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Aalu {Yaaru, Iaru, and Aaru} [Occult terms]
In Egyptian mythology, the word for Heaven, the Elysium, a place of ecstasy and delights where you go after dying, Paradise. . .
According to Egyptian lore, when a person died, the deceased expected to appear before Osiris, who would be sitting upon his throne, waiting to pass judgment on him or her. The departed would be led in by the jackal-headed god Anubis, in his role as psychopomp ('conductor of souls'), followed by the goddess Isis, the divine enchantress, representing life, and the goddess of the underworld, Nephthys, representing death. At the judgment hall there were also 42 divine judges, to assess the life of the one coming before them. The deceased would then be allowed to deny 42 misdeeds, one for each arbitrator. Thoth was the one prosecuting and recording the results.
Once the deceased had presented his or her case, Osiris indicated a large pair of balances, the Great Balance of Justice. The heart of the newly dead was then weighed on this balance against a feather from the headband of Maat — this was the Judging of the Heart, or the Weighing of the Heart.
The desirable outcome was that the heart and the feather should weigh exactly the same, and the beam of the Balance of Justice should be horizontal. If the heart proved to be "light in the scales," the soul was unfit to enter the House of Osiris. Anubis would then feed the heart to Ammit, who eagerly awaits for a bad verdict, and the person's soul would vanish into oblivion, with no hope of further existence. In those instances when the heart weighed the same as the feather, the deceased was permitted to proceed to the Fields of Aalu, the world where the gods lived.
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The god Apollo was the solar god of the heaven during the day, and the Lord of Death in the underworld at night. His latter form became the Jewish Apollyon, Spirit of the Pit (Revelation 9:11). Apollo-Python was the serpent deity in the Pit of the Delphi oracle who inspired the seeress with mystic vapors from his nether world. Abaton was the Greek word for Pit, which the Hebrews changed to Abaddon, which later became synonymous with the Christian hell.
Abaton, also called mundus or earth-womb, was a real pit, regularly placed under or in pagan temples. Those entering it wished to "incubate" or sleep there overnight in magical imitation of the incubatory sleep of the womb, to be visited by an "incubus" or spirit who brought prophet dreams. Novice priests endured longer periods of incubation to pantomime the experiences of death, burial, and rebirth from Mother Earth. Once initiated in this manor, they sought to gain the skill of oneiromancy.
Assyrian priests derived similar powers after a journey in the Pit. They then put on the priestly coat of many colors, signifying communion with the Goddess under her oneiromantic name of Nanshe. The identical burial-and-resurrection ritual is found in the lives of many ancient sages. One was the Pythagorean philosopher Thales of Miletus, said to be one of the Seven Wise Men of the ancient world, who acquired his intellectual skills through communion with the Goddess of Wisdom in an abaton. A.G.H.
A term used by the Basilideans, a Gnostic sect of the second century, designating the Supreme Being or god whom they worshipped. They believed that Jesus Christ emanated from Abraxas and was a phantom while here on earth. They believed the name contained great mysteries because it contained the seven Greek letters when computed numerically equaled the number 365, which is the number of days in the year. It was further believed that Abraxas commanded 365 gods, each possessing a virtue, so there was a virtue for each day of the year.
However, older mythologists place Abraxas among the Egyptian gods, while some demonologists cite him to be a demon with the head of a king and serpents forming his feet. He has been represented on amulets with a whip in his hand. The mystic word abracadabra was derived from his name. Many stones and gems were cut with his capricious symbolic markings, such as a human body having a fowl's or lion's heads, and snakes as limbs, which were worn by the Basilideans as amulets. Also, a favorite amulet bore the number 365.
Later Gnostic symbols were adopted by many societies devoted to magic and alchemy. It is most likely, therefore, that most abraxas stones that contained kabbalistic symbols made in the Middle Ages were talismans. A.G.H.
An individual who through serious study and accomplishments is considered highly
proficient in a particular magickal system. A person can be an adept at Egyptian magickal practices,
but a total failure at practical kitchen magick.
Agate is a rock composed of layers of quartz, sometimes of different colors. The composition of agate varies greatly, but silica is always predominant, usually with alumina and oxide of iron. The properties are supposedly to help harden gums and protect vision. (see Gem Healing)
A deity that was thought to be benevolent in Greek mythology. It was referred to as a "good spirit" of the vineyards and cornfields. According to Aristophanes these deities were honored by drinking a glass of wine to them after the meal. The deity was represented pictorially in the form of a serpent, or as a young man holding a horn of plenty, a bowl and ears of corn. Winged serpents also were venerated by the ancient Egyptians, Chinese and other peoples.
The Age of Aquarius is a predicted 2000-year era of worldwide change, enlightenment, intellectual achievement, love, peace and spirituality. Due to different methods of calculation used by different astrologers, its beginning is considered to be anywhere between 1904 and 2160. Some have suggested that the begining of the Age of Aquarius overlaps the ending of the preceding Age of Pisces, and cannot be clearly determined.
The Age of Aquarius concept was very popular during the social upheaval of the 1960's. It is sometimes considered synonymous with the term New Age.
Direction: East.
Rules: The mind, all mental, intuitive and psychic
work, knowledge, abstract learning, theory,
windswept hills, plains, windy beaches, high
mountain peaks, high towers, wind and breath.
Time: Dawn.
Season: Spring.
Colors: White, bright yellow, crimson, blue-white.
Zodiac: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius.
Tools: Athame, sword, censer.
Spirits: Sylphs, ruled by King Paralda.
Angel: Michael.
Wind: Eurus.
Sense: Smell.
Jewel: Topaz.
Incense: Galbanum.
Plants: Frankencense, myrrh, pansy, primrose, vervain,
violet, yarrow.
Tree: Aspen.
Animals: Birds.
Goddesses: Aradia, Arianrhod, Cardea, Nuit, Urania.
Gods: Enlil, Khephera, Mercury, Shu, Thoth.
The Fifth element, the omnipresent spiritual power that permeates the universe. It
is related to outer space, inner space, the unmanifest, and the life force.
the spiritual ether (or Aether); the omnipresent
fifth occult element which embraces the other four- earth,
air, fire, and water; and from which they stem. This is the
realm of "pattern" or causality, from which the realm the
normally thought of "five senses manifests. Some define it
is the "other" of the "two worlds" that the witch or
magician walks between.
In the early part of this century the famed psychic Edgar Cayce
brought to general society the thought form of Akashic records. Supposedly, there is a giant data
base somewhere that can be accessed for information on subjects such as past lives, healing, and
other magickal/spiritual practices. This record system cannot be accessed by material equipment,
such as PC networking with a larger computer. In this case, the mind of the psychic or
Witch accesses the data through Universal Connections.
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