INDEX
All page numbers are refer to the print edition of this title.
, 70
Aiwass, 93n1
“Akhenaton,” 45. See also Randall-
Stevens, Hugh Clayton
Alhazred, Abdul (the “Mad Arab”), 38, 68, 69
Ambelain, Robert, 49–51
AMORC (Ancient Mystical Order
Rosae Crucis), xii, 79–82, 86–88,
90. See also Lewis, Harvey Spencer
“Cathedral of the Soul,” 86–90
Medifocus, 90–91
angel, xii, 5, 23, 41, 43, 44, 76
archangel, 41, 103
fallen, 2, 102
ankh, 102
Anthony, Saint, 101
Arkham House, 74.
See also Derleth, August
Assassins, 93
Assumption of the God form, 92
asthma, 119 astral
tunnel, 27
astrology, 3
Indian, 60n
astrosome, 33
Atlantis, 45
Atlantis and the Cycles of Time. See
Godwin, Joscelyn
Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 32
Barnes, Larry, 38
Beat Generation writers, 11. See also
Burroughs, William S.
Berman, Morris, 55
Bhagavad Gita, 115
blasphemy
of the dharma, 115
therapeutic, 98–101
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, 9
blood diseases, 118, 119
bodhisattva, 24, 101, 117
Boehme, Jacob, 3n
Book of Enoch, 2
Book of the Law, The, 93n1
“Bowman, The.” See Machen, Arthur
brainwashing, 123
Buddhism, 9, 10, 11, 15, 21, 24, 42, 50, 98, 114, 115, 116.
See also Tibetan
Buddhism
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 55
Burroughs, William S., 91–92
Butler, Walter Ernest
“Egregore of a School, The,” 28–30
Campbell, Joseph, 121
Carroll, Peter J., 93
“Cathedral of the Soul.” See AMORC
Catholicism, 10, 32, 41, 42, 50, 71
ceremonial magic, 35 chaos magic, 70, 93–94
children
impressionability of, 58
representing collective unconscious, 58
Christ, 42, 50, 71, 101
the Master Jesus (AMORC), 85, 90
“What would Jesus do?” as
entrainment, 92–93
Christianity, 2, 6, 24, 33–34, 42, 43, 75, 98–99, 101, 102, 117
Martinist, 3n
Communism, 40, 62, 103
compassion, 116
complex, psychological
and demons, 40
Conan the Barbarian, 74. See also
Howard, Robert E.
Consciousness-Expansion Movement, 62
consumerism, 62
Corpus Hermeticum, xvii–xviii cross, symbolism of, 102–3
Crowley, Aleister, 38, 40, 75
and Kenneth Grant, 71
opinion of Machen’s work, 70
and Thelema, 93
Cthulhu Mythos, 66, 69, 73–74. See
also Lovecraft, Howard Phillips;
Howard, Robert E.
Cultural Revolution, 103
cycles, celestial and cosmic, 51, 60n.
See also Godwin, Joscelyn
David-Néel, Alexandra, 9–14. See also
Tibetan Buddhism
four types of ritual practice, 14–17
Dayananda, Swami. See Griffiths, Bede
Dean, Charles Dana, 86
Dee, John, 38
Delphi (Temple of Apollo), 96
demons, 36, 39–40, 41, 43, 44, 94.
See also complex, psychological
battling, 100–101, 102
of Kabbalah, 61–62
deprogramming, 100, 108
from the Buddha dharma, 115–16, 117
Derleth, August, 74
desacralization, 99. See also blasphemy,
therapeutic
Detsen, King Trisong (of Tibet). See
Ozer, Nyangrel Nyima
Devil, The (tarot card), 36, 39
dharma, 44, 115–16, 117.
See also
Buddhism; Tibetan Buddhism
distraction, 44–46, 107
Dorje Shugden, 17–19, 21
dreams, 72, 77
strange, after extraction from
egregore, 118–19
dubthab (or doubtob), 12, 14–17
Dubuis, Jean, 7–8, 36, 56–57, 106
Dzogchen, 24
Eady, Dorothy Louise. See Om Sety
egregore. See also specific examples
decision to break with, 109–10
definitions of, 2, 3, 8, 33, 40, 50, 59, 111
destruction of, 51, 53 origin and formation of, 4, 33–34, 53
types of, ix-xiii, 19–20, 34, 40, 43, 52, 108
“Egregore of a School, The.”
See Butler,
Walter Ernest Egypt, 4, 5, 19, 44. See also ankh
emotions, 28–29, 34, 36, 48, 51, 52, 53, 56, 58, 61, 67, 81, 92, 97, 104, 108, 111
Encausse, Gerard (pseud. Papus), 3n
Enochian, 52
Erickson, Milton, 62
Eros and Evil. See Masters, Robert
eschaton, 117 evil, 36–37, 39, 42, 44, 45, 46, 67, 85, 112
Evola, Julius, 59–62, 104, 124
exercise, physical, 107
Faivre, Antoine, 32
“Faustian” literature, 69
feng shui, 58
fiction
AMORC’s “Second FAMA,” 80–81
fan, 72, 109
vs. reality, 71–72, 78, 84, 108–9
in spiritual practices, 71
fire, as means of destruction, 103–4
Flamel, Nicholas and Perenelle, 71
Flying Roll, 24
Fortune, Dion (Violet Mary Firth), 28, 30
Francis, Saint, 41
Freemasonry, 10, 31, 49, 50
Gebser, Jean, 54
Gelukpa, 17–18
genius, 96
George, Saint (British egregore),
76–77. See also Machen, Arthur
Gnostic Universal Church, 49
God, xviii, 35, 41, 42, 43, 44
grace of, 119
goddesses, 5 gods, xii, 1, 4, 5, 6, 15, 16, 17, 41
Godwin, Joscelyn, 4–6
Atlantis and the Cycles of Time, 45
Theosophical Enlightenment, The, 98
goetic practice, 94
Golden Chain Lineage, 117
Golden Dawn.
See Hermetic Order of
the Golden Dawn
Grant, Kenneth, 70–72, 78, 93, 94
Alan Moore’s opinion of, 70
Crowley’s opinion of, 70
Lovecraft’s influence on, 72, 75
Machen’s influence on, 75, 77
Great White Brotherhood, 9, 24, 80
Great White Lodge, 90
Griffiths, Bede, 32
group mind, xi, 29, 56, 64, 97.
See also
Mind Games
group spirit, 63–64. See also Mind
Games
Guenther, Herbert, 22
guru yoga, 30, 92
gylapo, 18
Gysin, Brion, 91
Hermes, mind of, 93
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, 23, 31, 52, 75
Golden Dawn–style temple, account of, 120–23
Hermeticism, 31, 35, 36, 43, 75, 106
Christian. See Tomberg, Valentin
Hill, Napoleon, 96
Think and Grow Rich, 91
Hitler, Adolf, 56
Houston, Jean, 37, 62, 63.
See also
Masters, Robert
Howard, Robert E., 72–74, 75, 77, 78.
See also Conan the Barbarian;
Lovecraft Circle
suicide of, 73
Howlings from the Pit. See Lisiewski
Joseph
Hugo, Victor, 31
Human Potential movement, 37, 55. See
also Houston, Jean; Masters, Robert
hypnosis, premise of, 58. See also Mind
Games
I Ching, 58
Ignatius of Loyola, Saint, 51
illness
mental, 121
shamanic, 121
illuminati, 59–60
imagination, 13, 16, 40, 41, 42, 43
inner contact, 2, 23
Islam, 9, 50, 57, 103
Assassins, 93n2
Jesuits, 51
Jung, Carl, 121
Kabbalah, 34–36, 61–62, 75
Qlippoth, 38, 44, 94
Tree of Life, 35, 104
Kalachakra teachings, 117
Kali Yuga, 60, 117
Keating, Thomas, 32
Kelsang Gyatso, Geshe, 17
kerubim, 103
Lachman, Gary, 45–46
Politics and the Occult, 54–55
Left-Hand Path (groups), 94
Lennon, John, 64.
See also Mind Games
Lévi, Eliphas, 23, 31, 39, 54
Lewis, Harvey Spencer, 80, 81–89.
See
also AMORC
additional manifestos, 85
mystical origins of AMORC, 82–83
prophecies of French host, 85–86
“Seven Master Minds,” 83–84
Lilly, John, 62
Lingwood, Dennis Philip Edward. See
Sangharakshita, Urgyen
link, etheric, 25–27
Lisiewski, Joseph, 104
as factor in telepathy, 48
as Rosicrucian principle of Godhead, 85, 89
Lovecraft Circle, 65, 73, 74, 75.
See also
specific names
Lovecraft, Howard Phillips, 38–39, 65–69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 93.
See also Necronomicon
opinion of humanity, 67
Weird Tales, 66, 73
Luxor (Egyptian temple), 96
Machen, Arthur, 70, 75–78
“Bowman, The,” 76–77
Crowley’s opinion of, 75
magic
defined, 40
operational, 104
magical tools, destruction of, 105–6
Martinism, 2n, 23, 32, 31, 49
Marxism, 41
Masonry. See Freemasonry
Master Mind.
See Third Mind Masters, Robert, 37–38, 62, 63
Eros and Evil: The Sexual
Psychopathology of Witchcraft, 37, 62
Mind Games: The Guide to Inner Space, 62–64
Swimming Where Madmen Drown:
Travelers’ Tales from Inner Space,
37, 62
Mathers, MacGregor, 24
Mebes, Grigorii Ossipovich, 31
media, mass, 46, 55, 98, 111
as purveyor of fiction, 108
Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey
into Christian Hermeticism. See
Tomberg, Valentin
Memphis-Mizraim, 49
Mephistopheles, 44–45
mind control
destructive cults, 108
movements, 100
premise of, 58
Mind Games. See Masters, Robert
Mind Parasites, The. See Wilson,
Colin Moorcock, Michael, 93
Moore, Alan, 70
Muslims, 117
Mussolini, Benito, 104, 124
narrative, control of, 110
National Socialism, 40, 103
Nazi Party, ix, 49, 56–57, 103.
See also
National Socialism
Necronomicon, 38–39, 68, 69, 72. See
also Lovecraft, Howard Phillips
Nephilim, 2–3, 31
neurolinguistic programming.
See
Erickson, Milton
New Age movement, 98
nightmares, Lovecraft’s, 66, 68 non-duality, 113–14
offerings, 19
Old Ones, 38–39, 68. See also Cthulhu
Mythos
Om Sety (Dorothy Louise Eady), 19
Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), 70, 94
“Osiris,” 44–45
Ouija board, 121
Ozer, Nyangrel Nyima, 69
Padmasambhava, 44, 69, 71
Papus. See Encausse,
Gerard parapsychology, 46–49
Pasqually, Martines de, 3n.
See also
Martinism
Path of Return, 8, 23
Paul, Saint, 104
Philosophers of Nature. See Dubuis,
Jean
pituitary, 106
politics, 4, 54–55, 56, 103
feminist, 10
memes, 46, 112
and occultism, 54–55
Tibetan, 17, 18
Politics and the Occult. See Lachman,
Gary
Practical Kabbalah.
See Vaughan,
Piers A.
Pratchett, Terry, 93
Price, Edgar Hoffman, 74. See also
Lovecraft Circle
Protestantism, 50
design of cross, 103
psychedelic research.
See Lilly, John;
Masters, Robert
psychic phenomena, 49
psychosynthesis, 99–100
psychotherapy, premise of, 58
psychotic break, 120
Qlippoth, 38, 44, 94
quantum physics, 93
Randall-Stevens, Hugh Clayton, 44–45
Regardie, Israel, 40, 71
resistance, spiritual, 99–100
Rhine, J. B., 46–49
Rhine Research Center, 46, 47
Roche de Coppens, Peter, 102–3
Roman Catholicism, 41, 42, 71
Roman Empire, 104, 124
fall of, 5
rose (symbol), 103
Rosenkreutz, Christian, 71, 104. See
also AMORC; Rosicrucianism
Rosicrucianism, 23, 24, 31, 71, 79–80, 82, 83, 91, 103. See also AMORC;
Rosenkreutz, Christian
Vault of the Adepti, 53
Sadhu, Mouni (Dymitr Sudowski), 3, 31–32, 43, 49
and avoidance of egregores, 106–7
The Tarot, 31–36
Saint-Martin, Louis Claude de, 3n.
See also Martinism
Sangharakshita, Urgyen (D. P. E.
Lingwood), 98, 99. See also
blasphemy, therapeutic
Secret Chiefs, 120, 121, 122, 123
demands of, 122–23
Secret History of Consciousness, A.
See
Lachman, Gary
Secret Inner Order Rituals of the Golden
Dawn. See Zalewski, Patrick
Sedir, Paul, 53–54
Servants of the Light (SOL), 28, 30
Set (Egyptian god), 19
Shakyamuni, 114.
See also Buddhism
Shugden, Dorje, 17–19, 21
Simon, 38, 39. See also Necronomicon
Slenderman, 57–58
Smith, Clark Ashton, 74.
See also
Lovecraft Circle
Society for Psychical Research
(British), 76
Society of the Inner Light, 28
solar plexus, 105, 106, 119
Solomon, King, 44, 71, 86
“Solomonic” literature, 69
Soviet Union, 103
Spare, Austin Osman, 70, 93
spinning, 102
superconscious, 100
Swimming Where Madmen Drown.
See Masters, Robert
talisman, 34, 43
Taoism, 24, 27
work of Baolin Wu, 58
Tarot, The. See Sadhu, Mouni
telepathy, 46–48
terma, 69
Theosophical Enlightenment, The. See
Godwin, Joscelyn
Theosophical Society, 9, 10 Think and Grow Rich. See Hill,
Napoleon
Third Mind, 91–92
thoughtform, xi, 11, 13, 28–29, 55, 56, 62, 73, 77, 111. See also George,
Saint; Masters, Robert; tulpa
Tibet, 17, 68–69, 103 Tibetan Buddhism, 18, 21, 24, 39–40, 42, 44, 68–69, 96, 101.
See also
Buddhism
doctrine of refuge, 100
extraction from egregore of, 113–118
and the Kali Yuga, 60
Tomberg, Valentin
commentary on The Devil (tarot card), 36–37, 39
Meditations on the Tarot, 31–32, 101
method of extraction from egregore, 101–2
opinion on egregores, 32, 40, 41–44
and Robert Ambelain, 49
tonglen, 101
Traditionalism, 59–61. See also Evola,
Julius
True Will, 93n
tulku, 11–12, 22
tulpa, 11–12, 22, 39–40, 62
tummo, 11
unidentified flying objects (UFOs), 56–57
Vajrayana, 14, 24. See also Tibetan
Buddhism
Vallée, Jacques, 57
vampirism, 34, 35
Vaughan, Piers A., 50
Waite, A. E., 75
Wandrei, Donald, 74
Wasserman, James, 38
Watchers, 60
Weiner, Eric
“genius cluster,” 96
Weird Tales. See Lovecraft, Howard
Phillips
Westcott, Wynn, 24–25
Wicca, 70
will. See also True Will
free, 7
human, 40, 41, 42, 43
Wilson, Colin, 45–46
witchcraft, 37–38, 104
World War I, 47, 66, 125
and Machen’s “The Bowman,” 75–76
Wu, Baolin, 58. See also Taoism
Zalewski, Patrick, 52
Secret Inner Order Rituals of the
Golden Dawn, 25
Zener cards, 46
Zenith Radio Corporation
and telepathy experiments, 45–48