"Two explanations have been given for the vagina dentata - both stress the incorporative rather than

castrating aspect of this figure. One approach interprets the vagina dentata as a symbolic expression of
the oral sadistic mother. This is the mother feared by both female and male infants who imagine that,
just as they derive pleasure from feeding/eating at the mother's breast, the mother might in turn desire
to feed on them. The 'Hansel and Gretel' fairy story illustrates this infantile fear through the figure of the
cannibalistic witch. The other explanation interprets the vagina dentata as an expression of the dyadic
mother; the all-encompassing maternal figure of the pre-Oedipal period who threatens symbolically to
engulf the infant, thus posing a threat of psychic obliteration. In both explanations, the image of the
toothed vagina, symbolic of the all-devouring woman, is related to the subject's infantile memories of its
early relation with the mother and the subsequent fear of its identity being swallowed up by the
mother. In horror films such as Psycho, Carrie, and Alien, fear of being swallowed up, of annihilation, is
linked directly to the mother."

-Barbara Creed

"Our eyes are our point of contact with others and our instrument of perception of the world. When we
have ocular armor, our vision can be skewed and distorted, and we misinterpret, feel more fear and
confusion, experience blurred vision at times, miss cues, and can create an entire world-view based on
unclear perception. Our eyes can look and feel dead; the light is muted. With ocular armoring, we can
feel closed down to others, have chronic trust issues, and become suspicious, hyper-vigilant, and
controlling. We may dominate others as a way to feel secure. In relationships, we have difficulty making
contact, creating space in our eyes for the other, and looking directly with an open and genuine
expression. These are some of the symptoms of an ocular block.

Our head can feel chronically stuffy, tense, and contracted, and we may experience painful headaches,
hot pain in the lower back of the head, or a tight skullcap over our entire cranium. Our forehead can be
constricted, and immobile, and we may lack fluidity of expression. We can appear to have a tight mask
on our forehead and eyes.

As we experience Orgonomic bodywork, our eyes can become light, lively, bright, and wide open again.
We can express the feelings of sadness, excitement, fear, and anger bound in our head, forehead, and
eyes. Through exercises that help the movement of the eyes, penetrating massage of the area, and
release of pent up feelings, our eyes can become clear and mobile. Then they become a vehicle for our
clarity and spirit, as the eyes are the “windows to the soul”."

-Dr. Patricia Frisch (blog post)

Wilhelm Reich, M.D., was born in Galicia, a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on March 24, 1897. He
died in Lewisburg Penitentiary on November 3, 1957. Reich was Freud’s most important pupil and
showed an unusual grasp of emotional problems and how to handle them. When he was still in his
twenties, he had already made many important discoveries in the understanding and treatment of the
neuroses. He insisted that medical orgonomy was the logical extension of Freud’s clinical findings and,
for a long time, considered that he was working in the realm of psychoanalysis even after Freud, who
greatly admired Reich’s ability and fresh ideas, could follow him no further and became upset over some
of his findings and theories. Reich’s technique became more active than the usual Freudian
psychoanalysis, emphasizing and keeping in the forefront the negative transference and also describing
the attitudes and expressions of the patient rather than using the typical analytic free association. He
could thus mobilize more motional response and produce faster cures. He called his technique character
analysis, since he was analyzing character defenses rather than dealing with symptoms...

...Reich noted, however, that, in our society, the child is not permitted to function naturally. Starting
from birth, the environment which greets the newborn is mostly unfriendly. It is cold compared to the
warm uterus, the baby is treated roughly, it is separated from the mother whom it continues to need for
warmth and contact, placed on regimented feedings, subjected to early toilet training, and blocked from
any sexual pleasure. The barrage of verbots requires the child to hold back his feelings and expressions,
which is accomplished by holding the breath and tightening the muscles of his body until finally he goes
through life with restricted breathing and a rigid body. Reich called this the armor...

...Through reactions of the body during the process of dissolving the armor, Reich discovered that the
body was functionally divided into seven muscular segments, each of which reacted as a unit and was to
a certain degree independent of the other segments. The seven segments are the ocular, oral, cervical,
thoracic, diaphragmatic, abdominal, and pelvic. They are usually freed in that order, except that the
chest is most often mobilized first so that it can be used to build up energy in the organism and provide
additional inner push to help in both revealing and removing other blocks. Any one segment may fail to
respond completely until further segments are freed. With each release of a segment, armoring in
earlier segments may recur and require further attention because the organism is not used to
movement and tries to return to its former immobility. It must be gradually accustomed to free mobility.

- Elsworth Baker

"Freud states in countless passages... that the ego is the result of the effect of the real outside world on
the instinctual organism, and is formed as a protection against irritation... The ego believes that ideas
which it has suppressed within itself and whose pressure it feels are in the outside world. That and
nothing else is projection... Freud was able to discover the true nature of hallucinations in the mentally
ill. The voices they hear are in fact only unconscious wishes or pangs of conscience, but that does not
make them objectively real."
-Wilhelm Reich

"It may be that the horror genre is more directly responsive to questions of sexual difference, more
willing to explore male and female anxieties about the 'other', than film texts which belong to
mainstream genres such as the detective, suspense thriller, comedy and romance films."

-Barbara Creed (The Monstrous Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis)

Lady Queenborough (Occult Theocracy - 1933)

"Among many other obscene and phallic witch-rites was the Black Mass, celebrated by a renegade priest
upon the naked body of the adept for whose benefit it was performed. It symbolized the perversion of
all the rites of the Catholic church. Black candles instead of white, inverted crosses, chalices containing
the blood of newborn infants sacrificed for ritual purposes, urine for holy water, all these were part of
the paraphernalia needed, according to historians, to propitiate the Prince of Darkness and his retinue
of minor Devils. Besides evocations, casting of spells and sex-orgies, devil worship entailed such inanities
as desecration of hosts stolen from catholic churches and the kissing of the Grand Master (devil) on the
tail.

"Only hosts consecrated in Roman Catholic churches could serve for Black Mass purposes as it was
essential, in order to achieve desecration, that the miracle of transubstantiation should have taken
place. The host had to actually to be, not merely represent, the body and blood of Christ."

"In today's Ireland one often hears the saying: "she is away with the fairies". Meaning: "a person is out
of their mind, in a dream" or - "someone has gone missing"! The Fairies are sometimes described as the
"Gentry", which is an interesting analogy! Could the literal description of the Fairies as Gentry be based
on a truth?...

...The myth that the Fairies abducted children was spread and encouraged by the Anglo-Irish Gentry,
when in truth it was they who could have been the abductors of the children. The superstitious native
Irish believed in the Fairy myth or were too afraid to question their Anglo-Irish overlords. One wonders
how many children went missing in rural Ireland in previous centuries? As in the Gilles de Rais case in
France, where hundreds went missing, the numbers of missing children in Ireland could have been
substantial!"

-Jim Cairns (Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth)

P.G. Maxwell-Stuart (Satan's Conspiracy: Magic and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Scotland)-

The word sith comes from Irish sidh meaning 'fairy hill's, and is cognate with the Latin sedes = 'seat' or
'dwelling place'. Sithean are therefore spirits to be found within hills, and are a form of die terrain,
'divinities of the earth'.

Robert Kirk, in 1691, writes in his 'The Secret Commonwealth':

"The Sithean are said to be of a middle stature betwixt man and Angell (as were daemons thought to be
of old); of intelligent Studious Spirits, and light changeable bodies (like those called Astrall) somewhat of
the nature of a condens'd cloud, and best seen in twilight... They are distributed in Tribes and Orders;
and have children, Nurses, mareiages, deaths and burials, in appearance even as wee... Their houses are
called large and fair, and (unless at som odd occasions) unpercievable by vulgar eyes... women are yet
alive who tell they were taken away when in Child-bed to nurse ffayrie Children, a lingring voracious
image of theirs being left in their place... The Tramontanes, to this day, put bread, the Bible, or a piece
of iron, in women's bed when travelling to save them from being thus stolen... There be manie places
called Fayrie hills, which the mountain-people think impious and dangerous to peel or discover, by
taking earth or wood from them; superstitiously believing the souls of their predecessors to dwell
there."

P.G. Maxwell-Stuart (Satan's Conspiracy: Magic and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Scotland)-

Most Scots did not adopt Jame's nervous repudiation of fairy belief and thought it best to treat the
sithean with some degree of caution. Evidences of this can be found right up to the twentieth century.
Sithean might lurk in coal mines for, as one miner in Whitehaven told Thomas Pennant, although he
himself had never met any of them, "his grandfather had found the little implements and tools
belonging to this diminutive race of subterranean spirits". Old women on Jura kept sticks of the wicken
tree or mountain ash to protect themselves against sithean, and in 1664 it was recorded that an
Orcadian was in possession of a girdle called an 'elf-belt' whose purpose seems to have been to protect
the wearer against such supernatural beings, and the presbytery which had uncovered the case wanted
the belt destroyed because it was an object of superstition. Sithean were known to carry off newborn
human babies and leave changelings in their place; a cradle song well-known throughout the Highlands
and Islands records the lament of a mother whose child the sithean have stolen: "O I searched the hill
from end to end, from side to side, to the edge of the streams... but I did not find my Cubhrachan."
Small wonder, then, if Gaels were heard to utter the prayer, "Criosd eadar mi 's na sidh" [Christ be
between me and the fairies.] and begged God to "preserve the old and the young, our wives and our
children, our sheep and our cattle, from the power and from the dominion of the fairies (cheannas nan
sithichean), and from the malice of every evil eye."
"The Exorcist clearly demonstrates the argument that a reconciliation with the maternal body, the body
of our origins, is only possible through an encounter with horror, the abject of our culture. Woman is
constructed as possessed when she attacks the symbolic order, highlights its weaknesses, plays on its
vulnerabilities; specifically, she demonstrates that the symbolic order is a sham built on sexual
repression and the sacrifice of the mother. In the end Regan and her mother are reunited; the two
'fathers' are dead. The symbolic order is restored, but in name only."

-Barbara Creed (The Monstrous Feminine)

BARBARA CREED (The Monstrous Feminine) -

Freudian psychoanalytic theory is primarily concerned with the pre-Oedipal mother, the mother of
infancy, weaning and toilet training who is responsible for the early socialization of the child. I think it is
possible to open up the mother question still further and posit an even more archaic maternal figure,
going back to mythological narratives of the generative, parthenogenetic mother - that ancient archaic
figure who gives birth to all living things. She exists in the mythology of all human cultures as the
Mother-Goddess who alone created the heavens and earth. In China she was known as Nu Kwa, in
Mexico as Coatlicue, in Greece as Gaia (literally meaning 'earth') and in Sumer as Nammu. In 'Moses and
Monotheism' Freud attempts to explain the origin of the archaic mother; he argues that the great
mother-goddesses are not mythical but belong to the patriarchal periods of human history:

"It is likely that the mother-goddesses originated at a time of the curtailment of the matriarchy, as a
compensation for the slight upon the mothers. The male deities appear first as sons beside the great
mothers and only later assume the features of father-figures. These male gods of polytheism reflect the
conditions during the patriarchal age."

FRANK HERBERT (Try to Remember)-

"Hiko, all of our Earth languages have a bias toward insanity because they split off the concept of
intellect from the concept of body. That's an oversimplification, but it will do for now. You get
fragmentation this way, you see? Schizophrenia. These people now—" She gestured toward the silent
Galactics. "—they have reunited body and intellect in their communication. A gestalten thing that
requires the total being's participation. They cannot lie because that would be to lie to themselves—and
this would completely inhibit speech." She shook her head. "Speech is not the word, but it is the only
word we have now."

"A paradox," said Ohashi.

She nodded. "The self that is one cannot lie to the self. When body and intellect say the same thing ...
that is truth. When words and wordlessness agree ... that is truth. You see?"
ALBERT CHURCHWARD (The Arcana of Freemasonry)

"The Druids practised their religious rites in England until the edict of Canute prohibited their open
worship. Canute reigned from 1015 to 1036... Many of these old Druid Priests joined the Christian
Church, and were the so-called Culdees, but although they had joined the Christian Church they kept
themselves very much aloof for a long period, up to the twelfth century."

TREVOR RAVENSCROFT

"The many and various rituals of pre-Christian initiation had one goal in common. Their purpose was to
create a temporary dissociation from physical awareness in order to enter higher consciousness in which
the fullness of the spirit-worlds was made manifest...

"Only when the ritual was over did the candidate awaken to a self-conscious awareness in which he
remembered the spiritual experiences through which his astral body had passed in the Macrocosm.

"The techniques of Initiation gradually became more sophisticated and perilous until reaching their most
highly evolved state in the Temple Sleep of the Ancient Egyptians... Indeed, the Initiates of Egypt were
often called the "Twice Born."

"The last crude ritual of initiation, which was both highly dangerous and, often as not, only partially
successful, was total immersion in water until the candidate was all but drowned...

"The St. John Gospel makes it abundantly clear that Lazarus was undergoing the Temple Sleep of
Initiation..."

"In the myth of St. George, the dragon of darkness attacks the village and carries off the beautiful
princess. Then along comes the hero, St. George, who vanquishes the dragon and frees the princess. But
in the earlier versions of this story, the dragon is the terrible aspect of the princess herself. So the hero
is actually saving the princess from her own alter ego.

In the later versions, the innocent princesses and fair maidens are often victimized by an ugly witch. And
yet the witch, the devouring hag, and the ogress all represent the alter ego, or terrible aspect of the
princess herself."

-David Talbott (Remembering the End of the World; documentary)

Significantly, a number of vampire films oppose the world of the vampire to that of the human through
a series of oppositions which take on maternal and paternal characteristics. The female vampire's world
signifies darkness, the undead, moon, the tomb/womb, blood, oral sadism, bodily wounds and violation
of the law. The world of the living, frequently represented by a patriarchal figure (Van Helsing in Dracula
films) versed in vampire lore, signifies light, life, the sun, destruction of the tomb, blood taboos, the
stake/phallus, the unviolated body, and enforcement of the law.

-Barbara Creed (The Monstrous Feminine)

"The central characteristic of the archaic mother is her total dedication to the generative, procreative
principle. She is the mother who conceives all by herself, the original parent, the godhead of all fertility
and the origin of procreation. She is outside morality and the law."

Barbara Creed (The Monstrous Feminine)

In his discussion of the Dracula variant of the vampire film, Roger Dadoun argues that the archaic
mother exists as a 'non-presence' which should be 'understood as a very archaic mode of presence'.
Signs of the archaic mother in the Dracula film are: the small, enclosed village; the pathway through the
forest that leads like an umbilical cord to the castle; the central place of enclosure with its winding
stairways, spider webs, dark vaults, worm-eaten staircases, dust and damp earth - 'elements which all
relate back to the imago of the bad archaic mother'. At the centre of this, Dracula himself materializes.
With his black cape, pointed teeth, rigid body - carried 'like an erect phallus' - piercing eyes and
'penetrating look', he is the fetish form, a 'substitute for the mother's penis'... Roger Dadoun argues very
convincingly that the Dracula figure symbolizes an attempt to deny the totalizing power of the archaic
mother, to build a fortress against her imagined omnipotence:

"against primitive identification with the mother, a phallus; against the anxiety of psychotic collapse,
sexuality; against spatio-temporal disorganization, a ritual - and that completes the construction, on the
positive side of fetishism, as it were, of a sexualized phallic object, all the more rigid and impressive for
being fragile and threatened. In this object, one may perhaps have the pleasure of recognizing a familiar
figure of the horror film, Count Dracula."

... Identifying with the archaic mother, Dracula attributes to her the phallus she never had and does not
need because she exists prior to knowledge of the phallus. She is all-powerful and absolute unto herself.
Dracula, however, becomes her fantasized phallus, attributes to her a shape, a clearly defined, erect
form in order to combat thee threat of her formlessness, her totalizing, oceanic presence. When he is
finally penetrated by the stake, his heart is revealed to be hollow, a gaping wound.... The monster
comes to represent the mother's 'missing' phallus.

-Barbara Creed (The Monstrous Feminine)

One of the major concerns of the sci-fi horror film (Alien, The Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers,
Altered States) is the reworking of the primal scene, the scene of birth, in relation to the representation
of other forms of copulation and procreation. Invasion of the Body Snatchers explores the themes of
bodily invasion and paranoia. The invading creature first exists as a giant egg/pod, which has come to
Earth from another galaxy. As the pod silently hatches the creature simultaneously creates a replica of
the human it wishes to become. In The Thing the primal scene is also presented as a series of grotesque
bodily invasions; here the creature is able to take over both the human and animal body and clone itself
into an exact replica of the invaded being. In both these films conception and birth are presented as a
form of cloning; the sexual act becomes an act of vampirism. In Altered States a male scientist is able to
take himself back to more primitive stages of existence through the agency of hallucinogenic drugs. He
takes these while enfolded in a womb-like bath of special fluids. Eventually he gives birth to himself as
an ape-creature. Procreation and birth take place without the agency of the opposite sex; and the
creature born is primitive rather than civilized suggesting that a thin line separates the human animal
from its ancestors. Central to all of these films are scenes which explore different forms of birth.

-arbara Creed (The Monstrous Feminine)

The horror film attempts to bring about a confrontation with the abject in order finally to eject the
abject and redraw the boundaries between the human and non-human. As a form of modern defilement
rite, the horror film attempts to separate out the symbolic order from all that threatens its stability,
particularly the mother and all that her universe signifies. In this sense, signifying horror involves a
representation of, and reconciliation with, the maternal body. Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection
provides us with an important theoretical framework for analysing, in the horror film, the
representation of the monstrous-feminine, in relation to woman's reproductive and mothering
functions.

-Barbara Creed (The Monstrous Feminine)

"The horror film is populated by female monsters, many of which seem to have evolved from images
that haunted the dreams, myths and artistic practices of our forebears many centuries ago. The female
monster, or monstrous-feminine, wears many faces: the amoral primeval mother (Aliens, 1986);
vampire (The Hunger, 1983); witch (Carrie, 1976); woman as monstrous womb (The Brood, 1979);
woman as bleeding wound (Dressed to Kill, 1980); woman as possessed body (The Exorcist, 1973); the
castrating mother (Psycho, 1960); woman as beautiful but deadly killer (Basic Instinct, 1992); aged
psychopath (Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, 1962); the monstrous girl-boy (A Reflection of Fear,
1973); woman as non-human animal (Cat People, 1942); woman as life-in-death (Life-force, 1985);
woman as the deadly femme castratrice (I Spit on Your Grave, 1978). Although a great deal has been
written about the horror film, very little of that work has been on woman as victim of the (mainly male)
monster. Why has woman-as-monster been neglected in feminist theory and in virtually all significant
theoretical analyses of the popular horror film? After all, this image is hardly new."
Barbara Creed (The Monstrous Feminine)

Baron Karl Reichenbach (Somnambulism and Cramp)-

"Negative od predominates in sunlight, and positive od in moonlight, which latter is therefore the more
agreeable to the somnambulist in the od negative state. The positive odic influence of the moonlight is
not strong enough to wake the sleeper, but only to disturb and make him restless... These are the causes
why somnambulists are more uneasy when the moon is full than at any other time, and why they always
get up on house-tops, etc...

...All highly sensitive persons find the influence of the green rays of the spectrum disagreeable, avoid
them, and suffer when subjected to them... Green is not a simple color; it is not even a compound but
only a mixed light. If we mingle fine yellow powder and fine blue powder together, the result will be a
powder which appears green; but there is nothing green there. The whole mass remains a mixture of
fine blue and yellow particles. The red and yellow rays in the spectrum are od-positive, and the blue,
negative; and they effect sensitives accordingly. If blue is cool to the left finger, and yellow lukewarm;
then a mixture of blue and yellow should exercise nemetic and soretic influences at the same time; and
if the person experimented upon the highly sensitive, the result should be somnambulism and cramp at
the same time...

...The moon's rays are chiefly od-positive. They are not so strong with light as to cause cramps, but just
strong enough when operating upon the od-negative side of man to keep him in somnambulic sleep,
and when operating upon his od-positive side to rob him of his rest and make him lively. These two
contemporaneous influences acting upon sleepwalkers, are the causes of their activity in moonshine.
The soretic irritation is not strong, but just so tempered as to enliven and cheer; the nemetic influence is
just suited to render the sleep deep and agreeable. Thus the somnambulist is solicited by two
attractions, and walks about in the moonshine."

Jim Keith (Saucers of the Illuminati - 1999)

"Evaluating this mish-mash of occultism, who would imagine that the telepathic transmissions from
Sirius might have something to do with military intelligence? Occult investigator James Shelby Downard,
in his wonderful "Sorcery, Sex, Assassination, and the Science of Symbolism" researches the existence of
a Sirius-worship cult that he believes exists at the highest levels of the CIA! He cites as one of their ritual
locations the telescope viewing room of the Palomar Observatory in California. There, he says, the
adepts of the Sirius-military intelligence cult enact rituals in the telescopically-focused light of the Dog
Star, in imitation of the Egyptian priesthood, astral rays bathing the viewing chamber and the
participants when the telescope is aimed Sirius-ward."
Otto Rank (Trauma of Birth):

"In its gross physical details, hell manifests itself as the fearsome counterpart to the phantasy of the
intrauterine paradise and heaven. Eternal punishment in hell, in particular, which corresponds to the
Greek punishment in the underworld, represents in detail reproductions of the intrauterine situation
(chains, heat, etc.), and it is not to be wondered at if the heretics of the Middle Ages showed particular
preference for this ready-made material in the representation of the same unconscious tendencies.

"The analysis of the Unconscious shows why the later lord of this "Hell" has the characteristics of the
primal father, for it is he, indeed, who has reversed the original scene of all pleasurable sensations into
its opposite. The original feminine signification of the devil, personified even in the mouth of hell, is
perhaps still preserved in the half-comical figure of his grandmother, surviving in the witches - and not
only in those in fairy tales - as the old evil and dangerous primal mother. In the medieval delusion about
witches and the cruel persecutions of the Inquisition, we see the hell situation with its punishments
transferred into reality, which, according to a verbally expressed conjecture of Freud's, may go back to a
real trauma, which seems to me to have struck the sexual trauma and with it the birth trauma in our
own Unconscious in a very direct manner."

"Od is a force in nature hitherto unknown, It is akin to the great natural forces of light, heat, electricity,
magnetism, chemical affinity, etc... Od pervades the whole universe... Wherever there is magnetism,
heat, electricity, friction, motion, chemical action, or putrefaction, od is actively developed, or
concentrated, and it may be percieved under favorable circumstances. It is a peculiarity of od, that not
everybody can percieve it. Acute odic perception is comparatively rare; its possession is called
sensitiveness, or odic sensitiveness, and its possessors are styled sensitives. The marks of sensitiveness
are numerous, but the main ones are natural somnambulism, and readiness to fall asleep under
mesmeric influence... When od is actively developed, as by magnetism, it radiates out from the
generator; and a high sensitive can see the rays in the dark, but not in the light. The odic rays seen in the
dark resemble a light smoke or a misty flame... There is therefore in man a dormant power, which in
certain nervous diseased conditions is awakened and made active..."

Karl Reichenbach (Somnambulism and Cramp)

"The middle of the fourteenth century was a period of extraordinary terror and disaster to Europe.
Numerous portents, which sadly frightened the people, were followed by a pestilence which threatened
to turn the continent into an unpeopled wilderness. For year after year there were signs in the sky, on
the earth, in the air, all indicative, as men thought, of some terrible coming event. In 1337 a great comet
appeared in the heavens, its far-extending tail sowing deep dread in the minds of the ignorant masses.
During the three succeeding years the land was visited by enormous flying armies of locusts, which
descended in myriads upon the fields, and left the shadow of famine in their track. In 1348 came an
earthquake of such frightful violence that many men deemed the end of the world to be presaged. Its
devastations were widely spread... . A pestilence broke out of such frightful virulence that it appeared
indeed as if man was to be swept from the earth. Men died in hundreds, in thousands, in myriads, until
in places there were scarcely enough living to bury the dead, and these so maddened with fright that
dwellings, villages, towns, were deserted by all who were able to flee, the dying and the dead being left
their sole inhabitants. It was the pestilence called the 'Black Death,' the most terrible visitation that
Europe has ever known."

-Immanuel Velikovsky (Mankind in Amnesia)

"The Sibylline Oracles, which originated in the same period, occupied themselves mainly with the
expected catastrophe. The day would come when "God, Whose dwelling is in the sky, shall roll up the
heaven as a book is rolled, and the whole firmament in its varied forms shall fall on the divine earth and
on the sea; and then shall flow a ceaseless cataract of raging fire and shall burn land and sea, and the
firmament of heaven and the stars and creation itself it shall cast into one molten mass and clean
dissolve. Then no more shall there be luminaries, twinkling orbs, no night, no dawn... no spring, no
summer, no winter, no autumn." A comet would presage the end: "In the west a star shall shine, which
they call a comet, a messenger to men of the sword, famine and death." Entire cities would disappear in
chasms opened up in the earth or be consumed by fire falling from heaven."

-Immanuel Velikovsky (Mankind in Amnesia)

"Much of maladjustment, or aggressiveness, hatred and hostility, pathological inclinations and sexual
aberrations, criminal impulses and acts, suicide and murder, or detachment from reality and flight into
madness can be traced by correctly applied analytical procedure to impressions erased from the
conscious memory, traumatic occurrences obliterated - in short, to contents submerged. From the
mind's dark recesses they pilot the personality toward its bizarre behavior and, not seldom, toward a
repetition of the traumatic experience. This repetition is sought in the form of a return to the scene of
the first experience, or in a fixation on abnormal sexual objects, or in selection of an occupation offering
a regular substitue for an act repressed from the conscious memory."

Immanuel Velikovsky (Mankind in Amnesia)

"Animal magnetism is nothing else than an artificial sleep produced by the voluntary or enforced union
of two souls, one of which directs the other in the choice of reflections so as to change dreams into
visions and ascertain truth by means of images. The Astral Light has an immediate action on the nerves,
which are conductors in the animal economy, and convey it to the brain; so, in the somnambulistic state,
it is possible to see by the nerves, without the need of radiating light, the astral fluid being a latent light,
as physics have recognized the existence of latent caloric."
-Eliphas Levi (Mysteries of Magic)

"The more difficult and horrible the operation, the more potent it is, because it acts better on the
imagination, and confirms the effort in direct ratio of resistance. This explains the fantasticalness and
even the atrocity of the operations of black magic among the ancients and in the Middle Ages - the
devil's masses, the administration of the sacraments to reptiles, the effusions of blood, the human
sacrifices, and other monstrocities, which are the very essence and reality of witchcraft and
necromancy. These and similar practices have in all ages brought down on sorcerers the just repression
of the laws. Black magic is really but a combination of sacrileges and murders graduated with a view to
the permanent perversion of the human will and the realisation in a living man of the monstrous
phantom of the fiend. It is, therefore, properly speaking, the religion of the devil, the worship of
darkness, the hatred of goodness exaggerated to the point of paroxysm; it is the incarnation of death
and the permanent creation of hell."

Eliphas Levi (Mysteries of Magic)

"The neophite of the Sabbath was led, or rather carried, to the meeting with his eyes covered by the
magic mantle, in which he was indeed wholly enveloped; he was made to pass between great fires, and
alarming noises were caused round him. When his face was uncovered he found himself surrounded by
infernal monsters and in front of a colossal and monstrous goat, which he was required to adore... The
final trial was decisive above all... it was a question of respectfully kissing the goat's posterior, and the
order was given without circumlocution. If he refused, his head was again covered, and he was borne
away with such rapidity that he believed himself transported on a cloud; if he consented, he was taken
behind the symbolic idol, and there found not a repulsive and obsene object, but the youthful and
gracious face of a priestess of Isis or Maia, who gave him a maternal salute, and he was then admitted to
the banquet. As for the orgies which, in many assemblies of this nature, were said to follow the feast,
we must beware of supposing that they were generally allowed at these secret agape, but it is known
that various Gnostic sects did practise them at their gatherings from the earliest Christian centuries."

-Eliphas Levi (Mysteries of Magic)

"Women with child are more than others under the influence of the Astral Light, which concurs in the
formation of the infant, and unceasingly presents to them the reminiscences of the forms with which it
is replete. It is thus that the most virtuous women sometimes deceive the malice of observers by
equivocal resemblances; they frequently impress on the fruit of their marriage an image which strikes
them in a dream, and it is thus that the same physiognomies are perpetuated from generation to
generation. The kabbalistic use of the Pentagram may then determine the appearance of the child to be
born, and an initiated woman could give her son the features of Nero or Achilles, as much as those of
Louis XIV, or of Napoleon...

...We have spoken of the sidereal body, which is the mediator between the soul and the material
organism... The form of our sidereal body is conformable to the habitual condition of our thoughts; and,
in the long run, it is bound to modify the features of the material organism... Many persons will believe
themselves to be dreaming when they read of such things, and will ask us if we are really ourselves
awake; but we only beg scientific men to reflect on the phenomena of gestation, and the effects of the
imagination of women on the form of their offspring. A woman who had been present at the execution
of a man who was broken on the wheel gave birth to a child, every one of whose limbs was broken. Let
them explain how the impression produced on the soul of the mother could reach and break the infant's
members, and we will explain how blows dealt and received in dream can really bruise, and even
grievously wound, the body of the person who receives them in imagination, above all when his body is
in pain and subject to nervous and magnetic influences.

We act by imagination on the imagination of others, by our sidereal body on theirs, and by our organs
on their organs. So that by sympathy, whether of inclination or of obsession, we possess one another,
and are identified with those whom we would influence."

-Eliphas Levi (Mysteries of Magic)

"In the middle ages, the necromancers profaned tombs and compounded philtres and ointments with
the grease and blood of corpses; they mixed aconite, belladona, and poisonous fungi therewith; then
they boiled and skimmed these frightful mixtures over fires composed of human remains and crucifixes
stolen from churches; they added the dust of dried toads and the ashes of consecrated hosts; then they
rubbed their foreheads, hands and stomachs with the infernal ointment, drew the Satanic pantacle, and
evoked the dead beneath gibbets or in desecrated cemeteries. Their howlings were heard at great
distances, and the belated traveller fancied that legions of phantoms were issuing from the earth; the
very trees assumed in his eyes affrighting shapes, flaming orbs seemed glaring in the thickets, while the
frogs of the marshes appeared to repeat hoarsely the words of the Sabbath. It was the mesmerism of
hallucination and the contagion of madness.

The end of the proceedings of black magic is to disturb reason and produce all those feverish
excitements which supply courage for the commision of great crimes. The grimoires, which were
formerly seized by authority and burned whenever they were met with, are certainly anything but
harmless books. Sacrilege, murder, and theft are indicated or hinted at as means to realisation in nearly
all these operations."

Eliphas Levi (Mysteries of Magic)

"There exists an agent which is natural and divine, material and spiritual, a universal plastic mediator, a
common receptacle of the vibrations of motion and the images of forms, a fluid and a force, which may
be called in some way the Imagination of Nature. By means of this force all nervous apparatuses secretly
communicate together; thence come sympathy and antipathy, thence dreams, thence are produced the
phenomena of second sight and extra-natural vision. This universal agent of Nature's operations is the
Od force of the Hebrews and of Baron Reichenbach, it is the Astral Light of the Martinists, and we prefer
the latter explanation as more explicit. The existence and possible use of this force is the Great Arcanum
of practical magic; it is the thaumaturgic rod and the key of black magic."

-Eliphas Levi (Mysteries of Magic)

"There are also certain physical organizations better adapted than others to the revelations of the occult
world; there are sensitive and sympathetic natures with whom intuition in the Astral Light is, so to
speak, innate. Certain afflictions and certain complaints may modify the nervous system, and make it,
without the concurrence of the will, a more or less perfect apparatus for divination, but these are
exceptional phenomena, and generally magic power must and can be aquired by perseverance and
application. There are also certain substances which produce ecstasy and provoke the magnetic sleep.
There are some which place at the disposition of the imagination all the liveliest and most highly
coloured reflections of the elementary light; but the use of these is dangerous, for they commonly
produce stupefaction and intoxication. They are employed notwithstanding, but in rigorously calculated
quantities and in wholly exceptional cases."

-Eliphas Levi (Mysteries of Magic)

"Every initiation ceremony contains in some form or other the Oath of the Mysteries, which binds the
candidate neither to reveal the secrets of the Mysteries nor to abuse the knowledge they bestow. This
oath always contains a Penalty Clause and an Invocation wherein the candidate submits himself to a
penalty in the event of a breach of faith, and calls upon some Being to exact the penalty. Some of these
oaths are most formidable affairs, and they are administered with every circumstance of solemnity that
stage management can devise. The way in which the occult fraternities have succeeded in preserving
their secrets shows how seldom these oaths are broken."

-Dion Fortune (Psychic Self-Defence)

"In the realm of folk-lore we constantly meet with the idea of intercourse between the human and the
fairy kingdoms; of the marriage of a human being with a fairy spouse, or the theft of a child by the
fairies, an impish changeling being left in its place."

-Dion Fortune (Psychic Self-Defence)

"It is well known to all psychics that the sites of ancient temples where mystery-rituals have been
worked, are always potently charged with psychic force. This force need not necessarily be evil, but it
has a powerfully stimulating effect upon the psychic centres and stirs up the subconscious forces."

-Dion Fortune (Psychic Self-Defence)

"I am of the opinion that what Freud calls an Oedipus complex is not altogether a one-sided affair, and
that the "soul" of the parent is drawing upon the psychic vitality of the child. It is curious how aged
Oedipus cases always look, and what little old men and women they are as children. They never have a
normal childhood, but always are mentally mature for their years. I persuaded various patients to show
me photographs of themselves as children, and was much struck by the elderly, worried expression of
the childish faces, as if they had known all of life's problems and burdens."

-Dion Fortune (Psychic Self-Defense)

"There cannot be so much smoke without some fire. It is not possible that the prestige of the magician
in antiquity and the dread of the witch in the Middle Ages could have arisen without some basis in
experience... Fear was the motive of these persecutions, and fear founded upon bitter experience; for it
was not officialdom which incited the witch-burnings, but whole country-sides that rose up for a
lynching. The universal horror of the witch must have some cause behind it."

-Dion Fortune (Psychic Self-Defence)

In her book, I Choose to Live, Sabine Dardenne writes:

The trap began to close around me. The brainwashing continued, although I had no idea that's what it
was. The creep then told me that my parents had refused to pay my ransom, even the police refused to
pay... I was therefore in grave danger, because the boss had decided I would have to be 'liquidated'.
Then, suddenly the monster with the greased-down hair [Marc Dutroux] transformed himself into my
saviour.

"Look, I had to do what I was told." He meant: kidnap me. "I had no choice: just following orders from
the boss. But as your parents won't cough up, you can't stay here, or he'll kill you. So what happens is up
to you. Do you want to live or die?"

I can't be sure of the exact phrase, but what he offered was a stark choice. Live or die. Naturally, I
choose to live.
"Okay. But then I'll have to hide you. I'll say that you're dead, but you'll still be alive and I'll look after
you. Obviously I can't leave you here, in this room, because the boss would see you. These are his
headquarters, you see, so he could turn up here at any moment. And if you had any idea about running
away, well, he'd get you back just in order to kill you. A matter of honour. All the houses around here
are under his command, so it's a bit of a tricky one. But I know a place, a secret place, where I could hide
you."

.... The bastard was not, as he liked to make out, an insignificant cog in an all-powerful network whose
names included the highest in the land. This small-time Macchiavelli lies as easily as he breathes. He
puts forward plots and theories as Byzantine as they are pathetic, and my only wish is for them to choke
him to death. When I think that he has children, that his wife was complicit, that she waited years
before confessing her role, while little girls died in misery and loneliness, that bodies were even buried
in her garden! These people are not people. There is no word blunt enough for them. His name is Marc
Dutroux, hers is Michele Martin - but for me they will always remain nameless...

...These are only some of the numerous yarns the bastard spun during the long years of complicity in his
dread deeds, accused him unequivocally. He returned the compliment by begging her to tell the truth!
He had only been protecting her from the evil machinations of the imaginary criminal network, he
explained, for the sake of the family. This woman was his accomplice. She didn't blink an eye or shed a
tear before they picked her up. Yet she knew everything. That she was a mother herself defies belief.
Another monster, this time in skirts....

Larry Kahaner, quoting Detective Sandi Gallant of the San Francisco Police Department's Intelligence
Division:

"There are three kinds of Satanic groups [orthodox groups, dabbler groups, and youth subculture
groups]. The first group I label traditional or orthodox. I find them to be highly organized, and they have
a spiritual base. They have set up their group to worship Satan in some particular form... Some may be
open and public. Others may be closed and private... These groups are very structured, and they may
contain degrees of order within that structure. For instance, those at the bottom of the totem pole are
made to feel that. You'll also find generational linkages in some organized groups, passed on as religion
from generation to generation just like any other religion. In this group I would put the Church of Satan,
the Temple of Set and the Process Church of the Final Judgement. There are other orthodox Satanic
groups that exist whose names we'll never know, because they are not made public. These, in fact, may
be the most dangerous of all."

-Larry Kahaner (Cults that Kill)

"During the seventeenth century, a woman named Catherine Deshayes, also known as Madame
LaVoison, used a Black Mass and its magick to cast spells on people, especially to win back wayward
lovers for well-to-do clients. She also used her activities as a way of distributing love potions and poisons
to ladies of high social status. She also did astrology, performed abortions, and supplied adults with
children for the purpose of sexual abuse.

During these masses, the blood of sacrificed babies was used instead of wine and their flesh took the
role of host. Ordained priests officiated at the masses, often saying the Catholic Mass backwards,
turning crucifixes upside down and using black candles instead of white. The candles were made from
human fat supplied by a public executioner. A furnace was found in LaVoison's house, which she said
was used to dispose of sacrificed babies and aborted fetuses.

LaVoison's arrest was the result of a special court established by Louis XIV in 1679 to deal with
numerous poisonings of French nobility. It also may have been in response to a flood of unexplained
disappearances of children which prompted public riots in 1676. The police officer in charge was
Nicholas de la Reymie, the police commissioner of Paris. His investigations went from poison to magick
and, like his modern counterparts, he took a great deal of ridicule about his accusations of occult
activity. He finally stopped his investigations when the King's mistress, Madame de Montespan, became
implicated.

LaVoison was burned at the stake in 1680 after a lengthy investigation. Some of her activities were
similar to those described in current-day ritualized abuse cases of children."

-Larry Kahaner (Cults that Kill)

MILTON ERIKSON (Advanced Techniques of Hypnosis) -

"Still another form of this technique has been found useful in inducing deep trances and in studies of
motivation, association of ideas, regression, symbol analysis, repression, and the development of
insight. It has proved a most effective therapeutic procedure. This technique is primarily a matter of
having the subject repeat over and over in the trance state a dream, or, less preferably, a fantasy, in
constantly differing guises.

That is, he repeats a spontaneous dream or an induced dream with a different cast of characters,
perhaps in a different setting, but with the same meaning. After the second dreaming, the same
instructions are given again, and this continues until the purposes to be served are accomplished. To
illustrate, a patient offered this spontaneous dream of the previous night: "I was alone in a grass-
covered meadow. There were knolls and curving rises in the ground. It was warm and comfortable. I
wanted something dreadfully—I don't know what. But I was scared--paralyzed with fear. It was horrible.
I woke up trembling."

Repeated, the dream was: “I was walking up a narrow valley. I was looking for something I had to find,
but I didn't want it. I didn't know what I was looking for, but I knew something was forcing me, to look
for it and I was afraid of it, what ever it was. Then I came to the end of the valley where the walls came
together and there was a little stream of water flowing from under a thick bush. That bush was covered
with horrible thorns. It was poisonous. Something was pushing me closer and I kept getting smaller and
smaller and I still feel scared.”

The next repetition was: “This seems to have something to do with part of the last dream. It was spring
and the logs were in the river and all the lumberjacks and all the men were there. Everybody owned one
of the logs, me too. All the others had big hardwood logs, but mine, when I got it, was a little rotten
stick. I hoped nobody noticed and I claimed another, but when I got it, it was just like the first.”

Again repeated: "I was in a rowboat fishing. Everybody was fishing. Each of the others caught a great big
fish. I fished and fished and all I got was a little sickly fish. I didn't want it, but I had to keep it. I felt
horribly depressed."

Again: “I went fishing again. There were lots of big fish shooting around in the water, but I caught only
miserable little fish that would fall off the hook and float dead on the water. But I had to have a fish so I
kept on fishing and got one that seemed to have a little life in it. So I put it in a gunny sack because I
knew every body should put his fish in a gunny sack. Everybody else did, and their fish always filled their
gunny sacks competely. But my fish was just lost in the gunny sack, and then I noticed my gunny sack
was all rotten and there was a hole in it, and a lot of slime and filth gushed out and my fish floated away
in that horrible slime, belly up, dead. And I looked around and I was on that meadow I told you about
and the gunny sack was under that bush with all those thorns and my good-for-nothing fish was floating
down that stream of water I told you about, and it looked just like a rotten stick of wood.”

A series of further repetitions finally resulted in the breaking down of extensive amnesias and blockings
and his disclosure that, at puberty, under circumstances of extreme poverty, he had acted as a nurse for
his mother, who had rejected him completely since infancy and who had died of an extensive neglected
cancer of the genitals. Additionally, he told for the first time of his profound feelings of inferiority
deriving from his lack of phallic development, his strong homosexual inclinations, and his feeling that his
only protection from homosexuality would be a yielding to the "horrible pressure and force society uses
to shove you to heterosexuality.”

This instance from a case history illustrates unconscious processes clearly: each succeeding dream
resulted in a more easily induced and more easily maintained trance, at the same time giving the patient
greater freedom in his thinking and in his use of less and less abstruse symbolism."

The art of the poisons was believed to have originated in Italy and then emigrated to France. Allegedly,
when Caterina de Medici married King Henry II of France in 1533, she brought the Italian Renaissance
pharmacopoeia of venoms and necromancy to her new realm. Apparently, during her reign, she further
encouraged the study and practice of occult sciences and black magic, supporting astrologers,
necromancers, and researchers in toxicology. Due to the difficulties to detect venous substances in
cadavers during autopsy, at that time, poisons represented a frightening lethal tool that surpassed
common human knowledge and circumvented existing legal remedies. The impossibility of determining
satisfactorily whether poison was the cause of death meant that many crimes went unpunished and
culpable

poisoners enjoyed immunity...

...The venous potions used in France during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were essentially
prepared by killing an animal with a dose of arsenic and distilling its liquids, thus combining the virulence
of the poison with the putrefied compounds of the carcass. Under torture, the Marquise de Brinvilliers
also confessed to having manufactured her drugs with arsenic, sulfuric acid, and liquids from
decomposed animal remains. A diagnosis of the symptoms of poisoning eluded the contemporary
medical knowledge. Indeed, the famous surgeon Jean Devaux admitted, "the method of guarding
oneself from being poisoned is very difficult to state. The wicked poisoners and perfumers, who secretly
manufacture the poisons, carry on their betrayals and crimes so subtly that they deceive the most
expert men."...

...Sorcerers and magicians who manufactured venous potions lived primarily in the suburbs of Paris,
thereby escaping government control and law enforcement. Such communities, including that of Ville-
Nueve, where La Voisin resided, enjoyed affordable houses with walled back-yards, where their
residents could operate undisturbed. However, their fame and poisonous activities were well known to
their peers, neighbors as well as courtiers and distinguished members of Parisian society. In fact, the
interrogations conducted by La Reynie revealed how interconnected and powerful poisoners,
necromancers, and sorceresses were. They relied on one another for their supply of venoms as well as
for client referrals, depending on whether customers required poisons, love powders, or other kinds of
services, like abortion. They seemed to run their businesses quite professionally, demanding that their
clients signed receipts promising payment in return for their services.

In order to add incantation or evil spells to their potions and request supernatural favors for their
customers, sorceresses hired priests to celebrate magical rituals or black masses. For instance, as the
daughter of La Voisin testified, Madame de Montespan also participated in sacrilegious masses to retain
the graces of the King or cast diabolic spells on her rivals. In her interrogations, contained in the
notebook of La Reynie, she gave a detailed description of some of these ceremonies:

"An altar had been set up in my mother's bedroom ... the cross in place, the candles lit. ... A lady was
stretched out, stark naked, on a mattress, her legs dangling off one end of it, her head hanging down on
the other, propped up on a pillow which had been placed on an upended chair .... A linen cloth was
folded on her stomach ... the chalice reposed on her groin .... Madame de Montespan arrived at ten in
evening, and did not leave until midnight .... At [another] one of Madame de Montespan's Masses, I saw
my mother bring in an infant ... obviously premature ... and place it in a basin over which [the priest] slit
its throat, draining the blood into the chalice ... where he consecrated the blood and the wafer ...
speaking the names of Madame de Montespan and the King at the moment of the offertory .... The body
of the infant was incinerated in the garden oven, and the entrails taken the next day by my mother ... for
distillation, along with the blood and the consecrated Host ... all of which was then poured into a glass
vial which Madame de Montespan came by, later, to pick up and take away."

ERNEST BUSENBARK (Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy) -

"The Egyptian Mysteries of Osiris and Isis were in the form of a mystic drama, representing the death by
violence of Osiris (the sun-god), the search for his body by Isis, the Moon, and its finding and being
raised to life and power again. In the celebration of these Mysteries the neophyte was made to perform
all the mysterious wanderings of the goddess amid the most frightful scenes. He was guided by one of
the initiated, who wore a mask representing a dog's head, in allusion to the bright star Sothis (Sirius, or
the dog-star), so called because the rising of that star each year above the horizon just before day gave
warning of the approaching inundation of the Nile. The word Sothis means the "barker," or "monitor."
The candidate was by this guide conducted through a dark and mysterious labyrinth. With much pain he
struggled through involved paths, over horrid chasms, in darkness and terror. At length he arrived at a
stream of water, which he was directed to pass. Suddenly, however, he was assaulted and arrested by
three men, disguised in grotesque forms, who taking a cup of water from the stream, forced the
terrified candidate to first drink of it. This was the water of forgetfulness, by drinking which all his
former crimes were to be forgotten, and his mind prepared to receive new instructions of virtue and
truth.

The attack of Typhon, or the spirit of darkness, typical of the evil powers of nature, upon Osiris, who was
slain, was also enacted as the initiation progressed, and amid the most terrible scenes, during which the
"judgment of the dead" was also represented, and the punishments of the wicked exhibited as realities
to the candidate. The search for the body of Osiris, which was concealed in the mysterious chest or
"ark," followed. The mutilated remains were at last found, and deposited amid loud cries of sorrow and
despair. The initiation closed with the return of Osirus to life and power. The candi- date now beheld,
amid effulgent beams of light, the joyful mansions of the blessed, and the resplendent plains of
paradise.

I saw the sun at midnight" (says Apuleius, speaking of his own initiation into the Mysteries of Isis)
"shining with its brilliant light, and I approached the presence of the gods beneath, and the gods of
heaven, and stood near and worshiped them. (See "Metamorphosis")

At this stage of the initiation, all was life, light, and joy. The candidate was himself figuratively
considered to have risen to a new and more perfect life. The past was dead, with all its crimes and
unhappiness. Henceforth the candidate was under the special protection of Isis, to whose service he
dedicated his new life. (See Apuleius.)

The sublime mysteries of religion and the profoundest teachings of science were now revealed to him,
and satisfied his thirst for knowledge, while the possession of power as one of the hierarchy gratified his
ambition.
The Mysteries of all the other nations of antiquity were quite similar to those of Egypt, and were no
doubt derived from them."