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00:00:00 "True it is, without falsehood certain and most true, that that which is above is like
00:00:16 to that which is below; and that which is below is like to that which is above, to accomplish
00:00:24 the miracles of one thing. And as all things were by the contemplation of one, so all things
00:00:35 arose from this one thing by a single act of adaption. The Father thereof is the Sun,
00:00:43 the Mother the Moon; the Wind carried it in its womb; the Earth is the Nurse thereof.
00:00:51 And as the Father of all works of wonder throughout the whole world, the power thereof is perfect.
00:00:58 If it be cast to earth, it will separate the element of earth from that of fire, the subtle
00:01:05 from the gross. With great sagacity it doth descend to earth, and uniteth in itself the
00:01:12 force from things superior and things inferior. Thus thou wilt possess the glory of the brightness
00:01:20 of the whole world, and all obscurity will fly far from thee. This thing is the strong
00:01:28 fortitude of all strength, for it overcometh every subtle thing, and doth penetrate every
00:01:34 solid substance. Thus was this world created. Hence there will be marvellous adaptions achieved,
00:01:45 of which the manner is this. And for this reason I am called Hermes Trismegistus, because
00:01:51 I hold three parts of the wisdom of the whole world, and that which I had to say about the
00:01:57 operation of Saul is completed.
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00:02:34 Hidden deep in a national forest located in southern California is the secluded headquarters
00:02:41 of the Church of the Hermetic Sciences. We named our rustic estate Rivendell after the
00:02:46 woodland home of the elves described in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy classic, Lord of the Rings.
00:02:54 And as you can see, our Rivendell certainly evokes that image. What better place could
00:03:00 we have found to research, teach, and practice the ancient rites of magic?
00:03:06 Hermetic magic is our own English and European cultural tradition of shamanism and seership.
00:03:13 It is the magic of King Solomon of Berlin, of Nostradamus and Count Coleostro. It has
00:03:20 been called sorcery, necromancy, and black magic by those who do not understand it. And
00:03:27 yet, it is also known as the art of kings and the secret science of the philosophers.
00:03:35 Here at Rivendell, we have everything necessary to pursue the study and the practical application
00:03:41 of this ultimate human adventure. We have an outdoor henge for seasonal ceremonies,
00:03:48 an indoor temple for magical rites, an astronomical observatory to view the heavens, and a hermitage
00:03:54 for retreats, lectures, and fellowship. Come inside with me now, and together we will lift
00:04:01 the veil obscuring this ancient art of wizardry.
00:04:07 Welcome to the Church of the Hermetic Sciences and the Order of the Temple of Astarte. In
00:04:13 the outer world, I'm known as Polk Runyon. But here, in the inner world of the Rivendell
00:04:19 Hermitage, I'm the Archimage Frater Fabian, your host and guide on a tour of the wonderful
00:04:28 world of Hermetic magic.
00:04:31 Hermetic magic is an art of philosophy and a very ancient and powerful religion. Yes,
00:04:38 a religion, but with an essential difference from other religions. Where they depend upon
00:04:45 faith for their salvation, we seek the wisdom and power of the Gnosis. Know yourself, for
00:04:54 in your temple you are one with the gods.
00:04:59 In our two previous videos, "The Magic of Solomon" and "The Dark Mirror of Magic,"
00:05:05 we emphasized the techniques of evocation and invocation. That's summoning spirits
00:05:13 to visible appearance and calling down angels to converse with them. Now, in some ways,
00:05:19 this is putting the cart before the horse because there's a lot more to the philosophy
00:05:25 and practice of magic than these two methods.
00:05:29 In this production, we're going to give you a broader perspective. We'll cover Hermetic
00:05:34 magical yoga, path workings, seasonal ceremonies, the mystical Eucharist, and the Enochian Aether
00:05:43 system.
00:05:56 Let us begin by establishing the magical universe within ourselves through the process of Hermetic
00:06:04 magical yoga.
00:06:08 When I first began my study of magic back in 1968, I was impressed with the Tibetan
00:06:15 system of tantric yoga as described in the series of books edited by W. Evans Wentz.
00:06:23 I soon realized that the modern European magus Franz Barden and the British magician Alistair
00:06:31 Crowley had both incorporated Eastern yoga techniques into Western magic, but they had
00:06:38 both stopped short of adapting the most important Eastern yoga system to Western practice, that
00:06:45 of the straight line spinal chakra system.
00:06:49 Neither Barden nor Crowley could overcome the differences between this Indian tantric
00:06:55 configuration and the three-pillared Western tree of life, even though the ancient caduceus
00:07:01 of Hermes was a major clue, along with the Renaissance Hermetic mystic Johann Gitchell's
00:07:08 drawing of a Western Hermetic chakra arrangement back in 1696. And the lightning flash or flaming
00:07:16 sword on the tree of life itself is also an obvious clue.
00:07:22 But we still should not fault Barden and Crowley over much for failing to realize and develop
00:07:28 this vital secret, because in the latter half of the 20th century, after Barden and Crowley
00:07:35 had both died, Tibetan exiles began to teach selected Western students the inner secrets
00:07:43 of their magic.
00:07:44 Now, those of us who were fortunate enough to sit at the feet of Tibetan gurus and learn
00:07:50 their tantras first-hand soon discovered that there were different chakra systems for each
00:07:57 deity we invoked. The previous notion that all Eastern chakra arrangements were the same
00:08:04 and had been that way for thousands of years was just simply not true.
00:08:10 Along with this revelation, it is equally important to note that magical color is what
00:08:16 we actively impose upon the inner planes, not what we passively observe when we scry.
00:08:25 Therefore, our chakras can conform to our own Kabbalistic color scales.
00:08:32 In our case, my year of study and practice with the Sakya Order of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism,
00:08:38 under the tutelage of the late Lüding Ken Rinpoche, confirmed for me the validity of
00:08:46 this Western Kabbalistic chakra system we had first developed in 1975 and published
00:08:55 back in 1977. We have since gone on to perfect a master ritual in which all our ancient pantheon
00:09:04 of Phoenician gods indwell in the Kabbalistic spheres within the body of the magician.
00:09:12 Within the mystic rose and fire opal jewel of Hod, we enter the alchemical laboratory
00:09:21 of Kothar, the ancient Phoenician predecessor of Tubal-Kain.
00:09:29 Within the mystic rose, an emerald jewel of Netzach, we come into the presence of the
00:09:36 goddess Astarte, adorned with all the jewels of the Hermetic cosmos.
00:09:44 I cannot overemphasize the importance of this development. This Kabbalistic chakra arrangement
00:09:50 is certainly a significant advance in Western magic. It goes far beyond the Golden Dawn's
00:09:58 middle pillar exercise, providing inner wellsprings of power for every magical operation, for
00:10:06 the creation of the body of light, and for the ultimate mystical experience of merger
00:10:13 with the Godhead. At present, we are the only esoteric group in the Western world employing
00:10:21 and teaching this system.
00:10:28 [Music]
00:10:52 There are other ways of entering this hidden magical universe. Following the Hermetic principle
00:11:00 of "as above, so below; as within, so without," we have again combined the best of Western
00:11:09 and Eastern methods in our path-working system. Some people might call this technique "astral
00:11:16 projection." We prefer the term "inner plane projection." In 1971, our late friend
00:11:23 Frater Apollonius, known in the outer world as John Brooks, a former student of Sikhsant
00:11:28 guru Kripal Singh, conducted us on a hypnotic journey into a magical realm of surpassing
00:11:35 wonders and deep wisdom. The key element of this path-working system is its symbolic attention
00:11:43 points, guideposts along the way from which the traveler receives special knowledge for
00:11:51 himself or herself alone. This transforms what might otherwise be only a deep trance
00:11:59 reverie into a true initiation.
00:12:04 We cabalized Kripal Singh's Eastern cosmos, and we added the Golden Dawn's own Eastern
00:12:11 import, the elemental tatwa symbols, as doorways in the center of our great dark mirror.
00:12:22 Come with us now as we venture along the 32nd path on our journey to the sphere of Yasod,
00:12:30 the storehouse of memories, and the entrance to the astral plane. The mirror is suspended
00:12:37 in space and time. From within our temple, it opens out upon the vast darkness of the
00:12:45 universe. It is a portal between dimensions, the gateway to realms beyond.
00:12:53 Temple path-workings are usually done inside the magic circle, with the participants lying
00:13:00 in a ground star configuration on their backs, heads together, looking up into a suspended,
00:13:08 circular, convex dark mirror. The appropriate tatwa symbol, in this case Parvati representing
00:13:16 the earth element, is placed in the center of the great mirror. The mirror, suspended
00:13:21 waist high, also serves as an altar top on which will be placed the symbols relating
00:13:28 to the path and the sphere of the working. After a hypnotic induction, which renders
00:13:34 the physical body inert, the living spirit body is released from the dormant physical
00:13:40 form and flies up through the tatwa, which serves as an astral doorway leading to the
00:13:48 inner realms of the Olam Yetzirah.
00:14:06 On the highest point of the ridge line, silhouetted against the glow of the Milky Way, we see
00:14:14 the great T-shaped stone dolmen. It stands stark black against the heavenly river of
00:14:22 souls. We climb the trail along the ridge crest. It becomes steeper and more precarious
00:14:29 as we make our way upward. Finally, we reach the top and we stand at the base of the dolmen.
00:14:37 A cool sea breeze touches our faces. We look down to a desolate shore and out over a vast
00:14:45 knighted seascape. This is the Gulf of Nepesh, that ever-dark sea of forgotten dreams and
00:14:53 ancient remembrance. The moon is hiding behind a veil of cloud, shrouding the sea of mystery
00:15:00 and darkness. We examine the ancient stone dolmen. It is 12 feet high and roughly chiseled
00:15:07 from coarse black stone. The six-foot-long cross member on the top forms the T. There
00:15:14 are forged bronze rings set near the ends of the cross. On the upright member, there
00:15:20 are hand and toe holds and a ledge to stand on. We realize that this dolmen must have
00:15:27 been used by shamans of old in a vision quest rite of self-crucifixion and that we are now
00:15:35 here for that purpose ourselves. Each of us, in turn, will climb up upon this great Tao
00:15:43 cross. Now it's your turn and you climb up to stand on the ledge. Carefully, you move
00:15:52 around to face outward. You stretch out your arms in the sign of Osiris and you grasp the
00:15:59 bronze rings. The moon emerges from behind the clouds and bathes the vast seascape beyond
00:16:08 in a pale silver light. You have a panoramic view of the shoreline and the gulf. A thousand
00:16:16 yards out beyond the surf, a great statue rises out of the dark waters. This is the
00:16:25 Colossus of Yassod. Far out on the dark horizon to your left, an orange light flashes from
00:16:33 the distant sphere of Hod. And far off to the right, a green spark glimmers from the
00:16:41 sphere of Netsak. These distant beacons focus their rays on the crystal atop the Colossus.
00:16:50 The crystal shimmers with an electric aura and suddenly a deep blue ray is projected
00:16:58 directly towards you. It engulfs you in a violet blue field of magnetic energy. Your
00:17:06 Yassod chakra is awakened. A rose of nine yellow petals has opened to reveal a glittering
00:17:16 violet amethyst. You have thus received the second of the jewels with which you will build
00:17:23 your body of light. Remember it always and treasure it well. After we have received our
00:17:30 mystical empowerment, we will journey out over the dark gulf to climb the spiral ramp
00:17:37 circling the Colossus. We will enter the crystal globe of memory and relive one of our past
00:17:44 lives. Following this experience, we will return along our path to the astral doorway
00:17:50 that leads us back through the dark mirror and into the temple where we will awaken from
00:17:57 our hypnotic trance, recalling our adventure and the knowledge we have gained.
00:18:15 For the magician, his religion is the source of his power. He calls upon God or the gods
00:18:22 to aid him in his quest for wisdom, inner strength and enlightenment. But what is the
00:18:30 best religion for a magician? Most of us have been raised in one or another of the biblically
00:18:36 based faiths, none of which are supportive of the practice of magic. And yet old King
00:18:44 Solomon was deemed to have been the greatest magician of the ages. What was his religion?
00:18:53 Judaism? Well, officially perhaps. But I believe that King Solomon's secret religion was the
00:19:03 same as Melchizedek's a thousand years earlier. The ancient religion behind the Bible, the
00:19:12 oldest religion, the religion of ancient Canaan and Phoenicia, the religion of King Solomon's
00:19:20 friend King Hiram of Tyre, who helped him to build the great temple in Jerusalem, the
00:19:27 temple to God. But how did they spell God's name? With such a vision shining out of the
00:19:36 mists of time, there came a compulsion to resurrect this ancient magical religion.
00:19:48 Before the 1930s discovery of an ancient Canaanite royal library unearthed at Rashomra, dating
00:19:55 back to the time of Melchizedek, we had no clear idea of the original magical religion
00:20:02 that lay behind our Bible. The Bible relates that the legendary Canaanite priest-king Melchizedek
00:20:09 had given the holy sacraments and priestly dispensation to Father Abraham. And in the
00:20:15 New Testament, Jesus is said to have been a priest after the order of Melchizedek. Beyond
00:20:22 that, we had only the biased accounts of later Hebrew zealots in the Old Testament and equally
00:20:29 critical Christian reports from classical times concerning the oldest religion. Before
00:20:34 the translations of the recently discovered Rashomra tablets became available in the 1950s,
00:20:42 our limited knowledge of the ancient Phoenician mysteries was summed up in such works as James
00:20:48 George Frazer's The Golden Bough and Jesse Weston's From Ritual to Romance.
00:20:55 Back in 1969, through the magical medium of the dark mirror, I had contacted the ancient
00:21:02 Phoenician goddess Astarte and her consort Prince Baal. I knew that Astarte was the muse
00:21:09 of old King Solomon and the inspiration behind his reputation as the greatest magician of
00:21:15 the ages. She had inspired him to build a temple for her and she had inspired us to
00:21:22 recreate her religion. Ours was not the first recreation of an ancient
00:21:27 pagan seasonal ritual cycle. We were fortunate to have the example of Frederick Adams and
00:21:34 Lady Svetlana's Ferraferia to guide us. Their poetic and mystical modern recension
00:21:40 of the ancient Greek Iliucinian mystery festivals marked the beginning of the neo-pagan movement
00:21:46 in modern America. We began our yearly seasonal rites, performed
00:21:51 on the solstices and equinoxes, back in 1974. We have performed them four times yearly ever
00:21:59 since. Let us return now to 1974 at Montsouvat Hermitage
00:22:05 in Pasadena, California, when we enacted our first autumn equinox pageant, the Festival
00:22:12 of Seven Gates, in which the goddess Astarte descends through seven celestial portals to
00:22:19 vanquish Mot, the lord of darkness and death, and resurrect the dead Prince Baal.
00:22:25 The actual ceremony was performed at night. What you are watching was a reenactment for
00:22:30 the camera filmed in daylight. And though it lacks the drama and mystery
00:22:35 of a torchlight performance, we are fortunate to have captured the late pagan elder Joseph
00:22:41 Wilson, our Frederick de Jute, and our honored guests, Frederick Adams and Lady Svetlana
00:22:48 of Ferroferia. There is more to the symbolism of this ancient
00:22:53 seasonal cycle than mere modernization of a Bronze Age agricultural mythology.
00:22:59 We are actually dramatizing the primal operations of Hermetic alchemy.
00:23:04 In autumn, the goddess bears the life-giving grail down from the Holy Mountain through
00:23:09 the seven gates of the underworld to resurrect the dormant fertility god Baal.
00:23:15 This is the origin of the legend of Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils.
00:23:20 Baal's thirst is quenched and he is revived in the western quadrant of water under the
00:23:26 sign of Mercury, representing the alchemical process of solution.
00:23:31 In winter, the world is threatened by storms and floods brought on by the dragon of chaos.
00:23:38 Alone, Prince Baal cannot defeat the dragon. He shares his victory with the moon goddess
00:23:43 Anit at winter solstice in the northern quadrant of earth under the sign of salt, representing
00:23:50 the alchemical process of separation. In spring, Baal and Astarte are united in
00:23:57 the joyous rite of Hieros Gamos, or sacred marriage, at the equinox, which culminates
00:24:03 in our communion of the elements ceremony in the eastern quadrant of air under the sign
00:24:08 of spirit, representing the alchemical process of conjunction.
00:24:13 In summer, Prince Baal, the green man, is killed by the dark lord when the sun reaches
00:24:19 its height at summer solstice. Then the crops wither and die on the southern
00:24:25 quadrant of fire under the sign of sulfur, representing the alchemical process of calcination.
00:24:32 And now, it is the eve of the summer solstice, and you have been invited to Rivendell to
00:24:39 participate in a magical adventure, the ancient rite of Adonia, the death of the year king.
00:24:50 Welcome friends. Follow me across the bridge and into the world
00:24:57 of magic. Come and dance the circle round, the sun is
00:25:14 high again. Hail the green man's yearly gift, ripening
00:25:19 the grain. Baal's the one, Baal the dark, Baal's the
00:25:23 one, Baal the dark. Lead us to the sacred ground, the summer has
00:25:31 begun. Call the year king with his grail to serve
00:25:35 us everyone. Baal's the one, Baal the dark, Baal's the
00:25:40 one, Baal the dark. Wind the circle round the hedge in the solstice
00:25:49 rite, sing the hymn of olden time, praise the lord of light.
00:25:53 Baal's the one, Baal the dark, Baal's the one, Baal the dark, Baal's the one, Baal the dark.
00:26:02 Come and dance the circle round, the sun is high again.
00:26:06 Hail the green man's yearly gift, ripening the grain.
00:26:10 Paul the Vine, Paul the Vine, Paul the Vine, Paul the Vine, Paul the Vine, Paul the Vine, Paul the Vine!
00:26:18 Lead us to the sacred ground, the Summer has begun.
00:26:22 Call the year-king with his grail to serve us every one.
00:26:26 Paul the Vine, Paul the Vine, Paul the Vine, Paul the Vine, Paul the Vine, Paul the Vine!
00:26:34 Wind the circle round the henge in the solstice rite.
00:26:39 Sing the hymn of olden times,
00:26:41 praise the Lord of light!
00:26:42 "Falls the Vine! Fall the Vine!"
00:26:50 Come and dance the circle round,
00:26:52 the sun is high again.
00:26:54 Hail the Green Man's yearly gift,
00:26:57 ripening the grain.
00:26:59 "Falls the Vine! Fall the Vine!"
00:27:06 Lead us to the Sacred Ground,
00:27:08 the summer has begun.
00:27:10 Call the Year King with his grail,
00:27:12 to serve us every one.
00:27:14 "Falls the Vine!"
00:27:20 Edonia, the festival of the summer solstice.
00:27:25 The drama depicts the death of the Year King
00:27:28 at the hand of the Dark Lord,
00:27:31 opening the season of heat and dryness
00:27:34 in the southern quadrant of the magical circle,
00:27:40 which is ruled by the principle of fire
00:27:42 and the philosophical element of sulfur,
00:27:45 symbolizing caracination,
00:27:48 the first of the four primal operations of alchemy,
00:27:52 and accomplishing the purification of the spirit
00:27:55 through sacrifice.
00:27:59 Harken now unto the myth of the sacred year,
00:28:02 with the coming of the summer solstice,
00:28:05 when the blazing torch of the gods reaches highest in the heavens,
00:28:09 and the fruits ripen on the vine.
00:28:13 Lo, Prince Baal is at the zenith of his power.
00:28:19 Like the gentle rains and the warming sun
00:28:22 that cover the hills with green,
00:28:24 the Prince of Earth brings the blessing of heaven,
00:28:29 the golden seminal sacrament of life,
00:28:32 unto the celebrants of his ancient rites.
00:28:35 And such is the mystery of the Holy Grail.
00:28:41 But that star-born crater was not filled with the wine of blood or death,
00:28:46 but rather with the nectar of life,
00:28:49 like unto the straw of the suralingam,
00:28:54 symbolized by golden honeymead
00:28:59 in the great chalice of the solstices.
00:29:03 So it was.
00:29:08 So it is.
00:29:13 So shall it be.
00:29:25 O youth of many names, receive our praise.
00:29:32 To you, O best beloved, we sing our lays.
00:29:38 With beauteous temporal orbs restored to sight,
00:29:45 and with birched fruits and summer flames delight.
00:29:54 [BELLS RINGING]
00:29:57 [SILENCE]
00:30:24 [CHANTING]
00:30:28 [CHANTING]
00:30:31 [CHANTING]
00:30:34 [CHANTING]
00:30:37 [CHANTING]
00:30:40 [CHANTING]
00:30:43 [CHANTING]
00:30:47 [CHANTING]
00:30:50 [CHANTING]
00:30:54 [CHANTING]
00:31:23 Before us.
00:31:24 [CHANTING]
00:31:32 Behind us.
00:31:44 [CHANTING]
00:31:47 [CHANTING]
00:31:51 At our right hand.
00:32:02 [CHANTING]
00:32:06 [CHANTING]
00:32:09 At our left hand.
00:32:20 [CHANTING]
00:32:24 [CHANTING]
00:32:36 For about us flame the blessed pentagrams.
00:32:40 And in our column shines the six-rayed star.
00:32:42 [CHANTING]
00:32:45 By the alchemy of calcination, darkness, fear, and woe be gone.
00:33:03 We light this fire of purification
00:33:06 in the mystic name of Sal-Om-An.
00:33:08 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:33:11 Holy Henge of Cycling Seasons.
00:33:35 [BELL RINGING]
00:33:38 [BELL RINGING]
00:33:41 Mighty Millstone of the Year.
00:33:49 [BELL RINGING]
00:33:52 Marks the longest day of summer.
00:34:01 [BELL RINGING]
00:34:04 [BELL RINGING]
00:34:08 And the golden sun we now revere.
00:34:16 [BELL RINGING]
00:34:20 [BELL RINGING]
00:34:23 Tree-born Lord in leafy arraignment,
00:34:46 sired by golden solar ray.
00:34:49 Thee we invoke with scent of myrrh.
00:34:54 It holds Seneir a sacred way.
00:34:56 Come to us from far Afaka, spring and shrine and sacred tree,
00:35:09 where roses bloom by lofty cedars,
00:35:12 and a crimson river seeks the sea.
00:35:16 Come to us, Lord Bal-Cloud Rider, Rain-Cloud Rider,
00:35:21 Prince of Earth.
00:35:22 Pour for us the dew of heaven, holy
00:35:25 draw of life and worth.
00:35:28 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:35:32 [DRUMMING]
00:35:58 [CHANTING]
00:36:01 The golden dew of heaven, born of thunder clouds on high.
00:36:21 Drink with me, this life elixir.
00:36:27 Stead she round, till the cup be dry.
00:36:31 [CHANTING]
00:36:38 Who drinks with me?
00:36:56 We drink with thee.
00:36:57 Who drinks with me?
00:36:58 We drink with thee.
00:37:00 Who drinks with me?
00:37:01 We drink with thee.
00:37:03 Who drinks with me?
00:37:04 We drink with thee.
00:37:06 Then drink.
00:37:08 [CHANTING]
00:37:26 Who drinks with me?
00:37:27 We drink with thee.
00:37:29 Who drinks with me?
00:37:30 We drink with thee.
00:37:31 Then drink.
00:37:33 [CHANTING]
00:37:36 Who has had their drunk with me?
00:37:48 Drink.
00:37:50 [CHANTING]
00:37:53 Oh my god.
00:37:54 Oh my god.
00:37:55 Oh my god.
00:37:56 Oh my god.
00:37:57 Oh my god.
00:37:59 Well done, brother.
00:38:02 Well done.
00:38:03 And it is done.
00:38:09 Who dares to roll the drum of battle?
00:38:21 Who comes upon me from the north?
00:38:25 Who marches on me from the darkness?
00:38:29 I, Prince Baal, do call thee forth.
00:38:49 I am Moat, thy royal brother, prince of ruin, death and gloom.
00:38:56 Thou hast had thy fruitful season.
00:39:01 Now 'tis time to seek the tomb.
00:39:04 [LAUGHTER]
00:39:14 [SIGHS]
00:39:17 [LAUGHTER]
00:39:24 [LAUGHTER]
00:39:34 [LAUGHTER]
00:39:38 Now the crops will parch and wither.
00:39:55 Rivers, streams, and wells be dried.
00:39:59 [LAUGHTER]
00:40:04 I have laid my curse upon thee.
00:40:07 Drought and famine evermore.
00:40:11 Death and rot and disillusion is all thou hast in store.
00:40:18 [LAUGHTER]
00:40:30 Alas, alas, Prince Baal has fallen.
00:40:35 The curse of Moat is on the land.
00:40:38 Call we now on Theristarte.
00:40:41 Only she can stay his hand.
00:40:44 Queen of heaven, Theristarte, mistress of the evening star,
00:40:53 wave-born goddess, dove of morning,
00:40:57 hear us in thy land afar.
00:41:00 Come to us on white wings gliding.
00:41:03 Come to us on crested foam.
00:41:07 Bring to us your love supernal from your emerald-palaced home.
00:41:13 Hear our call, oh Theristarte, consort of our dead Prince Baal.
00:41:21 Lift the curse of Moat upon us.
00:41:24 Shield us from the fires of Saul.
00:41:28 Grace the land with milk and honey.
00:41:31 Save the seedlings in the earth.
00:41:35 Grant us hope for all the future.
00:41:38 Give us life and love and birth.
00:41:44 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:41:48 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:41:52 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
00:41:56 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:42:25 I have heard thy call, my children,
00:42:27 but at last you cried too late.
00:42:31 Here I weep in mourning with you that my lover's yearly fate.
00:42:36 With him goes the bloom of springtime.
00:42:38 With him pass the gentle rains.
00:42:41 He alone could fruit the hillside.
00:42:42 He alone could green the plains.
00:42:45 Yet am I still queen eternal, star-born daughter
00:42:48 of the great El?
00:42:50 Seedlings slumber, yearlings prosper
00:42:52 under my protecting spell.
00:42:54 In the autumn I do pledge ye war to make the dark lord yield.
00:42:59 Armed with stock and stone to grind him,
00:43:01 I shall cast Moat to the field.
00:43:03 Bearing with me heaven's nectar, I
00:43:05 shall raise the dead Prince Baal to regain again
00:43:08 in winter season with the waxing rays of soul.
00:43:13 Come ye now, mourn him with me.
00:43:16 Burn away the blood-borne rose.
00:43:18 Purify the soul in sadness.
00:43:21 Shed the tears of she who knows.
00:43:24 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:43:28 Each rose is the blood of the year, king.
00:43:45 Burn it, and thy sorrows be forgot.
00:43:50 These waters are the tears of the goddess.
00:43:52 Shed them, and thy sadness will pass.
00:43:54 Each rose is the blood of the year, king.
00:44:07 Burn it, and thy sorrows be forgot.
00:44:09 These waters are the tears of the goddess.
00:44:14 Shed them, and thy sadness will pass.
00:44:16 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:44:19 Each rose is the blood of the year, king.
00:44:27 Burn it, and thy sorrows be forgot.
00:44:29 These waters are the tears of the goddess.
00:44:35 Shed them, and thy sadness will pass.
00:44:37 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:44:40 Each rose is the blood of the year, king.
00:44:54 Burn it, and thy sorrows be forgot.
00:44:57 Each rose is the blood of the year, king.
00:45:00 Burn it, and thy sorrows be forgot.
00:45:03 Each rose is the blood of the year, king.
00:45:05 Burn it, and thy sorrows be forgot.
00:45:08 These waters are the tears of the goddess.
00:45:10 Shed them, and thy sadness will pass.
00:45:12 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:45:16 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
00:45:32 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
00:45:35 [NON-ENGLISH CHANTING]
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00:46:27 Who drinks with me?
00:46:33 When I researched the ancient Canaanite tablets
00:46:41 discovered at Ugarit, and not translated
00:46:44 until after World War II, I made an amazing discovery.
00:46:50 Prince Baal was said to have filled a great holy goblet
00:46:55 with 10,000 pitchers of wine.
00:46:58 This supported anthropologist Jesse Weston's earlier 1920
00:47:04 Phoenician origin theory for the Holy Grail in her book
00:47:08 From Ritual to Romance.
00:47:10 The Holy Grail and the other grail halos
00:47:15 are far older than Christianity.
00:47:18 Older even than Moses.
00:47:21 They go back to the days of Melchizedek.
00:47:24 These sacred objects, which are the four elemental weapons,
00:47:28 the suits of the tarot, and the implements of the magus,
00:47:32 are the living heart of our magical religion.
00:47:35 They are the instruments of our art,
00:47:37 the holy implements of our transformation.
00:47:40 And they are central to our most solemn and sacred
00:47:43 Eucharistic rite of seven sacraments,
00:47:47 the most ancient communion of the elements.
00:47:49 It is well known that the four grail halos, being the sword,
00:48:00 the lance, the chalice, and the shield or platter,
00:48:03 are symbolic of the four philosophical elements of air,
00:48:07 fire, water, and earth, which in turn represent
00:48:11 the four suits of the tarot.
00:48:14 What is not so well known is that these symbolic weapons
00:48:17 and implements and their use in sacred ritual
00:48:21 predate the Judeo-Christian tradition.
00:48:25 Recall that the Canaanite priest king Melchizedek
00:48:28 gave the sacraments to Abraham 1,000 years before Moses
00:48:33 and 2,000 years before the beginning of Christianity.
00:48:37 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
00:48:41 I shall fear no evil.
00:48:43 Thou art with me.
00:48:45 Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
00:48:49 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.
00:48:54 Thou anointest my head with oil.
00:48:57 My cup runneth over.
00:48:59 Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me
00:49:02 all the days of my life.
00:49:05 And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
00:49:09 You are watching a communion service filmed
00:49:12 in our Montsouvat Temple back in 1974.
00:49:16 In this version of the rite, the magic circle
00:49:19 is raised up to be a serving table,
00:49:22 and the priestess and the priest officiate from within,
00:49:27 while the celebrants circle to receive the sacraments.
00:49:32 In this most ancient version of the Eucharist,
00:49:35 the chalice is filled with the life-giving essence
00:49:38 of fermented honey, rather than the blood and death
00:49:42 surrogate of wine.
00:49:44 In the Hermetic tradition, we also sanctify and share
00:49:48 the aerial incense, the fire, and the bread and salt
00:49:52 of the earth.
00:49:53 And finally, we anoint the celebrant with holy oil
00:49:57 and bestow the kiss of agape, representing
00:50:01 the infusion of spirit, the fifth element, which quickens
00:50:05 and enlivens the other four.
00:50:08 Thus, seven sacraments are blessed and administered.
00:50:13 There are two great mysteries and magics
00:50:15 attendant to this rite.
00:50:17 The first is the personal transubstantiation
00:50:20 of the Eucharist itself, an internal alchemy made
00:50:24 more meaningful with the ingestion
00:50:26 of a seminal sacrament, which relates
00:50:28 to the second great mystery of the holy shrine itself,
00:50:32 within which the true configuration of the cherubim
00:50:36 in the Holy of Holies is revealed.
00:50:38 For was it not written in the Sefer HaZohar
00:50:41 that in the temple, hidden and concealed
00:50:44 is the secret of the Holy of Holies, which
00:50:47 are the two cherubs of Zaire-an-Pin and Malkuth.
00:50:51 The Holy of Holies above is the secret
00:50:53 of the Supernal Hokmah and Binah, similarly,
00:50:57 the groom and the bride.
00:51:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:51:02 In recent years, our high communion
00:51:26 has been presented in total silence
00:51:29 with spiritual music in the background.
00:51:32 The symbolic gestures of our acolytes, our deacon,
00:51:35 and our priest and priestess are more eloquent and evocative
00:51:39 than words.
00:51:40 The deacon gives the charge and opens the temple
00:51:43 with a pentagram ritual.
00:51:44 The acolytes then enter in procession,
00:51:47 carrying with them the grail hallows,
00:51:50 and they venerate the elements.
00:51:52 The priestess and priest open the shrine
00:51:54 to reveal the ultimate mystery and then administer
00:51:58 the sacraments to the celebrants.
00:52:00 Now, let us observe the rite as it was recently
00:52:04 performed for our Southern California magical community.
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01:04:15 One of the most remarkable events in the history of Western magic
01:04:22 occurred during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
01:04:26 The most brilliant scholar of Renaissance England
01:04:30 was Dr. John Dee.
01:04:32 But Dr. John Dee was also
01:04:36 a secret agent for the crown,
01:04:39 the Queen's royal astrologer,
01:04:41 and a ceremonial magician.
01:04:44 For five years, Dee and his scryer, Edward Kelly,
01:04:49 invoked a number of mysterious angels
01:04:53 who gave them a secret magical language
01:04:57 and a complex system of invocation.
01:05:00 This angelic language was called Enochian
01:05:04 after the biblical prophet Enoch.
01:05:07 And it was cryptically displayed on tablets
01:05:11 said to be the watchtowers of the universe.
01:05:15 This Enochian system of magic
01:05:18 was partially published in 1659
01:05:21 in a remarkable book called
01:05:24 A True and Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Years
01:05:29 Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits,
01:05:32 tending, had it succeeded, to a general alteration
01:05:37 of most states and kingdoms in the world.
01:05:39 Now in today's New Age terminology,
01:05:42 the magical process detailed in this book
01:05:45 would be called channeling.
01:05:47 But this 16th century Enochian revelation
01:05:50 was far more phenomenal and profound
01:05:53 than the later 19th century accounts of Summerland
01:05:58 given by spiritualist mediums
01:06:01 and the more recent extraterrestrial teachings
01:06:04 of the New Age channelers.
01:06:07 Neither can Enochian speech be likened
01:06:09 to the glossolalia of hysterical fundamentalists
01:06:12 speaking in tongues.
01:06:15 This Enochian language actually has a syntax and a grammar.
01:06:19 It can be spoken, translated, and understood
01:06:23 by both disembodied spirits
01:06:26 and by the magicians who summon them.
01:06:29 These Enochian calls were so powerful
01:06:32 that they were originally delivered backwards
01:06:34 and in reverse order.
01:06:36 Only then, after they had been transcribed,
01:06:40 could they actually be understood.
01:06:43 Dr. Dee and Edward Kelly spent thousands of hours
01:06:48 over several years gathering and meticulously recording
01:06:52 this information from the spiritual entities
01:06:55 they had contacted.
01:06:57 Although the Enochian spirits claimed to be angels,
01:07:01 they were often wrathful, capricious, and even amoral.
01:07:06 But they were certainly biblical.
01:07:09 They rumbled and thundered in the apocalyptic style
01:07:13 of the book of Daniel and the book of Revelation.
01:07:16 If the later 18th century mystic poet and artist
01:07:19 William Blake had lived and died
01:07:22 before Dee and Kelly began their work,
01:07:25 one might even have suspected it was the ghost of Blake
01:07:28 they had raised, because both expressions of mysticism
01:07:32 are similar in content and implication.
01:07:36 There are several systems of Enochian magic.
01:07:40 The one we employ is the ascension of the 30 aethers.
01:07:44 This derives from an early Gnostic cosmology
01:07:48 of 30 aeons, which are spiritually explored
01:07:52 in an ascending soul quest toward enlightenment,
01:07:56 an earthly presage of the soul's ascent after death.
01:08:00 The aether system uses the four elemental tablets
01:08:04 called watchtowers of the universe
01:08:07 and a smaller fifth tablet suspended above the altar.
01:08:12 This spiritual tablet of union unifies the four tablets
01:08:16 at the quarters of the magical circle.
01:08:19 In our configuration, a 150 millimeter
01:08:23 amethystine scrying orb is mounted above
01:08:27 the Enochian sigil of emeth, or seal of God,
01:08:31 upon the altar.
01:08:33 The first stage of an Enochian ritual
01:08:36 is the opening and charging of the tablets.
01:08:40 This is called a watchtower opening.
01:08:43 It is actually a variation of the Golden Dawn's
01:08:46 greater pentagram ritual.
01:08:49 [singing]
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01:09:04 I have power of Mikael,
01:09:27 and in the names and letters of the great southern quadrangle,
01:09:31 I invoke ye archangels of the watchtower of the south
01:09:35 and of fire.
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01:10:17 By the mercy of Gabrielle,
01:10:38 and in the names and letters of the great western quadrangle,
01:10:43 I invoke ye archangels of the watchtower of the west
01:10:48 and of water.
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01:10:58 [singing]
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01:11:36 By the grace of Raphael,
01:11:54 and in the names and letters of the great eastern quadrangle,
01:11:59 I invoke ye archangels of the watchtower of the east
01:12:04 and of air.
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01:13:06 By the love of Auriel,
01:13:09 and in the names and letters of the great northern quadrangle,
01:13:13 I invoke ye archangels of the watchtower of the north
01:13:16 and of earth.
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01:14:11 By the power of Yadav,
01:14:37 and in the names and letters of the mystical tablet of union,
01:14:41 I invoke ye divine forces of the spirit of life
01:14:44 whose dwelling is in the invisible.
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01:15:32 Let the divine white brilliance descend.
01:15:36 [ding]
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01:16:33 When we say "hermetic science,"
01:16:42 one of the first things that comes to mind is alchemy,
01:16:46 the philosopher's stone,
01:16:49 the universal medicine,
01:16:51 the elixir of life.
01:16:54 Come along with us now on a fantastic journey
01:16:58 into the strange world of alchemical transformation
01:17:03 as we present our bonus feature,
01:17:06 "Masa Confusa," a short film by Eric Bozik.
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01:22:10 I think I'll stay with Viagra.
01:22:13 Don't try this at home.
01:22:16 In our two previous productions,
01:22:20 we explored Solomon's art of angelic invocation
01:22:24 and the evocation of spirits in the dark mirror.
01:22:27 In this production, we've introduced you to
01:22:30 hermetic yoga, path workings, seasonal ceremonies,
01:22:34 the magical Eucharist, Enochian watchtowers,
01:22:37 and the perils of alchemical experimentation.
01:22:41 Beyond this lies the vision quest for the Holy Guardian Angel
01:22:46 and the profound mysteries of celestial magic.
01:22:51 At this point, you might be wondering,
01:22:54 what magical tradition do we follow?
01:22:56 Do we derive from the Golden Dawn,
01:22:59 the Ordo Templi Orientis,
01:23:01 or some other hermetic resecution order?
01:23:04 No. The tradition we follow is 100 years older
01:23:09 than the Golden Dawn and the OTO.
01:23:12 Our initiations are based on the 18th century
01:23:15 European rite of Kratoropoa,
01:23:18 which was a faithful reconstruction
01:23:20 of the classical pagan initiatory rites
01:23:23 conducted in ancient Alexandria
01:23:25 in the first century of the Common Era.
01:23:28 We are of the ancient hermetic tradition.
01:23:32 Now, if you will give just a moment's attention
01:23:36 to Frater Namus, our director, Greg Jednak,
01:23:40 who played Prince Baal in our seasonal ceremony you just witnessed.
01:23:45 Greg will introduce you to our other videos and publications.
01:23:50 Originally, we released the instructional documentary
01:23:57 "The Magic of Solomon" in VHS format.
01:24:01 It is now available in an updated, extended DVD second edition.
01:24:07 This production dramatically demonstrates
01:24:10 Solomon's magical arts of angelic invocation
01:24:15 and the evocation of spirits in the dark mirror.
01:24:19 At the same time, we released the companion volume,
01:24:23 "The Book of Solomon's Magic,"
01:24:25 for students who wish to actually master
01:24:28 and practice Solomon's ancient art of magic.
01:24:32 We followed our first video with "The Dark Mirror of Magic" in VHS,
01:24:39 which recorded an actual magical operation
01:24:42 evoking a remarkable prophecy of world events
01:24:47 that afterwards came to pass.
01:24:50 This video has also been updated and extended
01:24:54 in a second edition DVD version.
01:24:58 We published "Secrets of the Golden Dawn" cipher manuscript
01:25:03 for students who want to learn the essentials of the Golden Dawn system
01:25:08 and "Seasonal Rites of Baal and Astarte,"
01:25:12 which contains the complete scripts, staging directions,
01:25:16 and commentary for all four of our seasonal ceremonies,
01:25:20 including the summer solstice rite you saw performed in this production.
01:25:25 And we have also published two volumes of our occasional journal, "The Seventh Ray."
01:25:31 The first issue contains the Golden Dawn's hitherto secret document, "Book H,"
01:25:37 from which their Enochian magic was derived.
01:25:40 The second issue features our 11th sphere, "Tree of Life,"
01:25:44 with three new tarot cards in full color.
01:25:48 These materials are all available from us through our website
01:25:53 or through major online distributors.
01:25:57 In parting, let me remind you that in your temple you are one with the gods.
01:26:06 Farewell and good magic.
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