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But Aleister Crowley regarded it as possessing great power ; he said its true form is abrahadabra.

According to Aleister Crowley's instructions for the A ∴ A ∴, the pentacle is a disc of wax, gold, silver-gilt or Electrum Magicum, eight inches diameter and half an inch thick ; the Neophyte should " by his understanding and ingenium devise a symbol to represent the Universe ", and engrave this on the disc.

Ronald Hutton, a scholar of neopaganism, argues that the concept of the triple moon goddess as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, each facet corresponding to a phase of the moon, is a modern creation of Robert Graves, drawing on the work of 19th and 20th century scholars such as especially Jane Harrison ; and also Margaret Murray, James Frazer, the other members of the " myth and ritual " school or Cambridge Ritualists, and the occultist and writer Aleister Crowley.

The term was considered by occultist Aleister Crowley to represent a unity of beginning and ending by tying together the first and last letters of the alphabets of antiquity ; A / Alpha / Alef ( first character of Latin, Greek & Hebrew ), Z ( final character in Latin ), O as Omega ( final character in Greek ) and Th as Tau ( final character in Hebrew ).

He was involved in the publishing of Aleister Crowley's Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law ( edited by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant ; 93 Publishing, 1974 ) and was a student of Marcelo Ramos Motta, who described him as " an ex-Probationer who failed to keep his Oath and perform his Task and was cut contact with as a result.

One of the likely models for Le Chiffre was the influential English occultist, astrologer, mystic and ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley, whose physical features are similar to Le Chiffre's ; his tastes, especially in sado-masochism, were also akin to those of Le Chiffre and, as Fleming biographer Henry Chancellor notes, " when Le Chiffre goes to work on Bond's testicles with a carpet-beater and a carving knife, the sinister figure of Aleister Crowley is there lurking in the background.

Frieda Harris ( born 1877 London, England ; died 11 May 1962 Srinagar, India ) was an artist, an occult magician, and, after she met him at age 60, an associate and friend of the author and occultist Aleister Crowley.

Crowley made many claims for the paranormal effects of magick ; however, as magicians and mystics had done before him and continue to do after him, Crowley dismissed such effects as useless:

According to Crowley in " Liber O ", success in this technique is signaled by physical exhaustion and " though only by the student himself is it perceived, when he hears the name of the God vehemently roared forth, as if by the concourse of ten thousand thunders ; and it should appear to him as if that Great Voice proceeded from the Universe, and not from himself.

( 2008 ) directed by John Crowley and starring Michael Caine, score composed by Joby Talbot ; It's a Boy Girl Thing ( 2006 ) directed by Nick Hurran, score composed by Christian Henson and has featured on TV soundtrack and themes tunes, most recently for Psychoville, composed by Joby Talbot and episodes of Wallander, composed by Ruth Barrett.

A few years later, developers brought a canal east from the Arkansas River, with ambitious plans to irrigate a million acres ( 4000 km² ) in Kansas ; instead, the canal petered out in Crowley County but did irrigate along its length.

* Ted Crowley, NHL professional hockey player ; grew up on Guggins Lane

Crowley is a city in Johnson and Tarrant counties in the U. S. state of Texas ; virtually all of the city is in Tarrant County, with only about. 01 sq mi in Johnson County.

bought nothing, and could only claim through the will, under which the copyrights would have to pass ; but if the rights were an asset in bankruptcy, then Crowley had lacked any power to make O. T. O.

* Robert T. Crowley ; Senior Vice President, Research Triangle Commerce, Inc. at investing. businessweek. com

This book, printed by Robert Crowley, was in Welsh and English ; as the title indicates, it was an attempt to justify Protestant doctrine in favour of a clerical marriage to the Welsh and English by establishing precedent for it in the " auncient law " of a Welsh king.

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The first, 40Engine, is with former vocalist Scott Reynolds ; another is an instrumental band named Slorder, and he also plays bass and drums with a guitarist named Jason Crowley under the name Crowley / Egerton.

Recordings of Crowley reading the First and Second Calls of the Aethyrs ( in both English and Enochian ) exist ; they were recorded as part of a series of wax cylinder recordings made by Crowley in 1922, and can be found on various compilations of these recordings onto CD which are widely available today.

* Monica Crowley, radio and television political commentator ; appears on Wednesdays with Colmes

The pip cards in the four suits ( Wands, Cups, Swords, and Disks ) depict their objects in carefully crafted positions ; for example, the Four of Swords ( which Crowley named " truce ") shows four swords with their points toward the center of an imaginary square, suggesting a possibly tense peace.

18-year-old Nancy is prompted to help the Crowley kin by her affection for Crowley's distant relative, little Judy, who's being raised by the elderly Turner sisters ; later, while she's looking for the Hoover sisters, she happens upon their farm during a downpour and shelters with them to dry off because her convertible top malfunctioned.

The members of the band are Anselmo ( under the pseudonym Anton Crowley ) on guitars, bass and drums ; Killjoy on vocals ; and Opal Enthroned ( Stephanie Opal Weinstein ) on keyboards.

Additional material includes an audio commentary ; interviews with director Friedkin, playwright / screenwriter Crowley, executive producer Dominick Dunne, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Tony Kushner, and two of the surviving cast members, Peter White and Laurence Luckinbill ; and a retrospective look at both the off Broadway 1968 play and 1970 film.

The doctrine was formulated in the second century in the first of the three senses given by Ramsey, originally as a response to Gnostic claims of having received secret teaching from Christ or the apostles ; it emphasised the public manner in which the apostles had passed on authentic teaching to those whom they entrusted with the care of the churches they founded and that these in turn had passed it on to their successors.

Meanwhile there is definite evidence of grimoires being used by certain, particularly Gnostic sects of early Christianity ; in the Book of Enoch found within the Dead Sea Scrolls for instance, there is various information on astrology and the angels.

This Gospel is considered by the majority of academics, including Christians and some Muslims ( such as Abbas el-Akkad ) to be late and pseudepigraphical ; however, some academics suggest that it may contain some remnants of an earlier apocryphal work ( perhaps Gnostic, Ebionite or Diatessaronic ), redacted to bring it more in line with Islamic doctrine.

Irenaeus, ( c. 130 – 202 ) in his Against Heresies ( 1: 25 ; 6 ) says scornfully of the Gnostic Carpocratians, " They also possess images, some of them painted, and others formed from different kinds of material ; while they maintain that a likeness of Christ was made by Pilate at that time when Jesus lived among them.

The purpose of " Against Heresies " was to refute the teachings of various Gnostic groups ; apparently, several Greek merchants had begun an oratorial campaign in Irenaeus ' bishopric, teaching that the material world was the accidental creation of an evil god, from which we are to escape by the pursuit of gnosis.

By comparison, according to the Gnostic view of Salvation, creation was perfect to begin with ; it did not need time to grow and mature.

Cerdo, another Gnostic and predecessor of Marcion, also lived at Rome in the reign of Hyginus ; by confessing his errors and recanting he succeeded in obtaining readmission into the bosom of the Church, but eventually he fell back into the heresies and was expelled from the Church.

It does not appear that the Oriental philosophy, or the earliest Gnostic systems, recognised any place higher than the eighth sphere ; and it is here that according to the account of Epiphanius ( Haer.

The Manicheans readily adopted the Gnostic usage ; and their archons are invariably evil beings.

This belief was in some ways similar to Gnostic Christian theology ; notably, both are dualistic, that is, they posit opposing gods, forces, or principles: one higher, spiritual, and " good ", and the other lower, material, and " evil " ( compare Manichaeism ), in contrast to the orthodox Christian view that " evil " has no independent existence, but is a privation or lack of " good ", a view shared by the eminent Jewish theologian Moses Maimonides.

It is only believed that their theories contain more Gnostic than Buddhist elements ; and in this connection it was probably not by mere accident that the founder of one of their sects, Abdullah Ibn Saba ( 652 ), was a Jewish apostate.

The Sibylline oracles are therefore a pastiche of Greek and Roman pagan mythology, employing motifs of Homer and Hesiod ; Judeo-Christian legends such as the Garden of Eden, Noah and the Tower of Babel ; Gnostic and early Christian homilies and eschatological writings ; thinly veiled references to historical figures such as Alexander the Great and Cleopatra, as well as many allusions to the events of the later Roman Empire, often portraying Rome in a negative light.

At one point, he falls in love with a female satyr-like creature who recounts to him the full Gnostic creation myth ; Gnosticism is a pervasive presence in another of Eco's novels, Foucault's Pendulum.

* Edward Conze, The Memoirs of a Modern Gnostic, Part 1 ; 1979

* Edward Conze, The Memoirs of a Modern Gnostic, Part 2 ; 1979

Mani's father Pātik ( Middle Persian Pattūg ; Greek Παττικιος, Arabic Futtuq ), a native of Ecbatana ( modern Hamadan, Iran ), was a member of the Jewish-Christian sect of the Elcesaites ( a subgroup of the Gnostic Ebionites ).

Such philosophical claims are similar to those found throughout the region at the beginnings of the Common Era, as evidenced by the many mystery cults of Mithras, Isis, Dionysus, and others active at the time ; the tradition continued through the Gnostic movements both Christian and non-Christian, and is still prevalent today among certain fundamentalist Muslim and Christian groups with a heavy emphasis on Holy Scripture.

* Urizen: reason, tradition ; a cruel god resembling the Gnostic Demiurge.

It should be noted, however, that Paterson Brown, on the Ecumenical Coptic Project website, has argued forcefully ( 1 ) that the text is evidently by Philip the Evangelist ( Acts 6: 5 ) rather than Philip the Apostle ; and ( 2 ) that the three Coptic Gospels of Thomas, Philip and Truth cannot be considered Gnostic writings or compilations, since they all three explicitly affirm the basic reality and sanctity of incarnate life, which Gnosticism by definition considers illusory and evil (' Are the Coptic Gospels Gnostic?

; Castille: The Spain of Théah is the stronghold of the Vaticine church ( more Gnostic than Catholic ) where the masked El Vago fights the injustice of the Inquisition.