Astounding Secrets of the Devil Worshippers' Mystic Love Cult - The Hermetic Library Blog
Astounding Secrets of the Devil Worshippers’ Mystic Love Cult [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by William Seabrook The extravagant title of this book is not hyperbole, although it inspires a suitably skeptical attitude toward the contents. Journalist and sometime occultist William Seabrook wrote it as a series of articles for American newspapers, all on the […]
“Bronze votive figure of Min; ring behind the plumes.” - The Hermetic Library Blog
“Bronze votive figure of Min; ring behind the plumes.” The British Museum 1923,1013.6. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Khem; “From a 19th-century misreading of Egyptian mnw (“Min”) as ḫm; the confusion arose because the hieroglyph R22 can function as both a logogram for mnw (“Min”) and a phonogram for ḫm.”—Wikipedia “As the central deity of fertility and […]
"Mother, be thou adored." - The Hermetic Library Blog
“And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name BABALON.” “Mother, be thou adored.” “Mother of fertility on whose breast lieth water, whose cheek is caressed by air, and in whose heart is […]
"Both individuals take back the seed of gnosis within their bodies; one through the revelation of the tomb, the other through the ingestion of what could well be termed the symbolic fruit of the Tree of Knowledge." - The Hermetic Library Blog
In the Adeptus Minor ritual, the aspirant in effect becomes the Chief, and receives the hidden knowledge of the Tomb. The symbolic truth is revealed in the descriptions of Christian Rosenkreutz’s mythological life and teachings, where the initiate learns of the secrets of the sanctuary of the temple. Through a ritual passing into the Inner […]
Liber XV {Book 15} O. T. O. - Technical Libers of Thelema - The Libri of Aleister Crowley - Hermetic Library
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