325 is overshadowed by such a spirit and the Master is given a short year in his mortal lifetime to live up to the level occupied by this Guardian Ghost. And yet the Master is himself a type of composite being, both figuratively and literally, piecing together the sundry powers and qualities represented by each officer....It is very similar in Alchemy (remember-Hiram was renown for his work in metals!).... And yet this Master is himself the representative of a Higher Power, the Masonic Egregore, the living archetype of the Craft. Thus it is that an intrapsychic process of self-unfoldment parallels the nuts and bolts of a functional organization operating in the realm of the practical. We are all privileged to partake of this process from every angle it offers us. From the onset, one comes into touch with the Masonic Egregore as a type of inspiration. At the summit of our Craftwork, the relationship with the Egregore is one of communion and embodiment." Kyle Fite, W.M., from "Master's Message" "Slipping into bodyless astral virtual larvae is experienced by some occultists, not only as the fulfillment of the "Great Work", but also as parasitical and tumourous because they feel a loss of mental energies: as if the Internet becomes an evil Egregore. Peter-R. Koenig from "The McDonaldisation of Occulture"
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