THE NEW FLESH BOOKSTORE HAS CHANGED

That's right. Now you can order directly from the author (me---Robert North). The New Flesh Bookstore is at http://www.newflesh.org/ I've posted more details about my translations with special prices.

Please let me know what French occult works interest you. Our plans are to issue Max Theon's Cosmic Revue and the periodical, La Fleche, of Maria.

I hope that you enjoy our new web site. You can link to it from my blogs:

http://newfleshpalladium.blogspot.com/

http://www.mysteryofsevenpalms.blogspot.com/

Yours in the Bonds of the New Flesh.

Maria de Naglowska translations simplified

Here at the NFP, the translations mark a new era of bringing Maria's teachings of the TTT to the English speaking public. There are four essential books that you will want if you're interested in the Sophiale's life and times. I'm still paying ridiculously high prices for Lulu to print the interior in color but I'm sure you'll agree that some of the pictures are very rare and tell the story beautifully.
To keep prices down, I offer several versions of some of the books. There is an expurgated version of each work for those who live in primitive countries (known as "American Editions"). Most of you will prefer the illustrated versions which contain many things hitherto unpublished. All books are 8.5"x11" paper with full color interior unless otherwise noted.

Here is the Compleat Maria de Naglowska:

"Sexual Magic"---the Hard Back edition by P.B. Randolph, translated by Maria de Naglowska. This is the seminal work on western sex magic practices. The book details the methods of Hermetic Sex Magic and was heavily edited by Naglowska. This gives us an accurate idea of the practical side of Maria's sex magic.

"The Illustrated Grimoire of Maria de Naglowska"---This is a great introduction to Maria with essays, short stories, magical instructions and some amazing photos.

"The Satanic Rituals of Maria de Naglowska"---This is The Mystery of the Hanging, the Light of Sex, The Sacred Rite of Love Magic and other writings by Maria for her Brotherhood of the Golden Arrow.

"The Occult Mentors of Maria de Naglowska"---This is the largest collection of pictures and text. Included are pieces by Julius Evola for the UR Group. Maria's connections to the Cathars, Montsegur and her involvement in a secret Fascist project to develop ancient magickal practices.

Among many other shots, each book contains the much sought after photo of Maria acting as the Altar of Flesh for her Mass of Gold. Even more esoteric is a photo, hidden somewhere in our tetrology, of Maria performing the neutralization of the Black Fire.

Anyway, I need a printer who can beat Lulu's prices. We'd like to offer better prices to our readers..

The Occult Mentors of Maria de Naglowska

The Occult Mentors of Maria de Naglowska by Robert North

This is the ultimate study of Maria de Naglowska and her relationship to the history of French Catholic Gnosticism, from the Cathars at Monsegur to Palaprat in Paris and the reformulation of many magico-masonic orders under the directorship of Papus and FUDOSI. North presents the teachings of the mysterious Groupe Polaires which Maria belonged to. The Group of UR was founded by Maria’s primary mentor, Julius Evola. The group was funded by Mussolini’s war council to experiment with Tibetan methods of soul transmigration and use of the Vril force. Maria’s rituals in 1930’s Paris may have been part of this plan.

Occult scholar and author, Robert North also traces the true origin of western European sex magick. His section on Spiritualism and Free Love in the 19th Century points to the hitherto unknown origins of the sex magick doctrines of the O.T.O., the H.B. of L. and other similar groups.

THE RITUALS OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE GOLDEN ARROW

The NFP has just issued the first English translation of Maria de Naglowska's rituals and magical writings. This volume contains the original ideas of The Sophiale as well as some hints at the lesser known practices (like Pho-wa) engaged in by the Brotherhood.

The blurb reads,

Here are the rituals and magical instructions written by Maria de Naglowska from 1930 through 1936 for her Brotherhood of La Fleche d'Or. Her experiments with sensory deprivation, drug induced ecstasy and sado-magick are well known. Her regular appearances at the coffee houses of Montparnasse regularly drew the surrealists from Andre Breton to Max Ernst. She spent her afternoons in a chapel in Notre Dame Cathedral, meditating on the secret magic of the Third Term of the Trinity which had been divulged to her by masters in the Third Order. In St. Petersburg, Russia; Alexandria, Egypt; and Vatican City in Rome, the Sophiale had been led through a series of initiations. The Order was variously known as The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor under Max Theon, The Brotherhood of Eulis under P.B. Randolph in Boston and, led by Maria, The Brotherhood of the Golden Arrow in Paris.

For any sex magician who doesn't read Italian and French, this book is a must! Maria's extended essay, The Mystery of the Hanging, is the seminal work on the subject to be placed next to Crowley's IX OTO Unveiling of the Sangraal and De Arte Magica, Randolph's Magia Sexualis; and The Cosmic Revue of Max Theon.

The book is available through Lulu, Amazon, etc and, of course, at the New Flesh Bookstore.

FREE NFP DOWNLOADS

The New Flesh Palladium is implementing its program to provided free downloads of illustrated .pdf documents relating to our subjects of study. The first was "The Secret of Aleister Crowley" which explored the dark side of the Demon Crowley. Any perusal of A.C.'s writings will prove that The Great Beast was more than a mere snake oil salesman. But was uncle Al really the Living Logos of a new era for humanity?

We feel that Aleister Crowley represented a new kind of Messiah---an imperfect savior with the sins and weaknesses of humanity. This doctrine is detailed in our study of Crowley's journey to Ceylon and his final debate with Ananda Metteyya (Alan) on the nature of the soul.

Our second offering is "The Litanies of Satan" by Charles Baudelaire. Our version is illustrated by "living pictures" which are initiatory keys whose meaning is known to the worthy. They were often used in Satanic Masses celebrated in 1890's Paris and popularized 100 years later by Diamanda Galas, performance artist extraordinaire.

Just go to The New Flesh Bookstore at http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=648332 to find this stuff. Or click the link on this page.

Peni Tento Non Penitente.

To Serve the Servants

To Serve The Servants

By Magister Peni Tento


Although it stands to reason that a Slave should be mindful of the Master, it would seem that we are all negligent. Consequently, if someone were to ask, "What is the true relationship of the Slave to the Master?" the person who would be able to answer promptly is rare. This is because it has not been established in one's mind beforehand. Once properly understood, the Slave's unmindfulness of the Master can be corrected.

Negligence is an extreme thing which must never be tolerated by the Master

The Mystery of the Slave is found in Obedience. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of Obedience. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined, Obey and Advance. To say that Blind Obedience without reaching one's aim is to die a dog's death is ignorant way of the Mundanes. When pressed with the immediacy of Obedience, it is not necessary to gain one's aim. It is only necessary to obey.

We all want Pleasure. And in large part we make our logic according to what we like. But not having attained our aim and continuing to live in cowardice is a thin dangerous line. To die without gaining one's aim is Humiliation and a dog's death. But there is no shame in this. This is the substance of the Mystery of the Slave: that by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though the body is separated from the Spirit. Celestial Freedom is the reward. One’s whole life will be without blame or sin, and Success will follow one’s prayers.

A Slave is a good performer to the extent that she earnestly places importance in her master. This is the highest sort of Slave. If she is born into a prominent family that goes back for generations, it is sufficient to deeply consider the matter of obligation to her ancestors, to lay down her body and mind, and to earnestly esteem her master. It is further good fortune if, more than this, she has wisdom and talent and can use them appropriately. But even a person who is good for nothing and exceedingly clumsy will be a reliable Slave if only she has the determination to think earnestly of her master. Having only wisdom and talent is the lowest tier of usefulness. According to their nature, there are both people who have quick intelligence, and those who must withdraw and take time to think things over. Looking into this thoroughly, if one thinks selflessly and adheres to the four vows of the Cenobites, Faith, Hope, Love and Charity, surprising wisdom will occur regardless of the high or low points of one's nature.

People think that they can clear up profound matters if they consider them deeply, but they exercise perverse thoughts and come to no good because they do their reflecting with only self-interest at the center. It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness. In confronting a matter, however, if at first you leave it alone, fix the four vows in your heart, exclude self-interest, and make an effort, you will not go far from your mark. Because we do most things relying only on our own sagacity we become self-interested, turn our backs on reason, and things do not turn out well. As seen by other people this is sordid, weak, narrow and inefficient. When one is not capable of true intelligence, it is good to consult with someone of good sense. The slave will fulfill the Way when she makes a decision by selfless and frank intelligence because she is not personally involved. This way of doing things will certainly be seen by others as being strongly rooted. It is, for example, like a large tree with many roots. The Master's intelligence, represented by the Phallus, is like a tree that has been violently forced into the ground, Excalibur in the Stone of the Wise.

Nerd Researchers

Emma Hardinge Britten has become a rising superstar of 19th century Hermetic magic and sexuality! Just Google her name and you;ll find a new site that's really great. The research is in the tradition of Pat Deveney (The most recent and well documented bio of PB Randolph). There are even links to scans of "The Occult Magazine" of 1885 and 1886 at the Emma research site.

As a practicing (practice makes perfect) sexual magician, it is "infinitely amusing" to watch pedantic scholars weigh in on sexual experiences that they can only have have dreamed of. The true transcendence of participating in a ritual of drug induced ecstasy accompanied by invocations to the great gods within the context of magickal training is (i suspect) unknown to these scholastic academicians. The fears and thrills of following the ideas of PB Randolph and Emma are an essential key to opening the door to initiation in these mysteries. I really enjoy the results of these "nerd-researchers" but it creeps me out that these guys may be more like Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition than truth seekers. APO PANTOS KAKDAIMONOS!

Here at the NFP in south Florida, we don't have problems with pedantic wanna be sex magicians. The women are hot and the grass is green. Santeria and Voodoun are living religions here because they represnt a true communication with unseen (occult) powers. Some of you may recall how Scholasticism of the middle ages promoted ignorance, hatred and fear. This was the monkish practice of believing that all truth was contained in manuscripts which were kept in scrolls that could not be accessed or cross-referenced. Result: no access to the original documents and the only option is to believe what the curators (the monks) tell you .

Folks, please don't believe the monkish scholasticism of the nerd-researchers. Check out the original documents and make up your own mind. Demand that University libraries and other institutions open their records on the internet to every truth-seeker. There is no honor to academic nerd-researchers replacing the original thoughts of PB Randolph and other great teachers with personal, politically correct opinions which qualify the nerds fo bigger salaries within academia.

My favorite is Devaney (and godwin et al.) disparaging Randolph throughout the text while extolling his "genius" at the end of the book. PB Randolphs Magic Mirror instruction is profound, transcendent wisdom (by way of analogy) but Attorney Deveny makes fun of it. Any sex magician who has followed PBRs relationship with his youthful wife, Kate Corson, will easily understand PBRs adventure and suicide with his pistol as an homage to Kali which is reiterated in the Chod Rite of Tibetan Buddhism.

Lets hope that Emmas new Champion will be more discerning in his telling of her message and not emulate Devaney's style of gathering evidence to prosecute these spiritual leaders for breaking his own imagined taboos.

Still. . .I love being able to read what Emma and PBR had to say Their honesty and Spiritual Beauty is undeniable.

See ya.

The Wisdom of Martinism

We have gotten some recent questions about French occultism and Martinism. Most folks seem to know the Rene Guenon material (Avaita Vedanta mixed with conservative French politics and Conspiracy Theory) but have not read of the more exciting aspects of sexual magic, Kardec style Spiritism combined with Santeria, Condomble, Voodoun as well as practices like "spiritual blending" and "celestification"Readers with magickal interests usually go straight to Crowley but Crowley actually missed out on the inner teachings of Martinism which is based in French Roman Catholicism. The Plymouth Brethren emphasized the personal relationship with God which is the cornerstone of Thelema as it is of Protestantism. French Martinism starts with the idea that there are Unknown Superiors on the Earth with magical powers and these elite beings run the world. St. Yves d'Alvedre runs this down in his treatise "Archeometre". The Catholic Church is seen as one of many outer courtyards to the one and true inner church. "Cloud on the Sanctuary" is in this vein. Martinism (at it's best) comes straight out of the French Revolution, Theosophy and the strange sexual traditions and perversions within the Monasteries and Convents of France and Spain. The Rene Guenon stuff that you have probably seen is the French equivalent of Clymer---extremely conservative and uptight.


Ten Prayers
by the Unknown Philosopher
Prayer is for our intellectual being
what breathing is for our body.
L.C. de Saint Martin, Le Tableau Naturel, i, p.178.
The teachings of the traditional religions of the West are geared for
the education of infants. There is practically, the works of mystics
excepted, nothing available to adults, regarding the practice of
prayer. Mystical writings being accessible only to the few, modern
adults have looked into meditation as the sole source of spiritual
guidance. Although both techniques have much in common, they
cannot fully replace each other.
Among the very few works dedicated to more mature prayers is:
The Science of Prayer, by Ernest Wood. This short and practical
manual is, I believe, the best introduction to the traditional prayer
techniques of the West.
The ten prayers of Saint-Martin, presented hereafter in the
translation of Arthur E. Waite, were never intended to be
memorized, or used verbatim , they are simply examples of a
literary style that disappeared around the French Revolution. We
have kept the original spelling and syntax, to convey some of the
traditional character of Saint-Martin's writings. The study of such
texts may however guide us in the formulation of our own prayers,
when the needs of our spiritual development will require the
practice of this spiritual exercise.
Ernest Wood's parallel between the three stages of meditation:
concentration, meditation, contemplation; and the three stages of
prayer is particularly helpful in the understanding of Saint-Martin's
texts. These prayers are the formulation of a contemplative
experience, using the thought and the written word, in the present
world of existence: our daily life.
For him, the beginning of all truths is in nature, but their
consummation is in prayer. It includes all religions, because it
immerses our soul in that sacred charm, that divine magism which
indeed, not only explains the diversity of the religions of men, but
justifies even their apparent exaggerations, since wherever we find
God we meet with this magism, which is in fact, the manifestation
of the faculty of wonder. By its aid, we can pass unharmed through
all dangers, even without perceiving them; we can endure fatigues
without feeling them; because it defuses peace, almost pleasure,
over evils, over dangers, over tiredness, over death itself, by
imparting to our imperishable self, the powers which support it to
its end.
Prayer is only really attained when we succeed in making prayers
which themselves pray in us and for us, not those which are forced
upon us by the need to conform, seeking them in formulas, or in
childish or scrupulous observance, but it must weigh on all the
faculties which make up our existence. Such prayer obtains
nothing till it has acquired that character of active unity, which
carries it beyond time and makes it the natural channel of the
wonders of eternity.
The soul is the name of God, and if we obtain the sanctification of
that name within us, at that very moment, the channels of the
marvels of eternity open for us, and they may be distributed not on
us alone, but all over our surroundings. By this path, we are
brought to become the true image and in the likeness of God. But it
is insufficient to demand of God that He should descend in us;
even if it happens, we have accomplished nothing unless He
remains there. We could also say: it is insufficient to develop the
faculty to reach the divine consciousness within ourself; even if it
happens, we have accomplished nothing unless that consciousness
becomes permanent. Fortunately for his children, God is a King
who enters ever into his Kingdom and never departs from it!
When prayer, as a safeguard against pride and especially the pride
of the mind, has thus rebound our mind and our heart to God, and
has opened the divine treasury within us, we feel ourselves
warmed and vivified by all the divine forces; the foundations of
the covenant are laid within us; and the Holy Spirit itself operates
through several gifts or functions. And all such functions and gifts
operate within us in a sweet bound and in harmony, depicting the
true and holy fraternity of all the children of God.
Maurice H. Warnon.
FIRST PRAYER OF SAINT-MARTIN
ETERNAL source of all which is, Thou who sendest spirits of
error and of darkness to the untruthful, which cut them off from
Thy love, do Thou send unto him who seeks Thee a spirit of truth,
uniting him for ever with Thee. May the fire of this spirit
consume me all the traces of the old man, and, having consumed
them, may it produce from those ashes a new man, on whom
Thy sacred hand shall not disdain to pour a holy Chrism! Be
this the end of penitence and its long toils, and may Thy life,
which is one everywhere, transform my whole being in the unity
of Thine image, my heart in the unity of Thy love, my activity in
the unity of the works of justice, and my thought in the unity
of all lights.
Thou dost impose great sacrifices on man, only to compel
him to seek in Thee all his riches and all his delights, and
Thou dost force him to seek all these treasures in Thee only
because Thou knowest that they alone can make him happy, for
Thou alone dost possess them, who hast engendered and created
them. Truly, O God of my life, I can find nowhere save in Thee
the root and realisation of my being. Thou also bast said that in the
heart of man alone canst Thou find Thy repose.
Cease not, therefore, for one instant thine operations upon me, that
not only may I live, but that Thy name may be known among the
nations. Thy prophets have declared that the dead cannot praise
Thee; let death then never come near me, for I burn to offer Thee
immortal praise ; I burn with desire that the Eternal Son of Truth
may never have to reproach the heart of man with the smallest
clouding of Thy splendour or the least diminution of its fulness.
God of my life, the utterance of whose Name accomplishes all
things, restore to my nature that which Thou didst first impart to it,
and I will manifest that Name among the nations, and they shall
learn that Thou alone art their God, Thou alone their essential life,
as Thou only art the movement and motive principle of all beings.
Do Thou sow the seed of Thy desires in the soul of man, in
that field where none can contest with Thee, since it is Thou
who hast brought it into existence. Sow Thy desires therein, that
the soul, by the force of Thy love, may be snatched from the
depths which hold it and would swallow it up for ever. Abolish
for me the realm of images; scatter the fantastic barriers which
place an immense interval and spread thick darkness between Thy
living light and me, entombing me in their folds.
Show unto me the sacred character and the divine seal of which
Thou art the custodian; pierce the centre of my soul with the
fire which burns in Thee, that my soul may burn with Thee
till it knows Thine ineffable life and the inexhaustible delights
of Thine eternal existence. Too feeble to endure the weight of
Thy Name, I leave in Thy hands the task of erecting its complete
edifice and of laying Thyself its first foundations in the depths of
that soul which Thou has given me for a torch, showing light to the
nations, that they may no more dwell in darkness. Thanks be unto
Thee, O God of peace and love ! thanks be unto Thee, because
Thou hast been mindful of me, and hast not willed that my soul
should want, lest Thine enemies should say that the Father forges
His children or is unable to deliver them.
SECOND PRAYER OF SAINT-MARTIN
I will approach Thee , Thou God of my being; I will approach
Thee, all unclean as I am ; I will show myself with confidence
before Thee; I will come unto Thee in the name of Thine eternal
existence, in the name of my life, in the name of Thy holy alliance
with man. This threefold offering shall be for Thee an acceptable
sacrifice, on which Thy Spirit shall send down its divine fire, to
consume and transport it to Thy sacred abode, all charged and
filled with the desires of a needy soul sighing only after Thee.
Lord, Lord ! when shall I hear Thee utter in the abyss of my soul
that consoling and living word which calls on man by his name,
proclaiming his enrolment in the heavenly army, and Thy will
that he should be numbered among Thy servants ? By the
power of that holy word shall I find myself speedily
encompassed by the eternal memorials of Thy power and love,
with which I shall boldly advance against Thine enemies, and
they shall flee before the dread lightnings flashing from Thy
victorious word. Alas, O Lord ! shall a man of misery and
darkness cherish such high aspirations, such proud hopes? In
place of smiting the enemy, must he not seek only a shield
from their blows?
Furnished no longer with shining arms, is he not, as a despicable
object, reduced to tears of shame and ignominy in the thickets
of his retreat, unable to show himself before the day ? In place
of those triumphant anthems which once followed him in his
conquests, is he not doomed only to be heard amid sighs and
groans ? Vouchsafe at least one boon, O Lord, that
whensoever Thou searchest my heart and my reins, Thou shalt
never find them void of Thy praise and love. I feel, and would
feel unceasingly, that all time is enough for Thy praise, that to
accomplish this holy work in a manner which is worthy of Thee,
my entire being must be possessed and set in motion by Thine
eternity.
Grant, therefore, O God of all life and all love, that my soul may
reinforce its weakness with Thy strength ; permit it to enter
into a holy league with Thee, by which I shall be invincible in
the sight of my enemies, which shall bind me so to Thee by the
desires of my heart and of Thine, that Thou shalt ever find me as
zealous for Thy service and glory as Thou, O Lord, art eager for
my deliverance and beatitude.
THIRD PRAYER OF SAINT-MARTIN
Spouse of my soul! by whom it has conceived the desire of
wisdom, aid me Thyself to give birth to this well-beloved son,
whom I can never cherish sufficiently. So soon as he beholds the
light, immerse him in the pure baptismal waters of Thy life-giving
Spirit, and be he ever numbered among the faithful members of the
Church of the Most High. Like a tender mother, do Thou take him
in Thine arms till his feeble limbs have strength for his support,
and shield him from all that is harmful.
Spouse of my soul! unknown except by the humble, I do homage
to Thy power, and I would not confide to other hands than
Thine this son of love whom Thou hast given me. Nourish
him Thyself, watch over his early steps instruct him when he
grows in the honour which he owes to his Father, that his days
may be long on the earth; inspire him with respect and love
for the might and the virtues of Him who hath given him being.
Spouse of my soul! inspire me also, me first, to nourish this
precious child unceasingly with spiritual milk, which Thou has
formed Thyself in my breast. May I ever behold in my son the
image of his Father, in his Father the likeness of my son, and of all
those whom Thou mayst engender within me through the
unbroken course of the eternities.
Spouse of my soul!: known only to the sanctified, be Thou at once
the mentor and model of this child of Thy Spirit, that in all times
and places his works and example may proclaim his heavenly
origin. Place Thou also at length on his head the crown of glory,
and he shall be an everlasting monument before the peoples of
the majesty of Thy Name.
Spouse of my soul! such are the delights which Thou preparest
for those who love Thee and seek for union with Thee. Perish
everlastingly him who would tempt me to break our sacred
alliance! Perish everlastingly him who would persuade me to
prefer another spouse!
Spouse of my soul! take me Thyself for Thine own child; let me
be one with him in Thine eyes, and pour on us each all graces
which we cannot both receive from Thy love. I can live no more
if the voices of myself and my son be forbidden to unite for the
eternal celebration of Thy praises in canticles, like inexhaustible
rivers ever engendered by the sense of Thy wonders and Thy
power ineffable.
FOURTH PRAYER OF SAINT-MARTIN
How should I dare , O Lord, for one instant to gaze on myself
without trembling at the horror of my misery! I dwell in the
midst of my own iniquities, the fruit of all manner of excesses,
which have become even as a vestment; I have outraged all my
laws, I have misused my soul, I have abused my body; I have
turned, and do turn daily, to an ill account all the graces which
Thy love showers continually on Thine ungrateful and
faithless creature.
To Thee should I sacrifice all, giving nothing unto time, which
in Thy sight is like an idol, void of life and understanding; yet I
devote all unto time and nothing unto Thee. Thus do I cast
myself beforehand into the abyss of confusion, given over to
idolatrous worship, where Thy name is not known. I have acted
like the senseless and ignorant of this world, who expend all their
efforts to annul the dread decrees of justice and to render this place
of probation no longer one of toil and suffering in their eyes.
God of peace and God of truth, if the confession of my faults
be insufficient for their remission, remember Him who took
them on Himself, washing them in the blood of His body, His
soul, and His love. Like fire, which consumes all material and
impure substances, like this fire which is His image, He returns
to Thee, free from all stains of earth.
In Him and by Him alone can the work of my purification and
rebirth be fulfilled. In Him alone can Thy sacred majesty endure
to regard man, through whom also Thou willest our cure and our
salvation. Gazing with the eyes of His love, which cleanses
all, Thou dost see no longer any deformity in man, but only that
divine spark which is in Thine own likeness, which Thy sacred
ardour draws perpetually to itself, as a property of Thy divine
source. O Lord, Thou canst contemplate only that which is true
and pure as Thyself; evil is beyond the reach of Thine exalted
sight, and hence the evil man is like one whom Thou rememberest
no more, whom Thine eyes cannot fix, since he has no longer any
correspondence with Thee.
In this abyss of horror I have, notwithstanding, dared to dwell;
there is no other place for man who is not immersed in the abyss of
Thy compassion. Yet no sooner does he turn his heart and eyes
from the depths of iniquity than he finds himself in that ocean
of mercy which encompasses all Thy creatures. So will I
bow myself before Thee in my shame and the sense of my
misery; the fire of my suffering shall dry up within me the abyss
of my sinfulness, and there shall remain for me only the eternal
kingdom of Thy mercy.
FIFTH PRAYER OF SAINT-MARTIN
Take back my will , O Lord, take back my will; for if I can
suspend it one instant before Thee, the torrents of Thy life and
light, having nothing to resist them, shall pour impetuously
within me. Help me to break down the woeful barriers which
divide me from thee; arm me against myself; triumph within me
over all Thine enemies and mine by subduing my will. O Eternal
Principle of all joy and of all truth! when shall I be so renewed as
no longer to be conscious of self, save in the permanent
affection of Thine exclusive and vivifying will?
When shall every kind of privation appear to me a profit and
advantage, by preserving me from all bondage, and leaving me
ample means to bind myself to the freedom of Thy spirit and
wisdom? When shall evils appear to me as favours extended
by Thee, as so many opportunities of Victory, so many
occasions of receiving from Thy hand the crowns of glory which
Thou dost distribute to all those who fight in Thy name?
When shall all advantages and joys of this life become to me as so
many snares, unceasingly set by the enemy that he may establish in
our heart a god of lying and seduction in place of that God of
peace and truth who should reign there for ever? When, in
fine, shall the holy zeal of Thy love and the ardour of my
union with Thee rule me to renounce with delight my life, my
happiness, with all affections foreign to this sole end of Thy
creature man, so loved by Thee that Thou hast given Thyself all
for him, that he might be inflamed by Thine example?
I know, O Lord, that whosoever is not transported by this holy
devotion is not worthy of Thee, and has not yet made the first step
in Thy path. The knowledge of Thy will and the solicitude of the
faithful never to depart from it for a moment, herein is the
one, the true resting-place for the soul of man; he cannot
enter therein without being filled immediately with rapture, as
if all his being were renewed and revivified in all its faculties by
the springs of Thine own life, nor can he withdraw therefrom
without beholding himself given over forthwith to all the horrors of
uncertainty, danger, and death.
Hasten, God of consolation, hasten, God of power, to
communicate to my heart one of those pure movements of Thy
holy and invincible will! One only is needed to establish the reign
of Thine eternity, and for constant and universal resistance of all
alien wills which combine in my soul, mind, and body to give
battle thereto. Then shall I abandon myself to my God in the
sweet effusion of my faith, then shall I proclaim His
wonderful works. Men are not worthy of Thy wonders, or to
contemplate the sweetness of Thy wisdom, the profundity of
Thy counsels; and I, vile insect that I am, can I even dare to
name them, who merit only visitations of justice and wrath? Lord,
Lord! may the star of Jacob rest for a moment upon me; may
Thy holy light be kindled in my thought, and Thy will most
pure in my heart!
SIXTH PRAYER OF SAINT-MARTIN
Hearken, my soul , hearken, and be consoled in thy distress!
There is a mighty God who undertakes to heal all thy wounds. He
alone has this supreme power, and He exercises it only towards
those who acknowledge that He possesses it and is its zealous
administrator. Come not before him in disguise like the wife of
Jeroboam whom the prophet overwhelmed with reproaches; come
rather with the humility and confidence which should be inspired
by a sense of thy frightful evils, and of that Universal Power
which willeth not the death of a sinner, since it is He who created
souls.
Let time fulfil its law upon thee in all the things of time; speed
not thy work by disorders; delay it not by false desires and vain
speculations, the heritage of the fool. Concerned alone with
thine interior cure, thy spiritual deliverance, collect with care
the scant forces which each temporal period develops within
thee ; make use of these secret motions of life to draw nearer
daily unto Him who already would possess thee in His breast, and
share with thee the sweet freedom of a being who enjoys fully
the use of all his faculties without ever encountering a
hindrance. Whensoever these happy ecstasies transport thee, raise
thyself on thy bed of sorrow, and cry unto this God of mercy and
almightiness: Lord, wilt Thou leave to languish in bondage and
shame this former image of Thyself, whom the ages may have
buried under their dust but have never been able to efface? It
dared to misconceive Thee in those days when it dwelt in the
splendour of Thy glory.
Thou hadst only to close the eye of Thine eternity, and it was
plunged from that instant into darkness, as into the depths of the
abyss. Since that deplorable lapse it has become the daily scorn of
all its enemies, who not contented to cover it with derision, have
filled it with their poisons, have loaded it with chains so that it
could no longer defend itself, but became an easier prey to
their envenomed darts. Lord, Lord! is not this long and
humiliating ordeal sufficient for man to recognise Thy justice
and do homage to Thy power? Has not this infected mass of its
enemy's contempt enervated long enough the image of Thyself to
open his eyes and convince him of his illusions? Dost Thou not
fear that in the end these corrosive substances may entirely efface
its imprint and place it beyond recognition?
The enemies of Thy light and Thy wisdom would not fail to
confound this long chain of my degradations with Thine eternity
itself; they would believe their reign of horror and disorder is the
sole abode of truth; they would claim themselves victorious
over Thee and possessed of Thy kingdom. Permit not, therefore,
longer, O God of zeal and jealousy, the profanation of Thine
image; the desire of Thy glory fills me more than any desire of my
happiness apart from that glory of Thine Rise on Thy throne
immortal, the throne of Thy wisdom, ablaze with the marvels of
Thy power; enter for a moment that holy vineyard which Thou
hast planted from all eternity; pluck but one of those vivifying
grapes which it produces unceasingly; let the sacred and
regenerating juice flow upon my lips; it will moisten my parched
tongue, it will enter into my heart, it will bear to it both joy and
life, it will penetrate all my members and will make them strong
and healthy.
Then shall I be quick, agile, vigorous as on that first day when I
came forth from Thy hands. Then shall Thine enemies, frustrated
in their hopes, blush with shame and tremble with fear and rage to
see their opposition against Thee made vain and the
accomplishment of my sublime destiny despite their daring
and persistent efforts. Hearken then, O my soul! hearken, and
be consoled in thy distress! A mighty God there is who hath
undertaken the healing of thy wounds.
SEVENTH PRAYER OF SAINT-MARTIN
I present myself at the gates of the temple of my God, and I will
quit not this humble asylum of the indigent till I have received my
daily bread from the Father of my life. Behold the mystery of this
bread! I have tasted thereof, and I will proclaim its sweetness to
unborn nations. The Eternal God of Beings; the sacred title
taken by Him who is made flesh that He might be manifested to
the visible and invisible nations; the spirit of Him at whose
Name every knee shall bow, in heaven, on earth, and in hell; such
are the three immortal elements which compose this daily bread.
It is multiplied unceasingly, like the immensity of beings who
are nourished thereby, and, whatsoever be their number, never
can they diminish its abundance.
It has developed in me the eternal germs of my life, and has
enabled them to circulate in my veins the sacred sap of my original
and divine roots. The four elements which compose it have
dispelled darkness and confusion from the chaos of my heart; they
have restored to it the living and holy light; their creative force has
transformed me into a new being, and I have become the
custodian and administrator of their sacred characters and lifegiving
signs. Therefore, as His angel and minister have I
shown myself in all regions, to make known the glory of Him
who hath chosen man; I have reviewed all the work of His hands
and have distributed to each of them those signs and characters
which He has impressed on me in order that they might be
transmitted to them. and to confirm the properties and powers
which they have received.
But my ministry has not been confined to operation on the regular
works of Eternal Wisdom; I have approached whatsoever was
deformed, and have set on these fruits of disorder the signs of
justice and vengeance attached to the secret powers of my election;
those which I could snatch from corruption I have offered as a
holocaust to the supreme God, and I have composed my perfumes
of the pure praises of my mind and heart, so that all which lives
may confess that the homage, the glory, the honour are due unto
this sole supreme God as the source of power and justice. I
have exclaimed in the transports of my love: Blessed is man,
because Thou hast elected him as the seat of Thine authority and
the minister of Thy glory in the universe. Blessed is man,
because Thou hast permitted him to feel, even in the depths of his
essence, the penetrating activity of Thy divine life. Blessed is
man, because he may dare to offer Thee a sacrifice of
thanksgiving founded in the ineffable sentiment of all the wishes of
Thy holy infinity.
Powers of the material world! powers of the physical universe!
not thus hath God treated you! He has constituted you the simple
agents of His laws and the forces operating for the fulfilment of
His designs. Hence is there no other being in Nature which does
not second Him in His work and co-operate in the execution of
His plans. But He is not made known to you as the God of peace
and the God of love; at the moment when He brought you into
being ye were disturbed by the consequences of rebellion, since
He ordained man to subdue and govern you. Still less, ye
perverted and corrupt powers, has He dispensed to you those
favours with which He has deigned to overwhelm man. Ye have
failed to preserve those which were granted you by virtue of your
origin; ye dreamed of a brighter lot and a more splendid privilege
than to be the objects of His tenderness, from which moment ye
have deserved only to be the victims of His justice. To man alone
has He confided the treasures of His wisdom; on this being after
His own heart has He centred all His affection and all His
powers.
Sovereign Author of my spirit, my soul, and my heart! be Thou
blessed for ever and in all places, because Thou hast permitted
man, Thine ungrateful and criminal creature, to recover these
sublime truths. Had the memory of Thine ancient and sacred
covenant bound not Thy love to restore them, they would have
been lost unto man for ever. Praise and benediction to Him who
hath formed man in His image and after His own likeness, who,
despite all the endeavours and all the triumphs of hell, hath
reclothed him in his splendour, in the wisdom and the beatitudes
of his origin. Amen.
EIGHTH PRAYER OF SAINT-MARTIN
Men of peace and men of aspirations ! let us contemplate in
unison, with a holy fear, the vastness of the mercies of our God.
Let us confess to Him together that all the thoughts of men, all
their purest desires, all their ordered deeds, could not, when
combined, approach the smallest act of His love. How should we
therefore express it? for it is confined to no individual deeds or
times, but manifests at once all its treasures, and that in a constant,
universal, and unhindered way! God of truth and God of love! so
actest Thou daily with man. Amidst all mine infection and
vileness Thy hand untiring extracts what still remains of those
precious and sacred elements of which Thou didst form me at
first. Like the thrifty woman in the Gospel consuming her light to
recover the dime which she lost, Thy lamps are ever lighted, ever
Thou stoopest to earth, ever hopest to recover from the dust that
pure gold which has slipped from Thy hands.
Men of peace! how should we contemplate otherwise than with
holy fear the extent of the mercies of our God! We are a thousand
times more guilty towards Him than, in the sight of human justice
are those malefactors who are dragged through cities and public
places, loaded with the insignia of infamy, and forced to confess
their crimes aloud at the doors of the temples and in the presence
of the powers which they have defied. Like them, and a thousand
times more deservedly than they, should we be dragged
ignominiously to the feet of all the powers of Nature and the Spirit;
we should be paraded like criminals through all the regions of the
universe, both visible and invisible, and should receive in their
presence the terrible and shameful chastisements which are
invoked by our appalling prevarications.
But in place of finding stern judges armed with vengeance,
behold a venerable Monarch whose eyes publish His clemency,
whose lips utter pardon only for all those who do not blindly hold
themselves guiltless. Far from willing that we should wear
henceforth the vestments of opprobrium, He commands His
servants to give back to us our primeval robe, to set a ring on our
finger and shoes on our feet. For all these favours it is
enough, like later prodigal sons. to confess that we have not found
in the house of strangers the happiness of the house of the Father.
Men of peace ! say, shall we contemplate except with holy fear the
infinite love and mercy of our God? Say, shall we not make a
holy resolution to remain faithful for ever to His laws and to the
beneficent counsels of His wisdom?
O God! incomprehensible in indulgence and past understanding
in love, I can love but Thee alone; I would love none but Thee,
who hast forgiven me so much. I desire no place of repose except
in the heart of my God, who embraces all by His power, my
support on every side, my succour and my consolation. From this
divine source all blessings pour on me at once. He pours Himself
into the heart of man continually and for ever. So does He
engender within us His own life; so does He establish within us the
pure rays and extracts of His own essence, whereon He loves to
brood, and they become in us the organs of His endless
generations. From this sacred treasury, through all the faculties of
our nature, He directs kindred emanations, which repeat in turn
their action through all that constitutes ourselves, and thus our
spiritual activity, our virtues, our lights are unceasingly
multiplied. Behold, it is exceeding profitable to erect Him a
temple in our hearts!
O men of peace! O men of aspiration! say, shall we contemplate
without a holy fear the vastness of the love and of the mercies
and of the powers of our God?
NINETH PRAYER OF SAINT-MARTIN
How should it be possible , O Lord, to sing here below the
canticles of the Holy City? Amidst such streams of tears, can we
raise the hymns of jubilation? I lift up my voice to begin them,
but I utter sighs only and tones of pain. I am overwhelmed by the
length of my sufferings; my sin is ever before me, threatening
instant death, with the chill of its poisons freezing all my being.
Even now it lays hold of my members; the moment comes when I
shall lie like a corpse which is left by hirelings to putrefaction.
Yet Thou, O Lord, who art the universal source of all that
exists, art also the font of hope. If this spark of flame be not
already quenched in my heart, I still cling unto Thee, I am still
bound to Thy divine life by that deathless hope which springs for
ever from Thy throne. From the depth of my abyss I dare
therefore to implore Thee, to pray that the hand of Thy lovingkindness
may heal me. How are the cures of the Lord effected?
By humble submission to the wise counsel of the Divine
Physician. With gratitude and ardent desire must I drink the
bitter draught which His hand offers; my will must be joined with
that which animates Him towards me; the length and sufferings of
the treatment must not prompt me to reject the good which
the Supreme Author of all goodness seeks to effect in me. He is
penetrated with the sense of my sufferings, and I have only to be
enkindled myself with the sense of His loving interest; then shall
the chalice of salvation profit me; then shall my tongue be
strengthened to sing the canticles of the Holy City.
Lord, with what hymn shall I begin? With one to His honour
and glory who has restored me to health and effected my
deliverance. From the rising of the sun to the going down of the
same will I chant this canticle over all the earth, not only to
celebrate the power and love of my Liberator, but to communicate
to all desiring souls, to the entire human family, the certain and
efficacious means of recovering health and life for ever. I will
teach them thereby how the spirit of wisdom and truth may abide
in their own hearts and direct them in all their ways. Amen.
TENTH PRAYER OF SAINT-MARTIN
My soul hast thou strength to consider the enormity of that debt
which guilty man has contracted with Divinity ? If thou hast
found strength for crime, thou hast good reason to contemplate
it in all its horror. Measure, therefore, in thy thought the
vineyard of the Lord; remember that man should tend it;
conceive the wealth of the harvest which it should produce under
his care; think how all creatures under heaven await their
sustenance from its culture by thee, that the vineyard of the
Lord awaits in like manner its adornment at thy hands, that
the Lord Himself awaits from thy fidelity and watchfulness all the
praise and glory which should accrue from the fulfilment of His
plans. But thou hast fallen; the dominion of the enemy upon thee;
thou hast made barren the Lord's ground, brought the dwellers
therein to want, and filled God's heart with sadness. Thou hast
dried up the source of wisdom and of increase in this lower world,
and still thou dost hinder daily the productions of the Lord.
Consider the extent of thy debt, the inpossibility of its payment.
The fruits of each year are owing from the moment of thine
infidelity, the wages of all the hours which have passed since
that fatal hour. Where is the being who shall acquit thee in
the sight of that eternal justice whose dues cannot be cancelled,
whose designs must attain their fulfilment? Herein, O God
supreme, are exhibited the torrents of Thy mercy and the
inexhaustible abundance of Thine eternal treasures. Thy heart
is opened towards Thy hapless creature: not only his debts are
discharged, but a surplus remains with which he may succour
the needy. Thou hast ordained Thy Word itself to cultivate the
vineyard of man: that sacred Word whose soul is love has come
down into this barren place; the fire of His speech has consumed
all the parasitic and poisonous plants which choked it; He has
sown the seed of the tree of life in their place; He has opened
up health-giving springs, and it has been moistened by living
waters, He has restored strength to the beasts of the earth,
wings to the birds of heaven, light to the starry torches,
sound and speech to every spirit which abides in the sphere of
man.
To the soul of man itself He has restored that love of which He .
alone is the source, which has inspired His holy and
wonderful sacrifice. Eternal God of all praise and grace, one
only being, Thy Son Divine, could thus repair our disorders and
acquit us in the sight of Thy justice. The creative being alone
could make restitution of that which we squandered, for it needed
a new creation. If, therefore, O universal powers! ye strive to
chant His praises who has reinstated you in your rights and
restored your activity, what thanks are not due from me, since
He has become the hostage for my debts Himself towards you,
to all my brethren, and has discharged all? It was said of the
penitent woman that much was forgiven her because she had loved
much But for man all has been remitted, not only prior to his love,
but while he was steeped in the horrors of ingratitude. O men! O
brethren ! let us give ourselves wholly to Him who has begun
by forgiving all to us.
Each one of God's movements is universal and is manifested in
every universe. Now, like unto this God supreme, be the
movement of love universal in all our nature, at once embracing all
the faculties which compose us. Amen.

Emma Hardinge Britten's Rules For the Spirit Circle

HOW TO INVESTIGATE SPIRITUALISM; OR RULES FOR THE SPIRIT CIRCLE

by Emma Hardinge Britten

The Spirit Circle is the assembling together of a number of persons seeking communion
with the spirits who have passed from earth to the world of souls. The chief advantage of
such an assembly is the mutual impartation and reception of the combined magnetisms of
the assemblage, which forms a force stronger than that of an isolated subject—enabling
spirits to commune with greater power and developing the latent gifts of mediumship.
The first conditions to be observed relate to the persons who compose the circle. These
should be, as far as possible, of opposite temperaments, as positive and negative; of moral
characters, pure minds, and not marked by repulsive points of either physical or mental
condition. No person suffering from disease, or of debilitated physique, should be present
at any circle, unless it is formed expressly for healing purposes. I would recommend the
number of the circle never to be less than three, or more than twelve. The best number is
eight. No person of a strong positive [i.e., aggressive, active, forceful] temperament
should be present, as any such magnetic spheres emanating from the circle will overpower
that of the spirits, who must always be positive to the circle in order to produce
phenomena.
Never let the apartment be over-heated, the rooms should be well ventilated. Avoid
strong light, which, by producing motion in the atmosphere, disturbs the manifestations.
A subdued light is the most favourable for spiritual magnetism.
I recommend the séance to be opened either with prayer or a song sung in chorus, after
which subdued, harmonising conversation is better than wearisome silence; but let the
conversation be directed towards the purpose of the gathering, and never sink into
discussion or rise to emphasis. Always have a pencil and paper on the table, avoid
entering or quitting the room, irrelevant conversation, or disturbances within or without
the circle after the séance has commenced.
Do not admit unpunctual comers, nor suffer the air of the room to be disturbed after the
sitting commences. Nothing but necessity, indisposition, or impressions, should warrant
the disturbance of this sitting, WHICH SHOULD NEVER exceed two hours, unless an
extension of time be solicited by the Spirits.
Let the séance always extend to one hour, even if no results are obtained; it sometimes
requires that time for spirits to form their battery. Let it be also remembered that circles
are experimental, hence no one should be discouraged if phenomena are not produced at
the first few sittings. Stay with the same circle for six sittings; if no phenomena are then
produced you may be sure you are not assimilated to each other; in that case, let the
members meet with other persons until you succeed.
A well-developed test medium may sit without injury for any person, but a circle sitting
for mutual development should never admit persons addicted to bad habits, strongly
positive or dogmatical. A candid inquiring spirit is the only proper frame of mind in
which to sit for phenomena, the delicate magnetism of which is made or marred as much
by mental as physical conditions.
Impressions are the voices of spirits or the monitions of the spirit within us, and should
always be followed out, unless suggestive of wrong in act or word. At the opening of the
circle, one or more are often impressed to change seats with others. One or more are
impressed to withdraw, or a feeling of repulsion makes it painful to remain. Let these
impressions be faithfully regarded, and pledge each other that no offence shall be taken by
following impressions.
If a strong impression to write, speak, sing, dance, or gesticulate possess any mind
present, follow it out faithfully. It has a meaning if you cannot at first realize it. Never
feel hurt in your own person, nor ridicule your neighbor for any failures to express or
discover the meaning of the spirit impressing you.
Spirit control is often deficient, and at first imperfect. By often yielding to it, your
organism becomes more flexible, and the spirit more experienced; and practice in control
is necessary for spirits as well as mortals. If dark and evil disposed spirits manifest to
you, never drive them away, but always strive to elevate them, and treat them as you
would mortals, under similar circumstances. Do not always attribute falsehoods to “lying
spirits,” or deceiving mediums. Many mistakes occur in the communion of which you
cannot always be aware.
Unless charged by spirits to do otherwise do not continue to hold sittings with the same
parties for more than a twelvemonth. After that time, if not before, fresh elements of
magnetism are essential. Some of the original circle should withdraw, and others take
their places.
Never seek the spirit circle in a trivial or deceptive spirit. Then, and then only, have you
cause to fear it.
Never permit any one to sit in circles who suffers from it in health or mind. Magnetism in
the case of such persons is a drug, which operates perniciously, and should be carefully
avoided.
Every seventh person can be a medium of some kind, and become developed through the
judicious operations of the spirit circle. When once mediums are fully developed, the
circle sometimes becomes injurious to them. When they feel this to be the case, let none
be offended if they withdraw, and only use their gifts in other times and places.
All persons are subject to spirit influence and guidance, but only one in seven can so
externalize this power as to become what is called a medium; and let it ever be
remembered that trance speakers, no less than mediums for any other gift, can never be
influenced by spirits far beyond their own normal capacity in the MATTER of the
intelligence rendered, the magnetism of the spirits being but a quickening fire, which
inspires the brain, and, like a hot-house process on plants, forces into prominence latent
powers of the mind, but creates nothing. Even in the case of merely automatic speakers,
writers, rapping, and other forms of test mediumship, the intelligence of the spirit is
measurably shaped by the capacity and idiosyncrasies of the medium. All spirit power is
limited in expression by the organism through which it works, and spirits may control,
inspire, and influence the human mind, but do not change or re-create it.

And remember, kids. . .be careful out there!

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The Secret of Aleister Crowley

THE SECRET OF ALEISTER CROWLEY

In the real world, the Great Beast was a sexual predator, life long junkie and failed Christian mystic,
but he did have a cool sense of humor!

Gather round, Minervals and Probationers. You’ve heard whispers that the real biography of Aleister Crowley has yet to be written. . .well, it’s true. Now the early biographers (Stephenson, Cammell, Symonds) had, at least, met Crowley in person and added a few personal recollections. However, both friends and journalists basically retold the stories which Crowley had invented about himself years before. The weird part is that Aleister kept inventing and retelling stories of himself, throughout his life, as a combination Bon Vivant, Scientific Rationalist, Mystic Ascetic and Supreme Master of the magickal arts. Most of the folks he met didn’t understand his sense of humor and assumed his stories were true. Who would make up such rubbish? He redacted many of these tales of “magick and mystery” into the first 6 volumes of Confessions while editing his “Autohagiography” in Cefalu. These stories were repeated 50 years later by so many journalists and writers that the life of the Beast 666 has taken on a mythic quality which has little basis in fact. In fact, Crowley made sure that his disinformation about his life would be available for years to come by purposefully not copywriting his books so that, due to their author’s notoriety, they would be reprinted and circulated repeatedly. Needless to say, the internet took A.C.’s self-promotional strategy to the next level.
His father died while Alex was an undergraduate at Cambridge University. The father had been a fundamentalist Plymouth Brethren Lay Minister who preached the gospel to rural Brits and made a fortune brewing (but not drinking) beer. With no constraints upon him from his family, young Aleck proceeded to adopt the life style of “university lad gone wild in Gay Nineties London”. In turn-of-the-century England, he was seen by most as a pompous poser with little substance. His crude, nouveau riche background meant that he would never be accepted as an “English gentleman”. His weaknesses and youthful naivete must have been an obvious source of amusement to the older boys at university whose approval he craved. Instead, he found acceptance with his opiated Buddhist roommate Alan Bennett, Jerome Pollitt (a performer in the English Music Hall tradition and sexual tutor) and a rough trade of prostitutes, opium fiends and starving artists. In the 1890’s, drugs were legal but gay sex was regularly punished with long prison sentences. Young men like Aleck were targets for blackmail and intimidation. The cruel treatment which Crowley received throughout his youth and early adult life was replayed over and over again in his adult sado-masochistic sex acts.
Sorry folks, but Crowley wasn’t a tough, savy kid. And, yes, he did have a secret world which he would escape into. At first, in the world of his literary imagination, Edward Alexander Crowley became a 19th century superhero, a romantic mix of Oscar Wilde, Flashman, Sir Richard Burton and Jesus Christ. Oh yeah---just read the Old Crow’s diaries right up through April 1904. He’s pursuing Christian Mysteries! He visualizes the Golden Dawn Adeptus Minor Ritual of Christian resurrection over and over in Mexico, Ceylon and everywhere he goes.
In 1904, when he buys Boleskine and marries Rose, he’s just trying to fit in. He’s thinking that his hated youth of Plymouth Brethren fundamentalism and the xenophobia of his upbringing is over. Now, by a supreme act of Will, like Nietzsche or Wagner, he will enter the Victorian Empire as a Poet Philosopher, an English Gentleman with wit and wisdom beyond his years. It is sad to imagine the humiliating response that Alex must have received for his troubles. From the few contemporary accounts of A.C. that we possess, his manner was pompous and his voice had a high, nasal pitch. He was “different” and people made fun of him behind his back.
Crowley was intelligent, though (King Jeremy the Wicked). He spent his money inventing himself as a Poete Maudit, privately publishing expensive editions of Swinburnesque poetry. This is hard, pounding erotic poetry with the scent and rhythm of flagellation and punishing sexuality. He wrote and published volume after volume of poetry, as well as his ten volume Journal of Illuminism, The Equinox, and expressed his opinions on every topic under the sun. Most of his voluminous output tells the reader a subtle story of the (imagined) life of Aleister Crowley. He is writing first person fantasy in which Aleister Crowley is the Phallic Saviour of the World. Yep, that’s his religious premise: that Aleister Crowley’s Dick is so big and bad (The Great and Wild Beast 666), that it’s gonna save the world. That’s right. A.C.’s cock is Jesus and his sperm is the Holy Ghost. Of course, Aleck’s dad is God the Father. In Crowley’s most revealing work, “The Gospel According to St. George Bernard Shaw”, A.C. interprets Jesus’s cry on the cross, “Father, why hast thou forsaken me?” According to Crowley, this refers to Jesus refusing to enter the kingdom of His Father to join the elite ruling class of Heaven and preferring to remain on Earth among men. This was Aleister’s personal interpretation of his own relationship with both God and his father.
So Crowley decides to get married to Rose Kelly, become Jesus Christ and save the British Empire. Now comes the honeymoon. This is where you have to believe in demons. Sure Crowley had been fooling around with the Abramelin ritual at Boleskine. In his version, he’s pursuing this ritual with the methodology of a scientist. In reality, he uses the ritual to shock acquaintances and bully people with his supposed magickal powers and Book of Magic Squares. In other words, he’s doing it all wrong and without the discipline that Mathers taught him to be necessary. A.C.’s version of the events from the 1904 honeymoon in Cairo through to his establishment of the A.A. with Jones and publication of the first issue of The Equinox in 1909 is well known. However, the truth of Crowley’s life during those most formative years of Thelema is almost completely unknown and, certainly, misunderstood.
Let’s call this period (as Crowley did) “The First Period of Silence”. Here are some of the facts. Crowley proposed to Rose Kelly after a brief acquaintance with her and made plans for a honeymoon in Cairo, a popular resort in the British Colonies. Then, three great tragedies struck Aleister in succession. Before the honeymoon, A.C. made a serious attempt to climb K2 mountain (Chogo-Ri) in the Himalayas with a professional climbing expedition. During the first attempt at the mountain, Crowley threatened the climbing party with a pistol. On the second attempt, a fellow climber was struck by pulmonary edema. Crowley was the only one to recognize the severity and insisted on taking the sick man off the mountain. This decision saved the climber’s life but prevented the team from reaching the peak. Crowley was not liked by rest of the party and would never be trusted as a Alpine climber again. While in Egypt, Rose found out that she was pregnant and later gave birth to a daughter, Lola Zaza (the name opens the “gates of Hell”, according to Aleister). Later, on a trek through Vietnam, Crowley abandoned them both, however, and his daughter died of typhoid – a tragedy that Crowley blamed on Rose and her increasing alcoholism. After her baby’s death, Rose went insane and was committed to an asylum. The marriage was dissolved. Eventually, Crowley found his way back to London where he pursued young undergrads like Victor Neuberg as well as closeted queens like J.F.C. Fuller, whose erotic praise for his master in “A Star in the West” is a telling tribute. At this time, Aleister organized the A.A. and began his career as a sexual predator who lured his victims with drugs, poetry and dreams of magickal powers. It was his reaction to the triple tragedy. He chose Aiwass, the satanic guardian angel who represented the erect phallus “per vas nefandum” (in Crowley’s butt) over Jesus. His sacramental name for the RR et AC, “The Rosy Heart of Jesus” was changed to The Beast 666. In Qabalistic terms, A.C. had failed to achieve the heart center of Tiphareth and had been thrown down to the sex center of Yesod. This is the secret theme of The Book of the Law, which in fact was composed and edited some time after April 8, 9, and 10, 1904. It is rumored that A.C.’s diaries of this period of Silence survive and prove that Liber “Al”(eister) is a prose poem which was constructed to seduce Captain Fuller with military ardor as well as impress a few Cambridge lads with pagan decadence. Among other sources, Aradia (published by Leland 1899) is an obvious conscious borrowing. It seems that most of Crowley’s makeover from Golden Dawn Christian Mystic to Thelemic Pagan Satanist was “worked out” during his journey with Elaine Simpson on a steamship cruise from Hong Kong to British Columbia. This was recorded by the Master Therion in a special series of vellum notebooks at the time. It is interesting to note that, during the First Period of Silence, Crowley seems to have represented his Thelemic, anti-Christian sentiments to Fuller by which the latter was repulsed. At the same time (1907), we find A.C. maintaining his Golden Dawn Christian mysticism with George Cecil Jones when the two performed their version of the Adeptus Minor Crucifixtion in 1907 to found the “A.A.”.
So things are sweet for a while. Aleister publishes The Equinox, runs around London and Paris and snags more booty than Sir Francis Dashwood at a country weekend. He evokes the Demon Bartzabel and holds the public Rites of Eleusis. Aleister thinks he is Faust and he’s just sealed a deal with the Devil. He even starts his own branch of the O.T.O. (after hooking up with spymeister, Theodor Reuss) and starts collecting dues. Now, this is the part that I hate to tell the Probationers about. WWI hits Europe and England and the Age of European Colonial Privilege is over. Many wealthy Brits leave England to wait out the war in America. Crowley goes too. The only problem is that Aleister has been living the hedonistic life of an English Rake as a response to his inability to fit into Edwardian society. He’s also spent most of his inheritance. Crowley has to sell his library and anything else of value that he can in order to get to America. He thinks: America is the land of opportunity. I can use my guru skills, attract a cult of followers and live easy while the lower classes fight the world war. Of course, when he gets to America, he runs out of money. New York in the winter of 1918 must have been a pretty lonely place (vide Liber Aleph). Naturally, he takes lots o’ drugs and adapts to the American habit of scaming people out of money and partying in the Gay Bathhouses. The “Roaring Twenties” are just around the corner. At this point, “Alice” continues the cycle from his sexual past and becomes a hard core sex predator, junkie and mooch. His writing for the “International” reflects his depressed and cynical state of mind. This is the beginning of A.C.’s down-going. Soon he finds Leah (sublime). She will nursemaid him through the depths of his personal hell, otherwise known as The Abbey of Thelema in Cefalu. He is dubbed “the wickedest man in the world” as a joke by the yellow press. Former friends make fun of him. When he sues for libel, he finds out that he has no reputation to protect. Then he dies in poverty and addicted to Heroin at age 72. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
So, here’s the irony. Crowley is still seducing young men from beyond the grave. Everyone in occult bookselling knows that the people who buy Crowley books are disaffected young men, often college students. Some will continue their interest throughout adulthood. They are often homophobic, have few sex partners, keep to themselves and create their own special interpretation of the XI degree of the O.T.O. They don’t go to gay bathhouses or march on Pride Day. But they spend their hard earned money on Aleister Crowley and they masturbate to his rituals. Hell, they even celebrate Mass with his poetry and honor him as a Saint! It’s all in the name of freedom and art. Crowley can still lure them in. Nice job, Aleister. There is no law beyond do what thou wilt.

NFP Portals Closing to Public

Greetings of the Vernal Equinox! In the spirit of bonds of the New Flesh, the Inner Council has declared, by straw vote, that the Portals of the Outer Order will be closed to the public for an indefinite period.

We will be closing the website but this blog will remain active as a news source for the Order as well as a link to research regarding the specified subjects.

Information regarding Maria de Naglowska will be posted at http://mysteryofsevenpalms.blogspot.com

Or, as Harry Crosby said,

"I climb alone above the timber line to burn with the setting sun.

She is

my paramour.

Below in the valley the shadows lurk like a pack of wolves.

The frozen lake is round like a zero.

The smoke of a fire curves upwards

into a question mark.

The tall firtrees are sentinels guarding the

virginity of the mountain.

The setting sun disarms them kisses the

snow-covered breast of the mountain.

And I am jealous. "

Happy Birthday Eliphas!

Big Birthday shout out to Eliphas Levi! Eliphas was born on February 8 back in 1810. His pen & ink rendering of the Sabbatic Goat as well as most of his illustrations in Transcendental Magic and The History of Magic have become the standard of occult art. The last volume is particularly recommended.

As you know, NFP business can now be conducted at the website: www.newfleshpalladium.net

In this blog, we will attempt to answer the various email questions that have been sent in regarding the practices of Sado-Magick.

For this month's question, we will address the subject of Pre-Adamite Man. This subject has been covered extensively by PB Randolph, Andrew Jackson Davis and many New Flesh pioneers. Followers of Lucifuge Rofocale believe the Unknown Superiors to be psychically powerful beings who are twin sexed. These "Elohim" have been charged with guarding and nurturing the progress of humankind. "The Adventures of Max Gravity" goes more deeply into the daily rituals of the Elohim. Suffice it to say that they excel in the arts of Sexual Magick. They possess multiple sex organs and are said to live for centuries. Like vampires, they are concerned with preserving their material vehicles of manifestation and will go to extreme measures to accomplish their goals. Their powers of seduction are legendary.

The Pre-Adamite Age:

"An ancient tradition ascribed the establishment of Moon worship to Adam, the first man. The medieval Arab scholar Abubacer wrote: They [the Sabaeans] say that Adam was born from male and female, just like the rest of mankind, but they honored him greatly, and said that he had come from the Moon, that he was the prophet and apostle of the Moon, and that he had exhorted the nations that they should serve the Moon. . . . They also related about Adam that when he had left the Moon and proceeded from the area of India towards Babylonia, that he brought many wonders with him.(1) The Adamites, the ante-diluvial men, were most probably not the first human beings on the planet. Even admitting that by “expulsion from the Garden of Eden” is allegorized a catastrophe which quite destroyed mankind prior to the Deluge, it is impossible to declare that it was the first catastrophe. It depends on the memory of the peoples which catastrophe they consider as the act of creation. Human beings, rising from some catastrophe, bereft of memory of what had happened, regarded themselves as created from the dust of the earth. All knowledge about the ancestors, who they were and in what interstellar space they lived, was wiped away from the memory of the few survivors. The talmudic-rabbinical tradition believes that before Adam was created, the world was more than once inhabited and more than once destroyed. It was at the end of the first age, symbolized by the expulsion of man from the blessed Garden of Eden, that the moon lost its brightness.(2) It was not just a single human pair—the tradition ascribes to Adam the invention of seventy languages. "

Mary Meat. Mary Part. Mary Meat Again. . .and again and again. (This is the formula of Cunninglingus Sanctissumus.)

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Hey KIDS! 3D Animation THE NEXT BIG THING!

2007 e.v.

The pure land will move into the fourth dimension of time. Rod Serling is standing by the signpost up ahead. . .

Maria and Crowley and the gang will be able to move around. My guess is that, like white mice, they'll spend most of their time rubbing their sex organs agains each other and calling it religion.

I hope to create a virtual Vintras. His Livre d'Or is an inspired book which is definitely NFP Imprimatur. I'm working on a translation.

Watch for the DVD this Spring. Meanwhile, buy my funnybooks. They are filled with mucho sagesse as well as erectile enhancement invocations. Purchases also qualify for frequent flyer miles on the Astral Plane.

Cheers, NFP666

Robert North Studios

Happy Halloween, Samhain, All Hallow's Eve. This is the time of the year when the living are visited by the dead at the crossroads. In the New Flesh Palladium, this is an opportunity to have sexual encounters with the deceased. This practice goes back to the French magicians of the 19th century. Vintras taught the ritual of self pleasuring while at Mass so as to climax just after receiving the Host at communion. This practice led to astral visions of sexual encounters with the Saints and other historical personages. This ritual was continued, in a slightly different form, in the Mariavite movement in Poland.Sex with the dead can be interesting. I suggest that you stick with the astral plane. Please don't try this in the mundane world, kiddies.
Also, I have just launched my new graphics website www.northstudios.net Check it out.

Autumnal Equinox Greetings

Greetings from the New Flesh Palladium for the Autumnal Equinox. The Mystery of the Seven Palms is complete and available on CD ROM. It is a XXX rated Graphic Novel about sex magick and may offend some people re: nudity, religion and other iconoclastic subjects. I am still searching for the best way to print it in full color.
Also, I have begun work on a web site which will be based on the initiatory ladder of the Tree of Life. This will incorporate several different sex magick traditions. The site will also offer downloads of pdf, jpg and other format files which are unlocked by answering various occult riddles. Stay tuned.

NFP copies available in September?

I have heard that my book, "The New Flesh Palladium" may be reprinted and available in September. First editions remain rare. This is the second book in my trilogy about sex magick. The first book, "Sexual Magic", is all over the web.
"The Mystery of the Seven Palms" is the final book of the trilogy. It is a 93 page graphic novel. This book will be available through me in a couple of weeks.

Of Marriage, Henry VIII and Sexual Prayer

We trace the beginnings of the English speaking version of the sexual prayer to the sixteenth century. Secret Benedictine envoys of Henry VIII took notes as the ancient Rabbins, expelled from Spain, explained the qabalistic secrets of sexual magick. Those secrets involved meditations of the body, mind and spirit which allowed a married couple to achieve success in the 400 worlds of Sepher Yetzirah.
Just like marriage customs and rituals, marriage laws vary considerably from one culture to another. Every past or present society has had its own concept of marriage, and many have created marriage laws that reflect their particular conceptions. Ancient Roman law recognized three forms of marriage. Confarreatio was marked by a highly solemnized ceremony involving numerous witnesses and animal sacrifice. It was usually reserved for patrician families. Coemptio, used by many plebeians, was effectively marriage by purchase, while usus, the most informal variety, was marriage simply by mutual consent and evidence of extended cohabitation. Roman law generally placed the woman in the “power” of her husband and on the same footing as children.
The Alchemical Marriage is, perhaps, the most interesting. This refers to the union of extremes - the Lamb shall lie down with the Lion. This will remind the Palladist of the Strong Medicine of the New Flesh.
Another form of marriage in shown in the picture. The chance meeting of the seeker with the object which is sought. This is the true union of opposites, one of the main themes of Maria de Naglowska.

The Witch Ascends the Fire: Maria's Ascension

The Slave becomes the Mistress, the Feminine Force is liberated, a Priestess of Love is born.

For this is certain if a little bizarre : it is sufficient to uncover the true name (the essential correspondence) of the evil one to locate and to banish it. It is a mystery, because it is difficult to explain in vulgar terms the life and the essence of names, but it is true that if one knows how to pronounce it, it is said to be accomplished. The rite symbolizes the Supreme Hindrance, all of its evil force is to paralyze. Better still : she exists no more. Ah! if you can understand this or decipher after the lecture of this book which is written towards the goal! The evil force that hinders the triumphant march of the future is nothing but another past, incapable of dying because nothing dies. She waits for her regeneration, the baptism that transforms her name. Some new lips are necessary for this, because "an ancient name pronounced by a new mouth is a new name, a rebirth". . .

As a precaution, it is necessary, alas, in these hard times, to tell the simplest things! We live in an epoch which is crossed with a violence equally composed of many contrary currents. It is in these places, the dangerous sea where the ships dance the same dance in the good times. One can better understand that vocabulary differs from mouth to mouth, the one calls a spirit and the other thinks it a “joke".

Nevertheless, we are, in this life, not as much as a fire offering to the sun and the pure air. Some profound roots connect us to the same earth climbing towards the sap that the sun himself bestows, but man starts badly, because he knows nothing. . .

And can you understand this? : I love Evil, I love it again, it is why I know his Name, his Essence, his Nocturnal Action. . .

Is South Beach Paradise, Purgatory or Hell?

Greetings in the Bonds of the New Flesh. The Mystery of the Seven Palms is moving along nicely. The new, expanded edition of The New Flesh Palladium will be available soon from Invisible books. It includes an essay on Maria de Naglowska and other new material about how to say sexual prayers.

Also, a New Flesh calendar is in the works with every magickal holy day there is, in every tradition. Celebrate 365 a year! Today, for instance, in 1923, Frater Achad had his monumental Vision of the Anatomy of the Body of God and wrote the subsequent book on the Tree of Life, etc. So. . .read some Achad or, better yet, read some erotic poetry to your car like he did.

Earl Lavender, Palladist and Rake

In the month of March, 1909, John Davidson allowed himself to be gathered within the heart of the universe, a conscious step taken by "the universe made conscious".
To Davidson, death was not a one-way ticket to either reward or revenge from an omnipotent god; nor was it the end of life. He gave his material body up:

"As ether to the ether whence it cameReturns again;
to darkness, silence, peace,
The wide oblivion of the Universe,The rapture of the infinite."

Mammon and his Message
As King Mammon, putting forward Davidson's firmly held philosophy of Materialism, says in "Mammon and his Message":

"In us the ether consciously becomesImagination, thought, religion and art. We are the ether, we are the universe, We are eternity: not sense, not spirit. But matter; but the whole become self-conscious."
(from the creator of Earl Lavender)

The character of Earl Lavender is the posterboy for the New Flesh Palladist. Along with Des Esseintes (A Rebours, Huysmans), the Hedonist becomes the Hero and "art" becomes sacred, the whore becomes the BVM and the world goes to Hell in a handbasket. Rapture this!

Also, new copies of the N.F.P. should be available soon.

Origins of Sex Magick

"As you may know, many historians point to The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor as the fountainhead of western sex magick. Careful examination of the related texts indicate that most of the material represents the Orthodox Jewish Talmudic teachings about sex. Actually, these documents come from an earlier time when Henry VIII of England sent his ministers and scholars to Italy to consult with experts in Talmudic law in order to find Biblical teachings which would support Henry's divorce and creation of the Church of England.
"This is the context in which John Dee received his angelic transmissions and the key to the subject of "the war in Heaven" which runs throughout his works. Further details of this doctrine are revealed repeatedly throughout the English rennaisance and have been well documented by scholar and Gnostic Saint Francis Yates."

In The Vision and the Voice, Crowley writes, "There appears immediately in the Aethyr a tremendous column of scarlet fire, whirling forth, rebounding, crying aloud. And about it are four columns of green and blue and gold and silver, each inscribed with writings in the character of the dagger. And the column of fire is dancing among the pillars. Now it seems that the fire is but the skirt of the dancer, and the dancer is a mighty god. The vision is overpowering.
As the dancer whirls, she chants in a strange, slow voice, quickening as she goes: Lo! I gather up every spirit that is pure, and weave him into my vesture of flame. I lick up the lives of men, and their souls sparkle from mine eyes. I am the mighty sorceress, the lust of the spirit. And by my dancing I gather for my mother Nuit the heads of all them that are baptized in the waters of life. I am the lust of the spirit that eateth up the soul of man. I have prepared a feast for the adepts, and they that partake thereof shall see God".