The Book of Secrets: Esoteric Societies and Holy Orders, Luminaries and Seers, Symbols and Rituals, and the Key Concepts of Occult Sciences through the Ages and Around the World

By Daniel Pineda

From the unusual symbols on a one-dollar invoice to the key symptoms of the Knights Templar and Freemasons, invisible societies, and the area of magic and alchemy, The e-book of Secrets is a accomplished creation to the realm of mystery and esoteric wisdom all through heritage. It bargains a doorway into the initiated mystery traditions of the interesting unseen non secular global: its symbols, mystery societies, and seers. You’ll realize: Key thoughts: the nice paintings, the common strength, Polarity, the 4 components, Magick and Mysticism, Esoteric Anatomy, Qabalah, Alchemy, Astrology, the Astral aircraft, and extra. Symbolism: greater than a hundred secrets and techniques symbols, phrases, gadgets, together with their meanings and the key powers they invoke. mystery Societies and Holy Orders: The gatekeepers and the transmitters of sacred wisdom: Freemasons, O.T.O., Cathars, Templars, Assassins. Pineda areas all of them in background and geography and explains who they are/were and what they stood for. Luminaries and Seers: greater than two hundred legends and historic personages: Hermes Trismegistus, Jesus, Siddartha, Osiris, and different seers from the center a long time, the Renaissance, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Therefore it's attached to either the sunlight and saturnine myths. In historic Egypt, the pelican was once an emblem of the 4 tasks of a father towards his children—generation, schooling, elevating, and informing kids of the righteous existence via his instance. The pelican is linked to the Rose-Croix portion of the Scottish ceremony of Freemasonry. Phantoms and Ghosts what's regularly known as a ghost is, in line with the key culture, an astral remnant or shell that has no lifetime of its personal yet is as an alternative fed by means of the auras of the dwelling. Ghosts are identified to the Qabalists as Qliphoth, or shells, and to the japanese Shinto clergymen as hungry ghosts. The everlasting and divine spirit of the deceased doesn't remain within the astral airplane, the place ghosts and phantoms are encountered, yet strikes directly to different incarnations or nation-states of life. What we understand is the formless astral fluid of the decrease non secular international, taking the form of the departed. This form and its power appear from our personal minds. Phoenix The phoenix is a legendary firebird that represents rebirth. Its plumage and tail are of gold, scarlet, pink, and eco-friendly. each thousand years, it builds a nest for itself out of dry twigs and ignites it, burning itself to ashes. From these ashes arises a brand new phoenix, reborn from the fireplace. The starting place of this sacred chicken is related to be historic Heliopolis, the town of the solar. (see INRI) Ram The ram represents new beginnings and the speeding strength of fireplace. Aries, the signal of the ram, is the 1st signal of the zodiac. The ram is usually the lamb, despatched forth into the realm and stuck within the thicket, exchanging Isaac at the sacrificial altar. John the Baptist hailed Jesus because the Lamb of God, signaling to his fans new age was once handy via connecting him with the spring equinox, which happens in Aries. simply because the golden fleece of the winged ram Chrysomallos used to be held on an oak—a tree sacred to Ares, the Greek god of war—so was once John's "lamb" held on the pass, the 4 issues of which could characterize IHVH, the four-letter identify of the God of the Hebrews. The spirit, represented through the Hebrew letter Shin, additionally corresponds to fireplace or the revitalizing agent. The ram represents new existence. For while the ram or lamb is held on the sacred pole (the phallic image of the paternal, warring deity), now we have the union of the transcendental with the mundane. Salamanders The salamander is the religious creature of fireplace, swimming, respiring, and directing its ferocious power. Salamanders reign within the south, and bring the heat during which all issues dwell and develop. basically the best-prepared magicians have won their entire obedience, as salamanders are by way of nature tough to foretell or keep an eye on. in the event that they are prepared, philosophers may perhaps locate guide from the salamander concerning the fortification and strengthening of the desire. Scorpion The scorpion is a logo of loss of life and of toxins typically. The zodiac signal Scorpio is governed by way of Mars, a fiery planet. Scorpio is additionally the mounted signal of the component of Water. Its approach to conflict is as a result passiveaggressive and missing ardour, without honor or hope for glory.

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