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29/10/2024

Regarding the below, an argument can also be made for switching the elements of the west and north as given, with west being Earth and North being Water. This will be explored below. In particular, I think I may have confused the three and the four with regards to the power of the North. The lower center in the body of the individual also corresponds to a Vajra type entity, and this is the most material part of the human body. Being the most material, one could say that this is the most like the element of Earth, yet, in reality, the schema of the three does not obey the schema of the four, and it's impossible to directly map the one on to the other.

In fact, it's also possible to see the destructive, breaking power of the North as corresponding to the power of water in its way of eroding and generally destroying in other ways things. This could also correspond to what I called materiality in regards to Capricorn.

Likewise, the idea of binding, in the west, is very easily corresponded to earth. After all, binding is inherently an material thing, binding things to material reality.

This would also establish a good sense of balance in regards to east and west, with East, being the rising sun and liberation from the underworld, emancipation from restraints, pure action, and the element of Air, with the West being binding, restraining, the setting sun going into the earth, and on another level binding down to equality.

Similarly, the north-south axis would be fire and water, with this oppositional pair making more sense, as these are the two most primary elements, which the other two come from. In this case, it makes sense for them to be opposed to one another, with water being the more "negative" element in the north, and fire being the more positive element in the south, with north being the place of dissolution, and the south being the place of manifestation.

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29/10/2024

Astrological correspondences to the four in the circle, with Vajrayana equivalents, building on the previous post. The gods of the four directions of the circle correspond quite well with the astrological points in the following way: North, Capricorn, Azrael, East, Aries, Hercules/King of the Mound, South, Cancer, Habundia, goddess of abundance, West, Libra, Arianrhod, goddess of binding.

Some of these require more explanation than others, and the Vajrayana equivalents are North, Capricorn, Azrael, Akhsobya, the Vajra Buddha, East, Aries, Hercules/King of the Mound, Amoghasiddhi, Buddha of clear action, South, Cancer, Habundia, Amitabha, Buddha of love and compassion, West, Arianrhod, goddess of binding, corresponds to Ratnasambhava, Buddha of humility.

Clear action corresponds to Aries in its best form, with this being the meaning of the witch god associated with it, who is also the god of the rising sun, the sun rising out of the underworld, representing action and breaking through.

Binding, corresponding to the West, and to Libra, takes more explanation. the Vajrayana equivalent has to do with humility, and in this I take the Libra association with justice to mean an association with the primordial pattern, and conformance to the primordial pattern. Something is made just if it conforms to this pattern, and, therefore, something is bound to this pattern if it's made to conform to it. This also binds it to reality. Such a conformance is also a humiliation, or, in another way, a making equal with this also corresponding to the Vajrayana buddha.

The correspondence of the South and Cancer with abundance, manifestation, love, and compassion, is fairly straightforward. Cancer is the sign of the moon and the mothering sign. Here, the Sun stands at the center of the circle, and so it doesn't stand for manifestation, with this being more lunar.

North, Capricorn, corresponding to Azrael and Akshobya is also fairly straightforward. Corresponding to earth, Capricorn is the goat, and has always had material aspects. Here, it's also associated with cutting through illusion, which the materialist aspect of the sign can indeed help with. The goat, in this, is the eminently practical animal. Corresponds to banishing and breaking, in this, in liberating the essence or quintessence of what's present from the form. The Vajra deities also destroy in order to purify, to reduce to Truth, and to destroy illusion.

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29/10/2024

Vajrayana Buddhist correspondences to the four of the circle, supplement to "The Many Faced Jewel", vol. 1, https://topazbooks.pub/MFJ Well, the four gods of the circle, which correspond to the four directions, actually have very clear correspondences to the five Wisdom Buddhas of the Vajrayana tradition. The elemental attributions are the same as well, provided that you rotate the mandala 90 degrees. Here are the correspondences:

First, the East, Air, in the MFJ corresponds to Hercules/Goe-Magot, the king of the mound, and to the process of invocation or raising energy, in Vajrayana buddhism corresponds to Amoghasiddhi, the Buddha of effortless action, who also corresponds to air.

Second, in the South, Fire, corresponds to the goddess Habundia, abundance, as well as to the main part of the work of the circle. In Vajrayana Buddhism, corresponds to Amitabha, the Buddha of love and compassion.

Third, in the West, Water, corresponds to the goddess Arianrhod, the goddess of binding, where that which is worked with in the south is bound to reality in the West. Corresponds in Vajrayana to Ratnasambhava, Buddha of humility, with binding and humility corresponding to one another.

Finally, in the North, Earth, corresponding to Azrael, Death, the Psychopomp, but also the guardian of the circle, corresponding in Vajrayana to Akshobhya, the Vajra deity of purification, who confronts falsehood and destroys it, reducing it to truth. This is the same as the power of death and of breaking, which destroys the covering of something and liberates the essence, or quintessence, within it, allowing it to manifest. This corresponds to the breaking or banishing part of the ritual, where that which is bound is sacrificed, allowing it to manifest in the greater world.

Finally, the center of the circle, which corresponds to to Baphomet, the god of the First Sun, corresponds in Vajrayana to Vairocana, whose name also means the shining sun.

The four work as a series in the circle: first you invoke something, then you work with it, then you bind your work, then you break or banish it, sacrificing it, allowing it to manifest in the greater world.

"The Many Faced Jewel" deals with the primal, transcendental, reality of the witches' Sabbat. It outlines how the individual can hook into this reality, as well as how this basic reality has been recognized by a variety of mystical religious traditions throughout the ages. These include Christian, G...

22/10/2024

Revisions on the three centers in witchcraft, plus Buddhist correspondences. This is a supplement to what's discussed in "The Many Faced Jewel, vol. 1" https://topazbooks.pub/MFJ . The three centers are ultimately derived from the western tradition. Consisting of the lower center, the heart center, and the head center, they also correspond to Spare's Desire, Will, and Belief. The lower center corresponds to the base instincts and is located in the perineum, with this being slightly different in women in that they don't have a perineum in the sense that men do.

Though located very near the ge****ls, the lower center, in my opinion, does not correspond to s*xuality, which instead is an intermediate force that partakes both of the heart center and of the lower center. The pure lower center is associated with hunger and violence, it is also the place where the Toad Stone lies, which provides a kind of positive offset to these tendencies.

The Heart Center is the place of the core self, the deep self, and corresponds to Will, but Will here is somewhat different than what was presented in MFJ. There, "Will" was understood in a way that owed much to Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who in their writings about will essentially see it as a higher form of Desire, and not as something completely different. The will, I believe, is instead the will of the heart, the will of the core self. The core self or deep self is the self which lies beneath the character armor of Wilhelm Reich, which provides life positive impulses to the mind. It's also the place where the archetypes of Jung live. Realization of the Core self as self is an essential part of traditional witchcraft, and having regular communication between the core self and the mind is a goal which both Freud and Jung associated with basic psychological health.

The Core self, in this is also esoterically associated with the Heart Jewel, which is the Synderesis in western thought. This, an unfallen part of divinity, is a connection to the higher divine forces. The history of the concept of the Synderesis is discussed in "The Many Faced Jewel".

This brings us to the head center, which has a jewel in it, pictured as a diamond. The jewel in the head center acts, or can act, as a kind of truth detector. The head is also the place of contact with a higher spiritual world. The head center is conflicted, in that it's also the dwelling place of abstract reason. Following from Steiner, and others, the capacity of mystic vision and connection with this spiritual world and Reason itself naturally go together, in that Reason should ideally be the subordinate servant of the connection with the higher spirit world, but in our society something very bad has happened, where Reason has been severed from its place as part of an integrated whole, and has instead taken on an autonomous form, which denies the existence of the higher spiritual world, threatening to prevent access to it, and also tends to deny the world of the heart, of the Core self.

This alienation produced by abstract reason prevents the impulses of the core self, the heart center deep self, from naturally reaching the consciousness. It also represses the core self, and, though it does not create the character armor, which stands as another barrier between the mind and the core self, it does nothing to challenge it, instead leaving the character armor intact. Wilhelm Reich and followers recognized this, by saying that the materialist, who is the person who lives by abstract reason, has their head disconnected from their heart, and, in many ways, is a stranger to their deeper, core, feelings.

But, as said, Reason itself, the power of analysis, is not the problem in itself, and it can be integrated into a greater spiritual awareness.

This brings us to the Buddhist correspondences. Vajrayana Buddhism recognizes three great Bodhisattvas, Manjushri, Avalokitesvara, and Vajrapani. These three, in my opinion, correspond very closely to the three centers. Manjushri, the aspect of Wisdom, corresponds to the head center and to the proper form that Reason integrated with higher spiritual awareness can take. Avalokitesvara, the aspect of compassion, corresponds to the heart center, to the deep self, the core self. Vajrapani is the fierce dharma protector, and corresponds to the lower center in its most enlightened form, connected to the Toad Stone at the Muladhara chakra. The Toad Stone is the good influence in the lower center.

20/07/2024

Jung, Witchcraft, and Esoteric Physiology, in reference to "The Many Faced Jewel", https://topazbooks.pub/MFJ. In "The Many Faced Jewel" three bodily centers are presented that correspond to three aspects of the mind. These centers are the lower center, the heart center, and the head center. Respectively, these correspond to the base instincts, to the collective and personal unconscious, and to the conscious mind. They also correspond to three jewels, which by other writers are referred to as "eyes".

Jung writes that the unconscious, as such, isn't all unconscious, in the sense of never being able to be accessed by consciousness. Indeed, much of the personal and collective unconscious is known because its contents can rise and come into the conscious mind. Nevertheless, he states that below the collective unconscious, below the archetypes, are base instinctual drives and desires which do not ever directly rise to consciousness, and so stay completely unconscious.

These are the drives associated with the lower center and the Toad Stone, which correspond to Austin Osman Spare's idea of "Desire", in the trinity of Desire, Will, and Belief. The Toad Stone is a point of light energy that anchors the individual within these base desires, providing a kind of unity.

The Heart Center, corresponding to the stone of the Synderesis, is the place of the archetypes, of the collective unconscious, and, in its archetypal form, its structure mirrors the greater assemblage of archetypes that exist within the Sabbat of the Ages. This is the place of the true Self, which lies underneath the apparent self of the conscious mind, which has to be cultivated and developed, in order to rise from the core self into the conscious mind, this being a major goal of the practice of the craft.

It also corresponds to the Will in the schema of Will, Desire, and Belief, testifying to the higher ordering and consciousness of this level, which is also linked, in its outer, more profane, form, to the higher emotions of both men and animals, those which go beyond the most primal instincts of survival and s*x, which properly belong to the lower center.

The conscious mind, which in "MFJ" corresponds to the diamond jewel, the Intellect, and the Bodhicitta, takes the will and reflects on it, creating Beliefs. Indeed, some philosophers have defined the essence of the conscious mind as the will reflecting on itself. This elaborates the Will with images and concepts, which are "Beliefs" in a rough sense.

The archetypes and unconscious contents of the Heart center also rise and are elaborated on by the reflective consciousness, if that consciousness is receptive to them, and willing to integrate these risings into itself. Alternately, it can serve as the mental censor, denying the natural flow of will and unconscious drives into the mind, to the detriment of the individual.

Here, Desire stimulates a Will, which stimulates Beliefs, which can be interpreted as reflections on the Will. This series can also work with the archetypal meaning, in that the powering of the collective unconscious, the ultimate drive to the development of the inner, core, Self, comes from the lower center, from Desires.

These three can also be related to writings on witchcraft by others which correspond them to the body of light, the body of the abyss, and the body of shadow. The body of light corresponds to consciousness and the higher or head center, the body of the abyss corresponds to the lower center, while the body of shadow corresponds to the heart center.

Here, there's a parallel with the states of Waking, Sleeping, and Dreaming, where the head center or body of light is the state of waking, the lower center or abyssal body is the state of sleep, while the heart center or the shadow body is the state of dreaming.

The shadow body, the heart center, in this, is called this because it partakes of both light and dark, thereby taking on an intermediate and shadowy existence. Similarly, as an in between state between the conscious mind and the completely unconscious lower drives, it has a partially conscious state as the personal and collective unconscious.

The polarities of the body of light and body of the abyss, in this, can be mixed together to produce the body of shadow, which corresponds more directly to the Sabbat itself as the Ideal world.

11/07/2024

The beginning of (one) of the sections on Baphomet, from "The Many Faced Jewel", https://topazbooks.pub/MFJ

"The figure of Baphomet itself has several forms. One of these is that of the Sabbatic Goat of Eliphas Levi, most likely based on the Abraxas seal. There are several others. What all of these forms involve is the presence of dualities united into one, as well as of the different potentialities of the world united into one. One account of Baphomet, related to the Templars, sees him as Janus, with one face turned to the left, being aged, and one face turned towards the right, being young. In this, Baphomet stands at the juncture of the new year, which is symbolically on the top of the circle of the year, and like Abraxas contains the whole of the circle of the year within him.

Another common figure is Baphomet as a Chimera, or a Sphinx. In this, Baphomet is pictured as a composite being made out of animals that correspond to the four elements. In these portrayals, it incorporates the features of a fish, a bird, a land animal, and a man, with the man standing for fire. The figure of the sphinx, as understood in 19th century occultism, also combined many of these animals, with it often being featured with wings. This portrayal of Baphomet is also adapted into Christian tradition by equating him with the Tetramorph or Cherubim of Jewish tradition. Here, the idea of a being composed of a lion, an ox, an eagle, and a man, are used as a substitute for the elemental animals. I believe that the original where this came from was Neoplatonic, and was from Greek pagan religion, not esoteric Judaism."

22/05/2024

Here is an abbreviated Table of Contents for "The Many Faced Jewel" https://topazbooks.pub/MFJ
"Introduction

Part One: Foundations
Traditional Witchcraft History
The Sabbat
The Heavenly Temple
Jesus and Lucifer
Madeline Montalban
UFO Literature and the Craft
Doctrine

Part Two: The 19thy Century
The Megalithic Civilization
The Cabiri
The Pickingill Papers
Masonry and Massey
Gerald Massey

Part Three: Practice
AOS Witchcraft, Chaos Magic, Massey, Chumbley
The Toadstone

The Grimoire
Cosmology and the Gods.
Elaborations
The Ritual

Appendix

19/05/2024

What are the faces in the "Many Faced Jewel"? https://topazbooks.pub/MFJ The Jewel itself is the primal vision of the Sabbat of the Ages. The faces are the different ways that this vision has manifested in mystical traditions across the centuries: Cathar, Islamic, Greek Pagan, Christian, Jewish, and more. Among other topics, these are examined in the work, providing a cross-cultural grounding for this fundamental experience of traditional witchcraft.

17/05/2024

"The Many Faced Jewel vol. 1, Traditional Witchcraft" is now for sale. From the Cathars and Zoroastrianism to Austin Osman Spare and Sigils, and everything in between. Get your copy at https://topazbooks.pub/MFJ $32 paperback, $60 hardcover

16/05/2024

We're happy to announce that "The Many Faced Jewel", volume 1, Traditional Witchcraft is now available for sale. At 460 pages, it is $32 for the paperback edition and $60 for the hardcover. Available at http://www.topazbooks.pub/MFJ

"The Many Faced Jewel" deals with the primal, transcendental, reality of the witches' Sabbat. It outlines how the individual can hook into this reality, as well as how this basic reality has been recognized by a variety of mystical religious traditions throughout the ages. These include Christian, Gnostic, Islamic, and Pagan mysticism. It examines the fundamental unity between these esoteric traditions based on their partaking of the "Primal Vision" of the Sabbat."

"The Many Faced Jewel" deals with the primal, transcendental, reality of the witches' Sabbat. It outlines how the individual can hook into this reality, as well as how this basic reality has been recognized by a variety of mystical religious traditions throughout the ages. These include Christian, G...

25/04/2024

Cover art for the forthcoming book

10/04/2024

Here's another screenshot of the Table of Contents from the forthcoming "Many Faced Jewel", vol. 1, "Traditional Witchcraft".

09/04/2024

Here's a screenshot of the first page of the table of contents for the "Many Faced Jewel", vol. 1. Note: Hyperborea here has *no* racial implications whatsoever, and is purely spiritual.

18/03/2024

From "The Many Faced Jewel" vol 1., traditional witchcraft, about the origins of traditional witchcraft and inversion.

"Traditional Witchcraft as I'm defining it has three major sources, and many more minor ones. These three major sources are Greco-Roman mystery religions, the Cathars, and the Templars. The Greco-Roman mystery religions involved draw on religious Neoplatonism and Platonism, Sun worship in the form of the worship of Apollo, and Roman Mithrism, with symbolism from the Dionysian mysteries also being present. To this can be added survivals from Celtic paganism, some Germanic paganism, and other Christian heresies such as the Free Spirit. Though there are many different practices that are "witchcraft", the type of traditional witchcraft that I'm referring to is the kind that is centered around the witches' Sabbath and exhibits the full spectrum of activities.

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The Cathars were violently suppressed by the Church, but they lived on underground. People have a misconception that the Cathars who disliked the body and saw it as part of the false world could not, or would not, engage in the transgressive actions attributed to witches. Because of this, it has been suggested that there was a separate group of "bad Cathars" who decided to break the rules. This is not the case. Instead, witchcraft was formed and influenced by the division of the Cathars of the Bible into a part by the false god and a part by the good god, the father of Jesus. This happened after the suppression of the movement itself, and so the following would not have been approved of by the Cathars in their classical form.

The Old Testament god, and the rules that he established, were seen as creations of the evil god, including various laws. The bible was thought to contain a falsified account of the world, where the good forces were portrayed as bad, and the bad forces were portrayed as good. The figures such as the serpent in the garden of Eden, who were supposed to have ruined mankind, were interpreted as emissaries of the good god who were trying to help mankind. Therefore, Lucifer, and the various figures present in the Book of Revelations, such as the Dragon, were interpreted as being the good god and his court in disguise. Jesus, in this is seen as being Lucifer, the same Lucifer who offered the apple to Adam and Even in the Garden.
This is the case even though Jesus himself makes quite an appearance in the Book of Revelations. Later on in our story of the Craft, other interpretations of the Book of Revelations will be introduced which, though conflicting with this, were thought to reflect the same underlying reality.

Here, though, in what could be called a Cathar reversion, the true form of God the Father was equated with the Dragon of the Book of Revelations, and Jesus was equated with Lucifer, making Jesus the son of the Dragon. The court of heaven, the Ideal realm, is the angelic court around Jesus/Lucifer. It's immensely important to realize that the Dragon and Lucifer in this are the good gods, and that this Lucifer never rebelled against God. Instead, the entity who presented himself as the true God to the trapped angels, was the being who revolted against God. He is Satan, though he presented, and presents, himself as the good god, as Jehovah. Likewise, the Church, as much as it serves base and material causes instead of the transcendent, serves Satan, not the true God.

12/03/2024

Thoughts on Time and Timelessness

In many esoteric traditions, there's a belief that there are entities that are free to act without reference to space, and there are entities that can act without reference to time, and entities who are above both time and space, who exist in a realm of timelessness. The Greco-Roman traditions of paganism and neoplatonism subscribed to this idea. But what does living in a "timeless" ream or state really mean?

This concept is usually be described through reference to astrology, with these entities being beyond or above the astrological spheres, but people today have so little understanding of astrology, even people who profess to be devotees of it, that these comparisons make little sense. Instead of using astrology as a way to discuss it, I'll use the humble car, the automobile. In this I'm going off of an example created by someone else who used a train car for the same purpose. For this, we'll start off with humans, then with lesser spirits, and conclude with those who truly live in the timeless and spaceless realm.

Time, for us humans, is caught up with the body itself. It's related to being incarnated. In this, the body is the car, and the human being is the driver. But our body is a car that has to keep going forward twenty four hours a day. It has to keep driving, although for a time it can go on auto pilot while we sleep. Nevertheless, it has to keep moving forward, using fuel, getting maintenance, until the day it dies.

Now picture this car driving endlessly through highways, along with other cars doing the same thing. They have the force of momentum with them. Yet, on the fields next to the highways, where there's grass and dirt, there are other beings who aren't involved in this. They don't have vehicles they're connected to, they can just sit and watch the cars go by. These are the lesser timeless beings, or beings freed from time, because they're not obligated to move, to go forward, because they're not incarnated in a physical body. Because they don't have to go forward, they can take their time, and move much more slowly than those beings that are locked into their cars.

Our perception of time is linked to our human existence and the need for action to sustain that existence, with this ultimately being linked to the span of time between birth, old age, and death. The cycle of life is how we measure time. Cumulatively, there are a great number of beings who are experiencing the cycle of life with one another, and this gives the illusion that there's a collective purpose behind individual actions. However, thoughts about an arrow of history, reflective of time on a greater scale, are, in my opinion, false. They're illusions that are derived from our own experiences projected onto history itself. Behind history, then, there's a certain amount of regular, cyclical, actions that happen over and over again, which form the ground on which the particulars of history develop. History can "progress" or it can go "backwards" depending on the sum total of individual actions, and though these actions are conditioned by the actions that have gone before, it's never settled what direction those individual actions will take, whether they will make things better or worse.

If we go back to our car and highway analogy, there are highways which many cars have taken, and which are therefore deep, highly established, and then there are paths which are less taken. Sometimes the less taken paths intersect with the more taken ones and influence them, but often the result of cultural inertia is that the other paths have a tendency to be more and more marginalized. Much of history is based on this inertia, though people don't realize this, or see how stereotyped their lives are.

However, from the perspective of the beings that are outside of the tracks, that are outside of the highways, most of the pattern of the tracks and the cars can be seen. They also have the luxury of being able to predict with a certain amount of confidence what cars will go by when and where, on average. Because of this, they have the ability to intervene, to influence the continual going forward of the vehicles, in order to change things in accordance with their will, or with a higher will that they're serving.

These beings can see the future, in the sense of seeing the average future, average for people taking a particular path, especially for people who are taking a path that's been taken by many people before in many ages. They can alter this path in ways that are probably predictable for them, though the people who are altered by it consider it to be a miracle. Through this, they can alter the future, but the future itself is an extremely complex thing composed of the actions of many, many different car actors, and so many parts of the future can be altered without really changing the ingrained direction that things are heading. Working to affect a true change of direction for a lot of people is more difficult.

Some people who are bound to these vehicles, who have to keep going forward, have figured out that these entities are out there, and have devised rituals to get their attention. These rituals are to try to entice them to intervene and alter paths on their behalf, for particular purposes, though because the individuals doing the rituals are themselves time bound, driving their cars at the same time, every step of the process is difficult. It's hard to get an accurate picture about what's happening, and so taking the correct action is more difficult as well, not to mention being able to contact honest spirits and having them do what's actually useful.

These ambient spirits who don't experience time in the normal way because they're discarnate, whether this is their normal nature or because they were once human, are still space bound, but upwards, on another level, there are what could be called the grand gods who are literally above space, and who also experience time from the slow perspective of a person not attached to a mortal vehicle. These beings truly have an overhead perspective of all of the tracks that humanity normally goes down, of different trends that are happening, and that have happened in the past. For these beings, intervention can be even more direct and precise, with these lower spirits often helping them out in executing their plans.

08/03/2024

Excerpt from "The Many Faced Jewel", vol. 1, by Frater Sabellicus, about the Nusayri gnostic story. The Nusayri are an esoteric Shi'ite group in Syria who believe that certain humans are fallen angels, and whose life is devoted to divine reascent to heaven. I believe they had contact with the Templars, and passed on some of this knowledge to them. The text "Umm al-Kitab" is one of the documents foundational to Nusayri thought which describes the fall of the angels, and this is a summary of that part of the story.

"The "Umm al-Kitab" in Barnstone and Meyer's "Gnostic Bible" is very illuminating. First, it contains quite a lot of gnostic themes which either did not become part of Nusayri theology or that the people commenting on it have not included. The evil angel who appears as the instigator of the fall of the Angels is Azazil, the same angel who appears in the Book of Enoch as the leader of the Watcher angels. Here, he's Satan. Azazil also takes on some features of the evil one in Zoroastrian and Manichean doctrine.

The part of the book which is reproduced in Nusayri doctrine starts on page 688. In the drama of the Fall, Salman, who would become the Bab in Nusayri theology, is contrasted to Azazil. Salman is only one of several high angels or being, with others being Ali, Fatima who is Ali's wife, Mohammad himself, and Ali's sons Hussein and Hassan. These are, in turn corresponded to various cosmological principles. However, of all of these, only Salman participates in the story. As in the Nusayri story, God appears in the heavens in a concealed form, and tests the angels by seeing if they will worship him. Salman is the first that does so, and is praised by the two other angels for doing so, who follow his lead and become his helpers. Then several successively larger choirs of angels follow, first one composed of twelve great angels, then one composed of twenty eight. These naturally correspond to the zodiacal signs and to the mansions of the moon. After this, a larger group of 124,000 angels reluctantly, and waveringly, acknowledged God. The number 124,000 may possibly be linked to the Sun, in that 129,000 is the product of 360 * 360, with the square root of 124,000 being 352.1363. Salman will assume a role similar to that of Saint Michael the Archangel in leading the heavenly hosts against Azazil.

After this, Azazil refuses to acknowledge God. However, at this point, Salman has become the deputy of God because of being the person who first acknowledged him, and so the six choirs of evil angels who refused to venerate God, and instead declared that they themselves were gods, fight against Salman and the good angels. The result of this battle was that the angels were imprisoned in a special isolated place within heaven created for this purpose, so that they could not corrupt heaven as a whole. Next, after a thousand years, God gives the angels another chance to acknowledge him. 124,000 do, and are released from captivity, but the rest don't, and start a new war. This process repeated, over and over again, with the angels falling successively through lower and lower spheres of heaven until they exited heaven entirely and came to the sphere that would become the Earth.

At this point, the book presents an alternate story of the creation of the world, and the creation of Adam. Here, all of the stones and creatures of the world were, in fact, the evil angels. Stones, plants, and animals are the spirits of the evil angels in a transformed state. Finally, man is created, but initially not from the fallen angels. Pure humanity is created instead.

There were still some fallen angels who aren't transformed into static beings, who are instead of the element of Fire, and these fallen angels are asked to bow down before man. They refuse. They're punished in several ways. One of the ways is that some are condemned to become what could be called 'fallen women', that is to say women who are prostitutes and otherwise looked on as engaging in bad acts. After some are condemned to assume human form in this way, God creates a scenario where he forbids the remaining fallen angels from having s*xual contact with their comrades who have assumed the forms of fallen women. This is described as being related to the test God gave about not eating the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. The angels, of course, disobey, and when they have s*x with these women the women give birth to humans of both s*xes who have the souls of those who had s*x with them. Through this, the fallen angels become incarnated into humans of both s*xes. This is described on pages 714-719.