The Goddess Is Alive

Moon shines down upon a sea of Light,
Shifting sands lay singing in the Heart of the Night.
I looked upon a scene that gripped me to the core,
White-clad maidens below were dancing on the shore.

Sweet sounds slipped from moon-lit throats,
Wind whipped hair abound,
Lit by the light within and without,
The Women circled 'round.

As I stood, water engulfed my feet,
My body swayed to your Heavenly Heart beat.
Wind and wave and fire light,
Paled in my mind Earthly delight.

Time slipped by me as you held your embrace,
And windblown spray covered my face.
Protected deep within your Womb,
I could feel the tender pain of Life's bloom.

Candles flared high as the Dance progressed,
Deep inside with a healing touch you blessed.
All around, wind, wave and fire shouted of your life,
Your light speared deep within, soothing my strife.

Divine Mother, Goddess of Light,
To you I come seeking protection from the night.
Come home to shelter within your arm,
Surrounded by Love, hidden from harm.

Holy Mother, Queen of Heaven and Earth,
From you we all trace our Birth.
Heavenly Goddess, light from above,
Shine down upon us, we pray for your Love.

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A Tree Song

by Rudyard Kipling

Of all the trees that grow so fair,
Old England to adorn,
Greater is none beneath the sun,
Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn.
Sing Oak, and Ash, and Thorn, good sirs,
(All of a Midsummer morn!)
Surely we sing of no little thing,
In Oak, and Ash, and Thorn!

Oak of the Clay lived many a day,
Or ever Aeneas began.
Ash of the Loam was a Lady at home,
When Brut was an outlaw man.
Thorn of the Down saw New Troy Town
(From which was London born);
Witness hereby the ancientry
Of Oak, and Ash, and Thorn!

Yew that is old in churchyard-mould,
He breedeth a mighty bow.
Alder for shoes do wise men choose,
And beech for cups also.
But when ye have killed, and your bowl is spilled,
And your shoes are clean outworn,
Back ye must speed for all that ye need,
To Oak, and Ash, and Thorn!

Ellum she hateth mankind, and waiteth
Till every gust be laid,
To drop a limb on the head of him
That any way trusts her shade.
But whether a lad be sober or sad,
Or mellow with wine from the horn,
He will take no wrong when he lieth along
'Neath Oak, and Ash, and Thorn!
Oh, do not tell the priest our plight,
Or he would call it a sin;
But--we have been out in the woods all night,
A-conjuring Summer in!
And we bring you good news by word of mouth --
Good news for cattle and corn --
Now is the Sun come up from the south,
With Oak, and Ash, and Thorn!

Sing Oak, and Ash, and Thorn, good sirs
(All of a Midsummer morn)!
England shall bide till Judgement Tide,
By Oak, and Ash, and Thorn!

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Echoes From The Gnosis Vol Iv The Hymn Of Jesus

Book: Echoes From The Gnosis Vol Iv The Hymn Of Jesus by George Robert Stowe Mead

The hymn of Jesus is part of the Acts of the apostle John, a text rejected at the second council of Nicaea (787). Mead thought it was ‘almost certain’ that the hymn was actually a mystery rite, and ‘possibly the earliest Christian rite to have survived’. Modern scholars still think this is a very plausible suggestion and assume the intention was to meditate on the text and reach an altered state of consciousness. The Hymn of Jesus in Mead’s version was set to music by the composer Gustav Holst in 1916.

Echoes from the Gnosis(1906) is a series of monographs under the title Echoes from the Gnosis (recently republished in a centennial edition) summarizing his insights into the formation of the Gnostic world-view. By this time Mead had published eight works on various aspects of the early Christian world and on “The Theosophy of the Greeks.” Together with his outstanding translations of the Hermetic books, these works established his reputation as one of the foremost English scholars in his broadly chosen fields. Mead was the first modern scholar of Gnostic tradition. A century later, the corpus of his work remains unequaled in breadth and insight.

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Norse Mythology Legends Of Gods And Heroes

Book: Norse Mythology Legends Of Gods And Heroes by Peter Andreas Munch

The Norwegian original on which the present translation is based was written by Peter Andreas Munch, the founder of the Norwegian school of history. Munch’s scholarly interests embraced also many related subjects, such as general history, archaeology, geography, ethnography, linguistics, and jurisprudence. His varied labors have in large part stood the test of time. His most important work, the “History of the Norwegian People” (Det norske folks historie, 8 vols. 1851–63) covering the period of Norway’s ancient independence ending with the Kalmar Union of 1397, still remains a source book and a point of departure for historians. The great significance of Munch’s scholarship lies in its influence upon the modern renascence of Norwegian culture. In the middle of the nineteenth century he was the most conspicuous intellectual force in the country, as Wergeland had been before him and as Bjornson came to be after him. The national spirit in Norway, which has steadily gained strength, owes a heavy debt to the gifted leaders of an earlier generation, not least among whom was Munch. As an historian, as an editor of Old Norse poetry and saga, as a recorder of the venerable myths and legends of the race, he did yeoman service in establishing a sense of historical continuity between the Norway of the past and the Norway of the present. Since his day, Norwegians have labored in the fields of history, folklore, and related subjects, deepening and strengthening that fruitful sense of national consciousness which he did so much to awaken.

Munch’s handbook of Norse Mythology, which first appeared in 1840, was originally written as a supplementary volume to a school text on the history of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. As a book for students and as a work of general reference it has maintained its popularity. The third edition (1922) from which the translation is made, was prepared by Professor Magnus Olsen of the University of Oslo, in response to the demand for an up-to-date treatment of the entire subject. He found it advisable, however, to revise Munch’s work rather than to attempt a wholly original book, since he was thus able to incorporate the results of later research in a volume which had long enjoyed both popular and scholarly approval. The value of Munch’s work has been greatly increased through Professor Olsen’s revision.

The English translation is intended as a companion volume to two other books published in the SCANDINAVIAN CLASSICS series, The Prose Edda, translated by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, and The Poetic Edda, translated by Henry Adams Bellows. Norse Mythology will serve alike the student of Old Norse literature, and the general reader who seeks an authoritative guide through the world of Northern myth and legend. My thanks are due to Professor Magnus Olsen for permission to translate the work, and to Professor William Witherle Lawrence, of Columbia University, Chairman of the Publications Committee of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, for many valuable suggestions. - S. B. H.

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Introduction To The Elder Edda

Book: Introduction To The Elder Edda by John Ronald Tolkien

The Elder Edda is not a single continuous narrative, but a collection of poems, most of which are preserved in the Konungsbok, or Codex Regius (King's Book), copied in Iceland about A.D. 1270. The poems are the work of many poets. Their language suggests that they were composed between 800 and 1100 A.D. and first written down between 1150 and 1250 A.D. The poems are a rich source of Information for culture and belief among the Vikings. They are not, however, purely Scandinavian. Christian Irish influence is likely, while the Sigurd story draws on actual events among the tribes that invaded the Roman Empire between 350-600 A.D.

The Elder Edda first came to scholarly attention in the seventeenth century as antiquarian interest in the non-classical past was growing in Europe. It was published in its entirety just as intense romantic and nationalistic interest in the perceived tribal ancestors of the European nation states emerged towards the end of the eighteenth century. This interest, combined with the new science of philology, ensured popular and scholarly interest in texts like the Elder Edda. Some of the lays were available in bowdlerized versions even for children by the later nineteenth century. In the hands of Richard Wagner, the Elder Edda became the foundation of one of the century's masterpieces. While northern legends and the Scholarship based on it were misused by the Nazis to develop and further their ideas of race, they are seriously misrepresented by such ideas. In the 1960s, the poet W. H. Auden in collaboration with an Old Norse scholar, Paul B. Taylor, produced a Translation of sixteen of the poems.

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Mock On Mock On Voltaire Rousseau

Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau;
Mock on, mock on; ‘tis all in vain!
You throw the sand against the wind,
And the wind blows it back again.

And every sand becomes a gem
Reflected in the beams divine;
Blown back they blind the mocking eye,
But still in Israel’s paths they shine.

The Atoms of Democritus
And Newton’s Particles of Light
Are sands upon the Red Sea shore,
Where Israel’s tents do shine so bright.

by William Blake

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Free Grace Theology

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From: Aleister Crowley
To: All
Subj: Liber Cheth Vel Vallum Abeigni, Sub Figura Clvi
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Metaphysical

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* Original: TO.......Babalon (107/666)
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LIBER CHETH
vel
VALLUM ABIEGNI

SUB FIGURA CLVI.

1. This is the secret of the Holy Graal, that is the sacred vessel of our
Lady, the Scarlet Woman, Babalon the Mother of Abominations, the Bride of
Chaos, that rideth upon our Lord the Beast.
2. Thou shalt drain out thy blood that is thy life into the golden cup of
her fornication.
3. Thou shalt mingle thy life with the universal life. Thou shalt keep
not back one drop.
4. Then shall thy brain be dumb, and thy heart beat no more, and all thy
life shall go from thee; and thou shalt be cast out upon the midden, and the
birds of the air shall feast upon thy flesh, and thy bones shall whiten in
the sun.
5. Then shall the winds gather themselves together and bear thee up as it
were a little heap of dust in a sheet that hath four corners, and they shall
give it unto the guardian of the Abyss.
6. And because there is no life therein, the guardian of the Abyss shall
bid the angels of the winds pass by. And the angels thereof shall be no
more.
7. Now therefore that thou mayest achieve this ritual of the Holy Graal,
do thou divest thyself of all thy goods.
8. Thou hast wealth; give it unto them that have need thereof, yet no
desire toward it.
9. Thou hast health; slay thyself in the fervour of thine abandonment unto
Our Lady. Let thy flesh hang loose upon thy bones, and thine eyes glare with
thy quenchless lust unto the Infinite, with thy passion for the Unknown, for
Her that is beyond Knowledge the accursed one.
10. Thou hast love; tear thy mother from thine heart and spit in the face
of thy father. Let thy foot trample the belly of thy wife, and let the babe
at her breast be the prey of dogs and vultures.
11. For if thou dost not this with thy will, then shall We do
this despite thy will. So that thou attain to the Sacrament of the Graal in
the Chapel of Abominations.
12. And behold! If by stealth thou keep unto thyself one thought of
thine, then shalt thou be cast out into the abyss for ever; and thou shalt be
the lonely one, the eater of dung, the afflicted in the Day of Be-With-Us.
13. Yea! verily this is the Truth, this is the Truth, this is the Truth.
Unto thee shall be granted joy and health and wealth and wisdom when thou art
no longer thou.
14. Then shall every gain be a new sacrament, and it shall not defile
thee; thou shalt revel with the wantons in the market place, and the virgins
shall fling roses upon thee, and the merchants bend their knees and bring
thee gold and spices. Also young boys shall pour wonderful wines for thee,
and the singers and the dancers shall sing and dance for thee.
15. Yet shalt thou not be therein, for thou shalt be forgotten, dust lost
in dust.
16. Nor shall the aeon itself avail thee in this; for from the dust shall
a white ash be prepared by Hermes the Invisible.
17. And this is the wrath of god, that these things should be thus.
18. And this is the grace of God, that these things should be thus.
19. Wherefore I charge you that ye come unto me in the Beginning; for if
ye take but one step in this Path, ye must arrive inevitably at the end
thereof.
20. This Path is beyond Life and Death; it is also beyond Love, but that
ye know not, for ye know not Love.
21. And the end thereof is known not even unto Our Lady, nor to the Beast
whereon She rideth, nor unto the Virgin her daughter, nor unto Chaos her
lawful Lord; but unto the Crowned Child is it known? It is not known if it
be known.
22. Therefore unto Hadit and unto Nuit be the glory in the End and the
Beginning; yea, in the End and the Beginning.

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House Blessing 2

I just helped with a house blessing this weekend. My girlfriend is a rather new pagan, and wanted my help as resident expert, or how to put the ritual. Here is basically what I told her:

There are two ways (well, more or less) to do this - one is taking a new place, that has not got your mark on it at all yet, and consecrating it, and then filling it with yourself. The other is taking a place that you have lived in a while and never consecrated. That, one assumes, is full of you already, but may also contain things that are not you and that you do not want, as well.

Her place was the second type. This is my advice for the second type:

First - clean it. Not mystically, just good old ammonia, hot water, comet, etc. Find a place for everything, throw out everything you don't want anymore, or give it away, or something. This does not mean the place has to be spotless. It is YOUR place. Make it the way YOU want it.

Second - consider the arrangement of the house. Is everything set out the way you want it? Are those curtains the ones you really LIKE in this room? Are your pictures and thing up, and are they in pleasing places? If not, move them. Make the place look as much like the image of the way home SHOULD look as possible.

Third - gather the stuff for a ritual cleansing. For this ritual, you need: a blue candle, enough candles for every candleholder in the house, as many white candles as your altar requires, your favorite incense, your favorite essential oil(s), olive oil or almond oil, a jar, a white handkerchief, four rocks, a stick (birch, or whatever wood you happen to like), and flowers. The only part requiring preparing ahead is filling the jar with the oil, adding a few drops of the essential oil(s), closing the jar, and leaving it for a week to set.

Third - all this being done, it is time for the ritual cleansing. There are a number of ways to do this, but the one Rachel preferred when I told her her options was to make a broom out of flowers and a birch stick (blossom end down), and sweep out the entire house, stem to stern, dusting off anything stressful especially carefully. Carry the broom out the back door and toss the flowers out, along with everything they are carrying away.

Fourth - on your way in, light the dark blue candle (you had grabbed it and stuck it in your back pocket on your way out), and walk the perimeter of your space. If you own the whole house, walk the boundaries of the property. If your place is an apartment, follow the edges of the rooms. But you are drawing a ring of fire around your boundaries, so that your cleaned house will stay clean. When you have completed the circle, set the candle on a white handkerchief by the front door to keep watch. Weight the corners of the handkerchief with four rocks (one for each corner) taken from someplace nearby.

Fifth - now the place is clean, and guarded. Now it is time to mark it as YOURS. Light your favorite incense. Doesn't matter WHAT your favorite incense is. What matters is that YOU like it. Or if you prefer a potpourri burner, go with that. Then light all the candles you bought for all the candleholders in the house, and put on some music. (What music? Ask yourself? What have you got that feels sacred or just very YOU. If that happens to be aerosmith, well, it's YOUR ritual.) Now that you've done that, take the scented oil and mark every corner in the house, as well as any place or object that it seems to you OUGHT to be marked.

Sixth: Recreate (or create) your altar. Anoint it with the scented oil, wave incense over it, put everything on it in its place.

Seventh: Call whatever deities, wigits, watchtowers, elements, etc., that you want watching over your house or present in it. Since you are erecting a temple and setting up protections, you don't dismiss them afterward, just offer them food, drink, whatever they like.

Eight: Go eat & drink something yourself.

Ninth: It's your house now. Now you have to live in it.

by Alilsa

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Earth Birth

By: Holly Solt

In a time Before the mortal
when magic came to birth
evil and good in conflict
with the Powers of the earth

Long ago, and far away
a time we don't remember
for we had yet to come to earth
for earth was still an ember...

Mountains black and oceans grey
the sky was black and foul
and air was only fog and mist
and torrid winds would howl

Then from the sky a soft wind blew
and dots of light appeared
and rain fell down upon the earth
that was so scorched and seared

Evil fought with good
and the earth shook with fear
canyons and the continents
from earthquakes did appear

Then dragons flew as birds
and beasts were treetop tall
and love was soon to be
the magic of it all

Old evil hid beneath the earth
and made the center burn
and waited for the time and place
that it could have it's turn

And love produced the day
and light shone all Around
and Love proclaimed it's victory
by giving life a sound

Now mortals walk upon the earth
and think to be so grand
to rule the very planet
the ground on which they stand

Mortal minds cannot accept
the battle carries on
good and evil will exist
long after earth is gone.

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Witchs Dance

Nude bodies
Dancing in perfect time
To the beat of the earth,
And the music of nature.
The fire shines brightly,
Ecasin gthe witchs' dance
In a god(dess) like essence.
The silent whisper of approval
Rings loudly in the ears of the deaf.
To them, this is the life
Of peace and tranquility;
But to the righteous,
It is sin,
Carried on a silver platter,
To mock the Younger god
Of the Western world;
The one who sent the peaceful ones
Into a world of seclusion.
Locked into silence.
To speak out is death.
The righteous
Would have a magnificent feast
Of witchs' meat at the slightest
Peep of the hidden Children

DeRaNgEd

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Hymn To Mars

"! Help us, ye Household Gods"! Help us, ye Household Gods"! Help us, ye Household Gods! " let not bane and bale, O Marmor Mars, assail more folk" let not bane and bale, O Marmor Mars, assail more folk" let not bane and bale, O Marmor Mars, assail more folk! " full satisfied, fierce Mars, Leap the Threshold! Hah! Beat the ground" full satisfied, fierce Mars, Leap the Threshold! Hah! Beat the ground" full satisfied,fierce Mars, Leap the Threshold! Hah! Beat the ground! " turns address ye all the Half-Gods" turns address ye all the Half-Gods" turns address ye all the Half-Gods. "! Help us, Marmor"! Help us, Marmor"! Help us, Marmor! " bound and bound again, bound and bound again! " Mars, there is no contemplation before action. The drive associated with Mars differs from that of the Sun in that it is self-assertion rather than assertion of the will; it is raw energy rather than creative energy. ""

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