Witches' Sabbath [from Anglo-Saxon wicca from wit-ga seer, prophet; later, wizard, witch]

A gathering of witches for the purpose of celebrating their orgies, one of the functions of which was dancing around a goat, undoubtedly a remnant of the ancient worship of Pan. Every race and people believed that witches conferred directly with the devil, "and some believe in it still. Thus the chief headquarters and place of meeting of all the witches in Russian is said to be the Bald Mountains (Lyssaya Gora), near Kief, and in Germany the Brocken, in the Harz Mountains. In old Boston, U. S. A., they met near the 'Devil's Pond,' in a large forest which has now disappeared. At Salem, they were put to death almost at the will of the Church Elders, and in South Carolina a witch was burnt as late as 1865. In Germany and England they were murdered by Church and State in thousands, being forced to lie and confess under torture their participation in the 'Witches' Sabbath' " (TG 371).

One of the mystical and popular meanings in medieval times of the Hebrew sabbath -- signifying rest, inactivity, and therefore applicable in the cosmic scale to pralaya -- is a midnight meeting.

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Om or Aum (Sanskrit). A mystic syllable, the most solemn of all words in India. It is "an invocation, a benediction, an affirmation and a promise and it is so sacred, as to be indeed the word at low breath of occult, primitive masonry. No one must be near when the syllable is pronounced for a purpose.

 This word is usually placed at the beginning of sacred Scriptures, and is prefixed to prayers. It is a compound of three letters a,u,m, which, in the popular belief, are typical of the three Vedas, also of three gods - A (Agni) V (Varuna) and M (Maruts) or Fire, Water and Air. In esoteric philosophy these are the three sacred fires, or the "triple fire"in the Universe and Man, besides many other things. Occultly, this "triple fire" represents the highest Tetraktys also, as it is typified by the Agni named Abhimanin and his transformation into his three sons, Pavana, Pavamana and Suchi, "who drinks up water", i.e., destroys material desires. This monosyllable is called Udgitta, and is sacred with both Brahmins and Buddhists.

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Uma-kanya (Sanskrit) [from u-ma O [child]

, do not [practice austerities]-- the exclamation addressed to Parvati by her mother + kanya maid, virgin]

The daughter of Himavat, who became the consort of Siva; also called Parvati and Durga. Uma-Kanya "being her esoteric name, and meaning the 'Virgin of light,' Astral Light in one of its multitudinous aspects" (SD 1:92). Now the goddess is worshiped as Durga-Kali (the black and inaccessible one); in this character "human flesh was offered to her every autumn; and, as Durga, she was the patroness of the once murderous Thugs of India, and the special goddess of Tantrika sorcery. But in days of old it was not as it is now. The earliest mention of the title 'Uma-Kanya' is found in the Kena-Upanishad; in it the now blood-thirsty Kali, was a benevolent goddess, a being of light and goodness, who brings about reconciliation between Brahma and the gods. She is Saraswati and she is Vach. In esoteric symbology, Kali is the dual type of the dual soul -- the divine and the human, the light and the dark soul of man" (TG 352).

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See main articles Guenonism, Traditionalism and Perennialism A non-Christian heresy developed by French Freemason and apostate (i.e., pretended convert to Sufi Islam), Rene Guenon, the Eurasian Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, who apostatized from Anglicanism to Hinduism, and by Frithjof Schuon. Also called Traditionalism and Perennialism E.g.: Rama P Coomaraswamy, U.S.A.; William H. Kennedy, U.S.A. ...

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