by J H Brennan
Séance Kit
Seeress of Prevorst
Servants of the Light
Shamanism
Society for Psychical Research
Society of the Inner Light
Spirit Writings
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
StateUniversity.com
Stein, Walter Johannes
Way of Laughing
NOTES
INTRODUCTION
1. Rede des Reichsführer-SS im Dom zu Quedlinburg, no credited author (Berlin: Nordland Verlag, 1936).
2. See, for example, Heather Pringle’s interesting article, “Heinrich Himmler: The Nazi Leader’s Master Plan” at http://www.historynet.com/heinrich-himmler-the-nazi-leaders-master-plan.htm (accessed August 9, 2011).
3. Lynn H. Nicholas, Treasure Hunt, http://www.museum-security.org/quedlinburg-hoard.htm (accessed August 9, 2011).
4. J. H. Brennan, Occult Reich (London: Futura, 1974).
5. Heinz Höhne, The Order of the Death’s Head: The Story of Hitler’s SS, trans. Richard Barry (London: Classic Penguin, 2000).
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, The Morning of the Magicians, trans. Rollo Myers (London: Souvenir Press, 2007).
9. Ibid.
10. Psalm 96:5, Septuagint (LXX).
11. Exodus 12:23, KJV.
12. 1 Chronicles 21:1, KJV.
13. Numbers 22:22–35, KJV.
14. Job 1, KJV.
15. Luke 4:1–2, KJV.
16. Matthew 8:32, KJV.
1: FIRST CONTACT
1. Quoted from Everard F. Im Thurn’s 1883 account in Jeremy Narby and Francis Huxley (eds.), Shamans Through Time (London: Thames and Hudson, 2001).
2. Ibid.
3. From Thévet’s book, The Singularities of Antarctic France, as quoted in Narby and Huxley.
4. Ibid.
5. Quoted from de Oviedo’s 1535 account in Narby and Huxley.
6. From Gmelin’s four-volume account quoted in Narby and Huxley.
7. From Lafitau’s 1724 account quoted in Narby and Huxley.
8. See http://www.shamanism.org/ (accessed September 10, 2011).
9. Michael Harner, The Way of the Shaman (New York: HarperOne, 1990).
10. Ibid.
11. Mircea Eliade, “Shaman,” in Richard Cavendish, ed., Man, Myth & Magic (London: Purnell, 1970).
12. Ibid.
13. Bonnie Horrigan, “Shamanic Healing: We Are Not Alone—An Interview of Michael Harner,” Shamanism 10, no. 1 (1997).
14. James George Frazer, The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
15. S. G. F. Brandon, “Animism,” in Richard Cavendish, ed., Man, Myth & Magic (London: Purnell, 1970).
16. As quoted in Henri F. Ellenberger, The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry (New York: Basic Books, 1970).
17. David Leeming and Jake Page, God: Myths of the Male Divine (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
18. Jean Clottes, “Paleolithic Art in France,” the Bradshaw Foundation
2: COMMUNION WITH THE GODS
1. Named for the village of Al-Ubaid, where their remains were first discovered.
2. See “Sumer,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
3. Rudolf Steiner had a similar theory, postulating a time when the spirit world was more visible than it is today, but dated the beginning and end of this development quite differently from Jaynes.
4. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (London: Black Swan, 2007).
5. Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976).
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Father Joseph de Acosta, The Natural and Moral History of the Indies (London: Hakluyt Society, 1880).
11. Quoted in Jaynes, op. cit.
12. Ibid.
13. See http://www.blacksacademy.net/content/4791.html (accessed January 15, 2013).
14. Jaynes, op. cit.
15. H. W. F. Saggs, The Greatness That Was Babylon (New York: Mentor Books, 1962).
16. Quoted in Jaynes, op. cit.
17. Matthew 27:46, KJV.
18. “Heaven,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
3: THE EGYPTIAN EXPERIENCE
1. “Egypt, ancient,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
2. Jeremy Naydler, Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2005).
3. An aquatic flowering plant (family Araceae) native to central and western Africa.
4. For most people, their reflection undergoes profound changes when they gaze intently at it by the light of a single candle. For some, the changes are believed to show how they appeared in previous incarnations.
5. Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, Egyptian Magic, online edition at http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ema/index.htm (accessed September 15, 2011).
6. As a divinity himself, Pharaoh was believed to have the ear of his fellow gods.
7. Budge, Egyptian Magic.
8. The text on the stele relates it was the god himself who carried out the rite, but it seems more likely it was the priest Khonsu who did so, probably using the god’s statue.
9. “Middle Eastern religion,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
10. Budge, Egyptian Magic.
11. Ibid.
12. Bob Brier, Ancient Egyptian Magic (New York: Perennial, 2001).
13. http://www.pyramidtextsonline.com/translation.html (accessed September 20, 2011).
14. Naydler, op. cit.
15. Harner, op. cit.
16. http://www.pyramidtextsonline.com/translation.html (accessed September 20, 2011).
17. Harner, op. cit.
18. J. Assmann, “Death and Initiation,” in W. K. Simpson, ed., Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Egypt (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989).
19. Pyramid texts online, op. cit.
20. “Moses,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
21. Rabbinical tradition places the total at around six hundred thousand.
22. Louis Ginzberg, The Legends of the Jews, available at http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/loj/index.htm (accessed January 1, 2012).
23. Or possibly two. A Jewish tradition holds that Aaron, Moses’s brother, was abandoned with him in the ark.
24. The Egyptian Mose means “is born” and is the root of the Hebrew name Moshe anglicized to Moses. The form Tutmose, a popular name in ancient Egypt, translates as “[The god] Thoth is born.”
25. Ginzberg, op. cit.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Exodus 3:6, KJV.
29. Ginzberg, op. cit.
30. See page 108 of the present work.
31. Exodus 24:1–18, KJV.
32. “Moses,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
4: MYSTERIES OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME
2. Average air temperatures at Eleusis during September–October, when initiations were held, range from 24.2ºC to 19.5ºC (75.6ºF to 67.1ºF). In the later period when preliminaries took place in Athens during February–March, conditions were a little easier: candidates would only have had to endure temperatures in the range 10.6ºC to 12.3ºC (51.1ºF to 54.1ºF).
3. N. J. Richardson, “Eleusis,” in Richard Cavendish, ed., Man, Myth & Magic (London: Purnell, 1970).
4. One gift of the goddess was that air currents became visible to the recipient. I came across a remnant of this ancient belief in rural Ireland only a few years ago while chatting with a master thatcher. During a wide-ranging conversation, he remarked that “they say pigs can see the wind.”
5. See Richardson, op. cit.
6. Harold Rideout Willoughby, Pagan Regeneration: A Study of Mystery Initiations in the Graeco-Roman World (Charleston, SC: Forgotten Books, 2007).
7. Matthew Dillon, Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Ancient Greece (London: Routledge, 1997).
8. E. D. Phillips, “Healing Gods,” in Richard Cavendish, ed., Man, Myth & Magic (London: Purnell, 1970).
9. Or, in some sources, the fumes of barley, hemp, and bay leaves burned over an oil flame.
10. The picturesque description is from the Homeric Hymn to Apollo.
11. Livy, The Early History of Rome, trans. Aubrey De Sélincourt (London: Penguin Classics, 2002).
12. Robert Hughes, Rome (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2011).
13. A meteoric stone discovered in the Roman citadel is believed to have been used to cast the auspices for Numa’s succession to the throne following the death of Romulus.
14. Despite extensive investigation, I have been unable to determine what differentiates a sacred from a profane chicken. Multiple accounts of the practice suggest that to the Romans, chickens were chickens but became sacred automatically if used for divination.
15. “Augury,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
16. Ezekiel 1:1–28, KJV.
17. Today, by contrast, it denotes one of the most popular tanks in the Israeli army.
5: SPIRITS OF THE ORIENT
1. George Buhler, The Laws of Manu (Charleston, SC: BiblioLife, 2009).
2. Those listed in the ancient Bhagavata include bhutas (spirits of the dead), pramathas (mystic spirits), dakinis (female imps), pretas (ghosts), and kushmandas (demons), among many, many others. See http://bhagavata.org/downloads/bhagavata-compl.html (accessed January 9, 2012).
3. Louis Jacolliot, Occult Science in India, trans. William L. Felt (London: William Rider & Son, 1919).
4. Ibid.
5. “Fu Xi,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
6. See http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070402214930.htm (accessed October 19, 2011).
7. Quoted in Richard Wilhelm, The I Ching or Book of Changes (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969).
8. The mythologies of many other countries show variations of this theme, while the past fifty years have seen maverick scientists present evidence for the existence of an advanced prehistoric civilization with global cultural spread. For a fuller discussion, see my Atlantis Enigma (London: Piatkus Books, 1999).
9. Jou Tsung Hwa, The Tao of I Ching (Taiwan: Tai Chi Foundation, 1984).
10. C. G. Jung in his Foreword to the Wilhelm translation of the I Ching, op. cit.
11. William Seabrook, Witchcraft: Its Power in the World Today (London: White Lion, 1972).
12. Gary Lachman, Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung’s Life and Teachings (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2010).
13. Ibid.
14. For details of color and other associations with the five elements of Chinese occultism, see Ilza Veith, trans., The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1972).
15. J. H. Brennan, The Magical I Ching (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2000).
16. Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-’dzin-rgya-mtsho, Freedom in Exile: Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet (London: Abacus, 1998).
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
6: DARK AGE CONJURATIONS
1. William Eamon, Science and the Secrets of Nature (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996).
2. Ibid.
3. Ian Moyer, “Thessalos of Tralles and Cultural Exchange,” in Scott Noegel et al., eds., Prayer, Magic and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003).
4. 1 John 4:1, KJV.
5. Leviticus 19:31, KJV.
6. Leviticus 20:6, KJV.
7. 2 Kings 21:6, KJV.
8. 2 Kings 23:24, KJV.
9. Exodus 22:18, KJV.
10. 1 Samuel 28, KJV.
11. Luke 10:20, KJV.
12. Datura Stramonium, or “thorn apple,” is a highly toxic plant that, if it does not kill, can produce intoxication in which it is impossible to differentiate reality from fantasy. Historically, it has been used as a mystic sacrament in North America and Southern Asia, while in Europe its use is believed by some to explain the prevalence of stories about flying on broomsticks to Sabbat meetings.
13. Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1997).
14. S. L. MacGregor Mathers, The Key of Solomon the King (London: George Redway, 1889) revised by Joseph H. Peterson, 2005, and available at http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/ksol.htm#chap7 (accessed November 29, 2001).
15. Thomas, op. cit.
7: ROOTS OF ISLAM
1. Kurt Seligmann, Magic, Supernaturalism and Religion (St. Albans, UK: Paladin, 1975).
2. Martin Lings, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources (Santa Fe, NM: Inner Traditions, 1987).
3. Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti, The Name & the Named: The Divine Attributes of God (Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2000).
4. “Muhammad,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
5. Now the site of Islam’s greatest mosque, the Dome of the Rock.
8: THE VOICES AND THE MAID
1. http://joan-of-arc.org/joanofarc_biography.html (accessed December 13, 2011).
2. Ibid.
3. http://www.joan-of-arc.org/joanofarc_life_summary_visions.html (accessed December 14, 2011).
4. M. Lassois was named by Joan as an honorary uncle: he was in fact a more distant relative by marriage.
5. It was not unusual for women to travel in male garb at the time as a precaution against assault or rape. Transvestism was held to be a sin, but the Church routinely issued special dispensations in cases of necessity.
6. http://www.joan-of-arc.org/joanofarc_life_summary_chinon.html (accessed December 16, 2011).
7. http://www.joan-of-arc.org/joanofarc_poitiers_conclusion.html (accessed December 16, 2011).
8. “Joan of Arc, Saint,” Encyclopædia Britannica: Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011).
9. The demand was refused.
10. Charles VII proved less loyal to Joan. He made no attempt to save her at any point, probably because he was trying to reach an accommodation with the Duke of Burgundy.
9: THE EVOCATIONS OF NOSTRADAMUS
1. J. H. Brennan, Nostradamus: Visions of the Future (London: Thorsons, 1992).
2. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus (accessed December 2, 2011).
3. Quoted in James Laver, Nostradamus; or The Future Foretold (Maidstone, UK: George Mann, 1973).
4. Edgar Leoni, Nostradamus and His Prophecies (New York: Wing Books, n.d.; retitled reprint of Nostradamu
s, Life and Literature, 1961).
5. Ibid.
6. Laver, op. cit.
7. Alexander Wilder, trans., Theurgia or The Egyptian Mysteries by Iamblichus (London: Rider, 1911). Online edition edited by Joseph H. Peterson, 2000, available at http://www.esotericarchives.com/oracle/iambl_th.htm#chap4 (accessed December 2, 2011).
8. Quoted in Laver, op. cit. See also Joseph H. Peterson’s 2007 corrected transcription of De Daemonibus at http://www.esotericarchives.com/psellos/daemonibus.pdf (accessed December 2, 2011).
9. John Hogue, Nostradamus and the Millennium (London: Bloomsbury, 1987).
10: THE QUEEN’S CONJURER
1. Meric Casaubon, ed., A True and Faithful Relation of What Passed for many Yeers Between Dr John Dee and Some Spirits (London: T. Garthwait, 1659).
2. Benjamin Woolley, The Queen’s Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. Dee (London: HarperCollins, 2001).
3. Peter French, John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus (London: Routledge, 2002).
4. Ibid.
5. Woolley, op. cit.
6. Ibid.
7. French, op. cit.
8. See Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 2000).
9. Robert Mathiesen, “A Thirteenth Century Ritual to Attain the Beatific Vision from the Sworn Book of Honorius of Thebes,” in Claire Fanger, Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic (Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing, 1998).
10. Dee, op. cit.
11. Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1993).
12. French, op. cit.
13. Ibid.
14. Woolley, op. cit.
15. Quoted in Woolley.
16. Ibid.
17. Quoted in French.
18. Ibid.
19. Woolley, op. cit.
20. Thomas, op. cit.
11: ENLIGHTENMENT SPIRITS
1. Joseph H. Peterson, ed., The Lesser Key of Solomon (York Beach, ME: Weiser Books, 2001).
2. Stephen Skinner and David Rankine, The Goetia of Dr. Rudd: The Angels and Demons of Liber Malorum Spirituum Seu Goetia Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis (London: Golden Hoard Press, 2007).